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1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C Mann
RRP: £19.00£13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032051Author Charles C. MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Sean Kingsley 9781639364589
RRP: £14.99£9.36A riveting and illuminating exploration of the transatlantic slave trade by an intrepid team of divers seeking to reclaim the stories of their ancestors. "For me, Enslaved is an attempt to give a voice to the millions whose voices were silenced."-Samuel... -
Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years by V. A. Kozlov
RRP: £43.99£38.44Until recent times, incidents of mass unrest in the USSR were shrouded in official secrecy. Now this pioneering work by historian Vladimir A. Kozlov has opened up these hidden chapters of Soviet history. It details an astonishing variety of widespread... -
Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University by Morton Keller 9780195325157
RRP: £40.49£29.38Early twentieth-century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end, it was widely regarded as the nation's and the world's leading institution of higher education. With verve,... -
Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent by Ted Morgan 9780671882372
£24.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671882372Author Ted MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 684gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 30mm -
The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World by Miles Ogborn
RRP: £31.00£30.19The institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, no repressive tool has been as pervasive as the... -
The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of "The Big Lie" by Major Garrett
RRP: £27.99£18.61When a seven-million-vote margin of victory and 306 electoral votes pointed to Joe Biden as the victor in the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump-fueled conspiracy theories exploded. In The Big Truth, CBS's Chief Washington correspondent Major... -
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen 9781250033314
RRP: £19.00£11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250033314Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen
RRP: £10.99£7.77He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged... -
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: £12.99£8.48WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the... -
The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Knight
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more... -
American Military History: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph T. Glatthaar
RRP: £8.99£6.45Since the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military has been an omnipresent part of America. In American Military History: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph T. Glatthaar explores this... -
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack
£42.25The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth... -
The Papers of William Penn, Volume 4: 1701-1718 by Richard S. Dunn 9780812280500
£101.13This volume documents the final eighteen years of William Penn's life, from 1701 to 1718. It opens with his last months as resident proprietor of Pennsylvania-a moment of great importance in the political history of the colony. It ends with his death on... -
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson 9781783783397
RRP: £8.99£6.08'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times 'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant, Guardian The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo... -
A Walk across America by Peter Jenkins 9780060959555
RRP: £18.99£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959555Author Peter JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 300g -
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America by T H Breen
RRP: £17.95£14.60"Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinary people."-Gordon S. WoodIn this boldly innovative work, T. H. Breen spotlights a crucial... -
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry 9780143036494
£13.14At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed... -
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California by James N. Gregory 9780195071368
RRP: £18.49£13.34Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west to California by dust storms, drought, and economic hardship. It was a story that generations of Americans have also... -
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim 9780674248663
RRP: £26.95£21.81A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military... -
When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession by Charles Adams
RRP: £19.99£15.02"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hamalainen
RRP: £31.99£28.13American history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America", an era that-according to prevailing accounts-laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, the acclaimed historian Pekka... -
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe 9780195078947
RRP: £27.99£22.21The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes two Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in What Hath God... -
Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth by David Carrasco 9780872209336
RRP: £16.99£14.13Based on the most recent archaeological discoveries, this volume offers a balanced interpretation of the complex relationships between Aztec cultural practices, social order, and religious myths and symbols. In addition to examining such topics as the... -
The Americas in the Age of Revolution: 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley 9780300077261
£37.30This magisterial work is a comparative history of three important revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish-American struggle for independence... -
The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Restall 9780195392296
RRP: £8.99£6.84With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the... -
Peru: a journey through time by Cecilia Pardo
RRP: £30.00£20.40'The exhibition is now over, but the splendid book lives on.' 'A delightful, very readable eyecandy dive in the history of the cultures of Peru' 'An excellent book as you would expect from the British Museum, and a delight to dive into.' -- Sacred Hoop... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition by Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £23.99£22.37'This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
A Compendium of Medieval World Sovereigns by Timothy Venning
RRP: £125.00£107.86The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access 'who's who' with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of... -
Ding Dong! Avon Calling!: The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated by Katina Manko
RRP: £32.49£17.29The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture. This first history of Avon tells the story of a direct sales company that was both a giant in its industry and a kitchen-table entrepreneurial venture. With their distinctive... -
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran 9780674237476
RRP: £17.95£14.60"Read this book. It explains so much about the moment...Beautiful, heartbreaking work." -Ta-Nehisi Coates"A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family."-The... -
Garibaldi in South America: An Exploration by Richard Bourne 9781787383135
RRP: £25.00£22.03For over twelve years in the first half of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, lived, learned and fought in South America. He was tortured, escaped death on countless occasions, and met his Brazilian wife, Anita,... -
America: The Last Best Hope (One-Volume Edition) by William J. Bennett
RRP: £20.00£14.29A single-volume edition of William J. Bennett's bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated."The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett's wonderfully readable book is so important." --Walter... -
Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class by Eric Lott 9780195320558
RRP: £28.49£17.61For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the... -
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson by Patrick Weil
RRP: £29.95£23.66"The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud's couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of President Woodrow Wilson."-Wall Street JournalThe... -
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman
RRP: £12.99£9.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632869258Author David J. SilvermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 686g -
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: £14.99£11.35How the Cold War ended - and the people who made it happen In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet... -
Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 by Rana A. Hogarth 9781469632872
£31.27In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, ""There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever."" Lining's comments presaged ideas about... -
Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales
£28.22A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old... -
Raiders from New France by Rene Chartrand
RRP: £14.99£12.55Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but...