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Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War and the Americas 1945-1981 Second Edition by Vivienne Sanders
£32.99A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945-1981)The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the... -
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
RRP: £18.99£13.61Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... -
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World - and Us by Patrick Roberts
RRP: £25.00£16.53'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of... -
Apollo 1: The Tragedy That Put Us on the Moon by Ryan S Walters
RRP: £22.00£14.05On January 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a large Saturn rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a routine dress rehearsal of their upcoming launch into orbit, then less than... -
From Ranji To Rohan: Cricket and Indian Identity in Colonial Guyana 1890s-1960s by Clem Seecharan 9781906190279
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190279Author Clem SeecheramFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 478g -
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard 9780814794623
RRP: £27.99£21.67Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been... -
The Civil Rights Movement: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas C. Holt 9780190605421
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Civil Rights Movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African... -
The American South: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson
RRP: £8.99£6.45The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. The American South: A Very Short Introduction explores the history of the South as a cultural crossroads, a... -
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture by Daniel Pruitt 9780228104490
RRP: £30.00£20.95A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West - and the present west. Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally... -
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis 9780195339444
RRP: £18.49£13.68David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his... -
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger 9780007200061
RRP: £9.99£7.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger 9780007200061 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.78A compelling portrait of 1960s America that takes as its starting point the brutal events of 11 March 1963, the day on which the lives of three complete strangers – a black handyman, an Italian-American carpenter and a second-generation Jewish housewife... -
The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation by Jim Cullen
RRP: £15.99£11.61"The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means. In this fascinating short history, Jim Cullen explores the... -
Brady's Civil War Journal: Photographing the War 1861-65 by Theodore P. Savas
RRP: £22.00£14.05"My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history." -Mathew Brady Mathew Brady and his team of assistants risked their lives to capture up-close images of the fury of... -
Patagonia: A Cultural History by Chris Moss 9781904955382
RRP: £15.00£13.65Patagonia is the ultimate landscape of the mind. Like Siberia and the Sahara, it has become a metaphor for nothingness and extremity. Its frontiers have stretched beyond the political boundaries of Argentina and Chile to encompass an evocative idea of... -
Trujillo: the Last Caesar by Arturo R Espaillat 9781014999054
RRP: £20.95£17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014999054Author Arturo R EspaillatFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He... -
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston 9781538741221
RRP: £30.00£17.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741221Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era by Jonathan Gienapp 9780674185043
RRP: £29.95£23.66A stunning revision of our founding document's evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution?Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was created when it... -
Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World by T. J. Desch-Obi
£32.86The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. Desch Obi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenth-century slave settlements in... -
Tenochtitlan 1519-21: Clash of Civilizations by Si Sheppard
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1519, the Conquistador Hernan Cortes landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the... -
The Ground Breaking: An American City and its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: £16.99£11.58** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 **'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading. ... But... -
The [black] America's Handbook for the Survival through the 21st Century: The Forgotten Truth about Racism, Vol.1 Final Edition by Radine America 9780970545503
RRP: £40.00£33.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970545503Author Radine AmericaFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Quantum Leapslc PublicationsPublisher Quantum Leapslc PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Guyana At 50: Reflection, Celebration And Inspiration by Arif Ali 9781910553572
RRP: £30.00£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553572Author Arif AliFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited -
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History by Jose C. Moya 9780195166217
RRP: £52.00£48.17This Oxford Handbook surveys the large and growing field of Latin American history by bringing together the principal themes and approaches over the past three decades. Essays address indigenous peoples of the region, colonial history, independence... -
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga 9781912854530
RRP: £12.99£6.75The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil,... -
Stranger In The Desert: A Family Story by Jordan Salama 9781646221653
RRP: £25.99£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646221653Author Jordan SalamaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult -
Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo
RRP: £8.99£6.45The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures was the inability to chart a progressive course for race... -
Mesoamerica Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilisation by Dr Robert Bircher 9781804176146
RRP: £10.99£7.40Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Mesoamerican culture is rooted in the region of modern Mexico where some 3500 years ago ancient peoples called the Olmecs farmed and created beautiful art and pottery at roughly the same time as the Middle Kingdom Ancient... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: £33.95£27.41From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West.Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on... -
Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas by Gavin Menzies 9780062236784
£13.45Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas-offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who... -
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer 9780571251292 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65America is in crisis. In the space of a generation, it has become more than ever a country of winners and losers, as industries have failed, institutions have disappeared and the country's focus has shifted to idolise celebrity and wealth. George Packer... -
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer
RRP: £12.99£8.56America is in crisis. In the space of a generation, it has become more than ever a country of winners and losers, as industries have failed, institutions have disappeared and the country's focus has shifted to idolise celebrity and wealth. George Packer... -
The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre by Kelly Cordes
RRP: £19.99£13.96Patagonia's Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first... -
A Short History of San Francisco by Tom Cole 9781597142731
RRP: £14.99£9.88This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of the... -
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore by James T. Patterson 9780195305227
RRP: £20.99£15.34James Patterson's Bancroft Prize-winning Grand Expectations, the penultimate volume in the Oxford History of the United States, was hailed by The New York Times as "a spirited, sprawling narrative of American life" and by The Wall Street Journal as "a... -
How to Study History by Norman F. Cantor
RRP: £20.95£18.50We have set down in this book the basic rules and principles of historical study that a student should bear in mind as he enters upon his first college history course. In our experience as college teachers of history, we have found that students need to... -
The Negro Question Part 6 the 13 Black Colonies by MR Lee Cummings 9781539742210
RRP: £25.00£19.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539742210Author MR Lee CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The True History of The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal del Diaz Castillo
RRP: £19.99£16.84This rugged new translation--the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS--allows Diaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the... -
George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye by Allen Ellenzweig
£32.60George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye is a life of the gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. From age 18, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate...