Americas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805088601Author Silvana PaternostroFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966531022Author Sandra RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Riley Hall PartnersPublisher Riley Hall PartnersWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The tenth anniversary edition of The Oxford History of Mexico tells the fascinating story of Mexico as it has evolved from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. Available for the first time in paperback, this magnificent volume covers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789878841328Author Juan Manuel Herrera TraybelFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Juan Manuel Herrera TraybelPublisher Juan Manuel Herrera...

The 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...

"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...

In The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram, author Dean Snow rights the record on a shipwrecked sailor who traversed the length of the North American continent only to be maligned as deceitful storyteller. In the autumn of 1569, a French ship...

America 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...

America 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...

By the close of the 19th century, the United States was no longer a continental power, but had become a nation with interests that spanned the globe from the Caribbean to China. Consequently, the country faced a new set of strategic concerns, ranging...

In late October 1841, the Creole left Richmond with 137 slaves bound for New Orleans. It arrived five weeks later minus the Captain, one passenger, and most of the captives. Nineteen rebels had seized the US slave ship en route and steered it to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804101660Author Michael Lee LanningFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love 'Miraculous and hopeful' Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here 'Quietly profound ... belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild' New York...

Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. Ana Lucia Araujo...

American art museums of the Gilded Age were established as civic institutions intended to provide civilizing influences to an urban public, but the parochial worldview of their founders limited their democratic potential. Instead, critics have derided...

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of...

The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its environmental history and its linkage to economic history; the political shaping of America; and America in...

The culture of the bourgeoisie gradually came to dominate European society during the nineteenth century. Jonas Frykman and Orvar Loefgren examine how this new style of life developed and how it spread. They focus on Swedish society from 1880 to 1910,...

** 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 Killing Time is the first full-length study of the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica- an event that transformed the political system of the island and marked a watershed in Caribbean history.Book InformationISBN 9780870498527Author Gad HeumanFormat...

The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486793818Author Bob BlaisdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The President and the Provocateur explores the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy, born into wealth and celebrity, destined for glory and a violent death, and of Lee Harvey Oswald, born into poverty and obscurity, murdered in police custody and convicted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193970Author Sam BaltrusisFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Routledge Atlas of American History presents a series of 163 clear and detailed maps, accompanied by informative captions, facts and figures. The complete history of America is unravelled through vivid representations of all the significant...

The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With essays on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105916Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 155gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm...

An exploration of Indigenous cosmology and history in North America While Western accounts of North American history traditionally start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of North America—or Turtle Island—stretch back millennia. Drawing on...

The epic story of a man born into Caribbean slavery, who defeated Napoleon's armies and crowned himself a free black king. How did a man born enslaved on a plantation triumph over Napoleon's invading troops and become king of the first free black nation...

How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had...

Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and...

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The 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...

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William Edmundson examines the spectacular life story of 'Colonel' John Thomas North, also known as 'The Nitrate King,' a mechanic in Leeds who became one of the best-known and richest men of his time. Forgotten in Britain and vilified in Chile and Peru,...

1996 And The End of History examines the year as it panned out in the UK not just in politics but in music, light entertainment and sport. It was the zenith of a decade which will go down as remarkably untroubled bymodern standards; following the...

This third edition of what has been described as "this minor classic" has been extensively revised to take account of advances in Nigerian historiography.The twenty million Yorubas are one of the largest and most important groups of people on the African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999140540Author Laura Churchill DukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Moose House PressPublisher Moose House PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)...

Hailed as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war" by acclaimed author Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed remains the most powerful and moving account of the U.S. Marines in World War II. Now, with his long-awaited sequel, China Marine, E. B...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901990003Author Roger CasementFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Anaconda Editions LtdPublisher Anaconda Editions LtdWeight(grams) 754g