Americas

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...

'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...

The year 1755 saw the rivalry between Britain and France in North America escalate into open warfare as both sides sought to overcome the other's forts and trading posts. Lord Loudoun and the Marquis de Montcalm were sent out to lead their forces and...

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...

The ghost port of Indianola is the subject of a gripping book that is of prime interest to anyone interested in knowing what life was like in coastal Texas during the nineteenth century. 1978 Summerfield G. Roberts Award.About the AuthorBrownson Malsch,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137681Author Paul StrathernFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

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 9780738535999Author Kimberly FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439141557Author Tyler AnbinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

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...

LBJ aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning his takeover of the U.S. presidency even before being named the vice presidential nominee in 1960. Lyndon B...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393332438Author Robert WeisbrotFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

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...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416557241Author Bonnie TsuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439192993Author Gerald BlaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

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)...

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) 754gDimensions(mm)...

At 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...

The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in...

In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of...