Americas

For a decade America's share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the world's manufacturing...

Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. Caroli observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop...

By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized...

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts...

1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads...

An update of a popular work that takes on the myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Americas, featuring a new afterword. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest reveals how the Spanish invasions in the Americas have been conceived and presented,...

Alfred Russel Wallace, Henry Walter Bates and Richard Spruce were English naturalists who went to Amazonia 150 years ago. This book is the first to combine all three young men's experiences of the Amazon, drawing heavily on their own letters and books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781275701052Author Africanus LeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Gale, Sabin AmericanaPublisher Gale, Sabin AmericanaWeight(grams) 189g

The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596294509Author Peter F. StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

A dual strategy of systematic interval transect sampling and full-coverage survey of architectural features and artifact concentrations permits an evaluation of the relative effectiveness of these commonly employed methods. Auger testing in floodplain...

Since 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593198957Author Peter VronskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

The United States has been described by many of its foreign and domestic critics as an empire. Providing a wide-ranging analysis of the United States as a territorial, imperial power from its foundation to the present day, this book explores the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626195295Author Alison FortierFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The United States was made in Britain. For over a hundred years following independence, a diverse and lively crowd of emigrant Americans left the United States for Britain. From Liverpool and London, they produced Atlantic capitalism and managed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116820Author Bryan BurroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Alpha BooksPublisher Alpha BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867223Author Robert GoodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 956g

By the director of the hit documentary Behind the Burly Q comes the first ever oral history of American Burlesque--as told by the performers who lived it, often speaking out here for the first time. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its...

Winner 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...

Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than...

A renowned historian offers novel perspectives on slavery and abolition in eighteenth-century Jamaica Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in...

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the murder of JFK, many of which are large in volume and short on facts. Quite often, these works try to reinvent the wheel, attempting to cover every single area of the assassination, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385527279Author David StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

One of the most beautiful maps to survive the Great Age of Discoveries, the 1513 world map drawn by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis is also one of the most mysterious. Gregory McIntosh has uncovered new evidence in the map that shows it to be among the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161890Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807008195Author Gregory SmithersFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...

How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political aims and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US political aims and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because...

Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflictThe most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war - told from both sides.'Thorough and exhaustive' Daily Telegraph'An excellent and fast paced...

In From the Steel City to the White City, Zachary Brodt explores Western Pennsylvania's representation at Chicago's Columbian Exposition, the first major step in demonstrating that Pittsburgh was more than simply America's crucible-it was also a region...

The runaway #1 New York Times bestseller'Timely and fascinating... There are many astonishing vignettes... an important book' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'A ripping read. . . . The parallels to the present day are strong, even startling' New York TimesAs...

The process of shaping and asserting cultural identity in viceregal Spanish America occurred as much through the medium of pictures as through the medium of writing. Focused on writing that references visual texts (ekphrasis), Visions of Empire in...

A collection of documents by black American slaves, written while enslaved or shortly after escape. The words recorded here express complexity and diversity of thought and feeling about slavery and being black, and offer glimpses into the interior lives...

Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians "A fascinating book...Gin Lum suggests that, in many times and...

This collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world. Focusing on life stories that represented movement across or around the Atlantic Ocean from...

America's Past: A Christian's Narrative explores the history of the United States through a unique combination of stories and documents that capture the dreams, fears, and visions involved in the creation of our country. This book is not dedicated to the...

International trade plays an enormous role in economic growth and prosperity. This activity can also be used to transfer military equipment, knowledge, and technology to hostile governments and transnational terrorist and criminal organizations seeking...

In this groundbreaking work, Cara Rogers Stevens examines the fascinating life of Thomas Jefferson’s book, Notes on the State of Virginia, from its innocuous composition in the early 1780s to its use as a political weapon by both pro- and antislavery...

On October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas. When the smoke cleared, eight men were dead and three others were seriously injured. Four of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788376388083Author Magdalena ModrzejewskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 1102g