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Black Nationalism in American History: From the Nineteenth Century to the Million Man March by Mark Newman 9781474405416
€128.64Provides a concise up-to-date introduction to and overview of black nationalism in American historyThis analytical introduction assesses contrasting definitions of black nationalism in America, thereby providing an overview of its development and varied... -
American Imperialism: The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1783-2013 by Adam Burns 9781474402132
€128.44The 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... -
My Sisters Telegraphic: Women In Telegraph Office 1846-1950 by Thomas C. Jepsen 9780821413449
RRP: €30.93€29.69The role of the telegraph operator in the mid-nineteenth century was like that of today's software programmer/analyst, according to independent scholar Tom Jepsen, who notes that in the "cyberspace" of long ago, male operators were often surprised to... -
Columbus in the Americas by W.L. Heat-Moon 9780471211891
RRP: €17.79€15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471211891Author W.L. Heat-MoonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 298g -
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation's Capital by Martin Summers 9780190852641
€50.08From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded in 1855 to treat insane soldiers and sailors as well as... -
A Time of War: Remembering Guadalcanal, A Battle Without Maps by William H. Whyte 9780823220076
€94.18A memoir by William H. Whyte. The battle for control of Guadalcanal in 1942 and what the Americans learned from it forms the heart of the book. The battle was the first real test of land combat between the United States and Japan.Book InformationISBN... -
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World by Pamela Scully 9780822335818
€124.96This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and... -
The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon 9780812248197
RRP: €83.30€72.24When Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haitian independence on January 1, 1804, Haiti became the second independent republic, after the United States, in the Americas; the Haitian Revolution was the first successful antislavery and anticolonial... -
Secret History, Second Edition: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 by Nick Cullather 9780804754675
€101.07The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early example of "regime change" that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a... -
Connected Struggles: Catholics, Nationalists, and Transnational Relations between Mexico and Quebec, 1917-1945 by Maurice Demers 9780773543577
RRP: €35.69€31.54Nationalists from Quebec and Catholic militants from Mexico once shared a common cause, one that influenced international relations between their two countries. At a time when the Revolution and its aftermath in Mexico and world wars marginalized voices... -
The Open Door Era: United States Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century: 2017 by Michael Patrick Cullinane 9781474401302
€128.64In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an 'Open Door' in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities, curtail colonial annexation, and prevent conflict in the Far East. Within a year, the region had... -
The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates: Their Trials and Executions by Skyhorse Publishing 9781620874738
RRP: €11.89€10.45Pirates have always been the most feared beings on the open sea. The law does not apply to them and fear comes to those that get in their way. This history, which was originally published around 150 years ago, tells the story of some of the most famous... -
American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory by Matthew Dennis 9781625347114
€40.65The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier’s bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled door of the Pulse nightclub. Volatile and shape-shifting, relics... -
The People Are King: The Making of an Indigenous Andean Politics by S. Elizabeth Penry 9780195161601
RRP: €116.62€95.10In the sixteenth century, in what is now modern-day Peru and Bolivia, Andean communities were forcibly removed from their traditional villages by Spanish colonizers and resettled in planned, self-governed towns modeled after those in Spain. But rather... -
Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 by Martin Munro 9781846314988
RRP: €29.74€26.67The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 thrust the nation into the public consciousness as never before. That terrible event piqued interest in a remarkable country with a rich history as both the first black republic in the world and the... -
The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland by David S. Schwartz 9780190699482
RRP: €41.64€38.572019 marks the 200th anniversary of one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in American history: McCulloch v. Maryland. The state of Maryland tried to impede the establishment of the Bank of the United States, but Chief Justice John Marshall... -
Passage to America: Celebrated European Visitors in Search of the American Adventure by Gloria Deak 9781780760759
RRP: €53.55€53.53America was a source of fascination to Europeans arriving there during the course of the nineteenth century. At first glance, the New World was very similar to the societies they left behind in their native countries, but in many aspects of politics,... -
The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland by David S. Schwartz 9780197582138
RRP: €28.55€25.78The Spirit of the Constitution covers the impact and reputation of both McCulloch and Justice Marshall himself throughout American history. 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in American history:... -
American Life - A Humanistic Perspective of a Chinese Historian by Cho-yun Hsu
RRP: €77.35€70.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789882372108Author Cho-yun HsuFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Chinese University of Hong Kong PressPublisher Chinese University of Hong Kong... -
New Perspectives on the Gold Rush by Kathryn Bridge
RRP: €21.36€17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780772668547Author Kathryn BridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Royal British Columbia MuseumPublisher Royal British Columbia MuseumWeight(grams) 602g -
Lone Stars Rising: The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, and, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in the Country by Editors of Texas Monthly
RRP: €47.60€26.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063068612Author Editors of Texas MonthlyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Negro Slavery in Latin America by Rolando Mellafe
RRP: €84.49€78.77This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Cherishing the Past, Envisioning the Future.: Entangled Practices of Heritage and Utopia in the Americas by Olaf Kaltmeier
RRP: €32.73€32.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012060Author Olaf KaltmeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)... -
The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola by Milagros Ricourt
RRP: €36.89€32.56Honorable mention, 2017 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association This book begins with a simple question: why do so many Dominicans deny the African components of their DNA, culture, and history? Seeking answers, Milagros... -
Coping with Discrimination and Exclusion: Experiences of Free Chinese Migrants in the Americas in a Transregional and Diachronic Perspective by Albert Manke
RRP: €32.13€30.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012077Author Albert MankeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)... -
Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel by Marc Raboy
RRP: €30.33€26.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190058104Author Marc RaboyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA -
The Formal and Informal Politics of British Rule In Post-Conquest Quebec, 1760-1837: A Northern Bastille by Nancy Christie
RRP: €124.95€102.28Nancy Christie innovatively and significantly transforms the writing of Quebec history between 1763 and 1837 by locating Quebec within new British practices of imperial governance asserted in the wake of the Seven Years War. Breaking with the... -
What's Great about Michigan? by Anita Yasuda
RRP: €11.89€6.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467785075Author Anita YasudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lerner ClassroomPublisher Lerner ClassroomWeight(grams) 91g -
The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward by C. Vann Woodward
RRP: €36.88€31.77C. Vann Woodward is one of the most significant historians of the post-Reconstruction South. Over his career of nearly seven decades, he wrote nine books; won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes; penned hundreds of book reviews, opinion pieces, and... -
Edwards the Mentor by Rhys S. Bezzant
RRP: €97.58€70.52Among his many accomplishments, Jonathan Edwards was an effective mentor who trained many leaders for the church in colonial America, but his pastoral work is often overlooked. Rhys S. Bezzant investigates the background, method, theological rationale,... -
Spanish New York Narratives 1898-1936: Modernization, Otherness and Nation by David Miranda-Barreiro
RRP: €101.14€88.36This book looks at New York City's recurrent role as a symbol of modernization in early twentieth-century Spanish narrative. It explores the connections between the contradictory reactions to modernization and the crisis of Spanish national identity... -
Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents by James E. Wadsworth
€32.05What happened on Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic? Who was responsible for the success of that voyage? How do we know? These questions were debated in the courts of Spain for decades after 1492. Some of those who sailed with Columbus left... -
Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 by Joyce E. Chaplin
RRP: €46.35€30.70With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and... -
A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power by Cyrus Veeser
RRP: €33.32€25.94This award-winning book provides a unique window on how America began to intervene in world affairs. In exploring what might be called the prehistory of Dollar Diplomacy, Cyrus Veeser brings together developments in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo,... -
The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica by Trevor Burnard
RRP: €33.31€28.73Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by... -
The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street AND The Seven Key Empowerment Principles by Robin Walker 9781499363920
RRP: €15.47€12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499363920Author Robin WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum by Alan Mayne 9780190879457
€128.64The modern slum is as prevalent as its stereotypes. Today, a slum is often understood to be a place of extreme poverty in the developing world-a place disordered, lacking the basic amenities of life, traumatized by violence, and perpetuated by... -
Conquistador Voices (Vol I): The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants by Kevin H Siepel 9780978646622
RRP: €18.91€13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978646622Author Kevin H SiepelFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Spruce Tree PressPublisher Spruce Tree PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Truman by David McCullough 9780671456542
€35.26The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian.The life of... -
Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder
RRP: €27.37€17.48Apologies 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 *...