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Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent: Volume 10 by Joshua MacFadyen 9780773553477
RRP: €38.08€33.57Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint - critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre... -
Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South by Daniel S. Dupre 9780253031525
RRP: €59.50€51.66Alabama endured warfare, slave trading, squatting, and speculating on its path to becoming America's 22nd state, and Daniel S. Dupre brings its captivating frontier history to life in Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South. Dupre's vivid... -
El Proyecto Macnamara: The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846 by John Fox 9781908928740
RRP: €83.30€27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908928740Author John FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
America After Sixty Years: The Travel Diaries of Two Generations of Englishmen by M. Philips Price 9781032152363
RRP: €34.50€29.86First Published in 1936 America After Sixty Years presents the travel diaries of two generations of Englishmen, W. E. Price, and his son M. Philips Price. Part I of the book contains W. E. Price’s American journey and throws light on topics like... -
Explorations in the Interior of the Labrador Peninsula by Henry Youle Hind 9780978338107
RRP: €28.55€18.61In 1861, Henry Hind led a two-month long canoe expedition of the Moisie River, Quebecs longest river, from Sept-Iles to the Ashuanipi River in Labrador. This classic book provides a unique glimpse of the raw natural beauty of the land and wildlife, and a... -
The Man Who Became a Caribou by Craig Mishler
€39.07Dinjii Vadzaih Dhidlit: The Man Who Became a Caribou is a new bilingual volume based on a series of oral interviews with Gwich'in elders living in rural northeast Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Richly illustrated, the book covers a wide range of topics... -
One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests by Elizabeth Jameson 9780888645012
RRP: €35.69€29.18This eclectic and carefully organized range of essays-from women's history and settler societies to colonialism and borderlands studies-is the first collection of comparative and transnational work on women in the Canadian and U.S. Wests. It explores,... -
Identities in North America: The Search for Community by Robert L. Earle 9780804724876
RRP: €29.74€25.79This is a wide-ranging inquiry into the forces that define the nations of North America and that, through convergence, are bringing North America's peoples and institutions closer together. These socio-cultural and regional forces form a web of factors... -
Overripe Economy: American Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy Alan Nasser 9780745337937
RRP: €27.36€18.05From industrialisation to the present day, Overripe Economy is a genealogy of the emergence of a finance-ridden, authoritarian, austerity-plagued American capitalism. This panoramic political-economic history of the country, surveys the ruthlessly... -
Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation by Sean P. Harvey 9780674289932
RRP: €48.73€39.54Sean Harvey explores the morally entangled territory of language and race in this intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European... -
Manifest Destinies and Indigenous Peoples by David Maybury-Lewis 9780674033139
RRP: €29.69€23.67How was frontier expansion rationalized in the Americas during the late nineteenth century? As new states fleshed out expanded national maps, how did they represent their advances? Were there any distinct pan-American patterns? The renowned... -
Synop EDI Log Columbus First Voyage by LARDICCI 9782503508733
€115.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503508733Author LARDICCIPage Count 684Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1673g -
Explorers & the New World by Eugene M. Wait 9781560729648
RRP: €46.40€38.41Being an explorer is not for the squeamish and exploring the new world brought front and centre particular types of characters. Each of the explorers described in this work was quite different, yet they shared the yearning to find something new and if... -
Unter Zions Panier: Mormonism and Its Interaction with Germany and Its People 1840-1990 by Kurt Widmer 9783515104197
RRP: €124.95€120.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515104197Author Kurt WidmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden... -
Christopher Columbus: The Life of a Master Navigator and Explorer by David West 9781905087181
RRP: €8.32€4.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905087181Author David WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd -
Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post-Civil Rights America by Danielle R. Olden 9780520343344
RRP: €95.20€73.65Mexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of U.S. racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the post-civil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal... -
The Spanish Frontier in North America: The Brief Edition David J. Weber 9780300140682
RRP: €26.78€25.80A compact synthesis of David J. Weber's prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America, from the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spain's gradual retreat Praise for the previous edition: "I cannot imagine a single book giving a more... -
The History of the United States Civil Service: From the Postwar Years to the Twenty-First Century Lorenzo Castellani 9780367545413
RRP: €45.21€39.72The History of the United States Civil Service: From the Postwar Years to the Twenty-First Century provides a broad, comprehensive overview of the US civil service in the postwar period and examines the reforms and changes throughout that time.The author... -
Constructing Presidential Legacy: How We Remember the American President by Michael Patrick Cullinane 9781474437325
RRP: €33.31€30.95World-leading experts take a multi-disciplinary approach to explore how presidents, including Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama and Trump, are remembered in film, museums, public art,... -
Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective by James Lockhart 9781474435611
RRP: €124.95€113.51Reinterprets Chile and southern South America's Cold War experience from a transatlantic perspective James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrative. He... -
Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' by Thomas K. Robb 9781474432610
RRP: €28.55€26.00Thomas K. Robb draws upon a wealth of previously classified documents to reveal that relations between Britain and the United States of America during Carter's presidency were riven with antagonism and disagreement even the most 'special' aspects of... -
Cold War Film Genres by Homer B. Pettey 9781474412940
RRP: €107.10€97.54Examines how Cold War films depicted pertinent issues of American social class and genderFrom the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social... -
Cowboy Way, The: Wisdom, Wit and Lore by Duane Radford 9781926700465
RRP: €17.84€11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926700465Author Duane RadfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Blue Bike BooksPublisher Blue Bike BooksWeight(grams) 330g -
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies by William A. Parkinson 9781879621343
RRP: €57.06€47.71Since the inception of the New Archaeology in the 1960s anthropological archaeologists have been attempting to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. The vast majority of this research has focused... -
Complete Cowboy Reader, The: Remembering the Open Range by Ted Stone 9781551051154
RRP: €16.65€10.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551051154Author Ted StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Lone Pine Publishing,CanadaPublisher Lone Pine Publishing,CanadaWeight(grams) 262g -
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Kevin Kenny 9780197673881
RRP: €23.79€20.38Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly... -
An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents over Three Centuries by David Correia 9781642599770
RRP: €23.79€16.67The remarkable true story of an Indigenous family who fought back, over multiple generations, against the world-destroying power of settler colonial violence. Just weeks before police would kill him in Gallup, New Mexico, in March of 1973, Larry... -
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies by William A. Parkinson 9781879621350
RRP: €157.08€127.33Since the inception of the New Archaeology in the 1960s anthropological archaeologists have been attempting to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. The vast majority of this research has focused... -
The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America by Tracy Neal Leavelle
€28.83In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the... -
Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa by James Neff
RRP: €17.84€13.92From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and... -
Five Fur Traders of the Northwest: Being the Narrative of Peter Pond and the Diaries of John Macdonell, Archibald N. McLeod, Hugh Faries, and Thomas Connor by Charles M Gates
RRP: €32.07€20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873515733Author Charles M GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Borealis BooksPublisher Borealis BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm... -
Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland by Kristi Noem 9781538707067
RRP: €23.79€15.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707067Author Kristi NoemFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher Twelve -
Obsidian Across the Americas: Compositional Studies Conducted in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History by Gary M. Feinman
€41.91Obsidian Across the Americas draws attention to recent obsidian studies in the Americas and acts as a reference for archaeologists and scholars interested in material culture and exchange. Moreover, it provides a wide range of case studies in obsidian... -
A History of the American People: Volume 1: To the Civil War by James Truslow Adams
RRP: €54.73€47.75Originally published in 1933, and written by "America's historian", James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American nation encompassing economics, religion, social change and politics from settlement to the Civil... -
The First Ladies Fact Book, Revised And Updated: The Childhoods, Courtships, Marriages, Campaigns, Accomplishments, and Legacies of Every First Lady from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama by Bill Harris
€22.50The revised and updated edition, including all-new information on Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Betty Ford America's first ladies have captured the hearts of the citizens of our country ever since its humble beginnings. This newly... -
Gold Mountain, Big City: Ken Cathcart's 1947 Illustrated Map of San Francisco's Chinatown by Jim Schein
€46.01The unique character of San Francisco's Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and celebratory time capsule of San Francisco's Chinatown-the largest Chinese community outside of Asia-shares the stories of... -
America After Sixty Years: The Travel Diaries of Two Generations of Englishmen by M. Philips Price
€126.87First Published in 1936 America After Sixty Years presents the travel diaries of two generations of Englishmen, W. E. Price, and his son M. Philips Price. Part I of the book contains W. E. Price's American journey and throws light on topics like... -
Racial Uncertainties: Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post-Civil Rights America by Danielle R. Olden
RRP: €29.75€23.31Mexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of U.S. racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the post-civil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal... -
Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics by Nora Faires
RRP: €29.74€26.26Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two... -
Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America by Rachel Adams
RRP: €33.32€32.59North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. "Continental...