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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Professor James Walvin 9781472144331
RRP: $48.75$32.53A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the... -
Invisible by Paul Auster
RRP: $19.48$13.46Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and... -
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade
RRP: $29.23$21.35In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of... -
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
RRP: $29.23$19.62The New York Times BestsellerA ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to... -
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
RRP: $45.81$42.18For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an... -
Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
RRP: $29.23$19.62FULLY REVISED AND EDITED PAPERBACK EDITION Shortlisted for Penderyn Music Prize Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that... -
Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David
RRP: $19.48$13.10A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last. ... -
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black 9781641770385
RRP: $37.03$25.21Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the... -
Twelve Years a Slave: The Black History Classic Solomon Northup 9780857089069
RRP: $19.48$13.65DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITY Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841. His true tale of captivity, torture and abuse brings to... -
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
RRP: $38.98$34.50'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called `path breaking,' `seminal,' `essential,' a `must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of... -
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris 9781529430875
RRP: $58.50$39.78The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big... -
The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo 9781780726274
RRP: $21.43$14.84The acclaimed book by Jonathan Mayo, now available in paperback"Reads like a pacey, page-turning, cold war political thriller." Dermot O'Leary This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest... -
The Witchcraft Sourcebook: Second Edition Brian P. Levack 9781138774971
RRP: $101.38$89.58The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 Free at last? Civil Rights in the USA, 1918-1968 Alec Jessop 9781398345416
$40.64Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
Gimson's Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
RRP: $21.43$15.35'Crisp and witty' Charles Moore, Spectator'A brilliant survey of the occupants of the Oval Office' Daniel Johnson, Article'Witty and succinct with splendid caricatures' Tibor Fischer, CriticA spirited and entertaining aide-memoire offering 44 short,... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen 9781324094067
RRP: $35.08$30.23There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as... -
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen 9781620973929
RRP: $25.33$17.61Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold over two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
RRP: $29.23$19.42From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and... -
Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson 9781474605656
RRP: $25.33$12.91On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America's entry into the Second World War. With vivid prose and astonishing detail, Craig Nelson combines thrilling... -
Connecting History: Higher USA, 1918-1968 Alec Jessop 9781398345379
$42.76Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford
RRP: $37.03$26.54The definitive biography of Jackie Kennedy, by Britain's best royal biographer Jackie Kennedy was a twentieth-century icon of glamour, elegance and grace. As the beautiful young wife of President John F. Kennedy, she was adored, her style imitated... -
The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire by Stephen Bown
RRP: $35.08$24.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385694094Author Stephen BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USAPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Mayflower: The perilous journey that changed the world by Libby Romero
RRP: $15.58$11.49Discover the real history behind the Mayflower in this illustrated nonfiction storybook for kids ages 7 to 9, timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' famous voyage to the Americas.Step on board the Mayflower and meet the amazing... -
America Over the Water Shirley Collins 9781474623377
RRP: $29.23$19.60'Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived' Stewart Lee'Without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures' Billy BraggIn America Over the Water, celebrated English folksinger... -
Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason
RRP: $29.23$18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510744400Author Phil MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: $19.48$13.10"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it... -
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
RRP: $52.63$34.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225268Author Timothy EganFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Brothers Who Led the Native American Resistance Peter Cozzens 9781838951511
RRP: $21.43$14.47A History Book of the Year in The Times 'Cozzens is a master storyteller; his books weave a wealth of intricate detail into gripping historical narrative.' The Times'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' S.C... -
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men: A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West by Carl P. Russell 9781602399693
RRP: $21.43$20.36This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and... -
Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell
RRP: $51.66$36.29The 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... -
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen
RRP: $21.43$15.35He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged... -
The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music by Richard Williams
RRP: $25.33$17.16'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.'Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most... -
The Ashes of War: The Fight for Upper Canada, August 1814-March 1815 by Richard Feltoe 9781459722835
$26.79The end of the War of 1812 brought with it great political, economic, and social upheaval. The sixth and final book of the Upper Canada Preserved - War of 1812 series, The Ashes of War examines in detail the closing stages of the war on the Northern... -
OCR GCSE (9-1) History B (SHP) Foundation Edition: The People's Health c.1250 to present by Jamie Byrom
$42.76Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbook.Help more students to access the content for OCR GCSE History B (SHP) with this Foundation Edition,... -
How White Men Won the Culture Wars: A History of Veteran America by Joseph Darda
RRP: $46.80$36.72CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022A cultural history of how white men exploited the image of the Vietnam veteran to roll back civil rights and restake their claim on the nation "If war among the whites brought peace and liberty to the blacks,"... -
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
RRP: $39.00$24.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946911Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack
$78.35The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth... -
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
RRP: $35.10$21.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122029Author Colin WoodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm... -
The Seven Years' War by Daniel Marston
RRP: $29.23$22.91The closest thing to total war before World War One, the Seven Years' War was fought in North America, Europe, the Caribbean and India with major consequences for all parties involved. This fascinating book is the first to truly review the grand... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands 9781541672543
RRP: $31.18$22.50In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early 19th century to the closing of the frontier by the early 20th. He introduces us to explorers,...