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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
RRP: €21.42€14.34Apologies 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... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: €23.80€17.48**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative... -
Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
RRP: €17.84€11.97FULLY 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: €11.89€8.00A 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: €22.60€15.39Britain 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... -
Any Given Sunday: The NFL's Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games Matthew Sherry 9781474613668
RRP: €13.08€8.93An authoritative 100-year history of America's National Football League from its founding.The NFL has become the most lucrative sports league in the world, yet it has not always been a roaring success story. It is a rocky road filled with detours and... -
Twelve Years a Slave: The Black History Classic Solomon Northup 9780857089069
RRP: €11.89€8.33DISCOVER 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: €23.79€21.05'...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: €35.70€24.28The 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... -
Gimson's Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
RRP: €13.08€9.37'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,... -
The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo 9781780726274
RRP: €13.08€9.06The 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: €61.87€54.67The 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... -
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Brothers Who Led the Native American Resistance Peter Cozzens 9781838951511
RRP: €13.08€8.83A 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... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen 9781324094067
RRP: €21.41€17.34There 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... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
RRP: €17.84€11.85From 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: €15.46€7.88On 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
€26.10Exam 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... -
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen 9781620973929
RRP: €15.46€10.86Since 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... -
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford
RRP: €22.60€16.20The 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 Mayflower: The perilous journey that changed the world by Libby Romero
RRP: €9.51€7.12Discover 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: €17.84€11.96'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: €17.84€11.29Apologies 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: €11.89€8.00"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: €32.12€21.73Apologies 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 -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands 9781541672543
RRP: €19.03€16.40In 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,... -
The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction by Louis P. Masur
€14.55More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P... -
Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth by Gordon Campbell
RRP: €31.52€22.50The 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: €13.08€9.51He 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... -
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
€14.07This 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... -
The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music by Richard Williams
RRP: €15.46€10.47'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
€16.35The 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
€26.10Exam 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: €28.56€22.41CHOICE 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,"... -
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack
€49.90The 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... -
The Seven Years' War by Daniel Marston
RRP: €17.84€13.98The 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... -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: €9.51€6.65From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason. 'The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age' David Grann ... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: €15.46€10.47The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a... -
Handsome Johnny: The Criminal Life of Johnny Rosselli, The Mob's Man in Hollywood by Lee Server
RRP: €15.46€11.11'A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.' - Al CaponeFeatured in ViceA man of singular influence in the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for half a century, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the... -
9.11: The New Evidence: Fully Updated and Revised by Ian Henshall 9781845295141
€15.15The original 9/11 Revealed attracted lavish praise from reviewers in the Daily Mail and Sunday Times for the 'huge gaps' it exposed in the official 9/11 story. It became a non-fiction bestseller despite a wall of silence by the broadcast media and... -
Haunted Air by Ossian Brown
RRP: €35.70€25.41A collection of anonymous Hallowe'en Photographs from America, c.1875 - 1955The roots of Hallowe'en lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on...