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Invisible by Paul Auster
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.85Sinuously 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... -
The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction by Louis P. Masur
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.69More 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... -
The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantu
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.97Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard'Stunningly good... The best thing I've read for ages' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's LifeFrancisco Cantu was a US... -
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $22.35Apologies 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.96The 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 Warrior and the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Brothers Who Led the Native American Resistance Peter Cozzens 9781838951511
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.97A 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... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands 9781541672543
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.01In 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,... -
Secret Voyages to the New World by Gunnar Thompson 9780557231652
RRP: $44.13Booksplease Price: $38.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557231652Author Gunnar ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 13mm -
A Brutal Reckoning: The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $32.04'Cozzens is a master storyteller' The Times'Extremely well researched' Times Literary SupplementFrom the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressure from white settlers 150 years later, A Brutal... -
Bad Land by Jonathan Raban 9781035034529
Booksplease Price: $16.28Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country.Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the... -
Handsome Johnny: The Criminal Life of Johnny Rosselli, The Mob's Man in Hollywood by Lee Server
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.76'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... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hamalainen
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $54.07American history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America", an era that-according to prevailing accounts-laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, the acclaimed historian Pekka... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II: The New World by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $47.48"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother Anne Sebba 9781780226620
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.23'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP'Ethel sings out for all women who have been misunderstood and wronged,... -
It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: New History of the American West by Richard White 9780806125671
Booksplease Price: $64.17This book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants. They have cared little about the cost their activities imposed on others; what has... -
Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling by Amy Chozick 9780008296759
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.73Hillary Clinton dominated Amy Chozick's life for more than a decade. Here, she tells the inside story of Clinton's pursuit of the US presidency in a campaign book like no other. 'A breathtaking, page-turning... -
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.49The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 * Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine * Winner of... -
Jack London: The Socialist Writings: The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, Revolution and Other Essays by Jack London 9781939375032 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $26.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939375032Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Sabino Falls PublishingPublisher Sabino Falls PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Jack London: The Socialist Writings: The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, Revolution and Other Essays by Jack London 9781939375032
Booksplease Price: $34.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939375032Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Sabino Falls PublishingPublisher Sabino Falls PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen 9781620973929
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $24.61Since 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 Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King 9781517904463
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.01In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the... -
The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America Robert Thurston (Miami University, USA) 9781405840835
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $69.17Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 - the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was... -
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Michael Punke 9780008189310 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $5.89From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant - the book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history. In 1917, the lives of a company of miners changed... -
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Michael Punke 9780008189310
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.41From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant - the book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history. In 1917, the lives of a company of miners changed... -
Constructing a Nervous System: Cultural Reckonings by Margo Jefferson
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.70FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs... -
In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783 by Mark A. Noll 9780190263980
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $48.38In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal. But while Spanish and Catholic Christianity reached the New World in 1492, it was only with the coming of the Mayflower that English-language Bibles... -
Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest by Carl Abbott 9780812217797
Booksplease Price: $55.58Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title It has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, hailed as a top spot to work, and favored as a great place to do business, enjoy... -
The Americas Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9780753818022
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.23A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez- Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the... -
Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Travis Glasson 9780190683016
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $44.67Beginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain's colonies. Hundreds of clergy traveled to widely-dispersed posts in North America, the Caribbean, and... -
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump 9781845295530 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.95In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the... -
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $6.34In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the... -
Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas by Gavin Menzies 9780062236784
Booksplease Price: $22.74Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas-offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who... -
Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France Karen Anderson 9780415908276
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $72.93In this highly original volume of social history, Karen Anderson makes a provocative claim: the subjugation of women in seventeenth-century New France was linked with the brutal colonization of native Indian populations. Before colonization, the Huron... -
Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917 by Daniel Larsen 9781108486682
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $59.90With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the US, rival factions in Asquith's government battled over whether or not to seek a negotiated end to the First World War. In this riveting new account,... -
Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition) by F Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $34.96Booksplease Price: $31.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176373903Author F Scott FitzgeraldFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Wisehouse ClassicsPublisher Wisehouse ClassicsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison Nicholas Guyatt 9781786079893
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.22'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
New World, Inc.: The Story of the British Empire's Most Successful Start-Up by John Butman
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.68'Deeply researched and well-written' - Financial TimesIn the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting array of social, commercial and political... -
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783 by Michael Jarvis 9780807872840
RRP: $93.50Booksplease Price: $90.56In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles... -
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy by Robert B Zoellick
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $38.71Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; the special roles trading, transnational, and technological... -
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism by Dr Ronald Sanders 9781626542761
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $43.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626542761Author Dr Ronald SandersFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...