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Bad Land by Jonathan Raban 9781035034529
RRP: $23.08$16.65Jonathan 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... -
Any Given Sunday: The NFL's Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games by Matthew Sherry
RRP: $23.08$15.54An 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... -
9.11: The New Evidence: Fully Updated and Revised by Ian Henshall 9781845295141 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.28The 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... -
9.11: The New Evidence: Fully Updated and Revised by Ian Henshall 9781845295141
$26.73The 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... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hamalainen
RRP: $67.18$59.07American 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... -
Constructing a Nervous System: Cultural Reckonings by Margo Jefferson
RRP: $35.68$25.79FROM 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... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen 9781324094067
RRP: $37.78$32.36There 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... -
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Michael Punke 9780008189310
RRP: $25.18$18.90From 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 forever... -
Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607 - 1713: History, Organization and Uniforms by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $41.98$30.83Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the... -
Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917 by Daniel Larsen 9781108486682
RRP: $73.48$60.44With 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,... -
Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion by Paul Frymer 9780691191560
RRP: $46.20$36.46How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II: The New World by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $54.58$50.74"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: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba
RRP: $23.08$15.54'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,... -
Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald (Volume One) by Barry Krusch 9780962098147
RRP: $37.70$26.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962098147Author Barry KruschFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint WWW.Theintelligentcommunity.comPublisher WWW.Theintelligentcommunity.comWeight(grams)... -
Haunted Air by Ossian Brown
RRP: $63.00$44.84A 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... -
North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue 9780195307542
RRP: $18.88$13.55When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve... -
Mysteries of the Far North: The Secret History of the Vikings in Greenland and North America by Jacques Privat
RRP: $52.50$34.10Sharing his extensive and meticulous research, Jacques Privat reveals that the Vikings were in Greenland, its neighbouring islands, and the eastern shores of Canada long before Columbus. He examines in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were... -
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen
RRP: $35.68$30.68The 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... -
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White
RRP: $64.03$50.32The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation... -
Gold Fever: One Man's Adventures on the Trail of the Modern Gold Rush by Steve Boggan
RRP: $23.08$17.33Have you ever imagined giving up your day job and heading for the hills in search of gold? Journalist Steve Boggan decided to do just that when the price of the precious metal scaled dizzying heights in the wake of the global financial crisis. ... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison by Nicholas Guyatt
RRP: $52.50$37.84'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... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White
$67.83During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his... -
The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantu
RRP: $23.08$13.55Shortlisted 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... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands
RRP: $52.50$43.45By the time he became president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson had already been looking west for decades. He saw the country's population expanding and he judged that America's territory must expand too, lest America become as crowded and conflict-prone as... -
American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
RRP: $18.88$13.55Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in... -
Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Travis Glasson 9780190683016
RRP: $67.18$48.11Beginning 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... -
Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas by Gavin Menzies 9780062236784
$28.25Greatly 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... -
Kennedy at Birch Grove by Paul Elgood 9781467996549
RRP: $11.30$10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467996549Author Paul ElgoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael 9780520283947
RRP: $52.50$41.14Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest... -
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black 9781641770385
RRP: $39.88$27.15Britain 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... -
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean by Gerald Horne 9781583676639
RRP: $39.88$32.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583676639Author Gerald HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition) by F Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $37.65$6.49Apologies 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)... -
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs
RRP: $31.48$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806314Author Craig ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Americas by Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: $23.08$15.54A 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... -
Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford 9780307717153
RRP: $37.80$24.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717153Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
Rules of Civility by Moncure D Conway 9781482331424
RRP: $16.78$14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482331424Author Moncure D ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship by Christopher Hitchens 9781838952310
RRP: $27.28$17.98Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain... -
By God and Granite by Kristi Noem
RRP: $63.00$46.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707050Author Kristi NoemFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 27mm -
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump 9781845295530 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.57In 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: $27.28$6.11In 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...