North America

In 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...

Apologies 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)...

Apologies 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)...

When 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...

Acclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America's most colorful and exciting story-the opening of the Far West. Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece, an...

Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination uses the tools of critical thinking, historical research, and philosophical inquiry to debunk the many myths and conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's shocking and untimely death. As we approach the...

No assessment of the Plains Indians can be complete without some account of the Pawnees. They ranged from Nebraska to Mexico and, when not fighting among themselves, fought with almost every other Plains tribe at one time or another. Regarded as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816502974Author Grenville GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 543g

Recounting 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...

By 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952828898Author Cush DeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Califa Media PublishingPublisher Califa Media PublishingWeight(grams) 186g

During 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560378396Author Sally ThompsonFormat PaperbackImprint Sweetgrass BooksPublisher Sweetgrass Books

A comprehensive history of economic thought in the United States from 1790 to 1860 Due to the enormous influence of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations on Western liberal economics, a tradition closely linked to the United States, many scholars assume...

Spanish conquistadors attempted to conquer the New World nearly a century before the English colonists established a permanent settlement at Jamestown. This book examines the unsuccessful elements of Spain's attempt at expanding its empire in the...

The three volumes that will encompass North American Exploration appraise the full scope of the exploration of the North American continent and its oceanic margins from prior to the arrival of Columbus until the end of the nineteenth century. More than...

The Plains Indian of the Upper Missouri in the nineteenth-century buffalo days remains the widely recognized symbol of primitive man par excellence-and the persistent image of the North American Indian at his most romantic. Fifteen cultural highlights,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432890919Author Bill O'ReillyFormat PaperbackImprint Large Print PressPublisher Large Print PressWeight(grams) 140g

A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland's population migrated to North America, forming...

The Jesuit Relations, written by new world jesuit missionaries from 1632 to 1673 back to their Superior in France, have long been a remarkable source of both historical knowledge and spiritual inspiration. They provide rich information about Jesuit piety...

Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shaped and reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstances in both the old and new worlds. In A Land of Dreams, Patrick Mannion analyzes and compares the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739164174Author Barbara A. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195384789Author Professor of History Leonard DinnersteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University...

Archaeologists are becoming increasingly interested in studying the experiences of Chinese immigrants, yet this area of research is mired in long-standing interpretive models that essentialize race and identity. Showcasing the enormous amount of data...

Between June 10 and September 22, 1692, nineteen people were hanged for practicing witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. One person was pressed to death, and over 150 others were jailed, where still others died. The Story of the Salem Witch Trials is a...

Cowboy, conservationist, and curator Martin S. Garretson was widely considered one of the foremost experts on the natural history of the buffalo as well as one of the preeminent advocates for the preservation of the North American bison for several...

A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about European colonialism in the New World and restores much needed balance to our understanding of the past.Was America really "stolen" from the Indians? Was Columbus a racist? Were Indians...

Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874223408Author Lloyd KeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879511439Author Jack H. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Vestal Press Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)...

Without his New York supporters, it's highly unlikely Abraham Lincoln would have made it to the White House. Yet the majority of New Yorkers never voted for him and were openly hostile to him and his politics. New Yorkers reacted to Lincoln's wartime...

With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those "new" lands and their inhabitants that...

Filling a notable gap in North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626542778Author Dr Ronald SandersFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade...

Borderwall 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439141557Author Tyler AnbinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999572344Author Mary Jewel BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Brown House PublishingPublisher Brown House PublishingWeight(grams)...