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In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783 by Mark A. Noll 9780190263980
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $54.41In 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... -
The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon by Stanley I. Kutler 9780393308273
RRP: $70.35Booksplease Price: $59.96"The definitive account of Watergate." -St. Louis Post-DispatchAbout the AuthorStanley I. Kutler is E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin and author of several books on American constitutional history.Reviews"A... -
Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest by Carl Abbott 9780812217797
Booksplease Price: $57.31Selected 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.96A 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: $71.38Booksplease Price: $50.34Beginning 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
Booksplease Price: $24.78Greatly 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: $90.28Booksplease Price: $79.59In 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: $75.60Booksplease Price: $66.32With 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,... -
Armies of the Us-Mexican War: 1846 - 1848 by Gabriele Esposito 9781950423408
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $35.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950423408Author Gabriele EspositoFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams) 277g -
Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition) by F Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $38.96Booksplease Price: $34.38Apologies 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)... -
Searching for Virginia Dare: On the Trail of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island by Marjorie Hudson 9781935708872
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $28.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935708872Author Marjorie HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Press 53Publisher Press 53Weight(grams) 321gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison Nicholas Guyatt 9781786079893
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.69'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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.48'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... -
Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship by J. F. C. Fuller
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.08" . . . cuts squarely across the accepted tradition . . . Fuller examines these two great soldiers from a fresh viewpoint and refuses to let himself be bound by tradition." -New York Times Book Review" . . . readable, instructive, stimulating, and . . ... -
The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire by Stephen Bown
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.82Apologies 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 -
Any Given Sunday: The NFL's Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games by Matthew Sherry 9781474613644
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $48.5917th September 2020 will mark the centenary of the National Football League. It will reach that landmark as a behemoth, an all-encompassing conglomerate that is the most lucrative sports league in the world - and also the dominant pop culture entity in... -
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783 by Michael Jarvis 9780807872840
Booksplease Price: $100.09In 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... -
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: $56.68Booksplease Price: $38.54Apologies 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 -
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy by Robert B Zoellick
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $43.47Recounting 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... -
Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Woodward 9780684852638
Booksplease Price: $29.93Twenty-five years after Nixon's resignation, investigative journalist Bob Woodward examines the legacy of Watergate. Based on hundreds of interviews and research of government archives, he explains how Watergate has affected American politics.Book... -
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black 9781641770385
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.80Britain 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... -
Rebel Gold: One Man's Quest to Crack the Code Behind the Secret Treasure of the Confederacy by Warren Getler 9780743219693
Booksplease Price: $30.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743219693Author Bob BrewerFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Lee and His Generals in War and Memory by Gary W. Gallagher 9780807129586
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $40.45In this collection, Civil War historian Gary W. Gallagher examines Robert E. Lee, his principal subordinates, the treatment they have received in the literature on Confederate military history, and the continuing influence of Lost Cause arguments in the... -
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism by Dr Ronald Sanders 9781626542761
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $47.04Apologies 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)... -
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy by Robert B. Zoellick
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.48Recounting 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... -
Scotland's Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity by Peter Hopkins
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $178.00Between the 2001 and 2011, the Muslim population of Scotland increased by nearly eighty percent. The youthfulness of Scotland's Muslim community means this population is likely to continue to grow in size. Yet, Scotland's Muslim community does not... -
Gold Fever: One Man's Adventures on the Trail of the Modern Gold Rush by Steve Boggan
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Have 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. ... -
So You Want to Be a "Reality" TV Star: Everything I Learned About Sex, Drugs, Fraud, Rock and Roll, and Vipers as Team Leader of Discovery Channel's Treasure Quest: Snake Island... by Cork Graham 9780970358028
RRP: $31.44Booksplease Price: $27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970358028Author Cork GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Rigel MediaPublisher Rigel MediaWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga by William W. Fitzhugh
Booksplease Price: $57.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989950Author William F. FitzhughFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1520gDimensions(mm)... -
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America by Alexander Laban Hinton
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $36.39This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to... -
The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.70Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California. Anna Mae Wong: the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen. Vincent Chin: killed by a... -
Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe: The Last Lost Tribe In America (P245/Mrc) by 9780865548619
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $29.27Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British, Protestant colonists who fought the Indians, tamed the wilderness, and brought "democracy"-or at least a representative republic-to North America. To the contrary, Elizabeth... -
Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation by Tom McGrath 9781538725993
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $42.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538725993Author Tom McGrathFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central Publishing -
The American Revolution M. J. Heale 9780367641399
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $56.76Originally published in 1986, this book discusses the various meanings which historians have given to the term 'American Revolution'. It can be seen as a revolutionary war of independence from Britain, but also a constitutional and ideological revolution... -
Portrait of an English Migration: North Yorkshire People in North America by William E. Van Vugt 9780228005858
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $61.03Portrait of an English Migration recounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stories of migrants and their families, this book provides... -
How Football Became Football: 150 Years of the Game's Evolution by Mary Jewel Brown
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $46.10Apologies 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)... -
Blood and Land: The Story of Native North America by J. C. H. King
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.08'A history of resilience ... sweeping, comprehensive ... it's a story that has been waiting to be told' Guardian'An account sorely needed ... a kaleidoscopic view of Native American history, refreshing and rollicking, and not unlike its fractured ... -
The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c.1750-1783 by P.J. Marshall 9780199226665
Booksplease Price: $125.06In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall, distinguished author of numerous books on the British Empire and former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, provides a unified interpretation of British imperial history in the later eighteenth... -
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by W. Bagley 9780806136394
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $45.78The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets is an... -
The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950 by Gary Dorrien 9780664223557
RRP: $113.40Booksplease Price: $85.07In this book, the second of his three-volume history, Gary Dorrien explores American theological liberalism in its heyday--at the advent of the research university and the institutionally identified school. He argues that in its prime theological...