North America

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...

Eckstorm was the daughter of a fur trader living in Maine who published six books and many articles on natural history, woods culture, and Indian language and lore. A writer from Maine with a national readership, Eckstorm drew on her unique relationship...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771860819Author Michel BouchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Baraka BooksPublisher Baraka BooksWeight(grams) 0g

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...

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...

For more than four decades, world-renowned diver and treasure hunter Captain Robert MacKinnon has reclaimed sunken caches from the dangerous shallow waters along the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Known as the Death Coast for its...

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 9781683340591Author John MissallFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 689gDimensions(mm)...

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)...

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)...

Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernan Cortes in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911469332Author George Franklin FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Alan C Hood & CompanyPublisher Alan C Hood & Company

From the illustrious George Washington and the infamous J. Edgar Hoover to brilliant imaginer Walt Disney and bad boy of baseball Ty Cobb, Freemasons have influenced every aspect of American life. Yet this secret society remains as controversial and...

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 9781771620390Author Barry GoughFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 538g

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these...

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from...

Newspaper accounts of the Navajos in recent years have prompted widespread interest in the tribe, its history, and its present condition. In this volume Ruth Underhill presents the absorbing and authoritative account of the Navajos, from the time of...

In March 1961, America's most prominent journalist, Edward R. Murrow, ended a quarter-century career with the Columbia Broadcasting System to join the administration of John F. Kennedy as director of the United States Information Agency (USIA). Charged...

The fundamental argument of this book is, first, that Richard Nixon, though not generally regarded as a charismatic or emotionally outgoing politician like Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, did establish profound psychic connections with the American...

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

Drawing from the intriguing (and sometimes unbelievable) true stories of the lives of everyday Americans, historian Julie M. Fenster traces the history of the weakening of our national ethics through the practice of cheating. From marital infidelity to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732687417Author David CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Living Water SpecialtiesPublisher Living Water SpecialtiesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715643723Author Peter PagnamentaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co LtdPublisher Duckworth OverlookWeight(grams) 681g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425257364Author Bill FawcettFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 304g

Cundill History Prize FinalistLongman-History Today Prize FinalistWinner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize"Meticulous environmental-historical detective work."-Times Literary SupplementWhen Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820474229Author Stan LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 440g

The Sand Creek Battle, or Massacre, occurred on November 2930, 1864, a confrontation between Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians and Colorado volunteer soldiers. The affair was a tragic event in American history, and what occurred there continues to be hotly...