North America

In 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...

The 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...

This book is a sweeping reexamination of the evolution of the state, covering the indigenous orders of pre-Columbian America, the Spanish, Portuguese, and British Empires in the Americas, and their major successor states of Mexico, Brazil, and the United...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039379Author Wilfred M. McClayFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228852919Author Andy PetepieceFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell Talent

Apologies 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)...

For a decade America's share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the world's manufacturing...

`When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, `we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345393500Author Judith NiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Long 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629143446Author Bruce WexlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 251mm...

In 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 bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win...

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...

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

When 26 Army Air Force flight nurses and medics boarded a military transport plane in November 1943 on a mission to evacuate wounded and sick troops, they didn't anticipate a crash landing in Nazi territory.Emerging from their battered aircraft, the...

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...

Sharing 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733280532Author Kudjo Adwo ElFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Califa Media PublishingPublisher Califa Media PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

This long overdue, vivid and wide-ranging examination of the significance of the resistance of the enslaved themselves - from sabotage and running away to outright violent rebellion - shines fresh light on the end of slavery in the Atlantic World. It is...

Drive critical, engaged, high level learning and skills. Developed with the IB, this Course Book equips learners to analyze and articulate complex historical concepts and contexts, strengthening performance and potential. Enabling advanced understanding,...

Gabriele 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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395925690Author William Least-Heat MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 858g

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...

From Fidel Castro to Qassem Soleimani, the US government has been involved in an array of assassinations and assassination attempts against foreign leaders and officials. The President's Kill List reveals how the US government has relied on a variety of...

The history of early America cannot be told without considering unfree labor. At the center of this history are African and Native American adults forced into slavery; the children born to these unfree persons usually inherited their parents' status...

The Declaration of Independence was not only its first paragraph, that is the political manifesto of the right of revolution - the right of independence. The Declaration was also its second paragraph, that is the political manifesto of the Enlightenment...

No living scholar has shaped the study of American religious history more profoundly than George M. Marsden. His work spans U.S. intellectual, cultural, and religious history from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. This collection of...

From industrialisation to the present day, Overripe Economy is a genealogy of the emergence of a finance-ridden, authoritarian, austerity-plagued American capitalism. This panoramic political-economic history of the country, surveys the ruthlessly...

On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, Mormonism, that had caused them to flee. The valley was also home to members of the Ute tribe, who would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036008987Author Nicholas FellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Hodder EducationPublisher Hodder Education

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...

Did you know that the uranium used to bomb the citizens of Hiroshima was mined at a forbidden site known as 'the money place' by First Nation people in northern Canada? Or have you heard about the environmental damage and social upheavals at the Atomic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560378396Author Sally ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Sweetgrass BooksPublisher Sweetgrass BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

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...

'When you judge decisions, you have to judge them in light of what there was available to do,' noted Secretary of State George C. Marshall to the Senate in 1951. In this spirit, this volume addresses and succeeds in outlining the mammoth task that...

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...