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Beer in America: Beer's Role in the Settling of America and the Birth of a Nation by Gregg Smith 9780937381656
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937381656Author Gregg SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Brewers PublicationsPublisher Brewers PublicationsWeight(grams) 494g -
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine
RRP: £20.99£17.75When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for... -
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughan 9781503901490
£9.89A resonant true story of small-town politics and community perseverance and of decent people and questionable choices, Zoo Nebraska is a timely requiem for a rural America in the throes of extinction. Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one-where the... -
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power - Updated and Revised: Community Organizing in Radical Times by Amy Sonnie
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199412Author Amy SonnieFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain by Michael Turner 9780807171080
£50.26In this comprehensive examination of British sympathy for the South during and after the American Civil War, Michael J. Turner explores the ideas and activities of A.J. Beresford Hope - one of the leaders of the pro-Confederate lobby in Britain - to... -
Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave by Wendy Kline
RRP: £26.00£24.85Throughout the 1970s and '80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. In "Bodies of Knowledge", Wendy Kline considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female... -
Glory Enough for All: Sheridan's Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station by Eric J. Wittenberg 9780803259676
RRP: £21.99£18.89After the ferocious fighting at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in June 1864, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered his cavalry, commanded by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, to distract the Confederate forces opposing the Army of the Potomac. Glory Enough for All... -
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana by Sophie White 9781469666266
RRP: £32.95£31.12In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks,... -
America's Dirty Wars: Irregular Warfare from 1776 to the War on Terror by Russell Crandall 9780521176620
RRP: £38.99£33.66This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries. What is readily apparent in... -
New Milford Revisited by New Milford Historical Society 9781467123648
RRP: £21.99£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467123648Author New Milford Historical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)... -
After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: £35.00£33.91How the American High Commissioner for Germany set in motion a process that resulted in every non-death-row-inmate walking free after the Nuremberg trials After Nuremberg is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for German war criminals... -
The Colonial Background of the American Revolution: Four Essays in American Colonial History, Revised Edition by Charles M. Andrews 9780300000047
£18.10Classic historical study of British imperial policy and colonial conditions leading to American Revolution. Foreword by Leonard Labaree (1961).Book InformationISBN 9780300000047Author Charles M. AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Yale... -
Gold and Freedom: The Political Economy of Reconstruction by Nicolas Barreyre 9780813937496
RRP: £33.95£33.30Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments. Yet at its core, Reconstruction was a battle for the legacy of the Civil War that would determine the political fate not... -
Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic by Sandra Moats 9780813947563
RRP: £25.95£23.99Navigating Neutrality explores the unexpected role George Washington’s 1793 Neutrality Proclamation played in energizing the U.S. government’s constitutional responsibilities to support and promote America’s commercial and sovereign interests. Designed... -
The Passport in America: The History of a Document by Craig Robertson 9780199927579
RRP: £34.49£20.94In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of... -
Guns in America: A Historical Reader by Jan E. Dizard 9780814718797
RRP: £24.99£22.07Documents and analyzes the history of firearms in America Firearms have long been at the core of our national narratives. From the Puritans' embrace of guns to beat back the "devilish Indian" to our guilty delight in the extralegal exploits of Dirty... -
The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters by James M. McPherson 9780199375776
RRP: £25.49£19.27More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national... -
Views from the Streets: The Transformation of Gangs and Violence on Chicago's South Side by Roberto Aspholm 9780231187732
RRP: £25.00£19.59Chicago has long served as a symbol of urban pathology in the public imagination. The city's staggering levels of violence and entrenched gang culture occupy a central place in the national discourse, yet remain poorly understood and are often... -
Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments by Richard Gillespie 9780521456432
RRP: £29.99£27.40What motivates workers to work harder? What can management do to create a contented and productive workforce? Discussion of these questions would be incomplete without reference to the Hawthorne experiments, one of the most famous pieces of research ever... -
Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers by Ahmed White
RRP: £30.00£23.692022 International Labor History Association Book of the YearA dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies-and how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day. In 1917, the Industrial... -
The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and Corinth by Peter Cozzens 9780807857830
RRP: £33.95£28.30During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North. The outcome of this offensive - the only coordinated Confederate attempt to carry the conflict to the enemy - was disastrous. The results at... -
Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--And Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel 9780061986451
RRP: £25.99£18.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061986451Author Andrew GumbelFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 218mm *... -
First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest by David J. Weber 9780826363558
RRP: £21.95£16.44First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the... -
Avidly Reads Passages by Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171
RRP: £13.99£9.84"What is the value of Black life in America?" In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel-the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus-to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the... -
Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George by Peter W. Rodman 9780307390523
RRP: £17.95£15.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390523Author Peter W. RodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse by Tom Downey
RRP: £20.99£12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805078442Author Tom DowneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Franklin D. Roosevelt:a Rendevous with Destiny by Frank Freidel 9780316292610
£33.89The acclaimed one-volume biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, praised by Doris Kearns Goodwin as "brilliant...a magnificently readable saga."Book InformationISBN 9780316292610Author Frank FreidelFormat PaperbackPage Count 710Imprint Little,... -
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries by Greg Melville
RRP: £18.99£13.28A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower... -
The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World by Nathaniel Millett 9780813060866
£31.27During the War of 1812, Edward Nicolls of the Royal Marines armed ex-slaves, Red Sticks, and Seminoles to fight alongside the British from a fort erected at Prospect Bluff in the Florida panhandle. This so-called Negro Fort became the largest maroon... -
The Republicans: A History of the Grand Old Party by Lewis L. Gould 9780199936625
RRP: £23.49£18.82The Republicans is a revised and updated edition of Lewis L. Gould's 2003 history of the Republican party. The book retains the features that made the first edition a success--a fast-paced account of Republican fortunes, a deep knowledge of the evolution... -
The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution by H.Trevor Colbourn 9780865971592
RRP: £8.95£7.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971592Author Trevor ColbourneFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 571g -
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 by Sven Beckert 9780521524100
RRP: £30.99£26.65This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and... -
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines
RRP: £12.99£8.18The "enlightening" (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors' founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist... -
Warriors of Disinformation: How Lies, Videotape, and the USIA Won the Cold War by Alvin A. Snyder
RRP: £10.99£9.65Have you ever thought about what really goes on behind the walls of the White House or the Pentagon? Particularly in times of political upheaval, it often seems that the government and the media work together to keep the voting public confused and... -
True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Emily Skidmore 9781479870639
RRP: £74.00£64.45Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s In 1883, Frank Dubois gained national attention for his life in Waupun, Wisconsin. There he was known as a... -
The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation by John Ashworth
RRP: £27.00£21.06This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The center of controversy is the emergence of the antislavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to this development... -
Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 by Ellen Eisenberg 9780815626633
£19.12Most of the synagogues are gone; a temple has been converted into a Baptist church. There is little indication to the passerby that the southern New Jersey's Salem and Cumberland counties once contained active Jewish colonies-the largest and most... -
Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War by Bruce Levine 9780809053537
RRP: £20.00£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809053537Author Bruce LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 142mm * 24mm -
The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost by Peter Manseau
RRP: £16.99£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328557063Author Peter ManseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 277g -
John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris
RRP: £11.99£9.56John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported...