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The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat: Reality and Myth by Earl J. Hess
RRP: £26.95£15.60The Civil War's single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so we've been told for years. Noted historian Earl J. Hess forcefully challenges that claim, offering a new, clear-eyed, and convincing assessment of the rifle musket's actual... -
Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History by Richard M. McMurry 9780807845691
RRP: £27.95£26.58Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Tennessee. His bold conclusion is that Lee's army was a better army--not just one with a better high command... -
100 Amazing Facts about the Negro by Henry Louis Gates 9780307908711
RRP: £40.00£35.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307908711Author Henry Louis GatesFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1352gDimensions(mm) 239mm *... -
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language by Douglas C. Baynton
RRP: £24.00£23.03This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people. The debate about sign... -
General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians by F. Cunningham 9780806130354
RRP: £18.95£13.06This is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie was recruited in Indian Territory by Albert Pike to... -
From Miracle to Madness 2nd. Edition: The True Story of Charles Dederich and Synanon . by Paul Morantz 9780578163055
RRP: £30.10£27.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578163055Author Paul MorantzFormat PaperbackImprint Cresta PublicationsPublisher Cresta PublicationsWeight(grams) 1338g -
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction - Updated Edition by James M. McPherson 9780691163901
RRP: £20.00£15.89Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson explores... -
The Coming of the Civil War by Avery O. Craven 9780226118949
RRP: £40.00£38.55"In recent years a highly industrious school of historians has begun asking whether the war should have been fought at all and whether it was perhaps not more the fault of the North than of the South. Seeking to revise earlier judgments they have become... -
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler 9781631495953
RRP: £12.99£11.38Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman... -
Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth by Terry Alford 9780195054125
RRP: £23.49£17.87With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865, just as he hoped. But his murder of President Abraham Lincoln - one of the most familiar events in American... -
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s by Risa L. Goluboff 9780190699048
RRP: £26.49£20.09In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the age-old law of vagrancy-played a key role not only in maintaining safety and order but also in enforcing... -
Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator by Samuel Bland Arnold 9780788403675
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788403675Author Samuel Bland ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 290g -
Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America by J. Hecor St. John de Crèvecoeur 9780140390063
£9.98America's physical and cultural landscape is captured in these two classics of American history. Letters provides an invaluable view of the pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary eras; Sketches details in vivid prose the physical setting in which American... -
Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s by Kevin Starr 9780195072600
RRP: £22.49£15.63The third of Kevin Starr's monumental studies of the origins and development of the California dream covers the decade, which perhaps glittered the most brightly in the history of the Golden State - the 1920s. This was the era of colourful,... -
How The States Got Their Shapes Too by Mark Stein 9781588343505
RRP: £14.99£14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588343505Author Mark SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power by Leah Wright Rigueur
RRP: £22.00£20.89Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and actions of black Republican activists, officials, and politicians, from the era of the New Deal to Ronald Reagan's... -
1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga by Dean Snow 9780190900618
RRP: £15.99£15.72In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces led by General John Burgoyne. The British strategy in confronting... -
The C&O Canal Companion: A Journey through Potomac History by Mike High 9781421415055
RRP: £20.50£16.71This is a comprehensive guide to one of America's unique national parks, The C&O Canal Companion takes readers on a mile-by-mile, lock-by-lock tour of the 184-mile Potomac River waterway and towpath that stretches from Washington, DC, to Cumberland,... -
The Cat Men of Gotham: Tales of Feline Friendships in Old New York by Peggy Gavan
RRP: £17.99£15.90Winner of the 2019 Certificate of Excellence and MUSE Medallion from the Cat Writers Association The nineteenth century was a rough time to be a stray cat in New York City. The city's human residents dealt with feline overpopulation by gassing unwanted... -
The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South by Drew Gilpin Faust 9780807116067
£14.43For decades, historians have debated the meaning and significance of Confederate nationalism and the role it played in the outcome of the Civil War. Yet they have paid little attention to the actual development and content of this Confederate ideology... -
Common Ground: Multi-Family Housing in Los Angeles by Frances Anderton
RRP: £42.00£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Regional Book) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781626400917Author Frances AndertonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint... -
Boon Island: A True Story Of Mutiny, Shipwreck, And Cannibalism by Stephen Erickson 9780762777525
RRP: £12.99£9.61The wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island and the resultant rumors of insurance fraud, mutiny, treason, and cannibalism was one of the most sensational stories of the early 18th century. Shortly after departing England with Captain John Deane at... -
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Author and Historian Simon Winchester
RRP: £15.99£15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060572006Author Author and Historian Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers... -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Significant Actions of the Great Sioux War and How Custer's Last Stand Impacted the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes by Captivating History 9781950924219
RRP: £19.97£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950924219Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)... -
Thomas Mann's Los Angeles: Stories from Exile 1940-1952 by Nikolai Blaumer
RRP: £33.00£21.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401129Author Nikolai BlaumFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S. -
Civil War Battlefields: A Touring Guide by David J. Eicher 9781589791817
RRP: £12.99£9.61Here, for the first time, is a book that goes beyond providing just a brief battle history for each of the Civil War parks. Civil War Battlefields presents a detailed, clear narrative describing exactly what visitors can see and do in twelve important... -
Little Cold Warriors: American Childhood in the 1950s by Victoria M. Grieve
RRP: £27.49£24.68Both conservative and liberal Baby Boomers have romanticized the 1950s as an age of innocence--of pickup ball games and Howdy Doody, when mom stayed home and the economy boomed. These nostalgic narratives obscure many other histories of postwar... -
The Night Club Era by Stanley Walker
RRP: £25.00£23.94" The Night Club Era should rate as a Broadway Koran. Other books on the subject are unnecessary if they agree with it, wrong if they differ from it, and in either case should be burned."-Alva Johnston, from the Introduction Written in the aftermath of... -
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: £19.00£11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Book and Booklist Editor's Choice and Boston Globe Best 12 Books and Chicago Tribune Best Books of 2006 and Focus on New England Award and Pulitzer... -
Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler by Peter Shinkle
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423148Author Peter ShinkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Truth to PowerPublisher Truth to PowerWeight(grams) 140g -
Searching for Stonewall Jackson: A Quest for Legacy in a Divided America by Ben Cleary
RRP: £25.00£19.06Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was the embodiment of Southern contradictions. He was a slave owner who fought and died, at least in part, to perpetuate slavery, yet he founded an African-American Sunday School and personally taught classes for... -
Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856 by John Bicknell 9781613737972
RRP: £27.99£18.51The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US... -
They Said This Day Would Never Come: The Magic of Obama's Improbable Campaign by Chris Liddell-Westefeld
RRP: £9.99£6.80They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose. But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have... -
The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics by Martin J. Sklar 9780521313827
RRP: £34.99£27.80At the turn of the twentieth century American politics underwent a profound change, as both regulatory minimalism and statist command were rejected in favor of positive government engaged in both regulatory and distributive roles. Through a fresh... -
The German Allied Troops in the North American War of Independence, 1776-1783 by Max Von Eelking 9780857069306
£19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069306Author Max Von EelkingFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 422g -
A Season of Slaughter: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864 by Chris Mackowski 9781611211481
£11.30"I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer," Union commander Ulysses S. Grant wrote to Washington after he'd opened his Overland Campaign in the Spring of 1864. His resolve entirely changed the face of warfare. Promoted to... -
The New York Irish by Ronald H. Bayor
£36.82When Ellis Island opened in 1892, nearly four million Irish men and women had already made the journey to America. By the 1990s, Ireland had sent another million or more. New York has been both port of entry and home to the Irish for three centuries... -
Post Mortem: The Classic Investigation of the JFK Assassination Medical and Ballistics Evidence and Cover-Up by Harold Weisberg 9781626360617
£15.02Originally published in 1969, Post Mortem is a classic analysis of medical and ballistics evidence in the JFK assassination. Some of the documents collected and analyzed here by Harold Weisberg were suppressed for over twelve years, and Weisberg includes... -
The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism by Benjamin Holtzman
RRP: £63.00£22.85Across all the boroughs, The Long Crisis shows, New Yorkers helped transform their broke and troubled city in the 1970s by taking the responsibilities of city governance into the private sector and market, steering the process of neoliberalism. ... -
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang 9780871404473
RRP: £22.99£19.73Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yunte Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but...