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Beyond Combat investigates how the Vietnam War both reinforced and challenged the gender roles that were key components of American Cold War ideology. Refocusing attention onto women and gender paints a more complex and accurate picture of the war's...

Edward Zane Carroll Judson aka Ned Buntline (1821-1886) was responsible for creating a highly romantic and often misleading image of the American West, albeit one that the masses found irresistible in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Some scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681771304Author Michael J TougiasFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm...

With Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph, the beautiful music that was the preserve of the wealthy became a mass-produced consumer good, cheap enough to be available to all. In 1877 Edison dreamed that one day there would be a talking machine in...

Fort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students of American frontier history, it is known as the focal...

This book examines the wartime controversies between Britain and America about the future of the colonial world, and considers the ethical, military, and economic forces behind imperialism during World War II. It concludes that, for Britain, there was a...

Mechanic Accents is a widely acclaimed study of American popular fiction and working-class culture. Combining Marxist literary theory with American labor history, Michael Denning explores what happened when, in the nineteenth century, working people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925989656Author Adam WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Ingram PublishingPublisher Ingram PublishingWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947426Author Douglas BradburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g

The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783849674878Author Archer Butler HulbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Historic Highways of AmericaPublisher Historic Highways of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Atlanta's destruction during the Civil War is an iconic moment in American history. award-winning journalist Marc Wortman depicts its siege and fall in The Bonfire , and reveals an Atlanta of unexpected paradoxes. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called...

For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and...

Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington,...

Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in 1968 seems like it should be an open-and-shut case. Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles's famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night saw Sirhan Sirhan pull the trigger. Sirhan was also convicted of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788406195Author Bob BearorFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 150g

They sought to transform the globe and ended up transforming modern AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. Their experience abroad made many of...

Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero--a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who...

An authoritative and entertaining portrait of the fateful friendship that was destined to save Western civilization. Drawing extensively on his intimate knowledge of the two men's correspondence, Mr. Kimball shows beyond all doubt how critical their...

Nearly 4,700 Confederate soldiers are known to have dies as a result of the Battle of Gettysburg. Confederates Killed in Action at Gettysburg, by historian Gregory A. Coco, offers a selection of 50 stories, each describing the last moments of a soldier's...

England's ill-fated first attempt to colonize America at Roanoke Island in 1587, more than 30 years before the Pilgrims set sail, has been the focus of numerous studies, fictional retellings and media interpretations. By 1590 the Lost Colony had...

The description for this book, The Diplomats, 1919-1939, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorGordon A. Craig was Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University and Honorarprofessor at the Free University of Berlin. Felix Gilbert was Professor...

When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison sent the largest American naval force ever gathered to that time, led by the heroic Commodore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540222459Author Patrick T ConleyFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

The drama of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson is the foundational story of America courage, loyalty, hope, fanaticism, greatness, failure, forgiveness, love.Agony and Eloquence is the story of the greatest friendship in American history and the...

When Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term "Wild West" was a reality, not a cliche. In those days cowboys didn't know they were picturesque, horse rustlers were to be handled as seemed best on the occasion, and...

Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together -- and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141918Author Dwayne W. PickettFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572766Author John FerlingFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 1228g

The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War, offering for students and general readers a clear, chronological account of the sectional conflict and the beginning of the Civil War...

Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction The little-known but uniquely American story of the unlikely friendship of two famous figures of the American West-Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull-told through the prism of their collaboration in...

An intimate look inside Plymouth Plantation that goes beyond familiar founding myths to portray real life in the settlement-the hard work, small joys, and deep connections to others beyond the shores of Cape Cod Bay.The English settlement at Plymouth has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395850114Author Alvin M. JosephyFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Houghton Mifflin Juvenile BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 500g

In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. British royal commissions of inquiry, inspectorates, and parliamentary committees conducted famous social...

This book which will come as a surprise to many educated observers and historians suggests that Jews and Jewish intellectuals have played a considerable role in the development and shaping of modern American conservatism. The focus is on the rise of a...

Fresh Kills-a monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Island-was once the world's largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City's refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640095Author Harold A. CovingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams)...

A comprehensive history of fraud in America, from the early nineteenth century to the subprime mortgage crisisIn America, fraud has always been a key feature of business, and the national worship of entrepreneurial freedom complicates the task of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615490748Author Rodney R StubbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 690Imprint Pacific Freedom FoundationPublisher Pacific Freedom FoundationWeight(grams)...