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If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
RRP: £13.99£10.37The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge-decades before Facebook, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Although Silicon Valley likes to... -
The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches by Adam Fairclough 9780813056623
£31.67The chaotic years after the Civil War are often seen as a time of uniquely American idealism - a revolutionary attempt to rebuild the nation that paved the way for the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. But Adam Fairclough rejects this... -
Enslaved Women in America: From Colonial Times to Emancipation by Emily West 9781442208728
RRP: £30.00£26.68More than a century after Emancipation, no comprehensive overview of the history of the female American slave exists. In this book, historian Emily West offers the first comprehensive overview of the lives of enslaved women in America by placing their... -
Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil by Mark A. Graber 9780521728577
RRP: £22.99£19.56Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , first published in 2006, concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally... -
The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters by Karl Rove 9781476752969
RRP: £20.00£16.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476752969Author Karl RoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *... -
Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics by Steven H. Jaffe
RRP: £32.00£29.21Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change Activist New York surveys New York City's long history of social activism from the 1650's to the 2010's. Bringing these passionate histories... -
The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War by Mark M. Smith 9780199759989
RRP: £58.00£30.15Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-shattering chaos of warfare, where sight seems to confer objective truth and acts as the basis of... -
A Brave Black Regiment by Luis F. Emilio 9780306806230
£24.91In January 1863 the Union War Department authorized the creation of "a special corps" composed of "persons of African descent",the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. Robert Gould Shaw. Hundreds of free blacks enlisted. When the 54th... -
Lynching in America: A History in Documents by Christopher Waldrep
RRP: £24.99£21.67Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie Holliday's haunting song "Strange Fruit," lynching has immediate and graphic connotations for all who hear the word. Images of lynching are generally unambiguous: black victims hanging from... -
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by University Woody Holton 9780809016433
RRP: £20.00£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016433Author University Woody HoltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History by David R. Roediger 9780199376483
RRP: £37.99£28.50In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other." In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and... -
The Fall of the House of Speyer: The Story of a Banking Dynasty by George W. Liebmann 9781784531768
£49.90The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United... -
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed 9780813918334
RRP: £18.95£17.33When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the most... -
The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s by Doug Rossinow 9780231169882
RRP: £32.00£25.16In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in... -
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America by Linda K. Kerber 9780807846322
RRP: £42.95£39.71Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The ""women of the army"" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries... -
Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution by Susan Juster
RRP: £23.99£20.84The age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel practice, prophecy in the eighteenth century was rooted... -
Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails by Frank McLynn 9780802140630
£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140630Format PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict by Eric B. Schultz 9781581574890
RRP: £14.99£14.00At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and... -
The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings by Michael Schumacher 9781517906443
RRP: £15.99£14.24A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard's official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwreck stories in Great... -
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution by Alan Taylor 9781400077076
RRP: £24.00£17.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400077076Author Alan TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 497gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Minnesota Twins Baseball: Hardball History on the Prairie by Stew Thornley 9781626193819
RRP: £19.99£13.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193819Author Stew ThornleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Challenges of Command in the Civil War: Generalship, Leadership, and Strategy at Gettysburg, Petersburg, and Beyond, Volume I: Generals and Generalship by Richard Sommers 9781611214321
RRP: £21.50£18.89Dr. Richard Sommers' Challenges of Command in the Civil War distills six decades of studying the Civil War into two succinct, thought-provoking volumes. This first installment focuses on "Civil War Generals and Generalship." The subsequent volume will... -
The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s by Allen J. Matusow 9780820334059
£36.55This book features the return of a classic history of liberalism. In a book that William E. Leuchtenburg, writing in the ""Atlantic"", called 'a work of considerable power', Allen Matusow documents the rise and fall of 1960s... -
Engendering Whiteness: White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865 by Cecily Jones 9780719064333
RRP: £19.99£17.61Engendering whiteness represents a comparative analysis of the complex interweaving of race, gender, social class and sexuality in defining the contours of white women's lives in Barbados and North Carolina during the era of slavery. Despite their... -
America's Forgotten Colonial History by Dana Huntley 9781493038473
RRP: £13.99£13.05This is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately made a go of it, made friends with the Indians, and celebrated with a big Thanksgiving dinner. Other uptight... -
The Stork Club Cook and Bar Book: Throw A Stork Club Party by Sherman Billingsley 9781438490946
RRP: £14.56£11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490946Author Sherman BillingsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)... -
Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine--Mountain Press Pub Co. by Stephen M Voynick 9780878423545
RRP: £25.00£18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878423545Author Stephen M VoynickFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing... -
How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky From Daniel Boone to Henry Clay by Stephen Aron
£26.93Eighteenth-century Kentucky was a place where Indian and European cultures collided-and, surprisingly, coincided. But this mixed world did not last, and it eventually gave way to nineteenth-century commercial and industrial development. How the West Was... -
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt 9780393541564
RRP: £12.99£11.22In May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud and violence, thousands of Native Americans lost their... -
American Mobbing 1828-1961: Toward Civil War by David Grimsted 9780195172812
RRP: £41.49£31.22A comprehensive history of mob violence related to sectional issues in antebellum America, this book argues that the issue of slavery provoked riots in both the North and the South, the riots produced two different reactions from authorities. In the... -
Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing by Jeffrey S Adler
RRP: £31.00£26.73New Orleans in the 1920s and '30s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston, despite having a fraction of the population. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide... -
Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution by Nicole Eustace 9780807871980
RRP: £54.00£44.36This book shows how the Age of Reason relied on emotion.At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained... -
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren 9780871406729
RRP: £23.99£20.11In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England. While most histories of slavery in early America... -
Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government by M. Stanton Evans 9781439147702
RRP: £18.99£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439147702Author M. Stanton EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation by John Ferling
RRP: £14.99£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608195435Author John FerlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 624g -
Inventing Elvis: An American Icon in a Cold War World by Mathias Haeussler 9781350107656
RRP: £22.99£20.11Elvis Presley stands tall as perhaps the supreme icon of 20th-century U.S. culture. But he was perceived to be deeply un-American in his early years as his controversial adaptation of rhythm and blues music and gyrating on-stage performances sent... -
Appomattox: Victory, Defeat, and Freedom at the End of the Civil War by Elizabeth R. Varon 9780199751716
RRP: £25.49£18.82General Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac might look serene in the amber-tinted popular images of two gentlemen sharing cigars, but that image conceals seething debate over... -
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
RRP: £24.00£18.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416547877Author Doris Kearns GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1179gDimensions(mm)... -
Abandoned Detroit by Kyle Brooky 9781634991186
RRP: £24.99£15.14Few cities have seen the rise and fall that Detroit has. At its height, it was the fourth largest city in the U.S. with 1.85 million residents. Today there are less than 700,000. In 2013, the city declared bankruptcy, making it the largest municipal... -
Grant'S Victory by Bruce Brager
RRP: £19.99£15.02Two of the great themes of the Civil War are how Lincoln found his war-winning general in Ulysses Grant and how Grant finally defeated Lee. Grant's Victory intertwines these two threads in a grand narrative that shows how Grant made the difference in the...