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Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century by John Bodnar
RRP: €53.55€42.03In a compelling inquiry into public events ranging from the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through ethnic community fairs to pioneer celebrations, John Bodnar explores the stories, ideas, and symbols behind American commemorations over the... -
Miller Cornfield at Antietam: The Civil War's Bloodiest Combat by PH D Phillip Thomas Tucker
RRP: €26.17€19.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625858658Author PH D Phillip Thomas TuckerFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 20gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Empire As A Way Of Life by William Appleman Williams 9780977197231
RRP: €17.84€14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977197231Author William Appleman WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig PublishingWeight(grams) 269g -
The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne - An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey by Ivor Noel Hume 9780813917580
€46.46In The Virginia Adventure, Noel Hume turns his attention to the two earliest English settlements in Virginia, Roanoke and James Towne, with fascinating results. Combining information gathered through excavations of the sites with contemporary accounts... -
Gennett Records and Starr Piano by Charlie B Dahan 9781467117258
RRP: €26.17€18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467117258Author Charlie B. DahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal by Joan Flores-Villalobos
RRP: €36.89€32.56The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project's dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental... -
No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor by Cindy Hahamovitch 9780691160153
RRP: €33.32€29.70From South Africa in the nineteenth century to Hong Kong today, nations around the world, including the United States, have turned to guestworker programs to manage migration. These temporary labor recruitment systems represented a state-brokered... -
Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Harden 9780525561682
RRP: €20.22€14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561682Author Blaine HardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men, Second Edition by Mari Sandoz 9780803218802
RRP: €20.22€17.20In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of The Buffalo Hunters. Mari... -
Three Years in Mississippi by James Meredith 9781496821010
RRP: €129.71€120.61On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting in two deaths and a lengthy court battle that made it all the way to the Supreme Court, his... -
Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity by Kathryn Kish Sklar 9780393008128
RRP: €25.59€21.65Although she is often remembered only as the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, there was a time in Catharine Beecher's life when she was more widely known than any member of her eminent family. A pioneering teacher, a writer on... -
This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent by Daegan Miller
RRP: €30.94€25.82"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein 9780226152653
RRP: €35.70€35.28Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define... -
Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi by Michael B. Ballard 9780807871287
RRP: €42.78€42.33This is a pivotal Union victory. Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split the Confederate nation, providing a turning point in the Civil War. The... -
Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966 by John Blair 9781467133203
RRP: €26.17€19.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467133203Author John BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Paradise Falls: A Deadly Secret, a Cover-Up, and the Women Who Forged the Modern Environmental Movement by Keith O'Brien
RRP: €17.84€11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780593312094Author Keith O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage... -
The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy by David M. Barrett 9780700625253
RRP: €51.11€45.98D.B. Hardeman Prize From its inception more than half a century ago and for decades afterward, the Central Intelligence Agency was deeply shrouded in secrecy, with little or no real oversight by Congress-or so many Americans believe. David M. Barrett... -
Jfk's Ghost: Kennedy, Sorenson and the Making of Profiles in Courage by David R Stokes
RRP: €23.79€18.35"I'd rather win a Pulitzer Prize than be President of the United States," John F. Kennedy confided to author Margaret Coit shortly after his election to the Senate in 1953. Kennedy got his wish four years later, when his book Profiles in Courage was... -
Some Thoughts on Scouts and Spies: Based Upon the Experiences of the Author and Historical Observation by Gerry Barker 9781882514908
RRP: €14.22€11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882514908Author Gerry BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Greenleaf PressPublisher Greenleaf PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World by Lori Clune 9780190055592
RRP: €26.76€22.80In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were arrested for allegedly passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union, an affair FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover labeled the "crime of the century." Their case became an international... -
The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton:: A High-Flying Life from Tennessee to Timbuktu by Scott R Williams 9781626197206
RRP: €23.79€17.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626197206Author R. Scott WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)... -
The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and United States Indian Policy by Brian W. Dippie 9780700605071
€44.51Examines the demise of the North American Indian and the effect of U.S. policy towards Indians from the beginning of the nation's history to the Indian New Deal of the 1930s.Book InformationISBN 9780700605071Author Brian W. DippieFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 2, The American Search for Opportunity, 1865-1913 by Walter LaFeber 9780521483834
RRP: €36.88€28.32Between the American Civil War and the outbreak of world War I, global history was transformed by two events: the United States's rise to the status of a great world power (indeed, the world's greatest economic power) and the eruption of nineteenth- and... -
The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860 by Drew Gilpin Faust 9780807108925
€33.87In one volume, these essentially unabridged selections from the works of the proslavery apologists are now conveniently accessible to scholars and students of the antebellum South. The Ideology of Slavery includes excerpts by Thomas R. Dew, founder of a... -
An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy by Betty Glad
RRP: €40.46€36.05Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a "team of rivals" who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding relations with the... -
This Is Not Who We Are: America's Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue by Zachary Shore
RRP: €29.75€21.44What kind of country is America? Zachary Shore tackles this polarizing question by spotlighting some of the most morally muddled matters of WWII. Should Japanese Americans be moved from the west coast to prevent sabotage? Should the German people be made... -
Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000 by G. Edward White
RRP: €58.89€50.85In Law in American History, Volume III: 1930-2000, the eminent legal scholar G. Edward White concludes his sweeping history of law in America, from the colonial era to the near-present. Picking up where his previous volume left off, at the end of the... -
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America by Robert E. May 9780521132527
RRP: €29.74€25.20Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans... -
How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse) by David Frum 9780465041961
RRP: €22.60€21.10For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A... -
Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity by Paul K. Longmore
RRP: €53.54€40.92Looking back at postwar US history, it seems that a telethon accompanied every social ill, disability, disease, and natural disaster. A unique combination of entertainment and charity, this form of fundraising became a fixture in American life not long... -
The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery by John Chester Miller 9780813913650
RRP: €30.88€24.73The Wolf by the Ears is a book-length treatment of Thomas Jefferson's attitudes toward slavery. Through a close examination of Jefferson's personality and the influences of his social and political environment, John Chester Miller provides clear,... -
The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis by Jessica M. Lepler 9781107640863
RRP: €35.69€28.81In the spring of 1837, people panicked as financial and economic uncertainty spread within and between New York, New Orleans and London. Although the period of panic would dramatically influence political, cultural and social history, those who panicked... -
In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsession with Self-Fulfillment by Eva S. Moskowitz 9780801889745
€31.67From self-esteem talk on Oprah to self-help books like Negaholics and Your Sacred Self, from magazine quizzes that test your "happiness quotient" to headlines blaring the supposed deepest emotions of public figures-we live in an age fixated on... -
Celebrating Florida: 50 States to Celebrate: Green Light Readers, Level 3 by Marion,Dane Bauer 9780547896984
RRP: €5.94€4.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547896984Author Marion Dane BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
The Shoemaker And The Tea Party by Alfred F. Young 9780807054055
RRP: €21.41€19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807054055Author Alfred F. YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Rebel Private: Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier by William A. Fletcher 9780452011571
RRP: €28.56€19.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011571Author William A. FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm... -
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America by Jay Atkinson 9781493003228
RRP: €23.79€20.19Early on March 15, 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed twenty-seven men, women, and children, and took thirteen captives,... -
Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines by Allan E. S. Lumba
RRP: €24.98€21.86In Monetary Authorities Allan E. S. Lumba explores how the United States used monetary policy and banking systems to justify racial and class hierarchies, enforce capitalist exploitation, and counter movements for decolonization in the American colonial... -
The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution by Thomas Fleming
RRP: €29.75€20.47Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost their war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. The embryo nation narrowly escaped from the disastrous results of these misconceptions thanks to the levelheaded... -
The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers by Martin Doyle 9780393356618
RRP: €15.46€11.78In a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution's roots in interstate river navigation, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina and the water wars in the west...