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Civil War Re-enactment by David Hagan 9780887409493
RRP: €22.60€14.60Re-enacting Civil War battles in authentic costumes has become a growing hobby among the general population today. Popular with novice and historian alike, the human drama of the Civil War is brought to life through study, folk skills and stories, and... -
Battling Pornography: The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 1976-1986 by Carolyn Bronstein 9780521879927
RRP: €101.15€69.10Pornography catapulted to the forefront of the American women's movement in the 1980s. In Battling Pornography, Carolyn Bronstein locates the origins of anti-pornography sentiment in the turbulent social and cultural history of the late 1960s and 1970s... -
Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History by Richard Edwards 9781496213945
RRP: €23.79€19.53Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a... -
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner
RRP: €17.84€14.08A "gripping and poignant" (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil... -
Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage by Lauren Jae Gutterman
RRP: €46.41€33.80At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272941
RRP: €17.84€15.18Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying... -
The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina by Manisha Sinha 9780807848845
RRP: €51.11€48.66In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for... -
Mountain Scouting: A Handbook for Officers and Soldiers on the Frontiers by E.S. Farrow 9780806132099
€22.75After serving in the Indian Wars, Edward S. Farrow set out to provide a manual for soldiers and officers bound for frontier army duty. "I have endeavored to present," Farrow writes, "such knowledge as the young officer often acquires by... -
Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era by Eric Allen Hall
RRP: €31.54€27.72Arthur Ashe explains how this iconic African American tennis player overcame racial and class barriers to reach the top of the tennis world in the 1960s and 1970s. But more important, it follows Ashe's evolution as an activist who had to contend with the... -
American Insurgents: A Brief History of Anti-Imperialism in the US by Richard Seymour 9781608461417
RRP: €20.22€13.89From Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire. Author Richard Seymour alleges that all empires spin self-serving myths and in the US the most potent of these is that America is a... -
Law in American History, Vol. I: From the Colonial Years Through the Civil War by G. Edward White 9780195102475
RRP: €67.83€48.11In speaking about the law, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once said, "To know what it is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become." G. Edward White, a leading legal historian, presents Law in American History, a two-volume,... -
Midwest Futures by Phil Christman
RRP: €30.94€18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742610Author Phil ChristmanFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 135mm... -
Complicity by Anne Farrow
RRP: €17.84€13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467836Author Anne FarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)... -
Not Exactly the CIA: A Revised History of Modern American Disasters by Roger Phelps
RRP: €21.36€16.36This book is a vigorous effort to answer the question, "How did we get here?"-a question that troubles virtually every American over the age of fourteen. How did America lose power in the world? How did American democracy become undermined? The press... -
Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains by George Ellison 9781596290440
RRP: €22.60€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596290440Author George EllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: €33.31€29.20A milestone in U.S. historiography, Haunted by Empire brings postcolonial critiques to bear on North American history and draws on that history to question the analytic conventions of postcolonial studies. The contributors to this innovative collection... -
The War of the Revolution by Christopher Ward 9781616080808
€22.74From the first crack of musket fire at Lexington and Concord to the downing of the British colors at Yorktown, Christopher Ward does not tell the whole history of the American Revolution, but rather, illuminates the history of the war caused by that... -
Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the Southwest by Douglas Preston 9780826320865
RRP: €30.88€23.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826320865Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press -
The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11 by J. Samuel Walker 9780700632619
RRP: €42.78€35.22On September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who... -
Katrina: After the Flood by Gary Rivlin
RRP: €23.79€18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451692259Author Gary RivlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy by Joyce P. Kaufman 9781538151365
RRP: €41.65€38.66Now in a fully updated edition that goes through the Trump administration and the election and formative period of the Biden administration, this compact and accessible introduction offers a historical perspective on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy... -
Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania by Scott Trafton
RRP: €28.55€24.80Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America. Scott Trafton argues that the American mania for Egypt was directly related to anxieties... -
Hoover Dam: An American Adventure by Joseph E. Stevens 9780806122830
RRP: €26.12€17.24In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken--the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great... -
That Field of Blood: The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862 by Daniel Vermilya 9781611213751
€14.39September 17, 1862-one of the most consequential days in the history of the United States-was a moment in time when the future of the country could have veered in two starkly different directions. Confederates under General Robert E. Lee had embarked... -
Hearts, Minds, Voices: US Cold War Public Diplomacy and the Formation of the Third World by Jason C. Parker 9780190251840
RRP: €51.75€38.48For over four decades, the Cold War superpowers endeavored mightily to "win hearts and minds" abroad through strategies that came to be called public diplomacy. While many target audiences were on the original front lines of the conflict in... -
After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880 by William G. McLoughlin 9780807844335
RRP: €47.54€40.01This powerful narrative traces the social, cultural, and political history of the Cherokee Nation during the forty-year period after its members were forcibly removed from the southern Appalachians and resettled in what is now Oklahoma. In this master... -
The Marshall Plan and the Shaping of American Strategy by Bruce D. Jones
RRP: €21.41€18.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815729532Author Bruce D. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)... -
Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now by Alexander Bloom 9780195125153
€47.29This book examines the gulf between the history and mythology that has grown up around different aspects of the Sixties, ranging from the counterculture to gay rights to the student and women's movements to the Johnson presidency. One of the volumes... -
Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by Bradley M. Gottfried 9781611215595
€14.29Almost 8,000 dead dotted the fields of Gettysburg after the guns grew silent. The Confederate dead were hastily buried, but what of the Union dead? Several men hatched the idea of a new cemetery to bury and honor the Union soldiers just south of town... -
Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania by Patrick Spero
RRP: €41.65€36.58In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century... -
Vicksburg Is the Key: The Struggle for the Mississippi River by William L. Shea 9780803293441
RRP: €20.22€17.08The struggle for control of the Mississippi River was the longest and most complex campaign of the Civil War. It was marked by an extraordinary diversity of military and naval operations, including fleet engagements, cavalry raids, amphibious landings,... -
Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 by Carol Anderson
RRP: €29.74€24.59Bourgeois Radicals explores the NAACP's key role in the liberation of Africans and Asians across the globe even as it fought Jim Crow on the home front during the long civil rights movement. For NAACP's leaders, the way to create a stable international... -
All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South by Stephen W. Berry 9780195176285
RRP: €37.47€27.19In May 1861, Jefferson Davis issued a general call for volunteers for the Confederate Army. Men responded in such numbers that 200,000 had to be turned away. Few of these men would have attributed their zeal to the cause of states' rights or slavery. As... -
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James M. McPherson 9780195173307
RRP: €22.59€14.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195173307Author James M. McPhersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint OUP Australia and New ZealandPublisher Oxford University Press... -
Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America by Andrew C. McKevitt 9781469634470
RRP: €35.64€34.37This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post-World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could... -
The Black Knight's Tune: Ruby's Story by Naomi Finley 9781989165089
€6.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989165089Author Naomi FinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Huntson PressPublisher Huntson PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm -
The Venona Secrets: The Definitive Expose of Soviet Espionage in America by Herbert Romerstein 9781621572954
RRP: €23.79€16.84The Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995, secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American... -
Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America by Jordan T. Watkins
RRP: €57.11€51.90In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on... -
Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations by John Tateishi 9781597144988
RRP: €23.79€16.61The unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League's fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. Author John Tateishi, himself the leader of... -
The Trial of the Century by Gregg Jarrett 9781982198572
RRP: €35.69€21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982198572Author Gregg JarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...