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The First Conglomerate 145 Years of the Singer Sewing Machine Company by Don Bissell 9780967595504
RRP: €9.46€8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967595504Author Don BissellFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Harvest Lane PressPublisher Harvest Lane PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War by Joseph Wheelan 9780306824531
€21.48In this fast-paced narrative, historian Joseph Wheelan relates the dramatic events of early 1865, from the battles ending the Petersburg siege and forcing Lee's surrender at Appomattox to the destruction of South Carolina's capital, the assassination of... -
A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War by Robert D. Schulzinger 9780195365924
RRP: €19.62€15.86The Vietnam War left wounds that have taken three decades to heal-indeed some scars remain even today. In A Time for Peace, prominent American historian Robert D. Schulzinger sheds light on how deeply etched memories of this devastating conflict have... -
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War by James M. McPherson 9780195117967
RRP: €21.41€16.48James M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The... -
Standoff at High Noon: Another Battle over the Truth in the Mythic Wild West by Bill Markley
RRP: €22.60€17.04Where is the head of Pancho Villa really buried? Did Butch Cassidy die the way mainstream history says he did? Was the real Davy Crocket a hero of historic proportions during the Battle of the Alamo or a sniveling coward? Is the Lost Dutchman Mine... -
Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian by Edward H. Bonekemper 9781621570103
€20.47Grant and Lee: Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian is a comprehensive, multi-theater, war-long comparison of the command skills of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. Written by Edward H. Bonekemper III, Grant and Lee clarifies the impact both... -
From Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era by Thomas C. Field, Jr.
RRP: €28.55€24.80During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s Bolivia... -
Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era by Moira G. Simpson
RRP: €54.73€48.23Responses to controversial exhibitions in recent years have demonstrated the dissatisfaction felt by many indigenous peoples and ethnic groups at the ways in which the western museum traditionally represented their cultures and excluded them from the... -
Connecticut Unscathed, 45: Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675-1676 by Jason W Warren 9780806175621
€22.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806175621Author Jason W WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press -
Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State by Mark K Christ 9780806144337
RRP: €22.55€15.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806144337Author Mark K ChristFormat PaperbackPage Count 321Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 499g -
A Long and Bloody Task: The Atlanta Campaign from Dalton Through Kennesaw to the Chattahoochee, May 5july 18, 1864 by Stephen Davis 9781611213171
€13.53Spring of 1864 brought a whole new war to the Western Theater, with new commanders and what would become a new style of warfare. Federal armies, perched in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after their stunning victories there the previous fall, poised on the edge... -
Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants by Philip James Tiemeyer 9780520274778
RRP: €29.75€23.31In this vibrant new history, Phil Tiemeyer details the history of men working as flight attendants. Beginning with the founding of the profession in the late 1920s and continuing into the post-September 11 era, "Plane Queer" examines the history of men... -
Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity by Russell A. Kazal
RRP: €77.35€60.58More Americans trace their ancestry to Germany than to any other country. Arguably, German Americans form America's largest ethnic group. Yet they have a remarkably low profile today, reflecting a dramatic, twentieth-century retreat from German-American... -
Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant: James Longstreet and His Place in Southern History by William Garrett Piston 9780820312293
€36.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820312293Author William Garrett PistonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams)... -
Water and the West: The Colorado River Compact and the Politics of Water in the American West by Norris Hundley 9780520260115
RRP: €35.70€27.72Back in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of the numerous struggles - national, state, and local - that have occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the... -
The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang by Tom Clavin 9781250282385
RRP: €35.70€22.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250282385Author Tom ClavinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 157mm... -
Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind by James Turner
€33.78Historian James Turner focuses on the great rise of Victorian concern for the humane treatment of animals, one of the most noteworthy flowering of such sentiment in modern times and one that engaged the support of the rich and the powerful, of church... -
The Hunt for the Last Public Enemy in Northeastern Ohio: Alvin "Creepy" Karpis and His Road to Alcatraz by Julie A. Thompson 9781467138208
RRP: €26.17€19.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467138208Author Julie A. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)... -
The Wilsonian Century: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1900 by Frank A. Ninkovich
RRP: €28.56€27.41For most of the 20th century, American foreign policy was guided by a set of assumptions that were formulated during World War I by President Woodrow Wilson. In this re-examination, Frank Ninkovich argues that the Wilsonian outlook, far from being a... -
Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina by Justene Hill Edwards
RRP: €35.70€27.72The everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic... -
Washington Roebling's Civil War: From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge by Diane Monroe Smith
RRP: €29.75€22.54Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His path to overseeing that monumental task began during the Civil War. In addition to his brave, dramatic actions at Gettysburg, his Civil War service... -
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss 9781476783116
RRP: €22.60€14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476783116Author Stephen CossFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Poison Patriarch: How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK by Mark Shaw 9781510704190
RRP: €15.46€13.74Focusing for the first time on why attorney general Robert F. Kennedy wasn't killed in 1963 instead of on why President John F. Kennedy was, Mark Shaw offers a stunning and provocative assassination theory that leads directly to the family patriarch,... -
Custer: The Making of a Young General by Edward G. Longacre
RRP: €22.60€18.79"Longacre has provided excellent contribution to the literature on George Custer. This work is a fine addition to any Civil War bookshelf." -The Civil War MonitorThe name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his... -
Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left by Mark A. Lause 9780745337593
RRP: €23.79€15.89This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed slave revolt of Harpers Ferry in 1859. This book... -
Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 by Christopher Tomlins 9780521137775
RRP: €41.64€35.21Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on the mainland until the Civil War. It is a history of migrants and migrations, of colonizers and colonized,... -
Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station: The Problems of Command and Strategy After Gettysburg, from Brandy Station to the Buckland Races, August 1 to October 31, 1863 Jeffrey Hunt 9781611216578
RRP: €22.60€19.21During the late summer and fall of 1863, the Civil War in the Eastern Theater was anything but inconsequential. Generals Meade and Lee continued where they had left off, executing daring marches while boldly maneuvering the chess pieces of war in an...