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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780197581797
RRP: €19.03€13.82Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's... -
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein 9781476782423
RRP: €17.84€12.33In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term-until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon's... -
The Terror Dream: What 9/11 Revealed about America by Susan Faludi 9781843547792
RRP: €26.78€18.99Shortlisted for the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Non-fiction, 2008'A brilliant, unsentimental, often darkly humorous account of America's nervous breakdown after 9/11.' -- Publishers Weekly *starred review*In this remarkable and strikingly... -
Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children by Dorie McCullough Lawson 9780767909044
RRP: €20.22€14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767909044Author Dorie McCullough LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Pennhurst State School and Hospital by J Gregory Pirmann 9781467123662
RRP: €26.17€21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467123662Author J. Gregory PirmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Ted Hinton 9781681791579
RRP: €19.04€15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681791579Author Ted HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm -
Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America by Jordan E. Taylor
RRP: €39.27€35.13Fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the pivotal role foreign news and misinformation played in driving colonists to revolt.Runner-up of the Journal of The American Revolution Book of the Year Award by the... -
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and the Legacy of Slavery by Thomas Harding
RRP: €23.80€17.48When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became a quest to learn more about Britain's role in slavery. It was... -
Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson 9781590771488
RRP: €21.41€18.96Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted kings, emperors, and statesmen to take its sacred oaths. It... -
The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution by Andrew M. Wehrman
RRP: €31.54€25.43Now an LA Times Book Prize finalist: a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States.Finalist of the LA Times Book Prize for History... -
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal 9780674241657
RRP: €22.55€18.29A Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read"Absolutely compelling."-Diane Coyle"The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity...But capitalism is not just about... -
Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 by Jeffrey B. Dr. Perry 9780231139113
RRP: €35.70€28.19Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945-1980 by Vivienne Sanders
RRP: €14.88€14.09Exam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level)Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is... -
Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation by Peter D. Thomas 9780197528075
RRP: €30.93€26.17The last twenty years have witnessed a proliferation of radical social and political movements around the world, in wave after wave of struggles against intersecting forms of exploitation, domination, and subalternization. From the International Women's... -
Everyday Fashion in Found Photographs: American Women of the Late 19th Century by Lisa Hodgkins
RRP: €34.50€33.05In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal... -
Abraham Lincoln: A Life: 2-vol. set by Michael Burlingame 9781421410586
RRP: €34.51€30.54In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along... -
San Francisco's Lost Landmarks by James R. Smith 9781884995446
RRP: €19.03€12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995446Author James R SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Word Dancer PressPublisher Word Dancer PressWeight(grams) 342g -
Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric Foner 9780062354518
RRP: €22.60€15.60Newly Reissued with a New Introduction: From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. Eric Foner's... -
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T. J. English 9780060590031
RRP: €21.41€16.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060590031Author T. J. EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Howard's Whirlybirds: Howard Hughes's Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits by Donald J. Porter 9781781550892
RRP: €23.80€17.90Howard Hughes, the movie mogul, aviation pioneer and political hound dog, has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle and reclusiveness. Companies responsible for major technological leaps often become household names... -
Deep Undercover by Jack Barsky
RRP: €19.03€13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496416834Author Jack BarskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
On Christopher Street: Life, Sex, and Death after Stonewall by Michael Denneny
RRP: €21.42€18.33Through the eyes of publishing icon Michael Denneny, this cultural autobiography traces the evolution of the US's queer community in the three decades post-Stonewall. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in... -
For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America by Jonathan D. Cohen
RRP: €35.09€30.37This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the... -
Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age by Roberta Katz
RRP: €24.99€21.13Born since the mid-1990s, Generation Z is the first generation never to know the world without the internet, and it is the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them?... -
American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by Katie Rogers 9780593240564
RRP: €29.75€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593240564Author Katie RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work by Peter Walther
RRP: €23.80€18.20Photographer, teacher, and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) shaped our consciousness of American working life in the early 20th century like no other. Combining his training as an educator with his humanist concerns, Hine was one of the earliest... -
American Fascists by Chris Hedges
RRP: €19.03€13.82They disseminate their ideas on the alternative broadcast networks and through their own publishers and schools. Their intellectual leaders demand the complete dismantling of the secular state; their followers have been roused to a fever pitch of... -
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig 9780156899826
€18.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156899826Author Ivan DoigFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics -
Lost Boys of Hannibal: Inside America's Largest Cave Search by John Wingate 9781959770312
€20.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959770312Author John WingateFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Wisdom EditionsPublisher Wisdom EditionsWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Population Control: How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us by Jim Marrs 9780062359902
RRP: €15.46€10.09From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by... -
In The Shadows Of The American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred McCoy 9781608467730
RRP: €20.22€16.98In a completely original analysis, McCoy explores America's rise as a world power, from the 1890s through the Cold War and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and... -
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s by Meg Jacobs 9780809075072
RRP: €23.80€17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809075072Author Meg JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
RRP: €15.46€10.27"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of... -
The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway by Ben Mezrich
RRP: €13.08€9.25The 37th Parallel tells the true story of a computer programmer whose investigations into alien activity lead him deep into a vast conspiracy stretching 3000 miles across America. Chuck Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports, but this... -
Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI by Jessica R. Pliley 9780674368118
€43.59America's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it illegal to transport women over state lines for prostitution "or any other immoral purpose." It was meant to protect women and girls from being seduced or sold into sexual slavery. But,... -
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780192897718
RRP: €17.84€13.03'A manifesto for hope' Literary Review From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend a divided country. For decades, Martha C. Nussbaum... -
Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. Morgan by Susie J. Pak 9780674416901
RRP: €24.93€20.09Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America's most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family's power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international... -
Trinity: a Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
RRP: €13.08€10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809093557Author Jonathan Fetter-VormFormat PaperbackImprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
RRP: €17.84€11.54From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J Fields
RRP: €13.08€10.64Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human ...