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Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye 9781328959720
RRP: €33.31€24.72In the long history of American demagogues from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use 'McCarthyism' to stand for outrageous charges of guilt by association, a... -
The American South: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson
RRP: €10.70€7.68The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. The American South: A Very Short Introduction explores the history of the South as a cultural crossroads, a... -
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White
RRP: €36.28€27.87The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation... -
Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub by J.L. Pickering 9781612498560
RRP: €46.35€39.09Featuring more than 600 photos, Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub is the most complete photographic account of Project Mercury ever published. Previous Project Mercury books largely have relied on the... -
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--And Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
RRP: €26.18€15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and Loeb Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143118244Author Andrew Ross SorkinFormat PaperbackPage... -
New Orleans Vampires: History and Legend by Marita Woywod Crandle 9781540226396
RRP: €38.07€22.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540226396Author Marita Woywod CrandleFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library... -
Buying Disney's World by Aaron H Goldberg 9781733642057
RRP: €22.60€14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733642057Author Aaron H GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Quaker ScribePublisher Quaker ScribeWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Manhunt by James L Swanson 9780062163332
RRP: €13.08€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062163332Author James L SwansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 463g -
Eleanor And Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
RRP: €21.41€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110712Author Susan QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy by Robert Tracy McKenzie
RRP: €26.17€20.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852963Author Robert Tracy MckenzieFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 582gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl
RRP: €14.27€11.19From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after... -
American Anti-Communism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970 by M. J. Heale
RRP: €28.56€25.20This succinct and sensible history shows how fear of 'Reds' was linked in the nineteenth century to the destabilizing impact of industrialization and in the twentieth century to perceptions of global insecurity. An excellent concluding chapter explains... -
The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite by Stephen Birmingham 9781493024681
RRP: €16.65€13.38Tracing their origins to medieval Portugal and Spain, the Sephardic Jews consider themselves 'the nobility of Jewry,' in contrast to their pushier and more aggressive German counterparts. They were also the first Jews to inhabit the new world-first... -
The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy by Chris Kempshall
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book provides the first detailed and comprehensive examination of all the materials making up the Star Wars franchise relating to the portrayal and representation of real-world history and politics.Drawing on a variety of sources, including films,... -
From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society by Taylor Markarian 9781642501148
RRP: €16.65€13.03Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, From the Basement details the rise in popularity of rock in the... -
Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod
RRP: €21.41€14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128359Author David AxelrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 435g -
The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933 by Patrick O. Cohrs
RRP: €47.59€42.64This magisterial new history elucidates a momentous transformation process that changed the world: the struggle to create, for the first time, a modern Atlantic order in the long twentieth century (1860-2020). Placing it in a broader historical and... -
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture by Daniel Pruitt 9780228104490
RRP: €35.70€24.93A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West - and the present west. Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally... -
Klansville, U.S.A: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan by David Cunningham 9780199752027
RRP: €51.16€38.31In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most... -
Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War by Nate Jones 9781620972618
RRP: €27.36€18.87In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert when intelligence reported alarming activity on US bases. In response, the Soviets planned for a nuclear strike by NATO on Eastern Europe. And then Able Archer 83, a vast NATO war game exercise,... -
Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War by David M Lampton 9781538187258
RRP: €35.70€31.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538187258Author David M. LamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)... -
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States by Alex Wellerstein
RRP: €36.89€27.98The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered... -
Season of the Witch by David Talbot
RRP: €26.17€17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439108246Author David TalbotFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis 9780195339444
RRP: €22.00€16.28David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon 9781455588749
€38.73A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics,... -
Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam by John Edmund Delezen 9780786416561
RRP: €17.84€14.93We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood. John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the... -
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 9781632864123
RRP: €22.60€20.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632864123Author Carol AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 523g -
Whole Earth Field Guide by Caroline Maniaque Benton
RRP: €38.08€25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529280Author Caroline Maniaque-BentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 267mm * 203mm * 16mm -
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 by John Gaddis 9780231122399
RRP: €38.08€29.94John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the... -
American Transcendentalism: A History by Philip F Gura 9780809016440
RRP: €32.13€20.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016440Author Philip F GuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
RRP: €24.98€21.60In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by... -
Benjamin Franklin's Book of Virtues by Benjamin Franklin 9781429093552
RRP: €15.41€9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429093552Author Benjamin FranklinFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 168mm *... -
The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes by Claiborne A. Skinner 9780801888380
RRP: €31.54€30.12The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their... -
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert
RRP: €42.83€33.80The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects-finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government-by showing... -
National 4 & 5 History: Free at Last? Civil Rights in the USA 1918-1968: Second Edition by John Kerr
€29.39Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018The recent changes in assessment for National 5 History have been fully incorporated in this new edition, as have changes in subject content which affect... -
Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family by Jess Walter 9780060007942
RRP: €15.46€14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060007942Author Jess WalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm)... -
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
RRP: €20.22€14.21Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end... -
The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 by Gunther Schuller 9780195071405
RRP: €32.12€24.99Taking up where Early Jazz (OPB, #6.95) leaves off, this second volume of Gunther Schuller's history of jazz considers the swing era - the age of dance bands and radio shows. Tracing the origins of swing and its effects on American musical and social... -
Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs of a Jewish Homesteader by Sophie Trupin 9780803294141
RRP: €15.46€12.09To most Jewish immigrants New York was America. Not many ventured as far as North Dakota at the turn of the century. Sophie Trupin writes of her father and other Jewish farmers who came to the northern plains: "Each was a Moses in his own right, leading... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr Ada Ferrer
RRP: €24.99€14.70WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States-from before...