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A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851: The Making of the Nation by William Gibson
RRP: €10.70€7.38Praise for the author:'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on these "implausible revolutionaries" for many decades.' Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, Anglican and... -
Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II by Susan Burch 9780814798942
RRP: €28.55€24.80Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 A reinterpretation of early 20th century Deaf history, with sign language at its center During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf education regarded sign language as the "natural language" of Deaf... -
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel Winant 9780674292192
RRP: €20.17€14.35Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeWinner of the C. L. R. James AwardA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the Year"The Next Shift is an... -
The Crescent Obscured: United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815 by Robert J. Allison
RRP: €32.13€31.50From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa... -
Voyageur by Grace Lee Nute
RRP: €18.45€18.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512138Author Grace Lee NuteFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U... -
Virginia Barbecue: A History by Joseph R Haynes 9781531699970
RRP: €40.45€26.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531699970Author Joseph R HaynesFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Hollywood and History: What the Movies Get Wrong from the Ancient Greeks to Vietnam by Jem Duducu 9781538177068
RRP: €35.70€31.75A fun but informative look at Hollywood's more-than-a century long love affair with historical figures, events, and places. This book delves into what really happened in history, as opposed to the Hollywood interpretation of events, and reveals why the... -
The Revolt of the Black Athlete: 50th Anniversary Edition by Harry Edwards
RRP: €19.03€16.95The Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This Fiftieth Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards's classic of activist scholarship arrives even as a new generation engages with the issues he explored. Edwards's new... -
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis by Sam Anderson
RRP: €23.80€13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780804137331Author Sam AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown... -
The Cornish Miner in America Volume 6: The contribution to the mining history of the United States by emigrant Cornish-miners - the men called Cousin Jacks by Arthur Cecil Todd 9780806190280
€22.75The hands of Cornish miners bore scars of one of the most sophisticated traditions of hard-rock mining in the world. Toughened "Cousin Jacks" brought generations of toilsome underground experience to the Americas from one of the oldest mining... -
The American Revolution: 1774–83 by Daniel Marston
RRP: €15.46€10.82Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War. The American Revolution, or the American War of Independence, has been characterized... -
Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807067147Author Daina Ramey BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America by Mary Beth Meehan
RRP: €28.56€23.94It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by... -
Ordinary Man, An: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith
RRP: €35.70€32.24"Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president-Gerald R. Ford. Ford's is a very American life, and Smith has charted its vicissitudes and import with great grace and... -
The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely by C. Vann Woodward
RRP: €15.46€10.82Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme... -
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L Bergen
RRP: €26.18€16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307955883Author Peter L. BergenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm)... -
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
RRP: €40.40€32.62From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West.Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on... -
George Washington: The Wonder of the Age by John Rhodehamel
RRP: €17.84€15.51"The only Washington biography you need. . . . As a brief account of Washington's life, it is unlikely to be surpassed for many years."-Fergus M. Bordewich, Wall Street Journal"A masterpiece, a concise, fluidly written and well-grounded biography... -
Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Units by Mark Chambers
RRP: €17.84€13.03In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber to replace the venerable 'Val' aboard carriers. The resulting... -
Waco: A Survivor's Story by David Thibodeau
RRP: €16.65€15.05To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the siege at Waco, and a tie-in to the upcoming Spike TV mini-series, an updated reissue of the critically acclaimed A PLACE CALLED WACO by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau now titled Waco: A Survivor's... -
The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward 9781471156519
RRP: €13.08€8.33Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that... -
Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia by Carolyn Woods Eisenberg
RRP: €32.71€28.80This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger's pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and... -
The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America by Michael MacCambridge 9781538706695
RRP: €29.75€24.54"Indispensable history." -Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right CallEvery decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE BIG TIME, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s... -
The Apache Wars: The Hunt For Geronimo, The Apache Kid, And The Captive Boy Who Started The Longest War In American History by Paul Andrew Hutton
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435837Author Paul Andrew HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline by George Packer
RRP: €15.46€10.19America is in crisis. In the space of a generation, it has become more than ever a country of winners and losers, as industries have failed, institutions have disappeared and the country's focus has shifted to idolise celebrity and wealth. George Packer... -
The Opening Of The American Mind by Lawrence W. Levine 9780807031193
€22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807031193Author Lawrence W. LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged by William C. Davis 9780306824166
€37.01Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. In Crucible of Command , William C. Davis, one of America's preeminent historians, presents a thoroughly fresh portrait of these great commanders, revealing their... -
A Short History of San Francisco by Tom Cole 9781597142731
RRP: €17.84€11.76This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of the... -
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer 9780195088472
RRP: €26.76€22.00Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history—yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the... -
Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore by James T. Patterson 9780195305227
RRP: €24.98€18.72James Patterson's Bancroft Prize-winning Grand Expectations, the penultimate volume in the Oxford History of the United States, was hailed by The New York Times as "a spirited, sprawling narrative of American life" and by The Wall Street Journal as "a... -
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten by Kate Brown
RRP: €26.18€22.09"Why are Kazakhstan and Montana the same place?" asks the opening chapter of Kate Brown's surprising and unusual journey into the histories of places on the margins, overlooked or erased. In turns out that a ruined mining town in Kazakhstan and Butte,... -
LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson by Mark Atwood Lawrence 9781009172530
RRP: €29.75€20.38In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection skillfully explores his seminal accomplishments-protecting civil... -
The Dauntless in Battle by Peter C. Smith 9781526704603
RRP: €23.79€16.99The Douglas Dauntless was a Second World War American naval scout plane and dive bomber that saw active service during the course of this conflict and beyond, before being retired in 1959. US Navy and Marine Corps SBD's (Small But Deadly) saw their... -
Report from Ground Zero by Dennis Smith
RRP: €22.73€17.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452283954Author Dennis SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 23mm -
Sinister ForcesaA Warm Gun: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft by Peter Levenda 9780984185825
RRP: €30.93€19.59The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are investigated in this second volume of a three-part set that exposes new connections between religion, political conspiracy, terrorism, and occultism. Not a work of... -
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley
RRP: €23.79€21.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062655073Author Douglas BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 218mm... -
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry V. Jaffa
RRP: €27.37€23.49"Crisis of the House Divided" is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry V. Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry into politics in 1854 through his Senate... -
Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City by Paula Blackman 9780785292067
RRP: €23.80€15.87Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil Rights.In another time and place, E. Gab Blackman and William Sousa "Sou"... -
The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler
RRP: €29.75€21.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635571769Author Isaac ButlerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 784g -
The Hippies: A 1960s History by John Anthony Moretta
RRP: €34.50€28.30Among the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact on American society. Their influence essentially defined the 1960s-hippie anti-fashion, divergent music, dropout politics and 'make love not war'...