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Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City by Paula Blackman 9780785292067
RRP: £20.00£13.34Set 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: £25.00£18.02Apologies 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: £28.99£23.78Among 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'... -
Jesse James: A Captivating Guide to a Wild West Outlaw Who Robbed Trains, Banks, and Stagecoaches across the Midwestern United States by Captivating History 9781647489922
RRP: £14.97£9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647489922Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm)... -
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael 9780520283947
RRP: £25.00£19.59Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest... -
Lucasville (second Edition): The Untold Rising of a Prison Uprising by Staughton Lynd 9781604862249
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862249Author Staughton LyndFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 310g -
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne
RRP: £21.99£19.19Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans... -
Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer by Robert Graysmith 9780593199657
RRP: £20.00£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593199657Author Robert GraysmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy 9780316352543
RRP: £21.99£14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316352543Author Liza MundyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes Next by Bradley Onishi 9781506482163
RRP: £18.99£17.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506482163Author Bradley OnishiFormat HardbackPage Count 237Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
The Audacity To Win: How Obama Won and How We Can Beat the Party of Limbaugh, Beck, and Palin by David Plouffe
RRP: £21.99£14.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118084Author David PlouffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 408g -
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
RRP: £17.00£10.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Spur Award / Western Writers of America 2018. Short-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017 and National Book Award 2017.Book... -
Religious Reading and Everyday Lives in Devotional Hinduism by Emilia Bachrach 9780197648599
RRP: £70.00£63.74Religious texts are not stable objects, passed down unchanged through generations. The way in which religious communities receive their scriptures changes over time and in different social contexts. This book considers religious reading through a study... -
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
RRP: £25.00£14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062430519Author Jason FagoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace 9780195116359
RRP: £40.49£31.12In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is... -
The Jamestown Brides: The Bartered Wives of the New World by Jennifer Potter
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Compelling... A real pleasure to read.' - BBC History MagazineIn 1621, fifty-six English women crossed the Atlantic in response to the Virginia Company of London's call for maids 'young and uncorrupt' to make wives for the planters of its new colony in... -
New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943 by Peter Walther 9783836537117
RRP: £20.00£15.29"Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way." - Jack Delano Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935... -
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer 9780195181593
RRP: £15.99£13.23Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett... -
All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860 by Sidney Blumenthal
RRP: £20.00£14.19Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed in this "compelling, original, and elegantly written" (Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author) third volume of the "magisterial" (The New York Times Book Review)... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780593230367
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593230367Author Harriet JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West by Malcolm Nance 9780316484817
RRP: £25.00£19.21In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first time, The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how... -
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis
RRP: £14.99£11.68For Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause marks the culmination of a lifetime of engagement with the founding era, completing a trilogy of books that began with Founding Brothers. Here Ellis, countering popular histories that... -
One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon by Tim Weiner 9781250092328
RRP: £27.99£17.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250092328Author Tim WeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen by Peter Manso 9780743296687
RRP: £19.99£14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743296687Author Peter MansoFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 33mm -
American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War: The Meuse Argonne 1918: Breaking the Line by Maarten Otte 9781526714459
RRP: £14.99£10.95Although the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began in late September 1918 and continued through to the Armistice, was not the first major action fought by the AEF, it was the greatest in which it engaged in the Great War. Indeed, the casualty count in the... -
Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston by Cornelia Hughes Dayton 9780812224047
RRP: £23.99£20.84In colonial America, the system of "warning out" was distinctive to New England, a way for a community to regulate those to whom it would extend welfare. Robert Love's Warnings animates this nearly forgotten aspect of colonial life, richly detailing the... -
James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38 by Bryan D. Palmer
RRP: £65.00£43.09Bryan D. Palmer reinterprets the history of labour and the left in the United States during the 1930s through a discussion of the emergence of Trotskyism in the most advanced capitalist country in the world. Focussing on James P. Cannon, the founder of... -
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore 9780520242012
RRP: £25.00£19.59Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called 'the biggest prison building... -
The Secret Founding Of America by Nicholas Hagger
RRP: £14.99£10.95The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years... -
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan 9781645036654
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036654Author Hugh RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm *... -
George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye by Allen Ellenzweig
RRP: £31.49£28.18George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye is a life of the gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. From age 18, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate... -
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer 9780195098310
RRP: £19.49£18.83This widely acclaimed and meticulously researched book is the first serious study of Paul Revere's famous ride. Fischer's exciting narrative offers new insight into the coming of the American Revolution.About the AuthorDavid Hackett Fischer is Warren... -
The Populist Vision by Charles Postel 9780195384710
RRP: £31.49£20.94The Populist movement has been both dismissed as an irrational response of backward-looking farmers to modernity and romanticized as a resistance movement of tradition-based communities to modern, commercial society. Now, in a wide-ranging and... -
The Invention of the White Race: The Origins of an American Ordeal by Theodore W Allen
£20.19When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the... -
The San Jose Earthquakes: A Seismic Soccer Legacy by Gary Singh 9781540213266
RRP: £31.99£19.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540213266Author Gary SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War by H. W. Brands 9780195093773
RRP: £14.99£10.48In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party-yet party membership had... -
Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union by Robert V. Remini 9780393310887
RRP: £43.00£38.61Among the nineteenth-century Americans, few commanded the reverence and respect accorded to Henry Clay of Kentucky. As orator and as Speaker of the House for longer than any man in the century, he wielded great power, a compelling presence in Congress... -
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black 9781641770385
RRP: £18.99£12.93Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the... -
Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region by Rory Medcalf
RRP: £14.99£10.95The definitive guide to the world's most contested region.The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor for collective action. If diplomacy fails, it will be the theatre of... -
Frederick Douglass: Speeches & Writings (loa #358) by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £37.99£24.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537222Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 969Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America