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The Light of Truth by Ida B. Wells
RRP: €11.89€8.46In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framework of subjugation in which white people used violence as a deliberate tactic to combat black economic... -
Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia by Simon P. Newman
RRP: €28.55€24.80Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and... -
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly
RRP: €21.41€15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070746Author Bill O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Reds: Mccarthyism in Twentieth Century America by Ted Morgan 9780812973020
RRP: €23.79€17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812973020Author Ted MorganFormat PaperbackImprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 511g -
American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000 by Peter Vronsky 9780593198957
RRP: €23.80€15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593198957Author Peter VronskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Fighting Back: The American Working Class in the 1930s by John Newsinger 9781905192939
RRP: €14.28€9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192939Author John NewsingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 403g -
Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg: Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics by Robert E. Haywood
RRP: €50.58€43.57This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to this... -
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market by Naomi Oreskes
RRP: €41.65€26.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573572Author Naomi OreskesFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 938g -
12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia by Todd D. Snyder 9781946684127
RRP: €32.07€22.24Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation... -
Sherman's March: The First Full-Length Narrative of General William T. Sherman's Devastating March through Georgia and the Carolinas by Burke Davis 9780394757636
RRP: €29.75€20.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394757636Author Burke DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Union Pacific Railroad Heritage by Beth Anne Keates 9781625451170
RRP: €32.13€24.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625451170Author Beth Anne KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLcWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm)... -
Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan 9780300101621
RRP: €22.60€21.99A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever... -
Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B Johnson 9781934645383
RRP: €24.98€19.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934645383Author Hannibal B JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Eakin PressPublisher Eakin PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Wizards of Armageddon by Fred Kaplan
RRP: €33.31€29.20This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a... -
Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy 9780062278791
RRP: €26.18€15.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062278791Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern by J. Sakai 9781629630373
RRP: €26.17€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630373Author J. SakaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 495g -
Draw: The Greatest Gunfights of the American West by James Reasoner
RRP: €26.17€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425191934Author James ReasonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 288g -
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles 9780830845255
RRP: €20.22€16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845255Author Mark CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)... -
Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever by Patrick J. Buchanan
RRP: €15.46€11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101902868Author Patrick J. BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Pearl: December 7, 1941 by Daniel Allen Butler
RRP: €29.75€20.97What happened at Pearl Harbor?What really happened?The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of history was utterly changed. Nearly eight decades later,... -
Coup in Dallas: Who Killed JFK and Why by H. P. Albarelli, Jr. 9781510740310
RRP: €23.80€22.49The CIA, Dallas, and the hard details of the JFK assassination.Coup in Dallas leaves speculation and theory aside to give the hard details of who killed President John F. Kennedy, how the murder was carried out, and why Kennedy was assassinated. Through... -
Brave Hearts Trembled: Regimental Wargame Scenarios for the Battle of Antietam by Brad Butkovich 9780990412250
RRP: €28.13€20.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990412250Author Brad ButkovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Historic Imagination LLCPublisher Historic Imagination LLCWeight(grams)... -
White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations by Robert Vitalis
RRP: €24.98€21.86Racism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in the world in the early twentieth century and in turn affected the way that diplomatic history and international relations were taught and understood in the... -
The Toddler-In-Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency by Daniel W Drezner
RRP: €17.85€13.89"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. . . . And we are trying to do what's right even when Donald Trump won't."--An anonymous senior administrative official in an op-ed published in a... -
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple 9780593229927
RRP: €45.22€26.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229927Author Brenda WineappleFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 839g -
Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right by Andrew E. Busch 9780700614080
RRP: €35.64€20.75Many have pointed to the Iran hostage crisis, others to galloping inflation. In reality, as Andrew Busch makes clear, Ronald Reagan's defeat of President Jimmy Carter in 1980 was attributable to more than any one issue, no matter how galvanizing. It... -
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek
RRP: €35.70€23.53How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremismAt the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a... -
More Than a Game: A History of the African American Experience in Sport by David K. Wiggins
RRP: €41.65€38.66More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in... -
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter 9781542025317
RRP: €10.70€7.29Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell's Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first-and worst-mass murders in American history. In 1927, while the majority of the township of... -
Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease by Barbara Ellen Smith
RRP: €20.22€13.89Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded.Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic... -
Zbigniew Brzezinski: America's Grand Strategist by Justin Vaisse
RRP: €35.64€29.35As National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Cold War. But his impact on America's role in the world extends far beyond his years in the White House, and... -
Nashville 1864: From the Tennessee to the Cumberland by Mark Lardas
RRP: €20.22€16.78In September 1864, the Confederate army abandoned Atlanta and were on the verge of being driven out of the critical state of Tennessee. In an attempt to regain the initiative, John Bell Hood launched an attack on Union General Sherman's supply lines,... -
Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe by Thomas J. Dilorenzo 9780307338426
RRP: €17.84€13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307338426Author Thomas J. DilorenzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198g -
The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: €16.65€11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986617Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Americanization of a Rural Immigrant Church: The General Conference Mennonites in Central Kansas, 1874-1939 by Dennis D. Engbrecht
RRP: €45.21€39.72The purpose of this study, first published in 1990, is to investigate the Americanization of an immigrant church in rural North America. The study focuses on General Conference Mennonites who came from Russia and east Europe to settle in central Kansas... -
Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone) by Sam Wineburg
RRP: €22.61€19.28Let's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become cliches: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola 9780691210773
RRP: €19.03€15.36How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic... -
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party by Heather Richardson
RRP: €19.03€15.37When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian... -
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant
RRP: €42.78€35.65"This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the... -
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank 9780805077742
RRP: €23.79€14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805077742Author Thomas FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA