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Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant by Chris Mackowski
RRP: €27.36€24.86Ulysses S. Grant stood at the center of the American Civil Ware maelstrom. The Ohio nature answered his nation's call to service and finished the war as a lieutenant general in command of the U. S. Army. Three years later he ascended to the presidency in... -
In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara 9780679767497
RRP: €20.22€15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679767497Author Robert S. McNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Battle Maps of the Civil War, Volume 2: The Western Theater by American Battlefield Trust 9781682619933
RRP: €17.84€15.33From the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War."I just love those maps that you guys send to me." It is a phrase that the staff of the American Battlefield Trust hears on... -
The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America by Dean Snow 9780197648001
RRP: €24.98€22.69In The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram, author Dean Snow rights the record on a shipwrecked sailor who traversed the length of the North American continent only to be maligned as deceitful storyteller. In the autumn of 1569, a French ship... -
The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare: Ideas, Organization, and Field Command by Edward Hagerman
RRP: €24.98€22.34"...a major contribution to our knowledge of the place of the Civil War in the history of warfare...I have long hoped for a sound history of Civil War military staffs...I need hope no more; Hagerman has covered this subject also, with the same assured... -
Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire by Lawrence J Haas
RRP: €34.50€29.70The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire explores how the Kennedy brothers reshaped America's federation for more than six decades after World War II. For all the millions of words written about them, no one has... -
Glock: The Rise of America's Gun by Dr Paul M Barrett
RRP: €20.23€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307719959Author Paul M. BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History by Ed Achorn
RRP: €26.17€17.65The vivid, behind-the-scenes story of perhaps the most consequential political moment in American history-Abraham Lincoln's history-changing nomination to lead the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential electionIllinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln had a... -
Surfing about Music by Timothy J. Cooley 9780520276642
RRP: €29.75€23.31This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to... -
American Provincial Corps by Philip Katcher
RRP: €15.46€13.10Initially British officials were reluctant to accept the offers of loyal subjects to form fighting units but eventually the potential of a Provincial corps was realized. Yet they never received the whole-hearted support of the British regular army and... -
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by Jefferson Cowie 9781541605121
RRP: €22.60€17.39WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government... -
The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation by Steven M. Gillon 9780195322781
RRP: €24.98€19.18Most Americans saw President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich as staunch foes--"the polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue." But as Steven Gillon reveals in The Pact, these powerful adversaries formed a secret alliance in 1997, a pact that would... -
Taking Back Trump's America: Why We Lost the White House and How We'll Win It Back by Peter Navarro
RRP: €33.32€21.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637586785Author Peter NavarroFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution by Jack P. Greene 9780521132305
RRP: €23.79€19.08Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental... -
The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency by Philip H. Melanson 9780786716173
€29.17This new edition of the definitive history of the Secret Service lays bare the 2004 Bush campaign's political uses of the agency and the new challenges it faces as a branch of the Homeland Security Department, in a post-9/11 world. Acclaimed scholar of... -
Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century by Laura Shapiro 9780520257382
RRP: €29.75€23.31Toasted marshmallows stuffed with raisins? Green-and-white luncheons? Chemistry in the kitchen? This entertaining and erudite social history now in its fourth paperback edition tells the remarkable story of America's transformation from a nation of... -
The Puritans: A Transatlantic History by David D. Hall 9780691151397
RRP: €45.22€36.19A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America... -
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson
RRP: €27.31€22.35Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award"Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully."-Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement"[One] of the most impressive works of American history in many years... -
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
RRP: €38.07€34.81The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a... -
This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
RRP: €17.84€13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bancroft Prize 2009 and New York Times Editors' Choice 2008 and New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize 2008. Short-listed for National Book... -
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Krist
RRP: €21.42€17.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451496393Author Gary KristFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Broadway BooksPublisher Broadway BooksWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *... -
America: The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 by Robert Goodwin
RRP: €29.75€23.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867223Author Robert GoodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 956g -
The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Martha Ackmann 9780375758935
RRP: €26.18€17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758935Author Martha AckmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy by Mary L. Dudziak
RRP: €33.32€25.94In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John... -
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
RRP: €16.65€12.09'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An... -
Mary Chesnut's Diary by Mary Boykin Chesnut 9780143106067
€13.30One of the most compelling personal narratives of the Civil War, "Mary Chesnut's Diary" was written between 1861 and 1865. As the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner and the wife of an aide to the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, Chesnut was... -
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War by James Mann 9780143116790
€17.16In his surprising new book, critically lauded author James Mann trains his keen analytical eye on Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union, shedding new light on the hidden aspects of American foreign policy. Drawing on recent interviews and previously... -
A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire by Adrian Chastain Weimer
RRP: €41.65€36.58In A Constitutional Culture, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule. ... -
Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 by Michael E. Parrish 9780393311341
RRP: €32.13€28.98In the convulsive years between 1920 and 941, Americans were first dazzled by unprecedented economic prosperity and then beset by the worst depression in their history. It was the era of Model T's, rising incomes, scientific management, electricity,... -
Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America by Steven J. Ross
RRP: €15.46€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620405635Author Steven J. RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 450g -
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South by William H. Chafe
RRP: €17.84€11.76A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of... -
Graceland Cemetery: Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets by Adam Selzer
RRP: €19.03€17.42Chosen for the 2024 Illinois Reads Program by the Illinois Reading Council One of Chicago's landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city's sprawling history through the stories of its people. Local historian and Graceland tour guide Adam... -
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W Brands 9780385495400
RRP: €23.80€16.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780385495400Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams)... -
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation by Mark Lee Gardner 9780062669896
€24.25"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and... -
The Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America by Prof. Matthew P. Dziennik 9780300196726
€67.07More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the... -
The Architecture of Barry Byrne: Taking the Prairie School to Europe by Vincent Michael
RRP: €59.50€52.85Barry Byrne (1883-1967) was a radical architect who sought basic principles as fervently as his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright and his inspiration Louis Sullivan, forging an individual style with taut planar skins enveloping modern space plans. In 1922 he... -
Notre Dame vs. The Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defied the KKK by Todd Tucker 9780268104344
RRP: €22.60€18.73In 1924, two uniquely American institutions clashed in northern Indiana: the University of Notre Dame and the Ku Klux Klan. Todd Tucker's book, published for the first time in paperback, Notre Dame vs. The Klan tells the shocking story of the three-day... -
The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told by Lamar Underwood 9781493032877
RRP: €17.84€13.72Long the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the western landscape-in art, books, film-is today shared... -
Europe's Coming of Age by L Tsoukalis 9781509554553
RRP: €29.75€25.97European integration has had many successes and failures, Brexit being one of the biggest failures. Despite the setbacks, the EU has been acquiring more functions and members and has now reached a stage where it needs to become a political adult. In this... -
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez 9781631495731
RRP: €27.36€20.80Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or in...