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The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion by Matt Taibbi 9780385520621
RRP: €19.03€12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385520621Author Matt TaibbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Craft: An American History by Glenn Adamson
RRP: €20.22€15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635574586Author Glenn AdamsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 718g -
Taming Democracy: "The People", The Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution by Terry Bouton 9780195378566
RRP: €36.28€24.92Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers as selfless patriots who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book, the... -
American Foreign Policy by Henry Kissinger 9780393056419
RRP: €28.56€25.41The initial two essays, "Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy" and "Central Issues of American Foreign Policy," appeared in the original edition of this volume and have been retained as backdrops for fifteen major addresses delivered by Mr. Kissinger... -
Landscape Turned Red by Stephen W. Sears
€15.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618344192Author Stephen W. SearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Academic)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams)... -
Wildest Lives of the Wild West: America through the Words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Other Famous Westerners by John Richard Stephens
RRP: €17.84€13.72By and about the greatest celebrities of the Wild West, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court... -
Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity by John R. Gillis 9780691029252
RRP: €41.65€33.01Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose... -
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
RRP: €21.42€12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708275Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge by Tamson Pietsch
RRP: €38.08€32.78The Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough-an educational reformer with big dreams-embarked on a bold experiment he called the Floating... -
A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography by John Raeburn
RRP: €36.89€33.03During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural... -
Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution by Morton White 9780195059489
RRP: €95.20€69.79In 1787, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote The Federalist to rally support for the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. In spite of the pragmatic intentions of the authors, they often implicitly expressed themselves... -
Freedom to Serve: Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981 by Jon E. Taylor 9780415894487
RRP: €44.02€38.71On the eve of America's entry into World War II, African American leaders pushed for inclusion in the war effort and, after the war, they mounted a concerted effort to integrate the armed services. Harry S. Truman's decision to issue Executive Order 9981... -
American Dreamer, An: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel 9780593597064
RRP: €32.13€20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593597064Author David FinkelFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation by Francois Furstenberg 9780143111931
RRP: €22.43€17.16In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, Fran ois Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and... -
George F. Kennan and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 1947-1950 by Wilson D. Miscamble
RRP: €83.30€65.09When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by neglect, maladministration, and low morale. Soon after his... -
Old Queens, N.Y., in Early Photographs: 261 Prints by V. F. Seyfried 9780486263588
RRP: €20.22€17.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486263588Author George KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm)... -
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America by Christina Snyder
RRP: €30.88€25.04Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's... -
The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History: 1775-1865 by John Grafton 9780486411248
RRP: €4.75€4.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411248Author John GraftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The U.S. Constitution and Other Key American Writings by Founding Fathers
RRP: €14.27€9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626863934Author Founding FathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 574gDimensions(mm)... -
Trenton and Princeton 1776-77: Washington Crosses the Delaware by David Bonk 9781846033506
€14.83Pursued by British forces, Washington and his remaining 5,000 men resolved on a risky strike against the British and Hessian positions across the Delaware River. Crossing the river, Washington took the Trenton garrison for the loss of only four men,... -
Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism by Timothy Denevi
RRP: €17.84€13.21Hunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature: drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged aplomb by Johnny Depp; memorialized as a Doonesbury character. In all this entertainment, the true figure of Thompson has... -
Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II by Grant Madsen
RRP: €46.41€40.60They helped conquer the greatest armies ever assembled. Yet no sooner had they tasted victory after World War II than American generals suddenly found themselves governing their former enemies, devising domestic policy and making critical economic... -
The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth by Jermaine Fowler
RRP: €33.32€22.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955905145Author Jermaine FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Row House PublishingPublisher Row House PublishingWeight(grams) 1g -
The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History by Marc Stein
RRP: €35.69€29.20On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor... -
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace 9781324092162
RRP: €19.03€15.71On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten... -
Battle Maps of the American Revolution by American Battlefield Trust 9780998811246
RRP: €17.84€14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998811246Author American Battlefield TrustFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint American Battlefield TrustPublisher American Battlefield... -
Hodder History: The Black Peoples Of America, mainstream edn by Douglas Featonby
€26.10The Black Peoples of America is an essential and unique Key Stage 3 resource for teaching and learning about the issues and events that characterise the history of Black peoples from Slavery up to the struggle for Civil Rights and life in modern America... -
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly 9781982171063
RRP: €11.89€7.63This revelatory and inclusive book "unearths the stories of the people-farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees-behind some of the labor movement's biggest successes" (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor... -
The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians by Carlos Lozada 9781668050736
RRP: €35.69€21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668050736Author Carlos LozadaFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Union Sharpshooter vs Confederate Sharpshooter by Gary Yee
RRP: €19.03€15.46During the American Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy both fielded units of sharpshooters. Sometimes equipped with firearms no better than those of their infantry brethren, they fought in a manner reminiscent of Napoleonic-era light infantry... -
In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, with a New Introduction and Epilogue by the Author by Clayborne Carson 9780674447271
RRP: €35.64€28.16With its radical ideology and effective tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story... -
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson 9780593443958
RRP: €32.13€21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443958Author Steven JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul by Brandy Schillace
€19.19The mesmerizing biography of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul.In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that... -
Shamrock and Sword: The Saint Patrick's Battalion in the U.S.-Mexican War by Robert Ryal Miller 9780806129648
€22.75This fascinating true story about war, intrigue, defection to the enemy, and brutal military justice is a dramatic example of the conflicts that frequently arise between humanitarian values and inflexible military regulations.Shamrock and Sword's setting... -
An Infinite Fountain of Light – Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty–First Century by George M. Marsden
RRP: €24.98€21.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514006627Author George M. MarsdenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 2400g -
Streight's Foiled Raid on the Western & Atlantic Railroad: Emma Sansom's Courage and Nathan Bedford Forrest's Pursuit by Brandon H Beck 9781540213044
RRP: €38.07€23.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540213044Author Brandon H BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Tom Paine's Iron Bridge: Building a United States by Edward G. Gray 9780393241785
RRP: €21.41€20.67In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in... -
Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South by James Oakes 9780393317664
RRP: €22.02€18.50This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for... -
The State Boys Rebellion by Professor Michael D'Antonio 9780743245135
RRP: €23.79€17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743245135Author Professor Michael D'AntonioFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-century America by Jay Sexton
€16.09President James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe's message proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it...