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They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment. By day, they plucked worms and insects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807033241Author Rashid KhalidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501152559Author Megan Kate NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Starting around 70 years ago, white flight out of America's major cities caused rapid urban decline. Now we are witnessing a resurgence of American urbanism said to be the result of white people's return. But this account entirely passes over the stable...

"... a book about healing revivalists that takes them seriously and treats them fairly." -Journal of Southern History "... will be a definitive work for some years to come." -Reviews in American History "Harrell has obviously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480435483Author Anthony SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 702Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Nonfiction) 2006 and Washington State Book Award (Young Adult) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780060520762Author David LaskinFormat...

How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word ""American""? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history--and questions that were addressed when, in...

EXCERPT: "So great was the ferment of reform in the pre-Civil War United States that to understand it, to grasp the motives of the reformers, the nature of their work, their successes and failures, is to understand much about the American nation as a...

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an...

Red Diapers is the first anthology of autobiographical writings by the children of American communists. These memoirs, short stories, and poems reflect the joys and perils of growing up in a subculture defined by its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226013862Author Nelson AlgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476763804Author Ej DionneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

The Union had won the Civil War and abolished slavery. However, Lincoln, an early champion of railroads, would not live to see the next great achievment. The governmentpitted the Union Pacific against the Central Pacific in a race that encouraged speed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015665Author Lynn DumenilFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583227121Author James RidgewayFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 225g

The reason for the decline of Orson Welles's career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. When Citizen Kane, his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the most audacious filmmaker alive. But instead of marking...

A fresh and revealing history of one of the most seminal events in American history as seen through fourteen diverse and dynamic figures.Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist puritan congregations) and "strangers"...

The year 1963 was unforgettable for Americans. In the midst of intense Cold War turmoil and the escalating struggle for Black freedom, the United States also engaged in a nationwide commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Civil War. Commemorative...

From the introduction: "To those unacquainted with military history, [this book] provides an elementary, instructive, and readable military account of the American Civil War. The basic concepts of war, its conduct, management, and support, are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131830Author Brian KilmeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Robert McNamara is best known for his key role in the escalation of the Vietnam War as U.S. secretary of defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The familiar story begins with the brilliant young executive transforming Ford Motor...

This title describes a new critical tradition in American filmmaking. American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759741Author Michael W. KauffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm)...

America's long romance with the train has been the subject of many books, but none has used contemporary maps to comprehensively illustrate the story. Until now. Here the latest of Derek Hayes' historical atlases delves into the history of the railroad...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529000Author Louis MenandFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

This is the magical memoir of Lily Shaine, an orphan brought up by her two eccentric bachelor uncles in New York in the 1950s. Uncle Len is a six-foot-six-inch private investigator, a trench-coated cross between Abraham Lincoln and Sam Spade. Uncle Gabe,...

A dynamically written visual history of the world's largest transit system in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory packed with compelling information, as well as fascinating graphics and illustrations.New York wouldn't be New York without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016082Author Betty WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams) 181g

Alcoholics Anonymous is one of the most significant self-help books of the twentieth century with an estimated thirty-seven million copies sold, translated into seventy languages. Released in 1939, the Big Book, as it is commonly known, has spawned a...

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest...

Countless histories have been written about Franklin Roosevelt's creation of the New Deal and about his leadership during World War II, but none has attempted to bridge these two epochal events. In Roosevelt's Second Act, Richard Moe offers a...

A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo. American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477155Author James GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 295g

Until the end of the eighteenth century, missionaries to the New World agreed that diabolism lay at the heart of the Native American belief system and at the root of their own failure to establish a church purged of Satan and pagan superstition. The...

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa McGirr dismantles this myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062971876Author Steven UjifusaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

America: A Narrative History puts narrative front and centre with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colourful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect the state of our history and society by continuing...

While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early life, from pioneer farm boy, to politician and lawyer in Springfield, to his stunning election as sixteenth president of the United...

Unique among Union army corps, the Ninth fought in both the Eastern and Western theaters of the Civil War. The corps' veterans called their service a "geography class," and others have called the Ninth "a wandering corps" because it covered more ground...