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Photography and the American Civil War by Jeff L. Rosenheim
RRP: £40.00£35.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £5.99£5.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345478238Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene 9780143116783
RRP: £23.88£18.01A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far... -
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents by David Pietrusza 9780786721023
£27.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786721023Author David PietruszaFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 734g -
Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War by Elizabeth R. Varon
RRP: £27.99£24.01Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. In Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon offers both a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Lincoln's... -
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph
RRP: £24.99£19.47The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of the plantation household as the source of slavery's redeeming qualities, where 'gentle'... -
Gettysburg--The First Day by Harry W. Pfanz
RRP: £34.95£34.82A longtime Gettysburg historian offers a detailed account. For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's share of attention from historians. With this book, the critical first day receives its due. Harry... -
On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War by Anthony W. Lee 9780520253315
RRP: £25.00£19.59Soon after Alexander Gardner's "Photographic Sketch Book" was published, in 1866, it became the Civil War's best-known visual record and helped define how viewers, then and in subsequent generations, would come to know the war. Gardner's classic also... -
America's Bitter Pill by Steven Brill
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986686Author Steven BrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
American Consumer Society, 1865 - 2005: From Hearth to HDTV by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
RRP: £25.00£22.60This startlingly original and highly readable volume adds a new richness and depth to an element of U.S. history that is all too often taken for granted. In American Consumer Society, Regina Lee Blaszczyk examines the emergence of consumerism in the... -
Martin Luther King Jr by Adam Fairclough 9780820316536
£22.42During a public career spanning only twelve years, Martin Luther King Jr. transformed the South-and the nation-and reinvigorated American democracy. From the pulpit and from jail, he inspired African Americans to rebel against white supremacy,... -
The Garbage People: The Trip to Helter Skelter and Beyond with Charlie Manson and The Family by Dr John Gilmore 9781878923301
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878923301Author John GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Amok Books,U.S.Publisher Amok Books,U.S. -
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault 9781439189054
£15.04A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A "thoroughly captivating biography" (The San Francisco Chronicle) of American icon Arthur Ashe-the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis-a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential... -
The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn: Custer's Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture by Debra Buchholtz
RRP: £36.99£32.53In June of 1876, the U.S. government's plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the... -
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War: With a new Introductory Essay by Eric Foner 9780195094978
RRP: £18.49£17.02Foner has written a new introduction that puts his argument in the book into context of contemporary scholarship.Book InformationISBN 9780195094978Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford... -
American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea by Ian Tyrrell
RRP: £31.00£26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226812090Author Ian TyrrellFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
RRP: £18.99£11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968200Author Timothy CrouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 326gDimensions(mm)... -
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Haunani-Kay Trask 9780824820596
RRP: £27.95£26.93This revised text includes material that builds on issues and concerns raised in the first edition. It explores issues of native Hawaiian student organizing at the University of Hawaii, the master plan of the native Hawaiian self-governing organization... -
Cincinnati Boxing by Kevin Grace 9780738541129
RRP: £19.99£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738541129Author Kevin GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Far Side of the Moon: Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and the Woman Who Gave Him Wings by Liisa Jorgensen
RRP: £26.95£20.25The decades-long love story of a NASA commander and the leader of the Astronaut Wives ClubFar Side of the Moon is the untold, fully authorized story of the lives of Frank and Susan Borman. One was a famous astronaut-an instrumental part of the Apollo... -
Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783 by Richard H. Brown 9780393060324
RRP: £59.99£50.70Taking into account the key events of the French and Indian War, this book shows the American Revolution's progress in glorious contemporary maps and accompanying essays relating them to the events of the time. The authors tell the stories of the maps... -
How to Become a Spy: The World War II SOE Training Manual by British Special Operations Executive
RRP: £12.99£11.67During World War II, training in the black arts of covert operation was vital preparation for the "ungentlemanly warfare" waged by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) against Hitler's Germany and Tojo's Japan. In the early years of the war, the SOE... -
Cultural Internationalism and World Order by Akira Iriye
RRP: £28.00£24.54As the nineteenth century became the twentieth and the dangers of rampant nationalism became more evident, people throughout the world embraced the idea that a new spirit of internationalism might be fostered by better communication and understanding... -
Those Who Labor for My Happiness: Slavery at Thomas Hefferson's Monticello by Lucia C. Stanton 9780813932231
RRP: £21.95£14.82Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view of Monticello as a working plantation, the success of... -
The Model T: A Centennial History by Robert Casey 9781421421179
RRP: £24.00£21.18"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and take care of. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs... -
Mocha Dick: Or The White Whale of the Pacific by J Godsey 9780615795942
RRP: £9.00£7.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615795942Author J GodseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Sicpress.comPublisher Sicpress.comWeight(grams) 59g -
Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? by Ethan Brown
RRP: £17.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476793269Author Ethan BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)... -
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman by Elaine Forman Crane
RRP: £31.00£27.76The journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective. Drinker wrote in her diary nearly continuously between 1758... -
Touching History: the Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11 by Lynn Spencer 9781416559269
RRP: £14.99£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416559269Author Lynn SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm)... -
In the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies by Howard Blum 9780062458261
RRP: £19.99£12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062458261Author Howard BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: New History of the American West by Richard White 9780806125671
£32.76This book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants. They have cared little about the cost their activities imposed on others; what has... -
Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers by George Durham 9780292780484
RRP: £19.99£19.77Only an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them Anglo-Americans, regularly crossed... -
The Fifties: An Underground History by James R Gaines
RRP: £20.00£14.29A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from... -
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110194Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Golden Panthers: Pitt's Ten-Year Affair with Football Prominence (1973-1982) by Sam Sciullo Jr
RRP: £24.99£17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992756Author Sam Sciullo JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm)... -
On The Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S. by Sean Stewart 9781604864557
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864557Author Sean StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 372g -
The Civil War, a Narrative: A Narrative. Volume 1 by Shelby Foote
£21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394746234Author Shelby FooteFormat PaperbackPage Count 856Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812 by Paul A. Gilje
RRP: £30.99£25.85On 2 July 1812, Captain David Porter raised a banner on the USS Essex proclaiming 'a free trade and sailors rights', thus creating a political slogan that explained the War of 1812. Free trade demanded the protection of American commerce, while sailors'... -
Frontiers: A Short History of the American West by Robert V. Hine 9780300136203
RRP: £18.00£17.59A new edition of the authors' definitive history of the American West, updated and rewritten for a popular audience Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history... -
The Road to Disunion: Volume II Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 by William W. Freehling 9780195370188
RRP: £23.49£17.55The Road to Disunion, Vol. II completes William W. Freehlings monumental study of how the South came to begin the Civil War. Perhaps, as William Freehling surmises, the war was inevitable, because the issue of slavery sharply divided the South from the...