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Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers & Poetry of the 1964 Freedom Summer by Elizabeth Martínez 9781938890024
RRP: £13.99£13.81Our 2002 edition of Letters from Mississippi has become a staple in studies of the civil rights movement. (The original publication of 1965 recorded the letters of the volunteers in the Mississippi Summer Voting Project of 1964 -- "Freedom Summer" -- and... -
Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War: The Struggle for Recognition by Volodymyr V. Kravchenko 9781793609076
RRP: £97.00£84.84This book is the first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian historical writing in North America during the Cold War. The author describes the development of Ukrainian historical studies in Canada and the United States as an open, sometimes difficult... -
The Unmaking of a Mayor by William F. Buckley 9781594038471
£14.73John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year's mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. "As a candidate," Joseph Alsop conceded, "Buckley was cleverer and livelier than either of his... -
Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency--21 Presidents, 21 Rooms, 21 Inside Stories by Paul Brandus 9781493008346
RRP: £19.99£16.97"Like taking a tour of the White House with a gifted storyteller at your side!" 1.Why, in the minutes before John F. Kennedy was murdered, was a blood-red carpet installed in the Oval Office? 2.If Abraham Lincoln never slept in the Lincoln Bedroom,... -
The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England by Thomas N. Ingersoll 9781107128613
RRP: £48.99£44.09The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England begins with a snapshot of the region on the eve of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists' Republican tradition helped them spark the Revolution, but their special history also threatened the unity of the... -
At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews 9781316633984
RRP: £26.99£22.80The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored... -
As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution by Richard Archer 9780195382471
£22.00In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of... -
God's Hand on America: Divine Providence in the Modern Era by Michael Medved
RRP: £16.99£11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451497437Author Michael MedvedFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown ForumPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation by Douglas Waller
RRP: £22.00£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501126857Author Douglas WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North by Adam I. P. Smith
RRP: £83.00£73.28During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis.In No... -
Very New Orleans: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Cajun Country Charm by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler 9781565124479
RRP: £16.99£12.63The exquisite antebellum mansions of the Garden District. Giant oaks stretching across boulevards and back in time to before the Civil War. The decadence of Bourbon Street. The vibrant sounds of jazz, blues, and Cajun music coming from every doorway or... -
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby 9780521541756
RRP: £24.99£19.85Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu... -
Southern Gambit: Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown by Stanley D Carpenter 9780806161853
£30.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806161853Author Stanley D CarpenterFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)... -
A House Divided: Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1865 by Richard H. Sewell
RRP: £26.50£23.29What caused the Civil War? Perhaps no question in American history has attracted more interest or sparked more debate. A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the view of slavery as a largely artificial or symbolic... -
All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy by Tom Clavin
RRP: £17.99£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335016669Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland by Walter Thompson-Hernandez
RRP: £12.99£8.48"Thompson-Hernandez's portrayal of Compton's black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton's young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in the west. An eye-opening, moving book."-... -
Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, & Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of Charles II Until the War with the Thirteen Colonies by Caroline Robbins 9780865974272
RRP: £8.95£7.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974272Author Caroline RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 789g -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn by Mari Sandoz
£15.07Mari Sandoz's account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life-and lost-reveals on every page the author's intimate knowledge of her subject. The character of the Sioux, the personality of Custer, the mixed emotions of... -
Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr
RRP: £40.99£25.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533750Author Reinhold NiebuhrFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 620g -
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics by Adam Ewing 9780691173832
RRP: £28.00£21.80Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States... -
Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by William S. Cossen 9781501770999
RRP: £37.00£32.82In Making Catholic America, William S. Cossen shows how Catholic men and women worked to prove themselves to be model American citizens in the decades between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Far from being outsiders in American history, Catholics... -
What is Migration History? by Christiane Harzig 9780745643366
RRP: £16.99£15.22The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature. This short introduction to the field, written by leading historians of migration for student readers, offers an acute analysis of key issues... -
Raising The Hunley by Brian Hicks 9780345447722
£14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780345447722Author Brian HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ballantine Books Inc... -
Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago by Gillian O'Brien 9780226248950
RRP: £80.00£77.01It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln's. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and... -
Clashing Over Commerce: A History of Us Trade Policy by Douglas A. Irwin
£31.19Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was... -
Ghosts of the Queen Mary by Brian Clune
RRP: £17.99£14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193147Author Brian CluneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Story of America: Essays on Origins by Jill Lepore 9780691159591
RRP: £17.99£14.39In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American... -
Andrew Jackson & Miracle Of No by Brian Kilmeade
RRP: £15.99£10.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735213241Author Brian KilmeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
The War of American Independence: 1775-1783 by Richard Middleton 9780582229426
RRP: £35.99£34.82Wars rarely turn out as expected. This book shows how Britain entered a conflict that it believed could not be lost. The American Patriots were similarly optimistic about their martial prospects. Although they eventually secured independence, it was only... -
Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763 by Stephen Brumwell 9780521675383
RRP: £30.99£22.86In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the... -
Why the South Lost the Civil War by Richard E. Beringer
£47.27In this book first published in 1986, four historians consider the popularly held explanations for Southern defeat - state-rights disputes, inadequate military supply and strategy, and the Union blockade - undergirding their discussion with a... -
Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 by David Hitt 9780803226487
RRP: £28.99£25.36After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world's... -
Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition by Marlene Deahl Merrill 9780803282896
RRP: £15.99£13.98Here, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden's historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. The expedition's findings quickly led Congress to... -
A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation by David Head
RRP: £32.00£20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364077Author David HeadFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 38mm -
Hollywood Studios, Ca by Tommy Dangcil 9780738547084
RRP: £21.99£15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738547084Author Tommy DangcilFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
RRP: £13.99£10.23The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal but it took the Civil War and the adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed due process... -
Early Organized Crime in Detroit:: Vice, Corruption and the Rise of the Mafia by James Buccellato 9781467117548
RRP: £21.99£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467117548Author James A. BuccellatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)... -
Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups by Richard Belzer
RRP: £12.99£11.21Have you ever heard the story on the news of a politician being "found dead" or "committing suicide," and it seemed a little strange to you? You think, "There's something they're not telling me." Well, after you read Dead Wrong, you'll realize that your... -
The Day Dixie Died: The Occupied South, 1865-1866 by Thomas Goodrich
RRP: £16.99£12.94As the North celebrated the end of the Civil War, the people of the South, particularly of recently fallen Richmond, mourned. The South was about to enter a period of extreme turmoil reconstruction. The Union, though preserved, would not easily be healed... -
Dan gets a duck by Paul George 9781398247079
£4.76Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...