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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State by Lisa McGirr 9780393353525
RRP: £13.99£12.25Prohibition 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... -
Wicked Hampton County by Michael DeWitt Jr 9781467153409
RRP: £23.99£15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467153409Author Michael DeWitt JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm... -
Fire Underground: The Ongoing Tragedy Of The Centralia Mine Fire by David Dekok
RRP: £14.99£11.53How a modern-day mine disaster has turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town * For much of its history, Centralia, Pennsylvania, had a population of around 2,000. By 1981, this had dwindled to just over 1,000-not unusual for a onetime mining town... -
A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt by Tom Wicker 9781608462155
RRP: £19.99£13.96In September 1971 the inmates of Attica prison revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. At the outset the rebels demanded-and were granted-the presence of a group of observers to act as unofficial... -
The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
RRP: £15.99£11.61Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in... -
Yank and Rebel Rangers: Special Operations in the American Civil War by Robert W Black 9781526792006
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea
RRP: £25.95£19.91Fought in a tangled forest fringing the south bank of the Rapidan River, the Battle of the Wilderness marked the initial engagement in the climactic months of the Civil War in Virginia, and the first encounter between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee... -
Soul Would Have No Rainbow If the Eyes Had No Tears and Other Native Am by Guy Zona
£9.19A collection of short and inspirational Native American proverbs.Sayings of time-honored truth and contemporary wisdom from the Native American tribes: Why will you take by force what you may obtain by love? We will be known forever by the tracks we... -
The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler by David Roll
£15.22The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration. In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the... -
George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon by Stephen W. Sears 9780306809132
£23.84By age 35, General George B. McClellan (1826-1885), designated the "Young Napoleon," was the commander of all the Northern armies. He forged the Army of the Potomac into a formidable battlefield foe, and fought the longest and largest campaign... -
Such Troops As These: The Genius and Leadership of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson by Bevin Alexander
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425271308Author Bevin AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340g -
Female Adolescence in American Scientific Thought, 1830–1930 by Crista DeLuzio 9780801886997
£55.23In this groundbreaking study, Crista DeLuzio asks how scientific experts conceptualized female adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Revisiting figures like G. Stanley Hall and Margaret Mead and casting her net across the... -
The Mind of the South by Wilbur Joseph Cash 9780679736479
RRP: £15.99£11.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679736479Author W. J. CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Attack on Orleans: The World War I Submarine Raid on Cape Cod by Jake Klim 9781540210227
RRP: £31.99£19.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540210227Author Jake KlimFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War by Penny M. Von Eschen
RRP: £25.95£20.64At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners... -
Gettysburg in Color: Volume 1: Brandy Station to Little Round Top by Patrick Brennan 9781611216097
RRP: £25.99£22.41Artificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg. And it is a marvelous pairing.Author Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War Monitor magazine, has teamed up with his technology-astute... -
Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Gordon H Chang 9780358331810
RRP: £16.99£13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358331810Author Gordon H ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *... -
The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s by Doug Rossinow
RRP: £22.00£17.36In this concise yet thorough history of America in the 1980s, Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the ideology of Reaganism. Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy, Reaganite conservatives in... -
Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 by Elizabeth Sanders
RRP: £30.00£29.65Offers a revision of the understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late 19th century. Elizabeth Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over... -
Art, Ireland and the Diaspora: Dublin, Chicago & New York, 1893–1951 by Éimear O'Connor
£48.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize 2021 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781788551496Author Eimear O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Merrion... -
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War by Douglas Bradley
£28.52For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's ""These Boots Are Made for Walkin'."" For a ""tunnel rat"" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's... -
The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America by Lawrence Goodwyn
RRP: £18.49£13.34This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means... -
Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell
RRP: £21.00£9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931083Author Giles WhittellFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Ulster Sails West by William F. Marshall 9780806307541
RRP: £9.15£8.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806307541Author William F. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing... -
Black Awakening In Capitalist America: An Analytical History by Robert H. Allen 9780865431577
RRP: £24.95£16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865431577Author Robert AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World Press -
American Hippies by W. J. Rorabaugh 9781107627192
RRP: £22.99£19.56In the late 1960s and early 1970s hundreds of thousands of white middle-class American youths suddenly became hippies. This short overview of the hippie social movement in the United States examines the movement's beliefs and practices, including... -
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko
RRP: £22.00£18.06This is a tale of two tragedies.At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies... -
Safe Enough?: A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk by Thomas R. Wellock
RRP: £42.00£33.44Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor "safe enough" to adequately protect the public from catastrophe? Some experts... -
Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins 9780306818561
£23.69Written by a master storyteller, Tycoon's War is the remarkable account of an epic imperialist duel,a violent battle of the capitalist versus the idealist, money versus ambition, and a monumental clash of egos that resulted in the deaths of thousands... -
Way out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald 9780743200233
RRP: £26.99£25.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2000. Short-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780743200233Author Frances FitzGeraldFormat... -
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips 9780393293012
RRP: £20.99£18.15In 1912, a young girl's murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square. Later, bands of night-riders declared Forsyth "whites-only" and sent 1,100 citizens running for their... -
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel 9780812698435
RRP: £21.99£17.06This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American... -
Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines by Jenna Arnold
RRP: £17.99£10.60White women are one of the most influential demographics in America-we are the largest voting bloc, with purchasing power that exceeds anybody else's, and when we unify to demand change, we are a force to be reckoned with. Yet, so many of us sit idly... -
Frederick & Anna Douglass in Rochester, New York: Their Home Was Open to All by Rose O'Keefe 9781540222220
RRP: £31.99£19.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540222220Author Rose O'KeefeFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America by Virginia DeJohn Anderson 9780195304466
RRP: £18.49£13.34When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England... -
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes by Eric Jay Dolin 9781631495274
RRP: £23.99£20.51Hurricanes menace North America from June through to November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV... -
Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy A Woloson
RRP: £23.99£22.88Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much crap. Abundant cheap stuff is about as American as it... -
Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia by Russell King
RRP: £26.95£20.64"Russell King has written the most definitive account of this grand American saga. Rajneeshpuram is rich storytelling." -Chapman and Maclain Way, directors of Wild Wild Country In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru... -
The Oregon Trail: An American Saga by David Dary 9780195224009
RRP: £27.99£19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Oklahoma Book Award (Nonfiction) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780195224009Author David DaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP... -
Only in New York: An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City by Sam Roberts
RRP: £13.99£12.59No one denies that New York City is unique-but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, a longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts for years. In Only in New York, updated with new tales and...