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The Complete Book of Emigrants by Peter Wilson Coldham 9780806311920
RRP: €43.51€38.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806311920Author Peter Wilson ColdhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing... -
Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War by Nancy Mitchell 9781503606609
RRP: €38.08€33.57In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia. As Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter fought for the presidency in late 1976, the superpower struggle overseas seemed to take a backseat to... -
Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters by Eugene Cunningham
RRP: €27.31€21.74In this volume, Eugene Cunningham collects - in his "gallery" - biographies of nearly a score of master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Stoudenmire, Sam Bass, Wild Bill Hickok, Butch Cassidy and Tom Horn... -
The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush by Howard Blum
RRP: €20.23€15.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307461735Author Howard BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II by Stephen Vider
RRP: €30.94€29.57Vider uncovers how LGBTQ people reshaped domestic life in the postwar United States. From the Stonewall riots to the protests of ACT UP, histories of queer and trans politics have almost exclusively centered on public activism. In The Queerness of Home,... -
Our America: A Photographic History by Ken Burns
RRP: €95.20€68.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385353014Author Ken BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 2625gDimensions(mm) 290mm * 295mm *... -
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough 9781416571773
RRP: €26.18€16.30After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first... -
Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998 by David Brundage 9780190055608
RRP: €32.71€22.80In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in... -
Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America by Kevin Mumford 9780814795637
RRP: €29.74€25.79Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of... -
The Promise Between Us: Mammy's Story by Naomi Finley 9781989165126
RRP: €7.14€6.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989165126Author Naomi FinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Huntson PressPublisher Huntson PressWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm -
Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest by Walter Noble Burns 9780826321541
RRP: €26.12€19.55First published in 1927, ""Tombstone"" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Noble Burns's portrayal of Earp has profoundly influenced subsequent generations of historians, novelists, and screen writers... -
The New Deal by Paul K. Conkin 9780882958897
RRP: €22.55€20.05Demonstrating the intellectual excitement that is the practice of history at its best, Paul Conkin's The New Deal is still one of the best known titles in the very popular American History Series, edited by John Hope Franklin and A. S. Eisenstadt. The... -
A History of the United States by Philip Jenkins
€31.63This textbook offers an insightful, introductory overview of the history of American society from its inception right up to present day. With coverage starting at the European Settlement in 1492 right through to the 2016 Presidential Election, this fully... -
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War by James M. McPherson 9780195090239
RRP: €40.45€36.53General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they... -
Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 by Andy Horowitz 9780674271074
RRP: €18.98€15.59Winner of the Bancroft PrizeLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Book of the Year"The main thrust of Horowitz's account is to make us understand Katrina-the civic calamity, not the storm itself-as a consequence of... -
The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life by Editors of Garden and Gun
RRP: €35.70€21.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062242389Author Editors of Garden and GunFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Federalist Papers: The Ideas That Forged the American Constitution by R B Bernstein 9781398830462
RRP: €15.46€10.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398830462Author R B BernsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its Images by Avram Finkelstein
RRP: €28.56€22.41Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words "Silence=Death." The graphic and the slogan still resonate... -
Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South 1865 to 1913 by Gaines M. Foster 9780195054200
€47.90Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals, this book explores how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat, and analyses the cultural implications of a central event in American history. Foster... -
Irish Confederates: The Civil War's Forgotten Soldiers by Phillip Thomas Tucker
RRP: €20.17€15.20Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certain ethnic groups played during that tumultuous time in our nation's history. Two new books, focusing on the participation of Irish immigrants in both the Union and... -
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein 9780393355659
RRP: €17.84€15.51After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving... -
Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote by Tina Cassidy 9781501177774
RRP: €23.79€13.90In this "heroic narrative" (The Wall Street Journal), discover the inspiring and timely account of the complex relationship between leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her fight for women's equality. Woodrow Wilson lands in... -
Reconstruction: A Concise History by Allen C. Guelzo
RRP: €17.84€13.03The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with... -
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America by Joshua Specht 9780691209180
RRP: €19.03€15.36How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food systemBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from... -
The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope by Andrew Delbanco 9780674003835
RRP: €32.07€25.48Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville's words, "the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart," how have we Americans made do? In The Real American Dream one of the nation's premier literary scholars searches out the symbols and... -
Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture by Janiece Johnson 9781469673530
RRP: €35.64€32.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation by John Majewski 9781469614915
RRP: €45.16€41.58What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan... -
Finding the Wild West: The Mountain West: Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana by Mike Cox
RRP: €17.84€13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493064151Author Mike CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 153mm *... -
Mrs Kennedy by Barbara Leaming 9780743227490
RRP: €21.42€13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743227490Author LEAMINGPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters by Thomas Jefferson
RRP: €27.37€21.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752186Author Thomas JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 542gDimensions(mm)... -
Social Movements: The Key Concepts by Graeme Chesters
RRP: €30.93€26.93Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the... -
Since Yesterday: Nineteen Thirties in America by Frederick Lewis Allen 9780060913229
€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060913229Author Frederick Lewis AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Trading Spaces: The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism by Emma Hart
RRP: €46.41€39.02When we talk about the economy, "the market" is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading... -
Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age by Kate Fullagar 9781421426563
€45.18A comprehensive volume that interrogates European imperialism from the perspective of indigenous experiences.The contributors to Facing Empire reimagine the Age of Revolution from the perspective of indigenous peoples. Rather than treating indigenous... -
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present by Alex Krieger
RRP: €35.64€28.63A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America's leading urban planners and scholars.The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a... -
JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and Sino-Indian War by Bruce Riedel
RRP: €15.46€11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815731634Author Bruce RiedelFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)... -
The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution by John Oller
RRP: €17.84€16.02In the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept hope alive for the patriot cause during the critical British "southern campaign." Employing insurgent guerrilla tactics that became commonplace... -
America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It by C. Bradley Thompson 9781641770668
RRP: €28.55€19.62America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S. Wood's The Creation of the American Republic. The... -
Blood, Money, & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK by Barr McClellan 9781616081973
€14.52Blood, Money, & Power exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to President John F. Kennedy's death and the succession of Lyndon B. Johnson as president in 1963. Attorney Barr McClellan, a former member of L.B.J.'s legal team, uses... -
Freedom From Fear: Part 2: The American People in World War II by David M. Kennedy
RRP: €20.81€16.28Even as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Exploiting Germany's own economic burdens, Hitler reached out to the disaffected, turning their aimless discontent into loyal support for his Nazi Party. In Asia,...