Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War by Nancy Mitchell
RRP: £35.00£31.74In 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... -
From London To LA by Nick Brown 9781398413993
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398413993Author Nick BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky 9780393240016
RRP: £27.99£23.66In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's revolution. Copley's talent earned him the patronage of Boston's leaders but he did not share their politics and... -
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger
£13.99In this compelling biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals the epic story of James Monroe (1758-1831),the last of America's Founding Fathers,who transformed a small, fragile nation beset by enemies into a powerful empire stretching ... -
Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron by Gary D. Joiner 9780742550988
RRP: £37.00£32.66The Union inland navy that became the Mississippi Squadron is one of the greatest, yet least studied aspects of the Civil War. Without it, however, the war in the West may not have been won, and the war in the East might have lasted much longer and... -
The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen
RRP: £20.00£12.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589942Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Master of Ships: Charles's Story by Naomi Finley 9781989165119
RRP: £6.00£5.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989165119Author Naomi FinleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Huntson PressPublisher Huntson PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm -
In The Shadow Of Statues by Mitch Landrieu
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525559467Author Mitch LandrieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Professor Douglas Brinkley 9780061148491
RRP: £21.99£15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061148491Author Professor Douglas BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers... -
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History by Kati Marton 9780385721882
RRP: £20.00£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721882Author Kati MartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 384gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm... -
Suppliers to the Confederacy Volume II by Craig L. Barry
RRP: £36.99£23.38In hopes of impeding a young United States, the British supplied the Confederacy with arms and equipment. This book - along with Volume I - will be the definitive reference on British arms and accoutrements in Confederate service, containing full and... -
Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution by Trevor Burnard 9780813949192
£90.99To join a conversation, one must know what is being said. Writing Early America is a field report on the current state of the historiography on the colonial era-from the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 to the end of the American Revolution around... -
Launching LBJ: How a Kennedy Insider Helped Define Johnson's Presidency by O'Donnell Helen 9781510717008
RRP: £18.99£15.22Kenneth O'Donnell was JFK's Chief of Staff, among the group known as Kennedy's "Irish Mafia." O'Donnell was with Jack Kennedy through his entire time in office ... and he was on Air Force One in Dallas, at Jacqueline Kennedy's side, as Lyndon Johnson got... -
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild by Lee Sandlin
RRP: £14.99£12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473578Author Lee SandlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century by Hasia R. Diner 9780801828720
RRP: £28.00£24.54The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture... [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience. -- Labor HistoryAbout the AuthorHasia Diner is professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the... -
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery by Robert William Fogel 9780393312188
RRP: £16.49£14.51In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.About the AuthorRobert William Fogel, winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is director of the Center for Population... -
Alexander Hamilton: Writings (LOA #129) by Alexander Hamilton 9781931082044
RRP: £42.50£25.81Alexander Hamilton, the subject of Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit Broadway musical, comes to life in his own words in this critically acclaimed collection, which also includes conflicting eyewitness accounts of the duel with Aaron Burr that led to his... -
Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution by Patrick K O'Donnell 9780802126368
RRP: £12.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802126368Author Patrick K O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
A History of the Indians of the United States by Angie Debo 9780806118888
RRP: £25.95£19.65In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, -for, of course, a thing has to have a root... -
Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade by Daniel K. Williams 9780190053321
RRP: £26.99£17.53On April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious... -
The Scotch-Irish in America by Samuel Swett Green 9781910375587
RRP: £6.99£5.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375587Author Samuel Swett GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *... -
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask by Thomas E. Woods 9780307346698
RRP: £15.99£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307346698Author Thomas E. WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm)... -
Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers' Oral History by Harvey Schwartz
RRP: £23.99£18.57Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-FictionMoving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature... -
They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 by David Maraniss 9780743261043
RRP: £21.99£15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743261043Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture by Aaron Lecklider 9780520381421
RRP: £25.00£19.99How queerness and radical politics intersected-earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American society to throw themselves into leftist campaigns... -
The Presidency of John F. Kennedy by James N. Giglio
RRP: £32.95£28.40The presidency of John F. Kennedy continues to fascinate, even as it also continues to inspire heated debates between admirers and detractors of Camelot's fallen king. Now, readers can gain a new appreciation of JFK in this thoroughly revised and updated... -
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition by Mae M. Ngai 9780691160825
RRP: £22.00£17.76This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy--a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race,... -
Philippine-American Heritage in Washington, DC by Erwin R Tiongson 9781467149020
RRP: £23.99£15.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467149020Author Erwin R TiongsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm... -
Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers by Dillon Carroll 9780807169667
£41.13Dillon J. Carroll's Invisible Wounds examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers-Black and white, North and South. Soldiers faced harsh military discipline, arduous marches,... -
Rethinking Cold War Culture by Peter J. Kuznick 9781560988953
£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560988953Author Peter J. KuznickFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 228mm... -
Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler 9780393345834
RRP: £14.99£12.46Gunfight is a timely work examining America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns-not abortion, race, or religion-are at the heart of... -
Streamliner: Raymond Loewy and Image-making in the Age of American Industrial Design by John Wall 9781421425740
RRP: £35.00£33.49The true story of Raymond Loewy, whose designs are still celebrated for their unerring ability to advance American consumer taste.Born in Paris in 1893 and trained as an engineer, Raymond Loewy revolutionized twentieth-century American industrial design... -
The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena by Thomas Borstelmann
RRP: £30.95£24.42After World War II the United States faced two preeminent challenges: how to administer its responsibilities abroad as the world's strongest power, and how to manage the rising movement at home for racial justice and civil rights. The effort to contain... -
Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought by Michael Stephenson 9780060732622
RRP: £16.99£13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060732622Author Michael StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm)... -
A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution by Craig Symonds 9781611214420
RRP: £14.25£12.88Back in print! A visual and narrative overview of the principal military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Symonds narrates each battle in a clear, concise, and readable way. Accompanying two-color, full-page maps make everything easy to... -
What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age by Cecelia Tichi
RRP: £22.99£18.37A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class-and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States' population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion, and... -
To End All Wars, New Edition: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order by Thomas Knock 9780691191614
RRP: £28.00£21.80A close look at Woodrow Wilson's political thought and international diplomacyIn the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson's epic quest for a new world order. This book... -
White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan 9780807871416
RRP: £46.95£42.57In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second... -
Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliche by Susanne Schmidt
RRP: £21.00£20.31The phrase "midlife crisis" today conjures up images of male indulgence and irresponsibility--an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age--but before it become a gendered cliche, it gained traction as a... -
A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History by Jay Sexton
RRP: £22.00£12.70Americans have long understood their history as a story of inevitable progress, of a steadily rising standard of living and of the gradual extension of rights and freedoms to previously disenfranchised groups. Thus recent developments-9/11, the 2008...