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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... -
The Texas Rangers by Stephen Hardin 9781855321557
RRP: £14.99£12.46This book describes the development of the Texas Rangers, from their beginnings in the early 1820s as an irregular force designed to combat the Comanche raids on settlers in Mexican-governed Texas. They played a major part in the fight for independence... -
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are by David M Henkin 9780300271157
RRP: £14.99£14.85An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live "[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries, periodicals, menus and other ephemera from as far back as the 17th century to unearth... -
Children of Ellis Island by Barry Moreno 9780738538945
RRP: £21.99£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738538945Author Barry MorenoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in America by Matthew Fox-Amato
RRP: £35.49£30.90Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass... -
If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt 9781501179792
RRP: £26.00£15.47Experience the "heartwarming, smart, and at times even humorous" (Woman's World) wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of the candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years.In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new... -
Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
£13.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134103Author Jean SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Heritage by Beth Anne Keates
RRP: £27.00£19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634994484Author Beth Anne KeatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLcWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm)... -
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
RRP: £27.00£19.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970579Author Margaret MacMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm)... -
Determined to Stand and Fight: The Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864 by Ryan Quint 9781611213461
£11.56In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace prepared for a last-ditch defense along the banks of the Monocacy River. Behind them, barely fifty miles away, lay the capital... -
Lies My Teacher Told Me: The True History of the War for Southern Independence by Clyde N Wilson 9780692613283
RRP: £4.83£4.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692613283Author Clyde N WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 68g -
Atlas of Slavery by James Walvin 9780582437807
RRP: £61.99£59.00Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present... -
Don't Know Much About(r) History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned by Kenneth C Davis 9780063067196
RRP: £21.99£14.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063067196Author Kenneth C DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump by Betty Boyd Caroli 9780190669133
RRP: £14.99£13.09Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. Caroli observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop... -
Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program by Melvin Croft
RRP: £37.00£29.00Winner of the 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space HistoryCome Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia... -
Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas by Robert K. DeArment 9780806193236
RRP: £18.95£16.78Bleeding Kansas" has earned its name. A state already scarred from the violence wrought by the likes of John Brown and William Quantrill, Kansas witnessed further episodes of wanton bloodshed in the late nineteenth century when settlers poured into a... -
A Hands-On History by Christopher J. Olsen 9780809016402
RRP: £13.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016402Author Christopher J. OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 282g -
Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles by David L. Ulin 9780520273726
RRP: £14.99£12.15In Sidewalking, David L Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban... -
Hamilton: The Energetic Founder by R. B. Bernstein 9780190081980
RRP: £14.99£12.43In Hamilton: The Energetic Founder, R. B. Bernstein provides a thorough history that reveals Hamilton's status as one of the key founding fathers of the United States. Hamilton: The Energetic Founder is a brief introduction to the life, thought, work,... -
Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War by Tom McMillan
RRP: £25.00£18.54In a war of brother versus brother, theirs has become the most famous broken friendship: Union general Winfield Scott Hancock and Confederate general Lewis Armistead. Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels (1974) and the movie Gettysburg (1993), based on the... -
Driven toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio by Nikki M. Taylor 9780821421604
RRP: £18.99£16.72Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery. Her story has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the... -
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P Jones 9781668009512
RRP: £29.99£17.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668009512Author Robert. P JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
No Turning Back: A Guide to the 1864 Overland Campaign, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May 4 - June 13, 1864 by David R. Ruth 9781611211931
£11.61"[T]here will be no turning back," said Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. It was May, 1864. The Civil War had dragged into its fourth spring. It was time to end things, Grant resolved, once and for all. With the Union Army of the Potomac as his sledge, Grant... -
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim
RRP: £17.95£14.60A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance...You really ought to read it...A tour de force...While Wertheim is not the first to expose isolationism as a carefully... -
The Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle
RRP: £16.99£13.29On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighbourhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance... -
Lost Kingdom: Hawaiia's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and Americaa's First Imperial Venture by Julia Flynn Siler 9780802120700
RRP: £14.99£13.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802120700Author Julia Flynn SilerFormat PaperbackPage Count 415Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James M. McPherson 9780195135213
RRP: £28.49£20.97The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day in American history, and the turning point of the whole Civil War. At the point where Confederate troops invaded Maryland, poised to take Washington, the morale of the Union was at an all time low. It had... -
Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864 by Gordon C. Rhea 9780807128039
RRP: £38.95£29.82In his gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 Overland campaign -- which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War -- Gordon Rhea vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the North Anna stalemate... -
A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom by Gregory May
RRP: £23.99£20.32Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773-1833), which-almost inexplicably-freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicised manumissions in... -
Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign by William L. Shea
RRP: £29.95£29.40William Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding Prairie Grove, Arkansas, one of the great unsung battles of the Civil War that effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River. Shea provides a colorful... -
The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West by Mark A. Lause
RRP: £20.00£16.83Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines... -
“If We are Striking for Pennsylvania”: The Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac March to Gettysburg Volume 2: June 23-30, 1863 by Eric Wittenberg 9781611216110
RRP: £25.99£23.20Award-winning authors Scott L. Mingus Sr. and Eric J. Wittenberg are back with the second and final installment of "If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania": The Army of Northern Virginia's and Army of the Potomac's March to Gettysburg. This compelling and... -
Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group by William Rosenau
RRP: £17.00£9.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501170133Author William RosenauFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm * 23mm -
The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home by Denise Kiernan
RRP: £19.99£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476794051Author Denise KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 28mm -
Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side by Leonard W. Levy 9780929587110
RRP: £9.99£7.54In the most controversial analysis ever written of the apostle of American liberty, the distinguished constitutional historian Leonard W. Levy examines Jefferson's record on civil liberties and finds it strikingly wanting. Clearing away the saintliness... -
Whaling in Maine by Charles H Lagerbom
RRP: £21.99£14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144520Author Charles H LagerbomFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
American Betrayal by Diana West
£12.50In American Betrayal, Diana West digs into our modern political landscape, dominated by President Barack Obama, to ask how did America turn its back on its basic beliefs and ignore the Socialist movement underway long before the 2012 election. West's...