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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America's seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants...

What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and...

Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award"A stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women."-David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass"Readers expecting hoop-skirted ladies soothing fevered soldiers' brows will not find them here...

Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the...

In this multi-faceted and interdisciplinary take on trans-Atlantic black culture, the author engages fully with Paul Gilroy's paradigm of the Black Atlantic through examination of a broad array of cultural genres including music, dance, folklore and oral...

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679733591Author Robert BellahFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318g

An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic...

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A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After the Second World War, the United States offered a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780375725609Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

Some of the most popular stories in 19th-century America were sensational tales of whites captured and enslaved in North Africa. This book gathers together a selection of these Barbary captivity narratives, which significantly influenced early American...

How could the Mississippi Delta, one of the world's most prolific cultural centres, be demolished by a predictable natural disaster? This revised edition of Clyde Woods's classic book examines disaster relief and reconstruction conflicts after Hurricane...

A prize-winning historian provides the missing piece in the story of America's founding, introducing us to the ordinary men and women who turned a faltering rebellion against colonial rule into an unexpectedly potent and enduring revolution.Over eight...

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467137522Author Craig L. FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 222mm...

If you were looking for a philosopher likely to appeal to Americans, Friedrich Nietzsche would be far from your first choice. After all, in his blazing career, Nietzsche took aim at nearly all the foundations of modern American life: Christian morality,...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed no signs of ending. Hundreds of thousands of men across the divided nation enlisted in state volunteer...

African-American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African-American slaves medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Drawing upon ex-slave interviews conducted during the 1930s and 1940s by the...

American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself-and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn's hundredth birthdayTruth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393332438Author Robert WeisbrotFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Albert J. Beveridge Award (AHA) 1996 and Bancroft Prize and Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780679773009Author Alan TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count...

The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866--during Red Cloud's War (1866-1868)--a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937868321Author Michael BoyetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Quadrant Books(r)Publisher Quadrant Books(r)Weight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Four hundred years ago, a group of men and women who had challenged the religious establishment of early seventeenth-century England and struggled as refugees in the Netherlands risked everything to build a new community in America. The story of those...

Winner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians and the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Prize.About the AuthorTimothy J. Gilfoyle is an acclaimed historian. His first book, City of Eros, won the prestigious Nevins...

Native America, Discovered and Conquered takes a fresh look at American history through the lens of the Doctrine of Discovery-the legal basis that Europeans and Americans used to lay claim to the land of the indigenous peoples they "discovered." Robert J...

A leading historian's guide to great-power competition, as told through America's successes and failures in the Cold War "There is an undeniable ease and fluidity to Mr. Brands's narrative, and his use of Cold War archives is impressive."-A. Wess...

As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill...

Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American history and culture can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Many of these institutions trace their roots to the 1960s and 1970s, when the struggle for racial equality inspired...

No one succeeds alone, and Ulysses S. Grant was no exception. From the earliest days of the Civil War to the heights of Grant's power in the White House, John A. Rawlins was ever at Grant's side. Yet Rawlins's role in Grant's career is often overlooked,...

Chronicles the lifestyles of the rich and famous along Long Island's exclusive seaside resort, revealing how the region's celebrities relate to their own properties.Book InformationISBN 9780316309073Author Steven GainesFormat PaperbackPage Count...

In The Reagan Moment, the ideas, events, strategies, trends, and movements that shaped the 1980s are revealed to have had lasting effects on international relations: The United States went from a creditor to a debtor nation; democracy crested in East...

Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists is a history of the Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party - the largest Maoist organization to arise in the US - from its origins in the explosive year of 1968, its expansion into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780151015153Author Scott WeidensaulFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seamen's experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues such as the rise of capitalism, the genesis of free wage labor, and the growth of an international working class. These epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954357198Author James HepburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint New FrontiersPublisher New FrontiersWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

For fans of conspiracy theories and JFK assassination theories, the untold story of Indonesia, gold, JFK, Allen Dulles, the CIA, and secret military coups. Two of the most fascinating figures in history, John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the...

During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416573289Author James F SimonFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...