United States

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358522492Author A J BaimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 135g

In his clear, eminently readable style, Williams organizes the tangled strands of West Virginia's past around a few dramatic events-the battle of Point Pleasant, John Brown's insurrection in Harper's Ferry, the Paint Creek labor movement, the Hawk's Nest...

When a devastating famine descended on Bolshevik Russia in 1921, the United States responded with a massive two-year relief mission that battled starvation and disease, and saved millions of lives. The nearly 300 American relief workers were the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804172486Author Joseph J. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In the same tradition as Lincoln and the Second American Revolution and Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the Civil War, Pulitzer-prize winner James M. McPherson has gathered an illuminating collection of essays that reflect his latest thinking on the...

In Palatines, Liberty, and Property A. G. Roeber explains why so many Germans, when they faced critical choices in 1776, became active supporters of the patriot cause. Employing a variety of German-language sources and and following all the major German...

In Age of Contradiction, Howard Brick provides a rich context for understanding historical events, cultural tensions, political figures, artistic works, and trends of intellectual life. His lucid and comprehensive book combines the best methods of...

Why did the United States invade Iraq, setting off a chain of events that profoundly changed the Middle East and the US global position? The Regime Change Consensus offers a compelling look at how the United States pivoted from a policy of containment to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679777496Author Walter NugentFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 473gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637585641Author Arthur B LafferFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power plant on March 28, 1979. Though the disaster was ultimately contained, the fears it triggered had an immediate and lasting impact...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312323097Author Mr Marc LeepsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) 1993.Book InformationISBN 9780743299633Author Gary WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon...

A shocking expose looking into the failure of our government to investigate the assassination of a president.Now featuring a foreword from New York Times bestselling author Dick Russell. Gaeton Fonzi's masterful retelling of his work investigating the...

Even one hundred and fifty years later, we are haunted by the Civil War-by its division, its bloodshed, and perhaps, above all, by its origins. Today, many believe that the war was fought over slavery. This answer satisfies our contemporary sense of...

Published for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, this new edition of the authorized report is limited to the Commission's riveting account-which was a finalist for the National Book Award-of the attack and its background, examining both the attackers and the...

New printing includes a new introduction by Texas History Legend Stephen L. Hardin.When Phil Collins was a kid growing up in a London suburb, he would often watch an amazing show on his family television. There, in black and white, was Fess Parker as...

Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy Finalist, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court...

In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story...

Journalist Michael Cox explores the origin and rise of the famed Texas Rangers. Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the feared and gruesome Karankawa Indians, a cannibalistic tribe that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738540849Author Scott M BurnsteinFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 168mm *...

The cocreator of the Washington Post's "Made by History" blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of governing and paved the way for Donald Trump.America's long road to the Trump presidency began on August...

Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In this brutal world of white supremacist politics and patriarchy, a world violently divided by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867421Author Christiane BirdFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

In the British territories of the North American Great Plains, food figured as a key trading commodity after 1780, when British and Canadian fur companies purchased ever-larger quantities of bison meats and fats (pemmican) from plains hunters to support...

Clashes between white and Indian societies are erupting into war when Sarah Wakefield is taken captive in 1862. She is the wife of an Agency doctor and a known friend of the Sioux. As desperate Sioux warriors attack the Agency, Sarah falls victim to the...

The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment - from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's "silent majority," from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the...

In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part...

America began, we are often told, with the Founding Fathers, the men who waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States. We may acknowledge the early Jamestown and Puritan colonists and mourn the dispossession of Native Americans,...

An "astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful" (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our deadThe summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery...

How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 1982.Book InformationISBN 9780394716282Author Alan BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945397465Author Dermot ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

When Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961, Mary Hemingway asked the Hemingway's good friend, journalist Leonard Lyons, to announce the death of the Nobel Prize-winner to stunned readers and admirer everywhere. Both Hemingways admired Lyons for his...

Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and...

Who was Butch Cassidy? He was born Robert LeRoy Parker in 1866 in Utah. And, as everyone knows, after years of operating with a sometime gang of outlaws known as the Wild Bunch, he and the Sundance Kid escaped to South America, only to die in a 1908...

This new paperback edition of Stephen E. Ambrose's highly regarded history of the United States Military Academy features the original foreword by Dwight D. Eisenhower and a new afterword by former West Point superintendent Andrew J. Goodpaster.A New...

The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy-an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this...

A lavishly illustrated volume marking the defining point in American history. The American Revolution reshaped the political map of the world, and led to the birth of the United States of America. Yet these outcomes could have scarcely been predicted...