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In Her Hands: Women's Fight against AIDS in the United States by Dr. Emma Day 9780520389069
RRP: €29.75€23.31In Her Hands examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new chronological and thematic approach to the study of the... -
The Craft of Political Analysis for Diplomats by Raymond F. Smith
RRP: €30.93€21.68Until the recent unauthorized release of thousands of classified State Department cables, public attention was rarely drawn to the frequently outstanding political analysis done by American diplomats abroad. The existing literature on diplomacy has... -
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality by Sheldon M. Stern
RRP: €26.17€19.54This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A... -
Cowboys and Gangsters: Stories of an Untamed Southwest by Samuel K. Dolan 9781442246690
RRP: €15.46€11.44Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral... -
The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777 by Michael C. Harris
RRP: €29.69€18.35The British Army in North America conducted two campaigns in 1777. John Burgoyne led one army south from Canada to seize control of the Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor resulting in the battle of Saratoga. Burgoyne's defeat led to that army's capture... -
U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War by Michael Grow
RRP: €35.64€31.30Lyndon Johnson invaded the Dominican Republic. Richard Nixon sponsored a coup attempt in Chile. Ronald Reagan waged covert warfare in Nicaragua. Nearly a dozen times during the Cold War, American presidents turned their attention from standoffs with the... -
I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from Npr's National Story Project: And Other True Tales from Npr's Natinal Story Project by Paul Auster 9780312421007
RRP: €35.70€22.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421007Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 383Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy by Christian Keller
RRP: €15.46€13.30The story of the unique relationship between Lee and Jackson, two leaders who chiseled a strategic path forward against the odds and almost triumphed.Why were Generals Lee and Jackson so successful in their partner- ship in trying to win the war for the... -
The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts 1713-1861 by John L. Brooke 9780521673396
RRP: €41.64€38.31One of the central controversies in our understanding of early America involves the place of republican and liberal thinking in polity and society. The Heart of the Commonwealth presents a synthetic view of the social grounding of republicanism and... -
Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West by Lillian Schlissel 9780689833151
RRP: €13.08€9.00Synopsis coming soon.......AwardsWinner of Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) (Recommended) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780689833151Author Lillian SchlisselFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd -
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829-1913 by Ashley T. Rubin
RRP: €27.36€25.06Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn system, in which prisoners performed factory-style labor by day and were placed in solitary confinement at night, and the Pennsylvania system, where prisoners faced... -
Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by Brian VanDeMark 9780195096507
RRP: €46.99€34.93Brian VanDeMark traces how and why Johnson escalated American involvement in Vietnam from the election in 1964, in which he pledged to limit involvement, until July 1965, when he committed American forces in a big way.Book InformationISBN... -
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America by Edward L. Ayers 9780393292633
RRP: €33.31€28.87Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies ground up the valley, consuming crops, livestock, fences and human life. Pitched battles at Gettysburg, Lynchburg and Cedar Creek punctuated... -
American Dreamers by Michael Kazin
RRP: €22.60€15.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279194Author Michael KazinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold War by Laura A. Belmonte
RRP: €28.55€28.04In 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document "the basic elements of a free dynamic society," the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and... -
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding, With a New Preface by Sean Wilentz 9780674241428
RRP: €22.55€18.29"Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery of political history to this brilliant book."-David W. Blight, author of Frederick DouglassA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAmericans revere the... -
American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
RRP: €28.56€27.88If 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,... -
The American Experiment: Creating a Nation by David M Rubenstein
RRP: €29.75€23.31The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV's The David Rubenstein Show-American icons and historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring Ken... -
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned Sublette
RRP: €28.50€25.11The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of "breeding women" essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves' children, and their children's... -
Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood by Steven Mintz
RRP: €30.88€25.04Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now,... -
The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas by E R Bills 9781626193529
RRP: €23.79€16.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193529Author E. R. BillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 222mm *... -
A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials by Laurie Winn Carlson 9781566633093
RRP: €14.27€10.61In the late winter and early spring of 1692, residents of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began to suffer from strange physical and mental maladies. The randomness of the victims, and unusual symptoms that were seldom duplicated, led residents to suspect... -
Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics by Nicole Hemmer 9780812248395
RRP: €35.69€29.20From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporary conservatism. But today's well-known personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and... -
Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America by Caley Horan
RRP: €41.65€35.66Charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in bringing social, political, and economic neoliberalism into everyday life. Actuarial thinking... -
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America by Joy-Ann Reid 9780063068797
RRP: €35.70€21.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063068797Author Joy-Ann ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 644g -
Jamestown Adventure, The: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614 by Ed Southern 9780895873026
RRP: €15.46€11.54In December 1606, three ships carrying 144 passengers and crew sailed from London bound for a land that had already claimed more than its share of English lives. In May of the following year, little more than 100 men would disembark to settle on a small... -
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar
€27.93Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story... -
Why the CIA Killed JFK and Malcolm X: The Secret Drug Trade in Laos by John Koerner
RRP: €11.89€10.22This book breaks new ground in two important areas that have yet to be linked and explored by any JFK-assassination historian. John Koerner argues that the CIA's secret drug trade in Laos, and the president's effort to end it, provided the primary motive... -
The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution by Richard Slotkin 9780871406651
RRP: €17.84€15.51In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy-one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the... -
War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War by Yael A. Sternhell 9780300234145
€36.10A history of the United States’ greatest archival project and how it has shaped what we know about the Civil War The Civil War generated a vast archive of official records—documents that would shape the postwar era and determine what future generations... -
African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz 9780807005934
RRP: €19.03€13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807005934Author Paul OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Lee and His Army in Confederate History by Gary W. Gallagher 9780807857694
RRP: €40.40€33.20Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was... -
A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America by Susan Dunn
RRP: €32.73€27.72In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under the... -
And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown by Judy Bebelaar 9781649218872
RRP: €21.07€15.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649218872Author Judy BebelaarFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sugartown PublishingPublisher Sugartown PublishingWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)... -
British America 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire by Steven Sarson 9780340760109
€50.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
We the People, Volume 2: Transformations by Bruce A. Ackerman 9780674003972
RRP: €39.21€32.18Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth,... -
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
RRP: €30.94€19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807036297Author Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty by William Hogeland 9780743254915
RRP: €23.79€14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743254915Author William HogelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg 9780143129677
RRP: €22.61€14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129677Author Nancy IsenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm... -
Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War by Ira Berlin 9780521436922
RRP: €27.36€22.09The three essays in this volume present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War. The first essay traces the destruction of slavery by discussing the shift from a war for the Union to a war against slavery. The...