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The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber by Scott Christianson 9780520255623
RRP: €63.07€49.73"The Last Gasp" takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and... -
Eastern State Penitentiary: A History by Paul Kahan 9781540218353
RRP: €38.07€22.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540218353Author Paul KahanFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Circuits in the Sea: The Men, the Ships, and the Atlantic Cable by Chester G. Hearn 9780275982317
€57.93This book tells the story of the scientific talent and technological prowess of two nations that joined forces to connect themselves with a communications cable that would change the world. In 1855 an American visionary named Cyrus West Field, who knew... -
Autobiography of an Androgyne by Ralph Werther 9780813543000
RRP: €35.69€31.54First printed in 1918, Ralph Werther's Autobiography of an Androgyne charts his emerging self-understanding as a member of the "third sex" and documents his explorations of queer underworlds in turn-of-the-century New York City. Werther presents a... -
The Golden Age of Piracy: A Captivating Guide to the Role of Pirates in Maritime History during the Early Modern Period, Including Stories of Anne Bonny, Sir Francis Drake, and William Kidd by Captivating History 9781637165423
RRP: €28.55€19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165423Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)... -
Bartleby and Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener by Gay Talese
RRP: €34.50€20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358455479Author Gay TaleseFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 145mm * 29mm -
Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest by J. Frank Dobie
RRP: €15.46€14.01Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the... -
The Gospel of Kindness: Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America by Janet M. Davis 9780199733156
RRP: €49.97€49.42When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrities declaring that they would "rather go naked" than wear fur. Contemporary critics readily dismiss... -
How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West by James Parisot 9780745337876
RRP: €29.74€23.07Has America always been capitalist? Today, the US sees itself as the heartland of the international capitalist system, its society and politics intertwined deeply with its economic system. This book looks at the history of North America from the founding... -
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by Thomas Dyja
RRP: €24.98€15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982149796Author Thomas DyjaFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862 by O. Edward Cunningham 9781932714340
€22.55The stunning Northern victory at Shiloh in 1942 thrust Union commander Ulysses S. Grant into the national spotlight, claimed the life of Confederate commander Albert S. Johnston, and forever buried the notion that the Civil War would be a short conflict... -
The Sweetness of Life: Southern Planters at Home by Eugene D. Genovese 9781316502891
RRP: €32.12€25.76This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese (1930-2012), with an introduction and epilogue by Douglas Ambrose, The Sweetness of Life presents a... -
The Oregon Trail: Yesterday and Today by William E. Hill 9780870043192
RRP: €11.89€9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870043192Author William E. HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton Press -
John Finerty Reports the Sioux War by Paul L. Hedren 9780806165059
€36.49In War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty (1846-1908) recalled his summer following George Crook's infamous campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised that Finerty's correspondence covering the campaign for the... -
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn 9780061965593
RRP: €33.31€19.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061965593Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Cartoon Guide to United States History by Larry Gonick
€19.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062730985Author Larry GonickFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperReferencePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 674g -
Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 by Edward J. Blum 9780807160411
€31.26During Reconstruction, former abolitionists in the North had a golden opportunity to pursue true racial justice and permanent reform in America. But after the sacrifice made by thousands of Union soldiers to arrive at this juncture, the moment soon... -
Romanic Depression: How the Jesuits Designed, Built and Destroyed America by Sean MacLaren 9780996767736
RRP: €22.61€15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996767736Author Sean MacLarenFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Adagio PressPublisher Adagio PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
Killed Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell by Elaine Forman Crane
RRP: €23.79€20.87Killed Strangely is an engaging read that will entrance and inform readers who are at once murder mystery and history buffs.- Cornelia Hughes Dayton Common-Place "It was Rebecca's son, Thomas, who first realized the victim's identity. His eyes were... -
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson 9780593861837
RRP: €44.03€24.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593861837Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 811g -
Ku Klux Terror: Birmingham, Alabama, from 1866-present by Michael Newton 9780764343643
RRP: €19.03€12.47Everything you need to know about the bloody history of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, from its inception in 1866 to its current abominations, is here. During Reconstruction, the KKK "redeemed" the state for white, one-party rule, then disbanded. In 1915,... -
The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by David Kaiser 9780674034723
RRP: €32.07€25.95Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman-the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. This is the unvarnished story.With deft investigative skill, David Kaiser shows that the events of November 22,... -
The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War by Donald Stoker 9780195373059
RRP: €30.33€28.37Of the tens of thousands of books exploring virtually every aspect of the Civil War, surprisingly little has been said about what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The... -
The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 by Lynn Hudson Parsons 9780199754243
RRP: €27.36€18.12The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwestern... -
Pluto and Lowell Observatory: A History of Discovery at Flagstaff by Kevin Schindler 9781625859792
RRP: €26.17€15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625859792Author Kevin SchindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 454g -
Tom Paine and Revolutionary America by Eric Foner 9780195174854
€72.00Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America has been recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost political pamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate the political, intellectual, and... -
Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson: Lawmen of the Legendary West by Bill Markley 9781493035670
RRP: €15.46€11.44Which lawman did the most to tame the frontier, Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Neither of them was a saint. At times their actions were not in compliance with the law, and they only served as peace officers for limited portions of their lives. What sets... -
The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781 by Jerome A. Greene 9781932714685
€22.55The campaign has all the drama any historian could want: the war's top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare; night bayonet attacks; and more. By the summer of 1781, America had... -
Hell Itself: The Battle of the Wilderness, May 57, 1864 by Chris Mackowski 9781611213157
€13.53Soldiers called it one of the "waste places of nature" and "a region of gloom"-the Wilderness of Virginia, seventy square miles of dense, secondgrowth forest known as "the dark, close wood.""A more unpromising theatre of war was never seen," said another... -
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President by Jeffrey A. Engel 9780691130064
RRP: €29.75€24.50Available in print for the first time, this day-by-day diary of George H. W. Bush's life in China opens a fascinating window into one of the most formative periods of his career. As head of the United States Liaison Office in Beijing from 1974 to 1975,... -
Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis by Cynthia Nicoletti 9781108401531
RRP: €32.12€25.73This book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutionality of secession. The case never went to trial... -
A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York by Greg King 9780470185698
RRP: €57.11€37.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470185698Author Greg KingFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)Publisher Turner Publishing Company -
Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery by Calvin Schermerhorn
RRP: €23.79€19.54Written as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the most contested and valuable economic interest in the... -
Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001 by Kyle Riismandel
RRP: €51.17€45.36How-haunted by the idea that their suburban homes were under siege-the second generation of suburban residents expanded spatial control and cultural authority through a strategy of productive victimization.The explosive growth of American suburbs... -
Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations by Pete Millwood
RRP: €57.11€51.90In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger; the other, earlier, visit was by the US table tennis team. Historians have mulled over the transcripts... -
Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson by Ashley Brown
RRP: €24.98€21.35A compelling narrative of the trials and triumphs of tennis champion Althea Gibson, a key figure in the integration of American sports and, for a time, one of the most famous women in the world. From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of... -
Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe by John Ferling
RRP: €22.60€17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632862099Author John FerlingFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 878g -
On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square by Marshall Berman 9781844673971
RRP: €24.98€24.31Described as 'a continuous carnival' and 'the crossroads of the world,' Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. To Marshall Berman, it is also the flashing, teeming, and strangely beautiful nexus of his... -
1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America by David Pietrusza 9781635764482
RRP: €21.41€15.11The wild, combative inside story of the most stunning upset in the history of presidential elections: Harry Truman's 1948 victory over Tom Dewey. "Outstanding. . . . by far the best yet about the fateful [1948] election." -Minneapolis Star-Tribune ... -
Decision-Making in the White House: The Olive Branch or the Arrows by Theodore C. Sorensen
RRP: €22.60€17.99Faced with divided advisers, limited options, contradictory evidence, and the profound global consequences of their choices, how do presidents reach a decision in a time of crisis? As a speechwriter and close adviser to John F. Kennedy, Ted Sorensen,...