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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre.Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their... -
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency.When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.86Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History'Read it. It will open your eyes about race history in America. It will shock you for what it tells you about politics in America today.' Richard Ford'A remarkably wide-ranging synthesis of the history of the 1850s... -
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.72The Times' Best History Books of 2017Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeShortlisted for the Military History Magazine Book of the Year AwardNominated for the 2017 PEN... -
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.07A Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick!A New York Times bestselling novel, The Downstairs Girl is a compelling and poignant story following seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan, a Chinese American girl living in segregated 1890s Atlanta.'Everyone needs to read this... -
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture William R. Leach 9780679754114
RRP: £20.70Booksplease Price: £15.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards 1993.Book InformationISBN 9780679754114Author William R. LeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.65'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my... -
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.49'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called `path breaking,' `seminal,' `essential,' a `must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.42America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire... -
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War by Erik Larson 9780008681753
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.38#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this 'riveting... -
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel 9780007548200
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.44AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The Economist #1 New York Times... -
Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900 by R. Douglas Hurt
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £42.582024 Jon Gjerde Prize Winner for best book in Midwestern History After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region's Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided... -
Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War by Matthew E. Stanley 9780252085734
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.33Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during... -
Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism by Shelton Stromquist
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.92A comprehensive study of the Progressive movement, Reinventing "The People"contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the very defining feature of Progressivism: its promise of social harmony through democratic renewal. Shelton... -
Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Douglas Dowell Scott 9780806132921
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.17Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - what REALLY happened - at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? We know some of the answers, because half of George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry - the men... -
The American Civil War by John Keegan
Booksplease Price: £11.14The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but the reality of it confuses and divides historians even... -
American Civil War Armies (1): Confederate Troops by Philip Katcher 9780850456790
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99A concise illustrated study of the uniforms, arms and personal equipment issued by the national Confederate government to its artillery, cavalry, and infantry. When the Southern states seceded to form their own government in 1861, one of their first... -
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet by John G. Turner 9780674416857
Booksplease Price: £17.13Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than... -
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Booksplease Price: £14.58The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and... -
The Philadelphia Negro (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) by Henry Louis Gates 9780199383702
Booksplease Price: £19.99W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally... -
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth 9781250118493
Booksplease Price: £11.99In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas, was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorised by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far... -
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.66Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe. One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of... -
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend by Bob Drury
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451654684Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Hetty: The Genius & Madness Of America's First Female Tycoon by Charles Slack 9780060542573
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.61When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this... -
Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West by John Boessenecker 9781250184894
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250184894Author John BoesseneckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's GriffinPublisher Thomas Dunne Book for St... -
Alamo Defenders: A Fresh Perspective on the Heroes of 1836 by James W Bancroft 9781399009911
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery David F. Ericson 9780226216843
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £27.78In The Liberal Tradition in America (1955), Louis Hartz first put forth his thesis that the American political tradition derives essentially from consensual liberal principles. The many detractors to this theory include Bernard Bailyn, who argued that... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson 9780195038637
RRP: £45.49Booksplease Price: £33.28This book covers one of the most turbulent periods of the USA's history, from the Mexican War in 1848 to the end of the Civil War in 1865. With a broad historical sweep, it traces the heightening sectional conflict of the 1850s: the growing estrangement... -
The Deadliest Indian War in the West: The Snake Conflict, 1864-1868 by Gregory F. Michno 9780870044601
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870044601Author Gregory F. MichnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton Press -
A/AS Level History for AQA The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865-1975 Student Book by Tony McConnell 9781107530171
RRP: £36.25Booksplease Price: £32.73A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A/AS Level History. Written for the AQA A/AS Level History specifications for first teaching from 2015, this print Student Book covers The Making of a Superpower: USA,... -
Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest by Walter Noble Burns 9780826321541
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.24First published in 1927, ""Tombstone"" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Noble Burns's portrayal of Earp has profoundly influenced subsequent generations of historians, novelists, and screen writers... -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 9780140390315
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle contains an introduction by Ronald Gottesman in Penguin Classics.Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply... -
Slavery and the Numbers Game: A CRITIQUE OF TIME ON THE CROSS by Herbert G. Gutman 9780252071515
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.12This detailed analysis of slavery in the antebellum South was written in 1975 in response to the prior year's publication of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's controversial Time on the Cross, which argued that slavery was an efficient and dynamic... -
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S C Gwynne
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416591061Author S C GwynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm... -
The American West by Dee Brown 9780743490108
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.61As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle... -
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780679758334Format PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America by Alexis Tocqueville
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.18One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America... -
A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup by Michael D'Antonio
RRP: £18.85Booksplease Price: £12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485213Author Michael D'AntonioFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386g -
An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians by David J. Wishart 9780803297951
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.52Of all the interactions between American Indians and Euro-Americans, none was as fundamental as the acquisition of the indigenous peoples' lands. To Euro-Americans this takeover of lands was seen as a natural right, an evolution to a higher use; to...