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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: €15.46€10.23In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. ... -
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper 9780062964700
RRP: €29.75€20.03The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American... -
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
RRP: €13.08€9.25The 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: €17.84€13.51The 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... -
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies 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... -
My Revision Notes: OCR A-level History: Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992 by Mike Wells
€12.64Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: €9.51€6.89WITH 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... -
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
RRP: €23.79€21.05'...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... -
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
RRP: €22.60€17.39The 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... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
RRP: €9.51€7.06'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... -
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
RRP: €17.84€11.66The 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... -
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose 9781471160783
RRP: €11.89€7.63'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a... -
Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West by Bill Markley 9781493038381
RRP: €15.46€11.14Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James?Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author Bill Markley takes on... -
Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement by Judith B. Tankard
RRP: €41.65€27.88"The ever-alluring Arts and Crafts garden...is profoundly relevant to our 21st-century needs." -Sam Watters, author of Gardens for a Beautiful America In Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson 9780195038637
RRP: €49.37€37.09This 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... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
RRP: €22.60€16.67Winner 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... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: €20.22€14.61America'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... -
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
RRP: €26.78€23.03The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others... -
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South by William H. Chafe
RRP: €17.84€11.76A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of... -
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi 9780691160979
RRP: €35.70€27.63It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary,... -
Seward's Folly: A New Look at the Alaska Purchase by Lee A. Farrow
RRP: €28.50€21.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602233034Author Lee A. FarrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska Press -
US Navy Battleships 1886-98: The pre-dreadnoughts and monitors that fought the Spanish-American War by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: €15.46€13.10After the American Civil War, the US Navy had been allowed to decay into complete insignificance, yet the commissioning of the modern Brazilian battleship Riachuelo and poor performance against the contemporary Spanish fleet, forced the US out of its... -
The American West by Dee Brown 9780743490108
RRP: €11.89€7.63As 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... -
Roughing it by Mark Twain 9780140390100
RRP: €17.84€13.03A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.About the AuthorBorn... -
With Hot Lead and Cold Steel: American Civil War Wargaming Rules by Arthur van der Ster 9781472860002
RRP: €17.84€13.73A set of wargaming rules for fighting large battles set during the American Civil War. From the First Bull Run to Appomattox Court House, enter one of the defining conflicts of American history. With shot, shell, and sabre, guide the armies of the Blue... -
The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery by David F. Ericson
RRP: €33.32€32.59In 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... -
The Real Deadwood: True Life Histories of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Outlaw Towns, and Other Characters of the Lawless West by John Ames 9781596090316
RRP: €17.84€11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596090316Author John AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chamberlain BrosPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 192g -
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South by Kathleen M. Hilliard 9781107636644
RRP: €27.36€23.28This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten... -
The Atlas of the Civil War by James M. McPherson
RRP: €22.60€16.67From the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the final clashes on the Road to Appomattox in 1864, The Atlas of the Civil War reconstructs the battles of America's bloodiest war with unparalleled clarity and precision. Edited by Pulitzer Prize... -
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation by Mark Lee Gardner 9780062669902
RRP: €20.22€13.41"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and... -
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
RRP: €15.46€10.09Now 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... -
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: €21.42€14.10Apologies 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... -
Colt Single-Action Revolvers by Martin Pegler
RRP: €19.03€15.86In 1836, Samuel Colt changed the face of warfare with the production of the first of a series of iconic and influential single-action revolvers, including the .44-calibre Colt Walker and the seminal .45-calibre Colt Single Action Army, which remains in... -
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White 9780190053765
RRP: €23.79€18.18The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation... -
U.S. Civil War Battle by Battle by Iain MacGregor
RRP: €9.51€6.89'Just the thing for US Civil War buffs: snappily written, informative and entertaining. A cracking read.' Saul David, bestselling author and historian This attractively packaged gift book offers a highly illustrated introduction to some of the U.S... -
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur
RRP: €30.88€24.06George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaHornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society LibraryJames Broussard Best First Book Prize,... -
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton 9780486496368
RRP: €7.72€6.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486496368Author Alexander HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics) by P.T. Barnum 9780008277017
RRP: €4.17€3.17HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century... In 1834, desperate to create a better life for his family,... -
12 Years a Slave: Memoir of a Free Man Kidnapped into Slavery in 1851 by Malcom Washington Jr 9781492933588
RRP: €9.48€9.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492933588Author Malcom Washington JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Lost History of the Capital: The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building by Edward P. Moser
RRP: €23.79€17.96The Secret History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times. In this 229-year...