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A Muslim American Slave: The Arabic Life of Omar Ibn Said by Omar Ibn Said 9780299249540
RRP: £19.95£13.11Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling 'the walls of his room with piteous petitions to... -
Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement by Judith B. Tankard
RRP: £35.00£29.29"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... -
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: £12.99£8.60In 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. ... -
April 1865: The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik 9780060899684
RRP: £17.99£12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060899684Author Jay WinikFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The West of Billy the Kid by Frederick W. Nolan 9780806131047
RRP: £28.95£19.18In The West of Billy the Kid, renowned authority Frederick Nolan has assembled a comprehensive photo gallery of the life and times of Billy the Kid. In text and in more than 250 images-many of them published here for the first time-Nolan recreates the... -
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
RRP: £16.99£12.47Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning."-Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present... -
Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 by Jerome A. Greene 9780806132457
RRP: £18.95£11.64The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and Northern Cheyennes who won that battle but lost the... -
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
RRP: £14.99£9.14The 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... -
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 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... -
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
RRP: £15.99£9.82Apologies 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... -
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
RRP: £12.99£12.97Now 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... -
My Revision Notes: OCR A-level History: Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992 Mike Wells 9781471875885
£10.62Exam 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: £7.99£5.79WITH 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... -
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
RRP: £14.99£9.80The 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... -
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
RRP: £18.99£14.61The 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... -
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 9781416591054
RRP: £30.99£18.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Oklahoma Book Award (Nonfiction) 2011. Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781416591054Author S C... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
RRP: £18.99£14.01Winner 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 Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics) by P.T. Barnum 9780008277017
RRP: £3.50£2.66HarperCollins 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,... -
Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West by Bill Markley 9781493038381
RRP: £12.99£9.61Who 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... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: £16.99£12.28America'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: £25.00£16.43The internationally bestselling 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—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On... -
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick 9780195305029
RRP: £28.49£19.45In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81... -
The Suppressed History of American Banking: How Big Banks Fought Jackson, Killed Lincoln, and Caused the Civil War by Xaviant Haze
RRP: £11.99£7.59In this startling investigation into the suppressed history of America in the 1800s, Xaviant Haze reveals how the powerful Rothschild banking family and the Central Banking System, now known as the Federal Reserve Bank, provide a continuous thread of... -
Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy by Robert M Owens 9780806141985
£19.12Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Making of a Superpower: USA 1865-1975 by Sally Waller 9780198354697
£36.68Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The Making of a... -
US Navy Battleships 1886-98: The pre-dreadnoughts and monitors that fought the Spanish-American War by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £12.99£11.01After 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... -
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame 9781421445557
RRP: £29.00£25.06Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a... -
The Shaping of American Liberalism: The Debates over Ratification, Nullification, and Slavery David F. Ericson 9780226216843
RRP: £28.00£27.39In 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... -
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose 9781471160783
RRP: £9.99£6.41'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... -
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 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£7.88Apologies 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 -
The Real Deadwood: True Life Histories of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Outlaw Towns, and Other Characters of the Lawless West John Ames 9781596090316
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies 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 -
The Atlas of the Civil War by James M. McPherson
RRP: £18.99£12.67From 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 Fetterman Massacre by Dee Brown 9780803257306
RRP: £16.99£12.77The Fetterman Massacre occurred on December 21, 1866, at Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Big Horns. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause celebre and was the subject of a... -
Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past by Tore C Olsson 9781250287700
RRP: £25.99£17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250287700Author Tore C OlssonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
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: £18.00£11.36Apologies 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: £15.99£13.33In 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... -
U.S. Civil War Battle by Battle Iain MacGregor 9781472850119
RRP: £7.99£5.79'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... -
Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics) by Solomon Northup
RRP: £2.99£2.34The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. 'Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and... -
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff 9780195315882
RRP: £20.99£15.94The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. ... -
Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 1: The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean by Fitz Hugh Ludlow 9780996639439
RRP: £32.00£23.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996639439Author Fitz Hugh LudlowFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm