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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War by Aaron Sheehan-Dean
RRP: £74.99£62.93The Cambridge History of the American Civil War provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the American Civil War. With contributions from over seventy-five leading historians of the Civil War, the three-volume reference work investigates the... -
The Mystery of E Troop by Gregory Michno 9780878423040
RRP: £20.00£14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878423040Author Gregory F MichnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mountain PressPublisher Mountain PressWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
Centennial Campaign: Sioux War of 1876 by John S. Gray 9780806121529
RRP: £22.95£16.32"A fine book...In the twenty-two chapters that comprise the background and the campaign narrative, the author is at his best when he moves away from the Washington scene to detail the field operations. But it is the second part of the book--seven... -
The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language by Peter Martin 9780691188911
RRP: £25.00£19.59A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a... -
Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity by John R. Gillis 9780691029252
RRP: £35.00£27.74Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose... -
The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West by Jeff Guinn 9781439154250
RRP: £20.99£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439154250Author Jeff GuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius
RRP: £30.95£24.42Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified the brutal inequities of slave-powered capitalism.Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave... -
Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War by S. C. Gwynne
RRP: £20.00£12.44From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.The... -
Theodore Roosevelt: A Life by Nathan Miller 9780688132200
£18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688132200Author Nathan MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 890g -
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson
RRP: £18.00£11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501152559Author Megan Kate NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Ferment of Reform 1830 - 1860 C. S. Griffin (The University of Kansas) 9780882957388
RRP: £21.95£19.32EXCERPT: "So great was the ferment of reform in the pre-Civil War United States that to understand it, to grasp the motives of the reformers, the nature of their work, their successes and failures, is to understand much about the American nation as a... -
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland by Scott Shane 9781250843210
RRP: £30.00£21.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250843210Author Scott ShaneFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Riding for the Brand: A Western Trio by Louis L'Amour
RRP: £10.99£8.81Louis L'Amour's Western stories are beloved worldwide. Now, collected together for the first time in a single volume, are three of his finest tales of the West. The texts have been restored to their original appearances in magazines.In "The Lion Hunter... -
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South by Adam Rothman
RRP: £25.95£20.64Slave Country tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the wake of the American Revolution, slavery gradually disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. Yet, at the... -
Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion by Paul Frymer 9780691191560
RRP: £22.00£17.36How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount... -
Fights on the Little Horn: Unveiling the Mysteries of Custer's Last Stand by Gordon Harper 9781612005638
£17.03Winner of the 2014 John Carroll Award, presented annually by The Little Big Horn Associates, as their Literary Award for the best book/monograph during the preceding year.Winner 2014 G. Joseph Sills Jr. Book AwardThis remarkable book synthesizes a... -
Manliness and Civilization: Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 by Gail Bederman
RRP: £26.00£24.85When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is... -
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner
£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140159943Author Wallace StegnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 329g -
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood 9780807871973
£38.64This title presents public reinforcement of white supremacy. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America often exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In ""Lynching and Spectacle"", Amy Wood explains what... -
The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger 9780316773430
RRP: £25.99£19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316773430Author Arthur M. SchlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 672g -
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph
RRP: £24.99£19.20The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of the plantation household as the source of slavery's redeeming qualities, where 'gentle'... -
Thomas Jefferson And The Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade 9780143131830
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131830Author Brian KilmeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
More Than a Game: A History of the African American Experience in Sport by David K. Wiggins
RRP: £35.00£32.49More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in... -
The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn: Custer's Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture Debra Buchholtz 9780415895590
RRP: £36.99£32.53In June of 1876, the U.S. government's plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the... -
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright
RRP: £30.00£17.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306826795Author Jennifer WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 162mm... -
The Road to Disunion: Volume II Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861 by William W. Freehling 9780195370188
RRP: £23.49£17.55The Road to Disunion, Vol. II completes William W. Freehlings monumental study of how the South came to begin the Civil War. Perhaps, as William Freehling surmises, the war was inevitable, because the issue of slavery sharply divided the South from the... -
Mocha Dick: Or The White Whale of the Pacific by J Godsey 9780615795942
RRP: £9.00£7.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615795942Author J GodseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Sicpress.comPublisher Sicpress.comWeight(grams) 59g -
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson 9781501152542
RRP: £29.00£16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (History) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781501152542Author Megan Kate NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher... -
'Mae'r Beibl o'n tu': Ymatebion crefyddol y Cymry yn America i gaethwasiaeth (1838-1868) by Gareth Evans Jones 9781786838834
RRP: £19.99£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786838834Author Gareth Evans JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of Wales PressPublisher University of Wales PressWeight(grams) 138g -
Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction by Richard S. Newman
RRP: £8.99£7.94The abolitionist movement launched the global human rights struggle in the 18th and 19th centuries and redefined the meaning of equality throughout the Atlantic world. Even in the 21st century, it remains a touchstone of democratic activism-a timeless... -
Andrew Jackson by H.W. Brands
RRP: £18.99£14.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030729Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Harry V. Jaffa
RRP: £23.00£19.74"Crisis of the House Divided" is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry V. Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry into politics in 1854 through his Senate... -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Significant Actions of the Great Sioux War and How Custer's Last Stand Impacted the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes by Captivating History 9781950924219
RRP: £19.97£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950924219Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)... -
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development by Sven Beckert
RRP: £31.00£27.76During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's... -
Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed by John S. Gray 9780803270404
RRP: £21.99£18.48'Easily the most significant book yet published on the Battle of the Little Bighorn."--Paul L. Hedren, Western Historical Quarterly "[Gray] has applied rigorous analysis as no previous historian has done to these oft-analyzed events. His detailed... -
The Problem Of Slavery In The Age Of Emancipation by David Brion Davis
RRP: £19.99£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2015 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2014. Short-listed for Cundill Prize in Historical Literature 2014.Book InformationISBN... -
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith
RRP: £28.00£21.80How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious"Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it-most of which emanate... -
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 by Alan Taylor
RRP: £15.99£12.26In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, an eminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as an internally... -
Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend by Edward Caudill 9780810896116
£34.40Custer's Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however... -
The American West on Film Johnny D. Boggs 9798765130896
RRP: £21.99£21.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130896Author Johnny D. BoggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA