19th Century

In 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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)...

EXCERPT: "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...

Apologies 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

Louis 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...

Apologies 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

Winner 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...

Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape,...

The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

The 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'...

In 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...

Apologies 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 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...

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316463607Author Miles HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

'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 Union had won the Civil War and abolished slavery. However, Lincoln, an early champion of railroads, would not live to see the next great achievment. The governmentpitted the Union Pacific against the Central Pacific in a race that encouraged speed...

Apologies 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...

The Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines, Cuba, and other formerly Spanish colonies...

Apologies 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 *...

Slave 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...

Over time, the image of the Irish in the United States changed from that of hard-drinking Paddies to genial working-class citizens. In 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream, William H. A. Williams traces the change in this image through more than seven hundred...

Custer'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...

Apologies 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

By uncovering how higher education and gender roles evolved in Appalachia over time, The Madison Women delivers a history that contradicts the stereotype of the region as hostile to education, highlighting colleges that proliferated the area in the 19th...

George S. Bernard was a Petersburg lawyer and member of the 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Over the course of his life, Bernard wrote extensively about his wartime experiences and collected accounts from other veterans. In 1892, he...

The new edition of this classic text on modern U.S. history seamlessly blends political, social, cultural, intellectual, and economic themes into an authoritative and readable account of America's national story since the 1890s.Written by four highly...

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Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a re-imagining of the plantation not as Black and White, but in shades of White male identity. Through an examination of...

The sparkling wines of California rival the best French Champagnes today, but their place at our tables came about through careful craftsmanship that began more than a century ago. The predecessor of today’s California bubbly was Eclipse Champagne, the...

In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change,...

In twelve remarkable volumes, Gary E. Moulton has edited the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-6, thus making clear and accessible to all readers the plethora of maps and words with which Meriwether Lewis and William Clark documented one...

The three decades before the Civil War have long been recognized as a time of crucial change in American society. In this comprehensive and insightful reinterpretation of antebellum culture, Anne C. Rose analyzes the major shifts in intellectual life...

This study describes the collision of values and conflict of purpose that arose when the mostly Protestant Anglo-Saxon suburbanites of Rodgers Park came into contact with the German and Luxembourger Catholics of rural West Ridge. A skilled urban...

In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change,...

Black Rodeo in the Texas Gulf Coast Region: Charcoal in the Ashes provides an in depth sociocultural and historical analysis of the genesis and contemporary state of affairs regarding African American rodeo cowboys in southeast Texas, whose ancestors...

Using slave trials from antebellum Virginia, Christopher H. Bouton offers the first in-depth examination of physical confrontations between slaves and whites. These extraordinary acts of violence brought the ordinary concerns of enslaved Virginians into...