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Domesticating the West: The Re-creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class by Brenda K. Jackson 9780803220751
£18.79In 1881 Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt said a final good-bye to Massachusetts and the eastern seaboard and set out in search not of land but of opportunities for social and political advancement. Facing severe limitations to their goals in the depressed... -
This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident by Ladd Hamilton 9780874221077
RRP: £16.95£14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874221077Author Ladd HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University... -
Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark by James P. Ronda 9780826324184
RRP: £21.95£15.40One of the foremost historians of Lewis and Clark, Ronda grounds ""Finding the West"" in the insights and reflections he has gleaned from some twenty years of research and writing about this pivotal era. But above all else, Ronda's... -
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban 9780679759065
RRP: £18.00£13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 1996.Book InformationISBN 9780679759065Author Jonathan RabanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier by Adam Jortner 9780199765294
RRP: £25.49£19.60It began with a total eclipse of the sun. In 1806, a Shawnee known as Lalawauthika (roughly meaning "Loudmouth"), proclaimed himself Tenskwatawa ("The Open Door"), a spiritual leader in direct contact with the Master of Life. Those who disbelieved him,... -
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick 9780143119609
RRP: £19.00£13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119609Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 440g -
Structuring Poverty in the Windy City: Autonomy, Virtue, and Isolation in Post-Fire Chicago by Joel E. Black 9780700628001
RRP: £75.00£26.30The Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2,600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In the aftermath the mayor handed all relief duties to the commercial elite at the Chicago Relief and Aid Society. This was,... -
North Carolina and the War of 1812 by Sarah McCulloh Lemmon 9780865260870
RRP: £9.95£8.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865260870Author Sarah McCulloh LemmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office... -
Populism and Imperialism: Politics, Culture, and Foreign Policy in the American West, 1890-1900 by Nathan Jessen 9780700624645
RRP: £59.00£49.76In the final years of the nineteenth century, as a large-scale movement of farmers and laborers swept much the country, the United States engaged in an ostensibly anti-colonial war against Spain and a colonial war of its own in the Philippines. How one... -
The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance, Volume 1: 1843-1862 by Frontis W. Johnston 9780865260719
RRP: £49.95£48.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865260719Author Frontis W. JohnstonFormat HardbackPage Count 549Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office of... -
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation by Peter L. Bernstein 9780393327953
RRP: £15.99£13.46The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be "little short of madness," and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and... -
Snowbound by Ladd Hamilton 9780874221541
RRP: £16.95£13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874221541Author Ladd HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University... -
Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Ronald W. Walker 9780199747566
RRP: £15.99£13.73On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the... -
American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865 by Jeremy Zallen 9781469672540
RRP: £29.95£28.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469672540Author Jeremy ZallenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University of North Carolina PressPublisher University of North Carolina... -
Prairie Traveler by Randolph Marcy 9780918222893
RRP: £12.95£9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918222893Author Randolph MarcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood BooksWeight(grams) 268g -
Counterfeiting Labor's Voice: William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics by Mark A. Lause 9780252087899
RRP: £21.99£19.19Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause’s biography... -
Mortimer and the Witches: A History of Nineteenth-Century Fortune Tellers by Marie Carter 9781531506247
RRP: £23.99£18.63The neglected histories of 19th-century NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellers and the man who set out to discredit them Under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B., humor writer Mortimer Thomson went undercover to investigate and report... -
The Cowboys: How the West Was Won by Bruce Wexler 9781510756458
RRP: £24.99£16.30Relive the Old West with illustrated biographies of Western luminaries like "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Charles Goodnight, Bill Pickett, William and George Calloway, Joseph McCoy, and more! The glory days of the Old West cowboy lasted for only a... -
Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America by Samuel Avery-Quinn 9781498576543
RRP: £109.00£95.57Cities of Zion: The Holiness Movement and Methodist Camp Meeting Towns in America follows Methodists and holiness advocates from their urban worlds of mid-century New York City and Philadelphia out into the wilderness where they found green worlds of... -
Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy by Professor Martin H. Quitt 9781107024786
RRP: £75.00£70.64This thematic biography demonstrates how Stephen Douglas's path from a conflicted youth in Vermont to dim prospects in New York to overnight stardom in Illinois led to his identification with the Democratic Party and his belief that the federal... -
An Emerging Independent American Economy, 1815-1875. by Joseph R. Frese 9780912882406
£28.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912882406Author Joseph R. FreseFormat HardbackPage Count 207Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University Press -
The American Mind in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Irving H. Bartlett 9780882958095
£30.16EXCERPT: "The half century between the War of 1812 and the Civil War was above all an age of expansiveness in America. Whether measured in terms of population, territory, urbanization, economic growth, technological development, democratization, or... -
As Far as the Eye Could Reach: Accounts of Animals Along the Santa Fe Trail, 1821-1880 by Phyllis S Morgan 9780806148540
£26.08Travelers and traders taking the Santa Fe Trail's routes from Missouri to New Mexico wrote vivid eyewitness accounts of the diverse and abundant wildlife encountered as they crossed arid plains, high desert, and rugged mountains. Most astonishing to... -
Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush by Aims C. McGuinness 9780801475382
RRP: £22.99£20.01Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land... -
Call of the Atlantic: Jack London's Publishing Odyssey Overseas, 1902-1916 by Joseph McAleer 9780198747819
£91.35Jack London (1876-1916) is one of the most popular American authors in the world today. Two novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fang, are regarded as literary classics and have never been out of print. His forty-four published books, and hundreds of... -
The Early American Republic: A History in Documents by Reeve Huston 9780195108125
£34.63The early years of the American republic witnessed wrenching conflict and change. Northerners created an industrial order, which brought with it troubled relationships at work and within families. White southerners extended plantation slavery while the... -
What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe 9780195094633
RRP: £45.99£38.23A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States - laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most... -
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke 9780062970091
RRP: £18.99£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062970091Author Michael PunkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 454g -
War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War by Joan E. Cashin 9781108413183
RRP: £22.99£18.74In this path-breaking work on the American Civil War, Joan E. Cashin explores the struggle between armies and civilians over the human and material resources necessary to wage war. This war 'stuff' included the skills of white Southern civilians, as well... -
The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815 to 1840 by Daniel Feller 9780801851681
£28.42In Jacksonian Promise historian Daniel Feller offers a fresh look at the United States in the tumultuous Age of Jackson. Viewing the era through the eyes of people who lived in it, Feller's account captures the optimism and energy that filled America... -
West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express by Jim DeFelice 9780062496768
RRP: £20.00£16.94The thrilling narrative history of one of the most enduring icons of the American West, the Pony Express, from the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of American Sniper-an exciting tale of daring young men pushing limits to the extremes across the... -
Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History by Edward L. Glaeser 9780226299587
RRP: £49.00£46.93Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world's least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today's most corrupt developing nations as municipal... -
Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer Michael A. Elliott (Emory University) 9780226201467
RRP: £24.00£23.43On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its four hundred men, and every soldier under Custer's... -
Travels of the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 3 Volume Set: Performed by Order of the Government of the United States, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 by Meriwether Lewis 9781108023818
£103.29The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806 across America from Pittsburg to the Pacific and back was the third recorded transcontinental journey. President Jefferson had negotiated the Louisiana Purchase of over two million square kilometres from the... -
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States 2 Volume Paperback Set: With Remarks on their Economy by William Peterfield Trent 9781108005593
£72.77Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was a journalist and landscape designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture: his most famous achievement was Central Park in New York, of which he became the superintendent in 1857, but he... -
America and the Americans- in 1833-1834 by Richard Gooch 9780823215942
£51.23Gooch examines the American legal system, banks, labor; American policy toward Native Americans and blacks; he includes a condemnation of New York City government and its electoral process, among other topics.Book InformationISBN 9780823215942Author... -
Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America by James B. Salazar 9780814741306
£90.28From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siecle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable "stuff," has had a long... -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays by Ellen Carol DuBois 9780814719824
RRP: £24.99£21.67More than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands-along with her close friend Susan B. Anthony-as the major icon of the struggle for women's suffrage. In spite of this celebrity, Stanton's intellectual contributions have... -
Lincoln and the American Founding by Lucas E. Morel 9780809337859
RRP: £26.95£21.38In this persuasive work of intellectual history, Lucas E. Morel argues that the most important influence on Abraham Lincoln's political thought and practice was what he learned from the leading figures of and documents from the birth of the United States... -
Imperial Maine and Hawai'i: Interpretative Essays in the History of Nineteenth Century American Expansion by Paul T. Burlin 9780739114667
RRP: £108.00£94.71With Imperial Maine and Hawai'i author Paul Burlin attempts to analyze and elucidate some of the major themes, issues, and currents that formed 19th century American expansion in the Pacific. While the method used is a discussion of the lives and...