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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough 9781984880116
RRP: £20.00£13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880116Author Bryan BurroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 142mm... -
The Notorious Texas Pistoleers - Ben Thompson & King Fisher by G R Williamson 9780985278038
RRP: £18.95£16.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985278038Author G R WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Indian Head PublishingPublisher Indian Head PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail by Patrick J Mahoney
RRP: £24.95£20.26Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier is a bilingual compilation of stories by Eoin Ua Cathail, an Irish emigrant, based loosely on his experiences in the West and Midwest.The author draws on the popular American Dime Novel genre... -
The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail by Wallace Stegner 9780803292130
RRP: £19.99£18.18Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death-but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Other Bison Books by Wallace Stegner include Mormon... -
The Pony Express: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Mail Service by Charles River Editors 9781493750504
RRP: £10.24£8.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493750504Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866 by Mollie Dorsey Sanford 9780803293076
RRP: £14.99£11.77Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herself - just turned eighteen when the Dorseys left Indianapolis for... -
White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives by Paul Baepler
RRP: £25.00£23.94Some of the most popular stories in 19th-century America were sensational tales of whites captured and enslaved in North Africa. This book gathers together a selection of these Barbary captivity narratives, which significantly influenced early American... -
The Age of Federalism by Stanley Elkins 9780195093810
£33.53When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, America had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first... -
Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side by Leonard W. Levy 9780929587110
RRP: £9.99£7.32In the most controversial analysis ever written of the apostle of American liberty, the distinguished constitutional historian Leonard W. Levy examines Jefferson's record on civil liberties and finds it strikingly wanting. Clearing away the saintliness... -
A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom by Gregory May
RRP: £23.99£20.51Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773-1833), which-almost inexplicably-freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicised manumissions in... -
The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West by Mark A. Lause
RRP: £20.00£16.83Although later made an icon of "rugged individualism," the American cowboy was a grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal worker, who waged a series of militant strikes in the generally isolated and neglected corners of the Old West. Mark Lause examines... -
From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: £30.00£22.82What turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of instability in international politics: the emergence of a new... -
The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers and Cowboys 1800-1899 by William C. Davis 9780806131290
RRP: £27.95£24.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806131290Author William C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)... -
Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants by H. W. Brands
RRP: £18.99£13.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525433903Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides 9781400031108
RRP: £20.00£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031108Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272774
RRP: £16.99£14.74The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered... -
Manifest Destiny by A. Stephenson 9780809015849
£10.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015849Author A. StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. -
The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert a Gross
RRP: £25.00£16.59Why Concord? How did a small and seemingly quiet village in the hinterlands of Boston become, by popular reckoning, the birthplace of two revolutions-the American War of Independence that began with shots fired by the local Minutemen, and the American... -
The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 by Norman Bolotin 9780252070815
RRP: £19.99£15.64This exceptional chronicle takes readers on a visual tour of the glittering "white city" that emerged along the swampy south shore of Lake Michigan as a symbol of Chicago's rebirth and pride twenty-two years after the Great Fire. The World's Columbian... -
Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science by Alicia Puglionesi
RRP: £25.99£22.04Seances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skeptics dismissed these experiences as delusions, a new kind of investigator emerged to seek the science... -
The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s by H. W. Brands
RRP: £13.00£12.58Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labor, white and black, East and West. In The Reckless... -
The Murder of Helen Jewett by Patricia Cline Cohen
RRP: £18.99£14.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780679740759Author Patricia Cline CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage... -
Custer in '76: Walter Camp's Notes on the Custer Fight by Walter Camp 9780806122793
RRP: £18.95£15.62This collection of exciting, absorbing personal accounts from survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, includes interviews with John Martin, trumpeter and orderly to Lt. Col. George Armstong Custer; Medal of Honor winner Stanislas Roy; Second Lt... -
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz 9780312429263
£14.05Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, "Midnight Rising"... -
Reconstruction After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin 9780226923376
RRP: £19.00£18.50In 1957, the University of Chicago Press asked acclaimed best-selling historian Daniel J. Boorstin to oversee a series of accessible yet authoritative books that, together, would tell the whole history of the American people. The result, published over... -
The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality by Anna-Lisa Cox
RRP: £22.00£14.56The story of America's forgotten black pioneers, who escaped slavery, settled the frontier, and proved that racial equality was possible even as the country headed toward civil war.The American frontier is one of our most cherished and enduring national... -
The Dalton Brothers: And Their Astounding Career of Crime by An Eye Witness 9781620875865
£11.36Being an outlaw in the Old West was a dangerous, grisly business-twenty-three gunshot wounds and living to tell the tale, falling out of a moving train, decapitation due to a hanging gone wrong, life on the lam, horse thievery, illegal alcohol trade, and... -
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by Professor of History H W Brands
RRP: £21.00£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386779Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid: The Lives and Legacies of the Wild West's Famous Outlaw Duo by Charles River Editors
RRP: £10.24£8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492228707Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Carleton Watkins: Making the West American by Tyler Green 9780520287983
RRP: £30.00£23.82"A fascinating and indispensable book."-Christopher Knight, Los Angeles TimesBest Books of 2018-The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing, 2018 California Book Awards Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) is widely considered the greatest American... -
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado by Elliott West 9780700610297
RRP: £32.95£27.59Although many books have been written about the Colorado gold rush, this one concentrates on assessing the cataclysmic changes that it brought to the Great Plains. In addition, rather than casting the story in the usual terms of heartless aggressors and... -
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829-1913 by Ashley T. Rubin
£23.25Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn system, in which prisoners performed factory-style labor by day and were placed in solitary confinement at night, and the Pennsylvania system, where prisoners faced... -
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster
RRP: £22.95£17.99Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. In this brutal world of white supremacist politics and patriarchy, a world violently divided by... -
Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic by Emily Conroy-Krutz 9781501725098
RRP: £28.99£24.46In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part... -
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Professor Nicholas Lemann 9780374530693
RRP: £20.00£13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530693Author Professor Nicholas LemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 by Robert M. Utley 9780803295506
RRP: £22.99£18.80Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War... -
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition by James O. Gump
RRP: £21.99£18.79In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer's Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular... -
Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass 9780486498829
RRP: £5.99£5.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486498829Author Douglass DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried
RRP: £17.99£13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553383485Author Stephen FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm)... -
From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation by Amy Dru Stanley 9780521635264
RRP: £22.99£19.34In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and...