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The Cowboys by Bruce Wexler 9781616085735
RRP: $25.74$17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616085735Author Bruce WexlerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 658g -
African Abolitionist T. J. Alexander on the Ohio and Indiana Underground Railroads by Paula D. Royster 9781793653475
RRP: $94.17$82.79Countless stories about the Liberty Lines (the Underground Railroad) have been written. Still, few ever mention the African abolitionists who established the Liberty Lines and managed the passage of thousands of self-emancipating Africans safely to... -
Preserving the Constitution: Essays on Politics and the Constitution in the Reconstruction Era by Michael Les Benedict 9780823225538
$122.34"Americans' ideas about constitutional liberty played a crucial role in the history of Reconstruction. They provided the basis for the Republican program of equal rights; ironically, they also set the limits to that program and reduced the prospects... -
The Early American Republic: A History in Documents by Reeve Huston 9780195338249
RRP: $52.88$28.75The 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... -
Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space by Mark Rifkin 9780195387179
RRP: $48.36$43.14In Manifesting America, Mark Rifkin explores how writings by Native Americans and former Mexicans challenge the legal narratives that normalize their absorption into U.S. national space. Demonstrating how the creation and extension of U.S. jurisdiction... -
African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Ashley Towle 9781666905717
RRP: $99.33$87.23This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by the Civil War and emancipation. During and after the war, African Americans died in vast numbers from battle, disease, and racial... -
The Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard: Chief of Scouts, U.S.A. by Joe De Barthe 9781626365537
$15.30The true story of the one of the most thrilling figures of the Wild West.Every army needs its scouts. A good scout knows the enemy and the enemy's terrain as well as his own, and is resourceful and incisive, cool-headed and courageous. A great scout is... -
Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy by Kyle G. Volk 9780199371914
RRP: $61.91$50.93Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, historian Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics... -
Death Valley in '49: An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who Survived the California Desert by William Lewis Manly 9781634504409
RRP: $14.18$13.21A survivor's true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush.At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long... -
Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse by Richard R. John 9780674833425
RRP: $56.70$45.34In the seven decades from its establishment in 1775 to the commercialization of the electric telegraph in 1844, the American postal system spurred a communications revolution no less far-reaching than the subsequent revolutions associated with the... -
Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America David T. Courtwright 9780674005853
$51.59In a newly enlarged edition of this eye-opening book, David T. Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction--from respectable... -
Bawdy City: Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790-1915 by Katie M. Hemphill 9781108489010
RRP: $70.94$64.19A vivid social history of Baltimore's prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century, Bawdy City centers women in a story of the relationship between sexuality, capitalism, and law. Beginning in the colonial period, prostitution... -
Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus by Wilson Jeremiah Moses 9781108470964
RRP: $51.59$42.79In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from... -
The Sweetness of Life: Southern Planters at Home by Eugene D. Genovese 9781107138056
RRP: $96.75$87.38This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese (1930-2012), with an introduction and epilogue by Douglas Ambrose, The Sweetness of Life presents a... -
From Hometown to Battlefield in the Civil War Era: Middle Class Life in Midwest America by Timothy R. Mahoney 9781107122697
RRP: $78.68$70.99Mahoney examines how members of the middle class from small cities across the great West were transformed by boom and bust, years of recession, and civil war. He argues that in their encounters with national economic forces, the national crisis in... -
Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism by Robert Harrison 9781107002326
RRP: $108.35$98.17In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia,... -
Best of Dee Brown's West: An Anthology Dee Brown 9780940666771
RRP: $20.63$13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666771Author Dee BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 555g -
Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism by Joshua A. Lynn 9780813942506
RRP: $43.80$32.90In Preserving the White Man's Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals how the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individualism as conservative means for white men in the South and North to preserve their mastery on the eve of... -
The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828-1861 by Yonatan Eyal 9780521875646
RRP: $78.69$70.49The phrase 'Young America' connoted territorial and commercial expansion in the antebellum United States. During the years leading up to the Civil War, it permeated various parts of the Democratic party, producing new perspectives in the realms of... -
Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor by James D. Schmidt 9780521198653
RRP: $96.75$87.38Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings of work for young people in the United States between the Revolution and the Great Depression. Rather than... -
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans by Jean Pfaelzer 9780520256941
RRP: $32.19$25.72"Driven Out" exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From... -
Territories of Empire: U.S. Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence by Andy Doolen 9780190931339
RRP: $36.11$33.31In contrast to later imperial pursuits in Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines, the early United States extended its boundaries through less sensational modes of territorialization: land deals, slavery expansion, treaty diplomacy, immigration and... -
At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews 9781316633984
RRP: $34.82$29.41The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored... -
North America 2 Volume Set by Anthony Trollope 9781108041270
$93.10Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was a prolific English Victorian writer, famous for work such as the 'Chronicles of Barsetshire', and his satirical masterpiece The Way We Live Now. He wrote forty-seven novels as well as several travel books and numerous short... -
Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico 2 Volume Set: With Sketches of Popular Manners and Geological Notices by George William Featherstonhaugh 9781108032827
$76.92The English geologist George William Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) was commissioned to undertake a survey of the Arkansas territory in America, and spent 1834-5 travelling through the southern slave states to reach his destination. He was shocked by the... -
American Notes for General Circulation 2 Volume Paperback Set by Charles Dickens 9781108004008
$55.52Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is best remembered today for the novels which offer a fantastic, even grotesque panorama of Victorian life, but he was a journalist before he became a novelist. His travel writings have all the energy and urgency of... -
Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843 by Osborne Russell 9781620874059
RRP: $16.76$12.28Ever wonder how everyone made it west? They used trails beaten by such men as Osborne Russell. In 1830, sixteen-year-old Russell left his farm in Maine and ran away to the sea. He didn’t like it. He ended up joining an expedition headed to Oregon by way... -
Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City by Carl Smith 9780802159120
RRP: $18.05$16.18From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it Between October 8-10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by... -
Lincoln and the Military by John F. Marszalek 9780809333615
RRP: $34.77$28.48When Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States in 1860, he came into office with practically no experience in military strategy and tactics. Consequently, at the start of the Civil War, he depended on leading military men to teach him... -
Lincoln and the Democrats: The Politics of Opposition in the Civil War by Mark E. Neely
RRP: $25.79$22.10Lincoln and the Democrats describes the vexatious behavior of a two-party system in war and points to the sound parts of the American system which proved to be the country's salvation: local civic pride, and quiet nonpartisanship in mobilization and... -
Exploration of the Colorado Ri by Powell, John Wesley
RRP: $24.51$14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437520Author John Wesley PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House... -
Victorian America: Transformations of Everyday Life, 1876-1915 by Thomas J. Schlereth
RRP: $23.21$14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060921606Author Thomas J. SchlerethFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation by Peter Stark
RRP: $37.40$29.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593133613Author Peter StarkFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 743gDimensions(mm) 242mm... -
The Federalist Frontier: Settler Politics in the Old Northwest, 1783-1840 by Kristopher Maulden
$39.05The Federalist Frontier traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory—Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois—from the nation’s first years until the rise of the Second Party System in the... -
Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, a Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: $21.92$19.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941821206Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Westwinds PressPublisher Westwinds PressWeight(grams) 531g -
Beyond the Sunshine: A Timeline of Florida's Past by Rick Baker
RRP: $32.25$30.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340133Author Rick BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 1034g -
Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business by Assistant Professor Susan V Spellman
RRP: $32.88$29.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197545997Author Assistant Professor Susan V SpellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press,... -
Paita Outpost of Empire: The Impact of the New England Whaling Fleet on Socioeconomic Development of Northern Peru, 1832-1865 by William L Lofstrom
RRP: $32.19$19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913372746Author William L LofstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport MuseumWeight(grams) 367g -
Stories of the Old West by Steven D. Price
RRP: $23.21$23.01Saddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin' helpin' of tales of America's frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawmen and desperadoes, saloons and gunslingers,... -
American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Counterculture Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson
RRP: $29.67$22.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525573098Author Holly JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc