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Union and Liberty: Political Philosophy of John C.Calhoun by John C. Calhoun 9780865971035
RRP: £10.95£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971035Author Ross M LenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1072g -
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Dale W. Tomich 9781469663128
RRP: £29.95£24.13Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower... -
American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy by John Lamberton Harper 9780521708746
RRP: £30.99£25.45Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation. This is the first detailed narrative study of his foreign... -
The Five Points: The History of New York City's Most Notorious Neighborhood by Charles River Editors
RRP: £10.24£8.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781507583388Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival by Freelance Writer Brian McGinty 9780806137704
RRP: £18.95£14.40The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy.Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led... -
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West by Dee Brown 9780803250253
RRP: £16.99£13.40All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola... -
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine
RRP: £20.99£17.75When Andrew Johnson rose to the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, African Americans were optimistic that Johnson would pursue aggressive federal policies for Black equality. Just a year earlier, Johnson had cast himself as a "Moses" for... -
The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 by Mark Grimsley 9780521599412
RRP: £29.99£21.89The Hard Hand of War, first published in 1996, explores the Union army's policy of destructive attacks upon Southern property and civilian morale - how it evolved, what it was like in practice. From an initial policy of deliberate restraint, extending... -
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling 9780195189063
RRP: £17.49£14.58It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a... -
The Mystery of E Troop by Gregory Michno 9780878423040
RRP: £20.00£14.17Apologies 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 *... -
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 by Sven Beckert 9780521524100
RRP: £30.99£25.86This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and... -
The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost by Peter Manseau
RRP: £16.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328557063Author Peter ManseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 277g -
John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris
RRP: £12.99£11.49John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported... -
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£13.19Apologies 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... -
The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920 by B. Zorina Khan
RRP: £30.99£28.38This book, first published in 2005, examines the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century'. The American experience is compared to Britain and France, countries whose institutions reflected their... -
Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade 9780525540540
RRP: £17.00£10.29The New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue.In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting, American legends Jim... -
By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 by Michael F. Holt
RRP: £32.95£27.19With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the Supreme Court stepping in to overrule Florida court decisions, the presidential election of 1876 was an eerie precursor to that of 2000. Rutherford Hayes's defeat... -
Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy by Hidetaka Hirota 9780190055561
RRP: £24.49£19.16Historians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the 1880s. Studies of European immigration... -
Theodore Roosevelt: A Life by Nathan Miller 9780688132200
£18.85Apologies 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 Klondike Gold Rush: The History of the Late 19th Century Gold Rush in Alaska and the Yukon by Charles River Editors 9781508909576
RRP: £10.24£8.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508909576Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland by Scott Shane 9781250843210
RRP: £30.00£17.81Apologies 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 -
A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy by David M Oshinsky
RRP: £20.00£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982124045Author David M OshinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 567g -
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz 9780803217874
RRP: £21.99£16.37Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly... -
Empire of Shadows: the Epic Story of Yellowstone by George Black 9781250023209
£17.16In a new reinterpretation of the 19th century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of the frontier - and charts... -
Animal City: The Domestication of America by Andrew A. Robichaud
RRP: £35.95£28.81Why do America's cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by looking at our relationship with animals.Americans once lived alongside animals. They raised them, worked them, ate them, and lived off their products. This... -
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language by Douglas C. Baynton
RRP: £24.00£23.03This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people. The debate about sign... -
Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought by Adam Dahl
RRP: £29.95£24.13American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur have emphasized how American democratic identity... -
Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded Age by Noam Maggor
RRP: £36.95£29.17Tracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the United States. Brahmin Capitalism reveals the decisive role of established wealth in the transformation of... -
The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger 9780316773430
RRP: £25.99£20.59Apologies 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£19.98The 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'... -
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik
RRP: £17.99£11.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358567127Author Michael HiltzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm *... -
Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang 9781631495458
RRP: £12.99£11.46Twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, were "discovered" in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Yunte Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum... -
Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made by Michael Zakim
RRP: £24.00£20.12The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this... -
Mocha Dick: Or The White Whale of the Pacific by J Godsey 9780615795942
RRP: £9.00£7.11Apologies 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 -
Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All by David R. Roediger
RRP: £12.99£11.31How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger's radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts... -
The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 by Daniel T. Rodgers
RRP: £24.00£23.03The phrase "a strong work ethic" conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America's Puritan... -
Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870 by Daniel Carpenter
RRP: £44.95£36.26Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book AwardWinner of the J. David Greenstone Book PrizeWinner of the S. M. Lipset Best Book AwardThis pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the... -
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar by H. W. Brands 9780393330502
RRP: £18.50£14.98Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history-the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P... -
A Majority of Scoundrels: An Informal History of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company by Don Berry 9780870710896
RRP: £29.95£24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870710896Author Don BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State UniversityDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909 by Oren Bracha
RRP: £30.99£22.85Owning Ideas is a comprehensive account of the emergence of the concept of intellectual property in the United States during the long nineteenth century. In the modern information era, intellectual property has become a central economic and cultural...