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Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny by Robert J. Miller 9780803215986
RRP: £19.95£13.65Native America, Discovered and Conquered takes a fresh look at American history through the lens of the Doctrine of Discovery-the legal basis that Europeans and Americans used to lay claim to the land of the indigenous peoples they "discovered." Robert J... -
The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers and Cowboys 1800-1899 by William C. Davis 9780806131290
RRP: £29.95£24.35Apologies 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)... -
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides 9781400031108
RRP: £20.00£13.39Apologies 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 *... -
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: £22.00£13.72Apologies 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 -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272774
RRP: £19.95£13.58The 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... -
The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert a Gross
RRP: £25.00£16.44Why 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... -
Manifest Destiny by A. Stephenson 9780809015849
RRP: £17.00£10.18Apologies 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. -
A Forlorn Hope: The True Story of a Doomed Wagon Train by Chris Leuchars 9781076321879
RRP: £9.79£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781076321879Author Chris LeucharsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 by Norman Bolotin 9780252070815
RRP: £22.95£15.74This 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... -
The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History by Richard G. Hardorff 9780803273252 [USED COPY]
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The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History by Richard G. Hardorff 9780803273252
RRP: £16.95£11.91On May 7, 1877, less than a year after his overwhelming victory at Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse, the charismatic Oglala Sioux whose name had become the epitome of Indian resistance to white encroachment, surrendered at Camp Robinson, Nebraska Territory... -
Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science by Alicia Puglionesi
£22.49Seances, 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
£12.88Just 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... -
After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific by Robert M. Utley 9780803295643
RRP: £21.95£16.27In 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations. Colorful and eccentric, bold and adventurous,... -
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
£19.12This 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... -
Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy by Hidetaka Hirota
RRP: £42.99£31.79Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially deportation policy. Based on an analysis of immigration policies in major American coastal states, including New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,... -
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz 9780312429263
RRP: £22.00£13.98Plotted 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"... -
Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 by Kristin L. Hoganson 9780807857939
RRP: £42.50£42.27Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the world without being transformed itself. In ""Consumers' Imperium"", Kristin Hoganson reveals the other half of the... -
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 Donner Party: The Tragic Story of the Wild West's Most Notorious Journey by Charles River Editors 9781500177805
RRP: £10.24£8.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500177805Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by Professor of History H W Brands 9780307386779 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.00£14.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by Professor of History H W Brands
RRP: £21.00£14.52Apologies 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 *... -
The Dalton Brothers: And Their Astounding Career of Crime by An Eye Witness 9781620875865
RRP: £16.99£11.37Being 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... -
Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite by William M. Breakenridge 9780803261006
RRP: £35.00£22.74Helldorado offers cinematic images of wagon trains crossing the Great Plains, of Phoenix and Denver emerging from the dust and mud, of Tombstone blazing through a silver bonanza, and of the railroad joining East and West to change history. In his... -
Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy by David Roberts 9781416539896
RRP: £20.99£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416539896Author Visiting Lecturer David RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
The Journals of Patrick Gass: Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Carol Lynn MacGregor 9780878423514
RRP: £24.00£17.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878423514Author Carol Lynn MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing... -
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829-1913 by Ashley T. Rubin
RRP: £22.99£21.06Early 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... -
Carleton Watkins: Making the West American by Tyler Green 9780520287983
£24.29"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... -
Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 by Jack Beatty
RRP: £16.99£14.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032426Author Jack BeattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 483Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476g -
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 by Matthew Frye Jacobson 9780809016280
RRP: £20.00£13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016280Author Matthew Frye JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &... -
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster
£18.38Between 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
£24.96In 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... -
American Legends: The Life of Josephine Baker by Charles River Editors 9781986425681
RRP: £8.14£7.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986425681Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events That Shaped the History of the United States by Captivating History 9781979912143
RRP: £13.83£12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781979912143Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The New Empire by Walter F. LaFeber 9780801485954
RRP: £24.95£18.31This classic work, by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber, presents his widely influential argument that economic causes were the primary forces propelling America to world power in the nineteenth century. Cornell University Press is proud to... -
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried
RRP: £20.00£13.86Apologies 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)... -
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition by James O. Gump
£19.19In 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... -
From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation by Amy Dru Stanley 9780521635264
RRP: £29.99£19.50In 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...