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Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching by Crystal N. Feimster
RRP: £22.95£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... -
Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis by Cynthia Nicoletti 9781108401531
RRP: £26.99£21.43This book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutionality of secession. The case never went to trial... -
Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery by Calvin Schermerhorn
RRP: £19.99£16.42Written as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the most contested and valuable economic interest in the... -
Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America 1830-1930 by Louis Adamic 9781904859741
£13.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859741Author Louis AdamicFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 512g -
Carleton Watkins: Making the West American by Tyler Green 9780520287983
RRP: £30.00£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... -
Specimens of Hair: The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne by Mr. Robert McCracken Peck 9780922233496
RRP: £28.99£19.24Strangely beautiful, utterly unique, "Specimens of Hair" presents the obsessive work of a 19th-century amateur naturalist who collected hundreds upon hundreds of specimens of hair--animal and human, Including thirteen of the first fourteen U.S... -
Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest by K. Jack Bauer 9780807118511
RRP: £22.95£20.94Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor ""was and remains an enigma."" He was a southerner who espoused many... -
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by STEWART
£13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395911518Author STEWARTFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 197mm * 124mm * 19mm -
Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation by Bruce Dorsey 9780197633090
RRP: £26.99£21.97A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "crime of the century"--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial--and its aftermath. In December 1832 a farmer found the body of a young, pregnant woman... -
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann 9780374528935
RRP: £36.00£23.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528935Author Warren ZimmermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Broken Hand: The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803272088
RRP: £19.99£16.38Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two... -
Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder
RRP: £29.99£22.85John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was... -
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur
RRP: £25.95£20.64George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaHornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society LibraryJames Broussard Best First Book Prize,... -
Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America by Joanna Cohen
£44.48After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, they created one that empowered the modern citizen-consumer. This profound transformation was the... -
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition by James O. Gump
RRP: £19.99£17.54In 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... -
The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920 by Jeffrey Sklansky 9780807853986
RRP: £42.95£39.54Socializing the psyche; Tracing a seismic shift in American social thought, Jeffrey-Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism. For a century after Independence, the dominant American... -
John Finerty Reports the Sioux War by Paul L. Hedren 9780806165059
£30.66In War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty (1846-1908) recalled his summer following George Crook's infamous campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised that Finerty's correspondence covering the campaign for the... -
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by Michael F. Holt 9780195161045
£24.66The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was involved at every level of American politics--local, state, and federal--in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the... -
The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 by Norman Bolotin 9780252070815
RRP: £17.99£15.90This 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... -
Black Reconstruction in America: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, Volume 6 by Henry Louis Gates 9780195325812
£59.30W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally... -
A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights by Laura F. Edwards 9781107401341
RRP: £20.99£15.49Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the American Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction explores the implications of this major change by... -
Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars by Don Rickey 9780806111131
RRP: £21.95£17.58The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually... -
My Bones are Red by Patricia A. Waak 9780865549173
RRP: £24.95£23.33In the late 1700s the roots of cowboy culture arose out of the Carolinas. These men and women were not the typical white ranchers that would be depicted in later stories and films. Instead they were a group of "tri-racial isolates." While much... -
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... -
Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 by Robert M. Utley 9780803295513
RRP: £23.99£20.31In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the... -
Empire of Shadows: the Epic Story of Yellowstone by George Black 9781250023209
£17.27In 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... -
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South by John W. Blassingame
£116.69Taking into account the major recent studies, this volume presents an updated analysis of the life of the black slave--his African heritage, culture, family, acculturation, behavior, religion, and personality.Reviews"Has excellent chapters to use... -
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Robert S. Levine (The University of Maryland) 9781324004752
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... -
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius 9780674295551
RRP: £18.95£16.07Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, SHEARWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana HistoryWinner of the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the... -
Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt by Hasan Kwame Jeffries 9780814743317
RRP: £23.99£20.84Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association A remarkable story of the people of rural Lowndes County, a small Southern town, who in 1966 organized a radical experiment in... -
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£11.31Apologies 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 -
The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics by David S. Heidler
RRP: £25.00£19.84The Rise of Andrew Jackson recounts our seventh president's unlikely ascent to the highest office in the land. Born poor in what became the border region between North and South Carolina, Jackson's sole claim on the public's affections derived from his... -
The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War by Michael F. Conlin
RRP: £24.99£22.77In an incisive analysis of over two dozen clauses as well as several 'unwritten' rules and practices, The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War shows how the Constitution aggravated the sectional conflict over slavery to the point of civil war... -
Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship by Thomas R. Trautmann
RRP: £19.99£17.54Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape,... -
Washington's KKK: The Union League During Southern Reconstruction by Clyde N Wilson 9780692718179
RRP: £11.20£8.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692718179Author Clyde N WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams)... -
The American West. Visions and Revisions by Margaret Walsh 9780521596718
RRP: £22.99£15.23This is a succinct survey of the numerous contributions to the history of the American west. In the past twenty-five years historians have created a 'New Western History', which has aimed to rewrite the 'Old Western History' created around the famous... -
Newer World by David Roberts 9780684870212
£15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684870212Author David RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 423gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance by Christian G. Fritz
RRP: £29.99£26.34Monitoring American Federalism examines some of the nation's most significant controversies in which state legislatures have attempted to be active partners in the process of constitutional decision-making. Christian G. Fritz looks at interposition,... -
'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920 by William H. Williams 9780252065514
RRP: £25.99£22.49Over time, the image of the Irish in the United States changed from that of hard-drinking Paddies to genial working-class citizens. In 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream, William H. A. Williams traces the change in this image through more than seven hundred...