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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World by Scott Reynolds Nelson
RRP: £25.00£16.38A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain-along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain,... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: The American West, c.1835-c.1895 by Dave Martin
£23.02Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed for EdexcelEnable students to achieve their full potential while ensuring pace, enjoyment and motivation with this popular series from the... -
Son Of The Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell
RRP: £16.99£12.28On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers,... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands 9781541672543
RRP: £15.99£10.93In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early 19th century to the closing of the frontier by the early 20th. He introduces us to explorers,... -
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 9780393340662
RRP: £14.99£12.65Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln... -
A Prairie Faith: The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder by John J Fry 9780802876287
RRP: £19.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802876287Author John J FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)... -
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame 9781421445557
RRP: £29.00£25.06Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a... -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller 9780471189671
RRP: £34.99£22.83"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and... -
Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition by John G. Neihardt
RRP: £13.99£12.70More than one million copies sold 2017 One Book One Nebraska selection"An American classic."-Western Historical QuarterlyBlack Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous... -
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
RRP: £8.99£6.20A Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick!A New York Times bestselling novel, The Downstairs Girl is a compelling and poignant story following seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan, a Chinese American girl living in segregated 1890s Atlanta.'Everyone needs to read this... -
Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879 by William Gillette 9780807110065
RRP: £20.95£17.57According to William Gillette, recent reinterpretation of Reconstruction by revisionist historians has often tended to overemphasise idealistic motivations at the expense of assessing concrete achievements of the era. Thus, he maintains, the failure of... -
Tribes of the Sioux Nation by Michael Johnson
RRP: £12.99£11.01The horse culture of the tribes of the High Plains of North America lasted only some 170 years; yet in that time the sub-tribes of the Teton or Western Sioux people imprinted a vivid image on the world's imagination by their fearless but doomed fight to... -
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
RRP: £14.99£9.76**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one... -
The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey by Henry M. Cowles
RRP: £31.95£25.07The surprising history of the scientific method-from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps-and the rise of psychology in the nineteenth century.The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to... -
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth 9781250118493
£12.14In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas, was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorised by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far... -
Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770–1859 by Christian Michael Gonzales
RRP: £37.99£33.38Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770-1859 explores the development of modern Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the early United States.With an aggressively expanding United States... -
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough 9781501168703
RRP: £12.99£8.18As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of... -
The Vanderbilts: An American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
RRP: £20.00£16.84CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty-his mother's family, the Vanderbilts. Few names... -
Blood And Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
RRP: £12.99£8.60Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but at the centre of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson - the legendary trapper, scout... -
Ernestine L. Rose: Agitate! by Joyce B Lazarus 9780761873426
RRP: £14.99£14.28Overlooked by historians for over half a century following her death, Ernestine L. Rose (1810 1892) was one of the foremost orators and social reformers of her era. A fearless human rights activist, she fought for racial equality, women's rights,... -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller 9780471283621
RRP: £20.00£13.35"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and... -
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979480Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
"The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State by John Winters 9780197578223
RRP: £22.99£19.56In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the... -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 9780140390315
RRP: £12.99£6.45One of the most powerful, provocative and enduring novels to expose social injustice ever published in the United States, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle contains an introduction by Ronald Gottesman in Penguin Classics.Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply... -
Flight of the WASP: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class by Michael Gross 9780802161864
RRP: £21.99£14.83Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the... -
Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction by Richard S. Newman
RRP: £8.99£6.45The abolitionist movement launched the global human rights struggle in the 18th and 19th centuries and redefined the meaning of equality throughout the Atlantic world. Even in the 21st century, it remains a touchstone of democratic activism-a timeless... -
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White
RRP: £13.99£12.17Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This revised edition of Ar'n't I a... -
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 by Professor of History David Levering Lewis 9780684856575
RRP: £26.00£21.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684856575Author W E B Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
RRP: £21.99£15.61In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was short-lived. Settlers from the East pushed into the West,... -
The Fetterman Massacre by Dee Brown 9780803257306
RRP: £16.99£12.53The Fetterman Massacre occurred on December 21, 1866, at Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Big Horns. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause celebre and was the subject of a... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Making of a Superpower: USA 1865-1975 by Sally Waller 9780198354697
£36.68Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The Making of a... -
Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail by Keith Heyer Meldahl 9780226519623
RRP: £17.00£14.62In 1849, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor... -
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty by Neal Thompson 9780063268593
RRP: £14.99£13.11"Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon MeachamBased on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish... -
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America by Scott Gac 9781316511886
RRP: £25.00£21.27Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing reasons... -
The Mary Lincoln Enigma: Historians on America's Most Controversial First Lady by Frank Williams 9780809331246
RRP: £41.95£34.73Mary Lincoln is a lightning rod for controversy. Stories reveal widely different interpretations, and it is impossible to write a definitive version of her life that will suit everyone. The thirteen engaging essays in this collection introduce Mary... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780197581797
RRP: £14.99£10.95Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's... -
The American Republic: Primary Sources by Bruce Frohnen 9780865973336
RRP: £10.95£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973336Author Bruce FrohnenFormat PaperbackPage Count 724Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1751g -
The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger
RRP: £14.99£9.80Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority... -
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America by Alexis Tocqueville
RRP: £14.99£11.35One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America... -
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
RRP: £18.00£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (History) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780375705243Author Joseph J. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...