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The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman 9780199553921
RRP: €11.89€8.46The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a... -
Blood And Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
RRP: €15.46€10.23Hampton 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... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: The American West, c.1835-c.1895 by Dave Martin 9781471861857 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79€12.35Exam 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... -
Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: The American West, c.1835-c.1895 by Dave Martin
€27.39Exam 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: €20.22€14.61On 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,... -
The Lost History of the Capital: The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building by Edward P. Moser
RRP: €23.79€18.35The Secret History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times. In this 229-year... -
The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. Allison
RRP: €10.70€7.68Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a... -
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
RRP: €23.79€17.47Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists-in what will prove... -
O My America! by Sara Wheeler 9780374534783
RRP: €15.46€11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534783Author Sara WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 304g -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
RRP: €9.51€7.15'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my... -
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
RRP: €10.70€7.38A 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... -
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
RRP: €39.27€25.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553393965Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend Casey Tefertiller (San Bruno, California) 9780471189671
RRP: €41.64€27.17"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... -
Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763 by Stephen Brumwell 9780521807838
RRP: €95.20€56.32In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the... -
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson 9781680920680
RRP: €7.08€6.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680920680Author Carter Godwin WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams)... -
Access to History: Prosperity, Depression and the New Deal: The USA 1890-1954 4th Ed by Peter Clements
€30.00Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin 9780803235175
RRP: €19.03€16.952019 Tucson Weekly "40 Essential Arizona Books" pick 2014 One Book Yuma selection 2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection 2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist 2009 Southwest Book of the Year"The Blue Tattoo is well... -
Eleanor by David Michaelis 9781439192016
RRP: €29.75€20.04New York Times Bestseller Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a "stunning" (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency... -
Tribes of the Sioux Nation Michael G Johnson 9781855328785
RRP: €15.46€13.10The 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... -
The Vanderbilts: An American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
RRP: €23.80€20.04CNN 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... -
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal 9780674241657
RRP: €22.55€18.29A Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read"Absolutely compelling."-Diane Coyle"The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity...But capitalism is not just about... -
Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith 9780807849828
RRP: €51.11€47.11Sound, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War; Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free - to understand sectionalism and the... -
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
RRP: €23.79€21.05'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called `path breaking,' `seminal,' `essential,' a `must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of... -
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth 9781250118493
RRP: €14.27€13.96In 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... -
Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War by MR Winston Groom 9780802140616
RRP: €15.46€13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140616Author MR Winston GroomFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West David McCullough 9781501168703
RRP: €15.46€9.73As 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 Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend by Bob Drury
RRP: €23.79€14.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451654684Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
A Concise American History by David Brown
RRP: €42.83€37.71Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the shifting political climate of the past decade, this highly... -
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
RRP: €17.84€11.61**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... -
Ernestine L. Rose: Agitate! by Joyce B Lazarus 9780761873426
RRP: €19.03€16.99Overlooked 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,... -
The Mysterious Life and Faked Death of Jesse James: Based on Family Records, Forensic Evidence, and His Personal Journals by Daniel J. Duke 9781620559666
RRP: €15.46€9.73A deep investigation into historical documents that prove the notorious outlaw Jesse James faked his own death * Presents the legend of Jesse James and counters it with the real story, based on family records * Provides photographic evidence, a journal... -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend Casey Tefertiller (San Bruno, California) 9780471283621
RRP: €23.80€15.89"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... -
"The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State by John Winters 9780197578223
RRP: €29.14€24.73In 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... -
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham 9780553393989
RRP: €24.99€17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553393989Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Bending Cross: A biography of Eugene V. Debs by Ray Ginger 9781931859400
RRP: €29.74€22.85This moving biography presents the definitive story of the life of and legacy of the most eloquent spokesperson and leader of the US labour and socialist movements. Eugene Debs was a railway organiser and socialist. He ran for president five times, once... -
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown 9780061774737
RRP: €21.41€19.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061774737Author Daniel James BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 626g -
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns 9780399590870
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590870Author Rachel L. SwarnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Sand Creek Massacre by Stan Hoig 9780806111476
RRP: €22.55€16.09Sometimes called ""The Chivington Massacre"" by those who would emphasize his responsibility for the attack and ""The Battle of Sand Creek"" by those who would imply that it was not a massacre, this event has become one of our nation's most controversial... -
Slave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850 by Chris Evans
RRP: €17.84€13.88Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1660 and 1850. It casts... -
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States by David Reynolds 9781541675698
RRP: €27.36€16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541675698Author David ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 51mm