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Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West by Joanne S Liu 9780878425570
RRP: £14.00£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878425570Author Joanne S LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing... -
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson
RRP: £25.00£17.31From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore RooseveltA Wall Street Journal... -
Louis l'Amour's Wild West: An Illustrated Celebration of America's Favorite Writer of Westerns by Bruce Wexler 9781620876534
RRP: £24.99£17.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620876534Author Bruce WexlerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 262mm *... -
Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic by Sharon Ann Murphy 9781421421759
RRP: £18.50£16.58Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies-worth something...or perhaps nothing. IOUs from... -
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Charles Lane 9780805089226
RRP: £16.99£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805089226Author Charles LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Holt PaperbackPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 454g -
The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West by Michael Wallis 9780312263812
RRP: £34.99£24.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263812Author Michael WallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm)... -
But There Was No Peace: The Role Of Violence In The Politics Of Reconstruction by George Rable 9780820330112
£29.85This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial... -
The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War by Langbourne M Williams Michael F Holt 9780809044399
RRP: £18.00£10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809044399Author Langbourne M Williams Michael F HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S... -
History of the Donner Party: The Ordeal of the Wagon Train of Pioneers in the Sierra Nevada Winter of 1846-7 by F C McGlashan 9780857069405
£19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069405Author F C McGlashanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 408g -
Kit Carson's Autobiography by Kit Carson 9780803250314
RRP: £12.99£10.11"Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, to whom he had been bound to learn the... -
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1850-1930 by Sarah Rose 9781469624891
£43.96During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor... -
Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment by Michael Vorenberg 9780521543842
RRP: £24.99£19.99This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and... -
America's Road to Empire: Foreign Policy from Independence to World War One by Piero Gleijeses
RRP: £25.99£24.16America's Road to Empire surveys and analyses United States' foreign relations from the country's independence in 1776 until its entry into World War One in 1917, using primary source materials and case studies. The book covers key themes including: -... -
In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930 by Peter C. Baldwin
RRP: £24.00£23.03Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks,... -
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Pat F Garrett 9781616407377
£14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616407377Author Pat F GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States by Stephen Mihm
RRP: £33.95£27.81Listen to a short interview with Stephen MihmHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to... -
The Cajuns: The History of the French-Speaking Ethnic Group in Canada and Louisiana by Charles River Editors 9781798401088
RRP: £11.14£9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781798401088Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent by Daegan Miller
RRP: £26.00£21.70"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America... -
Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend by Robert A. Carter 9780471077800
RRP: £20.99£14.36"An excellent book based on exhaustive research and written with fresh insight. It is a spellbinding accomplishment and brings both the man and his era to life. . . . It is an extraordinary achievement." -Arizona Daily Star "Carter presents this... -
The West of Wild Bill Hickok by Joseph G. Rosa 9780806126807
RRP: £21.95£14.49Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa's exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one... -
Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City by Carl Smith
RRP: £19.99£13.56From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it Between October 8-10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by... -
Here Lies Billy the Kid by David S Turk 9780578515168
RRP: £28.00£18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578515168Author David S TurkFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cold West PublishingPublisher Cold West PublishingWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture by Pamela Haag 9780465048953
RRP: £20.00£19.66Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any... -
Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts by Elise Lemire
RRP: £25.99£20.84Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores... -
Age of Homespun, the by Laurel Ulrich 9780679766445
RRP: £16.99£12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679766445Author Laurel UlrichFormat PaperbackImprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 456g -
Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States by Thomas Richards 9781421437132
RRP: £43.00£38.52A reinterpretation of a key moment in the political history of the United States-and of the Americans who sought to decouple American ideals from US territory.Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern... -
West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express by Jim DeFelice
£11.78Western Writers of America Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK. ... The first comprehensive history of the legendary transcontinental experiment in mail delivery in sixty years." -True West"This rollicking... -
Harriet Tubman: A Captivating Guide to an American Abolitionist Who Became the Most Famous Conductor of the Underground Railroad by Captivating History 9781647487669
RRP: £19.97£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647487669Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America by Walter A. Friedman
RRP: £26.95£21.41In this entertaining and informative book, Walter Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales... -
Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea by Erik Reece 9780374537012
RRP: £20.00£13.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537012Author Erik ReeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Harden 9780525561682
RRP: £16.99£11.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561682Author Blaine HardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men, Second Edition by Mari Sandoz 9780803218802
RRP: £18.99£14.50In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of The Buffalo Hunters. Mari... -
Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity by Kathryn Kish Sklar 9780393008128
RRP: £21.50£18.19Although she is often remembered only as the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, there was a time in Catharine Beecher's life when she was more widely known than any member of her eminent family. A pioneering teacher, a writer on... -
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America by Robert E. May 9780521132527
RRP: £24.99£21.18Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans... -
The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis by Jessica M. Lepler 9781107640863
RRP: £29.99£24.70In the spring of 1837, people panicked as financial and economic uncertainty spread within and between New York, New Orleans and London. Although the period of panic would dramatically influence political, cultural and social history, those who panicked... -
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier by Bob Drury
RRP: £18.99£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250247155Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E Roberts
RRP: £29.99£24.14Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"-the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually... -
Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946 by Kerry Segrave 9780786458981
RRP: £14.99£12.55Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines the phenomenon of the lynching of women, a much more rare occurence than the lynching of men. Over the same... -
Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs by Michelle Malkin 9781476784946
RRP: £28.00£17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476784946Author Michelle MalkinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mercury InkPublisher Mercury InkWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 30mm -
Tombstone and Deadwood: The Wild West's Most Famous Towns by Charles River Editors 9781986034609
RRP: £11.86£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986034609Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...