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The California Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush: The History of America's Most Famous Gold Rushes by Charles River Editors 9781508926757
RRP: £10.24£8.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508926757Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David S Reynolds 9780060826574
RRP: £12.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060826574Author David S ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 349g -
Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780820334257
£28.88Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rhetoric and symbols with the rhetoric and imagery of Confederate tradition. Out of defeat emerged a civil... -
The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A Comprehensive History by Wilbur Henry Siebert 9780486450391
RRP: £16.99£12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486450391Author Ian Frederick FinsethFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
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,... -
We Are the Revolutionists: German-Speaking Immigrants and American Abolitionists after 1848 by Mischa Honeck 9780820338231
£28.63The 1850s was a period of mass immigration of Europeans to America, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another... -
The Tribunal: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid by John Stauffer
£45.95When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of millions of armed bondsmen, thus ridding the nation of the scourge of slavery. The insurrection did not... -
Victorian America: Transformations of Everyday Life, 1876-1915 by Thomas J. Schlereth
RRP: £17.99£11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060921606Author Thomas J. SchlerethFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution by Charles R. Morris
RRP: £18.99£15.67In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, America went from being a largely rural economy, with little internal transportation infrastructure, to a fledgling industrial powerhouse- setting the stage for the vast fortunes that would be made in... -
Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire by Thomas W. Zeiler 9780742551695
RRP: £38.00£35.18Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272743
RRP: £16.99£13.29The 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... -
Among the Nootka: The True Adventure of John R. Jewett by Gerald Stanley 9781491764213
£8.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491764213Author Gerald StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm -
A Companion to the U.S. Civil War by A Sheehan–Dean
RRP: £57.95£51.82A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage... -
Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy by John Suval
RRP: £30.49£28.04The squatter--defined by Noah Webster as "one that settles on new land without a title"--had long been a fixture of America's frontier past. In the antebellum period, white squatters propelled the Jacksonian Democratic Party to dominance and the United... -
The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City by James R. Barrett 9780143122807
£17.84In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. This process of... -
A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America by Brian Balogh 9780521527866
RRP: £26.99£23.20While it is obvious that America's state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did... -
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846-1917 by Albert J. Churella 9780812243482
RRP: £103.00£84.73"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business... -
Grand Central Station: The History of New York City's Famous Railroad Terminal by Charles River Editors 9781508435044
RRP: £7.24£6.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508435044Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Kennedy: A Captivating Guide to the Life of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis by Captivating History 9781981871810
RRP: £14.71£12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981871810Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Life and Trial of Lizzie Borden: The History of 19th Century America's Most Famous Murder Case by Charles River Editors 9781514818992
RRP: £7.24£6.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514818992Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Log of a Cowboy: a Classic Account of the Days of the Great Trail Herds of the American West by Andy Adams 9780857061775
£11.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061775Author Andy AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 308g -
Traveling the Northup Trail in Central Louisiana: Rapides & Avoyelles Parishes: 1841-1853 by Randy Decuir 9781502481894
RRP: £10.00£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502481894Author Randy DecuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Jim Bridger: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Famous Mountain Man by Charles River Editors 9781542620062
RRP: £11.14£9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542620062Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail by Eric Jay Dolin 9780871406897
RRP: £12.99£11.48Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising... -
Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Professor Leo Damrosch
RRP: £21.00£13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532598Author Professor Leo DamroschFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &... -
Crazy Jim Vance And The Men Who Murdered Him by Thomas Dotson 9781516865147
RRP: £14.95£12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516865147Author Thomas DotsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson 9780812224702
RRP: £25.99£20.84From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had... -
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York by Richard Zacks 9780767926195
RRP: £21.00£15.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767926195Author Richard ZacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 410gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia by Charles F. Irons 9780807858776
RRP: £42.95£39.85This book deals with the evangelical roots of the proslavery argument. In the colonial and antebellum South, black and white evangelicals frequently prayed, sang, and worshipped together. Even though white evangelicals claimed spiritual fellowship with... -
Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909 by Oren Bracha
RRP: £30.99£22.85Owning Ideas is a comprehensive account of the emergence of the concept of intellectual property in the United States during the long nineteenth century. In the modern information era, intellectual property has become a central economic and cultural... -
The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis by James E. Lewis 9780691177168
RRP: £30.00£24.29A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr Conspiracy In 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering... -
Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism by Joel Richard Paul
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593189047Author Joel Richard PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
My Service in Custer's 7th Cavalry (Annotated) by General Hugh Lenox Scott 9781519047564
RRP: £10.20£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519047564Author General Hugh Lenox ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865 by Mark Grimsley 9780521599412
RRP: £29.99£21.89The Hard Hand of War, first published in 1996, explores the Union army's policy of destructive attacks upon Southern property and civilian morale - how it evolved, what it was like in practice. From an initial policy of deliberate restraint, extending... -
Legends of the West: The Life and Legacy of Wyatt Earp by Charles River Editors 9781492758006
RRP: £10.24£8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492758006Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920 by B. Zorina Khan
RRP: £30.99£26.77This book, first published in 2005, examines the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century'. The American experience is compared to Britain and France, countries whose institutions reflected their... -
The Works Of James Buchanan: Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, And Private Correspondence; Volume 7 by James Buchanan 9781018790831
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The Fourteenth Ohio National Guard--: The Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Charles E Creager 9781018806969
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The African Repository And Colonial Journal; Volume 42 by American Colonization Society 9781018799674
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Addresses on the Death of Hon. Owen Lovejoy by 2d Sess United States 38th Congress 9781018745503
£11.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.