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Mary Porter Gamewell and the Siege of Peking: an American Lady's Experiences of the Boxer Uprising, China, 1900 by A H Tuttle 9780857061379
€13.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061379Author A H TuttleFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 268g -
The Mercantile Marine: The Story of the Merchants of the Seas and Oceans by E Keble Chatterton 9780857060815
€13.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857060815Author E Keble ChattertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 281g -
Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860 by Christopher Morris 9780195134216
RRP: €36.88€32.02Mississippi represented the Old South and all that it stood for perhaps more than any other state. Christopher Morris takes a close look at one of those "typically" southern communities, Jefferson Davis's Warren County, the northern-most of the... -
'Tell it All': the Ordeals of a Woman Against Polygamy Within the Mormon Church During the 19th Century by Fanny Stenhouse 9780857063922
€22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857063922Author Fanny StenhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 671g -
On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834-1930 by Michael W Homer 9780806140834
RRP: €26.12€25.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806140834Author Michael W HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press -
Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873 by M John Lubetkin 9780806144689
€28.33In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke's gamble reignited war with the Sioux,... -
William Jay: Abolitionist and Anticolonialist by Stephen P. Budney 9780275985554
€77.98A founder of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, William Jay was one of the most prolific and influential abolitionists of his day, yet Americans know little about him. This is the first extensive examination of his life and work in over 100 years. Like... -
Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business by Susan V. Spellman 9780199384273
RRP: €109.48€87.20From the Civil War through the Great Depression small businessmen and their stores dominated retailing in nearly every city and town. Within the walls of their shops, grocers wrestled with fundamental changes in the structures of industrial and... -
Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire by Amy S. Greenberg 9780521840965
RRP: €89.25€64.46The US-Mexico War (1846-8) brought two centuries of dramatic territorial expansionism to a close, seemingly fulfilling America's Manifest destiny. Or did it? As politicians schemed to annex new lands in Latin America and the Pacific, some Americans took... -
Morrissey vs. Poole: Politics, Prizefighting and the Murder of Bill the Butcher by Ken Zimmerman, Jr 9781088104323
RRP: €15.46€11.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088104323Author Ken Zimmerman, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 136g -
The Frontier World of Fort Griffin: The Life and Death of a Western Town by Charles M Robinson 9780806152202
€16.39Fort Griffin, Texas, is rarely used in the same sentence with Dodge City, Deadwood, or Tombstone, yet this frontier town was every bit as tough as the places that went down in the history of brutality. Vigilantes, lynchings, ladies of easy virtue,... -
American Prisoners of War held in Montreal and Quebec during the War of 1812 by Eric Eugene Johnson 9780788455995
€23.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788455995Author Eric Eugene JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 463g -
The Civil War Political Tradition: Ten Portraits of Those Who Formed It by Paul D. Escott 9780813949673
€108.28Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned and incisive biographies of key Americans in the years... -
Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism by Joshua A Lynn 9780813948508
RRP: €33.26€32.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813948508Author Joshua A LynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America: 1888-1918 by Francis Robert Shor 9780313303791
€99.06Utopianism and radicalism achieve greater prominence when economic and social crises render the dominant moral and political universe open to question. The essays in this book examine how utopianism and radicalism informed the literary expressions,... -
Fleeing the Famine: North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851 by Margaret Mulrooney 9780275976705
€57.45The Irish Potato Famine caused the migration of more than two million individuals who sought refuge in the United States and Canada. In contrast to previous studies, which have tended to focus on only one destination, this collection allows readers to... -
James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government by Colleen A. Sheehan 9780521898744
RRP: €89.25€63.99In a study that combines an in-depth examination of Madison's National Gazette essays of 1791-2 with a study of The Federalist, Colleen Sheehan traces the evolution of Madison's conception of the politics of communication and public opinion throughout... -
Boss Tweed's New York by Seymour J. Mandelbaum 9780313232596
€57.45This is a study of politics in New York City in the 1860s and 1870s, and of William Marcy Tweed, a classic example of the municipal machine boss.Book InformationISBN 9780313232596Author Seymour J. MandelbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Praeger... -
Heralds of Promise: The Drama of the American People During the Age of Jackson, 1829-1849 by Walter J. Meserve 9780313250156
€99.53Here is a fascinating account of the struggle to create a viable American theatre and dramatic tradition in a society that, while eager for culture and entertainment, provided an environment hostile to their development. Meserve begins by describing the... -
Johnny Appleseed in a Rich Land by Peggy Welch Mershon 9780998221595
RRP: €17.26€15.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998221595Author Peggy Welch MershonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint TuraspublishingPublisher TuraspublishingWeight(grams) 254g -
Amos P. Catlin: The Whig Who Put Sacramento On The Map by Kevin Knauss 9780997818888
RRP: €21.73€19.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997818888Author Kevin KnaussFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Kevin KnaussPublisher Kevin KnaussWeight(grams) 404g -
General George Crook: His Autobiography by George Crook 9780806119823
€22.75General George Crook was one Civil War general who didn't win his reputation east of the Mississippi River. To him, the Civil War was just an interlude. Before and after this great conflict, Crook was an Indian fighter. Crook fought the greatest of the... -
Out of Nantucket: Two Accounts of Whalers and Whaling by William Lay 9780857060808
€21.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857060808Author William LayFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 322g -
The Moment of Decision: Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity by John McKivigan 9780313286353
€99.53Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the essays in this collection all consider the historical moment in the lives of representative 19th-century, and one family of 19th- and 20th-century, Americans... -
Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America by Jon Gjerde 9780521279666
RRP: €29.74€21.53Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have construed this history in univocal terms, Jon Gjerde bridges sectarian divides by presenting... -
Boat Racing: The Second Heat by Ralph Desilva 9780989617246
RRP: €24.93€24.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989617246Author Ralph DesilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint 357 PressPublisher 357 PressWeight(grams) 268g -
The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights and the Nullification Crisis by Richard E. Ellis 9780195061871
RRP: €74.97€54.68The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the most important major event of Andrew Jackson's two presidential terms. Attempting to declare null and void the high tariffs enacted by Congress in the late 1820s, the state of South Carolina declared... -
Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era by Rebecca Edwards 9780195116960
RRP: €95.20€69.79Angels in the Machinery offers a sweeping analysis of the centrality of gender to politics in the United States from the days of the Whigs to the early twentieth century. Author Rebecca Edwards shows that women in the U.S. participated actively and... -
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Flood 9780306821516
€22.80Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and dying, Grant began to write his memoirs to save his family from permanent financial ruin. As Grant... -
At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini 9780465024896
€25.35In 1850, with Northerners demanding that slavery be outlawed in the vast new territory America had just acquired in the Mexican- American War, Southerners threatened to secede from the Union. Veteran statesman Henry Clay proffered a solution: the... -
The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader by Kari J. Winter 9780820338378
€30.88As a young man, John B. Prentis (1788-1848) expressed outrage over slavery, but by the end of his life he had transported thousands of enslaved persons from the upper to the lower South. Kari J. Winter's life-and-times portrayal of a slave trader... -
Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 by David Samuel Torres-Rouff 9780300141238
€87.68David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America’s most prominent cities; its social, spatial, and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles... -
The World's Columbian Exposition: A Centennial Bibliographic Guide by David J. Bertuca 9780313266447
€86.36In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition had a profound impact on urban planning and the Beaux-Arts period of American architecture. The fair introduced the Ferris Wheel, Cracker Jacks, and fiberglass. Yet today, except for one building and a grassy... -
Daily Life on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier by Mary Ellen Jones 9780313360718
€36.54The nineteenth century American frontier comes alive for students and interested readers in this unique exploration of westward expansion. This study examines the daily lives of ordinary men and women who flooded into the Trans-Mississippi West in search... -
Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America by Erica Hannickel 9780812245592
RRP: €53.55€43.54The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply... -
The Americas in the Modern Age by Lester D. Langley 9780300107685
€40.46In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the history of the modern Western hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century. He evaluates the dynamics of hemispheric history, commencing with the articulation of... -
The Black Laws in the Old Northwest: A Documentary History by Stephen Middleton 9780313280160
€99.53The Northwest Territory (now the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin), under the Ordinance of 1787, was a free jurisdiction. Yet, all of the states of the territory, except Wisconsin, adopted Black Laws, legislation designed to... -
Northern Labor and Antislavery: A Documentary History by Philip S. Foner 9780313278075
€99.53Using documents drawn from newspapers, magazines, and books, this volume provides a documentary history of the relationships between labor and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the Civil War. It includes newspaper articles from mainstream dailies as... -
Anti-Racism in U.S. History: The First Two Hundred Years by Herbert Aptheker 9780275948085
€46.99Many books, both popular and scholarly, have examined racism in the United States, but this unique volume is the first to examine the existence of anti-racism in the first two hundred years of U.S. history. Herbert Aptheker challenges the view that... -
Daily Life on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier by Mary Ellen Jones 9780313296345
€71.82The nineteenth century American frontier comes alive for students and interested readers in this unique exploration of westward expansion. This study examines the daily lives of ordinary men and women who flooded into the Trans-Mississippi West in search...