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Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians by George Catlin 9781108033183
RRP: £32.99£27.40Although he is best known for his paintings of Native Americans, George Catlin (1796-1872) also wrote books about his experiences among the indigenous peoples of the United States. During the 1830s he travelled widely in the western frontier regions with... -
Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Ku Klux Klan: Yankee Myth, Confederate Fact by Lochlainn Seabrook 9781943737406
RRP: £24.99£21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737406Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Letters from New York by L. Maria Child 9780820320779
£32.43Prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child began writing her ""letters"" from New York in August 1841 as a response to the troubling realities marking her private and public life. In particular, she was preoccupied by her... -
Jefferson Davis: High Road to Emancipation and Constitutional Government by Walter Donald Kennedy 9781947660779
RRP: £21.75£19.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947660779Author Walter Donald KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams)... -
Forlorn Hope by Troy Taylor 9781735270661
RRP: £15.00£11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735270661Author Troy TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Whitechapel ProductionsPublisher Whitechapel ProductionsWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)... -
The Black Rock That Built America: A Tribute to the Antracite Coal Miners by Gerald L McKerns 9781425753009
£14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425753009Author Gerald L McKernsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 209g -
The Southern Federalists, 1800-1816 by James H. Broussard 9780807125205
£23.96With this definitive study of Federalism in the Jeffersonian South, James H. Broussard makes a significant contribution to the body of knowledge of the early political development of the United States and closes the gap in our knowledge of the Federalist... -
Walking Man: The Life and Times of a 19th Century Superstar Who Defied the Limits of Human Endurance by Steve F Cottrell 9781088194201
RRP: £14.99£11.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088194201Author Steve F CottrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 340g -
American Notes by Charles Dickens 9781483703060
RRP: £15.99£14.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781483703060Author Charles DickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Bottom of the Hill PublishingPublisher Bottom of the Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
American Massacre by Sally Denton 9780375726361
RRP: £21.00£14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726361Author Sally DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
'To Save the People from Themselves': The Emergence of American Judicial Review and the Transformation of Constitutions by Robert J. Steinfeld 9781108984591
RRP: £22.99£20.66In this expansive history, Robert J. Steinfeld offers a thorough re-interpretation of the origins of American judicial review and the central role it quickly came to play in the American constitutional system. Beginning with Privy Council review of... -
Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus by Wilson Jeremiah Moses 9781108456876
RRP: £22.99£19.96In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from... -
The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870–1970 by Kunal M. Parker 9781009335232
RRP: £25.99£21.99In The Turn to Process, Kunal M. Parker explores the massive reorientation of American legal, political, and economic thinking between 1870 and 1970. Over this period, American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets went from being oriented around... -
Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy 9781107052864
RRP: £75.00£68.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America by Jordan T. Watkins 9781108746892
RRP: £22.99£21.06In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on... -
The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis by Jessica M. Lepler 9780521116534
RRP: £68.99£62.06In 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... -
Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic by Nancy Beadie 9781107617001
RRP: £29.99£27.40This book argues that schools were a driving force in the formation of social, political, and financial capital during the market revolution and capitalist transition of the early republican era. Grounded in an intensive study of schooling in the Genesee... -
The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War by Michael F. Conlin 9781108495271
RRP: £49.99£45.37In an incisive analysis of over two dozen clauses as well as several 'unwritten' rules and practices, The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War shows how the Constitution aggravated the sectional conflict over slavery to the point of civil war... -
Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South Kathleen M. Hilliard (Iowa State University) 9781107046467
RRP: £75.00£67.74This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten... -
Truth and Privilege: Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840 by Lyndsay Campbell 9781316510698
RRP: £47.99£43.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781316510698Author Lyndsay CampbellFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation by Wilma A. Dunaway 9780521812764
RRP: £54.00£48.90In The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation, Wilma Dunaway calls into question the dominant paradigm of the US slave family. She contends that US slavery studies have been flawed by neglect of small plantations and export zones and... -
Yankee Merchants and the Making of the Urban West: The Rise and Fall of Antebellum St Louis by Jeffrey S. Adler 9780521522359
RRP: £29.99£27.40By the early 1850s, St Louis was one of the fastest-growing cities in America. In this book, Jeffrey Adler analyzes the forces that determined the role of western cities in the national economy. He devotes particular attention to the ways in which Yankee... -
The Bondsman's Burden: An Economic Analysis of the Common Law of Southern Slavery Jenny Bourne Wahl (St Olaf College, Minnesota) 9780521521383
RRP: £29.99£27.40Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they... -
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850 by John Ashworth 9780521479943
RRP: £34.99£32.19The Civil War should be seen as America's 'bourgeois revolution'. So argues Dr John Ashworth in this novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development in the forty years before the Civil War. This book,... -
All Rights for All: Working for Justice by Rose O'Keefe 9781737780359
RRP: £15.99£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737780359Author Rose O'KeefeFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint R O'KeefePublisher R O'KeefeWeight(grams) 191g -
A Compass Pointing Home: the Adventurous Life of William Bratton of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: by Amie Kunkle Cox 9798985738315
RRP: £24.99£24.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985738315Author Amie Kunkle CoxFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Amie L. Boone-CoxPublisher Amie L. Boone-CoxWeight(grams) 640g -
Yosemite Stage Driver: The Life and Times of George Monroe and His Family by Tom Bopp 9798988162001
RRP: £19.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988162001Author Tom BoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Thomas A. BoppPublisher Thomas A. BoppWeight(grams) 440g -
The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement by David C. Crago 9781606354636
RRP: £42.95£32.57The story of one Ohio senator's impact on the early abolition movement More than 175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and constitutional antislavery without a biography devoted... -
Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919 by Amy Dunham Strand 9780415541619
RRP: £32.99£29.16Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national... -
American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy by John Lamberton Harper 9780521834858
RRP: £42.00£38.15Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation. This is the first detailed narrative study of his foreign... -
Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol.VIII (in 10 Volumes) by John M Hay 9781605206820
RRP: £26.99£24.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Canoe Rocks: Alaska's Tlingit and the Euramerican Frontier, 1800-1912 by Ted C. Hinckley 9780761802105
RRP: £95.00£83.52The Canoe Rocks is a historical analysis of the EuroAmerican impact on Alaska's Tlingit people. With its extensive documentation, the book will assist diverse scholars. After introducing Russia's early efforts to establish a profitable settlement in... -
The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898 by Sanford Levinson 9780742549845
RRP: £41.00£36.08The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound... -
Voices of the Marketplace: American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860 by Anne C. Rose 9780742532625
RRP: £112.00£97.75The three decades before the Civil War have long been recognized as a time of crucial change in American society. In this comprehensive and insightful reinterpretation of antebellum culture, Anne C. Rose analyzes the major shifts in intellectual life... -
Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol.X (in 10 Volumes) by John M Hay 9781605206868
RRP: £26.99£24.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605206868Author John M HayFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 789g -
Historic Tales from the Texas Republic: A Glimpse of Texas Past by Jeffery Robenalt 9781609499389
RRP: £19.99£14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499389Author Jeffery RobenaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 272g -
Who Really Saved Savannah?: The Surprising Paradox by Jack C Wray 9781490762647
£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490762647Author Jack C WrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 191g -
Life of Nathaniel Macon by William E Dodd 9781942806110
RRP: £35.00£30.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942806110Author William E DoddFormat HardbackImprint Scuppernong PressPublisher Scuppernong PressWeight(grams) 640g -
The Duel: A Captivating Guide to the Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Captivating History 9781647484811
RRP: £29.99£18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484811Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 376g -
Aaron Burr: A Captivating Guide to the Life of Aaron Burr and the Most Famous Duel in American History by Captivating History 9781647484866
RRP: £29.99£18.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484866Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 313g