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Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East by Ussama Makdisi 9780801446214
RRP: $82.56$57.33The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly... -
Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome by Patrick Allitt 9780801429965
RRP: $95.46$67.14From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at... -
Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland: Iowa's Railroad Experience by Don L. Hofsommer 9780253345158
$55.91"Steel Trails of Hawkeyeland offers a comprehensive examination of railroads in Iowa from the introduction of the iron horse to the present. It is more than a study of a single, albeit significant American state. Hofsommer superbly relates local... -
The Presidency of William McKinley by Lewis L. Gould 9780700602063
RRP: $76.11$71.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700602063Author Lewis L. GouldFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of KansasWeight(grams)... -
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Volume 7: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California by Rose Marie Beebe 9780806190761
$53.77Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807-90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California. In 1874-75, Vallejo, working with historian and... -
Children's Voices from the Trail Volume 20: Narratives of the Platte River Road by Rosemary G. Palmer 9780806191133
RRP: $28.32$27.43A scholarly work on children's narratives of life on the overland trails, Children's Voices from the Trail is an invaluable source book for researchers and historians of the overland experience. Although at least one-fifth of the approximately 350,000... -
In Hot Pursuit: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad in Lawrence County Pennsylvania by Elizabeth Hoover Dirisio 9780997227611
RRP: $25.80$21.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Nogales: Life and Times on the Frontier by Jane Eppinga 9780738524054
RRP: $32.24$20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738524054Author Jane EppingaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 386g -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 10: Patrick Gass by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280229
RRP: $30.95$25.88An accomplished carpenter and boat builder, Patrick Gass proved to be an invaluable and well-liked member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Promoted to sergeant after the death of Charles Floyd, Gass was almost certainly responsible for supervising the... -
The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861 by Stephen B. Oates 9780803269316
RRP: $39.99$32.42Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen principal players in the drama, from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay in the Missouri crisis of 1820 down to... -
Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo: A Frontier Memoir by William D. Street 9780700636167
RRP: $48.96$38.18A Kansas Notable BookNearing 60, William D. Street (1851–1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street’s early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life... -
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery by David Brion Davis 9780674019850
RRP: $34.77$13.11In this engaging book, David Brion Davis offers an illuminating perspective on American slavery. Starting with a long view across the temporal and spatial boundaries of world slavery, he traces continuities from the ancient world to the era of... -
A Sunday Between Wars by Ben Maddow 9780393335637
RRP: $25.80$22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393335637Author Ben MaddowFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 463g -
Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War by Ira Berlin 9780521634496
RRP: $25.79$20.70When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their... -
John Finerty Reports the Sioux War by Paul L. Hedren 9780806191003
RRP: $28.32$27.43In War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty (1846-1908) recalled the summer he spent following George Crook's infamous campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised that Finerty's correspondence covering the campaign for... -
Mapping the Four Corners: Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875 by Robert S. McPherson 9780806169217
$24.66In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in... -
Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894 by Kenneth H. Wheeler 9780820357522
$43.95Modern Cronies traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern United States. Existing historical scholarship treats the gold rush as a self-contained blip that-aside... -
Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771–1877 by George Harwood Phillips 9780806167459
$30.20Indian labor was vital to the early economic development of the Los Angeles region. This first volume in the new series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico explores for the first time Native contributions to early Southern California. Opening... -
Henry Clay Frick and the Golden Age of Coal and Coke, 1870-1920 by Cassandra Vivian 9781476681559
RRP: $41.27$35.00Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke industry began to flourish and supply other fledgling industries with the fuel they needed to succeed. The thrust of this growth came from Henry Clay Frick, who... -
The Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge by Richard Irving Dodge 9780806159829
RRP: $28.32$27.43In the spring and summer of 1875, Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge escorted the scientific expedition of geologist Walter P. Jenney into the Black Hills of the Dakotas to determine the truth of rumors of gold started by Gen. George Armstrong Custer the... -
Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains by Stan Hoig 9780806142012
$24.66Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains is a comprehensive account of Indian conflicts in the area between the Platte River and the Rio Grande, from the first written reports of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century through the United States-Cheyenne Battle... -
Inside the Spanish-American War: A History Based on First-Person Accounts by James M. McCaffrey 9781476681795
RRP: $28.37$23.18This is the story of the Spanish-American War, told not from the perspective of generals, policy makers, or politicians, but from that of the soldiers, sailors and marines in the field and the reporters who covered their efforts. Concentration on the... -
The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival by J Diane Pearson 9780806139012
$40.07Following the Nez Perce War of 1877, federal representatives promised the Nimiipuu who surrendered with Chief Joseph repatriation to their Pacific Northwest homes. Instead, they were driven into exile. This book tells the story of the Nimiipuu captivity... -
Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics by Mark Wahlgren Summers 9780807855379
RRP: $60.57$56.79Much of late-nineteenth-century American politics was parade and pageant. Voters crowded the polls, and their votes made a real difference on policy. In Party Games, Mark Wahlgren Summers tells the full story and admires much of the political carnival,... -
History of the St. James Hotel Cimarron, New Mexico by Ed Sitzberger 9780999497906
RRP: $25.74$20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999497906Author Ed SitzbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Cimarron PressPublisher Cimarron PressWeight(grams) 268g -
Midwest Frontier Stories: Collection 1 by Floyd Scharff 9780999494509
RRP: $25.74$20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999494509Author Floyd ScharffFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Floyd E ScharffPublisher Floyd E ScharffWeight(grams) 240g -
Quaker Carpetbagger: J. Williams Thorne, Underground Railroad Host Turned North Carolina Politician by Max Longley 9781476669854
RRP: $37.40$31.02J. Williams Thorne (1816-1897) was an outspoken farmer who spent the first half-century of his remarkable life in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he took part in political debates, helped fugitive slaves in the Underground Railroad and co-founded the... -
Resistance to Civil Government: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau 9780991010776
RRP: $11.60$8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991010776Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Warren BluhmPublisher Warren BluhmWeight(grams) 148g -
Desperate Seed: Ellsworth, Kansas on the Violent Frontier by Jim Gray 9780982274118
RRP: $45.09$27.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982274118Author Jim GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Kansas Cowboy PublishingPublisher Kansas Cowboy PublishingWeight(grams) 508g -
Confronting Slavery: Edward Coles and the Rise of Antislavery Politics in Nineteenth-Century America by Suzanne Cooper-Guasco 9780875806891
RRP: $33.53$26.38Edward Coles, who lived from 1786-1868, is most often remembered for his antislavery correspondence with Thomas Jefferson in 1814, freeing his slaves in 1819, and leading the campaign against the legalization of slavery in Illinois during the 1823-24... -
City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 by Marcus P Nevius 9780820361697
$37.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820361697Author Marcus P NeviusFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument by Seth C. Bruggeman 9780820331782
$37.37This is a lively and engaging look at patriotism and collective memory.In ""Here, George Washington Was Born"", Seth C. Bruggeman examines the broader history of commemoration in the United States by focusing on the George Washington... -
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest by William S. Kiser 9780812225020
RRP: $30.95$26.88It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of... -
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic by Charlene M.Boyer Lewis 9780812222920
RRP: $30.95$30.15Two centuries ago, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was one of the most famous women in America. Beautiful, scandalous, and outspoken, she had wed Napoleon's brother Jerome, borne his child, and seen the marriage annulled by the emperor himself. With her... -
Sherman's March Through the Carolinas by John G. Barrett 9780807845660
RRP: $39.93$25.17In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865,... -
Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People Without a History by Lucy M. Cohen 9780807124574
$25.55In much of the United States, immigrants from China banded together in self-enclosed communities, ""Chinatowns,"" in which they retained their language, culture, and social organization. In the South, however, the Chinese began to... -
Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic by Simon P. Newman 9780812217247
$30.50Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the... -
White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia by Charles L. Flynn Jr 9780807124239
$25.40The society of the postbellum South was built upon two interweaving but ultimately irreconcilable systems: a racist caste system and an economic class system. The caste system was supposed to assure that all whites would be equals above the underclass of... -
Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War Era by James Hill Welborn III 9780813949314
$133.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813949314Author James Hill Welborn IIIFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press -
The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861 by Glen Sample Ely 9780806193199
RRP: $38.64$32.60This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at...