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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry: A Brief History with Documents by Jonathan Earle 9780312392802
RRP: €32.12€28.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312392802Author Jonathan EarleFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Bedford BooksPublisher Bedford BooksWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *... -
Jim Crow Moves North: The Battle over Northern School Segregation, 1865-1954 by Davison Douglas 9780521607834
RRP: €30.93€26.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States by Matthew Frye Jacobson 9780674831858
RRP: €102.28€81.42Conventional wisdom would have us believe that every immigrant to the United States "became American," by choice and with deliberate speed. Yet, as Special Sorrows shows us, this is simply untrue. In this compelling revisionist study, Matthew Frye... -
Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial by John Evangelist Walsh 9780312229221
RRP: €44.02€26.10Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Manifest Destinies, Second Edition: The Making of the Mexican American Race by Laura E. Gomez 9780814731741
RRP: €86.87€43.66Watch the Author Interview on KNME In both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening rather than... -
Jackson Years by Eugene M. Wait 9781560728313
RRP: €94.00€76.80This is the story of the first three years of the Jackson presidency. The book covers other events in the United States during that period. Andrew Jackson himself is the focus of this work, but there were many actors on the national stage. Presidential... -
The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century by Jon Grinspan 9781469654744
RRP: €35.64€32.36There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout reached unprecedented peaks--young people led the way, hollering, fighting, and flirting at... -
Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America by Ronald G. Walters 9780801863486
€31.51In Primers for Prudery Ronald G. Walters examines the historical and social context as well as the substance of sexual advice manuals in nineteenth-century America. Allowing the authors of these manuals to speak for themselves-with generous excerpts by... -
Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage: A Personal History of the Allotment Era by Darnella Davis 9780826359797
€65.94Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the... -
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson by Donald B. Cole 9780700606009
RRP: €70.21€66.41In 1829 Andrew Jackson arrived in Washington in a carriage. Eight years and two turbulent presidential terms later, he left on a train. Those years, among the most prosperous in American history, saw America transformed not only by growth in... -
Throne of Grace: A Mountain Man, an Epic Adventure, and the Bloody Conquest of the American West by Tom Clavin 9781250285836
RRP: €35.70€20.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250285836Author Tom ClavinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
May Day - A Short History of the International Workers' Holiday, 1886-1986 by Philip Sheldon Foner 9780717806249
RRP: €15.46€14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717806249Author Philip Sheldon FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc... -
Alexander Hamilton (1762-1824) by Rosane Rocher 9780940490512
RRP: €28.56€26.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940490512Author Rosane RocherFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint American Oriental SocietyPublisher American Oriental Society -
Adams vs Jackson by Eugene M. Wait 9781590330784
RRP: €101.14€67.03John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson figured prominently in the turbulent years of middle nineteenth century. As the stage was set for the Civil War, political parties crystallised and the nation underwent economic upheaval. Conflict with native tribes... -
Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 (Esprios Classics) by Frederick Jackson Turner 9781034497479
RRP: €28.86€20.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034497479Author Frederick Jackson TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g -
The Hog Ranches of Wyoming: Liquor, Lust, and Lies under Sagebrush Skies by Larry K Brown 9780931271304
RRP: €15.41€9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931271304Author Larry K BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint High Plains PressPublisher High Plains PressWeight(grams) 140g -
From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune by Philip M. Katz 9780674323483
RRP: €84.43€66.68The American Civil War and the Paris Commune of 1871, Philip Katz argues, were part of the broader sweep of transatlantic development in the mid-nineteenth century--an age of democratic civil wars. Katz shows how American political culture in the period... -
Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South by Calvin Schermerhorn 9781421400365
€37.04Once a sleepy plantation society, the region from the Chesapeake Bay to coastal North Carolina modernized and diversified its economy in the years before the Civil War. Central to this industrializing process was slave labor. Money over Mastery, Family... -
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume III: No Union with the Slaveholders: 1841-1849 by William Lloyd Garrison 9780674526624
RRP: €146.31€116.93As early as 1842 Garrison advanced the idea of disunion, arguing that the Constitution was "a covenant with death." Distressed by Calhoun's signing of the annexation treaty for Texas, he prophesied that civil war was inevitable. Though plagued... -
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume IV: From Disunionism to the Brink of War: 1850-1860 by William Lloyd Garrison 9780674526631
RRP: €146.31€116.93The fiery editor of the Liberator helped shape the destiny of a divided nation rapidly moving toward war. His letters ring with denunciations of the Compromise of 1850 and the barbarous Fugitive Slave Law, a federal bill that not only sent runaway slaves... -
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume I: I Will be Heard!: 1822-1835 by William Lloyd Garrison 9780674526600
RRP: €152.26€121.57William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), outstanding among the dedicated fighters for the abolition of slavery, was also an activist in other movements such as women's and civil rights and religious reform. Never tiring in battle, he was "irrepressible,... -
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: A House Dividing against Itself: 1836-1840 by William Lloyd Garrison 9780674526617
RRP: €146.31€117.64William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), outstanding among the dedicated fighters for the abolition of slavery, was also an activist in other movements such as women's and civil rights and religious reform. Never tiring in battle, he was "irrepressible,... -
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume VI: To Rouse the Slumbering Land: 1868-1879 by William Lloyd Garrison 9780674526662
RRP: €152.26€121.57This is the sixth and final volume collecting the letters of an outstanding figure in American history. During the years when these letters were written, Garrison was secure, both financially and in his reputation as distinguished abolitionist. Although... -
Recollections of Other Days by Murphy Givens 9780983256540
RRP: €53.49€36.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983256540Author Murphy GivensFormat HardbackImprint JimPublisher JimWeight(grams) 535g -
The Mill on Halfway Brook by Louise Elizabeth Smith 9780982637401
RRP: €33.26€24.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982637401Author Louise Elizabeth SmithFormat PaperbackImprint Halfway BrookPublisher Halfway BrookWeight(grams) 644g -
Watervliet: The Canal Days by Don Rittner 9780937666654
RRP: €35.69€28.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937666654Author Don RittnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint New Netherland PressPublisher New Netherland PressWeight(grams) 231g -
Local Matters: Race, Crime and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South by Christopher Waldrep 9780820340814
€34.97Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies. Drawing on previously untapped sources, the nine original papers collected here represent some of the... -
From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West by Bill Neal 9780896726376
RRP: €39.21€24.11When a thirteen-year-old boy strikes out on his own in 1885, leaving his Civil War-ravaged Mississippi homeland for the wild Red River border land between North Texas and Indian Territory, the American West is a land beyond the reach of the law. Crime... -
Pistols And Politics: The Dilemma of Democracy in Louisiana's Florida Parishes, 1810-1899 by Samuel C. Hyde 9780807122709
€25.88In the nineteenth-century South, there existed numerous local pockets where cultures and values different from those of the dominant planter class prevailed. One such area was the Florida parishes of southeastern Louisiana, where peculiar conditions... -
Soldiers of Light and Love by Jacqueline Jones 9780820323831
€35.08Soldiers of Light and Love is an acclaimed study of the reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn Reconstruction South. Jacqueline Jones's book, first published in 1980, focuses on the nearly three hundred women who served in... -
Free-Thought on the American Frontier by Fred Whitehead 9780879756987
RRP: €35.70€33.96This important collection of cultural life in America's heartland will prove indispensable to our understanding of the history of the struggle between the forces of repression and Puritanism on the one hand, and those who raised on high the banner of... -
No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s by Sarah Rose 9781469630083
€122.18In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a major transformation was occurring in many spheres of society: people with every sort of disability were increasingly being marginalized, excluded, and incarcerated. Disabled but still productive... -
Pocahontas and Sacagawea - Interwoven Legacies in American History by Cyndi Spindell Berck 9780990959250
RRP: €23.74€17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990959250Author Cyndi Spindell BerckFormat PaperbackImprint Commonwealth Books, LLCPublisher Commonwealth Books, LLCWeight(grams) 476g -
Maggie: From Indiana to Montana A Pioneer Woman's Story by Myrna Shafer Carpita 9780997611410
RRP: €35.64€32.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997611410Author Myrna Shafer CarpitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Pioneer BooksPublisher Pioneer BooksWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
Two-Gun: The Forgotten Legend of Will Adams by William Lee Adams 9780981742816
RRP: €35.64€28.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981742816Author William Lee AdamsFormat PaperbackImprint Tdlad PublishingPublisher Tdlad PublishingWeight(grams) 445g -
The Spiritual Crisis of the Gilded Age by Carter 9780875800264
RRP: €30.93€25.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875800264Author CarterFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Northern Illinois University PressPublisher Cornell University PressWeight(grams) 28g -
In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage by Robert Campbell 9780812220483
€34.03Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the... -
Fall River Outrage: Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England by David Richard Kasserman 9780812212228
€28.18Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing... -
A Girl's Life in New Orleans: The Diary of Ella Grunewald, 1884–1886 by Hans C. Rasmussen 9780807179383
€36.58A Girl's Life in New Orleans presents the diary of Ella Grunewald, an upper-middle-class teenager in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. Grunewald, the daughter of one of the Crescent City's leading music dealers, used her journal to record... -
Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880 by John C. Rodrigue 9780807127285
€25.62In Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John C. Rodrigue examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labor in one enclave of the South -- the cane sugar region of southern Louisiana. In contrast to the various forms of...