19th Century

A global history of how Thomas Jefferson's descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of Independence on both sides of the color line The Declaration of Independence identified two core principles-independence and equality-that defined the...

From the author of Lakota America, an award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire "Cutting-edge revisionist western history."-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books "A landmark study that will make readers...

New York Times Bestseller Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a "stunning" (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788269126624Author Howdie MickoskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Howard MickoskiPublisher Howard MickoskiWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military...

Born after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world--and, with it, the task of working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office, formed an association, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250214577Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

For almost two centuries, the last stand at the Alamo has been recognized as a defining moment in America's history. On February 23, 1836, a Mexican army thousands of soldiers strong attacked a makeshift garrison of about 200 Texas settlers-among them,...

The Age of Revolution (1776-1848) destroyed the main slave regimes of the Caribbean but a 'Second Slavery' surged in the US South, Cuba and Brazil, powered by demand for plantation produce and a system of financial credit that leveraged the value of the...

In this classic account of the American revolution, Pauline Maier traces the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from the British. She follows the American Whigs as they...

If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today. In...

For two generations after independence, Americans viewed the Mediterranean as the new commercial frontier. From common sailors to wealthy merchants, hundreds of Americans flocked to live and work there. Documenting the eventful lives of three American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501118715Author Robert WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596090316Author John AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chamberlain BrosPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 192g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596090316Author John AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Chamberlain BrosPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 192g

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But...

In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early 19th century to the closing of the frontier by the early 20th. He introduces us to explorers,...

This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the History of the USA 1820-1941 Option from the Cambridge AS Level History syllabus for first examination from 2021.Develop knowledge and analytical skills with engaging...

Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, the birth of Hollywood, and a glamorous gangster-led...

The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those...

From the award-winning author of Dressing Up, a riveting and diverse history of women s hair that reestablishes the cultural power of hairdressing in nineteenth-century America. In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121787Author Steven HahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679730545Author Fawn M. BrodieFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593187241Author Randall WoodsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country.Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the...

America was born in an age of political revolution throughout the Atlantic world, a period when the very definition of 'nation' was transforming. Benjamin E. Park traces how Americans imagined novel forms of nationality during the country's first five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060747503Author Jackson LearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 342g

The first definitive account of this legendary fighting force and its extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Lee Gardner's Rough Riders is narrative nonfiction at its most invigorating and compulsively readable. Its dramatic unfolding of a...

In this vivid history of American western expansion, Conevery Bolton Valencius captures the excitement, romanticism, and confusion of the frontier experience as well as another, less renowned reality of settling: how terrifying the untamed wilderness of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553214642Author Alexis De TocquevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187578Author Stephen FenderFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

In this exciting revisionist history, Stephen Tuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President Obama's inauguration. As it moves from popular culture to high politics, from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302412Author Jerrold M PackardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever;...

Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being "strange," fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly...

In 1957, the University of Chicago Press asked acclaimed best-selling historian Daniel J. Boorstin to oversee a series of accessible yet authoritative books that, together, would tell the whole history of the American people. The result, published over...

Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy is a history of the Confederate guerrillas who, under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and ""Bloody Bill"" Anderson, plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any...

Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life...

Popular culture transformed his memory into "Davy Crockett," and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of...

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