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The Great Railroad Revolution by Christian Wolmar 9781610393478
RRP: $41.98$28.16America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries... -
The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch
RRP: $46.18$30.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451416865Author Thom HatchFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 355g -
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner) T.J. Stiles 9781400031740
RRP: $44.10$31.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 2009 and Pulitzer Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781400031740Author T.J. StilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives by Jad Adams 9781789147896
RRP: $42.00$30.85During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal... -
The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776 by Duane Meyer 9780807841990
RRP: $60.80$56.76Meyer addresses himself principally to two questions. Why did many thousands of Scottish Highlanders emigrate to America in the eighteenth century, and why did the majority of them rally to the defense of the Crown. . . . Offers the most complete and... -
Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino 9780802148650
RRP: $27.28$24.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148650Author David ZucchinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
The Impending Crisis, 1848-61 by David M. Potter 9780061319297
$24.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061319297Author David M. PotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by Cw Goodyear
RRP: $73.50$45.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982146917Author Cw GoodyearFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 162mm... -
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin 9780743270755
RRP: $50.40$36.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743270755Author Doris Kearns GoodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Simon & Schuster AudioPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 17: 1 March 1821 to 30 November 1821 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691207933
RRP: $281.40$220.35A definitive scholarly edition of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson The 612 documents in this volume include Jefferson's notes on his early career, one of the lengthiest papers of his retirement. Often misleadingly called his autobiography, the... -
Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L Swanson
RRP: $27.28$17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060518509Author James L. SwansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Eleanor by David Michaelis
RRP: $42.00$29.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439192047Author David MichaelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
Lawmen of the Wild West Terry C Treadwell 9781526782335
RRP: $52.50$37.00Without doubt it was one of the toughest jobs. Faced with ruthless criminal, trigger-happy gunslingers and assorted desperados, the lawmen of the Old West tried, and sometimes died, in their efforts to bring some semblance of order to their towns and... -
Commanding the Army of the Potomac by Stephen R. Taaffe 9780700614516
RRP: $113.40$79.13During the Civil War, thirty-six officers in the Army of the Potomac were assigned corps commands of up to 30,000 men. Collectively charged with leading the Union's most significant field army, these leaders proved their courage in countless battlefields... -
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller
RRP: $49.33$37.53From the 1660s to the early 1900s, no fewer than seven million people emigrated from Ireland to North America. This vast flow at once reflected and compelled enormous social changes on both sides of the Atlantic. In this book Miller chronicles the... -
A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe 9780486404882
RRP: $52.48$34.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486404882Author Daniel DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen 9780857381309
RRP: $35.68$25.07Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end... -
American Transcendentalism: A History by Philip F Gura 9780809016440
RRP: $56.70$35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016440Author Philip F GuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes by Claiborne A. Skinner 9780801888380
RRP: $55.65$53.15The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their... -
Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs of a Jewish Homesteader by Sophie Trupin 9780803294141
RRP: $27.28$20.85To most Jewish immigrants New York was America. Not many ventured as far as North Dakota at the turn of the century. Sophie Trupin writes of her father and other Jewish farmers who came to the northern plains: "Each was a Moses in his own right, leading... -
The Alamo's Forgotten Defenders: The Remarkable Story of the Irish During the Texas Revolution by Philip Thomas Tucker 9781611215342
RRP: $31.48$27.24The important contributions of the Irish in winning the struggle against Mexico and establishing a new republic are noticeably absent from the Alamo and Texas Revolutionary historiography. Phillip Thomas Tucker breaks new ground by rectifying the... -
The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley 9780316410670
RRP: $102.90$72.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316410670Author James BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read by Jesse Ventura
RRP: $41.98$25.85New York Times Bestseller! Let Governor Jesse Ventura take you through the paperwork that the US government tried to keep secret from the world-JFK and Vietnam, chemical and biological warfare, Gulf War illness, warnings about 9/11, and more!The official... -
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman
RRP: $33.58$23.00In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and... -
Empires Of Light by Jill Jonnes
RRP: $35.68$25.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758843Author Jill JonnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Shooters: A Gallery of Notorious Gunmen from the American West by Leon Claire Metz 9780425154502
RRP: $50.40$34.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425154502Author Leon Claire MetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition by R. R. Palmer 9780691161280
RRP: $63.00$49.75For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age... -
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan
RRP: $37.80$24.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288584Author Justin KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
The Apache Wars: The Hunt For Geronimo, The Apache Kid, And The Captive Boy Who Started The Longest War In American History by Paul Andrew Hutton
RRP: $39.88$26.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435837Author Paul Andrew HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch 9780312317898
RRP: $42.00$26.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312317898Author Scott ZeschFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Chief Joseph And The Flight Of The Nez Perce: The Untold Story Of An American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn 9780061136085
RRP: $25.18$23.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution by Tom Hatley 9780195096385
RRP: $100.78$74.97This book focuses on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers in the years 1608, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when a treaty effectively removed the Cherokees from the region. It is... -
The Class of 1846 by John C. Waugh 9780345434036
RRP: $37.78$28.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345434036Author John C. WaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm)... -
Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice by Bruce Levine
RRP: $41.98$24.44A "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century's greatest statesmen, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America.Thaddeus Stevens was among the first to see... -
The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely by C. Vann Woodward
RRP: $27.28$19.09Strange Career offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws and American race relations. This book presented evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1880s. It's publication in 1955, a year after the Supreme... -
A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920 by Dennis Patrick Halpin
RRP: $73.50$64.55In A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In... -
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White
RRP: $64.03$49.18The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation... -
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 9780393308730
RRP: $33.58$29.86In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its... -
American Anti-Communism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970 by M. J. Heale
RRP: $50.40$44.48This succinct and sensible history shows how fear of 'Reds' was linked in the nineteenth century to the destabilizing impact of industrialization and in the twentieth century to perceptions of global insecurity. An excellent concluding chapter explains... -
Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail by Keith Heyer Meldahl 9780226519623
RRP: $35.70$30.70In 1849, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor...