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Law and Order in Buffalo Bill's Country: Legal Culture and Community on the Great Plains, 1867-1910 by Mark R. Ellis 9780803227873
£23.23Celebrated accounts of lawless towns that relied on the extra-legal justice of armed citizens and hired gunmen are part of the enduring cultural legacy of the American West. This image of the frontier has been fueled for more than a century by... -
Once We Were Strangers: A German Immigrant Family in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest by Roberta Reb Allen 9780700636273
RRP: £97.00£78.32Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allen’s Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is both the saga of an immigrant family told within the larger social, political, and economic context of... -
Engines of Diplomacy: Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire by David Andrew Nichols 9781469626895
RRP: £37.95£34.87As a fledgling republic, the United States implemented a series of trading outposts to engage indigenous peoples and to expand American interests west of the Appalachian Mountains. Under the authority of the executive branch, this Indian factory system... -
The Papers of John Marshall: Volume III: Correspondence and Papers, January 1796-December 1798 by William C. Stinchcombe 9781469623641
£86.44Collected here are correspondence, papers, and legal documents - including selected judicial opinions - of American jurist John Marshall. Revolutionary officer, congressman, and secretary of state before his appointment to the Supreme Court, Marshall... -
A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers 9781469620152
RRP: £44.95£42.11Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war... -
The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921 by Adam D. Shprintzen 9781469626529
£33.22Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years of the movement have been woefully misunderstood and understudied. Through the Civil War, the vegetarian movement focused on social and political... -
A History of the Book in America, Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880 by Professor Scott E. Casper 9781469621609
RRP: £55.00£52.03Volume 3 of A History of the Book in America narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and... -
Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law by Loren Schweninger 9781469619118
£33.22In the antebellum South, divorce was an explosive issue. As one lawmaker put it, divorce was to be viewed as a form of "madness," and as another asserted, divorce reduced communities to the "lowest ebb of degeneracy." How was it that... -
The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict by Andre M. Fleche 9781469613680
RRP: £29.95£28.11It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas. Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre M. Fleche examines how questions of... -
Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920 by Andrew P. Haley 9781469609805
RRP: £37.95£35.76In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the twentieth century, even the best restaurants dished up ethnic and American foods to middle-class urbanites spending a night on... -
Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball 9781469607849
RRP: £34.95£32.62Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorised reprint of the earlier Slavery in the United States (1836). In the narratives, Ball describes his experiences as a slave, including the uncertainty of slave... -
Journal of a Secesh Lady: The Diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston, 1860-1866 by Beth Gilbert Crabtree 9780865264984
RRP: £36.95£33.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865264984Author Beth Gilbert CrabtreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 890Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office of... -
The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke by Katharine DuPre Lumpkin 9780807897164
RRP: £49.95£45.57Although Angelina and Sarah Grimke have been regarded as equally gifted and involved abolitionists and nineteenth-century women's rights advocates, this first biography of Angelina clearly shows that she, indeed, was the outstanding leader, as her... -
Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880 by Rodman Paul 9780826303158
£37.28The California Gold Rush was only the first of a series of rushes that brought the first permanent settlers to much of the Far West between 1848 and 1880. Despite a flood of popular writings on separate mining regions, this book is the first to view the... -
New York City Mutual Savings Banks, 1819-1861 by Alan L. Olmstead 9780807897430
RRP: £49.95£45.36These institutions were founded ostensibly for philanthropic purposes--to encourage and reward thrift on the part of society's lower classes. For purposes of analysis, Olmstead formulates an alternative hypothesis. Men organized mutuals for the same... -
Sacred Interests: The United States and the Islamic World, 1821-1921 by Karine V. Walther 9781469645582
RRP: £32.95£32.22Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.S. diplomatic, cultural, political, and religious beliefs about Islam began to shape their responses to world events. In Sacred... -
Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation by Rose Stremlau 9780807872048
RRP: £37.95£35.22During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family , Rose Stremlau illuminates the... -
Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820 by Susan E. Klepp 9780807859926
RRP: £42.95£39.42In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, Susan E. Klepp... -
Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature by Ivy Schweitzer 9780807857786
RRP: £32.95£30.63Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. As Ivy Schweitzer explains, however, this perception leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an... -
In This Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860 by Edward Watts 9780807857625
RRP: £32.95£30.36When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into... -
Moral Reconstruction: Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Morality, 1865-1920 by Gaines M. Foster 9780807853665
RRP: £42.95£39.42Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale... -
The Transformation of American Abolitionism: Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic by Richard S. Newman 9780807849989
RRP: £42.95£39.03How abolitionism evolved from an elite and conservative movement to a radical, grassroots reform cause; Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The... -
American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture by Brian Roberts 9780807848562
RRP: £42.95£39.38California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious figure, the forty-niner; in short, a place that seems utterly unconnected to middle-class culture... -
Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America by Isabelle Lehuu 9780807848326
RRP: £49.95£45.36In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftbooks, fashion magazines, and other ephemeral printed materials brought exuberance and theatricality to... -
The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917 by Jon Gjerde 9780807848074
RRP: £49.95£46.97In the century preceding World War I, the American Middle West drew thousands of migrants both from Europe and from the northeastern United States. In the American mind, the region represented a place where social differences could be muted and a... -
Iron Confederacies: Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction by Scott Reynolds Nelson 9780807848036
RRP: £42.95£39.11During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia,... -
Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South by Peter W. Bardaglio 9780807847121
RRP: £46.95£44.71In Reconstructing the Household , Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners... -
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction by Professor of History Mark Wahlgren Summers 9781469664071
RRP: £35.95£35.58For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren... -
Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution by Anthony F. C. Wallace 9780803298538
£24.48A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania. The lives of workers, managers, inventors,... -
The Real Lincoln: A Portrait by Jesse W. Weik 9780803298224
£38.26Originally published in 1922, The Real Lincoln is an in-depth look at Abraham Lincoln the man, not the public figure. Acclaimed at the time as an excellent, impartial source book, The Real Lincoln was compiled by Jesse W. Weik through a series of letters... -
Capitalism on the Frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century by Carroll Van West 9780803247550
£46.42Focusing on the Clark's Fort Bottom, a twenty-five-mile stretch between present-day Park City and Billings, Montana, this pathbreaking study examines the successive stages of capitalist development in Billings and the Yellowstone Valley during the... -
Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World by Thomas C. Buchanan 9780807858134
RRP: £32.95£30.41All along the Mississippi - on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats - nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a... -
Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture by Jeannine Marie DeLombard 9780807858127
RRP: £42.95£39.47America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine... -
A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 by Karin A. Shapiro 9780807847336
RRP: £46.95£43.92In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government authority. Propelled by the insurgent sensibilities of... -
Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South by Mitchell Snay 9780807846872
RRP: £46.95£43.53The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of... -
The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 by Nina Silber 9780807846858
RRP: £42.95£39.28The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nina Silber documents the transformation from hostile sectionalism to... -
Adding the Lone Star: John Tyler, Sam Houston, and the Annexation of Texas by Jordan T. Cash 9780700636389
RRP: £97.00£80.33The annexation of Texas was one of the most momentous actions the United States government took in the antebellum period. Apart from adding what was the largest state in the Union at that time, it expedited further avenues for westward expansion,... -
The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act by Alice Elizabeth Malavasic 9781469636474
£98.65Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress... -
Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890-1930 by M. Alison Kibler 9781469618364
RRP: £39.95£37.40A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the... -
A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War by William H. Pease 9781469613802
RRP: £42.95£39.50The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state...