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America & the War of 1812 by Eugene M. Wait 9781560726449
RRP: €79.72€64.66This is a complete account of the war of 1812 in American history, with due attention to naval battles as well as land battles. It begins with the background of the war in interesting detail and covers the war itself for the majority of the book. Besides... -
The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America by Wendy Gamber 9780801885716
€53.69In nineteenth-century America, the bourgeois home epitomized family, morality, and virtue. But this era also witnessed massive urban growth and the acceptance of the market as the overarching model for economic relations. A rapidly changing environment... -
Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire by Stefan Aune 9780520395398
RRP: €95.20€85.69References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring... -
Invisible Sovereign: Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Mark G. Schmeller 9781421418704
€53.79In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent-and ambiguous-invention. While appearing to promise a new style and system of democratic and deliberative politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement... -
Devil's Right Hand: The Tragic Story Of The Colt Family Curse by M. William Phelps 9780762788460
RRP: €15.46€11.61The Devil's Right Hand chroniclesthe legacy of death and destruction in the gunmaking Colt family during the nineteenth century, a legacy largely remembered for a lurid murder case that inspired Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Oblong Box"-but one that... -
Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War by Curtis D. Johnson 9781566630313
€25.28Analyzing the struggle by evangelical Protestants for the mind and soul of America in the decades before the Civil War, Johnson lucidly explores the nature of the evangelical message, the conflict of ideas within the movement, and the influence of these... -
Beyond the Sunshine: A Timeline of Florida's Past by Rick Baker 9781683340140
RRP: €17.79€17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683340140Author Rick BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy by Matthew G. Schoenbachler 9780813133874
RRP: €27.37€27.25The "Kentucky Tragedy" was early America's best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his... -
Representative Americans: Populists and Progressives by Norman K. Risjord 9780742521711
€64.74Populists and Progressives, Norman K Risjord's next book in the Representative Americans series, gives readers a fascinating glimpse into the tumultuous turn of the twentieth century. Risjord brings together brief biographies to explore the political,... -
The Rush: A New History of the Gold Rush - America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1855 by Edward Dolnick 9780316175685
RRP: €26.17€21.05In the spring of 1848, rumours began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared 'Gold Fever!' as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs,... -
Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America by Mitchell Snay 9780742551008
€70.03Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was a major figure in nineteenth century American history. As a newspaper editor, politician, and reformer, Greeley was involved with the major events and trends of the era. He was the influential editor of the New York Tribune... -
Incarcerated Women: A History of Struggles, Oppression, and Resistance in American Prisons by Erica Rhodes Hayden 9781498542111
RRP: €107.10€93.78The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of female inmates in these institutions have not received the same attention. Historically, women... -
Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg 9780393531527
RRP: €26.18€22.69What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton’s “old New York,” recounts the... -
Merchants and Manufacturers: Studies in the Changing Structure of Nineteeth Century Marketing by Glenn Porter 9780929587103
RRP: €17.84€13.72In its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy, the United States saw a fundamental change in the marketing of manufactured goods during the 19th century. Changes in distribution were at least as important as changes in production, as... -
A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827 by Robert Aitchison 9780917860508
RRP: €15.46€10.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917860508Author Robert AitchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.Publisher Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S. -
Immortal Summer: A Victorian Woman's Travels in the Southwest by Mary J. Straw Cook 9780890134030
RRP: €30.93€25.05In 1897, two sisters embark from Pennsylvania in search of soul-broadening experiences in the Indian Southwest, newly opened to intrepid travellers. Their letters and photographs are the heart of this brilliantly reassembled grand tour.Book... -
Social Theories of Jacksonian Democracy: Representative Writings of the Period 1825-1850 by Joseph L. Blau 9780872206908
RRP: €59.50€48.74History's first national party with roots in a mass electorate, the Jacksonian Democrats were not so much unified around a shared policy program as they were a patchwork of conflicting interests. They came together most vigorously in the name of what... -
American Monster: How the Nation's First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity by Paul Semonin 9780814781203
RRP: €88.06€77.17In 1801, the first complete mastodon skeleton was excavated in the Hudson River Valley, marking the climax of a century-long debate in America and Europe over the identity of a mysterious creature known as the American Incognitum. Long before the... -
Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnicity and Culture in New York's Lower East Side by Mario Maffi 9780814755099
€107.43The cultural diversity of America is often summed up by way of a different metaphors: Melting Pot, Patchwork, Quilt, Mosaic--none of which capture the symbiotics of the city. Few neighborhoods personify the diversity these terms connote more than New... -
The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century by Paul H. Mattingly 9780814754009
RRP: €28.55€24.80"Professor Paul H. Mattingly's The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen of the Nineteenth Century is unquestionably a major contribution to the history of American education. It rests on a thorough command of the scholarship of the field and... -
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays by Ellen Carol DuBois 9780814719817
€106.96More than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands-along with her close friend Susan B. Anthony-as the major icon of the struggle for women's suffrage. In spite of this celebrity, Stanton's intellectual contributions have... -
American Collegiate Populations: A Test of the Traditional View by Colin Burke 9780814710388
RRP: €88.06€77.17American Collegiate Populations is an exhaustive and definitive study of the membership of American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. Colin B. Burke explores the questions of who went, who stayed and where they came from, presenting... -
The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic by Jeffrey L. Pasley 9780813921778
€51.11Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their counterparts of two hundred years ago. From the late eighteenth to the late... -
Liquor in the Land of the Lost Cause: Southern White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement by Joe L. Coker 9780813124711
RRP: €89.85€38.41Cutting a wide east-west swath from the Appalachian foothills to the heart of the western Kentucky coalfields, the Green River valley extends from below the Tennessee border in the south to the Ohio River in the north. The Green River of Kentucky... -
On Jordan's Banks: Emancipation and Its Aftermath in the Ohio River Valley by Darrel E. Bigham 9780813123660
RRP: €77.29€39.47The story of the Ohio River and its settlements are an integral part of American history, particularly during the country's westward expansion. The vibrant African American communities along the Ohio's banks, however, have rarely been studied in depth... -
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century by Derek Chang 9780812222067
RRP: €29.74€26.98In America after the Civil War, the emancipation of four million slaves and the explosion of Chinese immigration fundamentally challenged traditional ideas about who belonged in the national polity. As Americans struggled to redefine citizenship in the... -
Local Consequences of the Global Cold War by Jeffrey Engel 9780804759472
RRP: €78.54€68.22Up to now the study of cold war history has been fully engaged in stressing the international character and broad themes of the story. This volume turns such diplomatic history upside down by studying how actions of international relations affected... -
The Missouri River Journals of John James Audubon by John James Audubon 9780803244986
RRP: €73.78€64.93Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca... -
Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America by Richard Stott 9780801891373
RRP: €61.29€54.51"Jolly fellows," a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to those men whose more colorful antics included brawling, heavy drinking, gambling, and playing pranks. Reforms, especially the temperance movement, stigmatized... -
America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 by Alasdair Roberts 9780801478864
RRP: €23.79€20.87For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was... -
America's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 by Alasdair Roberts 9780801450334
RRP: €41.65€36.58For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was... -
Gold: Firsthand Accounts From The Rush That Made The West by John Richard Stephens 9780762791507
RRP: €17.84€13.72The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn't officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the... -
Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper by Jacqueline Bacon 9780739118931
RRP: €134.47€117.83On March 16, 1827,Freedom's Journal, the first African-American newspaper, began publication in New York. Freedom's Journal was a forum edited and controlled by African Americans in which they could articulate their concerns. National in scope and... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 43: 11 March to 30 June 1804 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691177724
RRP: €168.98€132.16After the congressional session ends, Jefferson leaves Washington and goes home to Monticello, where his ailing daughter Mary dies on 17 April. Among the letters of condolence he receives is one from Abigail Adams that initiates a brief resumption of... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 13: 22 April 1818 to 31 January 1819 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691172835
RRP: €168.98€131.45This volume's 598 documents span 22 April 1818 to 31 January 1819. Jefferson spends months preparing for a meeting to choose the site of the state university. He drafts the Rockfish Gap Report recommending the location of the University of Virginia at... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 11: 19 January to 31 August 1817 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691164113
€128.94The 584 documents in this volume cover the period from 19 January to 31 August 1817, during which Jefferson devotes much time and energy to founding Central College, the predecessor of the University of Virginia. In May 1817, at its first official... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 42: 16 November 1803 to 10 March 1804 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691170466
RRP: €168.98€132.16Confessing that he may be acting "with more boldness than wisdom," Jefferson in November 1803 drafts a bill to create Orleans Territory, which he entrusts to John Breckinridge for introduction in the Senate. The administration sends stock... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12: 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691168296
RRP: €168.98€132.16The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 38: 1 July to 12 November 1802 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691153230
RRP: €168.98€132.16Volume 38 opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. For the last week of July and all of August and September, he resides at Monticello. Frequent correspondence with his heads of department... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 6: 11 March to 27 November 1813 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691137728
RRP: €168.98€131.45Volume Six of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death presents 516 documents from 11 March to 27 November 1813. Although free from the cares of government, Jefferson cannot disassociate himself...