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The Age of Jim Crow by Jane Dailey 9780393927580
RRP: €30.05€24.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393927580Author Jane DaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 544g -
The History of the First Locomotives in America by William H. Brown 9781931626125
RRP: €23.79€19.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931626125Author William H. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Astragal PressPublisher Astragal PressWeight(grams) 494g -
Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation by Julie M. Fenster 9780307956491
RRP: €16.65€12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307956491Author Julie M. FensterFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
The Human Tradition in Urban America by Roger Biles 9780842029933
€52.69The Human Tradition in Urban America offers an intimate telling of America's evolution into an urban nation through the experiences of individuals. This book considers the growth of American cities by carefully looking at the lives of those people-some... -
The Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion that Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War by Arthur T. Downey 9781442236615
€64.16The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, and the effects of that rebellion on diplomacy, the domestic slave trade, and the definition of slavery itself. Held against their will aboard the Creole-a slave... -
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours by Matthew Mancini 9780742523449
€58.56In this groundbreaking new work, Matthew Mancini tells the surprising story of Alexis de Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century. The author... -
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington by Patricia Miller 9781250234919
RRP: €23.80€13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250234919Author Patricia MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 28mm -
Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff by Ken Lizzio 9781682680506
RRP: €23.80€19.12While the seminal California Gold Rush of 1849 produced numerous firsthand diaries and accounts, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff's-widely regarded as the best and most accurate-provides the basis of this narrative reimagining of a quintessential American... -
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope by Jonathan M. Bryant 9780871406750
€23.37In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had outlawed its own participation in the international slave trade more than a decade before, the ship's... -
Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America by Jonathan Rees 9781421411064
€51.65Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and freezers. In Refrigeration Nation, Jonathan Rees explores the innovative methods and gadgets that Americans have invented to keep perishable food... -
The Unstoppable Irish: Songs and Integration of the New York Irish, 1783–1883 by Dan Milner 9780268105747
RRP: €28.55€24.80This unique book captures the rise of New York's passionately musical Irish Catholics and provides a compelling history of early New York City. The Unstoppable Irish follows the changing fortunes of New York's Irish Catholics, commencing with the... -
Frontier Terror: Murder, Lynching, and Vigilantes in the Old West by Michael Rutter 9781493067725
RRP: €21.41€16.23Following the events of January 6, 2021, talk of vigilantes and mob violence have become a part of our daily discourse, reminding us that we haven’t come as far as we thought from the “wild” days of the Old West. The nineteenth century was a time of... -
Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine by Neil Rolde 9781684751297
RRP: €17.84€14.20In 1884 Republican James G. Blaine came within 1,047 votes of becoming the President of the United States. This was the margin by which he lost New York State--and thus the election--to Grover Cleveland in what has been called the dirtiest campaign in... -
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts 9781512824728
RRP: €23.79€20.87Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually... -
Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois by Robert D. Sampson 9780252045059
RRP: €108.29€93.91Baseball’s spread across Illinois paralleled the sport’s explosive growth in other parts of the country. Robert D. Sampson taps a wealth of archival research to transport readers to an era when an epidemic of “base ball on the brain” raged from Alton to... -
The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America by Thomas Blake Earle 9781501768927
RRP: €55.93€49.12In The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers an incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution, describing how aspirations to political freedom coupled with the economic imperatives of commercial fishing roiled relations between... -
Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln by Douglas L. Wilson 9780252085635
RRP: €38.08€34.76Winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award Women to whom Lincoln proposed marriage, political allies and adversaries, judges and fellow attorneys, longtime comrades, erstwhile friends--all speak out here in words first gathered by William H... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691128672
RRP: €168.98€132.16Volume Three of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death presents 567 documents covering the period from 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. Jefferson is now firmly ensconced in retirement at... -
A Laughable Empire: The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840–1890 by Todd Nathan Thompson 9780271095042
RRP: €104.66€92.34In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., “other”) to American... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 46: 9 March to 5 July 1805 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691230740
RRP: €173.74€134.62A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson Congress adjourns early in March, and Jefferson goes home to Monticello for a month. After his return to Washington, he corresponds with territorial governors concerning... -
A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1872 by Daniel J. Burge 9781496228079
RRP: €59.50€51.66Since the early twentieth century, historians have traditionally defined manifest destiny as the belief that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast. This generation of historians have posed manifest destiny as a unifying ideology of... -
The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti by Brandon R. Byrd 9780812225198
RRP: €33.31€28.73In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American... -
Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific by Amanda Hendrix-Komoto 9781496214607
RRP: €97.58€84.80In the nineteenth century, white Americans contrasted the perceived purity of white, middle-class women with the perceived eroticism of women of color and the working classes. The Latter-day Saint practice of polygamy challenged this separation,... -
Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country by Lori J. Daggar 9781512823295
RRP: €41.65€36.58Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. It presents American empire-building as a negotiated... -
Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919 by Amy Dunham Strand 9780415991933
RRP: €103.52€89.89Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national... -
Public Health and the US Military: A History of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917 by Bobby A. Wintermute 9780415881708
RRP: €160.65€139.56Public Health and the US Military is a cultural history of the US Army Medical Department focusing on its accomplishments and organization coincident with the creation of modern public health in the Progressive Era. A period of tremendous social change,... -
The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory by Frank J. Wetta 9780415894654
RRP: €44.02€38.71A century and a half after the Civil War, Americans are still dealing with the legacies of the conflict and Reconstruction, including the many myths and legends spawned by these events. The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film,... -
Theodore Roosevelt: A Manly President's Gendered Personal and Political Transformations by Neil H Cogan 9780415842839
RRP: €45.21€39.72Theodore Roosevelt explores the personal and political life of the 26th President of the United States. It considers among other things his "manliness," a gendered framework of traits for the Gilded Age and Progressive Period guiding him and... -
Theodore Roosevelt: A Manly President's Gendered Personal and Political Transformations by Neil H Cogan 9780415842822
RRP: €160.65€139.56Theodore Roosevelt explores the personal and political life of the 26th President of the United States. It considers among other things his "manliness," a gendered framework of traits for the Gilded Age and Progressive Period guiding him and... -
The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America by Jonathan Daniel Wells 9780367870041
RRP: €52.35€45.74The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis... -
The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism After 1830 by Ronald G. Walters 9780393954449
€22.23"In this small but elegant book, Professor Walters approaches the interpretation of antislavery from a fresh vantage point . . . he asks new questions of old sources and comes up with novel and convincing interpretations . . [He] has allowed us to... -
Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century by Andrew Wender Cohen 9780393065336
RRP: €23.79€22.55In the frigid winter of 1875, federal agents tracked Charles L. Lawrence, an intimate of Boss Tweed and the most promiscuous smuggler in American history. Leading a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, "Charley" smuggled silk worth... -
Revised Lives: Whitman, Religion, and Constructions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture by William Pannapacker 9780367864149
RRP: €47.59€41.72First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780367864149Author William PannapackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 460g -
The Mexican War by David S. Heidler 9780313327926
€58.75Victory over Mexico added vast western territories to America, but it also quickened the domestic slavery debate and crippled Mexico for decades, making the Mexican War one of our most ambiguous conflicts. Primary documents, biographical sketches and... -
Making Peace with Spain: The Diary of Whitelaw Reid, September-December, 1898 by Whitelaw Reid 9780292769229
RRP: €28.55€25.28Whitelaw Reid, according to H. Wayne Morgan, was a "leading newspaperman, more than an occasional diplomat, a power in his party's politics, a supporter of some of the best in his era's culture . . . Of all his legacy, perhaps the record he left of... -
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World by Carole Lynn Stewart 9780271082035
RRP: €136.79€117.92Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W... -
Thinking Together: Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century by Angela G. Ray 9780271080871
RRP: €99.90€86.20Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, inequality, and social immobility to think differently about how we learn and deliberate. Thinking Together is... -
Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860 Michael Zakim 9780226977959
RRP: €38.08€37.02"Ready-Made Democracy" explores the history of men's dress in America to consider how capitalism and democracy emerged at the center of social life during the century between the Revolution and the Civil War. The story begins with the elevation of... -
Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920 by Abigail A.Van Slyck 9780226850320
RRP: €33.32€32.59Familiar Landmarks in hundreds of American towns, Carnegie libraries have shaped the public library experience of generations of Americans and today seen far from controversial. In Free to All, however, Abigail Van Slyck shows that the classical facades... -
Streets, Railroads and the Great Strike of 1877 by David O. Stowell 9780226776699
RRP: €27.37€26.33For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most violent urban...