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Brave Companions: Portraits in History by David McCullough 9781668003541
RRP: £20.00£12.86Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional... -
Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives by Paul Quigley 9780367586546
RRP: £39.99£35.06How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to longer-term cultural reintegration? Bringing together experts on civil wars around the modern world – the... -
Sacred Relics: Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America Teresa Barnett 9780226059600
RRP: £37.00£35.77A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past - often called "association items" - may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued... -
Constitutional Inquisitors: The Origins and Practice of Early Federal Prosecutors by Scott Ingram 9781421446868
RRP: £54.00£45.27The evolution of the federal prosecutor's role from a pragmatic necessity to a significant political figure.In the United States, federal prosecutors enjoy a degree of power unmatched elsewhere in the world. They are free to investigate and prosecute—or... -
Gold Dust: The California Gold Rush and the Forty-Niners by Donald Dale Jackson 9781032598321
£112.01Gold Dust (1980) looks at the adventures and ordeals, delusions and successes and catastrophes of the men and women – the forty-niners – caught up in the gold rush. The author tells the story of the gold rush through the experiences, feelings and... -
The Abraham Lincoln Book Of Quotes: A Collection of Speeches, Quotations, Essays and Advice from the Sixteenth President of The United States by Travis Hellstrom 9781578269709
RRP: £14.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578269709Author Travis HellstromFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S. -
The War of 1812 Harry L. Coles 9780226113500
RRP: £24.00£23.03This compact history of the war attempts to separate myth from reality. Professor Coles narrates the main operations on both land and sea of the three-year struggle. He examines the conflict from the British (and Canadian) as well as the American point... -
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas 9780300261509
RRP: £20.00£19.40Winner of the Mark Lynton Prize in History-the story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill. . . . The very existence of freedom suits... -
The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North by Emily Pawley 9780226820026
RRP: £28.00£23.27The Nature of the Future plumbs the innovative, far-ranging, and sometimes downright strange agricultural schemes of nineteenth-century farms in the northern US. The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting... -
Trails of Yesterday by John Bratt 9780803260559
RRP: £14.99£12.62Trails of Yesterday, first published in 1921, is ranked with the best firsthand accounts of ranching on the northern Great Plains in the 1870s and 1880s. This classic of cow-country literature is rich in authentic frontier history. Born in England in... -
Captive Arizona, 1851-1900 by Victoria Smith 9780803210905
£41.34Captivity was endemic in Arizona from the end of the Mexican-American War through its statehood in 1912. The practice crossed cultures: Native Americans, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, and whites kidnapped and held one another captive. Victoria Smith's... -
The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis by James E. Lewis 9780691191553
RRP: £17.99£14.78A panoramic look at the early American republic through the lens of the Burr ConspiracyIn 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which he was arrested and tried for treason... -
Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 9780674769786
RRP: £28.95£23.30What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black... -
Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston by Hardin Stephen L. 9781933337562
RRP: £26.95£18.57Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly-but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged ""harsh epithets"" with David James Jones, a hero of the Texas Revolution... -
Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era by Nell Irvin Painter 9780393331929
RRP: £15.99£13.13Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society. Nell Irvin Painter will be featured in the PBS multipart series The Progressive Era with Bill... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies by Leslie Eckel 9781399508827
RRP: £37.00£34.01This Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished scholars on a series of topics that define the area. The essays focus on literature and culture from first... -
The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawai'i and the Early United States by Noelani Arista 9780812224917
RRP: £27.99£24.14In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the... -
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg 9780393239379
RRP: £27.99£24.43Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the... -
Old Towpaths: The Story of the American Canal Era by Alvin F Harlow 9781633911406
RRP: £19.20£17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633911406Author Alvin F HarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 140g -
The Blast!: The Complete Collection by Alexander Berkman 9781904859086
RRP: £15.00£10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859086Author Alexander BerkmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 541g -
Pioneers to the West by John Bliss 9781410940827
RRP: £8.99£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410940827Author John BlissFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint RaintreePublisher RaintreeWeight(grams) 136g -
Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth by John H. Monnett 9780826345042
RRP: £25.95£18.23The Powder River country of what is now north central Wyoming was one of the most resource-rich regions of the northern plains in the nineteenth century. As U.S. mining interests and white settlement to the north in Montana Territory increased, conflict... -
Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell 9780865475106
£14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865475106Author Evan S. ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point Press -
The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza P. Donner Houghton 9780803273047
RRP: £16.99£14.87George and Tamsen Donner and their children, among the very first to leave from Illinois, joined emigrants headed to California in the spring of 1846. Beyond Fort Bridger, Captain Donner led a large party through a much-advertised shortcut. Delays and... -
A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849-1850 by William Benemann 9780803262102
RRP: £14.99£12.72A Year of Mud and Gold is a collection of over two hundred excerpts from letters and diaries of ordinary men and women caught up in the rapid transformation of San Francisco during its gold rush heyday, 1849-50. Together these accounts render a rich... -
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York by Matthew Goodman 9780465019007
RRP: £18.99£12.83On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six articles reported the existence of life on the moon,including unicorns, beavers that walked on their hind... -
Riders of the Pony Express by Ralph Moody 9780803283053
RRP: £12.99£11.77Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free... -
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development by Sven Beckert 9780812248418
RRP: £91.00£79.32During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's... -
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg
RRP: £15.99£12.30Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the nineteenth century, Plessy v. Ferguson. The 1896 ruling embraced racial segregation, and its reverberations are still felt today. Drawing on letters,... -
Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty by Elizabeth Mitchell
RRP: £12.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802123794Author Elizabeth MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South by Hannah Rosen
RRP: £42.95£38.73Gender and sexuality are at the center of the story of Reconstruction.The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male)... -
Stolen Childhood, Second Edition: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America by Wilma King
£27.25One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has... -
The Buffalo Hunters by Charles M. Robinson
RRP: £19.95£14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880510193Author Charles M. RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint State House PressPublisher State House Press -
Transforming Juvenile Justice: Reform Ideals and Institutional Realities, 1825-1920 by Steven L. Schlossman
RRP: £19.99£14.91As juvenile justice dominates the headlines, the time has come to reexamine the history of this controversial institution. In Transforming Juvenile Justice, Steven L. Schlossman traces the evolution of the idea that young lawbreakers, or potential... -
Doc Holliday by John Myers Myers
RRP: £12.99£11.36"John Myers Myers has written Doc's story with a skill that matches the sureness of a bullet from Doc's gun."-Dallas Times Herald. "As for the general reader, he'll eat this up and beg for more."-San Francisco Chronicle.About the AuthorPoet, novelist,... -
Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter, Written by Himself, Together with His Letters and Statements by His Friends: A Vindication by Tom Horn
RRP: £18.95£13.06On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache wars, Pinkerton operative, cattle detective, and ""King... -
Son of the Old West by Nathan Ward 9780802162083
RRP: £19.99£17.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802162083Author Nathan WardFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F by Joe Pappalardo 9781250887375
RRP: £20.00£12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250887375Author Joe PappalardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America by Monica Klem 9781641773393
RRP: £24.99£16.72In the years following the Civil War, pioneers in the women’s rights movement, women’s medical education, and public-private charitable partnerships joined forces to reduce the incidence of abortion in America. As alumni of the abolitionist movement,... -
Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality by Brian Kilmeade
RRP: £32.00£18.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593792629Author Brian KilmeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)...