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The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul by Scott W. Berg
RRP: £32.00£21.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Carnegie Medal 2024.Book InformationISBN 9780804197847Author Scott W. BergFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Pantheon BooksPublisher Pantheon... -
Outlaw Years, The: The History of the Land Pirates of the Natchez Trace by Robert Coates
£11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565544574Author Robert CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 180g -
Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives by Paul Quigley
RRP: £135.00£117.68How 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... -
The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community by Matthew J Clavin
RRP: £15.99£14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479811106Author Matthew J ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America by Claire M. Wolnisty
RRP: £39.00£34.12The South possessed an extensive history of looking outward, specifically southward, to solve internal tensions over slavery and economic competition in the 1820s through the 1860s. Nineteenth-century southerners invested in their futures, and in their... -
The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance by Paul Kahan
RRP: £28.00£16.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163777Author Paul KahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 152g -
The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America by Carl J. Guarneri
RRP: £45.00£39.58The utopian socialism of Charles Fourier spread throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was in the United States that it generated the most intense excitement. In this rich and engaging narrative, Carl J. Guarneri traces the American... -
Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation by Anna Mae Duane
RRP: £15.99£14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479816712Author Anna Mae DuaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Broadcloth And Britches: The Santa Fe Trade by Seymour V. Connor
£25.95Hundreds of miles from its supply center in Chihuahua and just freed from the grip of Spain's mercantilist colonial policies, New Mexico was ripe for foreign commerce when the first of the Missouri traders arrived in Santa Fe in 1821. For the next forty... -
Race and Rights: Fighting Slavery and Prejudice in the Old Northwest, 1830-1870 by Dana Elizabeth Weiner
RRP: £108.00£93.80In the Old Northwest from 1830-1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to eradicate southern slavery and its local influence in the contentious milieu of four new states carved out of... -
1816: America Rising by C.Edward Skeen
£38.77"The year 1816 found America on the cusp of political, social,cultural, and economic modernity. Celebrating its fortieth year of independence, the country's sense of self was maturing. Americans, who had emerged from the War of 1812 with their... -
A Nation Wholly Free: The Elimination of the National Debt in the Age of Jackson by Carl Lane
£16.37When President James Monroe announced in 1824 that the large public debt inherited from the War for Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, and the War of 1812 would be extinguished on January 1, 1835, Congress responded by crafting legislation to... -
William Perkins's Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849 - 1852: Three Years in California by William Perkins
RRP: £80.00£62.29This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 Marta Gutman 9780226311289
RRP: £39.00£38.03While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed... -
Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America by Carl Wittke
RRP: £91.00£79.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512808742Author Carl WittkeFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)... -
Seizing Destiny: The Relentless Expansion of American Territory by Richard Kluger
RRP: £20.00£12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375712982Author Richard KlugerFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation by Linda Hirshman
RRP: £21.99£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063268708Author Linda HirshmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 135g -
Popular New Orleans: The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875-2015 by Florian Freitag
RRP: £39.99£35.06New Orleans is unique - which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simultaneously contributed to New Orleans's fame and... -
Letters from the Rocky Mountain Indian Missions by Philip Rappagliosi
RRP: £19.99£17.54Letters from the Rocky Mountain Indian Missions reveals the life of an Italian Jesuit as he worked at three missions in the northern Rocky Mountains from 1874 to 1878. Meticulously translated and carefully annotated, the letters of Father Philip... -
Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 by Max Grivno
RRP: £91.00£79.32Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book... -
Never Caught Twice: Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850–1890 by Matthew S. Luckett
RRP: £54.00£46.792021 Nebraska Book AwardNever Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four plains groups—American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and... -
West of the Creek: Murder, Mayhem and Vice in Old San Antonio David Bowser 9781595342683
RRP: £12.99£8.63Thirty-five classic stories fill this book about San Antonio's seamier side, from the days of the Old West when Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson came by, Rowdy Joe Lowe ran a saloon on Main Plaza and Butch Cassidy got away from Madame Fanny Porter's in time... -
The Life of Gouverneur Morris: With Selections from His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers; Detailing Events in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and in the Political History of the United States Volume 3 by Jared Sparks
£19.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781313286176Author Jared SparksFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g -
Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier by Benjamin E. Park
RRP: £14.99£11.76In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their... -
Adin Ballou's Spiritual Journey through Nineteenth-Century New England: Practical Christianity by Bryce Hal Taylor
RRP: £85.00£74.51New England Christianity in the nineteenth century produced an almost unending stream of new and old denominations that speckled the landscape. Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Universalists, Spiritualists, Unitarians, Restorationists, and... -
A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865-1887 by H. Paul Thompson
RRP: £45.00£39.58When Atlanta enacted prohibition in 1885, it was the largest city in the United States to do so. A Most Stirring and Significant Episode examines the rise of temperance sentiment among freed African Americans that made this vote possible-as well as the... -
Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning by Steven T Moga
RRP: £44.00£36.81In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the Flats in Los Angeles to interrogate the connections between a city's physical landscape and the poverty and... -
Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers, 1850-1940 by Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham
RRP: £124.00£107.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978800472Author Danielle T. Phillips-CunninghamFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press -
Overcoming Niagara: Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792-1837 by Janet Dorothy Larkin
RRP: £72.27£63.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438468235Author Janet Dorothy LarkinFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press -
The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship That Changed American History by Laurence Jurdem
RRP: £32.00£19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364411Author Laurence JurdemFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 145mm *... -
The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76 by Eugene H. Berwanger
RRP: £35.00£30.74A vivid description of ColoradoBook InformationISBN 9780252031229Author Eugene H. BerwangerFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press -
With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union by William C. Harris
£38.85Harris maintains that Lincoln held a fundamentally conservative position on the process of reintegrating the South, one that permitted a large measure of self-reconstruction, and that he did not modify his position late in the war. He examines the... -
War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J Blum
RRP: £35.00£32.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812253047Author Edward J BlumFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)... -
Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion by Jimmy L., Jr. Bryan
£47.49The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed “manifest destiny” in many different ways—and so have its many discontents. A multidisciplinary study that delves into these contrasts and contradictions, Inventing Destiny offers a broad yet penetrating... -
Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815-1931 by Erik Hesselberg
RRP: £35.00£30.57Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days-when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of... -
Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show by J. M. Mancini
RRP: £82.00£64.56Speaking of the emergence of modernism, author Virginia Woolf famously said: "On or about December 1910, human character changed." But was the shift to modernism really so revolutionary? J. M. Mancini argues that it was not. She proposes that the origins... -
Slave Law in the American South: State v. Mann in History and Literature by Mark V. Tushnet
RRP: £26.95£21.72Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist... -
Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860 by W. Jason Wallace
RRP: £23.99£20.84Although slaveholding southerners and Catholics in general had little in common, both groups found themselves relentlessly attacked in the northern evangelical press during the decades leading up to the Civil War. In Catholics, Slaveholders, and the... -
At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870 by Richard F. Nation
RRP: £27.99£24.54This book explores the lives and worldviews of Indiana's southern hill-country residents during much of the 19th century. Focusing on local institutions, political, economic, and religious, it gives voice to the plain farmers of the region and reveals... -
Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's Forgotten Son by A. K. Fielding
RRP: £16.99£15.07Solider, politician, miner, pioneer, scion of a Founding Father, William Stephen Hamilton led a prolific life. Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton examines the tumultuous early Republic period of American history through the life...