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Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by Alan Dawley
RRP: £34.95£28.19In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the... -
From New York to San Francisco: Travel Sketches from the Year 1869 by Ernst Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
RRP: £27.99£24.14Welcome to an America you've never seen. Where anyone can drop by the White House and visit the President between 10 a.m. and noon; where cowcatchers are bloodied daily on train tracks between New York and Boston; where spent bullets are strewn across... -
Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic by Sandra M. Gustafson
RRP: £50.00£47.85Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices... -
Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation by Amanda Porterfield
RRP: £23.00£22.13Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition - and in spite of evangelicalism's... -
Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy by Julie L. Holcomb
RRP: £23.99£20.84How can the simple choice of a men's suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its... -
Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940 by Marcella Bencivenni
RRP: £23.99£20.84Maligned by modern media and often stereotyped, Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In Italian Immigrant Radical Culture, Marcella Bencivenni delves into the history of the sovversivi, a transnational generation of... -
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America by Kabria Baumgartner
RRP: £74.00£64.85Winner, 2021 AERA Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2021 AERA Division F New Scholar's Book Award Winner, 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the... -
Carleton Watkins: Making the West American by Tyler Green
RRP: £23.00£19.10"[A] fascinating and indispensable book."—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles TimesBest Books of 2018—The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing, 2019 California Book Awards Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) is widely considered the greatest American... -
Surveillance Capitalism in America by Josh Lauer
RRP: £54.00£46.79Surveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of... -
From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West by John Sedgwick
RRP: £19.99£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982104290Author John SedgwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &... -
The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812 Donald R. Hickey (Wayne State University, USA) 9781138482906
RRP: £49.99£43.90The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Native people and the Spanish were also involved in the war's... -
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War by Sebastian N. Page
RRP: £50.99£46.25Based on sweeping research in six languages, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War offers the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's greatest road not taken: the mass resettlement of African Americans outside the... -
Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 by M John Lubetkin
£53.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870624315Author M John LubetkinFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Arthur H. Clark CompanyPublisher Arthur H. Clark CompanyWeight(grams) 726g -
Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912 by Anthony P. Mora
RRP: £23.99£20.84The U.S.-Mexican War officially ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which called for Mexico to surrender more than one-third of its land. The treaty offered Mexicans living in the conquered territory a choice between... -
Manhood Lost: Fallen Drunkards and Redeeming Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Elaine Frantz Parsons
RRP: £25.00£22.03In fiction, drama, poems, and pamphlets, nineteenth-century reformers told the familiar tale of the decent young man who fell victim to demon rum: Robbed of his manhood by his first drink, he slid inevitably into an abyss of despair and depravity. In its... -
Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America by Linda K. Kerber
RRP: £31.00£27.36The Federalists of Jefferson's time have been described by historians as complainers and obstructionists. A very different picture evolves from this book, which the author calls "a reconsideration of American political conversation in the early... -
United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic by David S. Wilson
RRP: £27.99£24.14Among the thousands of political refugees who flooded into the United States during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, none had a greater impact on the early republic than the United Irishmen. They were, according to one Federalist, "the... -
How We Lived: Everyday Furniture, Fashions, and Settings 1880-1940 by Peter Swift Seibert
RRP: £27.99£18.02What did normal farm, town, and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution, Western nations switched from horse-drawn vehicles to airplanes, from oil lamps to electricity, and from an... -
Mining in the Old West by Sandor Demlinger
RRP: £27.99£18.02The 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in northern California set off a mining explosion that greatly hastened the development of the American West. This new book gathers historic photographs of mining in the Old West, from "panning" for... -
In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History by Christopher Tomlins
RRP: £42.00£33.44A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 45: 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805 by Thomas Jefferson
RRP: £142.00£111.06A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume opens soon after the start of the second session of the Eighth Congress and ends a few days after the session closes. During the period, Jefferson receives... -
The Crucible of Consent: American Child Rearing and the Forging of Liberal Society by James E. Block
RRP: £47.95£38.64A democratic government requires the consent of its citizens. But how is that consent formed? Why should free people submit to any rule? Pursuing this question to its source for the first time, The Crucible of Consent argues that the explanation is to be... -
Mastering America: Southern Slaveholders and the Crisis of American Nationhood by Robert E Bonner
RRP: £43.00£39.23Mastering America recounts efforts of 'proslavery nationalists' to navigate the nineteenth-century geopolitics of imperialism, federalism, and nationalism and to articulate themes of American mission in overtly proslavery terms. At the heart of this... -
The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery by Rachel Hope Cleves
RRP: £61.00£54.64In the 1790s, American conservatives were profoundly shaken when their French 'sister republic' collapsed into violent factionalism and civil war. Fearful that civic bloodshed and chaos might overwhelm their own new republic, northern Federalists and... -
The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North Emily Pawley 9780226693835
RRP: £44.00£42.27The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. The Nature of the Future aims to remake... -
Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed by Stephen O'Connor
RRP: £17.00£16.57In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these youngsters into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical... -
Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Christine L. Ridarsky
RRP: £80.00£76.61Though Susan B. Anthony is best remembered for leading the campaign for women's suffrage, she worked in multiple movements for equality beyond women's right to vote, including antislavery, Native American rights, temperance, and labor reform. In doing so... -
The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century by Clay McShane
£29.37The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and... -
The Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader by Stanley Harrold
RRP: £31.95£28.29This new volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history -the American Civil War and Reconstruction-and offers students a collection of essential documentary sources for these periods. * Provides students with over 60... -
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas
RRP: £27.50£26.93Winner 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 assumed... -
The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s by Evan Friss
RRP: £26.00£24.85Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how... -
Legal Publishing in Antebellum America by M. H. Hoeflich
RRP: £79.99£72.16Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Part business history, part legal history, part history of information diffusion, M. H. Hoeflich shows how various... -
The Stammering Century Gilbert Seldes 9781590175804
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175804Author Gilbert SeldesFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Public Health and the US Military: A History of the Army Medical Department, 1818-1917 Bobby A. Wintermute 9781138867567
RRP: £53.99£46.87Public 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,... -
Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer by Kristina DuRocher
RRP: £36.99£32.53Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black woman living in a time when little social power was available to people of her race or gender, Ida B. Wells... -
Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-Creating the Frontier West by Kevin Britz
£38.53"Shootin'--Lynchin'--Hangin'," announces the advertisement for Tombstone's Helldorado Days festival. Dodge City's Boot Hill Cemetery sports an "authentic hangman's tree." Not to be outdone, Deadwood's Days of '76 celebration promises... -
The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti by Brandon R. Byrd
RRP: £83.00£69.53In 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... -
Circle of Fire by John D. McDermott
RRP: £18.99£14.32The year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought revenge for the 1864 massacre at Sand Creek, when John... -
Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America by Brian P. Luskey
RRP: £54.00£47.19While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the shadows of... -
The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death by Brian R. Dirck
£39.44From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of the Union as one of the great central truths of Abraham Lincoln's life. Yet what little has been written...