19th Century

This volume narrates the major battles and campaigns of the conflict, conveying the full military experience during the Civil War. The military encounters between Union and Confederate soldiers and between both armies and irregular combatants and true...

In 1804, John Colter set out with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the first US expedition to traverse the North American continent. During the 28- month ordeal, Colter served as a hunter and scout, and honed his survival skills on the western...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033225Author James GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and...

Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781086999891Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486280783Author Lorenzo D. OatmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

President James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe's message proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it...

The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As the story goes, larger-than-life figures like Sam Houston, David Crockett, and William Barret Travis fought to free Texas from repressive Mexican rule. In...

Bridget"" was the Irish immigrant service girl who worked in American homes from the second half of the nineteenth century into the early years of the twentieth. She is widely known as a pop culture cliche: the young girl who wreaks havoc in middle-class...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016303Author Peter KolchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060955861Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306826795Author Jennifer WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 162mm...

A comprehensive history of Henry George and the single tax movement.In 1912, Sun Yat-sen announced the birth of the Chinese Republic and promised that it would be devoted to the economic welfare of all its people. In shaping his plans for wealth...

Anointed with Oil is a groundbreaking new history of the United States that places the relationship between religious faith and oil together at the center of America's rise to global power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As prize-winning...

More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and...

"WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!" In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prepared for what they hoped would be the most rewarding journey of a lifetime. But in...

Among the nineteenth-century Americans, few commanded the reverence and respect accorded to Henry Clay of Kentucky. As orator and as Speaker of the House for longer than any man in the century, he wielded great power, a compelling presence in Congress...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534762442Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, an eminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as an internally...

Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131830Author Brian KilmeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets is an...

EXCERPT: "So great was the ferment of reform in the pre-Civil War United States that to understand it, to grasp the motives of the reformers, the nature of their work, their successes and failures, is to understand much about the American nation as...

In an incisive analysis of over two dozen clauses as well as several 'unwritten' rules and practices, The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War shows how the Constitution aggravated the sectional conflict over slavery to the point of civil war...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards 1993.Book InformationISBN 9780679754114Author William R. LeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385479660Author Stephen E. AmbroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Offers a revision of the understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late 19th century. Elizabeth Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620876534Author Bruce WexlerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 262mm *...

In June of 1876, the U.S. government's plan to pressure the Lakota and Cheyenne people onto reservations came to a dramatic and violent end with a battle that would become enshrined in American memory. In the eyes of many Americans at the time, the...

The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion...

Mari Sandoz's account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life-and lost-reveals on every page the author's intimate knowledge of her subject. The character of the Sioux, the personality of Custer, the mixed emotions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037419Author David E. NyeFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas,...

Josephine McCarty had many identities. But in Albany, New York, she was known as "Dr. Emma Burleigh," the abortionist of Howard Street. On January 17, 1872, McCarty boarded a streetcar in Utica, New York, shot her ex-lover in the face, and disembarked,...

The transaction that changed the course of U.S. history and gave America an undisputed outlet to the Pacific Ocean did not come without a certain amount of trepidation and negotiation. The second half of the 18th century found the newly formed nation...

The journey west, from the Missouri River to the Pacific coast, was made by some quarter of a million Americans during the 1840s and 1850s, and stands as one of the great human adventure stories of all time. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878424528Author Joseph J DiCertoFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119609Author Nathaniel PhilbrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin BooksWeight(grams) 440g