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Teddy And Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality by Brian Kilmeade 9780593543825
RRP: £26.99£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593543825Author Brian KilmeadeFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861 by M. L. Collins 9780806141329
RRP: £18.95£13.06Reconsidering the myth of "good guys in white hats" The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the Mexican border between Texas... -
John Wayne's Wild West: An Illustrated History of Cowboys, Gunfighters, Weapons, and Equipment by Bruce Wexler
RRP: £19.99£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629143446Author Bruce WexlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 251mm... -
Cowboy - American Icon: A Short History of Wild West Culture by Daniel Pruitt 9780228104490
RRP: £30.00£18.81A sweeping visual history of the iconic figure of the Old West - and the present west. Cattle were introduced to North America as early as the 1680s. But the true era of the cowboy required an intersection of inventions and conditions that finally... -
Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West by David Weston Marshall 9781682684429
RRP: £12.99£11.69In 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... -
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
RRP: £13.99£9.99'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An... -
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition by Ida B Wells 9780226691428
RRP: £19.00£14.36"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of... -
Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879 by Andrew Garcia 9780893012502
RRP: £9.99£8.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893012502Author Andrew GarciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 409Imprint University Press of IdahoPublisher University Press of Idaho -
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx
RRP: £18.49£13.34For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links... -
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War by Professor Nicholas Lemann 9780374530693
RRP: £20.00£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530693Author Professor Nicholas LemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation by Mark Lee Gardner 9780062669896
£20.04"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and... -
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg
RRP: £25.00£16.38Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs rooting through garbage in the streets, geese and chickens harried by the packs of stray dogs that roamed the 19th... -
In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation by Francois Furstenberg 9780143111931
RRP: £18.85£14.42In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, Fran ois Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and... -
Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama by Stephen Fox 9781400095421
RRP: £22.00£15.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095421Author Stephen FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 293gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas by Sam W. Haynes
RRP: £28.00£21.44The 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... -
Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 by Robert M. Utley 9780803295506
RRP: £20.99£18.30Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War... -
The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache and Mohave Indians by Lorenzo D. Oatman 9780486280783
RRP: £12.49£10.62Apologies 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)... -
Little Big Horn 1876: Custer's Last Stand by Peter Panzeri
RRP: £16.99£14.87The death of George Armstrong Custer, and over half of his 7th Cavalry Regiment in the valley of the Little Big Horn on 25 June 1876, has become the most celebrated battle of the Indian wars. It was the greatest, and the last, victory of the Native... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands
RRP: £25.00£20.31By the time he became president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson had already been looking west for decades. He saw the country's population expanding and he judged that America's territory must expand too, lest America become as crowded and conflict-prone as... -
The Johnstown Flood by David G McCullough 9780671207144
RRP: £11.43£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671207144Author David G McCulloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408g -
Slavery in the Ante-Bellum Society by Morrison Professor of History Emeritus Kenneth M Stampp 9780679723073
RRP: £16.99£11.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723073Author Kenneth M. StamppFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson 9780691224305
RRP: £18.99£13.72From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial... -
Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890 by Larry McMurtry
RRP: £13.99£9.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476743882Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930 by Margaret Lynch-Brennan 9780815633549
£24.48Bridget"" 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... -
Oil and Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas ty by Peter Nichols 9780143118367
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118367Author Peter NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261g -
The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World by Nathan Gorenstein 9781982129217
RRP: £28.00£17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129217Author Nathan GorensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
American Slavery, 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin 9780809016303
RRP: £19.00£11.76Apologies 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 -
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon by Edward Dolnick 9780060955861
RRP: £16.99£11.82Apologies 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 *... -
Mountain Man Skills: Hunting, Trapping, Woodwork, and More by Stephen Brennan 9781628737097
£13.61Crafts and Skills of the Mountain Man is a fascinating, practical guide to the skills that have made the mountain men famous worldwide as outdoorsmen and craftsmen. Readers can replicate outdoor living by trying a hand at making rafts and canoes,... -
The Oxford History of the American West by Clyde A. Milner 9780195112122
£40.84When we think of the American West, we tend to conjure up images that are known the world over: bearded forty-niners leading pack mules up a mountain trail, the Oklahoma land stampede, Custer's Last Stand, and especially the range-riding, quick-shooting... -
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz 9780312429263
£13.22Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, "Midnight Rising"... -
The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas by Robert M. Utley
RRP: £19.99£17.542021 Spur Award Winner for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America True West Magazine's 2020 Best Author and Historical Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white... -
American Conspiracies by Jesse Ventura 9781634505451
RRP: £18.99£15.69A New York Times Best Seller!New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn't know about!In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a... -
Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 by John Ferling 9780195189063
£19.69It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a... -
We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy by Robert Tracy McKenzie
RRP: £21.99£16.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852963Author Robert Tracy MckenzieFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 582gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780300204711
RRP: £8.99£7.81A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave in... -
The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival by Freelance Writer Brian McGinty 9780806137704
RRP: £18.95£13.20The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy.Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led... -
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by Michael Wallis 9781631494000
RRP: £14.99£11.35"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... -
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes 9780393065312
RRP: £23.99£21.11Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It shatters the widespread... -
Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism by Christopher William England 9781421445403
RRP: £45.50£40.66A 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...