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Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania by Kathryn Hughes 9781421448145
RRP: £29.95£18.76How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets.In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had... -
Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump by Adam Burns 9781399507950
RRP: £29.99£27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399507950Author Adam BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw 9781400063147
RRP: £34.00£23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400063147Author Tom BrokawFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 805gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism by Paul S Hirsch 9780226829463
RRP: £22.00£21.22Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular-and most unfiltered-entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold... -
The Geopolitics of Culture: James Billington, the Library of Congress, and the Failed Quest for a New Russia by John Van Oudenaren 9781501775765
£51.95Through the lens of James Billington and the institution he led as Librarian of Congress during a key period of US-Russian relations, The Geopolitics of Culture examines culture as a neglected area of US foreign policy. Billington advised presidents and... -
Mission Manifest: American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century by Matthew K. Shannon 9781501775949
£49.95In Mission Manifest, Matthew Shannon argues that American evangelicals were central to American-Iranian relations during the decades leading up to the 1979 revolution. These Presbyterian missionaries and other Americans with ideals worked with US... -
Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America's Mother Road by T. Lindsay Baker 9780806190693
RRP: £29.95£20.67From its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck's words, America's Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles between Chicago and Los Angeles. Whoever they... -
The Eccentric Realist: Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy by Mario Del Pero 9780801447594
RRP: £27.99£20.67During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood as foreign policy "realists" in the mold of Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who is distrusted on the neoconservative right for his skepticism... -
America on Foot: Walking and Pedestrianism in the 20th Century by Kerry Segrave 9780786425594
RRP: £21.99£18.55Hippocrates, one of history's earliest known physicians, once asserted, ""Walking is man's best medicine."" Over the last three centuries, people have endorsed walking for a variety of reasons--health among them. Before the 1700s, people walked as an... -
The Sixties in the News: How an Era Unfolded in American Newspapers, 1959-1973 by William J. Ryczek 9781476679860
RRP: £31.99£27.13The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Perceptions of race, gender and age changed dramatically, ripping away beliefs that had endured for generations. Newspapers, the primary source of information at the time, broadcasted... -
Smokejumpers of the Civilian Public Service in World War II: Conscientious Objectors as Firefighters for the National Forest Service by Robert C. Cottrell 9780786425334
RRP: £21.99£18.55This is the story of Civilian Public Servants smokejumpers, who battled against dangerous winds, searing heat, and devastating fires from 1943 until 1945. Fewer than 300 World War II conscientious objectors served their country in this fashion, operating... -
Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995 by Louis Galambos 9780521626200
RRP: £29.99£27.40Networks of Innovation offers an historical perspective on the manner in which private-sector organizations have acquired, sustained, and periodically lost the ability to develop, manufacture, and market new serum antitoxins and vaccines. The primary... -
Christopher Morley's Philadelphia by Christopher Morley 9780823212699
£82.24Christopher Morley was one of the most celebrated American authors of the 1920s and 1930s. Best known as the author of Parnassus on Wheels and Kitty Foyle, Morley wrote for a popular audience that keenly appreciated his style, his wit, and his exuberant... -
The Northern Front: A Wartime Diary by Charles Glass 9780863567704
RRP: £16.95£11.72This is the Iraq war as it really started, amid lies, confusion and profound distrust between the United States and its Iraqi allies. Charles Glass, who first covered the Kurds in 1974 and was in Iraq for their failed rebellion in 1991, depicts the tense... -
The First Lady Of Radio: Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts by Stephen Drury Smith 9781620970423
RRP: £25.95£16.86On the afternoon of 7 December 1941, as a stunned nation gathered to hear the news about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Eleanor Roosevelt was preparing for her weekly radio programme. Now, her ground-breaking career as a radio broadcaster is almost... -
Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930 by Jean Marie Lutes 9780801474125
RRP: £21.99£16.25The first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters like... -
The Supreme Court: An Essential History by Peter Charles Hoffer 9780700626816
RRP: £97.00£58.55For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history. Now a veteran team of talented historians-including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American... -
North Carolina and the Two World Wars by Sarah McCulloh Lemmon 9780865264441
RRP: £15.95£13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865264441Author Sarah McCulloh LemmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina Office... -
I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid about World War II by Howard Mansfield 9781493081080
RRP: £18.99£14.32When I grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of myfather’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule with him not totalk about what he’d seen at war. “You’re not getting any war stories from me,”... -
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country in 1908-09, Second Edition by Mary Ellicott Arnold 9780803236370
RRP: £21.99£16.18In 1908 easterners Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed accepted appointments as field matrons in Karuk tribal communities in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. In doing so, they joined a handful of white women in a rugged region... -
A Chance to Harmonize: How Fdr's Hidden Music Unit Sought to Save America from the Great Depression--One Song at a Time by Sheryl Kaskowitz 9781639365715
RRP: £29.95£19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365715Author Sheryl KaskowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 549g -
Carving a Niche for Himself: The Untold Story of Luigi del Bianco and Mount Rushmore by Douglas J Gladstone 9781599540672
RRP: £8.50£6.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540672Author Douglas J GladstoneFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 186g -
Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City by Amanda Kolson Hurley 9781948742368
RRP: £16.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742368Author Amanda Kolson HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 183mm... -
The Impact of World War II on Italian Americans by Dr Gary R Mormino 9780934675574
RRP: £18.00£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934675574Author Dr Gary R MorminoFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 290g -
Wear Some Armor in Your Hair: Urban Renewal and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Lincoln Park by Brian Mullgardt 9780809339358
£30.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339358Author Brian MullgardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University... -
Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952 by Cathie Pelletier 9781639365807
RRP: £12.99£8.18A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human endurance. A National BestsellerFor many, the past few years have been defined by climate disaster. Stories about once-in-a-lifetime hurricanes, floods, fires,... -
Aquash's Murder: Hermeneutical and Post-Modern Legal Analysis in Light of the Murder of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash by Gregg Wager 9781634244503
RRP: £17.95£13.78As the cruel South Dakota winter thawed toward the end of February 1976, a rancher on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation discovered the frostbitten corpse of a Jane Doe at the bottom of a 30-foot cliff, 100 feet from a state highway. An autopsy determined she... -
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores by Bart Elmore 9781646425938
RRP: £20.95£20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425938Author Bart ElmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint University of Wyoming PressPublisher University of Wyoming PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America's Biggest Retail Stores by Bart Elmore 9781646425921
£107.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646425921Author Bart ElmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint University of Wyoming PressPublisher University of Wyoming PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Life after Manzanar by Naomi Hirahara 9781597144001
RRP: £28.00£19.56From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement": the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been... -
The Nixon Effect: How Richard Nixon's Presidency Fundamentally Changed American Politics by Douglas E. Schoen 9781594037993
RRP: £25.99£18.91The Nixon Effect examines the 37th president's political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in... -
White House E-Mail: The Top Secret Messages the Reagan/Bush White House Thought They Had Destroyed by Tom Blanton 9781565842762
RRP: £14.95£10.39This publication represents a selection of the most dramatic and revealing computer communications that flowed through the national security offices of the Reagan/Bush White House. These are the secret E-mail messages behind the most scandalous policies... -
Taking On The Big Boys: Or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business and the Nation by Ellen Bravo 9781558615458
RRP: £15.95£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of IndieFab awards (Women's Issues) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781558615458Author Ellen BravoFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Feminist Press at The City... -
Ministers of a New Medium: Broadcasting Theology in the Radio Ministries of Fulton J. Sheen and Walter A. Maier by Kirk D. Farney 9781514003220
£23.81During the anxiety-laden period from the Great Depression through World War II to the Cold War, Americans found a welcome escape in the new medium of radio. Throughout radio's "Golden Age," religious broadcasting in particular contributed... -
From Isolation to War: 1931-1941 by John E. Wilz 9780882959924
£26.50In a major revision of this popular text, Dr. Justus Doenecke integrates scholarly research conducted in the 1990s to offer readers a fresh picture of the major events and historiographical controversies in American diplomacy in the decade before Japan's... -
Spoiled Silk: The Red Mayor and the Great Paterson Textile Strike by George William Shea 9780823221332
£77.60Spoiled Silk is the story of two immigrants from the Rhineland, William Brueckmann and his wife Katherine, who started a new life in America's first industrial city, Paterson NJ, nourishing a vision of their adopted country that was never to be... -
When Giants Ruled: The Story of Park Row, NY's Great Newspaper Street by Hy B. Turner 9780823219438
£90.61When Giants Ruled takes the reader behind the scenes of a century of newspaper life. It relates how Benjamin Day, a job printer desperate for more money, started The Sun and inadvertently established the first successful daily for the masses. His main... -
The President and Protest: Hoover, MacArthur, and the Bonus March by Donald J. Lisio 9780823215713
£87.44Lisio re-examines the events surrounding the 1932 Bonus March on Hoover's White House by outraged veterans. Included is an incisive look at the protective motives of Hoover himself and how the president came to be vilified for the actions of MacArthur... -
Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century by Lewis A. Randolph 9780814775172
£90.28Business in Black and White provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that U.S. government interest in promoting black... -
The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century by Mark H. Rose 9780812221169
RRP: £29.99£26.50The Best Transportation System in the World focuses on the centrality of government in organizing the nation's transportation industries. As the authors show, over the course of the twentieth century, transportation in the United States was as much a...