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The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties Reader by Debi Unger 9780609803370
RRP: £15.84£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609803370Author Debi UngerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman 9780547480343
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547480343Author Russell FreedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Clarion BooksPublisher Clarion BooksWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 253mm * 202mm... -
Empire of Ideas: The Origins of Public Diplomacy and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign Policy by Justin Hart 9780199777945
£52.28Empire of Ideas examines the origins of the U. S. government's programs in public diplomacy and the way that those initiatives transformed the foreign policy process. Spanning the period from 1936 to 1953, the book explores how, when, and why U. S... -
Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America by Faye E. Dudden 9780199772636
RRP: £51.00£41.68The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the right to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so... -
Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History by Michael L. Gillette 9780195387278
£35.87The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 was one of the great legislative triumphs of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. In Launching the War on Poverty, forty-nine veterans of this unprecedented legislative effort tell their stories, offering a fascinating inside... -
A More Perfect Union: Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II by Linda Sargent Wood 9780195377743
RRP: £74.00£65.93In 1962, when the Cold War threatened to ignite in the Cuban Missile Crisis, when more nuclear test bombs were detonated than in any other year in history, Rachel Carson released her own bombshell, Silent Spring, to challenge society's use of pesticides... -
Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by Shana Bernstein 9780195331660
£75.73In her first book, Shana Bernstein reinterprets U.S. civil rights activism by looking at its roots in the interracial efforts of Mexican, African, Jewish, and Japanese Americans in mid-century Los Angeles. Expanding the frame of historical analysis... -
America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1890s-1920s by Maureen A. Flanagan 9780195172201
RRP: £85.99£39.49This comprehensive and accessible text is for use in classes on the Progressive Era alone, or in a combined class on the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras, which many universities teach. It could also be used as one of several titles in the general survey... -
The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 by Mark Brilliant 9780195160505
RRP: £51.00£42.08Historians of the Civil Rights Movement have long set their sights on the struggles of African Americans in the South and, more recently, North. In doing so, they either omit the West or merge it with the North, defined as anything outside the former... -
The Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments by Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments 9780195107920
RRP: £82.00£66.53This book describes, in fascinating detail, a variety of experiments sponsored by the U.S. government in which people were exposed to radiation without their knowledge. After reviewing hundreds of thousands of documents from the Atomic Energy Commission... -
Little Cold Warriors: American Childhood in the 1950s by Victoria M. Grieve 9780190675684
RRP: £82.00£59.26Both conservative and liberal Baby Boomers have romanticized the 1950s as an age of innocence - of pickup ball games and Howdy Doody, when mom stayed home and the economy boomed. But these nostalgic narratives obscure many other histories of postwar... -
Food Power: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Food System by Bryan L. McDonald 9780190600686
£44.66In Food Power, Bryan L. McDonald brings together the history of food, agriculture, and foreign policy to explore the use of food to promote American national security and national interests during the first three decades of the Cold War. In the years... -
A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican Neighborboods by Merida M. Rua 9780190257804
£30.22Chicago is home to the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States, but scholarship on the city rarely accounts for their presence. This book is part of an effort to include Puerto Ricans in Chicago's history. Rua traces Puerto... -
The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court by Laura Kalman 9780190079116
RRP: £28.99£21.70The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired... -
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill by Mark Lee Gardner 9780062312099
RRP: £10.99£10.95The first definitive account of this legendary fighting force and its extraordinary leader, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Lee Gardner's Rough Riders is narrative nonfiction at its most invigorating and compulsively readable. Its dramatic unfolding of a... -
Camelot & the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism by James Piereson 9781594037436
RRP: £11.99£11.48James Piereson examines the bizarre aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination: Why in the years after the assassination did the American Left become preoccupied with conspiratorial thinking? How and why was Kennedy transformed in death into a liberal... -
Hidden History of Walt Disney World by Foxx Nolte 9781467156189
RRP: £24.99£15.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156189Author Foxx NolteFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g -
Busy Hands: Images of the Family in the Northern Civil War Effort by Patricia Richard 9780823223008
£65.13Focusing on middle-class women's contributions to the northern Civil War effort, Patricia Richard shows how women utilized their power as moral agents to shape the way men survived the ravages of war. Busy Hands investigates the ways in which white and... -
New Deal Fat Cats: Campaign Finances and the Democratic Part in 1936 by Michael Webber 9780823219469
£81.44In New Deal Fat Cats, Michael Webber offers a fresh perspective on the New Deal. The author analyzes the role of various segments of society in party politics during the political change brought on by the Great Depression. Webber uses analysis of... -
When Giants Ruled: The Story of Park Row, NY's Great Newspaper Street by Hy B. Turner 9780823219445
RRP: £35.00£27.36When 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 Man Who Rode the Tiger: The Life and Times of Judge Samuel Seabury by Herbert Mitgang 9780823217212
£87.58The Man Who Rode the Tiger is the dramatic story of the biggest investigation of political corruption in American municipal history.Book InformationISBN 9780823217212Author Herbert MitgangFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Fordham University... -
The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence by Ellis W. Hawley 9780823216086
£92.13A re-issue of this classic study of President Roosevelt's adminstrative policy toward monopoly during the period of the New Deal, updated with a new introduction by the author.Book InformationISBN 9780823216086Author Ellis W. HawleyFormat HardbackPage... -
Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity by J. Kauanui 9780822340584
RRP: £92.00£73.81In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined "native Hawaiians" as those people "with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778." This "blood... -
Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945 by David Yoo 9780804769280
£99.02Contentious Spirits explores the role of religion in Korean American history during the first half of the twentieth century in Hawai'i and California. Historian David K. Yoo argues that religion is the most important aspect of this group's experience... -
Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations from 1897 by Howard Jones 9780742558267
RRP: £79.00£70.34In this updated edition of Crucible of Power, Howard Jones draws on his remarkable breadth as a historian of U.S. foreign relations to produce a distinguished survey of America's growth from an emerging power in the 1890s to its present day position of... -
Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office by Eric Leif Davin 9780739197448
RRP: £53.00£46.32Our memory of Sixties New Left radicals often evokes marches in the streets, battles with the police, or urban bombings. However, the New Left was a multi-faceted movement, with diverse tendencies. One of these tendencies promoted electoral as the way to... -
The War on Poverty: A Retrospective by Kyle Farmbry 9780739190784
RRP: £109.00£95.57In January of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty." Over the next several years, the United States launched several programs aimed at drastically reducing the level of poverty throughout the nation. Now fifty years... -
The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade by Kimberly R. Moffitt 9780739143148
RRP: £58.00£50.99As we approach twenty years since the end of the 1980s, we have the opportunity to see the decade in perspective, and are in a position to question the glib assumption that the 1980s were a mere conservative foil to the 1960s. The 1980s: A Critical and... -
The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America by Dorothy Sue Cobble 9780691123684
RRP: £32.00£24.76American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the... -
Origins of Soviet American Diplomacy by Robert Paul Browder 9780691650630
£103.30When Litvinov arrived in Washington in 1933 after the sixteen years of diplomatic silence between his country and the U.S., he carried with him his commission as official representative to the U.S., dated 1918 and signed by Lenin and Chicherin, as... -
The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era by Kurkpatrick Dorsey 9780295990033
RRP: £25.99£20.84In the first decades of the twentieth century, fish in the Great Lakes and Puget Sound, seals in the North Pacific, and birds across North America faced a common threat: over harvesting that threatened extinction for many species. Progressive era... -
Technology in Postwar America: A History by Carroll Pursell 9780231123044
£58.69Carroll Pursell tells the story of the evolution of American technology since World War II. His fascinating and surprising history links pop culture icons with landmarks in technological innovation and shows how postwar politics left their mark on... -
The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 by S. Deborah Kang 9780190055554
RRP: £25.99£19.16For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different. Here, they confronted a set of political, social, and environmental obstacles that prevented them from... -
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone 9781982102531
RRP: £23.99£16.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982102531Author Oliver StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 944Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *... -
The End of Empires: African Americans and India by Gerald C. Horne 9781592138999
RRP: £55.00£47.64A trailblazing book that details the close historic ties between Black America and India over the decadesBook InformationISBN 9781592138999Author Gerald C. HorneFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University... -
Catcher: How the Man Behind the Plate Became an American Folk Hero by Peter Morris 9781566638708
RRP: £14.99£11.53Today's baseball catcher stolidly goes about his duty without attracting much attention. But it wasn't always that way, as Peter Morris shows in this lively and original study. In baseball's early days, catchers stood a safe distance back of the batter... -
The Rise of the New Woman: The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930 by Jean V. Matthews 9781566635011
RRP: £12.99£9.61Following on her history of the women's movement in America that took the story to 1876, Jean Matthews's new book chronicles the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement, from its dismal period of declining numbers and... -
The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality: Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 1948-1958 by Yanela G. McLeod 9781498576635
RRP: £90.00£78.81This book helps inject the Miami Times into the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida by highlighting its role in Rice v Arnold, a 1949 lawsuit filed by black recreational golfers in Miami to oppose segregation on the city's public... -
Utopian Movements and Ideas of the Great Depression: Dreamers, Believers, and Madmen by Donald W. Whisenhunt 9781498557030
RRP: £43.00£37.78In the 1930s, the United States was beset with an economic crisis so serious that it threatened the future of the nation. On the national level, Franklin Roosevelt initiated and developed a variety of reforms and experiments as part of the New Deal. Some... -
Advocating for Israel: Diplomats and Lobbyists from Truman to Nixon by Natan Aridan 9781498553773
RRP: £109.00£95.57This study analyzes the unique triangular relationship between Israel's diplomatic representatives, pro-Israel advocates, and US administrations draws on a wealth of Hebrew and English primary documentation that includes; government archives,...