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The Federal Theatre Project in the American South: The Carolina Playmakers and the Quest for American Drama by Cecelia Moore 9781498526845
RRP: £39.00£34.37The Federal Theatre Project in the American South introduces the people and projects that shaped the regional identity of the Federal Theatre Project. When college theatre director Hallie Flanagan became head of this New Deal era jobs program in 1935,... -
The Federal Theatre Project in the American South: The Carolina Playmakers and the Quest for American Drama by Cecelia Moore 9781498526821
RRP: £90.00£79.21The Federal Theatre Project in the American South introduces the people and projects that shaped the regional identity of the Federal Theatre Project. When college theatre director Hallie Flanagan became head of this New Deal era jobs program in 1935,... -
The Cross and Reaganomics: Conservative Christians Defending Ronald Reagan by Eric R. Crouse 9781498515054
RRP: £45.00£39.49The Cross and Reaganomics: Conservative Christians Defending Ronald Reagan, by Eric R. Crouse, offers important insights on why Reaganomics was a major reason conservative Christians supported Reagan at the polls. On election night in November 1980,... -
A Legislative History of the Taiwan Relations Act: Bridging the Strait by Martin B. Gold 9781498511148
RRP: £47.00£41.60As 1979 dawned, President Jimmy Carter extended diplomatic recognition to the People's Republic of China. upending longstanding U.S. foreign policy in Asia. For thirty years after the triumph of Mao's revolution, the United States continued to recognize... -
Dwight Eisenhower and American Foreign Policy during the 1960s: An American Lion in Winter by Richard M. Filipink 9781498506816
RRP: £42.00£36.93Dwight Eisenhower had a measurable impact on the foreign policy decisions of his Democratic successors during the 1960s due to his reputation as a military and foreign policy expert as well as his continued popularity when and after he left office... -
On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation by Robert Whitaker 9780307339836
RRP: £18.99£13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307339836Author Robert WhitakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm)... -
Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by Bret Baier 9780062845696
RRP: £28.99£18.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062845696Author Bret BaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
The Great Rescue: American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and the Race to Save Europe in WWI by Peter Hernon 9780062433862
RRP: £20.00£17.39Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe-a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this... -
A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power by Cyrus Veeser 9780231125864
£100.11This award-winning book provides a unique window on how America began to intervene in world affairs. In exploring what might be called the prehistory of Dollar Diplomacy, Cyrus Veeser brings together developments in New York, Washington, Santo Domingo,... -
In Search of the Movement: The Struggle for Civil Rights Then and Now by Benjamin Hedin 9780872866478
RRP: £11.99£10.25"Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement's past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different. By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark into focus,... -
Reagan's Comeback: Four Weeks in Texas That Changed American Politics Forever by Gilbert Garcia 9781595341426
RRP: £12.99£11.98Never before has the story been told of the dramatic turning point when Ronald Reagan found his voice as a presidential contender and overcame the Republican establishment. Reagan's Comeback is the story of how one state, one man, and one month changed... -
The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ by Michael Janeway 9780231131087
£106.29In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas,... -
Time, Memory & The Verbal Arts by Dennis L. Weeks 9781575910093
£91.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781575910093Author Dennis L. WeeksFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Susquehanna University PressPublisher Associated University Presses -
The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom by Steve Batterson 9781685900366
RRP: £75.00£60.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900366Author Steve BattersonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Monthly Review PressPublisher Monthly Review Press -
Liberal World Orders by Tim Dunne 9780197265529
£76.88Liberal World Order is seen by many as either a fading international order in response to declining American hegemony, or as a failing international order riddled with internal tensions and contradictions. Either way, liberal world order is assumed to be... -
Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement by Kevin M. Kruse 9780195382419
£118.55This collection is a timely reconsideration of the intersection between two of the dominant events of twentieth-century American history, the upheaval wrought by the Second World War and the social revolution brought about by the African American... -
Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation by Suzanne Mettler 9780195180978
£23.46"A hell of a gift, an opportunity." "Magnanimous." "One of the greatest advantages I ever experienced." These are the voices of World War II veterans, lavishing praise on their beloved G.I. Bill. Transcending boundaries of class and race, the Bill... -
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II by Jan Jarboe Russell 9781451693669
RRP: £30.00£18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781451693669Author Jan Jarboe RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon &... -
Rendezvous with Death: The Americans Who Joined the Foreign Legion in 1914 to Fight for France and for Civilization by David Hanna 9781621579670
RRP: £19.99£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621579670Author David HannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Regnery HistoryPublisher Regnery HistoryWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *... -
Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War: The Struggle for Recognition by Volodymyr V. Kravchenko 9781793609076
RRP: £97.00£84.84This book is the first comprehensive survey of Ukrainian historical writing in North America during the Cold War. The author describes the development of Ukrainian historical studies in Canada and the United States as an open, sometimes difficult... -
Warren Austin, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and the Cold War at the United Nations, 1947–1960 by Sean Brennan 9781666913309
RRP: £89.00£77.95Representing the US government during the earliest era of the United Nations, Warren Austin, who served the Truman administration, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who was Eisenhower's ambassador, both attempted to navigate a delicate path in tumultuous time... -
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century by Claire Prentice 9781477825518
£9.89Shortlisted for the 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is an Amazon Best Book of the Month The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is a New York Post "must read"! Coney Island, summer 1905: a new attraction opened at Luna Park... -
U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900 by Robert D. Schulzinger 9780195320497
RRP: £99.99£40.98Interest in U.S. foreign relations has soared to great heights in the early twenty-first century. Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible American diplomacy survey available, U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900 has never been more relevant. Now in... -
Alice Paul: Claiming Power by J. D. Zahniser 9780199958429
RRP: £39.49£37.14Alice Paul has long been an elusive figure in the political history of American women. This biography of Paul's early years and suffrage leadership offers fresh insight into her private persona and public image. Here, for the first time, the authors... -
Justice Lewis F. Powell:: A Biography by John C. Jeffries 9780823221097
£98.65Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. is an absorbing and readable biography of one of the most important Supreme Court Justices since World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780823221097Author John C. JeffriesFormat HardbackPage Count 690Imprint Fordham University... -
These United States: A Nation in the Making: 1945 to the Present by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore 9780393283075
£56.41President Franklin Roosevelt told Americans in a 1936 fireside chat, "I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making." These United States builds on this foundation to present a readable, accessible history of... -
More Than a Doctrine: The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East by Randall Fowler 9781612349978
RRP: £36.00£24.59Given on January 5, 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine Address forever changed America's relationship with the Middle East. In the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, President Dwight D. Eisenhower boldly declared that the United States would henceforth serve as... -
Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines by Sarah Steinbock-Pratt 9781108473125
RRP: £55.99£50.64This book examines how education contributed to the creation of US empire in the Philippines by focusing on American teachers and the Filipinos with whom they lived and worked. While education was located at the heart of the imperial project, used to... -
Nature at War: American Environments and World War II by Thomas Robertson 9781108419765
RRP: £87.99£79.64This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total and global war that involved the extraction, processing, and use of vast quantities of natural resources... -
Japanese American Relocation in World War II: A Reconsideration by Roger W. Lotchin 9781108410397
RRP: £30.99£26.77In this revisionist history of the United States government relocation of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, Roger W. Lotchin challenges the prevailing notion that racism was the cause of the creation of these centers. After unpacking the... -
AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present by Giovanna Dell'Orto 9781107519305
RRP: £26.99£22.80Based on extended interviews conducted from the Pakistani countryside to Washington, AP Foreign Correspondents in Action: World War II to the Present reveals for the first time what it takes to get the stories that brought the world home to America. It... -
America's Forgotten Colony: Cuba's Isle of Pines by Michael Neagle 9781107136854
RRP: £78.99£71.27America's Forgotten Colony examines private US citizens' experiences on Cuba's Isle of Pines to show how American influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba (1902-58). This transnational study challenges the notion that US territorial ambitions... -
Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century by Katherine Rye Jewell 9781107174023
RRP: £49.99£45.37Organized in 1933, the Southern States Industrial Council's (SSIC) adherence to the South as a unique political and economic entity limited its members' ability to forge political coalitions against the New Deal. The SSIC's commitment to regional... -
Constructing Race: The Science of Bodies and Cultures in American Anthropology by Tracy Teslow 9781107011731
RRP: £99.99£90.27Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural... -
Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century by Cheryl Lynn Greenberg 9780691146164
RRP: £42.00£37.81Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In Troubling the Waters, Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the... -
Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Meg Jacobs 9780691130415
RRP: £35.00£27.74"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that... -
Jazz Age Jews by Michael Alexander 9780691116532
RRP: £35.00£27.74By the 1920s, Jews were--by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day--making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliberately identified with groups that remained excluded... -
The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century by Mark Philip Bradley 9780521829755
RRP: £16.99£15.11Concerns about rights in the United States have a long history, but the articulation of global human rights in the twentieth century was something altogether different. Global human rights offered individuals unprecedented guarantees beyond the nation... -
Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in an Age of New Media by Stephen Vaughn 9780521676540
RRP: £26.99£22.80This is a story that Jack Valenti has long tried to keep secret. Freedom and Entertainment is the first book to offer a behind-the-scenes account of the motion picture rating system and the Motion Picture Association of America under Valenti's leadership... -
America's West: A History, 1890-1950 by David M. Wrobel 9780521192019
RRP: £75.00£67.74The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in economic development, in political ideology and action, and in natural resource conservation and preservation...