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Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow
RRP: £44.49£36.74During the past several decades, the fetus has been diversely represented in political debates, medical textbooks and journals, personal memoirs and autobiographies, museum exhibits and mass media, and civil and criminal law. Ourselves Unborn argues that... -
Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam by Jessica M. Chapman
RRP: £32.00£24.96In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly created Republic of Vietnam. The United States sanctioned the results of this election, which was widely... -
The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea by Jeffrey A. Engel
RRP: £32.49£30.89The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as 1941 began. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe. Isolationists, political... -
Claiming Lincoln: Progressivism, Equality, and the Battle for Lincoln's Legacy in Presidential Rhetoric by Jason R. Jividen
RRP: £40.00£30.74Abraham Lincoln is clearly one of the most frequently cited figures in American political rhetoric, especially with regard to issues of equality. But given the ubiquity of LincolnAEs legacy, many references to him, even on the presidential level, are... -
The Farm on the North Talbot Road by Allan G. Bogue
RRP: £16.99£13.33As the family farm of yesterday steadily loses ground to the corporate farm of tomorrow, pundits and plain folks alike bemoan the loss of the homely, down-to-earth rural life that few actually know or remember anymore. Allan G. Bogue is a notable... -
Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II by Michael Cullen Green
RRP: £43.00£33.27By the end of World War II, many black citizens viewed service in the segregated American armed forces with distaste if not disgust. Meanwhile, domestic racism and Jim Crow, ongoing Asian struggles against European colonialism, and prewar calls for... -
LBJ's Neglected Legacy: How Lyndon Johnson Reshaped Domestic Policy and Government by Robert H. Wilson
RRP: £25.99£21.24During the five full years of his presidency (1964-1968), Lyndon Johnson initiated a breathtaking array of domestic policies and programs, including such landmarks as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare and Medicaid, the Immigration... -
Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America by Scott Kaufman
RRP: £39.00£31.14Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California's Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded... -
Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America - Abridged paperback Edition by Paul Avrich
RRP: £50.00£39.12Through his many books on the history of anarchism, Paul Avrich has done much to dispel the public's conception of the anarchists as mere terrorists. In Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets American anarchists speak for themselves. This abridged edition... -
The Great Debates: Kennedy vs. Nixon, 1960 by Sidney Kraus
RRP: £21.99£17.94By conservative estimate 55 per cent of the adult population watched or listened to all the Kennedy-Nixon television debates of 1960, 80 per cent saw or heard at least one. In this volume thirty experts in communications, political analysis, and opinion... -
Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War by Richard Moe
RRP: £18.49£15.41Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award, U.S. History category "In Roosevelt's Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively little interest was far from it." -David... -
Nature at War: American Environments and World War II by Thomas Robertson
RRP: £28.99£24.42This 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... -
Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States by David Luis-Brown
RRP: £25.99£20.84In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire... -
Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech by Victoria Saker Woeste
RRP: £125.00£100.62Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur-the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable. Largely forgotten is his side career as a publisher of antisemitic propaganda. This is the story of... -
American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition by Kenneth D. Rose
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Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919-1933 by Frank Costigliola
RRP: £35.00£27.76In Awkward Dominion, Frank Costigliola offers a striking interpretation of the emergence of the United States as a world power in the 1920s, a period in which the country faced both burdens and opportunities as a result of the First World War. Exploring... -
White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan by Tom Rice
RRP: £72.00£56.93The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's paean to the original Klan. While this link between Griffith's film and the Klan has been widely acknowledged, Tom... -
Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy by Dan Abrams
RRP: £17.99£13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335081919Author David FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam by James G. Hershberg
RRP: £34.00£27.65Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war in 1966. The initiative failed, the war dragged on... -
US Health Policy and Health Care Delivery: Doctors, Reformers, and Entrepreneurs by Carl F. Ameringer
RRP: £23.99£20.37The unique composition and configuration of doctors and hospitals in the US is leading to a crisis in primary care provision. There are significantly more specialists than generalists, and many community hospitals and outpatient facilities are... -
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby 9780521541756
RRP: £24.99£18.93Between August 1918 and March 1919 the Spanish influenza spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War. It proved fatal to at least a half-million Americans. Yet, the Spanish flu... -
The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa 9780062971876
RRP: £32.00£17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062971876Author Steven UjifusaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy by Tom Clavin
RRP: £17.99£10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335016669Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics by Adam Ewing 9780691173832
RRP: £28.00£21.80Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States... -
Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 by David Hitt 9780803226487
RRP: £32.00£25.36After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world's... -
The Making of Gone With The Wind by Steve Wilson
RRP: £49.00£43.35Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the film's producer, and his... -
Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups by Richard Belzer
RRP: £12.99£11.21Have you ever heard the story on the news of a politician being "found dead" or "committing suicide," and it seemed a little strange to you? You think, "There's something they're not telling me." Well, after you read Dead Wrong, you'll realize that your... -
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era by Roxane Gay
RRP: £19.99£17.37This powerful collection-which captures the energy, humour and humanity of the ground-breaking protests that surrounded the Stonewall Riots-celebrates the diversity of the LGBT rights movement, both in the subjects of the photos and by presenting Kay... -
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller
RRP: £17.99£17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979282Author Scott MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Bunion Derby: The 1928 Footrace Across America by Charles B. Kastner 9780826343017 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.95£2.69On March 4, 1928, 199 men lined up in Los Angeles, California, to participate in a 3,400-mile transcontinental footrace to New York City. The Bunion Derby, as the press dubbed the event, was the brainchild of sports promoter Charles C. Pyle. He promised... -
Twentieth-century America: Politics and Power in the United States 1900-2000 by Professor Michael J. Heale 9780340614075
£46.66In 1941 Time magazine publisher Henry Luce spoke of the 'American Century', anticipating that the values of the United States would spread around the world. Twentieth-Century America provides a comprehensive analysis of the changes and continuities in... -
The Roaring Twenties: A Captivating Guide to a Period of Dramatic Social and Political Change, a False Sense of Prosperity, and Its Impact on the Great Depression by Captivating History 9781721801367
RRP: £13.49£10.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781721801367Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter 9780312671938
RRP: £16.99£12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312671938Author David R CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Weight(grams) 426g -
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Professor Nicholas Lemann 9780374527518
RRP: £20.99£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527518Author Professor Nicholas LemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist by Thomas Doherty 9780231187787
RRP: £25.00£18.12In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the movie industry. The blowback was profound: the major... -
Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia by Wen-Qing Ngoei 9781501770197
RRP: £27.99£21.67Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing Ngoei articulates a... -
The Mississippi Burning Case: The History and Legacy of the Freedom Summer Murders at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement by Charles River Editors 9781519761392
RRP: £7.24£5.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519761392Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Freedom'S Daughters by Lynne Olson
RRP: £22.00£17.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684850139Author OLSONPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
The Deep State in the Heart of Texas by Edgar Tatro 9780998889832
RRP: £18.95£16.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998889832Author Edgar TatroFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Say Something Real Press LLCPublisher Say Something Real Press LLCWeight(grams)... -
Not Like Home: American Visitors to Britain in the 1950s: Volume 1 by Michael John Law 9780773558847
RRP: £34.00£19.99In the decade of economic expansion following the Second World War, many ordinary Americans travelled abroad for the first time. Those who visited Britain were surprised to find that the people they encountered were not the aristocrats or working-class...