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Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon 9780060505127
RRP: £17.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505127Author John Steele GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394723693Author Robert Farris ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire.We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still... -
The Great Depression: A Diary by James Ledbetter
RRP: £14.99£9.80When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of... -
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America by Sara M. Evans 9780684834986
RRP: £22.00£13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684834986Author Sara M. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)... -
The Franklin Cover-Up by John W DeCamp 9780963215802
RRP: £18.95£15.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963215802Author John W DecampFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint A W T, IncorporatedPublisher A W T, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 216mm... -
The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny by Neil Howe 9780767900461
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767900461Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm)... -
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein 9780743243032
RRP: £12.99£9.18Heralded by stunning reviews, Perlstein's best-selling NIXONLAND begins in the blood and fire of the Watts riots - one week after President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, and nine months after his historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater... -
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos 9781538770184
RRP: £15.99£12.45George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their... -
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
RRP: £8.99£6.45'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a... -
The Concise Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone
RRP: £14.99£10.95Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the Obama administration. Looking at American intervention in foreign conflicts in Latin... -
The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings by Editors of Thunder Bay Press
RRP: £19.99£13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684120987Author Editors of Thunder Bay PressPage Count 544Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 841gDimensions(mm)... -
By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism by Anthony B. Pinn 9780814766729
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Black church is often praised for its contribution to Black culture and politics. More recently Islam has been recognized as an important force in African American liberation. Anthony Pinn's new anthology By These Hands demonstrates the crucial,... -
Encounter in Rendlesham Forest: The Inside Story of the World's Best-Documented UFO Incident by Nick Pope 9781250063311
RRP: £20.00£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250063311Author Nick PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Rockefeller: Controlling the Game by Jacob Nordangård 9781510780217
RRP: £22.00£20.37Why would the first family of oil so ardently support environmental climate research and activism? Join author and researcher Jacob Nordangard as he uncovers the whole sordid truth. The Rockefeller family is one of the richest in the world. Yet, why... -
Caste: The International Bestseller by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough" - Barack ObamaBeyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer... -
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields
£11.42Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion... -
Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
RRP: £11.99£8.60True crime in the American heartland. Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting account of Mormon fundamentalism and renegade prophets, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.Now a major TV miniseries starring Andrew Garfield... -
Hamilton: The Revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda 9781408709238
RRP: £45.00£30.25Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for DramaNow a major motion picture, available on Disney Plus.Goodreads best non-fiction book of 2016From Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda comes a backstage pass to his groundbreaking, hit... -
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Endeavour Peter Moore 9781784743192
RRP: £25.00£17.62Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream'Absorbing... fascinating... eloquent' THE... -
The Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
RRP: £16.99£12.28This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading... -
The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History And Lore Of The First Frontiersmen by George Laycock 9781493018826
RRP: £11.99£8.92To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin survivalists. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, beaver fur trappers roamed the river valleys and... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: The Making of America 1789-1900 by Alex Ford
£21.93Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
A Short History of the United States: From the Arrival of Native American Tribes to the Obama Presidency by Robert V. Remini
£12.53An abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions, including the arrival... -
A Concise History of the United States of America by Susan-Mary Grant 9780521612791
RRP: £26.99£21.34Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial... -
New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America by Colin G. Calloway 9781421410319
RRP: £25.00£22.03Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the... -
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
RRP: £9.99£6.70WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018 In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul... -
Renegades: Born in the USA Barack Obama 9780241561249
RRP: £35.00£25.89THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AND THE GIFT THAT WILL BE ON EVERY BRUCE AND BARACK FAN'S WISH LIST THIS CHRISTMAS!Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its... -
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
RRP: £18.99£13.61All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong.This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels,... -
The Great Reset: And the War for the World Alex Jones 9781510774049
RRP: £22.00£14.05In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet. From central bankers,... -
Access to History: In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917-96 for Edexcel Vivienne Sanders 9781510423459
£25.21Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS), Summer 2017 (A-level)Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging... -
Eyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 by Carol Anderson
RRP: £23.99£19.55This book was first published in 2003. As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, African American leaders, led by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored... -
Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of... -
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: £10.99£7.77The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of... -
Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution by John F. Luzader 9781932714852
£18.42The months-long Saratoga campaign was one of the most important military undertakings of the American Revolution, and John Luzader's impressive Saratoga: A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution, the first all-encompassing... -
USA - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Alan Beechey
RRP: £10.99£8.22Don't just see the sights get to know the people. Who can afford not to understand the USA? Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society that brims with contrasts and contradictions. It is a culture of... -
Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival by Geoff Doughty
RRP: £32.00£29.21Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making.In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post-World War II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of... -
A Little History of the United States by James West Davidson
RRP: £10.99£9.37A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages "This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn... -
Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger by Stephen, H. Grant 9781421411873
RRP: £29.00£26.08In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885,... -
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush by Elvin T. Lim 9780195342642
RRP: £88.00£77.71Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public? Why have presidential utterances fallen from the rousing speeches of Lincoln, Teddy...