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The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth by Jermaine Fowler
RRP: £28.00£18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955905145Author Jermaine FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Row House PublishingPublisher Row House PublishingWeight(grams) 1g -
Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial Gary Alan Fine 9780226249414
RRP: £28.00£27.39We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national heritage. Yet we are largely ignorant of how such reputations came to be, who was instrumental in creating... -
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham 9780393867855
RRP: £23.99£22.63If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow... -
Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics by John Torpey
RRP: £27.99£24.14Making Whole What Has Been Smashed explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of... -
A People's History of the United States by Professor Howard Zinn
RRP: £45.00£25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062693013Author Professor Howard ZinnFormat HardbackPage Count 752Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm)... -
The Puritans: A Transatlantic History by David D. Hall
RRP: £22.00£17.76A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New EnglandThis book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan England to its founding role in the story of America... -
Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America by Peter A. Shulman
RRP: £30.50£27.37The fascinating history of how coal-based energy became entangled with American security.Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection... -
American Empire: A Global History by A. G. Hopkins 9780691177052
RRP: £35.00£29.34A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its head American Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Drawing on his expertise in economic... -
Hodder History: The Black Peoples Of America, mainstream edn by Douglas Featonby
£21.93The Black Peoples of America is an essential and unique Key Stage 3 resource for teaching and learning about the issues and events that characterise the history of Black peoples from Slavery up to the struggle for Civil Rights and life in modern America... -
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism by Adam Rome 9780521804905
RRP: £24.99£20.69The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of... -
Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art by Robert Cozzolino
RRP: £44.00£39.21America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history-the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars-are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation's heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor... -
A History of the United States by Philip Jenkins
£26.58This textbook offers an insightful, introductory overview of the history of American society from its inception right up to present day. With coverage starting at the European Settlement in 1492 right through to the 2016 Presidential Election, this fully... -
Corporate Conspiracies: How Wall Street Took Over Washington by Richard Belzer 9781510711266
RRP: £18.99£15.42From New York Times bestselling authors Richard Belzer and David Wayne comes a hard look at the wrongs done to us all by big business in America.Here is an explosive account of wrongful acts perpetrated, and the ensuing cover-ups inflicted upon us, by... -
Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs by Michelle Malkin 9781501130830
RRP: £16.00£9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501130830Author Michelle MalkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mercury InkPublisher Mercury InkWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 25mm -
With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun 9780803261648
RRP: £13.99£11.81With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857-1945), the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brule Lakota woman, was raised near Fort Laramie and experienced firsthand the often... -
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber 9781108444064
RRP: £11.99£8.43A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack... -
The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook, Vol. 2: Since 1877 by Joseph L. Locke
RRP: £19.99£17.94"I too am not a bit tamed-I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."-Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300... -
Brotherhood of Heroes: The Marines at Peleliu, 1944--The Bloodiest Battle of the Pacific War by Bill Sloan 9780743260107
£13.59This Band of Brothers for the Pacific is the gut-wrenching and ultimately triumphant story of the Marines' most ferocious-yet largely forgotten-battle of World War II.Between September 15 and October 15, 1944, the First Marine Division suffered more than... -
American West: History of the Wild West and Westward Expansion 1803-1890 by Alice Barnes-Brown
RRP: £19.99£11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497103740Author Alice Barnes-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Fox Chapel PublishingPublisher Fox Chapel PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Columbian Orator by David W. Blight 9780814713235
RRP: £23.99£20.84An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th century First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions... -
Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins 9780306818561
£23.29Written by a master storyteller, Tycoon's War is the remarkable account of an epic imperialist duel,a violent battle of the capitalist versus the idealist, money versus ambition, and a monumental clash of egos that resulted in the deaths of thousands... -
All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America by David Edwin Harrell
RRP: £20.99£18.37"... a book about healing revivalists that takes them seriously and treats them fairly." -Journal of Southern History "... will be a definitive work for some years to come." -Reviews in American History "Harrell has obviously... -
Voices Of A People's History Of The United States: 10 Anniversary Edition by Anthony Arnove
RRP: £19.99£13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609805920Author Anthony ArnoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 632g -
From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America by Beth L. Bailey
RRP: £25.00£22.03"Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting there."--'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'About the AuthorBeth Bailey teaches American history and is the director of... -
The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century by Christopher D. McKenna 9780521810395
RRP: £37.00£33.96In The World's Newest Profession Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century. Although management consulting may not yet be a recognized profession, the leading consulting firms have been advising and reshaping... -
Those Damned Rebels: The American Revolution As Seen Through British Eyes by Michael Pearson 9780306809835
RRP: £18.99£17.68Using firsthand accounts,journals, letters from British officers in the field, reports from colonial governors in the colonies,Michael Pearson has provided a contemporary report of the Revolution as the British witnessed it. Seen from this perspective,... -
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber 9781108425278 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.99£5.89A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack... -
Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed by David Farber 9781108425278
RRP: £30.99£16.43A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack... -
America: The Last Best Hope (One-Volume Edition) by William J. Bennett
RRP: £20.00£14.29A single-volume edition of William J. Bennett's bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated."The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett's wonderfully readable book is so important." --Walter... -
Niagara Falls: The History of North America's Most Famous Waterfalls by Charles River Editors 9781511724470
RRP: £10.24£7.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511724470Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
How The Post Office Created America: A History by Winifred Gallagher
RRP: £16.99£11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130062Author Winifred GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Oxford Companion to United States History by Paul S. Boyer 9780195082098 [USED COPY]
RRP: £60.00£3.72The Oxford Companion to United States History is a one-volume, alphabetically arranged encyclopedia offering comprehensive coverage of the field for pre-contact Native Americans to the end of the twentieth century. The volume's first aim will be to serve... -
The Oxford Companion to United States History by Paul S. Boyer 9780195082098
RRP: £60.00£45.73The Oxford Companion to United States History is a one-volume, alphabetically arranged encyclopedia offering comprehensive coverage of the field for pre-contact Native Americans to the end of the twentieth century. The volume's first aim will be to serve... -
The Vietnam War Reexamined by Michael G. Kort
RRP: £19.99£16.42Going beyond the dominant orthodox narrative to incorporate insight from revisionist scholarship on the Vietnam War, Michael G. Kort presents the case that the United States should have been able to win the war, and at a much lower cost than it suffered... -
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
RRP: £29.00£22.94In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last great unanswered question on the war: Could the tragedy have been averted? His answer: a resounding yes. Challenging... -
Brokers Of Deceit by Rashid Khalidi
RRP: £16.99£11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807033241Author Rashid KhalidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm *... -
Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880 by JoAnne Yates
RRP: £35.00£34.31The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Business History ConferencePrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to... -
American Conspiracies by Jesse Ventura 9781634505451
RRP: £18.99£15.69A New York Times Best Seller!New York Times bestselling author Jesse Ventura is back with more conspiracies that our government wishes you didn't know about!In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a... -
W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings by W. E. B. Du Bois 9780486496238
£5.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486496238Author W.E.B. Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
America before 1787: The Unraveling of a Colonial Regime by Jon Elster
RRP: £38.00£30.01An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional...