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American Behavioral History: An Introduction by Peter N. Stearns 9780814798430
£89.88From his founding of The Journal of Social History to his groundbreaking work on the history of emotions, weight, and parenting, Peter N. Stearns has pushed the boundaries of social history to new levels, presenting new insights into how people have... -
American Jewish Women's History: A Reader by Pamela S. Nadell 9780814758076
RRP: £70.00£35.62"It gives me a secret pleasure to observe the fair character our family has in the place by Jews & Christians,"Abigail Levy Franks wrote to her son from New York City in 1733. Abigail was part of a tiny community of Jews living in the new... -
Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory by Marc Howard Ross 9780812250381
RRP: £58.00£41.71In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall and, though torn down in 1832, it... -
Basic Trends of Our Times by Pitirim A. Sorokin 9780808400585
£35.12To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780808400585Author Pitirim A. SorokinFormat PaperbackPage Count 551Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman... -
Magnificent Failure: A Portrait of the Western Homestead Era by John Martin Campbell 9780804738866
RRP: £182.00£49.77In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs, the author vividly recreates the life and times of the Western Homestead Era, that period beginning around 1885 when the prairie lands lying westward from the... -
Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890D1970 by Xinyang Wang 9780742508910
RRP: £41.00£36.08This innovative work explores the multifaceted Chinese experience in New York City. Incisively questioning accepted wisdom and easy cultural assumptions, Xinyang Wang persuasively illustrates that economic forces more than racism influenced immigrantsO... -
Hope and Fear in Margaret Chase Smith's America: A Continuous Tangle by Gregory P. Gallant 9780739179857
RRP: £115.00£100.74Hope and Fear in Margaret Chase Smith's America: A Continuous Tangle provides a fresh interpretation of the life, career, and legacy of former United States Senator Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman elected to both houses of the U.S. Congress. The... -
Carlucci Versus Kissinger by Bernardino Gomes 9780739168783
RRP: £44.00£38.64This book deals with a successful example of U.S. support to the transition from an undemocratic regime to a democratic one in Portugal. As Samuel Huntington wrote, Portugal represented the beginning of the "Third Wave of Democracy" and his example... -
The Dangers of Dissent: The FBI and Civil Liberties since 1965 by Ivan Greenberg 9780739149409
RRP: £45.00£39.49While most studies of the FBI focus on the long tenure of Director J. Edgar Hoover (1924-1972), The Dangers of Dissent shifts the ground to the recent past. The book examines FBI practices in the domestic security field through the prism of 'political... -
Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book by D. L. Wilson 9780691636078
£101.65This work is a new edition of Thomas Jefferson's literary commonplace book, a notebook of his literary and philosophical reading. Unlike the only previous edition, published in 1928, it contains full annotation, pertinent information on the authors and... -
Pictorial History of Princeton by Wheaton Joshua Lane 9780691653549
£82.48A richly illustrated hook by an experienced historian, tracing in 476 pictures and text the story of Princeton life from the beginning to the present. Originally published in 1947. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology... -
A House Called Morven: Its Role in American History, 1701-1954 - Revised Edition by Alfred Hoyt Bill 9780691653181
£86.08"Mr. Bill has brilliantly rendered the stately progress of life in and out of Morven through its two hundred and fifty years. He has brought history home to us as a warm and living thing."--Christian Science Monitor. Originally published in... -
Career of John Cotton: Puritanism and the American Experience by Larzer Ziff 9780691651866
£110.30Why is so little heard about John Cotton, who was acknowledged in his own lifetime as the greatest Puritan preacher in America? Why has he alone remained an enigma among the founding fathers of American protestantism? Professor Ziff examines Cotton's... -
Railroads and Regulations, 1877-1916 by Gabriel Kolko 9780691651125
£105.77This examination of the relationship of the economy to political process in the United States from 1877 to 1916 shows how the railroad industry encouraged and relied on national politics to solve its economic problems, and created a precedent for... -
The Two Tocquevilles, Father and Son: Herve and Alexis de Tocqueville on the Coming of the French Revolution by R. R. Palmer 9780691637990
£101.65The distinguished historian R. R. Palmer compares the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and his father. Count Herve de Tocqueville. on the causes of the French Revolution of 1789. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry by Anna Zeide 9780520322769
RRP: £25.00£19.59History Food Studies A century and a half ago, when the food industry was first taking root, few consumers trusted packaged foods. Americans had just begun to shift away from eating foods that they grew themselves or purchased from neighbors. With the... -
Rediscovering America: Japanese Perspectives on the American Century by Peter Duus 9780520268456
RRP: £30.00£27.39In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji... -
America: The Essential Learning Edition by David E Shi 9780393542806
RRP: £76.50£53.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393542806Author David E ShiImprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 1250g -
The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America by Michael Thompson 9780231140744
RRP: £88.00£68.75Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and... -
Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture by Alison Landsberg 9780231129268
£102.22Instead of compartmentalizing American experience, the technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender to share collective memories-to assimilate as personal experience historical events through which... -
Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience by Manning Marable 9780231108904
£74.34Freedom on My Mind reveals the richly diverse and complex experience of black people in America in their own words, from the Colonial era of Benjamin Banneker to the present world of Kweisi Mfume and Clarence Thomas. Personal correspondence, excerpts... -
Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian Awakening by Julia F. Irwin 9780199766406
RRP: £47.99£39.48At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was growing by fits and starts into its new role as a global power. Unlike European empires, it sought to distinguish itself as a new kind of power. Corporations and media outlets were spreading... -
Forging America: Volume One to 1877: A Continental History of the United States by Steven Hahn 9780197540190
£76.87Forging America speaks to both the complexities of historical experience and the meanings of the past for our present-day lives. Warning against the assumption of pre-ordained outcomes, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Steve Hahn focuses the reader's... -
America's Three Regimes: A New Political History by Morton Keller 9780195374247
RRP: £32.49£23.32Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history," this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three "regimes," each of which lasts many, many decades,... -
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader by Michelle Ronnick 9780195309621
£73.57William Sanders Scarborough (1852-1926) was the first professional classicist of African-American descent. THis volume is the first collection of Scarborough's published writings, introduced by his biographer, classicist Michelle Ronnick. In addition to... -
The Struggle against Slavery: A History in Documents by David Waldstreicher 9780195108507
£33.45From slave ships to plantations to freedom, The Struggle Against Slavery traces the remarkable history of the heroic fight to end slavery, from its North American beginnings in the early 1600s to its violent demise in the mid-1800s with the Civil War... -
Rights Delayed: The American State and the Defeat of Progressive Unions, 1935-1950 by Charles Romney 9780190250294
RRP: £92.00£81.03Progressive unions flourished in the 1930s by working alongside federal agencies created during the New Deal. Yet in 1950, few progressive unions remained. Why? Most scholars point to domestic anti-communism and southern conservatives in Congress as the... -
By The Light Of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs And Tragedies Of The SecondAmerican Revolution [Large Print] by David Talbot 9780063090439
RRP: £30.99£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090439Author David TalbotFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States by Alexander Hamilton 9780375757860
RRP: £19.99£12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757860Author Alexander HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm)... -
The Canada Us Border: Culture and Theory by Jeffrey Orr 9781474453288
£95.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474453288Author Jeffrey OrrFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Gettysburg Cyclorama: The Turning Point of the Civil War on Canvas by Bill Dowling
£25.46Thousands of books and articles have been written about the Battle of Gettysburg. Almost every topic has been thoroughly scrutinized except one: Paul Philippoteaux's massive cyclorama painting The Battle of Gettysburg, which depicts Pickett's Charge, the... -
The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, International Edition by Clifford Clark 9781133945314
£95.76THE ENDURING VISION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, 8E, International Edition s engaging narrative integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework. Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is... -
The American Pageant, International Edition by David M. Kennedy 9781111830854
£95.76THE AMERICAN PAGEANT, 15E, International Edition enjoys a reputation as one of the most popular, effective, and entertaining texts in American history. The colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations, and trademark wit bring American history to life. The... -
Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America by Thomas G. West 9780847685172
RRP: £19.99£15.02According to the conventional wisdom of our time, our nation's Founders were guilty of racism, sexism, and elitism. They were hypocrites who failed to live up to their own enlightened principles. The fact that Washington and Jefferson held slaves is... -
Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments by James A. Percoco 9780823228959
£73.34Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated. A few years ago, anticipating the bicentennial... -
Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People by David Reimers 9780814775349
£90.28Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. Yet despite their large numbers and long history of movement to America, non-Europeans are conspicuously absent from many books about... -
What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of 19th Century American Rabbis by Naomi W. Cohen 9780814716885
£65.53What the Rabbis Said examines a relatively unexplored facet of the rich social history of nineteenth-century American Jews. Based on sources that have heretofore been largely neglected, it traces the sermons and other public statements of rabbis, both... -
Honorable Treachery: A History of U. S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA by G. J. A. O'Toole 9780802123282
£16.55Foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war have always been driven by intelligence, and yet this subject has often been overlooked in standard histories. Honorable Treachery fills in these details, dramatically recounting every important... -
Vanishing Filipino Americans: The Bridge Generation by Peter M. Jamero 9780761855002
RRP: £35.00£30.95Documentation of Filipino American history is largely limited to the Manong Generation that immigrated to the United States during the early 1900s. Their second-generation children-the Bridge Generation-are now in their sixties, seventies, and eighties;... -
The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founders Really Believed by Alf J. Mapp, Jr. 9780742531154
RRP: £14.99£13.43Throughout our nation's history, the religious beliefs of America's founders have been contested and misunderstood. Did our founders advocate Christianity or atheism? In The Faiths of Our Fathers, widely acclaimed historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr. cuts through...