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Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency by Stephen F. Knott 9780195100983
RRP: £61.00£48.30This groundbreaking new book challenges the notion that covert operations are a twentieth-century phenomenon, recounting a wide array of operations sanctioned by America's Founding Fathers. These include George Washington's plan to kidnap King George... -
Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 by Margaret S. Creighton
RRP: £29.00£26.08From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the... -
The Supreme Court by William H. Rehnquist 9780375708619
RRP: £15.99£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708619Author William H. RehnquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 133g -
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History by Joseph M Marshall 9780143113690
RRP: £18.00£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113690Author Joseph M. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
No Time on My Hands by Grace Snyder 9780803291645
RRP: £23.99£19.68When Grace Snyder, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, wrote these reminiscences in her eightieth year, she felt she had been blessed "by having no time on my hands." The story of her busy life begins on the high plains of Nebraska, where her... -
Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left by Emily K. Hobson 9780520279063
RRP: £25.00£19.59LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. Lavender and Red recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with... -
Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy A Woloson
RRP: £23.99£22.88Crap. We all have it. Filling drawers. Overflowing bins and baskets. Proudly displayed or stuffed in boxes in basements and garages. Big and small. Metal, fabric, and a whole lot of plastic. So much crap. Abundant cheap stuff is about as American as it... -
The Generalship Of Ulysses S. Grant by J. Fuller 9780306804502
£22.37"This analysis of one of America's greatest soldiers by one of Britain's foremost soldiers and military analysts of the twentieth century remains today one of the most incisive portraits of Grant's generalship ever written. It brilliantly refutes... -
America: A Narrative History by David E. Shi 9780393882568
£57.91America: A Narrative History puts narrative front and centre with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colourful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect the state of our history and society by continuing... -
A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History by Thomas Bender
RRP: £20.00£13.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809072354Author Thomas BenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh
RRP: £24.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746636Author Jess McHughFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Inside Out: A Memoir Of The Blacklist by Walter Bernstein
£14.70During World War II, Walter Bernstein was a correspondent for the U.S. Army magazine Yank after the war, he joined the Communist Party. When Senator Joseph McCarthy began his notorious witch hunt for Communists in the late 1940s, Bernstein,a writer for... -
The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity by Eric L. Goldstein
RRP: £32.00£24.76What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. The book traces Jews' often... -
Death of a Legend: The Myth and Mystery Surrounding the Death of Davy Crockett by Bill Groneman 9781556226885
RRP: £14.99£11.53On March 6, 1836 one of the most well-known Americans of his time fought and died in one of America's most celebrated battles. In recent years the fate of David Crockett at the Alamo has become a subject of controversy and debate.Book InformationISBN... -
Disappearing Witness: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography Gretchen Garner 9780801871672
RRP: £40.00£34.59American photographers documented and defined the twentieth century in a remarkable array of images, the style and content of which evolved dramatically over the course of the century. In Disappearing Witness, photographer and art historian Gretchen... -
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg 9780143129677
RRP: £19.00£11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129677Author Nancy IsenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm... -
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power by Megan Black
RRP: £24.95£19.89Winner of the George Perkins Marsh PrizeWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath PrizeWinner of the W. Turrentine Jackson AwardWinner of the British Association of American Studies Prize"Extraordinary...Deftly rearranges the last century and a half of American... -
The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: The Dakotas by Stew Magnuson 9780985299620
RRP: £19.99£16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985299620Author Stew MagnusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Court Bridge PublishingPublisher Court Bridge PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present by Gary Gerstle 9780691178219
RRP: £22.00£17.36American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion,... -
US History in 15 Foods by Anna Zeide
RRP: £19.99£18.80From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before European... -
Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme by Martin Jay 9780520248236
RRP: £28.00£22.20Few words in both everyday parlance and theoretical discourse have been as rhapsodically defended or as fervently resisted as 'experience'. Yet, to date, there have been no comprehensive studies of how the concept of experience has evolved over time and... -
How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier by Stuart Banner
£27.27Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth,nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual... -
Major Problems in American History, Volume II by Edward Blum 9781305585300
£74.35Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces you to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology for the... -
American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea by Ian Tyrrell
RRP: £31.00£26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226812090Author Ian TyrrellFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America by Joshua Specht
RRP: £22.00£17.36How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from... -
Eye of the Tiger: Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam John Edmund Delezen 9780786416561
RRP: £14.99£12.55We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood. John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the... -
American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W Kauffman
RRP: £23.00£16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759741Author Michael W. KauffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm)... -
When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture by Paul Boyer 9780674951297
£29.35Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in finding their place in God's prophetic plan for mankind. And yet, influential as this phenomenon is in the... -
The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters by Thomas Jefferson
RRP: £23.00£17.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375752186Author Thomas JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 542gDimensions(mm)... -
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries by Greg Melville 9781419754869
RRP: £12.99£8.91An "astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful" (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our deadThe summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery... -
An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality by Jill Fields 9780520252615
RRP: £30.00£27.79Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the 'naughty but nice' feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields' engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century... -
From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War by David Reynolds 9781566633901
RRP: £13.99£10.84A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Brilliant. -Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American Ways Series.ReviewsA cogent narrative of the evolution of American foreign policy and how the policies... -
Signs of Resistance by Bonnie Siegler
RRP: £13.99£12.93"Clever images of dissent are not a recent phenomenon in the United States. . . . [Signs of Resistance is] visually fascinating. . . . [and] there is bigly wit here, too."-The Washington Post In hundreds of iconic, smart, angry, clever, unforgettable... -
War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire by Gregory Evans Dowd 9780801878923
RRP: £23.00£20.35The 1763 Treaty of Paris ceded much of the continent east of the Mississippi to Great Britain, a claim which the Indian nations of the Great Lakes, who suddenly found themselves under British rule, considered outrageous. Unlike the French, with whom... -
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America by Alexandra Minna Stern 9780520285064
RRP: £25.00£19.59First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition... -
Glock: The Rise of America's Gun by Dr Paul M Barrett
RRP: £17.00£10.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307719959Author Paul M. BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Born in the Country: A History of Rural America by David B. Danbom 9781421423357
£30.95Throughout most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first-and still the only-general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous... -
Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism by Dara Orenstein
RRP: £31.00£30.19In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers a nuanced, ambitious, and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in the history of American commerce and industry: the warehouse, and all its many permutations. She traces the... -
U.S. History 101: Historic Events, Key People, Important Locations, and More! by Kathleen Sears 9781440586484
RRP: £16.99£11.43Perfect for readers of all ages, U.S. History 101 is a fact-filled and riveting introduction to the most important political events and figures from the last 300 years of our nation's history.The stories of politicos and historic events are often turned... -
Women of the Dawn by Bunny McBride 9780803282773
RRP: £13.99£10.32Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous responses to tragedies brought on by European contact make up...