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Why did the United States invade Iraq, setting off a chain of events that profoundly changed the Middle East and the US global position? The Regime Change Consensus offers a compelling look at how the United States pivoted from a policy of containment to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807044650Author Michael BronskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988018778Author Dave O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Dave O'BrienPublisher Dave O'BrienWeight(grams) 558g

This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century. Drawing upon unique access to the private Shockley archives, veteran technology historian and...

More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. This extraordinary freedom results...

Does anyone save historians remember the Wobblies? This nickname for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the revolutionary labor union founded in Chicago in 1905, not so long ago was part of the vocabulary of labor and socialist movements...

Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742513Author Arthur GoldwagFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation "A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis."-James Oakes, New York Review of Books A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans...

From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.The bestselling author of Truman and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812976663Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Founded by members of America's first postwar domestic Nazi movement, the National States Rights Party evolved on dual fronts as a political protest movement and a vehicle of violent resistance to the black civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s...

Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679765394Author Geoffrey C. WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House...

Winner of the Northern California Book Award for General NonfictionNew York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate "America's second revolutionary generation" in this gripping history of one of the most...

In two elegant and masterly prefaces, James Weldon Johnson discusses the origin and history of more than 120 of the most significant spirituals known. favourites like "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," "Deep River," and "Go Down, Moses" are arranged for voice...

Designed 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806311920Author Peter Wilson ColdhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

You can't copyright facts, but is news a category unto itself? Without legal protection for the "ownership" of news, what incentive does a news organization have to invest in producing quality journalism that serves the public good? This book explores...

As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. Selling in the millions each year for the past six decades, comic books have figured prominently in the...

Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be...

"An eye opening reappraisal of what really happened during the Alamo siege, final assault and aftermath. . . . Tucker's well researched account dramatically rewrites long-accepted history and shatters some of the most cherished and enduring myths about...

In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a State of the Union Address that was arguably the greatest political speech of the twentieth century. In it, Roosevelt grappled with the definition of security in a democracy, concluding that "unless there is...

During World War II, America's shipbuilding industry, mobilized under the U.S. Maritime Commission, set records of production that have never been equaled. Given the daunting task of building ships faster than they were being sunk, shipbuilding firms...

How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food systemBy 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570984105Author Martin S. QuigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551410Author Brian MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 1983.Book InformationISBN 9780679723288Author Maxine Hong KingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently...

How increased access to ice-decades before refrigeration-transformed American life.During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the...

In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, -for, of course, a thing has to have a root...

The true story of Raymond Loewy, whose designs are still celebrated for their unerring ability to advance American consumer taste.Born in Paris in 1893 and trained as an engineer, Raymond Loewy revolutionized twentieth-century American industrial design...

American culture warriors have plenty to argue about, but battles over such issues as abortion and torture have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny reframes the debate about religion in the public square by focusing on...

Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to...

A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays by leading scholars in the field, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring an exciting...

In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second...

Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville's words, "the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart," how have we Americans made do? In The Real American Dream one of the nation's premier literary scholars searches out the symbols and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684868554Author Pauline MaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486779997Author Ida Wells-BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the 1840s, Native Americans took prisoners of war and killed, adopted, or enslaved them. Christina Snyder's...