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Emerson's Antislavery Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780300094022
$42.50This book presents the first comprehensive and authoritative collection of Emerson's writings against slavery and the subjugation of American Indians-writings that reveal Emerson's deep commitment to social reform. Included are speeches and lectures that... -
Barbara Jean: If I Perish, I Perish by Barbara J Culbreath 9781412005777
RRP: $35.60$26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412005777Author Barbara J CulbreathFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 159g -
Up by Darwin O'Ryan Curtis 9781450032261
RRP: $48.30$47.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450032261Author Darwin O'Ryan CurtisFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 231g -
Jews in America: The First 500 Years by Matthew B Schwartz 9781532644115
RRP: $56.70$42.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532644115Author Matthew B SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 417g -
A History of Travel in America [vol. 1] by Seymour Dunbar 9781435756236
RRP: $70.85$62.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781435756236Author Seymour DunbarFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g -
What I saw in America by Gilbert K Chesterton 9781604449594
RRP: $46.10$45.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604449594Author Gilbert K ChestertonFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 152g -
What I saw in America by Gilbert K Chesterton 9781604449587
$27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604449587Author Gilbert K ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 152g -
National Security and Core Values in American History William O. Walker III (University of Toronto) 9780521740104
RRP: $65.08$56.22There is no book quite like National Security and Core Values in American History. Drawing upon themes from the whole of the nation's past, William O. Walker III presents a new interpretation of the history of American exceptionalism, that is, of the... -
Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States by Barbara Young Welke 9780521761888
RRP: $157.50$142.25For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inconsistencies in the generic category of 'American citizenship'. Welke draws on that wealth of historical,... -
Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism by Reuel E. Schiller 9781107628335
RRP: $56.68$47.88The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to promoting a modest form of economic egalitarianism while simultaneously embracing ethnic, racial, and... -
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States by Charles a Beard 9781616192075
$59.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616192075Author Charles a BeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams)... -
Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Public Life, 1948-1991 by Robert J. Donovan 9780521428620
RRP: $56.68$47.88In four decades since its first broadcasts, television news has revolutionized public life and political policy making, transformed political careers, advanced civil rights, and radically changed newspapers and magazines. In Unsilent Revolution, veteran... -
From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West by Jon Gjerde 9780521368223
RRP: $62.98$57.54This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants'... -
The United States and Africa: A History by Peter Duignan 9780521335713
RRP: $73.48$67.60Tracing the reciprocal relationship between Africa and North America from the seventeenth-century slave trade onwards, two leading authorities in the field provide a major revision to traditional colonial African history as well as to US history... -
In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship by Richard Wightman Fox 9780521628877
RRP: $62.98$57.54Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays by scholars in philosophy, political theory, psychology, history, literary studies, sociology, religious... -
The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America by Christine Meisner Rosen 9780521545709
RRP: $73.48$67.60Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore all suffered terrible fires in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Residents of these cities agreed that the destruction caused by the fires provided them with a special opportunity to improve their inadequately... -
Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment before the New Deal by Udo Sautter 9780521533270
RRP: $73.48$67.60Three Cheers for the Unemployed describes the beginnings and development of unemployment reform up to the New Deal. As a consequence of the large-scale industrialization after the Civil War, joblessness could no longer be considered to be caused by... -
Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950: A Participant's View by Irving Richter 9780521533263
RRP: $37.78$34.38Neither an autobiography nor a scholarly analysis, Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950: A Participant's View is a skilful blend of both genres. Informative and original in its insights and analyses, this book provides the reader with information available from... -
From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888-1986 by George David Smith 9780521527095
RRP: $73.48$67.60When Charles Martin Hall patented the process for refining the metal in 1886, it was far from self-evident that the new technology would be a business success. Problems involving the technology had to be solved. Capital and a labour force were needed... -
The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926 by Leonard S. Reich 9780521522373
RRP: $62.98$57.54This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston in 1892, and the dominant force in the... -
People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820-1930 by Dirk Hoerder 9780521521925
RRP: $73.48$67.60The demographic shockwaves of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe produced tremendous change in the national economies and affected the political, social, and cultural development of these societies. Migration historians have begun to... -
Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1855-1941 by Philip Scranton 9780521521369
RRP: $73.48$67.60Figured Tapestry is a study of industrial maturity and decline, focused on the Philadelphia textile trades from the era of the Knights of Labor through World War II. Unlike the bulk fabric enterprises of New England and the South, Quaker City textile... -
Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945-1975 by Brian Balogh 9780521457361
RRP: $62.98$57.54Path-breaking research into the Atomic Energy Commission's internal memorandum files supports this text's explanation of how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II and why their authority and political clout declined... -
The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War by James Shapiro 9780593490204
RRP: $63.00$38.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593490204Author James ShapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 578g -
The Big Book of State Facts: Over 2,600 Facts of American History Separated by State! by O Michael Maysam 9798989197705
RRP: $31.48$25.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989197705Author O Michael MaysamFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Boundary Peak PublishingPublisher Boundary Peak PublishingWeight(grams) 331g -
Hell Hath No Fury 3 by Troy Taylor 9781958589052
RRP: $33.60$24.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America by William J. Bennett 9781595555663
RRP: $35.68$32.00Read here the storied history of these United States.The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the "mystic chords of memory." They are the symbols that define the essence of the United States, that mark its historic course, and... -
Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics by Joel H. Silbey 9780742522442
RRP: $75.60$66.80Martin Van Buren was a one-term president whose public life has long been overshadowed by the more fiery personalities of his day-Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. Nevertheless, Van Buren was a transforming political figure... -
The Money Trail: How Elmer Irey and His T-Men Brought Down America's Criminal Elite by Robert G. Folsom 9781597974882
RRP: $54.58$45.36As the first chief of the Special Intelligence Unit at the Treasury Department, Elmer L. Irey accomplished what J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't and Eliot Ness couldn't. From the 1920s through the 1940s, he headed the investigations that led to the prosecution... -
How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West by James Parisot 9780745337883
RRP: $178.50$137.26Has America always been capitalist? Today, the US sees itself as the heartland of the international capitalist system, its society and politics intertwined deeply with its economic system. This book looks at the history of North America from the founding... -
Among The An-Ko-Me-Nums: Or Flathead Tribes Of Indians Of The Pacific Coast by Thomas Crosby 9789389821338
RRP: $23.10$20.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389821338Author Thomas CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g -
Tales of Old San Francisco: The Rich Past of America's Most Magical City by Graham Earnshaw 9789888273256
RRP: $45.15$29.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888273256Author Graham EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Earnshaw BooksPublisher Earnshaw Books -
The Conquest of a Continent by Madison Grant 9781593640170
$36.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640170Author Madison GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams) 660g -
Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History 1638-1693, Second Edition by David D. Hall 9780822336136
$58.74This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England. The cases examined begin in 1638, extend to the Salem outbreak in 1692, and document for the first time the extensive... -
Notes, Critical and Practical on the Book of Liviticus: Designed as a General Help to Biblical Reading and Instruction by President George Bush 9781498011808
RRP: $71.30$59.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498011808Author President George BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 381g -
The Great Rights of Mankind: A History of the American Bill of Rights by Bernard Schwartz 9780945612285
RRP: $107.10$93.70"The American Bill of Rights is . . . a magic mirror," writes Bernard Schwartz, "wherein we see reflected not only our lives, but the whole pageant of Anglo-American constitutional development and all that those struggles have meant in the... -
Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman's Life by Mary A. DeCredico 9780945612476
RRP: $79.80$70.37Born into the plantation gentry of South Carolina, granted the advantages of wealth, social position, and education by virtue of her family and her marriage to another prominent South Carolina family, Mary Chesnut has emerged as one of the key figures in... -
Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present by Roger Daniels 9780847694105
RRP: $79.80$70.37In Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present, prominent historians Roger Daniels and Otis Graham offer competing interpretations of the past, present, and future of American immigration policy and American attitudes towards immigration. Through... -
Independence on Trial: Foreign Affairs and the Making of the Constitution by Frederick W. Marks 9780842022736
RRP: $79.80$70.37In Independence on Trial, Frederick W. Marks III focuses on the impact of foreign affairs and trade, arguing that they had an overwhelming influence in shaping constitutional reform for the founding fathers. He argues that problems relating to the... -
The Human Tradition in the American Revolution by Nancy L. Rhoden 9780842027489
RRP: $79.80$74.72This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history.Book...