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Slow Road to San Francisco: Across the USA from Ocean to Ocean David Reynolds 9781916129207
RRP: £14.99£4.40As he moseys from east to west, driving slowly, stopping frequently he meets a huge variety of Americans - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, native American; Christian, Muslim, atheist, Mormon, Mennonite; rich, middling, poor. They talk about everything... -
Adventurous Use of the Sea: Formidable Accounts of One Hundred Years of Ocean Sailing from the Cruising Club of America by Timothy Murphy 9781732547070
RRP: £33.99£23.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732547070Author Tim MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Seapoint BooksPublisher Seapoint Books -
Access to History Context: An Introduction to American History, 1860-1990 by Alan Farmer
£34.11Each volume provides a wide-ranging overview of the period it covers. Although the emphasis is clearly on political history, the majoy issues affecting the economy, society, religion, culture and ideas are also given appropriate treatment. Sufficient... -
Women and the American Experience: A Concise History by Nancy Woloch 9781032284897
RRP: £35.99£31.69The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women’s experience and underscores the roles that... -
American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
RRP: £8.99£6.45Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in... -
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore Seth Rockman (Associate Professor of History, Brown University) 9780801890079
RRP: £26.50£22.09Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how... -
Hollywood and History: What the Movies Get Wrong from the Ancient Greeks to Vietnam by Jem Duducu 9781538177068
RRP: £30.00£26.68A fun but informative look at Hollywood's more-than-a century long love affair with historical figures, events, and places. This book delves into what really happened in history, as opposed to the Hollywood interpretation of events, and reveals why the... -
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... -
Out of Our Past by Carl N. Degler 9780061319853 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£2.29The original edition of this now classic work was hailed by Jacob Cohen in The Nation as "the finest one-volume interpretation of American history extant." For this Third Edition of Out of Our Past, Carl Degler has added a comprehensive new chapter on... -
The Power of Israel in the United States by James F. Petras 9780932863515
£13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932863515Author James F. PetrasFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
The World War 1 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the First World War by Bill O'Neill 9781648450167
RRP: £9.99£7.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450167Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815 Robert Allison 9780226014906
RRP: £27.00£26.47From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa... -
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century by Gary Gerstle 9780691173276
RRP: £28.00£23.40This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow... -
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman
RRP: £22.00£17.36How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes... -
The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam by Daniel C. Hallin
RRP: £27.00£21.06This book was finished in the tenth year after the end of the Vietnam War. The year 1985 was also the year of Rambo, and of a number of other celebration of the Vietnam War in popular culture. It was the year Congress cut off aid to the "Contras" in... -
The Opening Of The American Mind by Lawrence W. Levine 9780807031193
£18.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807031193Author Lawrence W. LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson by Mark Atwood Lawrence 9781009172530
RRP: £25.00£17.13In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection skillfully explores his seminal accomplishments-protecting civil... -
The Dauntless in Battle by Peter C. Smith 9781526704603
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Douglas Dauntless was a Second World War American naval scout plane and dive bomber that saw active service during the course of this conflict and beyond, before being retired in 1959. US Navy and Marine Corps SBD's (Small But Deadly) saw their... -
From the Browder File: 22 Essays on the African American Experience by Anthony T Browder 9780924944000
RRP: £20.00£14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924944000Author Anthony T BrowderFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Institute of Karmic GuidancePublisher Institute of Karmic GuidanceWeight(grams)... -
Why Jazz Happened by Marc Myers 9780520268784
RRP: £30.00£23.29"Why Jazz Happened" is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles. Rich with... -
Oregon Trail Stories: True Accounts Of Life In A Covered Wagon by David Klausmeyer 9780762730827
RRP: £9.99£7.54Travel along the Oregon Trail with the pioneers who dared to "face the elephant" as they moved west in search of a new life. Compiled from the trail diaries and memoirs that document this momentous period in American history, Oregon Trail Stories is a... -
Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation Daina Ramey Berry 9780807067147
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807067147Author Daina Ramey BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen by Peter Manso 9780743296687
RRP: £19.99£14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743296687Author Peter MansoFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 33mm -
The Interrupted Journey by John Fuller
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593468234Author John FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War: The Meuse Argonne 1918: Breaking the Line by Maarten Otte 9781526714459
RRP: £14.99£10.95Although the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began in late September 1918 and continued through to the Armistice, was not the first major action fought by the AEF, it was the greatest in which it engaged in the Great War. Indeed, the casualty count in the... -
The Secret Founding Of America by Nicholas Hagger
RRP: £14.99£10.95The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years... -
The Invention of the White Race: The Origins of an American Ordeal by Theodore W Allen
RRP: £20.00£16.83When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the... -
Women of Empire: Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West by Verity McInnis 9780806157740
£30.66In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers... -
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
£30.07The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their... -
Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy
RRP: £15.99£10.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060854935Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers... -
The American Deep State: Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy by Peter Dale Scott 9781442214255
RRP: £30.00£28.02Now in a new edition updated through the unprecedented 2016 presidential election, this provocative book makes a compelling case for a hidden "deep state" that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale... -
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul M. Kennedy 9780679720195
£28.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679720195Author Paul KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm)... -
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz 9780674013797
RRP: £28.95£23.30How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last... -
A History of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz 9780195093872
RRP: £20.99£15.64Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
RRP: £16.99£14.49A "comprehensive...fascinating" (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian... -
BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution by Mike Gonzalez 9781641772235
RRP: £20.99£15.94The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded but... -
Joseph P. Kennedy's Hollywood Years: The First and Only Outsider to Fleece Hollywood by Cari Beauchamp 9780571217366 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.65In 1919, when movies were an idea one week, in front of the camera the next and in theaters in a month, few were taking filmmaking seriously as business, but Joseph Kennedy spotted it as "a gold mine" and he moved so fast and so authoritatively, Louella... -
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
RRP: £15.99£11.61More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in... -
Lynching Photographs by Dora Apel 9780520253322
RRP: £25.00£19.59Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth century, nearly five thousand blacks were put to death at the hands of lynch mobs throughout America. In many... -
Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region by Rory Medcalf
RRP: £14.99£10.95The definitive guide to the world's most contested region.The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor for collective action. If diplomacy fails, it will be the theatre of...