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The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition by David Runciman 9780691178134
RRP: $27.28$21.32Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book,... -
The Very First Americans by Cara Ashrose
RRP: $12.58$8.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448401683Author Cara AshroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm)... -
Slow Road to San Francisco: Across the USA from Ocean to Ocean David Reynolds 9781916129207
RRP: $31.48$9.24As 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... -
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Robert Jenkins
RRP: $52.50$41.14In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized... -
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: $71.38$48.49Apologies 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 -
Women and the American Experience: A Concise History by Nancy Woloch 9781032284897
RRP: $75.58$66.55The 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: $18.88$13.55Long 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... -
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom 9780520293281
RRP: $50.40$39.94This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives... -
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore Seth Rockman (Associate Professor of History, Brown University) 9780801890079
RRP: $55.65$46.39Enslaved 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... -
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante
RRP: $52.50$50.27The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations,... -
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi
RRP: $33.60$29.06Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society's-and her own-perception of life as a deaf person in America. At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi's world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but... -
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis 9780195339444
RRP: $38.83$30.18David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his... -
Out of Our Past by Carl N. Degler 9780061319853 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.18$4.81The 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... -
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero 9780060859527
RRP: $33.58$25.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060859527Author Stephen ProtheroFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815 Robert Allison 9780226014906
RRP: $56.70$55.59From 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... -
The United States Of Absurdity by Dave Anthony 9780399578755 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$2.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399578755Author Dave AnthonyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The United States Of Absurdity by Dave Anthony
RRP: $27.28$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399578755Author Dave AnthonyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Opening Of The American Mind by Lawrence W. Levine 9780807031193
$39.00Apologies 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: $52.50$35.97In 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: $41.98$29.99The 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... -
Lynching Photographs by Dora Apel 9780520253322
RRP: $52.50$41.14Why 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... -
The Two Faces of American Freedom by Aziz Rana
RRP: $46.10$37.84The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and... -
The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Enigmatic Agency by Philip H. Melanson 9780786716173
$51.47This new edition of the definitive history of the Secret Service lays bare the 2004 Bush campaign's political uses of the agency and the new challenges it faces as a branch of the Homeland Security Department, in a post-9/11 world. Acclaimed scholar of... -
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin 9780674292383
RRP: $62.90$51.07As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two... -
Reasonable Doubt: The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen by Peter Manso 9780743296687
RRP: $41.98$31.44Apologies 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 -
American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War: The Meuse Argonne 1918: Breaking the Line by Maarten Otte 9781526714459
RRP: $31.48$23.00Although 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: $31.48$23.00The 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: $42.00$35.34When 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
$64.39In 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... -
Discontented America: The United States in the 1920s by David J. Goldberg
$54.50It was a decade of great heroes like Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh, and of passive leaders like Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. The exuberant freedom of flappers drinking bathtub gin and dancing the Charleston did little to counter such powers of... -
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
$63.15The 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... -
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier by Robert G. Parkinson 9781324091776
RRP: $60.88$44.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
American Anti-Communism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970 by M. J. Heale
RRP: $50.40$44.48This succinct and sensible history shows how fear of 'Reds' was linked in the nineteenth century to the destabilizing impact of industrialization and in the twentieth century to perceptions of global insecurity. An excellent concluding chapter explains... -
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul M. Kennedy 9780679720195
$59.87Apologies 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)... -
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: $35.68$24.23Apologies 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 -
A History of the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz 9780195093872
RRP: $44.08$32.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
RRP: $35.68$28.69A "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... -
Joseph P. Kennedy's Hollywood Years: The First and Only Outsider to Fleece Hollywood by Cari Beauchamp 9780571217366 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50$5.57In 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: $33.58$24.38More 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... -
Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America by Duncan Bell
RRP: $52.50$41.14How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals...