State & Local

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634993456Author Kenneth C SpringirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Fonthill Media LLcPublisher Fonthill Media LLcWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681620534Author Greg KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint WileyPublisher WileyWeight(grams) 803g

Salvage of a sunken slave ship, devastating hurricanes and the odd doingsof locals such as Jimmy Buffett and Hemingway's cats.About the AuthorFar from the culture shock she expected upon moving to Duck Key in 1993, Victoria Shearer discovered that island...

The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial...

First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families - the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others - who gained power through mining, ranching, water and...

On the morning of May 9, 1980, during sudden violent weather, a 600-foot freighter struck a support pier of the fifteen-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The main span splintered and collapsed 150 feet into Tampa Bay. Seven cars and a Greyhound bus fell over...

The British colony of West Florida—which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what are now the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—is the forgotten fourteenth colony of...

The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist who discovered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609494902Author John CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 191mm *...

At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub-and then the bottom fell out. Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048071Author Steven BeaucherFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867421Author Christiane BirdFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

New printing includes a new introduction by Texas History Legend Stephen L. Hardin.When Phil Collins was a kid growing up in a London suburb, he would often watch an amazing show on his family television. There, in black and white, was Fess Parker as...

Clashes between white and Indian societies are erupting into war when Sarah Wakefield is taken captive in 1862. She is the wife of an Agency doctor and a known friend of the Sioux. As desperate Sioux warriors attack the Agency, Sarah falls victim to the...

Oregon's landscape boasts brilliant waterfalls, towering volcanoes, productive river valleys, and far-reaching high deserts. People have lived in the region for at least twelve thousand years, during which they established communities; named places;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061148491Author Professor Douglas BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers...

Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Learn about the bungled hanging of Tom...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467150347Author Timothy WareFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm * 8mm

Veteran journalists Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge have written the definitive inside look at the Boston Marathon bombings with a unique, Boston-based account of the events that riveted the world. From the Tsarnaev brothers' years leading up to the act of...

Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights still broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral...

Does a building have a soul? And once it is empty of people, does it still have a story to tell? Abandoned Pittsburgh: Gears and Ghosts continues the series that seeks to explore the Steel City's industrial past. Locations in this second volume include...

Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743245135Author Professor Michael D'AntonioFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was one of the most notorious pirates ever to plague the Atlantic coast. He was also one of the most colourful pirates of all time, becoming the model for countless blood-and-thunder tales of sea rovers. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594484001Author Sarah VowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275509Author Jason SokolFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past, Along the way, he explores Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often...

For decades, the distressed cities of the Rust Belt have been symbols of deindustrialization and postindustrial decay, their troubles cast as the inevitable outcome of economic change. The debate about why the fortunes of cities such as Detroit have...

Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two...

This chronicle of espionage, drug smuggling, and elitism in Yale University's Skull & Bones society offers rare glimpses into this secret world with previously unpublished documents, photographs, and articles that delve into issues such as racism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144339Author Scott DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park welcomes more than 4 million visitors every year, but this jewel of America's parks has seen more than its fair share of deaths among its tourists. More than 70 people have perished attempting to climb Longs Peak,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013337673Author Isobel Wylie 1889-1982 HutchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626192225Author Dan SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738595207Author Cecile Page VargoFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

From the bestselling author of Hiroshima, a searing account of police brutality, white racism, and black rage in 1960s Detroit.On the evening of July 25, 1967, on the third night of the 12th Street Riot, Detroit police raided the Algiers Motel. Acting on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358455479Author Gay TaleseFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 145mm * 29mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982149796Author Thomas DyjaFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Once the symbol of a robust steel industry and blue-collar economy, Youngstown, Ohio, and its famous Jeannette Blast Furnace have become key icons in the tragic tale of American deindustrialization. Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo examine the inevitable...

Which lawman did the most to tame the frontier, Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Neither of them was a saint. At times their actions were not in compliance with the law, and they only served as peace officers for limited portions of their lives. What sets...