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The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense by Walter Prescott Webb
RRP: £29.99£27.78Webb's classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935. This edition is a reproduction of the original Houghton Mifflin edition.About the AuthorWalter Prescott Webb (1888-1963) was a historian of the... -
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism by J. Kehaulani Kauanui 9780822370758
£20.84In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty J. Kehaulani Kauanui examines contradictions of indigeneity and self-determination in U.S. domestic policy and international law. She theorizes paradoxes in the laws themselves and in nationalist assertions of... -
The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York by Amy Gilman Srebnick 9780195113921
£17.15In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers disappeared without a trace from her New York City boarding house. Three days later, her body, badly bruised and waterlogged, was found floating in the shallow waters of the Hudson River just a few feet from the Jersey... -
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle
RRP: £20.00£14.50Describes the devastating 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, the Jewish and Italian immigrants, mostly women, who made up the majority of the victims, and the... -
Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West by John Boessenecker 9781250184894
RRP: £20.00£13.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250184894Author John BoesseneckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's GriffinPublisher Thomas Dunne Book for St... -
Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang by Paul R Kavieff 9780738552385
RRP: £24.99£16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738552385Author Paul R. KavieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station: The Army of the Potomac’s First Post-Gettysburg Offensive, from Kelly’s Ford to the Rapidan, October 21 to November 20, 1863 by Jeffrey Wm Hunt
RRP: £32.95£21.47Contrary to popular belief, the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. Generals George Meade and Robert E. Lee continued where they had left off, boldly maneuvering the chess pieces of war to gain a... -
Los Angeles in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the City of Angels by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
£19.99Los Angeles in the 1930s returns to print an invaluable document of Depression-era Los Angeles, illuminating a pivotal moment in L.A.'s history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and... -
New Milford Revisited by New Milford Historical Society 9781467123648
RRP: £24.99£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467123648Author New Milford Historical SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)... -
First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest by David J. Weber 9780826363558
RRP: £24.95£17.12First Impressions: A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the... -
Avidly Reads Passages by Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171
RRP: £15.95£10.32"What is the value of Black life in America?" In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel-the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus-to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the... -
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning by Ben Raines
RRP: £12.99£8.18The "enlightening" (The Guardian) 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... -
The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse by Tom Downey
RRP: £20.99£13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805078442Author Tom DowneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 by Ellen Eisenberg 9780815626633
£20.02Most of the synagogues are gone; a temple has been converted into a Baptist church. There is little indication to the passerby that the southern New Jersey's Salem and Cumberland counties once contained active Jewish colonies-the largest and most... -
Fourth of July, Asbury Park: A History of the Promised Land by Daniel Wolff
RRP: £28.95£20.48Bruce Springsteen brought international attention to the Jersey shore by naming his debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. But the real Asbury Park has an even more fascinating story behind it: a seaside city of dreams that became a magnet for both... -
Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City by Amy Starecheski
RRP: £26.00£24.85Though New York's Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it spent decades as an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and '80s Manhattan... -
Parchman Farm: Mississippi's State Penitentiary in the 1930s by Bryan King 9781467128001
RRP: £24.99£16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467128001Author Bryan KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Foxfire 4 by Eliot Wigginton 9780385120876
RRP: £23.00£15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385120876Author Foxfire Fund, Inc.Format PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 234mm... -
Taming Democracy: "The People", The Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution by Terry Bouton 9780195378566
RRP: £20.99£20.94Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers as selfless patriots who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book, the... -
Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own by Sarah Carter 9781560374497
RRP: £17.95£13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for WILLA Literary Award (Scholarly Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781560374497Author Sarah CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Farcountry... -
O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Mark Clague
RRP: £22.99£19.33Many people know the tale: In 1814 Francis Scott Key witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry and the heroism of America's defenders; seeing the American flag still flying at first light inspired him to pen his famous lyric. What people don't... -
Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit by Matthew J Luzi
RRP: £21.99£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609497330Author Matthew J LuziFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 10mm -
Life's Journey - Zuya: Oral Teachings from Rosebud by The University of Utah Press
RRP: £24.95£16.69"Our people are very lucky to be here," says Albert White Hat Sr. He has lived through a time when Indians were under government control, were sent to boarding schools, and were not permitted to practice their own rituals. Now, although the Lakota people... -
The Two Lost Girls by Troy Taylor 9781892523983
RRP: £14.00£9.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892523983Author Troy TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Whitechapel ProductionsPublisher Whitechapel ProductionsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm)... -
The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam Pawel 9781632867346
£9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867346Author Miriam PawelFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 530g -
The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape COD, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket by Paul Schneider 9780805067347
RRP: £25.99£18.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805067347Author Paul SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)... -
The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Brian C. Wilson 9781625346438
RRP: £26.95£20.33In the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California-an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life. On their journey across the American West, he and his... -
Blackout by James Goodman
RRP: £22.00£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477155Author James GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 295g -
In Love with Movies: From New Yorker Films to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas by Daniel Talbot
£17.36"All that I do is go out and look at films and choose the ones I want to play-films that stimulate, and give some insight into our lives. I hope that people will come, but if they don't, that's okay too."Daniel Talbot changed the way the Upper West... -
Memphis Barbecue: A Succulent History of Smoke, Sauce & Soul by Craig David Meek 9781626195349
RRP: £21.99£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626195349Author Craig David MeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
The Canary Islanders of Louisiana by Gilbert C. Din 9780807124376
RRP: £21.95£15.00The Canary Islanders, or Islenos, of Louisiana, like some of the state's other ethnic groups, have received little scholarly attention. Although they are a people who have remained largely unknown both inside and outside of Louisiana, the Islenos... -
Horse-Drawn Days: A Century of Farming with Horses by Jerry Apps
RRP: £24.95£17.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870204456Author Jerry AppsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society... -
The Dawn Of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
RRP: £13.99£9.26In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. Miles has pieced together the experience of the unfree - both native and African American - in the frontier... -
The Irish at Gettysburg by Phillip Thomas Tucker Phd 9781467138529
RRP: £24.99£17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467138529Author Phillip Thomas, Ph.D. TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White 9781324064428
RRP: £19.95£12.95In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into... -
Los Angeles - The Development, Life and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California by Anton Wagner
RRP: £60.00£50.71No book on the emergence of Los Angeles, today a metropolis of more than four million people, has been more influential or elusive than this volume by Anton Wagner. Originally published in German in 1935 as Los Angeles: Werden, Leben und Gestalt der... -
Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity by James C. Cobb 9780195315813
£13.74From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular... -
Wildsam Field Guides: The Hamptons and North Fork by Edited By Taylor Bruce
RRP: £20.00£12.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467199704Author Edited By Taylor BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint WildsamPublisher WildsamWeight(grams) 107g -
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T J English 9780061824586
RRP: £15.99£13.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061824586Author T J EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 540g -
The Beautiful Snow: The Ingalls Family, the Railroads, and the Hard Winter of 1880-81 by Cindy Wilson
RRP: £21.95£19.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643439051Author Cindy WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Beaver's Pond PressPublisher Beaver's Pond PressWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 254mm...