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Division Street America by Studs Terkel
RRP: £15.99£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595580726Author Studs TerkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 473g -
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry 9780063090767
RRP: £30.99£21.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063090767Author Imani PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 295g -
An Alternative History of Pittsburgh by Ed Simon
RRP: £18.95£12.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742924Author Ed SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 124mm * 15mm -
Colorado: A History by Marshall Sprague 9780393301380
RRP: £21.95£16.11Mountains-so beautiful, the land dominated by the Colorado Rockies, that miners who "thought of returning to the comfort and dull security of their homes back east," in Marshall Sprague's words, "found themselves held by the appeal of... -
When Did the Statue of Liberty Turn Green?: And 101 Other Questions About New York City by The Staff of the New-York Historical Society Library
£12.15For years, the librarians at the New-York Historical Society have kept a record of the questions posed to them by curious New Yorkers and visitors to the city. Who was the first woman to run for mayor of New York? Why are beavers featured on the city's... -
Miller Cornfield at Antietam: The Civil War's Bloodiest Combat by PH D Phillip Thomas Tucker
RRP: £24.99£17.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625858658Author PH D Phillip Thomas TuckerFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 20gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City by Mark Santow 9780226826271
RRP: £30.00£25.25A groundbreaking examination of Saul Alinsky's organizing work as it relates to race. Saul Alinsky is the most famous-even infamous-community organizer in American history. Almost single-handedly, he invented a new political form: community federations,... -
Gennett Records and Starr Piano by Charlie B Dahan 9781467117258
RRP: £24.99£16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467117258Author Charlie B. DahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Three Years in Mississippi by James Meredith 9781496821010
RRP: £109.00£101.35On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting in two deaths and a lengthy court battle that made it all the way to the Supreme Court, his... -
Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966 by John Blair 9781467133203
RRP: £24.99£16.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467133203Author John BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton:: A High-Flying Life from Tennessee to Timbuktu by Scott R Williams 9781626197206
RRP: £21.99£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626197206Author R. Scott WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)... -
After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South by Bruce Baker 9780813060972
£24.48In the popular imagination, freedom for African Americans is often assumed to have been granted and fully realized when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation or, at the very least, at the conclusion of the Civil War. In reality, the... -
City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 by Jason Berry 9781469664026
RRP: £25.00£17.45In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians,... -
Celebrating Florida: 50 States to Celebrate: Green Light Readers, Level 3 by Marion,Dane Bauer 9780547896984
RRP: £4.99£4.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547896984Author Marion Dane BauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
The Longhorns by J. Frank Dobie
£13.81The Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass, Arctic blizzards, and burning winds. Their story is... -
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Michael Punke 9781401308896
RRP: £21.99£16.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401308896Author Michael PunkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 130mm *... -
Colorado: A Historical Atlas by Thomas J Noel 9780806162294
RRP: £29.95£28.61This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more... -
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: £18.00£13.28On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day on which the temperature would eventually climb to 106 degrees. It was the start of an unprecedented heat wave that would last a full week - and leave more than seven hundred people dead... -
When Outlaws Wore Badges by Melody Groves 9781493048038
£11.53Lawman or outlaw? Black-hatted "villains" and white-hatted "good guys" of the Old West walk the streets of our imagination. Hollywood draws a convenient line in the Western dirt, differentiating between the two. But in reality, at times it was difficult,... -
In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692 by Richard Hite 9781594163005
RRP: £35.00£22.60By July 1692, the witch hunt surrounding the town of Salem and Salem Village had been raging for four months. The Massachusetts Bay colony's new governor, William Phips, had established a special court to try the suspected witches and the trials were... -
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson 9781410455765
£37.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410455765Author Erik LarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 691Imprint Thorndike PressPublisher Thorndike PressWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 142mm *... -
The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America by Sally Denton 9780375701269
RRP: £20.00£15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701269Author Sally DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Line Riders: The Border Patrol, Prohibition, and the Liquor War on the Rio Grande by Samuel K. Dolan
RRP: £29.95£20.84This book tells the little-known story of the origins of the US Border Patrol, starting during the final days of the "Wild West" on the US-Mexico border and tracing the origins of the modern federal agency as it came into its own during the violence of... -
Frederick & Anna Douglass in Rochester, New York: Their Home Was Open to All by Rose O'Keefe 9781540222220
RRP: £31.99£20.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540222220Author Rose O'KeefeFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812 by Josh S. Cutler 9781467142274
RRP: £24.99£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142274Author Josh S. CutlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 235mm... -
Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration by Connie Y. Chiang
RRP: £26.49£23.82The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent... -
Only in New York: An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating, and Irrepressible City by Sam Roberts
RRP: £17.95£13.15No one denies that New York City is unique-but what makes it sui generis? Sam Roberts, a longtime city reporter, has puzzled over this in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts for years. In Only in New York, updated with new tales and... -
Badasses of the Old West: True Stories Of Outlaws On The Edge by Erin H. Turner 9780762754663
RRP: £12.99£9.61Badasses of the Old West brings together thirty-six tales of the worst (and best) robbers, rustlers, and bandits who shaped the history of the Wild West in one compelling volume. From the famous, such as Billy the Kid and the Wild Bunch, to the... -
Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities by Richard Follett 9781421419404
£16.58In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans... -
Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History by William Lutz 9780805072938
RRP: £20.99£13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805072938Author William LutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 140mm *... -
Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 by Gary Clayton Anderson 9780873512169
RRP: £22.95£16.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873512169Author Gary Clayton AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society... -
Mrs. Earp: The Wives And Lovers Of The Earp Brothers by Sherry Monahan 9780762788354
£9.61When most people hear the name Earp, they think of Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, and sometimes the lesser known James and Warren. They also had a half-brother named Newton, who lived a fairly quiet, uneventful life. While it's true these men made history on... -
Nevada Gunsmoke: Frontier Fighters of the Boom Years, 1850-1890 by Elmer D McInnes 9781476686318
RRP: £21.99£18.55From 1860 to 1900, many towns in Nevada sprang up to serve the mining camps in the area. These towns provided the breeding ground for a unique character known as "the mining camp gunman." This book delves into the violent and gritty lives of various... -
The Chicago Haymarket Affair: A Guide to a Labor Rights Milestone by Joseph Anthony Rulli 9781467135740
RRP: £21.99£14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467135740Author Joseph Anthony RulliFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)... -
Detroit's Birwood Wall: Hatred and Healing in the West Eight Mile Community by Gerald C. Van Dusen 9781467142014
RRP: £21.99£15.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142014Author Gerald Van DusenFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Santa Monica: 1950-2010 by Louise B. Gabriel 9780738581439
RRP: £24.99£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738581439Author Louise B. GabrielFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms by Charles Hudson 9780820320625
£33.26Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration across the Southeast. His path has been one of history's most intriguing mysteries. With ""Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun"", Charles Hudson offers a... -
The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains by Elliott West 9780826316530
£32.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826316530Author Elliott WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint University of New Mexico PressPublisher University of New Mexico Press -
Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee 9780199896158
RRP: £20.99£20.39From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For... -
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson 9780609608449
RRP: £32.00£22.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780609608449Author Erik LarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA...