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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett 9780691146157
RRP: £30.00£27.39In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact,... -
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence: Immigration to Rhode Island by Patrick T Conley 9781540222459
RRP: £32.99£20.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540222459Author Patrick T ConleyFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Captain William Hilton and the Founding of Hilton Head Island by Dwayne W. Pickett 9781467141918
RRP: £21.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141918Author Dwayne W. PickettFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)... -
Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City by Martin V. Melosi
RRP: £35.00£28.74Fresh Kills-a monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Island-was once the world's largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City's refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble... -
An Alaska Anthology: Interpreting the Past by Stephen W. Haycox 9780295974958
RRP: £34.00£26.90Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples' formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North's isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of... -
The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches by Adam Fairclough 9780813056623
£31.67The chaotic years after the Civil War are often seen as a time of uniquely American idealism - a revolutionary attempt to rebuild the nation that paved the way for the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. But Adam Fairclough rejects this... -
Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics by Steven H. Jaffe
RRP: £36.00£32.58Follows centuries of New York activism to reveal the city as a globally influential machine for social change Activist New York surveys New York City's long history of social activism from the 1650's to the 2010's. Bringing these passionate histories... -
Minnesota Twins Baseball: Hardball History on the Prairie by Stew Thornley 9781626193819
RRP: £19.99£13.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626193819Author Stew ThornleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
The Authentic Life Of Billy, The Kid: The Noted Desperado Of The Southwest, Whose Deeds Of Daring And Blood Made His Name A Terror In New Mexico, Arizona And Northern Mexico by Pat Floyd Garrett 9781016013864
RRP: £13.95£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781016013864Author Pat Floyd GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 240g -
The Stork Club Cook and Bar Book: Throw A Stork Club Party by Sherman Billingsley 9781438490946
RRP: £14.56£11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490946Author Sherman BillingsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)... -
Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine--Mountain Press Pub Co. by Stephen M Voynick 9780878423545
RRP: £25.00£18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878423545Author Stephen M VoynickFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing... -
Abandoned Detroit by Kyle Brooky 9781634991186
RRP: £24.99£15.39Few cities have seen the rise and fall that Detroit has. At its height, it was the fourth largest city in the U.S. with 1.85 million residents. Today there are less than 700,000. In 2013, the city declared bankruptcy, making it the largest municipal... -
New York: Treasures of the Museum of the City of New York by Museum of the City of New York
RRP: £9.99£6.80This Tiny Folio takes readers on a fascinating tour of New York City history - from the land of the Lenape to today's metropolis - as illustrated by some 250 diverse items from the incomparable collections of the Museum of the City of New York... -
Safety Harbor by Laura Kepner
RRP: £23.99£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467108522Author Laura KepnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams)... -
Myths and Mysteries of the Old West by Michael Rutter 9781493028283
RRP: £12.99£9.61How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles,... -
A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado: Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains by Jolie Anderson Gallagher 9781609491956
RRP: £19.99£15.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609491956Author Jolie Anderson GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 222mm... -
True Pheasants: A Noble Quarry by James Pfarr 9780888397027
RRP: £30.99£26.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888397027Author James PfarrFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd... -
Southern Crossing: A History of the American South, 1877-1906 by Edward L. Ayers 9780195086898
RRP: £22.49£15.23Edward L. Ayers's The Promise of the New South was a widely heralded history of the American South between the 1870s and the 1900s. Southern Junction represents an abridgement of this book, offering a glimpse into a society undergoing the sudden... -
New Orleans Jazz by Edward J Branley 9781467111713
RRP: £21.99£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467111713Author Edward J. BranleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940 by Kodi A. Roberts 9780807160503
£37.55The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their... -
A Life on the Left: A Memoir by a Member of the Chicago 7 by Lee Weiner 9781948742689
RRP: £26.00£16.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742689Author Lee WeinerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 124mm *... -
Apartheid, 1948-1994 by Saul Dubow 9780199550661
£110.41This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs,... -
The Presidio: Bastion of the Spanish Borderlands by Max L. Moorhead 9780806123172
£19.12The presidio was as essential an element of Spanish civilization in the Mexican North and the American Southwest as the communities it was established to protect-missions, settlements, mines, and ranches. A fortified outpost in hostile Indian country, it... -
The Witch of Delray: Rose Veres & Detroit's Infamous 1930s Murder Mystery by Karen Dybis 9781540226914
RRP: £31.99£19.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540226914Author Karen DybisFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos by Judy Pasternak
RRP: £18.99£11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416594833Author Judy PasternakFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 23mm -
The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience by J. S. Holliday 9780806134642
RRP: £22.95£14.89When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, "It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush." Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment,... -
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change by David Rich Lewis 9780195062977
RRP: £31.49£20.94During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reservation, and directed culture change. Policies for directed subsistence change and incorporation had... -
Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890-1930 by Lewis A. Erenberg 9780226215150
RRP: £28.00£27.39The evolution of New York nightlife from the Gay Nineties through the Jazz Age was, as Lewis A. Erenberg shows, both symbol and catalyst of America's transition out of the Victorian period. Cabaret culture led the way to new styles of behavior and... -
Tidewater Virginia Families: Generations Beyond by Virginia L. H. Davis 9780806315782
RRP: £39.16£34.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806315782Author Virginia L. H. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing... -
Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South by Neil R. McMillen 9780878059287
RRP: £24.95£23.33Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party... -
Haunted Bisbee by Francine Powers
RRP: £21.99£13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145619Author Francine PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
Winter in Taos by Mabel Dodge Luhan 9780865345935
RRP: £34.00£17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865345935Author Mabel Dodge LuhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 by Noeleen McIlvenna 9781469642536
RRP: £27.95£27.44Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation... -
Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life by Roger Stolle 9781467141574
RRP: £21.99£14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467141574Author Roger StolleFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 222mm *... -
The Battle of Lake George: England's First Triumph in the French and Indian War by William R Griffith IV 9781467119757
RRP: £21.99£14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467119757Author William R., IV GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America by David Stick 9780807841105
RRP: £21.95£14.43Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island. David Stick tells the story of that fascinating period in... -
Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West by Richard W. Etulain
£42.98This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. This West has always been home to richly... -
Shipwrecks and Other Maritime Disasters of the Maine Coast by Taryn Plumb 9781608937240
RRP: £14.99£11.53With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has long been a bane of mariners. Scores of vessels and countless lives have been lost on its rocky shores. Taryn Plumb explores the tragic history of shipwrecks in Maine, focusing on a dozen... -
Nuclear Nuevo Mexico: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gomez 9780816537105
£40.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816537105Author Myrriah GomezFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 363g -
Reminiscences of a Ranger: Early Times in Southern California by H. Bell 9780806131528
RRP: £18.95£15.09Gunfights and general lawlessness were common in the frontier cities of the American West. Tombstone and Dodge City are legendary. But neither saw violence approaching that of Los Angeles in the 1850s. In his Reminiscences of a Ranger, Horace Bell...