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New Orleans Vampires: History and Legend by Marita Woywod Crandle 9781540226396
RRP: £31.99£18.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540226396Author Marita Woywod CrandleFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library... -
Buying Disney's World by Aaron H Goldberg 9781733642057
RRP: £18.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733642057Author Aaron H GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Quaker ScribePublisher Quaker ScribeWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen 9780857381309
RRP: £16.99£11.94Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end... -
Klansville, U.S.A: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan by David Cunningham 9780199752027
RRP: £42.99£32.19In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most... -
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry 9780062977373
RRP: £19.99£11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780062977373Author Imani PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley 9781469625485
RRP: £37.95£36.37A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the ""long Civil Rights movement,"" Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and... -
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
RRP: £16.99£15.01This epic work-named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times-tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third... -
Elvis Presley: A Southern Life by Joel Williamson 9780199863174
RRP: £30.49£22.76In Elvis Presley, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed,... -
Rising Tide by John M. Barry
£15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684840024Author John M. BarryFormat PaperbackImprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 775g -
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies by David la Vere 9781469629902
RRP: £29.95£27.90At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina. Over the... -
Virginia Barbecue: A History by Joseph R Haynes 9781531699970
RRP: £33.99£21.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531699970Author Joseph R HaynesFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Every Man A King: The Autobiography Of Huey P. Long by Huey Long 9780306806957
RRP: £21.99£15.61Huey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and... -
Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
RRP: £20.00£10.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385523202Author Dan BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Six Flags over Texas: The First Fifty Years by Davis G McCown 9780997421316
RRP: £28.00£22.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997421316Author Davis G McCownFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Lavaca Publications & Media, LLCPublisher Lavaca Publications & Media,... -
Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War is Wrong, Ask a Southerner! by Lochlainn Seabrook 9780982770078
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982770078Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 9780679429227
£20.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Book Award 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679429227Author John BerendtFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Why White Liberals Fail: Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump by Anthony J. Badger
RRP: £23.95£19.54It's not the economy, stupid: How liberal politicians' faith in the healing powers of economic growth-and refusal to address racial divisions-fueled reactionary politics across the South.From FDR to Clinton, charismatic Democratic leaders have promised a... -
Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City Paula Blackman 9780785292067
RRP: £20.00£13.34Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil Rights.In another time and place, E. Gab Blackman and William Sousa "Sou"... -
Camp Forrest by Elizabeth Taylor 9781531698706
RRP: £31.99£19.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531698706Author Elizabeth TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublisher Arcadia Publishing Library... -
Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] by Eric Foner 9780062370860
RRP: £18.99£11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062370860Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Ku Klux Klan in Western Pennsylvania, 1921-1928 by John Craig 9781611461817
RRP: £43.00£37.78Relying primarily on a narrative, chronological approach, this study examines Ku Klux Klan activities in Pennsylvania's twenty-five western-most counties, where the state organization enjoyed greatest numerical strength. The work covers the period... -
The Land Where Blues Began by Alan Lomax
RRP: £25.99£17.75Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream"Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no... -
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt 9780806192901
£40.58A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814-71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is... -
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry
RRP: £23.95£20.06Pulitzer Prize FinalistWinner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti Award"McCurry strips the Confederacy of myth and romance to reveal its doomed essence. Dedicated to the proposition that men were not created equal, the... -
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story by Joe Coscarelli 9781982107895
RRP: £12.99£8.18An "impassioned tribute" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rap-a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.From... -
Kentucky Book of the Dead by Keven McQueen 9781540219060
RRP: £31.99£18.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540219060Author Keven McQueenFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)... -
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King
RRP: £9.99£7.11Martin Luther King, Jr. described Stride Toward Freedom as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles of non-violence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate... -
Nasrullah: Forgotten Patriarch of the American Thoroughbred by Melanie Greene 9781626190146
RRP: £19.99£13.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626190146Author Melanie GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 235mm... -
Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 by Eric Wittenberg 9781611214307
RRP: £21.50£18.89In 2014, Eric J. Wittenberg published "The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour, an award-winning study of Union cavalry delaying actions at Gettysburg. Fast-forward four years to 2018 and Wittenberg's latest release, a... -
A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868 by Anne Sarah Rubin 9780807855928
RRP: £29.95£26.93Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead... -
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by Richard Grant
RRP: £12.99£8.18Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant "sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters" (Newsweek).Natchez, Mississippi, once had more... -
12 Rounds in Lo's Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia by Todd D. Snyder 9781946684127
RRP: £26.95£18.27Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation... -
Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease Barbara Ellen Smith 9781642592757
RRP: £16.99£11.67Employment and production in the Appalachian coal industry have plummeted over recent decades. But the lethal black lung disease, once thought to be near-eliminated, affects miners at rates never before recorded.Digging Our Own Graves sets this epidemic... -
Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 by Larry Koger 9780786469314
RRP: £17.99£14.87Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, this authoritative study describes the nature of African-American slaveholding, its complexity, and its rationales. It reveals how some... -
From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World by Eugene D. Genovese 9780807117682
£17.83In one of his most important books, the renowned historian Eugene D. Genovese examines slave revolts in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil, placing them in the context of modern world history. By studying the conditions that favoured these... -
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
RRP: £20.99£18.49A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of... -
A Delicious Country: Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition by Scott Huler
RRP: £29.95£21.34In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels... -
Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John F. Kennedy by Casey J. Quinlan 9780977465743
RRP: £17.50£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977465743Author Casey J. QuinlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint JFK Lancer ProductionPublisher JFK Lancer ProductionWeight(grams) 567g -
Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy by Donald L. Miller
RRP: £22.00£14.83Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Literary Award Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table's Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award "A superb account"... -
Patina: A Profane Archaeology by Shannon Lee Dawdy
RRP: £24.00£23.03When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new worry arose-that New Orleans's unique historic fabric sat...