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Inspired 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...

In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted not only...

Apologies 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

In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, ""There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever."" Lining's comments presaged ideas about...

The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial...

An "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...

Martin 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...

Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well...

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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...

'If ever there was a coffee-table book that could exemplify the best of the best, this is it. Wyman Meinzer's photos portray the heart and soul of this historic ranch, but even more important, so do Henry Chappell's words...His sentences drip with vivid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978728Author Bruce LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Relying 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812976502Author Jed HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Times BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668020531Author Mikita BrottmanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams) 481g

Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556529580Author Ned SubletteFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Lawrence Hill BooksPublisher Lawrence Hill BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca-a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous disco...

With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813068527Author Aaron CometbusFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 152g

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Rape permeated the lives of all who existed in that system: Black and white, male and female, adult and child, enslaved and free...

The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron and accused slave torturer, has haunted New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. Her macabre tale is frequently retold, and her French Quarter mansion has been referred to as ""the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062009838Author Mike FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985869243Author Mark ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Zimco Publications LLCPublisher Zimco Publications LLCWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733642064Author Aaron H GoldbergFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Quaker ScribePublisher Quaker ScribeWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540212832Author Lili DebarbieriFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library EditionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467137423Author Marita Woywod CrandleFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

Life at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history which describes the lives of the rich and trendy who have lived at the Dakota, a New York apartment house daringly erected in 1884, "too far up" and on the wrong side of town. In Stephen...

...revisit the people and places and deepen your enjoyment of the sublime BBC tv series "Wayfaring Stranger"...in these pages revisit people and places you loved in the BBC tv series "Wayfaring Stranger"... by the authors as featured in the acclaimed BBC...

Winner 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"...

Drawing 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060090579Author Benjamin WoolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101979877Author Doug J. SwansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

Owney Madden lived a seemingly quiet life for decades in the resort town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, while he was actually helping some of America's most notorious gangsters rule a vast criminal empire. In 1987, Graham Nown first told Madden's story in his...

In 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...

The November 1864 battle of Franklin left the Army of Tennessee stunned. In only a few hours, the army lost 6,000 men and a score of generals. Rather than pause, John Bell Hood marched his army north to Nashville. He had risked everything on a successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561641154Author Gene BurnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Huey 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...