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The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION by Sarah M. Broom 9781472155573
RRP: €20.22€13.73A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION'A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae... -
Arkansas Godfather: The Story of Owney Madden and How He Hijacked Middle America by Graham Nown 9781935106517
RRP: €29.69€19.25Owney 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... -
Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia by Fiona Ritchie
RRP: €35.64€28.77...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... -
The Decision Was Always My Own: Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign by Timothy B. Smith 9780809336661
RRP: €43.97€36.14The Vicksburg Campaign, argues Timothy B. Smith, is the showcase of Ulysses S. Grant's military genius. From October 1862 to July 1863, for nearly nine months, Grant tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate river city. He maneuvered and adapted... -
The Land Where Blues Began by Alan Lomax
RRP: €30.93€21.12Winner 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... -
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
RRP: €20.22€14.95Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning."-Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present... -
Buying Disney's World by Aaron H Goldberg 9781733642057
RRP: €22.60€15.02Apologies 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... -
Klansville, U.S.A: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan by David Cunningham 9780199752027
€84.01In 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... -
Patina: A Profane Archaeology by Shannon Lee Dawdy
RRP: €28.56€27.41When 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... -
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
RRP: €20.22€14.21Inspired 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... -
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression by Robin D. G. Kelley 9781469625485
RRP: €45.16€41.39A 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... -
Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City by Paula Blackman 9780785292067
RRP: €22.60€15.12Set 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"... -
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies by David la Vere 9781469629902
RRP: €35.64€33.20At 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... -
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story by Joe Coscarelli
RRP: €23.80€17.01A modern epic about the most consequential 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 mansions to trap houses, office buildings to... -
Virginia Barbecue: A History by Joseph R Haynes 9781531699970
RRP: €40.45€26.69Apologies 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)... -
Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder
RRP: €35.69€24.28John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was... -
The Earl of Louisiana by A. J. Liebling 9780807133439
RRP: €20.17€15.32In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long's commitment to a mental institution. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to... -
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
RRP: €24.98€21.60In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational, overseen by... -
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry 9780062977373
RRP: €23.79€13.93Apologies 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... -
Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans by Emily Epstein Landau 9780807150146
RRP: €40.40€33.78From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sexual excess. This notorious neighborhood, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of... -
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family by Charles Bowden
€16.91Offers an illuminating tour of the drug war, revealing the dark, troubling recesses of drug lords, high-level corruption, and ultra-violence that respects no borders.Book InformationISBN 9780743244572Author Charles BowdenFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Ku Klux Klan in Western Pennsylvania, 1921-1928 by John Craig 9781611461817
RRP: €48.79€44.96Relying 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 Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution by Chris DeRose
RRP: €17.84€13.03Bill White and the young men of McMinn County answered their nation's call after Pearl Harbor. They won the freedom of the world and returned to find that they had lost it at home. A corrupt political machine was in charge, protected by violent deputies,... -
In The Shadow Of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu 9780525559443
RRP: €27.36€18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525559443Author Mitch LandrieuFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Knights of the Golden Circle: Secret Empire, Southern Secession, Civil War by David C. Keehn 9780807150047
RRP: €40.40€33.78Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sought to establish a slave-holding empire in the... -
Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery by Todd Mildfelt 9780806192901
RRP: €46.35€38.02A 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... -
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story by Joe Coscarelli 9781982107895
RRP: €15.46€9.73An "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... -
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Martin Luther King
RRP: €11.89€8.46Martin 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... -
All Hell Can't Stop Them: The Battles for Chattanooga-Missionary Ridge and Ringgold, November 24-27, 1863 by David Powell 9781611214130
€14.83To many of the Federal soldiers watching the Stars and Stripes unfurl atop Lookout Mountain on the morning of November 25, 1863, it seemed that the battle to relieve Chattanooga was complete. The Union Army of the Cumberland was no longer trapped in the... -
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by Richard Grant
RRP: €15.46€9.73Bestselling 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... -
Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues by James Gill
RRP: €29.69€27.76In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The authors open and close their... -
The Mind of the South by Wilbur Joseph Cash 9780679736479
RRP: €19.03€14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679736479Author W. J. CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease by Barbara Ellen Smith
RRP: €20.22€13.89Employment 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... -
740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building by Professor Michael Gross
RRP: €22.61€14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767917445Author Michael GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
Why White Liberals Fail: Race and Southern Politics from FDR to Trump by Anthony J. Badger
RRP: €28.50€22.78It'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... -
Stealing the General by Russell Bonds 9781594160783
€24.62A thoroughly entertaining history of one of the most daring raids of the American Civil War. On April 12th 1862, during the American Civil War, a group of Union volunteers infiltrated the Confederate stronghold of Georgia and stole a steam engine named... -
Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown
€35.84A 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... -
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
RRP: €20.22€17.86This 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... -
A Delicious Country: Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson's 1700 Expedition by Scott Huler
RRP: €35.64€26.42In 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... -
Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum
RRP: €21.42€13.27Apologies 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 *...