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The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States Steven Sarson 9780813953977
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson chose his words carefully. Few could have been more deliberate than 'When in the... -
1000 Inventions and Discoveries by Roger Bridgman 9781465494351
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.62Dip into this illustrated account of key inventions and discoveries, listed year by year, with intriguing facts about each invention and the person (or people) who invented it.From the prehistoric... -
The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction Ira B. Nadel 9781350473096
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.92A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper... -
The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States Steven Sarson 9780813953960
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning Thomas Jefferson chose his words carefully. Few could have been more deliberate than 'When in the... -
The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825 by Stefania Buccini 9780271027784
Booksplease Price: £32.96The curiosity with which Europeans approached the New World was reflected in the writings of Italian historians, missionaries, travelers, and explorers, who described with fascination the customs of... -
Top Secret Files: American Revolution: Spies, Secret Missions, and Hidden Facts from the American Revolution by Stephanie Bearce
Booksplease Price: £7.10George Washington had his own secret agents, hired pirates to fight the British, and helped Congress smuggle weapons, but you won't learn that in your history books! Learn the true stories of the... -
The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction Ira B. Nadel 9781350473089
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.84A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper... -
The Girl Behind the Door: A Father's Quest to Understand His Daughter's Suicide by John Brooks 9781501128363
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.55"A moving and riveting memoir about one family's love and tragedy...beautifully researched, and expressed" (Anne Lamott).Early one Tuesday morning John Brooks went to his teenage daughter's room... -
The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773 by Robert E. Schofield 9780271025100
Booksplease Price: £37.39Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the... -
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £28.97The American experiment rests on three ideas-"these truths", Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, "on a dedication to... -
The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821 Richard Vague 9781509569083
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.93If you haven't followed the money, chances are you don't know the real story of America and its Revolution. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history than the life of early America's dominant... -
Index to the London Magazine Frank P. Riga 9780367137922
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23This book was originally published in 1978. The London Magazine is briefly told in the accomplisments and failures of its four editors, and during the fourteen months of his editorship, 1820-21, John... -
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating... -
101 Things You Didn't Know about Einstein: Sex, Science, and the Secrets of the Universe by Cynthia Phillips 9781507206287
Booksplease Price: £10.37Learn everything you need to know about Albert Einstein, the genius who created the Theory of Relativity and calculated mass-energy equivalence.101 Things You Didn't Know About Einstein provides... -
Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860 Richard Newman 9780415924443
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67Between the Revolution and the Civil War, African-American writing became a prominent feature of both black protest culture and American public life. Although denied a political voice in national... -
Philadelphia: A Narrative History Paul Kahan 9781512826296
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.10A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the region's original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century Philadelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary... -
American Political Thought – An Invitation by Kersch
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89How do Americans think about foundational political questions? Covering the full span of U.S. history, American Political Thought: An Invitation offers a lively yet sophisticated overview of the... -
Worth a Thousand Words: Cultural, Literary, and Political Proverb Studies Wolfgang Mieder 9781496858290
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In 2014, Wolfgang Mieder published Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics with the University Press of Mississippi. The book created an informative... -
These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore 9781324130765
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.58Americans are descended from slaves and slave owners, from conquerors and the conquered, from immigrants and from people who have fought to end immigration. "A nation born in contradiction will fight... -
Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson: Volume 3 by Jane E. Calvert 9781644532720
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £38.83During the years 1764 through 1766, John Dickinson became a leading figure in the Pennsylvania Assembly and in the growing American resistance to unjust British taxation. The documents in this volume... -
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776) Peter Moore 9781529922479
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American... -
Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence by Bill O'Reilly
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.55The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation's history, the Revolutionary War... -
The American Short Story Handbook by James Nagel 9780470655429
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £34.57This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories,... -
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Endeavour Peter Moore 9781784743192
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American... -
Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain by Michael Zuckerman 9780520066519
Booksplease Price: £55.98Few historians are bold enough to go after America's sacred cows in their very own pastures. But Michael Zuckerman is no ordinary historian, and this collection of his essays is no ordinary book. In... -
Worth a Thousand Words: Cultural, Literary, and Political Proverb Studies Wolfgang Mieder 9781496858283
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14In 2014, Wolfgang Mieder published Behold the Proverbs of a People: Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics with the University Press of Mississippi. The book created an informative... -
Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations by Tom Chaffin
Booksplease Price: £23.73Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions - and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781,... -
Franklin and the War of American Independence by Audrey Cammiade
Booksplease Price: £98.15Originally published in 1967 this book tells the full story of the breach between the United States and Great Britain and the pivotal role played by Benjamin Franklin in both the declaration of... -
Franklin and the War of American Independence by Audrey Cammiade 9780367641245
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38Originally published in 1967 this book tells the full story of the breach between the United States and Great Britain and the pivotal role played by Benjamin Franklin in both the declaration of... -
Religion, Deviance, and Social Control by Rodney Stark 9780415915298
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prevent crime, delinquency, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, or joining cults? Despite the fact that... -
Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America, A Sourcebook by Louise A. Breen 9780415964975
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Providing a survey of colonial American history both regionally broad and "Atlantic" in coverage, Converging Worlds presents the most recent research in an accessible manner for undergraduate... -
Struggle for Empire: A Bibliography of the French and Indian War by James G. Lydon 9781138545526
Booksplease Price: £38.68Originally published in 1986. The French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) occurred in the mid-eighteenth century. The concern of this bibliography is with the North American experience in this war,... -
The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to be Intimidated" John L. Smith, Jr. 9781594164590
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.01A Wall Street Journal Spring Books 2024 Selection: "What to Read This Spring"An Extraordinary Portrait of America's Beloved Female Founder and First Lady Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an... -
Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification by E. Digby Baltzell
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.74Judgment and Sensibility is the second volume of the collected essays of E. Digby Baltzell, one of the keenest observers and analysts of America's upper classes since Thorstein Veblen. Spanning four... -
Andre Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785-1797 by Andre Michaux 9780817320300
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux's work to modern readers and scientists. Known to today's biologists primarily as the 'Michx,' at the end of more than 700... -
Is There Life Without Mother?: Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity by Leonard Shengold 9780881633368
Booksplease Price: £66.83In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to... -
The Stamp Act and the American Revolution Ken Shumate 9781594164606
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £20.28The Stamp Act and the American Revolution tells the story of the Stamp Act controversy of 1764 to 1766, widely considered to be the most influential event in the run-up to American independence from... -
Glasses: Eureka! the Biography of an Idea by Lori Haskins Houran
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.91EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STEM series that takes readers on a journey through... -
Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications by William Merrill Decker 9780807847435
Booksplease Price: £50.61Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography and history, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions have only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William... -
Sound, Image, Silence: Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World by Michael Gaudio 9781517907396
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly "silent" images Colonial depictions of the North and South American...