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Chasing Mosby, Killing Booth: The 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry by James Carson 9781476663296
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Near the end of the Civil War, Army Chief of Staff Henry W. Halleck described the 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry as "cowed and useless" after they were "cut up" by Confederate Colonel John... -
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask examines the African American western hero within the larger context of film history by considering how Black... -
Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask 9780252044878
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask examines the African American western hero within the larger context of film history by considering how Black... -
Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur by Jeff Pearlman 9780063304574
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.30"Jeff Pearlman breaks down Tupac's life like a veteran sportswriter examining a dynasty. This detailed look at his life is the work of a writer who understands the ego of greatness."-Chuck D"Pearlman... -
A Hard Day's Work: Storyboards and Stories of 12 Select Films and Television Shows by Warren K Drummond 9780578335551
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £30.37Warren Drummond, a masterful Storyboard Artist to major directors in Hollywood shares his illustrious Storyboards and fantastic stories of his experiences on set with major directors such as Ron... -
Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North by C. S. Manegold 9780691150352
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would later become governor of the Massachusetts Bay... -
Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain, Second Edition by Joi Carr 9781433189760
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.67In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young... -
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William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones: The Life of a Cantankerous Confederate by James Buchanan Ballard 9781476670768
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones was among the most notable Southwest Virginians to fight in the Civil War. The Washington County native graduated from Emory & Henry College and West Point. While an... -
Mosby's Memoirs by John S. Mosby 9781879941274
Booksplease Price: £20.16The Confederate guerrilla cavalry chieftain relates the history of his daredevil command in this memoir. No other figure of the Civil War became during his lifetime such a storybook legend as John... -
The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump by T. Balderston 9780333738641
Booksplease Price: £92.06The functioning of the gold standard has recently been at the heart of explanations of the interwar depression, particularly as a result of the research of Professors Barry Eichengreen and Peter... -
A Heart Set on Pilgrimage by Daniel Singleton 9780244322045
RRP: £17.88Booksplease Price: £16.86"...The early years of LifeLine Church became a quest to rediscover the community of relationship that God first intended for us..." Following Jesus is not a one-off event - it is about adventuring... -
Rebel Guerrillas: Mosby, Quantrill and Anderson by Paul Williams 9781476675732
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19From the hills and valleys of the eastern Confederate states to the sun-drenched plains of Missouri and "Bleeding Kansas," a vicious, clandestine war was fought behind the big-battle clashes of... -
Inflation and the Making of Australian Macroeconomic Policy, 1945-85 by Michael Beggs 9781137265968
Booksplease Price: £92.17In the decades after World War II, inflation undermined the aspiration for full employment in Australia. This book tells the story of how the Australian state was shaped by the confrontation with... -
Economic Relations Between Britain and Australia from the 1940s-196 by J. Singleton 9780333919415
Booksplease Price: £90.86In the early postwar era, Britain enjoyed a very close economic relationship with Australia and New Zealand through their common membership of the Sterling Area and the Commonwealth Preference Area... -
The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era by Susan Rather
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.53An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an... -
Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty Bowl by Gerald W. R. Ward 9780878468324
Booksplease Price: £7.22American patriot Paul Revere is wrapped in the swirling mixture of myth and poetry through which history often descends, but as a craftsman and artist, he left behind more tangible traces, as well... -
Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies Bruce Handy 9781501181191
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies-from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont... -
Fine Lines: American Drawings From the Brooklyn Museum by Karen,A. Sherry 9781907804144
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £27.39'Fine Lines: American Drawings' from the Brooklyn Museum is the first survey of the Brooklyn Museum's world-class collection of drawings. It highlights more than 100 masterworks in graphite,... -
The New Nation by Anita Vickers 9780313312649
Booksplease Price: £66.89Most historical studies bury us in wars and politics, paying scant attention to the everyday effects of pop culture. Welcome to America's other history: the arts, activities, common items, and... -
Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism by Michael Eric Dyson 9780816621439
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01From rap music to preaching, from Toni Morrison to Leonard Jeffries, from Michael Jackson to Michael Jordan, "Reflecting Black" explores the varied and complex dimensions of African-American culture... -
Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain by Joi Carr
RRP: £77.70Booksplease Price: £73.63In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young... -
Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019 Harris M. Lentz, III 9781476679785
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £56.67The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol... -
Treasures of the Addison Gallery of American Art: Tiny Folio by Adam D. Weinberg 9780789207586
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.71The Addison Gallery of American Art, located at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is internationally recognised for its outstanding collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and... -
Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature Daniel Dufournaud 9781399554466
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.05Failure and Ethics in Contemporary American Literature contends that failure is both a response to the social and economic conditions of neoliberalism and a site of ethical imagining where... -
Views of America: The Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. Department of State Virginia Hart 9780847876532
RRP: £47.50Booksplease Price: £35.03Published as a follow-up to Rizzoli s America s Collection, with a new array of objects and original scholarship, this book celebrates the unparalleled collection of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms,... -
Seeing America - Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester by Marjorie B. Searl
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £30.70A stunning, full-color volume that examines 82 pieces in the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's American collection and their connections to American history, culture, literature, and... -
Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War by John Esten Cooke 9780807122167
Booksplease Price: £31.60John Esten Cooke was a writer, not a fighter, and yet he enjoyed (in every sense of the word) a remarkable and extensive Civil War career that took him from John Brown's raid to General Lee's... -
The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn by Brooke L. Blower 9780801479113
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new... -
The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn by Brooke L. Blower
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £54.22In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new... -
Black Directors in Hollywood by Melvin Donalson 9780292701793
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.26Hollywood film directors are some of the world's most powerful storytellers, shaping the fantasies and aspirations of people around the globe. Since the 1960s, African Americans have increasingly... -
Sue Mundy: A Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor 9780813192239
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £17.76On March 15, 1865, three weeks before the end of the Civil War, twenty-year-old M. Jerome Clarke was hanged as a Confederate guerrilla in Louisville, Kentucky, as a crowd of thousands looked on. In... -
How To Get Out Of Your Own Way by Tyrese Gibson
Booksplease Price: £14.00How to Get Out of Your Own Way is organized into a series of fundamental questions that helped Tyrese redefine who he was as a human being and evolve into a new man. Tyrese stresses the importance of... -
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How To Get Out Of Your Own Way by Tyrese Gibson 9780446572231 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.69How to Get Out of Your Own Way is organized into a series of fundamental questions that helped Tyrese redefine who he was as a human being and evolve into a new man. Tyrese stresses the importance of... -
The Water Paradox: Overcoming the Global Crisis in Water Management by Ed Barbier
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62A radical new approach to tackling the growing threat of water scarcity Water is essential to life, yet humankind's relationship with water is complex. For millennia, we have perceived it as abundant... -
Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective A.T. Brown 9781783270422
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.62Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises... -
Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World Zara Anishanslin 9780300234237
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the... -
Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists by Anne Lee Morgan 9780195128789
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £31.38With the advent of abstract expressionism in the 1940s, America became the white hot center of the artistic universe. Now, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, the first such volume... -
The American Art Book Phaidon Editors 9781837290192
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £41.79The groundbreaking survey, showcasing 500 of the greatest American artists, now updated in an essential new edition 'A lavish glimpse not only into American Art, but into the history of the century... -
The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel by Elizabeth Mannion 9781137539397
Booksplease Price: £46.74Irish detective fiction has enjoyed an international readership for over a decade, appearing on best-seller lists across the globe. But its breadth of hard-boiled and amateur detectives, historical... -
Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers by Donald Bogle
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of black people in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an...