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Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century by Libra R. Hilde 9781469660677
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherhood during and after the era of slavery,... -
A Class by Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s by Nancy Woloch 9780691176161
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.80A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights... -
The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left by Landon R. Y. Storrs
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.85In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a group... -
Song of the Saints: Celebrating the Saints with Anglican Prayer Beads by Catherine Gotschall 9781640657663
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Weekly Anglican prayer bead meditations to deepen your relationship with saintly Christians. Have you ever wondered what the saints would say if they could speak to you? Saints have long been a... -
The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left by Landon R. Y. Storrs 9780691153964
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.79In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a group... -
The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience, and Justice by Traci Parker
Booksplease Price: £33.80In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic... -
Movements, Motions, Moments: Photographs of Religion and Spirituality from the National Museum of African American History and Culture by Judith Weisenfeld 9781913875190
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £7.60Movements, Motions, Moments shows how African Americans have negotiated their participation and engagement in religious spaces. The book is divided into three sections-Movements, Motions, and Moments... -
The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America Katherine Turk 9781250338372
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine... -
This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement by Sarah Azaransky 9780190262204
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £35.21This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement examines a group of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even to other religious... -
Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography by John C. Inscoe 9780820337685
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £27.10Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern... -
Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography by John C. Inscoe 9780820337678
RRP: £132.95Booksplease Price: £77.29Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern... -
Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature by Ayesha K. Hardison 9780813935935
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.44In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s... -
Miss Mary's Money: Fortune and Misfortune in a North Carolina Plantation Family, 1760-1924 by H. G. Jones 9780786496624
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Every "legitimate" member of Revolutionary War soldier Francis Jones's family (including his son-in-law Congressman James Strudwick Smith) lies in a small cemetery near where the Smiths' enslaved... -
Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons Series) by Leigh Bardugo 9780141387376 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £0.99The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO. She will become a legend but first she is... -
Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by Jami L. Carlacio 9781496845672
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere,... -
Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons Series) by Leigh Bardugo
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.30The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO. She will become a legend but first she is... -
North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times - Volume 2 by Michele Gillespie 9780820340012
RRP: £132.95Booksplease Price: £92.35By the twentieth century, North Carolina's progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. In... -
Hell Bent: The global sensation from the creator of Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo 9781473228030
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this... -
Hell Bent: The International Number One Bestseller by Leigh Bardugo
Booksplease Price: £17.41Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this... -
Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left by Vaneesa Cook 9781512824452
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls "spiritual... -
She is Fierce: Brave, Bold and Beautiful Poems by Women by Ana Sampson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62A stunning gift book containing 150 bold, brave and beautiful poems by women - from classic, well loved poets to innovative and bold modern voices. From suffragettes to school girls, from spoken word... -
Activism in the Name of God: Religion and Black Feminist Public Intellectuals from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by Jami L. Carlacio 9781496845689
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere,... -
The Familiar: Limited Exclusive Edition by Leigh Bardugo 9780241704400
Booksplease Price: £20.11FATE CAN BE CHANGED.CURSES CAN BE BROKEN.In a shabby house in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil. But when her scheming mistress... -
Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left by Vaneesa Cook
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls "spiritual... -
Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands by Sarah Azaransky 9780739178621
Booksplease Price: £81.47Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on... -
The Whole World Goes to Hunter: Creating a Culture of Excellence and Activism, 1870–1964 by Laura S. Schor 9798855805949
Booksplease Price: £18.09Celebrates the tens of thousands of women who attended Hunter College from 1870-1964 and contributed massively to the city that educated them.Hunter College was established in 1870 as the Female... -
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism by Joseph Darda 9781503630345
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has... -
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism by Joseph Darda 9781503630925
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has... -
The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo 9781510112988
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.27It's time to join the party! Adventure awaits readers of all ages on Dia de Muertos in this stunningly original and lushly illustrated tour de force about family, love, and overcoming grief from #1... -
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert O'Meally
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book AwardFinalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History SocietyShortlisted,... -
Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution by Serena Mayeri 9780674284302
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.13Informed in 1944 that she was "not of the sex" entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School, African American activist Pauli Murray confronted the injustice she called "Jane Crow." In the 1960s and... -
Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice by Quito J Swan 9780813068572
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01African American Intellectual History Society Pauli Murray Book PrizeA Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020Honorable Mention, Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy... -
Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America by Professor Nadia Nurhussein
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesAs the only African nation, with the exception... -
The Familiar: A richly imagined, spellbinding new novel from the number one bestselling author of Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 9780241655313
Booksplease Price: £12.96In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers... -
Six of Crows: Dregs Edition by Leigh Bardugo 9781510113824
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26DISCOVER THE CULT HIT THAT BECAME A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENONThe Dregs Edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller Six of Crows features new cover art, black stained edges and updated maps.Ketterdam: a... -
Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America by Professor Nadia Nurhussein 9780691234625
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesAs the only African nation, with the exception... -
The Familiar: A richly imagined, spellbinding new novel from the number one bestselling author of Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 9780241655306
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.64In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers... -
The Familiar Leigh Bardugo 9780241999844
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A richly imagined, intricate tale of magic and intrigue' DEBORAH HARKNESS, #1 bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches'Riveting... Leigh Bardugo's characters... -
Women, Religion and Leadership: Female Saints as Unexpected Leaders by Barbara Denison
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Women, Religion and Leadership focuses on women from the traditional context of women as leaders with chapters observing various aspects of leadership from specifically chosen religious female... -
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows Book 2): Dregs Edition by Leigh Bardugo 9781510113831
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26DISCOVER THE CULT HIT THAT BECAME A WORLDWIDE PHENOMENONThe Dregs Edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller Crooked Kingdom, sequel to Six of Crows, features new cover art, black stained edges and...