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North American Borderlands by Brian DeLay
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Since the early colonial period, historians have been fascinated with North America's borderlands - places where people interacted across multiple, independent political and legal systems. Today the... -
War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War by Brian DeLay 9780300158373
Booksplease Price: £26.04An award-winning look at how Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas, and especially Comanches played a decisive role in America's watershed victory over Mexico"An engaging book that enlivens the debate over the... -
A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas by Sean F. McEnroe
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. They served... -
A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas by Sean F. McEnroe 9780826361189
Booksplease Price: £119.38A Troubled Marriage describes the lives of native leaders whose resilience and creativity allowed them to survive and prosper in the traumatic era of European conquest and colonial rule. They served... -
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power by Megan Black
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.72Winner of the George Perkins Marsh PrizeWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath PrizeWinner of the W. Turrentine Jackson AwardWinner of the British Association of American Studies Prize"Extraordinary..... -
Contested Spaces of Early America by Juliana Barr
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.42Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England,... -
The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America William Kiser 9780300275285
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.51How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp... -
Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848-1886 by Janne Lahti
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new perspectives by focusing on the lives of... -
Contesting the Borderlands: Interviews on the Early Southwest by Deborah Lawrence 9780806151946
Booksplease Price: £25.25Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later, Spaniards, French, and Anglo-Americans met, fought, and collaborated... -
Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands by Paul Barba
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.022022 W. Turrentine Jackson Award Winner 2022 David J. Weber Prize Winner In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas-a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power-local... -
From Colony to Nationhood in Mexico: Laying the Foundations, 1560-1840 by Sean F. McEnroe 9781107006300
Booksplease Price: £110.87In an age of revolution, Mexico's creole leaders held aloft the Virgin of Guadalupe and brandished an Aztec eagle perched upon a European tricolor. Their new constitution proclaimed 'the Mexican... -
Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule by Matthew James Babcock 9781107547322
Booksplease Price: £34.48As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced... -
Mason-Dixon: Crucible of the Nation Edward G. Gray 9780674301535
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £18.41"Deeply researched and highly readable." -Eric Foner, Times Literary Supplement"A rich history of regional distinctions, especially as they shaped the antebellum Republic." -Kirkus Reviews"A fitting... -
Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland by Associate Professor of History Geraldo L Cadava 9780674970892
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28Under constant surveillance and policed by increasingly militarized means, Arizona's border is portrayed in the media as a site of sharp political and ethnic divisions. But this view obscures the... -
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek by Ari Kelman 9780674503786
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.36In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John... -
The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War by Peter Guardino
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.25Winner of the Bolton-Johnson PrizeWinner of the Utley PrizeWinner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History"The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians...in a story... -
Major Problems in the History of North American Borderlands by Pekka Hamalainen 9780495916925
Booksplease Price: £77.07Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in American...