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Blindspot by Jane Kamensky 9780385526203
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385526203Author Jane KamenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
A People and a Nation, Volume I: to 1877 by Jane Kamensky 9781337402729
Booksplease Price: £89.65Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for yourself. A PEOPLE AND A NATION offers a lively narrative, telling the stories of the diverse peoples in the United States. The authors... -
A People and a Nation, Volume I: to 1877 by Jane Kamensky 9780357947937
Booksplease Price: £89.65Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for yourself. Kamensky/Bailey/Sheriff/Chudacoff/Logevall/Blight's A PEOPLE AND A NATION, VOLUME I: to 1877, 12th Edition, offers a lively... -
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky 9780393240016
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.62In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's revolution. Copley's talent earned him the patronage of... -
Governing The Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky 9780195130904
RRP: £46.49Booksplease Price: £33.98Colonial New Englanders would have found our modern notions of free speech very strange indeed. Children today shrug off harsh words by chanting "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will... -
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky 9780393354867
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.74In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's revolution. Copley's talent earned him the patronage of... -
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky 9781324002086
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.62Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950-2015)-underground actress, porn star, producer of adult... -
Governing The Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky 9780195090802
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £58.11Colonial New Englanders would have found our modern notions of free speech very strange indeed. Children today shrug off harsh words by chanting "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will... -
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below Jane Kamensky 9781324105381
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950-2015)-underground actress, porn star, producer of adult... -
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse by Jane Kamensky 9780143114901
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for George Washington Book Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780143114901Author Jane KamenskyFormat... -
A People and a Nation : A History of the United States, Brief Edition by 9780357661772
Booksplease Price: £98.29Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating stories of all people in the United States in Norton's best-selling A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF... -
A People and a Nation : A History of the United States, Volume II: Since 1865, Brief Edition by 9780357661796
Booksplease Price: £92.67Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating stories of all people in the United States in Norton's best-selling A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF... -
A People and a Nation : A History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877, Brief Edition by 9780357661789
Booksplease Price: £84.63Follow history with a spirited narrative that tells the captivating stories of all people in the United States in Norton's best-selling A PEOPLE AND A NATION: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF... -
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution by Edward G. Gray 9780190257767
RRP: £49.49Booksplease Price: £44.87The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In... -
Declaration House Anna Arabindan-Kesson 9781439927649
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and... -
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... -
No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States by Nancy F. Cott 9780195173239
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.51Enriched by the wealth of new research into women's history, No Small Courage offers a lively chronicle of American experience, charting women's lives and experiences with fascinating immediacy from... -
Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution by Benjamin L. Carp 9780195304022
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £42.71The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists. They met each other in back rooms, plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and... -
Free Thinker: The Extraordinary Life of the Fallen Woman Who Won the Vote by Kimberly A. Hamlin 9781324021872
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.70When Ohio newspapers published the story of Alice Chenoweth's affair with a married man, she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to New York and devoted her life to championing women's... -
Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence Trevor Burnard 9780300280180
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62A fresh look at the American Revolution as a major global event At the time of the American Revolution (1765-83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific,... -
A People and a Nation, Volume II: Since 1865: Volume II: Since 1865 by Howard Chudacoff 9780357947944
Booksplease Price: £98.70Think history is dull? No way, and you're about to find out for yourself. Kamensky/Bailey/Sheriff/Chudacoff/Logevall/Blight's A PEOPLE AND A NATION, VOLUME II: SINCE 1965, 12th Edition, offers a... -
Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution by Benjamin L. Carp 9780195378559
RRP: £34.49Booksplease Price: £23.65The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and... -
Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783 by Richard H. Brown 9780393060324
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £51.84Taking into account the key events of the French and Indian War, this book shows the American Revolution's progress in glorious contemporary maps and accompanying essays relating them to the events... -
Republic of Taste: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America by Catherine E. Kelly 9780812224894
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.38Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate-and therefore... -
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.04A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh... -
Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution Molly Beer 9781324050216
Booksplease Price: £24.06Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and the... -
The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden 9781476760742
Booksplease Price: £7.92An LA Times Best Book of the Year, Christopher Award Winner, and Chautauqua Prize Finalist!"Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in... -
Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition by Alice Echols
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.98Winner of Outstanding Book Award of Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human RightsAn award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity... -
New Men: Manliness in Early America by Thomas A. Foster 9780814727812
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur wrote, "What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from... -
New Men: Manliness in Early America by Thomas A. Foster 9780814727805
Booksplease Price: £90.87In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur wrote, "What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from... -
Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution by Molly Beer 9781324130529
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.40Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and the... -
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore Seth Rockman (Associate Professor of History, Brown University) 9780801890079
Booksplease Price: £27.10Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth... -
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789 Robert Darnton 9780141009964
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed - in attitudes, assumptions, values, memories of the past, anticipations of the future, hopes and fears and many other emotions. To... -
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States by Stephen Mihm
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.00Listen to a short interview with Stephen MihmHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet... -
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darnton 9781324086420
Booksplease Price: £16.55When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the... -
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Booksplease Price: £9.08'An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner ... Schiff's writing is to die for' THE TIMESIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally...