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Memories of Yesterday by Kenneth Jackson 9798893899023
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893899023Author Kenneth JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint ArpressPublisher... -
The Gaelic Notes in the Book of Deer by Kenneth Jackson 9780521076753
Booksplease Price: £32.12The Book of Deer, 43 folios of manuscript, containing parts of the Gospels and the Apostles' Creed, is one of the treasures of the Cambridge University Library. The Book is important not so much for... -
Studies in Early Celtic Nature Poetry by Kenneth Jackson 9781107600188
Booksplease Price: £24.64First published in 1935, this volume by Kenneth Jackson examines the different types of nature poetry that were produced in Ireland and Wales up to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The work is... -
A Celtic Miscellany: Selected and Translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson by Kenneth Jackson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides... -
The Encyclopedia of New York by The Editors of New York Magazine 9781501166952
Booksplease Price: £26.44The must-have guide to pop culture, history, and world-changing ideas that started in New York City, from the magazine at the center of it all. Since its founding in 1624, New York City has been a... -
The Sanctuary City: Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia by Domenic Vitiello 9781501764806
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from deportation. It is a... -
The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930 by Kenneth T. Jackson 9780929587820
Booksplease Price: £16.21For decades the most frightening example of bigotry and hatred in America, the Ku Klux Klan has usually been seen as a rural and small-town product-an expression of the decline of the countryside in... -
Empire City: New York Through the Centuries by Kenneth T. Jackson
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.10As perhaps never before in its extraordinary history, New York has captured the American imagination. This major anthology brings together not only the best literary writing about New York-from O... -
Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 by John R. Stilgoe 9780300048667
Booksplease Price: £52.13This fascinating "prehistory" of the American Suburb traces its evolution from the mid-1800's to the onset of World War II. Using a rich array of contemporary written and pictorial sources,... -
Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia by A. Kaur 9781403987457
Booksplease Price: £90.56One of the biggest challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century is the large scale cross-border movement of people. This book explores: sovereignty; security issues and... -
They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties by Lisa Levenstein
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60On January 21, 2017, massive demonstrations in Washington DC and sister marches held in over 600 American cities drew crowds of over four million people. Popularly called 'The Women's March,' it... -
The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs by Matthew D. Lassiter 9780691248943
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need... -
Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century by LaDale C. Winling
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53Today, universities serve as the economic engines and cultural centers of many U.S. cities, but how did this come to be? In Building the Ivory Tower, LaDale Winling traces the history of... -
Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof 9780691218373
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelandsIn the late nineteenth century, a small group... -
Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelandsIn the late nineteenth century, a small group... -
Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898–1938 by Keith D. Revell 9780801870736
Booksplease Price: £48.59In 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex... -
Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 1898-1938 by Keith D. Revell
Booksplease Price: £28.58In 1898, the New York state legislature created Greater New York, a metropolis of three and a half million people, the second largest city in the world, and arguably the most diverse and complex... -
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaHornblower Award for a First Book, New York... -
How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 by Paige Glotzer 9780231179980
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created... -
On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis by Daniel Matlin 9780674725287
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22In July 1964, after a decade of intense media focus on civil rights protest in the Jim Crow South, a riot in Harlem abruptly shifted attention to the urban crisis embroiling America's northern cities... -
How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960 by Paige Glotzer
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created... -
Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London by Professor Lisa Keller 9780231146722
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £100.17In an effort to create a secure urban environment in which residents can work, live, and prosper with minimal disruption, New York and London established a network of laws, policing, and municipal... -
Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment by Michael Javen Fortner
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.68Often seen as a political sop to the racial fears of white voters, aggressive policing and draconian sentencing for illegal drug possession and related crimes have led to the imprisonment of millions... -
The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History, Volume II: 1865 - Present by Frederick M. Binder 9780840029515
Booksplease Price: £70.75This popular reader uses both primary and secondary sources to explore social history topics and sharpen your interpretive skills. Each chapter includes one secondary source essay and several related... -
Smack: Heroin and the American City by Eric C. Schneider
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king... -
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston by Michael Rawson 9780674416833
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.29Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don't think twice about them. But such simple actions are... -
The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles after 1945 by Becky M. Nicolaides 9780197578308
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.21America's suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America's cities. Today they house a more... -
Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia: Abandoning Babylon by Nathaniel Robert Walker 9780198907756
Booksplease Price: £41.87The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The... -
The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War by Adam Arenson 9780674052888
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.43The Civil War revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century-not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral... -
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh 9780674030718
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community... -
Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City by Michael A. Lerner 9780674030572
Booksplease Price: £29.10In 1919, the United States embarked on the country's boldest attempt at moral and social reform: Prohibition. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and... -
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America by Matthew Avery Sutton 9780674032538
Booksplease Price: £34.69From the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Rock to Christian Coalition canvassers working for George W. Bush, Americans have long sought to integrate faith with politics. Few have been as successful...