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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
Paperback,
23/09/2016,
£15.00
£13.50
Surrounding the war with an aura of nostalgia both fosters the delusion that war can cure our social ills and makes us strong again, and weakens confidence in our ability to act effectively in our own time."-Journal of Military History
From Colony To Super-Power U.S. foreign Relations Since 1776
Paperback,
26/05/2011,
£12.99
£11.69
A finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this acclaimed history uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from 13 disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower.
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Hardback,
04/05/2017,
£20.00
£18.00
The New York Times bestseller A ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.
Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
Paperback,
01/06/2017,
£10.99
£9.89
'Neither Wolf Nor Dog is a book of revelation ... a true-life fable and a provocative call ... remarkable' Robert Plant
America
Paperback,
01/09/2010,
£10.99
£9.89
New edition of this classic study of the US, with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer.
Domestic Manners Of The Americans
Paperback,
31/07/2006,
£6.00
£5.40
Offers a humorous account of American life and customs in the 19th century.
1493
Paperback,
06/09/2012,
£12.99
£11.69
A sweeping, hugely readable account of history's biggest ecological invasion, when Europe and the Americas collided for the first time in millennia.
Short History of the American Revolutionary War
Paperback,
30/04/2013,
£14.99
£13.49
The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on a mythic character and become emblematic of American national identity.
World to Gain: Battle for Global Domination and Why America Entered W
Hardback,
15/04/2004,
£12.95
£11.66
Dead Hand
Hardback,
03/02/2011,
£20.00
£18.00
Offers an account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close. Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified documents from deep inside the Kremlin, the author examines the inner motives and secret decisions of each side and details the deadly stockpiles that remained unsecured as the Soviet Union collapsed.
Slavery By Another Name
Paperback,
04/10/2012,
£12.99
£11.69
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans.
Change is Gonna Come
Paperback,
29/08/2002,
£14.99
£13.49
Chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown; from Woodstock and the 'Summer of Love' to Vietnam and the race riots; from disco inferno to the Million Man March.
Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England
Paperback,
28/10/2016,
£19.99
£17.99
In a field where primary sources are thin and difficult, Abandoning America is an excellent tool for reference and research. The book is fully annotated and offers a substantial introduction providing for further historical context.
Seizing Freedom
Paperback,
27/10/2015,
£12.99
£11.69
Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for "freedom" after the American Civil War
Childhood Indians: Television, Film and Sustaining the White (Sub)Conscience Volume 1
Paperback,
£16.99
£15.29
From Daniel Boone to Captain America: Playing Indian in American Popular Culture
Hardback,
30/06/2016,
£65.50
£58.95
From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel Boone to Captain America the transmission of the ideals and myths of the frontier and playing Indian in American culture.
Contesting Constructed Indian-Ness: The Intersection of the Frontier, Masculinity, and Whiteness in Native American Mascot Representations
Paperback,
24/03/2015,
£27.95
£25.16
Contesting Constructed Indian-ness seeks to highlight the investment of white American males with the history of their relationship with the ideas of the Indian. This book documents the investments of white men with that of the ideal Indian, while disregarding the reality of Native Americans in this country.
Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-Up, and the Pursuit of Justice
Hardback,
14/03/2017,
£20.00
£18.00
Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization
Paperback,
05/11/2002,
£13.99
£12.59
Landmark work illustrates the history of North American indigenous resistance and the struggle for land rights.
Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Paperback,
13/10/2016,
£16.99
£15.29
An appraisal of the Black Panther Party on the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, bringing together oral history interviews with original members, portraits, archival images, and essays by leading experts.
JFK and the unspeakable
Hardback,
25/06/2008,
£18.99
£17.09
James Douglass provides an astonishing new examination of the Kennedy assassination and its implications.
World of John Winthrop: England and New England, 1588-1649
Paperback,
15/11/2009,
£41.95
£37.76
When John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, emigrated from Stuart England to America, he and the colonists who accompanied him carried much of their culture with them. This title includes the essays that assert a unity to the transatlantic and Puritan, Anglo-American sphere, integrating the English and colonial stories.
Companion to post-1945 america
Paperback,
23/12/2005,
£40.50
£36.45
* Contains 34 original essays by leading experts in Post-1945 American history. * Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy. * Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. * Includes a book review section on essential readings. .
Last word
Paperback,
06/12/2012,
£10.99
£9.89
How did the CIA control cops and secret service agents on the ground in Dealey Plaza? How did federal authorities prevent the House Select Committee on Assassinations from discovering the truth about the complicity of the CIA? In this book, the author finds out what went on the day JFK was assassinated.
American Government
Paperback,
31/01/2011,
£55.99
£50.39
Encourages students to confront their preconceptions about American government and to think critically about the US political system.
From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie: The Alliance for Sovereignty Between American Indians and Central Europeans in the Late Cold War
Hardback,
01/05/2016,
£64.25
£57.83
Wrath of Cochise: The blood feud that sparked the Apache wars
Paperback,
17/04/2014,
£9.99
£8.99
In a powerful evocation of the spirit and drama of the American West, the harrowing story of the feud that ignited the Apache Wars.
Encyclopedia Of Capital Punishment in the United States
Hardback,
15/09/2008,
£103.00
£92.70
Contains entries on capital punishment decisions rendered by the US Supreme Court. This encyclopedia includes entries on organizations that support and oppose capital punishment; capital punishment's impact on persons of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American descent, on women, and on foreign nationals; and the various methods of execution.
Cold War Radio: The Dangerous History of American Broadcasting in Europe, 1950-1989
Paperback,
15/04/2009,
£27.50
£24.75
During the Cold War, the Munich-based radio stations Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty provided clandestine broadcasts to thousands of individuals living behind the Iron Curtain. This book describes the Cold War world of the Munich stations, focusing on the security and intelligence problems which plagued the stations between 1950 and 1989.
Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western
Paperback,
09/05/2002,
£29.99
£26.99
This incisive, provocative, and wide-ranging book casts a critical eye on the representation of Native Americans in the Western film since the genre's beginnings. Armando Jos' Prats shows the ways in which film reflects cultural transformations in the...
Sexual revolution in early America
Paperback,
18/02/2004,
£21.50
£19.35
Today's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious.
War under heaven
Paperback,
02/03/2004,
£19.00
£17.10
Imaginatively conceived and compellingly told, War under Heaven redefines our understanding of Anglo-Indian relations in the colonial period.
Earth Shall Weep: History of Native America
Paperback,
03/03/2000,
£13.99
£12.59
Now available in paperback, "The Earth Shall Weep" is a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed history of the Native American peoples which combines traditional historical sources with new research.
Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film
Paperback,
01/07/2013,
£24.99
£22.49
Traces positive representations in film that reflect the complex and vibrant experiences of Native peoples and communities
War for America 1775-1783
Paperback,
01/02/1993,
£32.00
£28.80
The events of the American Revolution signified by Lexington, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown are familiar to American readers. This title views the American Revolution from the standpoint of the British government and the British military leaders as they attempted to execute an overseas war of great complexity.
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy
Paperback,
01/09/2001,
£14.99
£13.49
A compact history of the Atlanta campaign.
New Republic
Paperback,
10/12/1999,
£40.99
£36.89
A powerful and comprehensive survey of the early years of the American Republic.
American Culture in the 1980's
Paperback,
01/02/2006,
£23.99
£21.59
This book looks beyond the common label of 'Ronald Reagan's America' to chart the complex intersection of cultures in the 1980s. In doing so it provides an insightful account of the major cultural forms of 1980s America and influential texts and trends of the decade.
Civil War in American Culture
Paperback,
30/03/2006,
£22.99
£20.69
This book takes an innovative approach to the American Civil War, exploring its cultural origins and enduring cultural legacy.
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
Paperback,
15/10/2012,
£38.50
£34.65
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Paperback,
28/02/2001,
£40.95
£36.86
This biography tells the story of controversial black activist, Robert F. Williams (1925-1996). President of the Monroe NAACP, Williams organized armed resistance to KKK terrorists, challenging not only white supremacists but also the civil rights establishment.
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: An American Controversy
Paperback,
30/04/1998,
£21.95
£19.76
Rumours of Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings have circulated for two centuries. In this text, the author sets out to intensify the debate, arguing not that the events necessarily took place, but that the evidence for their taking place has been denied a fair hearing.
Keywords for American Cultural Studies
Paperback,
21/11/2014,
£22.99
£20.69
Suitable for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies, this book brings together essays by scholars working in literary studies and political economy, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, African American history and performance studies, gender studies and political theory.
Beyond Atlanta
Paperback,
31/07/2003,
£25.50
£22.95
This sweeping history of the civil rights movement in the South's largest state draws on interviews with 200 people - black and white - who worked for, or actively resisted, the freedom struggle.
Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Paperback,
06/12/2000,
£24.99
£22.49
Offers an account of the crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, the author contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront and wrestle with many of the paradoxes and disappointments of New Deal liberalism.
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Paperback,
24/04/2015,
£20.99
£18.89
In this revolutionary text, Native American scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the disturbing connections between white settler colonialism, genocide, and violence against Native American women and children.
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