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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780141991481 | ISBN 10: 0141991488
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE*
*A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*
'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times
'Simply one of the best history books I have ever rea ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780297871002 | ISBN 10: 0297871005
Ethel Rosenberg's story has been called America's Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of humanity and justice that continues to haunt the national conscience, and is still being played out with different actors in the lead roles today.
O ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788167734 | ISBN 10: 1788167732
An international bestseller and winner of the Stonewall Book Award, which inspired an award-winning film.
Randy Shilts was the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1981, the year when AIDS c ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780748698950 | ISBN 10: 0748698957
The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politics.Â
The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Viet ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781474602266 | ISBN 10: 1474602266
‘An oppressive, forensic, psychological thriller: J.K. Rowling meets Antony Beevor, Stephen King and Marina Warner … Schiff’s writing is to die for’ THE TIMES
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a m ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780812981209 | ISBN 10: 0812981200
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society.
• Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780143107972 | ISBN 10: 0143107976
From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s
The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780807057834 | ISBN 10: 0807057835
2015 Recipient of the American Book Award
2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples.
Today in the United States, there are mo ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335438 | ISBN 10: 0745335438
Chomsky ends his preface to Culture of Terrorism with the words, “As the latest inheritors of a grim tradition, we should at least have the integrity to look in the mirror without evasion”.
The tradition to which he is referring is none oth ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335421 | ISBN 10: 074533542x
In a potent act of myth busting, Noam Chomsky turns his critical gaze upon the Kennedy Administration and draws controversial parallels between the Presidency of JFK and that of Ronald Reagan, with particular focus on the Vietnam War. For anyon ... more
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£16.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849352079 | ISBN 10: 1849352070
In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labour to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains. Over the next year, tactics escalated ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780803283916 | ISBN 10: 0803283911
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780199922680 | ISBN 10: 0199922683
* A concise history of slavery in America beginning with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s
* Draws from both historical analyses and a reading of primary documents to explore the history of slavery
* Examines legislation that differ ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781421410180 | ISBN 10: 1421410184
On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel’s virulent opposition to union recognition and collective bargain ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571251292 | ISBN 10: 0571251293
America is in crisis. In the space of a generation, it has become more than ever a country of winners and losers, leaving the social contract in pieces. In The Unwinding, George Packer narrates the story of America over the past three decades, bringi ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780306821202 | ISBN 10: 0306821206
The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women.
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trial ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780807022047 | ISBN 10: 0807022047
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present.
Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780807044650 | ISBN 10: 0807044652
Winner of the 2012 American Library Association's Israel Fishman Non-Fiction/ Stonewall Book Award.
A Queer History of the United States is more than a "who's who" of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand Am ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781595586360 | ISBN 10: 1595586369
Placing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century, Vicki L. Eaklor’s Queer America: A People’s GLBT History of the 20th Century is a major new effort to popularize a long-overlooked chapter in the American experience.
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£17.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677221 | ISBN 10: 1844677222
The impact of the American Civil War on Karl Marx, and Karl Marx on America.
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the ca ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780393339741 | ISBN 10: 0393339742
A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of “whiteness”—an illuminating work on the history of race and power.
Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter tells perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history. Beginning at the roo ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781935554165 | ISBN 10: 1935554166
Walter and Miriam Schneir’s 1965 bestseller Invitation to an Inquest was among the first critical accounts of the controversial case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, famously executed in 1953 for passing atom bomb secrets to Soviet Russia. In Invitatio ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604863000 | ISBN 10: 1604863005
In the first half of the 20th century, strikes and Union battles, murders and frame-ups were common in every industrial center in the U.S. But none of these episodes compared in scope to the West Virginia Mine Wars.
The uprisings of coal mi ... more
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£17.00 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780801895012 | ISBN 10: 0801895014
Commonly known as Custer's Last Stand, the Battle of Little Bighorn may be the best recognized violent conflict between the indigenous peoples of North America and the government of the United States. Incorporating the voices of Native Americans, sol ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781845964979 | ISBN 10: 1845964977
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantatio ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099520399 | ISBN 10: 0099520397
In November 2008 the United States elected a new President. But the collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it came to find its ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781931859707 | ISBN 10: 1931859701
"The strikers in these industrial flare-ups confronted not only the power of their employers but, ultimately, that of the State...and in the process there was always the possibility of a widening and escalating conflict bordering on insurrection."(~f ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847171047 | ISBN 10: 1847171044
In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781851685424 | ISBN 10: 1851685421
The Beat Generation were a revolutionary group of American writers in the late 50s and early 60s who fused an open approach to literature with a bohemian lifestyle. Immortalized through Kerouac’s On the Road and Ginsberg’s Howl, their relaxed, gritty ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844671571 | ISBN 10: 1844671577
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure"(Thomas Jefferson)
The Declaration Of Independence was the explosive manifesto for the American Revolution. Introducing this ... more
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£12.95 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781590512388 | ISBN 10: 1590512383
An investigative history of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein’s crimes reveals the story his trial never will.
In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein. Barry M. Lando, a former investigative producer for 60 Minu ... more
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£115.00 hardback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415955683 | ISBN 10: 0415955688
There have been numerous works produced in recent years dealing with the era commonly known as McCarthyism. There have been few, if any, however, that detail the evolution of the repressive social climate that nourished the McCarthy age. This work co ... more
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£17.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780226646770 | ISBN 10: 0226646777
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of America’s most famous economists for good reason. From his acerbic analysis of America’s “private wealth and public squalor” to his denunciation of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, Galbraith consistently cha ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781862078765 | ISBN 10: 1862078769
Up until recently it was believed that before Colombus landed there, the Americas were a near-pristine wilderness, barely marked by humankind. But many scholars have come to contest this view after unexpected discoveries dramatically changed their un ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780142437537 | ISBN 10: 0142437530
Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in povery and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. ... more
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£33.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780415346764 | ISBN 10: 0415346762
This work offers a unique critique of the new economic and military imperialism of the United States and its allies in the 21st century.
Inspired by the anti-globalization and anti-war movements, in which the author himself has played a cru ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099429623 | ISBN 10: 0099429624
Encompassing the worlds of youth and music, politics, war, economics, demonstrations and the media, 1968 shows us how we got to where we are today. It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll; it was also the year of the Martin Luther King an ... more
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£3.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9781903047736 | ISBN 10: 1903047730
Almost everything you need to know in one essential guide. At the beginning of the 1840s, the proud tribes of the North American Indians looked across the plains at the seemingly unstoppable expansion of the white man's West. During the decades ... more
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£36.50 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780631219958 | ISBN 10: 0631219951
This collection brings together the best recent works covering over five hundred years of American Indian history. Organized chronologically, from pre-Columbian America to recent reflections on the legacy of Indian political activism in the 1960s and ... more
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