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History of the Americas
Once little more than party fuel, tequila has graduated to the status of fine sipping spirit. How the Gringos Stole Tequila traces the spirit's evolution in America from frat-house firewater to luxury good. But there's more to the story than tequila..
19.44£
Brand: Princeton University Press
How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literat..
32.12£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blo..
20.99£
Originally published in 1916, this innovative peanut recipe book by acclaimed Black scientist George Washington Carver is just as delicious today.How many ways can you possibly prepare the peanut? At least 105, according to George Washington Carver...
16.29£
Brand: Random House
'Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire.We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we stil..
15.62£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Since the dawn of aviation, Idahoans have employed aircraft to carry people, groceries, mail, freight, and livestock over inhospitable terrain. Idaho's airstrips are the stuff of dreams, offering pilots, anglers, hikers, and river-rafters access to..
25.55£
Brand: Native Study LLC
A unique never before transcribed series for the Identified Mississippi Choctaw Enrollment Cards, 1902-1909, including a copy of the original and a transcribed copy of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, a copy of the Dawes Final Roll of Mississipp..
51.60£
Brand: Native Study LLC
A unique never before transcribed series for the Identified Mississippi Choctaw Enrollment Cards, 1902-1909, including a copy of the original and a transcribed copy of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, a copy of the Dawes Final Roll of Mississipp..
53.92£
Brand: Princeton University Press
In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White Miss..
33.66£
Brand: Princeton University Press
A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more t..
25.28£
Brand: Purdue University Press
Amelia Earhart's prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the t..
55.33£
Brand: Southern Historical Press
By: William Doub Bennett, Pub. 1994, reprinted 2022, 86 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-36914-069-5.This is an alphabetical listing of all men who filed for bankrupt under the first three federal bankruptcy acts for which records survive at the Natio..
26.77£
The story of Major League Baseball's shortest-lived team and its quirky characters--from the dugout to the front office.The year 1969 ushered a new Major League Baseball team into Seattle: the Pilots. After many earlier years of successful minor lea..
19.95£
Brand: Globe Pequot
It Happened in Northern California takes readers on a rollicking, behind the scene look at some of the characters and episodes from the state's storied past. Including famous tales, famous names as well as little known heroes, heroines, and happenin..
17.98£
Brand: Harvard University Press
Winner of the Bancroft PrizeLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Book of the Year"The main thrust of Horowitz's account is to make us understand Katrina-the civic calamity, not the storm itself-as a consequence ..
20.22£
Every year at least 20,000 people go missing in São Paulo, Brazil. Many will be found, sometimes in mundane mass graves, but thousands will not. Keep the Bones Alive explores this phenomenon and why there is little concern for those who vanish. Ethn..
29.22£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Kenmore Square and The Fenway of Boston Through Time chronicles the history and development of an area of the city of Boston that only began in the early nineteenth century. When the Mill Dam, present day Beacon Street, was opened in 1821 between t..
23.73£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Ercel Ellis Jr. was born into the Thoroughbred horse business and has worked in it for seventy-five years.He has been an owner, breeder, trainer, writer and radio broadcaster. His radio show, Horse Tales, has run for twenty years. For all his work,..
26.05£
Brand: Indigenous Peoples Media LLC
From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compiled under the Franklin Roosevelt administration during the New Deal and economic relief and recovery p..
148.69£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
The town of King City came into existence in 1886, when the railroad arrived north of San Lorenzo Creek in the Salinas Valley of Central California. Named after Charles H. King, owner of this portion of the San Lorenzo Land Grant, King City has gro..
24.83£
Brand: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. In January 1973, Richard ..
23.25£
Brand: Native Study LLC
This book is a reprint of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Fort Sill Apache, Wichita, Caddo and Delaware Indians Birth and Death Rolls 1924-1932, originally published in 1996. Newly reformatted to 5.5 x 8.5" with new cover and index. You will find a co..
38.28£
La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it ha..
98.09£
Brand: University of Texas Press
"It shall be the chosen land, perpetual sunshine shall kiss its trees and vines, and, being storied in luscious fruits and compressed into ruddy wine, will be sent to the four points of the compass to gladden the hearts of all mankind . . . They wil..
19.32£