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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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