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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

  • Cover image of book The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
    The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World - by Malcolm Gaskill

    £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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  • Cover image of book Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution by Kathleen DuVal
    Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution - by Kathleen DuVal

    £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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  • Cover image of book Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture by Noam Chomsky
    Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture - by Noam Chomsky

    £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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  • Cover image of book Culture of Terrorism by Noam Chomsky
    Culture of Terrorism - by Noam Chomsky

    £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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  • Cover image of book An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln by Robin Blackburn, Abraham Lincoln, and Karl Marx
    An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln - by Robin Blackburn, Abraham Lincoln, and Karl Marx

    £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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  • Cover image of book When Miners March by William C. Blizzard
    When Miners March - by William C. Blizzard

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates by Des Ekin
    The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates - by Des Ekin

    £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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  • Cover image of book 1491: The Americas Before Colombus by Charles C. Mann
    1491: The Americas Before Colombus - by Charles C. Mann

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Portable Beat Reader by Edited by Ann Charters
    The Portable Beat Reader - by Edited by Ann Charters

    £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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  • Cover image of book American Indians by Nancy Shoemaker
    American Indians - by Nancy Shoemaker

    £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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