History of the Americas
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America Before: The Key to Earth''s Lost Civilization: A new investigation into the mysteries of the human past by the bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods and Magicians of the Gods
Graham HancockCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***''Hancock''s books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and ...
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Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
Jeanne VertefeuilleCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA ...
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Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover
Anthony SummersCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a...
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Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu
Edgar GarciaCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...
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Crusoe''''s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness
Andrew LambertCurrent price €12.37Original price €14.55Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe''''s classic novel about the adve...
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The Free State of Jones: A True Story of Defiance During the American Civil War
Victoria BynumCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...
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American History: A Very Short Introduction
Paul S. BoyerCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and c...
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A Short History of Brazil: From Pre-Colonial Peoples to Modern Economic Miracle
Gordon KerrCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The recorded history of Brazil is brief when compared to most European countries, having been discovered by Portuguese sailor and explorer Pedro Ál...
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Chris KyleCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper k...
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Dead, White and Blue: The Zombie and American National Identity
Aaron W ClaytonCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99Science fiction and horror television shows predict how the world might be different if zombies were real, or if artificial intelligence could deve...
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Boy General of the 11th Alabama: John C.C. Sanders and Company C in the Civil War
Don AbelCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99In the spring of 1861, John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders, a 21-year-old cadet at the University of Alabama, helped organize a company of the 11th Alaba...
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Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation
John C. MillerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for dive...
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Once We Were Strangers: A German Immigrant Family in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
Mathangi SubramanianCurrent price €99.89Original price €110.99Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allens Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is...
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A Gamecock Odyssey: University of South Carolina Sports in the Independent Era
Alan PiercyCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99Meet the coaches, athletes, and other larger-than-life characters that laid the foundation for today's Gamecock NationIn A Gamecock Odyssey: Univer...
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Stories from the Land: A Navajo Reader about Monument Valley
Robert McPhersonCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Stories from the Land: A Navajo Reader about Monument Valley provides a traditional Navajo view of this iconic landscape and its people. Couched in...
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Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition
Mike MilliganCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition is the continuing story of Westwatera relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line th...
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Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition
Mike MilliganCurrent price €82.79Original price €91.99Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition is the continuing story of Westwatera relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line th...
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Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery and the Texas Borderlands
Jake M OCurrent price €36.33Original price €45.992022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West 2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Sou...
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New York''s Burned-over District: A Documentary History
Andrew FraserCurrent price €102.69Original price €129.99In New York's Burned-over District, Spencer W. McBride and Jennifer Hull Dorsey invite readers to experience the early American revivals and reform...
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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Bucknell University PressU.S.Current price €60.89Original price €69.99The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...
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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art
Bucknell University PressU.S.Current price €128.75Original price €147.99The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...
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Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape in Text and Images
John ClementCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Enhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country's beauty and expanse, starting with its Firs...
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From French Community to Missouri Town Volume 1: Ste. Genevieve in the Nineteenth Century
Bonnie StepenoffCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50A small French settlement thrived for half a century on the west bank of the Mississippi River before the Louisiana Purchase made it part of the Un...
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Hollywood''s Imperial Wars: The Vietnam Generation and the American Myth of Heroic Continuity
Armando Jose PratsCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrat...
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