The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects by Richard Kurin
$59.99 AUD
Category: American
The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition of ...Show more
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
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Category: American | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and stamped on its currency. But how did America become 'one nation, ...Show more
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen
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Category: American
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, ...Show more
Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade the Middle East by Daniel Burwen
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Category: American
The year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers are taking an increased interest in the ruling political regimes of the Middle East. British agents have controlled Iranian oil exports for a generation, with the tacit approval of the Shah, but the landscape there has started to cha ...Show more
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
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Category: American
World Without Endis the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. It describes the conquest of Paraguay and the River Plate, the Yucatan in Mexico, the only partial conquest of Chile, battles with the French over Florida, and then, in the 1580s, the extraordinary proje ...Show more
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
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Category: American
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous and insightful account of the Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette - the one Frenchman we could all agree on - and an insightful portrait of a nation's idealism and its reality.
Spying on the South - An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz
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Category: American
The best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it du ...Show more
Facing The Mountain by Daniel James Brown
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Category: American
On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the surprise attack was a call to arms - but for the soldier sons of Japanese-American immigrant parents, it brought prejudice and scrutiny over where their loyalties lay.In Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown tells the ...Show more
New York City in 3D - the Gilded Age - A Book Plus a Stereoscopic Viewer, and 50 3D Photos from the Turn of the Century by Dinah Dunn
$39.99 AUD
Category: American
This innovative package includes a metal stereoscopic viewer and 50 stereoscopic photographs. The kit includes an accompanying 112-page paperback that provides a brief history of the stereograph craze and an overview of the city's evolution. New York City in the Gilded Age paperback details the rapid gr ...Show more
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose
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Category: American | Reading Level: very good
"Turn: Washington's Spies" - Now a new original series on AMC Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shado ...Show more
The Civil War: A Narrative by FOOTE SHELBY
$175.00 AUD
Category: American
Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Collected together in a handsome boxed set, this is the perfect gift for any Civil War buff.Fort Sumter to PerryvilleThe first volume open ...Show more
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan
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Category: American
From the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and host of the Revolutions podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equalityA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA #1 ABA INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BESTSELLER Few in history can mat ...Show more