Social History
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Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
$28.95 Add to cartFrom the adolescent thrill of getting a driver’s license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the c… [more below]
- Author: Nichols, Nancy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365591
- Language: English
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Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers
$35.99 Read moreA unique study into both the professional gamblers aboard Titanic and their individual backgrounds and fates
During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoki- Author: Behe, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1803992387
- Language: English
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Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
$25.00 Add to cartA rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some ju… [more below]
- Author: Kipen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0812984439
- Language: English
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Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76
$23.00 Read moreA Cold War-era study of Latin American anarchism in action.
Araiza Kokinis’s study of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU) broadens our understanding of the Cold War-era political landscape beyond- Author: Araiza Kokinis, Troy Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355002
- Language: English
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A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploration of how, throughout history, each civilization has found a way to celebrate, or to control, the ete… [more below]
- Author: Forsyth, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0525575375
- Language: English
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We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for t
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Clay, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639729
- Language: English
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
$20.00 Add to cart“All disasters are in some sense man-made.”
Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disaste- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297393
- Language: English
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974–The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
$19.99 Add to cart“An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in Amer
- Author: Brownstein, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062899228
- Language: English
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
$17.95 Read moreControl is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as
- Author: Rutherford, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 132406613X
- Language: English
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The Art of Ectoplasm: Encounters with Winnipeg’s Ghost Photographs
$34.95 Add to cartThe legacy of the Hamiltons’ psychic archive
In the wake of the First World War and the 1918-19 pandemic, the world was left grappling with a profound sense of loss. It was against this backdrop that
- Author: Keshavjee, Serena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1772840378
- Language: English
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
$25.99 Add to cartIn a series of mock lesson plans and a program of study Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking expos of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in The Impuni
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420315
- Language: English
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
$31.15 Add to cartNewly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American Prospect
Praised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set- Author: Murolo, Priscilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974487
- Language: English
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Covenant with God: A Biblical and Historical View at Healing Our Nation
$13.95 Add to cartCovenant with God-a Biblical and Historical View at Healing Our Nation is a labor of love truly focused on returning to God as a nation and examining how our country, which was founded on God’s princi… [more below]
- Author: Mahan, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889435365
- Language: English
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The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America’s First Labor War
$19.95 Add to cartSensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivati
- Author: Bulik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1531502954
- Language: English
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
$22.99 Add to cartNamed One of the Year’s Best Books by VULTURE – THE NEW REPUBLIC – DAZED – WIRED – BLOOMBERG – ESQUIRE – SALON – THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB
The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is- Author: Harris, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0316592013
- Language: English
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Worn: A People’s History of Clothing
$19.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of–an unparalleled deep-dive into how everyday garments have transformed our lives,… [more below]
- Author: Thanhauser, Sofi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 525566732
- Language: English
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The Last Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Sunset of an American Ruling Class
$28.95 Add to cartThe Book of Record Regarding the WASP Aristocracy and its Legacy
…From the Medieval chivalric code of the gentleman to the Ivy-covered quads of Princeton, Harvard, and Yale.
“In a style that echoes
- Author: Hutter, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: October 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1977256848
- Language: English
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Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface.
Heiresse- Author: Thompson, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250316340
- Language: English
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Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich’s fascinating exploration of one of humanity’s oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy
In the acclaim- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0805057242
- Language: English
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Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
$26.00 Add to cartWhat happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction?
History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating–and signifi- Author: Offit, Paul A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1426217986
- Language: English
