Social History
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The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America’s First Labor War
$21.95 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
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The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries
“We are the apes who tell stories,” writes William Be
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802157106
- Language: English
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The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
$27.00 Add to cartAmerica’s favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a “thought-provoking and delicoiusly unsettling” (Publisher’s Weekly) tour of the country’s most persistent “unexplained” phenomena … [more below]
- Author: Dickey, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 052555758X
- Language: English
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Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
$35.00 Read moreThe history of selling sex is a hidden one–and too often its practitioners are pushed to the margins of history. This book redresses the balance, revealing the history of the sex trade through the ey
- Author: Lister, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252440
- Language: English
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The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
$30.00 Read moreFrom the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast, an ambitious account of how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern wor… [more below]
- Author: Sexton, Jared Yates
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593185234
- Language: English
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It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History
$21.95 Add to cartPortland, Oregon, 1988: the brutal murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads shocked the city.
In response disparate groups quickly came together to organize against white nati- Author: Bowstern, Moe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1629633518
- Language: English
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
$22.99 Add to cartNicholas Ostler’s Empires of the Word is the first history of the world’s great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living o
- Author: Ostler, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0060935723
- Language: English
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Winter in Taos
$26.95 Add to cart“Winter in Taos” starkly contrasts Luhan’s memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust’s “Remembrances of Things Past.” They follow her life through three failed marriages, numero… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Heritage
- Author: Luhan, Mabel Dodge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0865345937
- Language: English
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African American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being “American” means living in a land of freed… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0190915153
- Language: English
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Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage
$40.00 Add to cartTreasures of Ukraine chronicles the arts and heritage of Ukraine at a time when the country’s people, culture, landmarks, and artworks are facing destruction and devastation. Created in partnership w
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0500026033
- Language: English
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Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
$27.95 Add to cartA sweeping germ’s-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics
Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global hist- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World
- Author: Harper, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0691230595
- Language: English
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Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
$19.95 Add to cartFrom our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it’s also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Traveling across the… [more below]
- Author: Finlay, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1639363904
- Language: English
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
$20.00 Add to cartSaidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021586
- Language: English
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
$35.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
The story of art collective Gran Fury–which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda–offers lessons in love a- Author: Lowery, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1645036588
- Language: English
