Social History
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
$27.99 Read moreParis Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended r- Author: Kelleher, Katy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 198217935X
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society
$30.00 Add to cartWhat makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world a
- Author: Janega, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393867811
- Language: English
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You’ll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
$29.95 Read moreAn illuminating and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American institution of marriage, from the Colonial era through the #MeToo age
Perfect for fans of Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Traister- Author: Zug, Marcia A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1586423746
- Language: English
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The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera
$35.00 Add to cart*A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice*
Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, f- Author: Miles, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364951
- Language: English
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The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
$28.95 Read more*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE*
A revealing and unique portrait of Victorian life as told through the discovery of one woman’s textile scrapbook. In 1838, a young woman was given a diar- Author: Strasdin, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364218
- Language: English
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
$32.99 Read moreA vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1328974839
- Language: English
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
$28.00 Add to cartA “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Marion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1668002426
- Language: English
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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
$36.00 Read moreNamed 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 031659203X
- Language: English
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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
$32.50 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON’S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS
- Author: Harriot, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0358439167
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times A portrait–by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving–of one of America- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639732055
- Language: English
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Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners
$29.95 Add to cart“As every amateur toxicologist knows, the difference between a poison and medicine is often simply the dose.”
There is no weapon as insidious, as seductive or as mysterious as poison. In this terrifyin
- Author: Hubbard, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 0233006117
- Language: English
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A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
$21.95 Add to cartChina Mi?ille’s strikingly imaginative new introduction to the Communist Manifesto offers both a critical appraisal and a spirited defense of the modern world’s most influential political document.
Few- Author: Mi?ville, China
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598917
- Language: English
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 21, 2017
- ISBN10: 0399588825
- Language: English
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
$20.99 Add to cartA “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.
Dress codes are as old as clothing its- Author: Thompson Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1501180088
- Language: English
