Social History
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Humans: A Monstrous History
$29.95 Add to cartA history of how humans have created monsters out of one another–from our deepest fears–and what these monsters tell us about humanity’s present and future.
Monsters are central to how we think abo- Author: Davies, Surekha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0520388097
- Language: English
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
$37.50 Read moreAn irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.
From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawn- Author: Palmer, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: March 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0226837971
- Language: English
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The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cart- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Huq, Aziz Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 04 2024
- ISBN10: 197657427
- Language: English
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Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English
$24.95 Add to cartA spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms–for good or ill
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America–from French fries to Awes- Author: Yagoda, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691262292
- Language: English
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The Pennsylvania Dutch
$24.95 Add to cartFredric Klees’ The Pennsylvania Dutch is the best and most inclusive volume with an over-all approach to its subject. “I have tried,” he says, “to make this book a comprehensive treatment of the Penns
- Author: Klees, Fredric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1934597929
- Language: English
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Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
$18.99 Add to cartA riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont … [more below]
- Author: Hill, Marc Lamont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1982180404
- Language: English
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TAVERN TALK Just One More!
$28.95 Add to cartAuthors Bobby & Sandy Orr took us on a fun uplifting journey through the neighborhoods of Springfield Illinois in their first book Tavern Talk published by Outskirts Press in 2019 documenting the valu… [more below]
- Author: Orr, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1977219357
- Language: English
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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
$22.99 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.
What does it mean to be an American? The story of t- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0190915196
- Language: English
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A Spectrum of Unfreedom: Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
$22.65 Read moreWithout the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searche
- Series: Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture
- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: June 30 2021
- ISBN10: 9633863996
- Language: English
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Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
$32.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2017!
Here is New York, as you’ve never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, th- Author: Wertz, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0316501212
- Language: English
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – An “extraordinary … profoundly moving” history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on suc… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Civil War Library
- Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0375703837
- Language: English
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Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
$20.00 Add to cartA fascinating deep dive on innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Unexpected Life
The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery–these are all g- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 1594485380
- Language: English
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Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping Through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
$30.00 Read moreGay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond
- Author: Mattson, Greggor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1503629201
- Language: English
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Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
$40.00 Add to cartA macabre, spectacular, and thought-provoking survey of death in life, this book collects the many ways human remains are used in decorative, commemorative, and devotional contexts around the world to
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252610
- Language: English
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Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
$18.99 Add to cart“Even if read while sober, Andy Lechter’s Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, is a near-transcendent experience.” -New York Times Book Review
Since its rediscovery only fifty years ago, t
- Author: Letcher, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0060828293
- Language: English
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The History of Color: A Universe of Chromatic Phenomena
$28.00 Add to cartThis comprehensive, beautiful book delves deep into the complex but fascinating story of our relationship with color throughout human history.
Color is fundamental to our experience and understanding- Author: Parkinson, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0711288844
- Language: English
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money’s Prophets: 1798-1848
$28.00 Add to cartIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success… [more below]
- Series: House of Rothschild #1
- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140240845
- Language: English
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Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping new history of London during the Blackout–revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets o- Author: Bell, Amy Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 300270054
- Language: English
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Seven Social Movements That Changed America
$39.99 Add to cartHow do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America’s most influentia
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 163149371X
- Language: English
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The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
$35.00 Add to cartNational Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis’s own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American story
Sitting beneath a- Author: Lewis, David Levering
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1984879901
- Language: English
