Social History
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
$19.99 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063308517
- Language: English
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The Art of Being Irish in Hell’s Kitchen: A Memoir of the Organizing of the Irish Arts Center in New York City 1972-78
$22.99 Add to cartAmid the turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s-an era that included the Black Civil Rights movement, the war in Vietnam, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland-young Irish Americans in New York began to questi… [more below]
- Author: Olwell, James F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 27 2024
- ISBN10: 103917695X
- Language: English
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The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade
$50.00 Add to cartA first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce.
We may think of “globalism” as a recent development but its or- Author: Nugent, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2024
- ISBN10: 168458244X
- Language: English
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On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America
$30.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize winner Kim Christensen charts the dramatic rise and fall of an American institution.
Since its founding in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has been the nation’s premier youth organiza- Author: Christensen, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538726734
- Language: English
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The Hellenistic Age: A Short History
$20.00 Add to cartThe Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 BCE, a period that witnessed the overlap of two of antiquity’s great civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. Peter Green’s remarkably far-ranging stu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Green, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2008
- ISBN10: 0812967402
- Language: English
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When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia’s Capital City
$19.95 Add to cartOur nation’s first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide elect
- Author: Norman, Linwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1958754935
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, a powerful portrayal of American homelessness that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to ke… [more below]
- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668034824
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
$21.99 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in this period, or simply curious as to how Christmas was celebrated in the past, this is a wonderful piece of indulgent nostalgia.
Christmas comes up time and- Author: Hubert, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1803993871
- Language: English
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Firebrands: The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition
$30.00 Read moreGuaranteed to change how you picture Prohibition, this lively history turns the spotlight on four women in the immediate aftermath of winning the vote who played influential roles on all sides of the … [more below]
- Author: Diliberto, Gioia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0226819671
- Language: English
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Copper Camp: The Lusty Story of Butte, Montana
$22.95 Add to cartCopper Camp is a Montana classic. First published in 1943 and long out of print, Copper Camp is available again, bigger and better than ever with 25 new historical photos chosen specifically for this … [more below]
- Author: Writers Project of Montana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1931832048
- Language: English
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The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
$27.95 Add to cartAn encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulen- Author: Schl?gel, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0691237298
- Language: English
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
$22.99 Add to cartAn essential new history of Central Europe that “deftly unravels the strands of a long and complex past” (Wall Street Journal)
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606345
- Language: English
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Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America
$18.00 Read moreA new collection from one of Latin America’s most dynamic radical thinkers–in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo Galeano.
Constructing Worlds Otherwise sets itself against the recolonization of
- Author: Zibechi, Ra?l
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1849355428
- Language: English
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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
$19.99 Add to cartA “spectacular…brilliantly and magnetically written” (Rosalie Abella, former Canadian Supreme Court justice) dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1668031981
- Language: English
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When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation
$24.95 Read moreAn esteemed activist invites us to consider the complex idea of abolition as much more than a strategy or a set of tactics–at a deeper level, abolition is an entire political framework, culture, and … [more below]
- Author: Ayers, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020346
- Language: English
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The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism
$24.00 Add to cartA sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential… [more below]
- Author: Nagourney, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0451499379
- Language: English
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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
$19.00 Add to cartA WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by wo… [more below]
- Author: Ogilvie, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469984
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C.
$21.99 Add to cartGo inside the long-forgotten 19th century period when Alexandria left Virginia and incorporated itself into the fledging Distric of Columbia.
This groundbreaking history uncovers the time in the 19th c
- Series: Hidden History
- Author: Pope, Michael Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 23 2011
- ISBN10: 1609492811
- Language: English
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Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
$18.99 Add to cartDiscover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history — until now.
Regency England … [more below]- Author: Koch, Bea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1538701014
- Language: English
