Social History
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Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
$32.00 Add to cartThe surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others
On farms and in factories, Americans once had little cho- Author: Chappel, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619528
- Language: English
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Big Mall
$18.95 Read moreA phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, is shopping what makes life worth living?
Kate Black grew up in West Edmonton M
- Author: Black, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 155245472X
- Language: English
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New York: An Illustrated History (Revised and Expanded)
$75.00 Read moreAn expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York–with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations–that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city fro… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Ric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 059353414X
- Language: English
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The Castle: A History
$26.00 Read moreA vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day
The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military- Author: Goodall, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0300251904
- Language: English
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Lost Roadhouses of Seattle
$23.99 Read moreProhibition came early to Washington State–in 1916–and kicked off an unforgettable era of nightlife.
Prohibition went national in 1920 and a network of roadside inns, taverns and dancehalls just outs
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Blecha, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150738
- Language: English
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Medieval Europe
$20.00 Add to cartA spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and t- Author: Wickham, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228821
- Language: English
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Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
$18.00 Read moreWelcome to a work of history unlike any other.
Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity–the- Author: Knott, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 125025129X
- Language: English
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The Notorious Edward Low: Pursuing the Last Great Villain of Piracy’s Golden Age
$35.00 Read moreFollowing the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)–generally known in the Americas as Queen Anne’s War–a dramatic, decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim. Often glamorized as … [more below]
- Author: Travers, Len
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1594163987
- Language: English
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Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries
$23.99 Read moreA Hidden History of Unequal Access During the Jim Crow era, many public libraries were segregated. The public library plays a fundamental role in communities by providing free educational resources, b… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Barbuschak, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152897
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
$9.99 Read moreBooker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first presiden… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1454949996
- Language: English
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The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People
$25.00 Read moreThe fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present
“An eclectic scholarly account, tracing the evolution of the country house from the hun- Author: Aslet, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0300255055
- Language: English
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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
$27.95 Read moreDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. P
- Author: Green, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0393635341
- Language: English
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Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation
$35.00 Read moreDomesday Book is one of the most famous documents in English history–and arguably in world history. Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative translation from the original Lati… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Martin, G. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1456
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0141439947
- Language: English
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
$20.00 Add to cartA quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking
In an epic story tha- Author: Chang, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004170
- Language: English
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My Life on the Road
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE‘S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Harper’s Bazaar – St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Publishers Weekly
Gloria … [more below]- Author: Steinem, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0345408160
- Language: English
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
$22.00 Add to cartA rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Winner of the- Author: Duval, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0812981200
- Language: English
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African Americans of St. Lawrence County: North Country Pioneers
$24.99 Read moreDiscover the Black pioneers who shaped St. Lawrence County through grit and determination.
From its origins as part of New France through the Civil War and eventual industrialization of the region, St.
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Thompson, Bryan S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154032
- Language: English
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The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City
$25.27 Read more- Author: Van Parys, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 069124796X
- Language: English
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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World
$25.00 Read moreEminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America, to cultu… [more below]
- Author: Crone, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1780747411
- Language: English
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The Essential Kerner Commission Report
$17.95 Read moreThe Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book–a dramatic, o
- Author: Cobb, Jelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498924
- Language: English
