Social History
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Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets
$17.99 Add to cartEason Favourite Book of the Year 2022
‘she is no small town, and this is no small story . . .’
BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCAST
A companion to the hugely successful podcast of the same name … [more below]
- Author: Fallon, Donal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1848408722
- Language: English
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Hipbillies: Deep Revolution in the Arkansas Ozarks
$29.95 Add to cartCounterculture flourished nationwide in the 1960s and 1970s, and while the hippies of Haight-Ashbury occupied the public eye, a faction of back to the landers were quietly creating their own haven off… [more below]
- Series: Ozarks Studies
- Author: Phillips, Jared M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1682260909
- Language: English
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The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
$28.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – An “elegantly argued and exuberantly narrated” (The New York Times Book Review) look at the building of social movements–from the 1600… [more below]
- Author: Beckerman, Gal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 152475918X
- Language: English
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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – When did America give up on fairness? The author of Fantasyland tells the epic history of how America decided that big business gets whatever it wants, only the rich get ri… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 198480135X
- Language: English
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Tudor England: A History
$37.50 Read moreA compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this- Author: Wooding, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0300162723
- Language: English
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Straw Plaiting: Heritage Techniques for Hats, Trimmings, Bags and Baskets
$60.00 Read more‘A must-have for anyone interested in working with straw and an astonishing contribution to the preservation of this endangered craft.’ Jay Blades MBE, Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts
An engaging makers’- Author: Main, Veronica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1789940753
- Language: English
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Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
$25.95 Read moreA field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States–and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future
Cultural- Author: Hass, Kristin Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0807006718
- Language: English
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African Americans of Central New Jersey: A History of Harmony and Hostility
$23.99 Read moreThrough grit and determination, the founding Black families of Sourland Mountain and surrounding Central New Jersey put down roots, built homes, established churches and navigated their lives in an un… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Mills, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154415
- Language: English
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What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Most Mysterious Portrait
$27.00 Read moreThe remarkable true story behind one of history’s most enigmatic portraits–“a glorious picaresque of unbridled passions and unmitigated scoundrels, a glorious romp through the great palaces and palaz… [more below]
- Author: Collinsworth, Eden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0385546114
- Language: English
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The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals
$28.99 Read moreA chilling, lavishly illustrated who’s who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring stories from the Lore podcast–now a streaming television series–including “Black Stockings,… [more below]
- Series: World of Lore #2
- Author: Mahnke, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1524797995
- Language: English
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This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain’s Knitted History
$12.99 Read moreA history of Britain’s long love affair with wool, told through a year of knitting garments from around the British Isles.
Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter – who grew up on a sheep farm in Suff
- Author: Rutter, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1783784369
- Language: English
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important bo… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0812978900
- Language: English
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Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict
$25.95 Add to cart‘Precise, clear, accessible, and important. I can think of no better introduction to the historical Jesus for the general reader, no clearer statement on the legacy of the Jesus movement in the sweep
- Author: Crossley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1803410825
- Language: English
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She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World
$22.95 Read more‘Exhilarating and immensely valuable’ Priyamvada Gopal, Professor, University of Cambridge
‘Captivating … captures the resolute vision of revolutionary women in anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and an
- Author: Shamshiri-Fard, Marral
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745348246
- Language: English
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the popular “Letters from an American” newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0300136307
- Language: English
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The Food Adventurers: How Around-The-World Travel Changed the Way We Eat
$30.00 Read moreA delectable gastronomic expedition into the linked histories of global travel and global cuisine.
From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high s- Author: Bender, Daniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147573
- Language: English
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A Cat’s Tale: A Journey Through Feline History
$29.99 Read moreFun, fanciful, and even informative.
—People
The first comprehensive history of felines–from the laps of pagan gods to present-day status as meme stars–as revealed by a very learned tabby with a knac- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1250217725
- Language: English
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The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World
$26.00 Read moreHow Freud’s concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age
Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a plac- Author: Edmundson, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300265816
- Language: English
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Seven Games: A Human History
$17.95 Read moreCheckers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and
- Author: Roeder, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051027
- Language: English
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
$27.95 Read moreHalley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial
- Author: Goodrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888568
- Language: English
