Social History
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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
$26.95 Read moreIn 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were
- Author: Alexander, Rustam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 152616745X
- Language: English
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Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
$21.99 Add to cartFor centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and
- Author: Grinker, Roy Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 132402013X
- Language: English
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Add to cartThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0345405013
- Language: English
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Extreme North: A Cultural History
$18.95 Read moreScholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man’s-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cr
- Author: Chase, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050284
- Language: English
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Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland
$19.95 Add to cartAcross the Blue Ridge Mountains stretches a world both charming and complicated.
Jeremy Jones and his wife move into a small house above the creek where his family had settled 200 years prior. He take
- Author: Jones, Jeremy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1949467546
- Language: English
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After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany
$35.00 Read moreA wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany–from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts
After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded the arts in- Author: Kater, Michael H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300259247
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States: The Civil War to the Present
$33.98 Read moreAn abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn’s bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter.
Like Volume I, each chapter in Volume II provides exercises- Series: New Press People’s History #2
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1565847253
- Language: English
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Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History
$19.95 Read more‘A love letter to queer London which reminds us that although we’re not always in the mainstream telling of history, we have always been here’–Nathaniel Hall, playwright, and actor in It’s A Sin
‘Dan- Author: Glass, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745346219
- Language: English
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
$30.00 Read moreA richly illustrated romp with America’s Gilded Age leisure class–and those angling to join it
Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States’ population doubled, acco- Series: Washington Mews Books
- Author: Tichi, Cecelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1479826855
- Language: English
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The Jekyll Island Club
$23.99 Add to cartIn the late 19th century, some of America’s wealthiest families joined together to form the Jekyll Island Club.
Operating for over 50 years, from 1888 until 1942, the Club attracted an elite clientele,
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Bagwell, Tyler E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 1998
- ISBN10: 0738517968
- Language: English
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Wit and Wisdom: The Forgotten Literary Life of New England Villages
$25.95 Read moreThe lyceum movement gained momentum in the decades preceding the Civil War, presenting members with the opportunity to participate in literary life and engage with the issues of the day. While urban
- Author: Radner, Joan Newlon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1625347383
- Language: English
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Reckoning with Race: An Unfinished Journey
$26.00 Read moreReckoning with Race is a firsthand account of race relations in America from award-winning journalist, author, and former CNN commentator, Rick Allen. Allen’s collection of essays shows the progress o… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1637631529
- Language: English
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American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
$35.00 Read moreThe first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation
“A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis.”–James Oakes, New York Re- Author: Kelley, Sean M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300263597
- Language: English
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The Immortal Game: A History of Chess
$18.00 Add to cartA fresh, engaging look at how 32 carved pieces on a Chess board forever changed our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain.
Chess is the most enduring and universal game in history. He- Author: Shenk, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1400034086
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$0.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times “A fantastic examination of what became the mall … envision[ing] a more meaningful pu- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1635576024
- Language: English
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
$32.00 Read moreScience and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth centur- Author: Spencer, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0861544617
- Language: English
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The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
$35.00 Read moreA fascinating blend of history and ecological economics that uncovers the medieval precedents for modern concepts of sustainable living.
In The Green Ages, historian Annette Kehnel explores sustainab- Author: Kehnel, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1684582431
- Language: English
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Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital
$32.50 Add to cartThe definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers
Although Greenw- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827638
- Language: English
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Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor Lavey, Founder of the Church of Satan
$31.00 Add to cartA provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITH A TAIL chronicles a time when Americans welcomed a macabre showman into their living rooms via The… [more below]
- Author: Brod, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 030683331X
- Language: English
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Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat
$26.00 Read moreA cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired such love and loathing.
Rats are creatures which inspire fear and fascination in e- Author: Shute, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1399402501
- Language: English
