Social History
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Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
$27.99 Read moreThe chicken can fly only a few metres but – somehow – this unlikely evolutionary descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex has conquered the world. Earth is now home to more than twenty billion chickens, at lea
- Author: Coulthard, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1801104476
- Language: English
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Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits
$27.00 Read moreAn entertaining journey into the booming world of vintage spirits, the quirky and intensely passionate “dusty hunters” who chase them, and the history they reveal, from an acclaimed author and journal… [more below]
- Author: Goldfarb, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1419766791
- Language: English
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The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends
$25.95 Read moreFrom their remote origins as migrating tribes to their rise as builders of empire, the Aztecs were among the most dynamic and feared peoples of ancient Mexico, with a belief system that was one of the
- Series: Myths #6
- Author: Townsend, Camilla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0500025533
- Language: English
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A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family
$32.95 Add to cartA Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery’s history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno’s absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors’ slave-holding past and lead
- Author: Bruno, Debra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501776568
- Language: English
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Combing Through the White House: Hair and Its Shocking Impact on the Politics, Private Lives, and Legacies of the Presidents
$24.99 Read moreDiscover a fascinating and novel look at the U.S. presidents, the first families, and American history–all through the lens of hair. With meticulous detail, engaging storytelling, and full-color visu
- Author: Pappas, Theodore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1400246156
- Language: English
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Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion
$35.00 Add to cartWhen a little dog named Cherry died in 1881, his owners arranged for a grave in a nearby gatekeeper’s garden in London. At this time, the idea that a pet, even one that had lived as a family member, m… [more below]
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 050002751X
- Language: English
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Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
$35.00 Add to cartOur era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a “tradwife” is gaining a
- Author: Davis, Rebecca L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1631496573
- Language: English
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Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
$33.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched–by an accl… [more below]
- Author: Beck, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593240227
- Language: English
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Gender History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreAntoinette Burton argues that gender history is hiding in plain sight, at work everywhere we look.
This volume introduces the field of gender history–its origins, development, reception, recalibration… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Burton, Antoinette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0197587011
- Language: English
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Killer Cocktails: Dangerous Drinks Inspired by History’s Most Nefarious Criminals
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the hosts of the criminally popular podcast Criminalia, Holly Frey and Maria Trimarchi, a dangerously delicious cocktail and mocktail book inspired by history’s most notorious (and notoriously ov
- Author: Frey, Holly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0306834111
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$39.95 Read moreA gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR–and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia
Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpec- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 691117039
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Stuff: The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Objects
$25.00 Add to cartExplore the past, present, and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons.
Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the work of amateur beachcombers have helped scientists study ocea- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081602
- 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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Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil
Ou- Author: Jähner, Harald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606205
- Language: English
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Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery
$39.95 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas.
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported- Author: Araujo, Ana Lucia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 022677158X
- Language: English
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J. D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly: Think Twice Before Calling (All) Coalfield Appalachians Racists, Sexists, and Ignoramuses
$14.99 Add to cartDiscover the Point of View of a Real Mountaineer
For far too many decades, the residents of the Appalachian Mountains have faced the ridicule, prejudice, and misunderstanding from those outside the reg
- Author: Kilgore, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1733364404
- Language: English
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When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia’s Capital City
$35.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1962416216
- Language: English
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
$30.00 Add to cartThis classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships
Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a- Author: Moore, Barrington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807050733
- Language: English
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Russia: Myths and Realities
$27.95 Read moreAn expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story.
Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery insi- Author: Braithwaite, Rodric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362886
- Language: English
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The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
$18.99 Add to cartA “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone–including themselves. … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982114193
- Language: English
