Social History
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Warholcapote: A Non-Fiction Invention
$26.99 Read moreAn enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends–Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.
In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested t- Author: Roth, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1982103825
- Language: English
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Ludwig Van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartProposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl
Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional c- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bonds, Mark Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0190051736
- Language: English
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
$39.00 Read moreWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world withou
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Groebner, Valentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951722
- Language: English
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Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
$19.95 Add to cartChronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, law professor Nicholas Johnson presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre-Civil War era that demonstrate … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 161614839X
- Language: English
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Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity
$32.95 Add to cartIn recent years the United States has witnessed major controversies surrounding past American presidents, monuments, and sites. Consider Mount Rushmore, which features the heads of the nation’s most r… [more below]
- Author: Senie, Harriet F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124993
- Language: English
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Under the Knife
$29.99 Add to cartSurgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations–from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini.
From the story- Author: Van de Laar, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1250826012
- Language: English
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Making a New Deal
$29.99 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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The Brewer’s Tale: A History of the World According to Beer
$16.95 Add to cartThe Brewer’s Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer’s quest to bring them–and their ancient, forgotten beers–back to life, one taste at a time… [more below]
- Author: Bostwick, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351998
- Language: English
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Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made
$21.99 Add to cartJuggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made is a vivid journey into the heart of a misunderstood subculture. Through firsthand reporting, including interviews with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0306823772
- Language: English
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
$23.99 Add to cartWith America’s current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the Progressive Era stands out as a time when the middle cl… [more below]
- Author: McGerr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0195183657
- Language: English
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A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
$19.99 Add to cartThe word “German” was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of Ge
- Author: Ozment, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0060934832
- Language: English
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Lost Mill Towns of North Georgia
$24.99 Add to cartThe textile era was born of a perfect storm. When North Georgia’s red clay failed farmers and prices fell during Reconstruction, opportunities arose. Beginning in the 1880s, textile industries moved s… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Russell, Lisa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1467143510
- Language: English
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The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began
$31.45 Add to cartHow ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: ” A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “th- Author: Raphael, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1620971267
- Language: English
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Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything
$17.00 Add to cartA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful,- Author: Jennings, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1501100602
- Language: English
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A Renegade History of the United States
$20.00 Add to cartThis provocative perspective on America’s history claims that the country’s personality was defined not by the ideals of the elites and intellectuals, but by those who throughout have lived on the fri… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Thaddeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416576134
- Language: English
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Victorian City
$39.00 Add to cartThe nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the worl
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068266
- Language: English
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Since Dorchester
$16.95 Add to cartJudith Kirwan Kelley is the author of Dorchester Girl (SDP Publishing, 2021). In her second book, Since Dorchester, Kirwan Kelley continues her journey, only persuaded to “get in the car or we’re mov
- Author: Kirwan Kelley, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, a History of Power from the Beginning to Ad 1760
$48.00 Add to cartDistinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military, and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this fir… [more below]
- Author: Mann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: September 10 2012
- ISBN10: 1107635977
- Language: English
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The American Dream: A Cultural History
$24.95 Add to cartThere is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather than just a powerful philosophy or ideology, the Dream is thoroughly woven into th
- Author: Samuel, Lawrence R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: August 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0815610076
- Language: English
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Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
$26.99 Add to cartNew York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.
In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York’s dining
- Author: Grimes, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532494
- Language: English
