Social History
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Yale and Slavery: A History
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive look at how slavery and resistance to it have shaped Yale University
Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investiga- Author: Blight, David W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273843
- Language: English
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Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
$20.00 Add to cartJust when the clamor over “traditional” marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, “What tradition?” In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie… [more below]
- Author: Coontz, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 014303667X
- Language: English
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The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice
$24.95 Add to cartThey are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, far
- Author: Fiffer, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384756
- Language: English
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Violence: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
Violence is part and parcel of human history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all cultures a- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dwyer, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0198831730
- Language: English
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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Trip to Echo Spring
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2014
Olivia Laing’s widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of America
A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250063736
- Language: English
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico
$35.00 Add to cartThis book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestiz… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies #105
- Author: Vinson III, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1107670810
- Language: English
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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, the Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914
$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. This second… [more below]
- Author: Mann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 844
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1107670640
- Language: English
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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
$27.95 Add to cartThe true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body i
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Kuriyama, Shigehisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0942299892
- Language: English
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Flappers
$34.99 Add to cartBy the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex–all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the
- Author: Mackrell, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535043
- Language: English
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Reading: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartToday many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think we know what reading is, it remains in many ways a m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jack, Belinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0198820585
- Language: English
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Crazy ’08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance’s boast is manifest–these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one w
- Author: Murphy, Cait N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0060889381
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830
$29.95 Read moreA vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellin… [more below]
- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643138812
- Language: English
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Seven Games: A Human History
$26.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324003774
- Language: English
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The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
$31.18 Add to cartThe rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who provided free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March 2020, when the US- Author: Hong, Mai-Linh K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 520384008
- Language: English
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Diamonds: Their History, Sources, Qualities and Benefits
$49.95 Add to cartThe beauty and sparkle and mystique of diamonds is unmatched by that of any other gem in the world.
Since early times, diamonds have been treasured as good luck charms, remarkable tools and status s
- Author: Newman, Renee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0228103312
- Language: English
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The Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Industry: A People’s History
$28.00 Add to cartThe seafood industry on the coast of Mississippi has attracted waves of immigrants and other workers–oftentimes folks who were either already acquainted with maritime livelihoods or those who quickly… [more below]
- Series: America’s Third Coast
- Author: Stephens, Deanne Love
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1496833503
- Language: English
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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Ea… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cheyette, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198809956
- Language: English
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EmbarRACEments: Daily Embarrassments in Black and White . . . and Color
$16.00 Add to cartA self-deprecating, sobering book about a world that continues to move forward without anyone really advancing.
–Gian Paolo SerinoAs Europe, along with the rest of the world, struggles to learn its
- Series: Crossings #24
- Author: Komla-Ebri, Kossi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1599541246
- Language: English
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Winter in Taos
$29.95 Add to cart“Winter in Taos” starkly contrasts Luhan’s memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust’s “Remembrances of Things Past.” They follow her life through three failed marriages, numero… [more below]
- Author: Luhan, Mabel Dodge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 15 2007
- ISBN10: 163293194X
- Language: English
