Social History
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What If? II: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
$24.00 Add to cartWhat if Lincoln didn’t abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing “what if…” scenarios by some of today’s greatest historical minds-inc… [more below]
- Series: What If Essays
- Author: Cowley, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 042518613X
- Language: English
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Food: A Culinary History
$35.00 Add to cartWhen did we first serve meals at regular hours? Why did we begin using individual plates and utensils to eat? When did “cuisine” become a concept and how did we come to judge food by its method of pre
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Flandrin, Jean-Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 023111155X
- Language: English
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The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-1950
$27.99 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century–five decades that transformed America–from the author of Only Yesterday.
During the first fifty years of the twenti- Author: Allen, Frederick Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1504068238
- Language: English
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The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
$37.92 Add to cartThis fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of … [more below]
- Author: Lent, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887596
- Language: English
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Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality
$22.50 Add to cartA concise overview of 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity, from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Vi… [more below]
- Author: Sherry, Karen A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1911282999
- Language: English
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Attack at Dawn: Reliving the Battle of Narvik in World War II
$19.99 Add to cartOn March 1, 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of Norway. Having swept across Europe at a terrifying pace, the Nazi assault on Scandinavia was designed to secure the valuable source of iron ore b… [more below]
- Author: Cope, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: April 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1909477974
- Language: English
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Gay Pioneers: How Drummer Magazine Shaped Gay Popular Culture 1965-1999
$29.95 Add to cartThis Leather Origin Story of investigative journalism is an eyewitness oral history about a soon-to-be-lost generation of a once-important subculture of gay pioneers. In our leather archetribe, Drumme
- Series: Eyewitness Drummer #4
- Author: Fritscher, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 572
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1890834173
- Language: English
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Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
$34.95 Add to cartThe stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl” of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the … [more below]
- Author: Buhle, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: November 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1844675254
- Language: English
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The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century users… [more below]
- Author: Clayton, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1619024721
- Language: English
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We Are as Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
$30.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, … [more below]
- Author: Daloz, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1610392256
- Language: English
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Life After Manzanar
$28.00 Read moreFrom the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement” the relatively unexamined period wh… [more below]
- Author: Hirahara, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1597144002
- Language: English
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life
$26.00 Read moreAn insightful account of how medieval people experienced time.
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical–from creation thr- Series: Medieval Lives
- Author: Adler, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1789146798
- Language: English
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Alguien Habló de Nosotros / Someone Spoke of Us
$17.95 Read more«Se puede ser un fil?logo magistral y al mismo tiempo escribir como los ?ngeles. Irene Vallejo riza el rizo de la comunicaci?n hasta convertir su di?logo con el lector en una fiesta literaria. … [more below]
- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073826230
- Language: Spanish
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Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother’s Secrets
$27.00 Read moreBlending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story.
“Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark- Author: Wills, Clair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 374611866
- Language: English
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Nebraska Roots
$15.95 Add to cartIn Nebraska Roots, Leah Lambert presents the story of her own evolution from sheltered child to self-aware young woman.
Throughout the book, Lambert weaves in historical references along with some ghos
- Author: Lambert, Leah Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886792225
- Language: English
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Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
$20.00 Add to cart“Fascinating.”–Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian
“Richly detailed and frequently illuminating.”–Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) “Excellent.”–Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best of the Week Pic- Author: Jay, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276095
- Language: English
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A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603
$19.95 Add to cartThe Compendium of Common Knowedge (1558-1603) offers insight into ordinary lives-both common and noble-in the England of Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare. In this little book you’ll find notes on Eli… [more below]
- Author: Secara, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: June 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0981840108
- Language: English
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
$20.00 Add to cartMore than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in th… [more below]
- Author: Webb, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0767916891
- Language: English
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1215
$20.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Danny Danziger and medieval expert John Gillingham comes a vivid look at the signing of the Magna Carta and how this event illuminates one of the most compelling and romantic p… [more below]
- Author: Danziger, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743257782
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia: Volume 6
$24.95 Add to cartAn expansive guide for resistance and solidarity across this storied region.
Richmond and Central Virginia are a historic epicenter of America’s racialized history. This alternative guidebook foregro- Series: People’s Guide
- Author: Ooten, Melissa Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0520344162
- Language: English
