Social History
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The Philosophy of Curry
$16.95 Read moreThere are curries on almost every continent, with a stunning diversity of flavors and textures across India alone, and many more interpretations the world over, including in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japa- Series: British Library Philosophy of
- Author: Sukhadwala, Sejal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0712354506
- Language: English
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Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
$18.00 Add to cartFew institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Post Office, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history.
Updat
- Author: Leonard, Devin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 080215901X
- Language: English
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Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
$20.00 Add to cartHistory is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals–it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere ha
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Working Class History, Working Class His
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1629638234
- Language: English
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
$29.99 Read more“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”–Boston Globe
The auth
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062938339
- Language: English
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The Everyday Life of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands
$15.99 Add to cartThere are millions of people whose ancestors originated in the Scottish Highlands, but few reliable guides about the daily lives of the people of this region, their vibrant culture, and their storied
- Author: Newton, Michael Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0971385823
- Language: English
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Inside Studio 54
$26.95 Read moreIn Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip cham… [more below]
- Author: Fleischman, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1945572574
- Language: English
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Along the Great South Bay (Illustrated Edition): From Oakdale to Babylon, the Story of a Summer Spa, 1840 to 1940
$24.95 Add to cartNearly twenty years after it was first published, Along the Great South Bay continues to be the definitive source of Great South Bay history, recounting a century in which New York’s most affluent fam… [more below]
- Author: Havemeyer, Harry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0990787001
- Language: English
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The Other Idahoans – Regular
$22.99 Add to cartFallen angels in the bawdy houses. Migrants barred from Main Street. Homesteaders driven from homesteads when August rained black storms of dust. The Other Idahoans recovers their hard-luck stories. V… [more below]
- Author: Shallat, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0990736342
- Language: English
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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
$26.95 Add to cartWith Stand by Me, Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records… [more below]
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0820356441
- Language: English
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Americans: A Collision of Histories
$23.99 Add to cartIn this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America’s different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic
- Author: Countryman, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0809015986
- Language: English
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Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun
$19.00 Read moreThe Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time.
- Author: Barrett, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0307719952
- Language: English
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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis
$22.95 Read moreEvery queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations–the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watchin… [more below]
- Author: Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1551528509
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
$24.99 Read moreBy an acclaimed historian, a sweeping history of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: a defining American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great cit… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745511
- Language: English
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Christmas
$20.00 Add to cartA critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the Christmas holiday, from the original festival through present day traditions.
Christmas has always been a magical time. Or has i- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1250190797
- Language: English
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The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years
$26.00 Add to cartAn “absolutely magnificent” book (The New Republic)–the fruit of almost two decades of study–that traces the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to … [more below]
- Author: Aries, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0394751566
- Language: English
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At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
$19.99 Add to cartBringing light to the shadows of history through a “rich weave of citation and archival evidence” (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by
- Author: Ekirch, A. Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329011
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England
$20.00 Add to cartAn entertaining, accessible guide to Elizabethan England–the latest in the Time Traveler’s Guide series
Acclaimed historian Ian Mortimer shows readers that the past is not just something to be studie- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 014312563X
- Language: English
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The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
$19.95 Add to cartA surprising look at the role of menopause in human history-and why we should change the ways we think about it
Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moo- Author: Mattern, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 069121672X
- Language: English
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The American Patriot’s Almanac: Daily Readings on America
$19.99 Add to cartRead here the storied history of these United States.
The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” They are the symbols that define the essence of th
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1595555668
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds
$20.99 Add to cartMore than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase “irrational exuberance” to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of “tulipom… [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: MacKay, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 766
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1573928917
- Language: English
