Social History
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Paris Reborn
$26.00 Add to cartIn the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol駮n III and his unstoppable accomplice, Baron Haussmann. Thi
- Author: Kirkland, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042682
- Language: English
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
$17.95 Read moreControl is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as
- Author: Rutherford, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 132406613X
- Language: English
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
$20.00 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of th… [more below]
- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0770437087
- Language: English
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Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
$27.00 Read moreA rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the w
- Author: Feltman, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1645037169
- Language: English
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Tudor England: A History
$20.00 Read moreA compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
- Author: Wooding, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273320
- Language: English
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The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
$27.95 Add to cart“This is a brilliant book by a brilliant man. A magician with perfect taste. Thank God I met him. He is gold dust!” — Elton John
From the Beatles to Elton John and the Rolling Stones, Tony King has be… [more below]- Author: King, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0571371930
- Language: English
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Legendary Children: The First Decade of Rupaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
$18.00 Add to cartA definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo
NPR’s Best Books of the Year 202- Author: Fitzgerald, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134620
- Language: English
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O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner
$19.95 Read moreMost Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry by British navy ships; seeing the Stars and
- Author: Clague, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064471
- Language: English
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The Art of Ectoplasm: Encounters with Winnipeg’s Ghost Photographs
$34.95 Add to cartThe legacy of the Hamiltons’ psychic archive
In the wake of the First World War and the 1918-19 pandemic, the world was left grappling with a profound sense of loss. It was against this backdrop that
- Author: Keshavjee, Serena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1772840378
- Language: English
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Camp!: The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World
$24.95 Add to cartBy the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapable part of popular culture has also played an importa… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1804440329
- Language: English
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Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O: American Food and the Cold War, 1947-1959
$33.95 Add to cartAn “all-you-can-eat” tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.
- Author: Aldrich, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 143849307X
- Language: English
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
$35.99 Add to cartIstanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.
From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names–Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanb- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0306921995
- Language: English
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The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation
$20.99 Add to cartThere is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples–the story of the M tis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans
Their story begins in
- Author: Teillet, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1443450138
- Language: English
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The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing
$19.95 Add to cartAt the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridg
- Series: Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce #24
- Author: Roberts, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1623498201
- Language: English
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War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism
$34.99 Add to cartAmericans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical more or less interchangeably without understanding their place in American history. Kevin Slack describes the distinct aims of the movem… [more below]
- Author: Slack, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773030
- Language: English
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
$27.95 Add to cartThe Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, cr
- Series: Princeton Classics #28
- Author: Palmer, R. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175926
- Language: English
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The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
$21.99 Add to cart“Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0062079611
- Language: English
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Wasson, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0063115441
- Language: English
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
$25.00 Add to cart“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” –Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
“The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully writte- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 125082964X
- Language: English
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Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World’s Past and America’s Future
$30.99 Add to cartThe melting pot has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens through most of America’s history, yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated and racist. Instead, they advocate m… [more below]
- Author: Heycke, Jens Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773197
- Language: English
