Social History
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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 Read more“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
$18.99 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 Read moreThe 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
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Voices from the Outer Banks
$12.95 Read moreJohn F. Blair, Publisher, continues its Real Voices, Real History(TM) series with Voices from the Outer Banks. This volume presents the actual words of the people who lived the uncommonly rich history
- Series: Real Voices, Real History
- Author: Kirk, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0895876442
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution
$21.95 Add to cartThe voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies’ transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. This historical account of the American Revolution tells the story … [more below]
- Author: Werner, Emmy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597972681
- Language: English
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The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
$22.95 Add to cartThe shocking and extraordinary story of the most conniving, manipulative Tudor family you’ve never heard of–the dashing and daring House of Dudley.
Each Tudor monarch made their name with a Dudley by- Author: Paul, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366121
- Language: English
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The English and Their History
$29.00 Add to cartNamed a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist
The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before- Author: Tombs, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1101873361
- Language: English
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
$25.99 Add to cartIn a series of mock lesson plans and a program of study Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking expos of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in The Impuni
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420315
- Language: English
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Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers
$35.00 Add to cartThe films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due in Hollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the silent era through Black Panther, with striking photos and an engrossing histo… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Bogle, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0762491418
- Language: English
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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Featured in the PBS documentary The Harvey Girls: Opportunity Bound
The legendary life and entrepreneurial vision of Fred Harvey helped shape American culture and history fo… [more below]- Author: Fried, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0553383485
- Language: English
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
$22.00 Add to cart“A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.”–Chris Hayes
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measure- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 022627618X
- Language: English
