Social History
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
$20.00 Add to cartSaidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for
- Author: Hartman, Saidiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021586
- Language: English
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
$35.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
The story of art collective Gran Fury–which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda–offers lessons in love a- Author: Lowery, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1645036588
- Language: English
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”–Dwight Garner, The New York Ti
- Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 0593230256
- Language: English
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Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation
$35.99 Add to cartA master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America’s first “crime of the century”–from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial–and its aftermath.
In December 1832 a fa- Author: Dorsey, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0197633099
- Language: English
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
$22.99 Add to cartThe award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the cl- Author: Chauncey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699211
- Language: English
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Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat — An American History
$32.95 Add to cartDoes God have a recipe?
“Holy Food is a titanic feat of research and a fascinating exploration of American faith and culinary rites. Christina Ward is the perfect guide – generous, wise, and ecumenical
- Author: Ward, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1934170941
- Language: English
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
$34.99 Add to cartThe classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty
Before there was money, there was debt.
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Mon… [more below]- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 161219933X
- Language: English
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The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History & Handbook
$19.99 Read moreA joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community’s development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring 100 full-color illustrations.
Compiled and designed by
- Author: Molesso, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 006294455X
- Language: English
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City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, Its Popes, and Its People
$32.00 Read moreFrom a bold new historian comes a vibrant history of Rome as seen through its most influential persona throughout the centuries: the pope.
Rome is a city of echoes, where the voice of the people has c- Author: Wärnberg, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639365214
- Language: English
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An Edible History of Humanity
$18.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses charts the enlightening history of humanity through the foods we eat.
More than simply sustenance, food historically has been a kind of te- Author: Standage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 3, 2010
- ISBN10: 0802719910
- Language: English
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
$25.00 Add to cartA “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August
*Lawrence Wright, author o- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: July 12 1987
- ISBN10: 0345349571
- Language: English
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society
$17.99 Add to cartWhat makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world a
- Author: Janega, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074469
- Language: English
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A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft
$12.95 Add to cartThis balanced account of the Salem Village witchcraft trials, including the events leading up to them, was first printed in 1702. The book was written by Reverend John Hale, the pastor of the church i
- Author: Hale, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: March 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 1733593713
- Language: English
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The Chalice and the Blade
$18.99 Add to cartNow with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevant book.
“May be the most significant work published in all our lifetimes.” – LA Weekly
The C
- Author: Eisler, Riane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 21, 1988
- ISBN10: 0062502891
- Language: English
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California (a History)
$23.00 Add to cart“A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Starr, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 081297753X
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
$35.00 Read moreThe never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him today.
2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of the publication of Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies,- Author: Laoutaris, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363262
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement
$16.95 Read moreThe beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and they did not live in monasteries. They practiced a remarkable way of living in… [more below]
- Author: Swan, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 162919008X
- Language: English
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Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
$20.00 Add to cartA crucial guide to life before–and after–Tinder, IVF, and robots.
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of cre- Author: Spar, Debora L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798736
- Language: English
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Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal
$27.50 Read moreWith a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world–served one dish at a time. Now in paperback.
“There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseu- Author: Viestad, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146747
- Language: English
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A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
$32.95 Read moreA blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.
Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, ori- Author: Muthukrishna, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 026204837X
- Language: English
