Social History
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The Boston Massacre: A Family History
$21.99 Add to cart“Historical accuracy and human understanding require coming down from the high ground and seeing people in all their complexity. Serena Zabin’s rich and highly enjoyable book does just that.”–Kathlee
- Author: Zabin, Serena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063275899
- Language: English
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The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends
$25.95 Add to cartThis is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. While many around the world are familiar with some aspects of Chinese myth–through Chinese New Year festivities
- Series: Myths #5
- Author: Liu, Tao Tao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0500252386
- Language: English
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Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Herman, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0063095688
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome
$26.90 Add to cart“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome–“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire” (Publishers Weekly).
Most historians, both ancient- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 30 2004
- ISBN10: 1565849426
- Language: English
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
$26.00 Add to cartIn 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by liv… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 146966402X
- Language: English
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The Royal Wardrobe
$28.99 Add to cart‘I loved this book!’ – Alison Weir
‘[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes’ – Daily Mail
‘A sparkling history’ – Dr Kate Strasdin Peek into the wardrobes of history’s most fashionable royal- Author: Harte, Rosie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1472297466
- Language: English
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Free to Obey: How the Nazis Invented Modern Management
$17.00 Read moreWhat if the rules of modern capitalism were written during the Third Reich?
Reinhard Hn (1904-2000) was a commander of the SS, one of Nazi Germany’s most brilliant legal minds, and an archetype of t
- Author: Chapoutot, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1609458044
- Language: English
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks–how they start, how they spread, the science that l… [more below]
- Author: Kang, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1523513292
- Language: English
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When Brooklyn Was Queer: A History
$20.00 Add to cartThe never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.
***An ALA GLBT Round Table Over the Rainbow 2019 Top Ten Selection***
***NAMED O- Author: Ryan, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 1250621402
- Language: English
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Tavistock Institute: Social Engineering the Masses
$24.95 Add to cartThe real story behind the Tavistock Institute and its network, from a popular conspiracy expert
The Tavistock Institute, in Sussex, England, describes itself as a nonprofit charity that applies social- Author: Estulin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 163424043X
- Language: English
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Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
$20.00 Read moreHalloween has spread around the world, yet its associations with death and the supernatural as well as its inevitable commercialization have made it one of our most puzzling holidays. How did it becom… [more below]
- Author: Morton, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1789141583
- Language: English
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Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It
$29.99 Read moreNEXT BIG IDEA CLUB’s November 2023 Must Read Books – LIBRARY JOURNAL EDITOR PICK – “This vital and accessible study is a must-read for anyone concerned with workplace equality.”–Publishers Weekly (St
- Author: Wingfield, Adia Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 006307981X
- Language: English
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Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States
$27.00 Read moreAn expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.
Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1
- Author: Baker, Zoe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1849354987
- Language: English
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The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis
$32.50 Read moreIn March 1791 Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton shocked the western frontier when he proposed a domestic excise tax on whiskey to balance America’s national debt. The law, known colloquially as th
- Author: Crytzer, Brady J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1594164002
- Language: English
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The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
$29.95 Add to cartBefore the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony–before even Lizzie Borden–there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media c
- Author: Hortis, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05, 2024
- ISBN10: 1639363912
- Language: English
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History: The Definitive Visual Guide
$60.00 Add to cartThis lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.
Charting human endeavor from every angle, SI History ch- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 620
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0744073731
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States
$45.00 Add to cartTHE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“A wonderful, splendid book–a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0062693018
- Language: English
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Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal
$21.00 Add to cartWith 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147824
- Language: English
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
$18.00 Add to cartAn entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome
In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common–murder. Romulus killed Rem- Author: Southon, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1419753061
- Language: English
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
$29.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English–and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers
Old Eng- Author: Videen, Hana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691232741
- Language: English
