Social History
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Merpeople: A Human History
$17.00 Add to cartA wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated history of mermaids and mermen from the classics to cosplay.
People have been fascinated by merpeople and merfolk since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer- Author: Scribner, Vaughn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 178914938X
- Language: English
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America’s Hidden History LP
$28.99 Add to cartKenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don’t Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the
- Author: Davis, Kenneth C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0061562882
- Language: English
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Beyond Blue and White: The Hidden History of Delftware and the Women Behind the Iconic Ceramic
$29.95 Add to cartAn absorbing work of cultural history that reveals the stories behind one of the world’s most coveted and beloved ceramic.
When over seventy-five pieces of rare and intriguing 17th and 18th century De- Author: Wheeler Brown, Genevieve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368914
- Language: English
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Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force
It’s the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. “You’re n- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Passmore, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593316126
- Language: English
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Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life
$28.99 Add to cartAs heard on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Start the Week’
‘Brilliantly original . . . endlessly fascinating’ – Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen
‘An intricate cultural history . . . thought-provoking’ – The Sunday Time- Author: Jenkins, Tiffany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1529034167
- Language: English
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Enduring Legacies: People of the 1926 Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster
$26.95 Add to cartOn November 3, 1926, catastrophe struck the Barnes-Hecker mine near the small town of Ishpeming in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In less than fifteen minutes, the mine caved in when a torrent of mud, wa
- Author: Tippett, Mary V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: June 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896560302
- Language: English
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The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food–Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes
$18.99 Add to cartAn Eater Best Food Book of 2023
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers
A Smithsonian Best Food Book of 2023- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 163973631X
- Language: English
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The Hard Work of Hope: A Memoir
$23.95 Add to cartThe Hard Work of Hope takes you into the heady days of 1960s and 1970s activism, chronicling the hopes and strategies of the young people who created the movements that rocked the country.
Michael Ansa
- Author: Ansara, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501782142
- Language: English
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Chemistry 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Chemistry’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Add to cartChemistry: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisfying your scientific curiosity and helping you to understand the biggest concepts in chemistry in concise, 100-wo… [more below]
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0593961625
- Language: English
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Futurism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
From the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. As one of Western- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Merjian, Ara H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192871005
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
$19.00 Add to cartIn the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679753346
- Language: English
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The Street Children of Dickens’s London
$24.95 Read moreMany poor and vulnerable people lived on the streets of Victorian cities. They were the victims of rapid industrialisation, a government policy of non-intervention regarding social issues and the hars… [more below]
- Author: Amy, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1848688466
- Language: English
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What Happened to Millennials: In Defense of a Generation
$28.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning journalist, a reflective, smart, and deeply reported look at the millennial generation that draws on the experiences of five diverse individuals and explores where we go from her… [more below]
- Author: Wells, Charlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1419770810
- Language: English
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Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
$46.43 Add to cartSlaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New Yor… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Monica L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0822346036
- Language: English
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Division Street: America
$21.99 Add to cartA landmark reissue of Studs Terkel’s classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast
“Remarkable. . . … [more below]- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979136
- Language: English
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Uproar!: Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
$19.99 Read more**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalized it, by one of the UK’s most exciting young historians**
‘Alice Loxton is the star of her generation … t- Author: Loxton, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1785789554
- Language: English
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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
$17.95 Add to cartA masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer–from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination–… [more below]
- Author: Howsare, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1646222504
- Language: English
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
$23.00 Add to cartFlapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.
The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her- Author: Zeitz, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 1400080541
- Language: English
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The Chess Revolution: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age
$29.99 Add to cartOne of the world’s top chess journalists in the world explores why, after 1,500 years of existence, chess has never been more relevant.
Chess is not just one of the greatest games ever devised. It ha- Author: Doggers, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1454959231
- Language: English
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The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War
$34.00 Add to cartA spirited history of the English country house in its golden age
For generations, the great palaces of Britain were home to living histories, noble families that had reigned for centuries. But by t- Author: Tinniswood, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 154160279X
- Language: English
