Social History
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The Dublin Pub: A Social and Cultural History
$31.99 Read moreExplores the rich social, cultural, and historical life of Dublin’s public houses across centuries.
‘Here is a history of publand, yes, but here is a moment in time as well.’
For centuries, the public h… [more below]
- Author: Fallon, Donal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1835940242
- Language: English
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Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America
$32.99 Add to cartIn 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear–bound by clothing scraps, stuffed with sawdust, and given button eyes with a sad, longing expression–in the back room of their Brooklyn candy
- Author: Kimmel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105283
- Language: English
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City
$31.99 Add to cartNurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was onc
- Author: Brown, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105836
- Language: English
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Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. II
$40.00 Add to cartIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on s… [more below]
- Series: Myth of the Machine #2
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 20 1974
- ISBN10: 0156716100
- Language: English
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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
$21.99 Add to cart“A remarkable new history” (David Wallace-Wells, New York Times Magazine) of a decade aflame–and what we can learn from its embers
From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any- Author: Bevins, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1541788982
- Language: English
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Born: A History of Childbirth
$29.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of childbirth filled with medical, political, and social triumphs, Born is the story of how we give birth set against the female struggle to govern their ability to reproduce.… [more below]
- Author: Inglis, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639365885
- Language: English
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Descendants: The Divided Lineage of a Louisiana Creole Family
$19.95 Add to cartBased on extensive genealogical and archival research, Descendants traces evolving attitudes and laws regarding racial identity and relationships in New Orleans over 250 years through the lives of de… [more below]
- Author: Durel, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 195956921X
- Language: English
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Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2025 Gotham Book Prize
Ian Frazier’s magnum opus: a love song to New York City’s most heterogeneous and alive borough.
Ian Frazier, one of our best observers and describers, has been wal- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390591
- 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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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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The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
$19.95 Add to cart*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE*
A revealing and unique portrait of Victorian life as told through the discovery of one woman’s textile scrapbook. In 1838, a young woman was given a diar- Author: Strasdin, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366911
- Language: English
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
$23.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 164503660X
- Language: English
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
$18.99 Add to cartParis Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended r- Author: Kelleher, Katy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982179368
- Language: English
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 “A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail- Author: Friss, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593299922
- Language: English
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Hip-Hop Is History
$30.00 Add to cartThis is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the c- Author: Questlove
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614075
- Language: English
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National Geographic Book of Magic and the Occult: A Visual History
$35.00 Add to cartBlending the allure of the supernatural with keen historical insights and more than 500 photos, this enchanting chronicle of magic around the world will bewitch skeptics and true believers alike.
Magi- Author: National Geographic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 142622401X
- Language: English
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Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
$29.95 Add to cartJoe Mulhall uncovers how music has shaped resistance movements across the globe, from Irish protest songs to Apartheid South Africa to the artists in Ukraine today.
While the global history of the dic- Author: Mulhall, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1804441163
- Language: English
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Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
$35.00 Add to cartA cello has no language, yet it possesses a vocabulary wide enough to tell, bear witness, and make connections across time and continents–a feat brought to life in this brilliant new book.
In this l- Author: Kennedy, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367500
- Language: English
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Clutter: An Untidy History
$16.95 Read more“I’m sitting on the floor in my mother’s house, surrounded by stuff.” So begins Jennifer Howard’s Clutter, an expansive assessment of our relationship to the things that share and shape our lives. Spa… [more below]
- Author: Howard, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1953368093
- Language: English
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Bohemians: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collap… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weir, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0197538290
- Language: English
