Social History
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
$30.00 Read moreControl is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as
- Author: Rutherford, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035609
- Language: English
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The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbu- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dixon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0198818297
- Language: English
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Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous But Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
$22.00 Add to cartA lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history’s most famous figures, including Shakespeare, Queen Victoria, and the Beatles, from debut author (and viral historical Ti… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593476042
- Language: English
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The Roma: A Traveling History
$27.99 Add to cartA unique, deeply personal portrait of the nomadic Romani people and their on-going journey that sheds new light on their history, where they have traveled and settled, and what it means to be Romani t
- Author: Potter, Madeline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0063337665
- Language: English
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Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History
$30.00 Add to cartA bracing, accessible history of white American liberals–and why it’s time to change the conversation about them.
If there’s one thing most Americans can agree on, it’s that everyone hates white lib- Author: Schultz, Kevin M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226824365
- Language: English
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Empire of the Elite: Inside Cond? Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America
$29.99 Add to cartFrom a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Cond? Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through… [more below]
- Author: Grynbaum, Michael M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1668003910
- Language: English
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You’ll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
$19.95 Read more“Zug’s wry, clear-eyed history of American marriage shines a new light on an old institution. An absolute pleasure.” — Liz Scheier, author of Never Simple
An illuminating and thought-provoking exami- Author: Zug, Marcia A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1586423967
- Language: English
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Fatherhood: A History of Love and Power
$30.00 Add to cartA bold and original history of fatherhood, exploring its invention and transformation from the Bronze Age to the present through a collective portrait of emblematic fathers who have helped to define h… [more below]
- Author: Sedgewick, Augustine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1668046296
- Language: English
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Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds
$26.99 Add to cartFrom Stone Age lands that slipped beneath the English Channel to the rapid inundation of New Orleans, Gareth E. Rees explores stories of flooded places from the past – and those disappearing before ou… [more below]
- Author: Rees, Gareth E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1783967692
- Language: English
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Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump
$32.00 Add to cartWhat happens when Americans lose faith in their religious institutions–and politicians fill the void? From the Puritans to Donald Trump, this sweeping history will change your understanding of the fo… [more below]
- Author: Worthen, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 593729005
- Language: English
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Hip-Hop Is History
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390540
- Language: English
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The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s countercultur… [more below]
- Author: McNally, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 306835665
- Language: English
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We All Want to Change the World: My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today
$30.00 Add to cartA sweeping look back at the protest movements that changed America from activist and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with personal and historical insights into lessons they can teach us today
For many- Author: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 593735102
- Language: English
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The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cart- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Huq, Aziz Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 04 2024
- ISBN10: 197657427
- Language: English
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TAVERN TALK Just One More!
$28.95 Add to cartAuthors Bobby & Sandy Orr took us on a fun uplifting journey through the neighborhoods of Springfield Illinois in their first book Tavern Talk published by Outskirts Press in 2019 documenting the valu… [more below]
- Author: Orr, Robert J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1977219357
- Language: English
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Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
$18.99 Add to cart“Even if read while sober, Andy Lechter’s Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, is a near-transcendent experience.” -New York Times Book Review
Since its rediscovery only fifty years ago, t
- Author: Letcher, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0060828293
- Language: English
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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
$19.99 Add to cartA vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon Schama
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063308517
- Language: English
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The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade
$50.00 Add to cartA first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce.
We may think of “globalism” as a recent development but its or- Author: Nugent, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2024
- ISBN10: 168458244X
- Language: English
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The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism
$24.00 Read moreA sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential… [more below]
- Author: Nagourney, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0451499379
- Language: English
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The Essential Kerner Commission Report
$17.95 Read moreThe Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book–a dramatic, o
- Author: Cobb, Jelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498924
- Language: English
