Social History
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Winter in Taos
$29.95 Add to cart“Winter in Taos” starkly contrasts Luhan’s memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust’s “Remembrances of Things Past.” They follow her life through three failed marriages, numero… [more below]
- Author: Luhan, Mabel Dodge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 15 2007
- ISBN10: 163293194X
- Language: English
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The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France (1891-1909)
$26.00 Add to cartOne of the earliest global Human Rights campaigns was launched to defend the rights of anarchists from state repression.
Anarchist bombings in theaters and cafes in the 1890s provoked mass arrests, th
- Author: Bray, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355142
- Language: English
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Narrative of William W. Brown
$5.99 Add to cartOriginally published in 1847, William W. Brown offers a first-person narrative that details his enslavement and the daring escape that ultimately led to his freedom. It’s a captivating tale and testam
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Brown, William Wells
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: May 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1513278657
- Language: English
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
$19.99 Add to cartA “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Marion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1668002434
- Language: English
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A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603
$19.95 Add to cartThe Compendium of Common Knowedge (1558-1603) offers insight into ordinary lives-both common and noble-in the England of Queen Elizabeth I and Shakespeare. In this little book you’ll find notes on Eli… [more below]
- Author: Secara, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: June 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0981840108
- Language: English
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History of American Holidays
$12.95 Add to cartThis book reveals the overall connection between American holidays, history, culture, and patriotism. Each chapter presents an interesting home-spun account of the holiday’s unique history and its tie
- Author: Bensch, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 06 2021
- ISBN10: 173596736X
- Language: English
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Happiness: A History
$20.00 Add to cartToday, human beings tend to think of happiness as a natural right. But they haven’t always felt this way. For the ancient Greeks, happiness meant virtue. For the Romans, it implied prosperity and divi… [more below]
- Author: McMahon, Darrin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 18 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142893
- Language: English
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A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
$18.00 Read moreIntellectually engaging and deliciously readable, a stereotype-defying history of how one of the most recognisable symbols of Italian cuisine and national identity is the product of centuries of encou
- Author: Montanari, Massimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1609457099
- Language: English
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Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
$20.00 Read moreHistory is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals–it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere ha
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Working Class History, Working Class His
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1629638234
- Language: English
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At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
$19.99 Add to cartBringing light to the shadows of history through a “rich weave of citation and archival evidence” (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by
- Author: Ekirch, A. Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329011
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England
$20.00 Add to cartAn entertaining, accessible guide to Elizabethan England–the latest in the Time Traveler’s Guide series
Acclaimed historian Ian Mortimer shows readers that the past is not just something to be studie- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 014312563X
- Language: English
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Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
$28.95 Add to cartFrom the adolescent thrill of getting a driver’s license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the c… [more below]
- Author: Nichols, Nancy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365591
- Language: English
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Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers
$35.99 Read moreA unique study into both the professional gamblers aboard Titanic and their individual backgrounds and fates
During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoki- Author: Behe, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1803992387
- Language: English
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Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
$25.00 Add to cartA rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some ju… [more below]
- Author: Kipen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0812984439
- Language: English
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Anarchist Popular Power: Dissident Labor and Armed Struggle in Uruguay, 1956-76
$23.00 Read moreA Cold War-era study of Latin American anarchism in action.
Araiza Kokinis’s study of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation (FAU) broadens our understanding of the Cold War-era political landscape beyond- Author: Araiza Kokinis, Troy Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1849355002
- Language: English
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A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Etymologicon, a lively and fascinating exploration of how, throughout history, each civilization has found a way to celebrate, or to control, the ete… [more below]
- Author: Forsyth, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0525575375
- Language: English
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We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for t
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Clay, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639729
- Language: English
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
$20.00 Add to cart“All disasters are in some sense man-made.”
Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disaste- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297393
- Language: English
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974–The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
$19.99 Read more“An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in Amer
- Author: Brownstein, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062899228
- Language: English
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
$17.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 132406613X
- Language: English
