Social History
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Disability and Empire: Class, US Imperialism, and the Struggle for Disability Justice
$17.95 Add to cartDisability and Empire: Class, US Imperialism, and the Struggle for Disability Justice aims to bring visibility to the liberation struggle of people with disabilities, adding an internationalist and cl
- Author: Chediac, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 28 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988260288
- Language: English
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Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies–from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High… [more below]
- Author: Handy, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1501181173
- 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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Hope and Joy: A Bridge Across the Divide
$9.99 Add to cartDiscover the Unifying Strength of Hope: A Beacon for Equity and Reconciliation Amidst Societal Divides. Harness the Power of Positivity for a Brighter Future.
In the swirling tempest of our modern worl
- Author: Melhado, Lolita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: January 24 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822965904
- Language: English
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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
$19.99 Add to cartIn his best-selling book The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein demolished the de facto segregation myth that black and white Americans live separately by choice, providing “the most forceful argument ev… [more below]
- Author: Rothstein, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096179
- Language: English
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The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
$12.99 Add to cartDrawn from his New York Times bestseller A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn’s The Other Civil War offers the historian and activist’s view of the social and civil background of the A
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 006207900X
- Language: English
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Texas: An American History
$35.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today
When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to c- Author: Johnson, Benjamin Heber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300226721
- Language: English
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The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place
$30.00 Add to cart*Named a Best Book of 2024 by FT*
From the Edgar Award-winning author of The Haunting of Alma Fielding, the tale of two journalists competing to solve the notorious Christie murders in postwar London- Author: Summerscale, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0593653637
- Language: English
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Europe Without Borders: A History
$35.00 Read moreThe contested creation of free movement–for people and goods–in the Schengen area of Europe
Europe is a place of free movement among nations–or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and tod- Author: Stanley-Becker, Isaac
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0691261768
- 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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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
$20.00 Add to cartA “masterly” (Economist), prize-winning, internationally bestselling history of books in the ancient world
“Exquisite. . . . Beautifully translated into English by Charlotte Whittle, who is able to co- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593312562
- Language: English
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The World of Lore: Dreadful Places
$18.99 Add to cartCaptivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark, featuring stories from the podcast Lore–now a streaming television series–including “Echoes,” “Withering Heights,” and “… [more below]
- Series: World of Lore
- Author: Mahnke, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1524798045
- Language: English
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Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
$35.00 Add to cartHistorian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire
From plebeians refusing- Author: Bond, Sarah E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273142
- Language: English
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Humans: A Monstrous History
$29.95 Add to cartA history of how humans have created monsters out of one another–from our deepest fears–and what these monsters tell us about humanity’s present and future.
Monsters are central to how we think abo- Author: Davies, Surekha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0520388097
- Language: English
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
$37.50 Read moreAn irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.
From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawn- Author: Palmer, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: March 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0226837971
- 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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Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English
$24.95 Add to cartA spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms–for good or ill
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America–from French fries to Awes- Author: Yagoda, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691262292
- Language: English
