Social History
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Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History
$19.95 Read more‘A love letter to queer London which reminds us that although we’re not always in the mainstream telling of history, we have always been here’–Nathaniel Hall, playwright, and actor in It’s A Sin
‘Dan- Author: Glass, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0745346219
- Language: English
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
$30.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated romp with America’s Gilded Age leisure class–and those angling to join it
Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States’ population doubled, acco- Series: Washington Mews Books
- Author: Tichi, Cecelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1479826855
- Language: English
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The Jekyll Island Club
$23.99 Add to cartIn the late 19th century, some of America’s wealthiest families joined together to form the Jekyll Island Club.
Operating for over 50 years, from 1888 until 1942, the Club attracted an elite clientele,
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Bagwell, Tyler E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 1998
- ISBN10: 0738517968
- Language: English
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Wit and Wisdom: The Forgotten Literary Life of New England Villages
$25.95 Read moreThe lyceum movement gained momentum in the decades preceding the Civil War, presenting members with the opportunity to participate in literary life and engage with the issues of the day. While urban
- Author: Radner, Joan Newlon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1625347383
- Language: English
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Reckoning with Race: An Unfinished Journey
$26.00 Read moreReckoning with Race is a firsthand account of race relations in America from award-winning journalist, author, and former CNN commentator, Rick Allen. Allen’s collection of essays shows the progress o… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1637631529
- Language: English
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American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
$35.00 Read moreThe first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation
“A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis.”–James Oakes, New York Re- Author: Kelley, Sean M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300263597
- Language: English
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The Immortal Game: A History of Chess
$18.00 Add to cartA fresh, engaging look at how 32 carved pieces on a Chess board forever changed our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain.
Chess is the most enduring and universal game in history. He- Author: Shenk, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 1400034086
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$0.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times “A fantastic examination of what became the mall … envision[ing] a more meaningful pu- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1635576024
- Language: English
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The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability
$35.00 Add to cartA fascinating blend of history and ecological economics that uncovers the medieval precedents for modern concepts of sustainable living.
In The Green Ages, historian Annette Kehnel explores sustainab- Author: Kehnel, Annette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1684582431
- Language: English
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Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital
$32.50 Add to cartThe definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers
Although Greenw- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827638
- Language: English
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Born with a Tail: The Devilish Life and Wicked Times of Anton Szandor Lavey, Founder of the Church of Satan
$31.00 Add to cartA provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITH A TAIL chronicles a time when Americans welcomed a macabre showman into their living rooms via The… [more below]
- Author: Brod, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 030683331X
- Language: English
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Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat
$26.00 Read moreA cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired such love and loathing.
Rats are creatures which inspire fear and fascination in e- Author: Shute, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1399402501
- Language: English
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The Naughty Nineties: The Decade That Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web
$24.99 Add to cartFeaturing a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenu… [more below]
- Author: Friend, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 153876749X
- Language: English
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Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America
$18.00 Add to cartA new collection from one of Latin America’s most dynamic radical thinkers–in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo Galeano.
Constructing Worlds Otherwise sets itself against the recolonization of
- Author: Zibechi, Ra?l
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1849355428
- Language: English
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Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
$28.00 Read more*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography*
A vivid, deeply researched work o
*Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award*
*Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography*- Author: Stanley, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1501188526
- Language: English
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A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother’s Reckoning with the IQ Test
$27.99 Add to cartIn a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ that leads her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence.
When Pepper Stetler w
- Author: Stetler, Pepper
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1635769353
- Language: English
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Biology 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Read moreBiology: 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 biology in concise, 100-word s… [more below]
- Author: Amsen, Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0744093783
- Language: English
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Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
$22.00 Add to cartThe essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England
We tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time c- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 079530109X
- Language: English
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Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul
$29.99 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the all but forgotten though no less shocking 1979 racial tragedy that divided Greensboro, N.C., and the nation, and the grassroots activists who, in their tireless fight for ju
- Author: Shetterly, Aran Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0062858211
- Language: English
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The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
$18.00 Read moreNow featuring an updated introduction commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall
“The landmark portrait of 20th-century New York viewed through the eyes of gay New Yorkers.” -New York ObserverA
- Author: Kaiser, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147208
- Language: English
