Social History
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
$20.00 Read moreA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets
In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sug- Author: Mintz, Sidney W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140092331
- Language: English
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Whose Language Is English?
$28.00 Add to cartAn exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization
Whose language is English? Although we often think o- Author: Kiaer, Jieun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300264054
- Language: English
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Pinnacle: The Lost Paradise of Rasta
$26.95 Add to cartIN 1932, A JAMAICAN MAN NAMED LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL began leading nonviolent protests in Kingston, Jamaica, against British colonial rule. While history books rightly credit Mahatma Gandhi and Marti… [more below]
- Author: Howell, Bill Blade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141722
- Language: English
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 1 (Loa #376): 1876 – 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
$37.50 Read moreThis collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I
A vital resource for- Author: Steptoe, Tyina L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 700
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537660
- Language: English
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Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis
$29.99 Add to cartAn urgent investigation of student debt in America revealing the corrupt systems, rotten policies, and bad actors that have created a $1.7 trillion crisis.
College costs more today than ever and is wor
- Author: Liebenthal, Ryann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0358353963
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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J. D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly: Think Twice Before Calling (All) Coalfield Appalachians Racists, Sexists, and Ignoramuses
$26.99 Add to cartDiscover the Point of View of a Real Mountaineer
For far too many decades, the residents of the Appalachian Mountains have faced the ridicule, prejudice, and misunderstanding from those outside the reg
- Author: Kilgore, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1733364420
- Language: English
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Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time
$30.00 Add to cartA renowned jewelry expert recounts her career working with nature’s most extraordinary treasures–gemstones–and traces these rare jewels from ancient Egyptian records through the high-stakes auctions… [more below]
- Author: Molesworth, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593500881
- Language: English
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Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartFor readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the MAGA Republican strategy to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and subvert American democracy–and prescribe a plan for be… [more below]
- Author: Michaels, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1668023237
- Language: English
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The Korean Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Legends
$25.95 Read moreThe myths of Korea may seem a complex and intriguing mix of ghosts, spirits, and superstition, but they form the bedrock of one of the most vibrant global cultures today. In the past few decades, Sout
- Series: Myths #8
- Author: Fenkl, Heinz Insu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027668
- Language: English
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
$18.99 Add to cartAn unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled
The promise that you can
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0063028018
- Language: English
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Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
$27.99 Read moreThe chicken can fly only a few metres but – somehow – this unlikely evolutionary descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex has conquered the world. Earth is now home to more than twenty billion chickens, at lea
- Author: Coulthard, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1801104476
- Language: English
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Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits
$27.00 Read moreAn entertaining journey into the booming world of vintage spirits, the quirky and intensely passionate “dusty hunters” who chase them, and the history they reveal, from an acclaimed author and journal… [more below]
- Author: Goldfarb, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1419766791
- Language: English
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The Aztec Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Stories and Legends
$25.95 Add to cartFrom their remote origins as migrating tribes to their rise as builders of empire, the Aztecs were among the most dynamic and feared peoples of ancient Mexico, with a belief system that was one of the
- Series: Myths #6
- Author: Townsend, Camilla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0500025533
- Language: English
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A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family
$32.95 Add to cartA Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery’s history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno’s absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors’ slave-holding past and lead
- Author: Bruno, Debra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1501776568
- Language: English
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Combing Through the White House: Hair and Its Shocking Impact on the Politics, Private Lives, and Legacies of the Presidents
$24.99 Read moreDiscover a fascinating and novel look at the U.S. presidents, the first families, and American history–all through the lens of hair. With meticulous detail, engaging storytelling, and full-color visu
- Author: Pappas, Theodore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1400246156
- Language: English
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Faithful Unto Death: Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion
$35.00 Add to cartWhen a little dog named Cherry died in 1881, his owners arranged for a grave in a nearby gatekeeper’s garden in London. At this time, the idea that a pet, even one that had lived as a family member, m… [more below]
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 050002751X
- Language: English
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Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
$35.00 Add to cartOur era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a “tradwife” is gaining a
- Author: Davis, Rebecca L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1631496573
- Language: English
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Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
$33.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched–by an accl… [more below]
- Author: Beck, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593240227
- Language: English
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Gender History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreAntoinette Burton argues that gender history is hiding in plain sight, at work everywhere we look.
This volume introduces the field of gender history–its origins, development, reception, recalibration… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Burton, Antoinette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0197587011
- Language: English
