Social History
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Flappers
$34.99 Add to cartBy the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex–all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the
- Author: Mackrell, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535043
- Language: English
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Reading: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartToday many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think we know what reading is, it remains in many ways a m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jack, Belinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0198820585
- Language: English
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Crazy ’08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the perspective of 2007, the unintentional irony of Chance’s boast is manifest–these days, the question is when will the Cubs ever win a game they have to have. In October 1908, though, no one w
- Author: Murphy, Cait N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0060889381
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830
$29.95 Read moreA vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellin… [more below]
- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643138812
- Language: English
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Seven Games: A Human History
$26.95 Read moreCheckers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and
- Author: Roeder, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324003774
- Language: English
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The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
$31.18 Add to cartThe rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who provided free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March 2020, when the US- Author: Hong, Mai-Linh K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 520384008
- Language: English
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Diamonds: Their History, Sources, Qualities and Benefits
$49.95 Add to cartThe beauty and sparkle and mystique of diamonds is unmatched by that of any other gem in the world.
Since early times, diamonds have been treasured as good luck charms, remarkable tools and status s
- Author: Newman, Renee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0228103312
- Language: English
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The Mississippi Gulf Coast Seafood Industry: A People’s History
$28.00 Add to cartThe seafood industry on the coast of Mississippi has attracted waves of immigrants and other workers–oftentimes folks who were either already acquainted with maritime livelihoods or those who quickly… [more below]
- Series: America’s Third Coast
- Author: Stephens, Deanne Love
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1496833503
- Language: English
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The Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Ea… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cheyette, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198809956
- Language: English
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EmbarRACEments: Daily Embarrassments in Black and White . . . and Color
$16.00 Add to cartA self-deprecating, sobering book about a world that continues to move forward without anyone really advancing.
–Gian Paolo SerinoAs Europe, along with the rest of the world, struggles to learn its
- Series: Crossings #24
- Author: Komla-Ebri, Kossi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1599541246
- Language: English
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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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Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crismon Feud of the 1920s
$24.00 Add to cart“The KKK weren’t never about race. It were always about power and greed.”
So begins 86-year-old Hadley Thompson, who insists a rural historian research why two people were murdered. At first, Hubbell
- Author: Hubbell, Victoria Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2016
- ISBN10: 1604542349
- Language: English
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Guardians of the Lights: Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers
$21.95 Add to cartIn a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed–the lighthouse keepers–from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was esta
- Author: de Wire, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: June 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1561641197
- Language: English
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Alight
$16.00 Add to cartJoudah, an ER physician who worked with Doctors Without Borders, is a master storyteller who refuses to dramatize or withhold
- Author: Joudah, Fady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 1556594224
- Language: English
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown
$20.00 Add to cart“A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1954, a past or named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called- Author: Scheeres, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1416596402
- Language: English
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Indiana Jones Collectibles
$25.95 Read moreIt is now over four decades since the famed archaeologist and explorer Indiana Jones first appeared on our screens in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The creation of George Lucas, it borrowed heavily from t- Author: Buss, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1398111589
- 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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The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
$35.00 Add to cartA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cultural history that looks at the origins and much debated future of anthropology… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593700678
- Language: English
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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up Volume 71
$18.95 Add to cart“Superbly acute and unashamedly complex.”–The Telegraph
“Rich and provocative.”–Times Literary Supplement
“An engaging exploration.”–The New Yorker
“The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another c- Series: Sather Classical Lectures
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0520401492
- Language: English
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I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project
$30.00 Add to cartThe true-life stories in this unique collection provide a window into the American mind and heart (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices – male and female, young and old, from all walks of li
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: September 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0312421001
- Language: English
