Social History
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
$29.99 Add to cartThe world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings
- Author: Johnson, Susan Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: December 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320995
- 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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America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation
$15.99 Add to cartIn 1960, the FDA approved the oral contraceptive that would come to be known as the pill. Within a few years, millions of women were using it. At a time when the population was surging, many believed … [more below]
- Author: May, Elaine Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024599
- Language: English
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The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
$24.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world.
In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone wi- Author: Baatz, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0316396664
- Language: English
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Acid Test: Lsd, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal
$19.00 Add to cart“A book that should start a long-overdue national conversation.” –Dave Barry
With the F.D.A. agreeing to new trials to test MDMA (better known as Ecstasy) as a treatment for PTSD–which, if approve- Author: Shroder, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0147516374
- 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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Women of the White House: The Illustrated Story of the First Ladies of the United States of America
$19.95 Add to cartWomen of the White House looks at the work, lives and times of the 47 women officially recognized as America’s first lady.
Through portraits, photographs, accounts and profiles, the book examines thei
- Author: Russo, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1787393887
- Language: English
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Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-To-Table History of How Beef Changed America
$25.27 Add to cartHow beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food system
By the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal.- Series: Histories of Economic Life #3
- Author: Specht, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209189
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Detroit
$27.95 Add to cartRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services, w… [more below]
- Author: Jay, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1478008342
- Language: English
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The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
$32.99 Add to cartIn The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture.
Scandinavian- Author: Ringen, Stein
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1474625193
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Curry
$16.95 Read moreThere are curries on almost every continent, with a stunning diversity of flavors and textures across India alone, and many more interpretations the world over, including in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japa- Series: British Library Philosophy of
- Author: Sukhadwala, Sejal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0712354506
- Language: English
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Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
$18.00 Add to cartFew institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Post Office, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history.
Updat
- Author: Leonard, Devin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 080215901X
- Language: English
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Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
$20.00 Add to cartHistory 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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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
$29.99 Read more“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”–Boston Globe
The auth
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062938339
- Language: English
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The Everyday Life of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands
$15.99 Add to cartThere are millions of people whose ancestors originated in the Scottish Highlands, but few reliable guides about the daily lives of the people of this region, their vibrant culture, and their storied
- Author: Newton, Michael Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0971385823
- Language: English
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Inside Studio 54
$26.95 Read moreIn Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip cham… [more below]
- Author: Fleischman, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1945572574
- Language: English
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Along the Great South Bay (Illustrated Edition): From Oakdale to Babylon, the Story of a Summer Spa, 1840 to 1940
$24.95 Add to cartNearly twenty years after it was first published, Along the Great South Bay continues to be the definitive source of Great South Bay history, recounting a century in which New York’s most affluent fam… [more below]
- Author: Havemeyer, Harry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0990787001
- Language: English
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The Other Idahoans – Regular
$22.99 Add to cartFallen angels in the bawdy houses. Migrants barred from Main Street. Homesteaders driven from homesteads when August rained black storms of dust. The Other Idahoans recovers their hard-luck stories. V… [more below]
- Author: Shallat, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0990736342
- Language: English
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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
$26.95 Add to cartWith Stand by Me, Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets. Drawing on a vast trove of untapped records… [more below]
- Author: Downs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0820356441
- Language: English
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Americans: A Collision of Histories
$23.99 Add to cartIn this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America’s different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic
- Author: Countryman, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0809015986
- Language: English
