Social History
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Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun
$19.00 Add to cartThe Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time.
- Author: Barrett, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0307719952
- Language: English
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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis
$22.95 Read moreEvery queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations–the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watchin… [more below]
- Author: Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1551528509
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
$24.99 Read moreBy an acclaimed historian, a sweeping history of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: a defining American story of millions of immigrants, hundreds of languages, and one great cit… [more below]
- Author: Anbinder, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745511
- Language: English
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Christmas
$20.00 Add to cartA critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the Christmas holiday, from the original festival through present day traditions.
Christmas has always been a magical time. Or has i- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1250190797
- Language: English
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The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years
$26.00 Add to cartAn “absolutely magnificent” book (The New Republic)–the fruit of almost two decades of study–that traces the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to … [more below]
- Author: Aries, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0394751566
- Language: English
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At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
$19.99 Add to cartBringing light to the shadows of history through a “rich weave of citation and archival evidence” (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by
- Author: Ekirch, A. Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393329011
- Language: English
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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England
$20.00 Add to cartAn entertaining, accessible guide to Elizabethan England–the latest in the Time Traveler’s Guide series
Acclaimed historian Ian Mortimer shows readers that the past is not just something to be studie- Author: Mortimer, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 014312563X
- Language: English
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The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause
$19.95 Add to cartA surprising look at the role of menopause in human history-and why we should change the ways we think about it
Are the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moo- Author: Mattern, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 069121672X
- Language: English
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The American Patriot’s Almanac: Daily Readings on America
$19.99 Add to cartRead here the storied history of these United States.
The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” They are the symbols that define the essence of th
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1595555668
- Language: English
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds
$20.99 Add to cartMore than a century before Alan Greenspan coined the phrase “irrational exuberance” to describe the speculative bubble inflating technology stocks, Charles Mackay was recording the history of “tulipom… [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: MacKay, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 766
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1573928917
- Language: English
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Charleston’s Avery Center: From Education and Civil Rights to Preserving the African American Experience (Revised)
$37.99 Add to cartFor 140 years, Charleston s Avery Research Center has been a hub of African American education and study in the South Carolina Lowcountry. No other institution compares to Avery s scope and impact on … [more below]
- Author: Drago, Edmund L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: July 06 2006
- ISBN10: 1540203824
- Language: English
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Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
$29.99 Read moreFrom beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.
Mo Rocca has always lo- Author: Rocca, Mo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1501197622
- Language: English
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The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
$17.95 Add to cartFor fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression–its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it
For centuri- Author: Saini, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0807093335
- Language: English
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Malachy McCourt’s History of Ireland (Paperback)
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted st… [more below]
- Author: McCourt, Malachy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0762431814
- Language: English
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This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
$15.99 Add to cartEverything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong
Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country
- Author: Grim, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470643897
- Language: English
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China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty
$24.99 Add to cartThe Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China… [more below]
- Author: Benn, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: October 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0195176650
- Language: English
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Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods
$27.00 Add to cartAn authoritative account of everyday life in Regency England, the backdrop of Austen’s beloved novels, from the authors of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018)… [more below]
- Author: Adkins, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125729
- Language: English
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The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
$20.00 Read moreWinner of the Chicago Tribune‘s 2013 Heartland Prize
A critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture Before air t- Author: Dyja, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125095
- Language: English
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The Black Suitcase
$15.51 Add to cartGrowing up poor in mid-century Limerick is a nightmare of eviction, food deprivation, flea-bites, and never enough heat. An orange at Christmas is a massive treat. And yet Seanie Morrisey, despite hav… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 152557700X
- Language: English
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
$23.95 Read moreThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #94
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0691216738
- Language: English
