Social History
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Since Yesterday: The 1930’s in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939
$19.99 Add to cart“Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession.”–… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 16 1986
- ISBN10: 0060913223
- Language: English
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Tucumcari Tonite!: A Story of Railroads, Route 66, and the Waning of a Western Town
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Southwest Book Award
Tucumcari, New Mexico, was founded in 1901 by the Rock Island Railroad and soon had major railroad lines converging there from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Memphis as
- Author: Stratton, David H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0826363393
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom
$24.93 Add to cartA persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements.
Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy, m- Author: Lawson, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 520387848
- Language: English
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Pirates in The Caribbean: (The High Risks to Secure Freedom)
$24.95 Add to cartPirates of the Caribbean tells the narrative of Reinaldo, a Cuban teenager who grew up listening to rock and roll and RandB on American radio stations. Reinaldo, seventeen, got caught up in the Cuban
- Author: Nunez, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: January 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886850758
- Language: English
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Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
$28.95 Add to cartFrom the adolescent thrill of getting a driver’s license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the c… [more below]
- Author: Nichols, Nancy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365591
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Los Angeles
$31.18 Add to cartA People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related… [more below]
- Series: People’s Guide
- Author: Pulido, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0520270819
- Language: English
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
$19.99 Read moreHave you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there’s arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of y… [more below]
- Author: Oneill, Therese
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0316357901
- Language: English
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Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination
$17.99 Add to cartNAACP 2017 Image Award Finalist
2018 Michigan Notable Books honoree
The author of Baldwin’s Harlem looks at the evolving culture, politics, economics, and spiritual life of Detroit–a blend of memoir, l
- Author: Boyd, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346636
- Language: English
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Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For more than four hundred yea- Author: Homans, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0812968743
- Language: English
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The Middle East
$19.00 Add to cartRenowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years–from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0684832801
- Language: English
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The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters
$17.98 Add to cartMore than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had “uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, a
- Author: McPherson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 2017
- ISBN10: 0190658533
- Language: English
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Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition
$42.99 Add to cartThis is the history of temperance and prohibition as you’ve never read it before: redefining temperance as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world l… [more below]
- Author: Schrad, Mark Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0190841575
- Language: English
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Hablar Con Extraños / Talking to Strangers
$21.95 Add to cartBESTSELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMES
Malcolm Gladwell, presentador del podcast Historia Revisionista y autor del libro #1 de las superventas de New York Times Outliers, ofrece una examinaci?n potente de nues- Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1644731398
- Language: Spanish
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Boom and Bust Colorado: From the 1859 Gold Rush to the 2020 Pandemic
$22.95 Add to cartThis is the history of Colorado through the lens of its uniquely mythic economy, from boom to boom and into the future.
- Author: Noel, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493040936
- Language: English
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Tavern Talk: Old Taverns and Tales in Springfield Illinois
$27.95 Add to cartSpringfield Illinois has a rich history of locally owned and family operated neighborhood taverns. The tavern business was an honorable one; husband and wife worked it together and everyone respected
- Author: Orr, Bobby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: April 19 2019
- ISBN10: 147878038X
- Language: English
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RMS Titanic in 50 Objects
$40.99 Read moreThe story of the worldʼs most famous liner, told through a fascinating selection of important objects
Showcasing a mixture of original artefacts, authentic reproductions, and items from Titanic‘- Author: Beveridge, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0750998555
- Language: English
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Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers
$35.99 Read moreA unique study into both the professional gamblers aboard Titanic and their individual backgrounds and fates
During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoki- Author: Behe, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1803992387
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Wine: In Vino Veritas
$8.95 Add to cartA oenophile’s guide to all things wine
Red, white, sparkling or ros̩ Рarguably no other alcoholic drink has had more impact on our society than wine. From its earliest iterations in earthenware jars
- Series: Little Books of Food & Drink #21
- Author: Orange Hippo!
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1800695411
- Language: English
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The Women of Colonial Latin America
$48.17 Add to cartIn this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book – incorporating new topics and illustrative cases… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to the Americas
- Author: Socolow, Susan Migden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0521148820
- Language: English
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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
$18.99 Add to cart“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has crafted a unique and aromatic narrativ
- Author: Ziegelman, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0061288519
- Language: English
