Social History Books


Natives and Strangers: A History of Ethnic Americans Best Price: $30.00 "Who is an American?" "How does a person who is not an American become one?"...	Harlem Renaissance Lives Best Price: $15.98 The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African...	Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History Best Price: $11.45 This book is FANTASTIC! It's a great resource for all dancers and dance historians. I...	Body by Weimar: Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity Best Price: $38.81 See the author featured in the "New Books in History" podcast: ...	A History of the Sikhs: 1469-1839 v. 1



Hindu Kingship, Ethnic Revival, And The Maoist Rebellion In Nepal Best Price: $8.55 This volume discusses issues of tribal identity and Maoist rebellion in the face of Hindu...	Robert Surtees and Early Victorian Society Best Price: $59.40 A contribution both to Surtees studies and to Victorian social history, this is the first study...	Oxford Companion Local & Family Hist The last 30 years have seen a huge growth of interest in local and family history both as a...	Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies) Best Price: $110.00 Geopolitics and Empire examines the relations between two phenomena that are central to modern...	The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France Best Price: $353.28 In this gem of a book, Natalie Zemon Davis explores the role of gifts in Renaissance France....



How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions Best Price: $4.32 Francis Wheen is indeed a master debunker: erudite, passionate, lacerating and logical. Just...	Hopping Best Price: $0.02	Outcast London: Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society (Penguin History) Best Price: $221.68 In the second half of the 19th century, Victorian civilization felt increasingly threatened by...	In My Father's Court (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)	Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945 Best Price: $8.91 The concept of teenagers as a group separate from children and adults is relatively new. It...

To Have and to Hold Best Price: $164.47 The acquisition of objects is close to the heart of what it is to be human. In the world of the...	Rural Rides (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $15.71 Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett...	Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty. Catherine Bailey Best Price: $11.17 I really enjoyed reading "Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of An English Dynasty" by...	The Yorkist Age (Penguin Classic History)	My East End Gilda O'Neill was born into a traditional East End family in Bethnal Green. Her nan had a...

Stolen Angels: The Kidnapped Girls of Uganda Best Price: $13.63	The Mainstream of Civilization: Since 1660 Best Price: $12.00	Lifting the Latch: A Life on the Land	The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War Best Price: $7.88 This is a fine, insightful study of the New York "Draft" Riots, which were about far...	Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History Best Price: $108.00 Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work--written and...

A Gentleman and an Officer: A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War Best Price: $98.97 In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up...	A Gentleman and an Officer: A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War Best Price: $0.64 In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up...	The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (Americans & the California Dream) Best Price: $27.23 A great introduction to So Cal history with a comprehensive reviw of the whole cultural and...	New Orleans: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) Best Price: $20.00 Ms. McKinney has fashioned a marvelous chronicle of "The Big Easy," which will surely...	Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation Best Price: $10.93 Mettler takes a case-study approach to prove a causal relationship between the G.I. Bill and the...

The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran Katouzian opens up a mysterious landscape that has been far too long on the periphery of my...	The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery Best Price: $19.37 On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw...	Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent Best Price: $64.09 I very much enjoyed John Reader's book on potatoes. It was well researched, well written,...	The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies Best Price: $17.15 To be fair to Ms. Lord, she did a lot of research. Otherwise this book is a nightmare of poor...	Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World Best Price: $10.47 Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled...

The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale Studies in English) Best Price: $21.00 How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with...	Understanding the Nursery School (Children, Teachers and Learning) Best Price: $8.50	The Gilded Age: The Super-rich of the Edwardian Era Best Price: $199.90 A portrait of the period from 1880 to 1914 which saw the rise of a wealthy international...	Life in the French Country House Best Price: $251.46 An account of upper class French society through the centuries showing how its setting - the...	And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (Vintage) Best Price: $10.29 On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a...

The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran Katouzian opens up a mysterious landscape that has been far too long on the periphery of my...	The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery Best Price: $19.37 On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw...	Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent Best Price: $64.09 I very much enjoyed John Reader's book on potatoes. It was well researched, well written,...	The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies Best Price: $17.15 To be fair to Ms. Lord, she did a lot of research. Otherwise this book is a nightmare of poor...	Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World Best Price: $10.47 Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled...

The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale Studies in English) Best Price: $21.00 How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with...	Understanding the Nursery School (Children, Teachers and Learning) Best Price: $8.50	The Gilded Age: The Super-rich of the Edwardian Era Best Price: $199.90 A portrait of the period from 1880 to 1914 which saw the rise of a wealthy international...	Life in the French Country House Best Price: $251.46 An account of upper class French society through the centuries showing how its setting - the...	And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (Vintage) Best Price: $10.29 On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a...

Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) Best Price: $18.93 Drawing boundaries around wildlands serves a double purpose--both protection of the land within...	Women in England, 1500-1760: A Social History An examination of the lives of women in England from the Reformation to the dawn of the...	Love In the Ancient World Best Price: $72.95 By the best selling John Jullius Norwich, a history of the sexual practices and morality of the...	Women in England 1760-1914 Best Price: $65.99 This book brings together an astonishing range of research into women's lives in England...	Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America (Studies in American Thought and Culture) Best Price: $15.95 For many, ?going back to the land? brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s?hippie communes and the...

Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History Best Price: $5.85 By far the most interesting book I've read in a long time, Morone's _Hellfire Nation_...	Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $3.95 In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth...	Household Gods: The British and their Possessions Best Price: $59.12 In "Household Gods" Deborah Cohen takes us on a tour of the hearts and homes of 100...	The Hamburger: A History (Icons of America) Best Price: $19.99 The history of the hamburger would seem to be a relatively mundane and fairly well known issue....	Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society Best Price: $13.00 A series of spectacular scandals profoundly disturbed London life during the 1950s in ways that...

Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?: Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-century England This is the first book to describe the real lives of unmarried mothers, and attitudes towards...	America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops Best Price: $14.15 Don't look for the punch line here - this is not a joke book. It's a well written...	Understanding Shakespeare's England: A Companion for the American Reader This work, separated into chapters by topic, is beautifully organized for research about...	McMafia : Crime Without Frontiers	The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism Best Price: $18.00 These are not happy days for liberals. Something seems to have gone wrong with the government...

Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail Best Price: $61.58 This is a very good geology book. The American west is hideously complicated, and Mr Meldahl...	The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918-1928 Best Price: $49.49 This latest volume in the definitive six-volume biography of Herbert Hoover tracks Hoover?s life...	Confronting the Climate: British Airs and the Making of Environmental Medicine (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology) Best Price: $54.64 This book explores the social origins of the Western preoccupation with health and environmental...	The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse: Prefiguring Frankenstein Best Price: $39.95 Afforded only limited access to the male-dominated sciences, many women writers nevertheless...	Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography Best Price: $21.97 Sheila Fitzpatrick?s numerous studies of the first three decades of Soviet history have...

The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance, Third Edition (Studies in Contemporary History) Best Price: $17.39 The Civil Rights Movement in the United States struggled to create a nation. The Civil War ended...	The Early Byzantine Historians Best Price: $19.08 The Early Byzantine Historians is the first original study of every significant Byzantine...	Society Dancing: Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920 Best Price: $71.65 Based on new archival research, this book uniquely presents a fresh interrogation of how, among...	The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000 Best Price: $104.07 For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more...	Race Reform & Rebellion Best Price: $38.67 Since its original publication in 1984, Manning Marable's book has become widely known as...

Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890 Best Price: $82.82 This book is a fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and...	The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From its Ashes Best Price: $5.24 During the 2008 US presidential campaign, candidates loudly professed that they would not allow...	Photographs, Histories, and Meanings Best Price: $34.60 Photographs have shaped public perception and social meaning for the last one hundred and fifty...	Gender and Sexuality in 1968: Transformative Politics in the Cultural Imagination Best Price: $85.29 If you want great accounts of the sixties combined with a cogent editorial vision, this book is...	Man in the Age of Technology (European Perspectives) Best Price: $145.95

Inventing the Charles River Best Price: $40.29 This extraordinary book brings together a confluence of compelling themes: The history of a city...	The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany Best Price: $42.32 The importance of the book lies in their accounts of differences in approach to skill formation...	Inventing Irish America (IRISH IN AMERICA) Best Price: $28.01	From Sugar Camps to Star Barns: Rural Life and Landscape in a Western Pennsylvania Community (Keystone Book) Best Price: $45.39 Rural Pennsylvania's landscapes are evocative, richly textured testimonjes to the lives and...	Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835 Best Price: $1.90 "Following his magisterial studies of the press of the Old Regime and the Revolution,...

Americans Remember Their Civil War (Reflections on the Civil War Era) Best Price: $48.00 Most Americans are aware of statues or other outdoor art dedicated to the memory of the Civil...	Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community Best Price: $13.73 This labor of love documents the experience of Arabs who emigrated to Worcester, Massachusetts...	Future: A Recent History Best Price: $40.91 I've just finished reading Lawrence Samuel's new book, "Future: A Recent...	The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805-1910 (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics) Best Price: $16.35 I came upon this book by mere chance when I was in attending Eastern Washington University in...	Sleeping Around: The Bed from Antiquity to Now Best Price: $15.00 There's more than one way to make a bed, and humans throughout history have devised every...

The New Metropolis Best Price: $47.94 I have spent a great deal of time, over decades, studying the history of my home, New York City....	Trekking Through History Best Price: $29.50 The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred...	The Columbia Guide to Irish American History (Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures) Best Price: $7.95 The Columbia Guide To Irish American History is a scholarly examination of the role of Irish...	Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (Film and Culture) Best Price: $16.00 In his 2003 book, "Cold War, Cool Medium," author Thomas Doherty brings together all...	The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity; Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction (Columbia Classics in Religion) Best Price: $23.18 First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of...

Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity and Nation, 1916-39 (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island) Best Price: $59.97 Mexican Chicago builds on previous studies of Mexicans in the United States while challenging...	Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self (African Expressive Cultures) Best Price: $12.06 Colonial Africa saw an explosion of writing and printing, produced and circulated not only by...	Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan (Tracking Globalization) Best Price: $10.00 "[Reid] develops an approach to globalization and health that goes beyond simplistic...	Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa (African Systems of Thought) Best Price: $16.00 Beer connects commercial, social, and political history in this sobering look at the culture of...	Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation Best Price: $48.75 Praise for the original edition: "A haunting chorus of voices, a moving...

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