Social History Books


Metroburbia, Usa Best Price: $17.24 Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox...	Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) Best Price: $11.64 The information in this book is excellent, but the author is a little too focused on the more...	Christianity in Latin America: A History Best Price: $15.00 Christianity has had an undeniable impact on Latin America, which has in turn transformed...	Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan Best Price: $2.98 Once again we have all these "The planets revolves around me people" writing very...	Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love (The Gender Lens) Best Price: $20.65 Once again Professor Espiritu has written a book that not only conveys the Asian American...



The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution Best Price: $20.92 In Gary Nash's book, The Urban Crucible Northern Sea Ports and the Origin of the American...	Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity Best Price: $22.45 I really liked this book. It was just what I was looking for a survey of fashion from the...	Chicken Soup to Inspire a Woman's Soul: Stories Celebrating the Wisdom, Fun and Freedom of Midlife (Chicken Soup for the Soul) Best Price: $1.74 A very inspirational book. Jack and Mark Victor Hansen are my fav writers and I never miss out...	A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans Best Price: $10.00 There's nothing wrong with this book. It's a good book. But it pales beside a great book, John...	Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe (New Approaches to European History) Best Price: $23.27 Nauert does an exceptional job of making accessible a vaporous topic. In the process he...



Essential Papers on Messianic Movements and Personalities in Jewish History (Essential Papers on Jewish Studies) Best Price: $24.69 The messianic idea that a redeemer sent by God will come to end the suffering of a persecuted...	Time: Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Changed America Best Price: $8.78 I was offended by the accusation in this book that poor black people were relegated to living in...	Revolutions: A Worldwide Introduction to Political and Social Change (Studies in Comparative Social Science) Best Price: $26.94 Revolution and state breakdowns are the focus of this student-friendly new text that analyzes...	A History of the Christian Tradition, Vol. II: From the Reformation to the Present Best Price: $12.77 This book is a decent one, relatively easy to read and understand. I also am lucky enough to...	Major Problems in American Sport History (Major Problems in American History Series) Best Price: $47.87 First a word about the "Major Problems" line: it is designed to be a text in college...

The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World Best Price: $17.13 A cultural history of witch-hunting, from the Romans through McCarthy The term...	The Tragedy of American Compassion Best Price: $16.78 Does the way that America does charity actually makes things worse? Now in a special fifteenth...	Born Losers: A History of Failure in America Best Price: $10.00 this book is full of facts, yet easy to read. The introduction is amazing. (You can see if...	Black Boy (American Hunger : a Record of Childhood and Youth) Best Price: $2.25 Very good read, his experiences keep you reading and you want to find out what happens next in...	Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History Best Price: $22.49 I am puzzled by the acidity of the review by "J Onyx", who contrasts the supposedly...

Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics And Mass Politics Best Price: $31.50 The political and cultural posters presented here document four decades of Latin American social...	Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War Best Price: $27.50 Never before has such a scholarly yet accessible treatment of this complicated and gripping...	Children's World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991 Best Price: $32.07 How a country views its children reveals a great deal about that country. This landmark history...	Geography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.80 This Very Short Introduction answers four basic questions: what is Geography, how do geographers...	Feminism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.68 This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and...

Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theater Best Price: $17.45 I thought the book was superb in that it combined the flow of the times with the need for...	Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality Best Price: $23.84	Fashion & Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture Best Price: $15.65 This was a VERY in depth book. If you are interested in this kind of thing I owuld say this is...	Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 Best Price: $22.39 In Passionately Human, No Less Divine, Wallace Best describes the difficulties blacks faced in...	Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Best Price: $27.96 In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves...

Hotel: An American History Best Price: $21.00 While this comprehensive history of the American hotel surely will become required reading for...	The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today Best Price: $4.99 I'm amazed that so many think she's a good writer; I disagree. But I'm more amazed no one has...	Horses: History, Myth, Art Best Price: $22.48 This is a good coffee table book or a good place to start if you are looking for information on...	Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 1918 Best Price: $11.47 The mind of this Martin Green is beautiful to experience. If you enjoy historical ideas and the...	The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory Best Price: $12.72 I did not like his treatment of women, perhaps because he is a man he would look for no other...

And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Best Price: $10.71 For readers of the original Agee/Evans collaboration, "And Their Children" is well...	Readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States Best Price: $7.05 People who know me, and my familiarity with the Washington, DC tourist market, know that I've...	Greatest Emancipations: How the West Abolished Slavery Best Price: $11.00 For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century,...	The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America Best Price: $22.95 This is an excellent academic account--and, at the same time, most enjoyable reading for a...	The Condition of the Working Class in England (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.85 For most, Charles Dickens is the only source we've encountered regarding the awful human misery...

Immigrants Unions & The New Us Labor Mkt Best Price: $16.95 No other book brings to life the work and struggles of new migrants in the United States. Ness...	American Ethnic History: Themes and Perspectives Best Price: $29.95 The United States, it is often said, is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the...	Managers Of Virtue: Public School Leadership In America, 1820-1980 Best Price: $23.40 This book represents one of the few texts available that address the changes in the role of the...	The English: A Portrait of a People Best Price: $15.75 "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" - Henry V, according to Shakespeare, on...	Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil Best Price: $20.20 This book is a giant collection of primary sources collected and edited by Robert Conrad...

Hunting the American Terrorist: The FBI's War on Homegrown Terror Best Price: $12.47 Written by Terry D. Turchie and Dr. Kathleen M. Puckett this book chronicles the hunt for...	Hispanics and the U.S. Political System: Moving Into the Mainstream Best Price: $58.50 Hispanics and the U.S. Political System ? focuses on the political manifestations of Hispanics...	Hoorah for the Bra: A Perky Peek at the History of the Brassiere Best Price: $11.83 This is adequate as an amusing, silly book...but that's it. Given the subject however, one...	National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling (Stanford Social Sciences) Best Price: $17.19 Having taught grade school children in Japan and in particular, one boy who was attending Kobe...	The Chosen: The History of an Idea, and the Anatomy of an Obsession Best Price: $19.95 The Chosen explores Judaism's key defining concept and inquires why it remains the central...

Secret Societies: Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge : Revelations About the Freemasons, Templars, Illuminati, Nazis, and the Serpent Cults Best Price: $8.96 I enjoyed this book and wish I still had a copy for reference. Gardiner keeps down to earth,...	Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street Best Price: $29.99 A great book to establish an understanding for how the current investment strategies came about....	The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster Best Price: $18.27 I used this book as a text book in college and found it pretty interesting. I had no idea about...	Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (Ecology & History) Best Price: $26.92 Having just completed The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great...	Discovering the Western Past: A Look at the Evidence (Volume I to 1789) Best Price: $50.00 This supplemental text, designed for use in any Western civilization course, explores historical...

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