Social & cultural history books

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Pleasure of Thinking

Pleasure of Thinking

Author: Wang Xiaobo ,  Yan Yan
ISBN: 9780241633267
Format: Paperback
$28.99

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now...  Read More >>

Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism: Performing Politics in Irish and Egyptian Theatre

Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism:...

Author: Amina ElHalawani
ISBN: 9781032728902
Format: Paperback
$75.99

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics...  Read More >>

A Little Season in the Big Picture

A Little Season in the Big Picture

Author: Kerry L Barger
ISBN: 9781034870210
Format: Hardback
$51.65

"Have you seen the Big Picture? It is impossible, unless you understand how each piece of history's puzzle fits...  Read More >>

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American...

Author: Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781963956450
Format: Hardback
$39.57

This spellbinding narrative tells the story of Frederick Douglass before he became a rock star for African American...  Read More >>

The Nordic Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition

The Nordic Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition...

Author: Egil Bakka ,  Petri Hoppu
ISBN: 9781800648142
Format: Paperback
$150.35

This major new anthology of the minuet in the Nordic countries comprehensively explores the dance as a historical,...  Read More >>

Sub-Human: A 21st-Century Ethic; on Animals, Collective Liberation, and Us All

Sub-Human: A 21st-Century Ethic; on Animals, Collective...

Author: Emma Hakansson (Emma Hakansson)
ISBN: 9781590567241
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Sub-Human delves into what it means to be an animal, how our view of other animals impacts our view of other people,...  Read More >>

Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car

Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History...

Author: Nancy A. Nichols
ISBN: 9781639365593
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle...  Read More >>

England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight

England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How...

Author: Tom Baldwin ,  Marc Stears
ISBN: 9781526646231
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears take on seven myths that distort our ideas of England and where the country is heading....  Read More >>

Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism: Performing Politics in Irish and Egyptian Theatre

Staging Revolutions and the Many Faces of Modernism:...

Author: Amina ElHalawani
ISBN: 9781032560885
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics...  Read More >>

The Nordic Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition

The Nordic Minuet: Royal Fashion and Peasant Tradition...

Author: Egil Bakka ,  Petri Hoppu
ISBN: 9781800648159
Format: Hardback
$192.59

This major new anthology of the minuet in the Nordic countries comprehensively explores the dance as a historical,...  Read More >>

Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle between China, Russia, and America

Cold War 2.0: Artificial Intelligence in the New Battle...

Author: George S. Takach
ISBN: 9781639365630
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A vivid, thoughtful examination of how technological innovation—especially AI—is shaping the tensions between democracy...  Read More >>

Stories My Father Told Me: From Warsaw, Moscow, Algeria, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic

Stories My Father Told Me: From Warsaw, Moscow, Algeria,...

Author: Dvora Treisman
ISBN: 9798224632169
Format: Paperback
$42.21

These are stories from far off places, in far off and very different times, stories of everyday people doing everyday...  Read More >>

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline...

Author: Paul Cooper
ISBN: 9780715655009
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads,Fall of Civilizationsbrilliantly explores how a range of ancient...  Read More >>

Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide

Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide

Author: Summer Cherland (South Mountain Community College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032325187
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of Culturally Relevant Teaching, Student-Centered Teaching,...  Read More >>

Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering

Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discovering,...

Author: Jörn Happel ,  Melanie Hussinger
ISBN: 9781032479378
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical and violent appropriation during...  Read More >>

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Author: Matthew Firth
ISBN: 9780367760939
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing...  Read More >>

The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and...

Author: Andrew W. Kahrl
ISBN: 9780226730592
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices...  Read More >>

A Morphological Interpretation of a Northern Chinese Traditional Village: Case Study of Zhangdaicun Village

A Morphological Interpretation of a Northern Chinese...

Author: Kun Li
ISBN: 9789819969609
Format: Hardback
$343.17

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Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide

Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide

Author: Summer Cherland (South Mountain Community College, USA)
ISBN: 9781032325200
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of Culturally Relevant Teaching, Student-Centered Teaching,...  Read More >>

London: A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings

London: A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings

Author: Paul Knox
ISBN: 9780300269208
Format: Hardback
$51.95

A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard...  Read More >>

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Author: Matthew Firth
ISBN: 9780367760922
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing...  Read More >>

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th–16th Centuries)

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and...

Author: Ioannis Smarnakis ,  Zissis D. Ainalis
ISBN: 9781032325675
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context,...  Read More >>

From Mass Conversion to Expulsion: Jews and New Christians in the Kingdom of Naples (1492–1541)

From Mass Conversion to Expulsion: Jews and New Christians...

Author: Nadia Zeldes
ISBN: 9780367536701
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The book explores the events that mark the last decades of Jewish presence in the kingdom of Naples from 1492 to...  Read More >>

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