Category - History
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Wonderful Power: The Story of Ancient Copper Working in the Lake Superior Basin
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This work examines the archaeological record of copper mining in the Lake Superior area. Native Americans in the Lake Superior basin mined copper...
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Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage...
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Made in Chicago: The Windy City's Manufacturing Heritage
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /For much of the 20th century, the Chicagoland area was a manufacturing mecca due to its central geographic location and ready access to rail and ...
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The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande across the Far Marias
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the earl...
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A Culinary History of Atlanta
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Food is at the heart of Atlanta, and here discover iconic dishes, notorious restaurants, and the rich culinary history of this Southern city. Atl...
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Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Spanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted—and how the industry’s dis...
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land *A New York Post Must-Read Book**A Newsweek Best New Book**One of The Week's 20 B...
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Lost Restaurants of Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Chicago author, Greg Borzo, recalls the city's celebrated lost restaurants. Many of Chicago's greatest or most unusual restaurants are "no longer...
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Lost Car Companies of Detroit
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Among more than two hundred auto companies that tried their luck in the Motor City, just three remain: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler. But man...
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Pittsburgh and the Great Steel Strike of 1919
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Author Ryan C. Brown details the harrowing days of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 that rocked Pittsburgh and its seemingly impregnable "principal...
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Remembering Marshall Field's
HardcoverOriginal price $40.99Original price $40.99 - Original price $40.99Original price $40.99Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /For more than 150 years, Marshall Field's reigned as Chicago's leading department store, celebrated for its exceptional service, spectacular wind...
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The Enemy of Europe/The Enemy of Our Enemies
PaperbackOriginal price $13.00 - Original price $13.00Original price $13.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This sequel to Yockey's IMPERIUM shows that all wars are related to politics and the aim of politics is to obtain power. Who were the 'real' winn...
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The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /It was 2004, and Sean McFate had a mission in Burundi: to keep the president alive and prevent the country from spiraling into genocide, without ...
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /While many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown provides the first definitive account of the great plut...
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas.The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles lo...
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Made in California, Volume 1: The California-Born Diners, Burger Joints, Restaurants & Fast Food that Changed America, 1915-1966
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A&W Root Beer. Foster’s Freeze. IHOP. Der Wienerschnitzel. See’s Candy. Jack in the Box. You name the American food icon, and chances are its...
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The Most They Ever Had
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Ac...
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Boiling Off: Maple Sugaring in Maine
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1964 three cousins tapped three thousand sugar maples deep in the Maine woods. They called themselves Jackson Mountain Maple Farm. Boiling Off...
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Winner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing] The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history...
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Lost Chicago Department Stores
HardcoverOriginal price $41.99Original price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /"Within thirty years of the Great Chicago Fire, the revitalized city was boasting some of America's grandest department stores. The retail corrid...
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Kaufmann's: The Family That Built Pittsburgh's Famed Department Store
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon fol...
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the ...
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War is a Racket
PaperbackOriginal price $9.94 - Original price $9.94Original price $9.94$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /This is my third hand made ePub book - the second was an attempt at a template which needs more work - and I think shows some development from th...
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding...irresistible”...
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