Category - History
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The Mexican Revolution: A Short History 1910-1920
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Why did the Mexican Revolution happen? What makes it distinctive? Was it even a revolution at all? Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781608461820 Media Ty...
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In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct wor...
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Stayin¿ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Winner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned h...
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, th...
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerThe numbers on a house, a building, an apartment — if we don't need to know them, we hardly notice. But they do matter,...
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To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (An Inspiration for Downton Abbey)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Marvelous and entertaining.” —Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey a...
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The New York Times Bestseller, with a new preface from the author“This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. ...
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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans
HardcoverOriginal price $77.00 - Original price $77.00Original price $77.00$97.99$97.99 - $97.99Current price $97.99| /New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of les bons temps. Despite its image as a p...
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending Us Poverty
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /FOREWORD INDIES FINALIST -- POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST -- SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE ERIC HOFFER ...
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Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up th...
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The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble: How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /This book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture, came to be - and...
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The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $41.95 - Original price $41.95Original price $41.95$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon...
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 BuzzFeed Book You'll Love A 2022 LitHub Favorite Boo...
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Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Looks at the ways that disparate groups used Irish famine relief in the 1840s to advance their own political agendasFamine brought ruin to the Ir...
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Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
PaperbackOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, ...
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Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
HardcoverOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /State socialism tried to industrialize, urbanize, encourage the more frequent washing of hands, urge people to leave the church, emancipate women, ...
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The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as...
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The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Technological advancements, expanding education, and unfettered capitalism have encouraged many around the world to aspire to better lives, even as...
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The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Drawing on a rich set of original oral histories conducted with retired factory workers from industrial centers across the country, this book provi...
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Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than three thousand letters written by four genera...
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Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up ...
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A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rur...
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labo...
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Library BindingOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned ...
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