Category - History
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Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In Cities, the acclaimed historian John Reader takes us on a journey of the city—from its earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today’s te...
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Revolution and Evolution
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This book provides a concise and instructive review of the revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the Russian, Chinese, ...
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The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with "The Resumption of History in the New Century" / Edition 5
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since the end of World War II, The End of Ideology has been a lan...
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A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.A People’s Guide to the ...
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Moscow and Muscovites
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Vladimir Gilyarovsky's classic portrait of the Russian capital is one of Russians' most beloved books. Yet it has never before been translated in...
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Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment. ...
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Great Cities: The stories behind the world's most fascinating places
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world’s most important cities. This illustrated history book provides a fascinating insight...
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The City In History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence — from...
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times Editors' Choice A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place i...
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Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father di...
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Every Goddamn Day: A Highly Selective, Definitely Opinionated, and Alternatingly Humorous and Heartbreaking Historical Tour of Chicago
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A daily celebration of Chicago’s history, both known and obscure, and always entertaining. Every day in Chicago is a day to remember. In a city...
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Foxfire 10: Railroad Lore, Boardinghouses, Depression-Era Appalachia, Chairmaking, Whirligigs, Snake Canes, and Gourd Art
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousand...
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Within the Context of No Context
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Written originally for a special issue of The New Yorker and reissued here with a new forward by the author, Within the Context of No Context is ...
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Japanese Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. ...
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Edition 60
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American phot...
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Foxfire 12: War Stories, Cherokee Traditions, Summer Camps, Square Dancing, Crafts, and More Affairs of Plain Living
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /For more than thirty years, Foxfire books have brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative-sel...
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Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marri...
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff“One cannot read Mr. LeDuff's amalgam of mem...
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz cul...
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Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the s...
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American familyLeave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has n...
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Littl...
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Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karl...
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An Introduction to Japanese Society
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimo...
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