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Social History

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  • 490 Books
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Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Kids These Days
The Great Leveler
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
A History of the Breast
Founding Myths
Extreme North: A Cultural History
Bears: A Brief History
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Inventing the Christmas Tree
Moon: A Brief History
Color
Uncommon Grounds
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tulipomania
Banana
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Coal: A Human History
Milk : The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
The True History of Chocolate
Consider the fork
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
The Secret Life of Lobsters
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History
The Stolen Year
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
Blood in the Machine
Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life
Gloves: An Intimate History
This Earthly Frame
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
Everything I Need I Get from You
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
The Lonely Hunter: Why the Search for Love Is Broken
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The Hive

White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Hunger
The Great Cat Massacre
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
Sweetness and Power
A Crack in the Edge of the World
The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
Wanderlust
Waste and Want
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The Story of Corn

Flow
Garbage Land
Necropolis
The Year 1000
No Idle Hands
Rats
The Art of Lying Down: A Guide to Horizontal Living
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Iron Cages

The Journey of Humanity
There Are No Accidents
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
The Clocks are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time
The land of open graves
Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
Facebook: The Inside Story
The Race Underground
Wicked Bugs
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
Wasteland
Citizen canine
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theory and Practice of Pedestrianism
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A Guinea Pig's History of Biology

Anxious Parents
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
The Psychopath Test
Lines
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The Monster's Bones
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
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