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Spiritomb

Social History

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#303
Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
  • Neal Shirley
  • Saralee Stafford
00 reads
#304
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
  • Thomas King
4.4138 reads
#305
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
  • Robert D. Putnam
4.337 reads
#306
Kids These Days
Kids These Days
  • Malcolm Harris
3.9111 reads
#307
The Great Leveler
The Great Leveler
  • Walter Scheidel
48 reads
#308
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
  • Katherine Ashenburg
3.46 reads
#309
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
  • Larry Zuckerman
31 read
#310
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
  • Laura C. Martin
32 reads
#311
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
  • Rose George
3.758 reads
#312
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
  • Tom Vanderbilt
3.7634 reads
#313
A History of the Breast
A History of the Breast
  • Marilyn Yalom
00 reads
#314
Founding Myths
Founding Myths
  • Ray Raphael
00 reads
#315
Extreme North: A Cultural History
Extreme North: A Cultural History
  • Bernd Brunner
  • Jefferson Chase (Translator)
51 read
#316
Bears: A Brief History
Bears: A Brief History
  • Bernd Brunner
  • Lori Lantz (Translator)
00 reads
#317
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.7937 reads
#318
Inventing the Christmas Tree
Inventing the Christmas Tree
  • Bernd Brunner
00 reads
#319
Moon: A Brief History
Moon: A Brief History
  • Bernd Brunner
00 reads
#320
Color
Color
  • Victoria Finlay
3.8517 reads
#321
Uncommon Grounds
Uncommon Grounds
  • Mark Pendergrast
2.755 reads
#322
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
  • Tony Horwitz
4.1927 reads
#323
Tulipomania
Tulipomania
  • Mike Dash
3.65 reads
#324
Banana
Banana
  • Dan Koeppel
3.7211 reads
#325
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
  • Simon Winchester
3.5524 reads
#326
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
  • Simon Winchester
3.6919 reads
#327
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
  • Bill Bryson
3.96156 reads
#328
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
  • Simon Garfield
3.254 reads
#329
Coal: A Human History
Coal: A Human History
  • Barbara Freese
2.835 reads
#330
Milk : The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
Milk : The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
  • Anne Mendelson
52 reads
#331
The True History of Chocolate
The True History of Chocolate
  • Sophie D. Coe
  • Michael D. Coe
41 read
#332
Consider the fork
Consider the fork
  • Bee Wilson
3.8627 reads
#333
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
  • Henry Hobhouse
00 reads
#334
The Secret Life of Lobsters
The Secret Life of Lobsters
  • Trevor Corson
4.55 reads
#335
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History
  • Allan Mazur
00 reads
#336
The Stolen Year
The Stolen Year
  • Anya Kamenetz
02 reads
#337
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
  • Stephen Sagar
31 read
#338
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
  • Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
00 reads
#339
Blood in the Machine
Blood in the Machine
  • Brian Merchant
4.4416 reads
#340
Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life
Cosplay: A History: The Builders, Fans, and Makers Who Bring Your Favorite Stories to Life
  • Andrew Liptak
00 reads
#341
Gloves: An Intimate History
Gloves: An Intimate History
  • Anne Green
00 reads
#342
This Earthly Frame
This Earthly Frame
  • David Sehat
51 read
#343
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
  • Marlon B. Ross
00 reads
#344
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
  • Mark Lee Gardner
01 read
#345
Everything I Need I Get from You
Everything I Need I Get from You
  • Kaitlyn Tiffany
3.4615 reads
#346
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
  • Kate Molleson
41 read
#347
The Lonely Hunter: Why the Search for Love Is Broken
The Lonely Hunter: Why the Search for Love Is Broken
  • Aimee Lutkin
00 reads
#348
Cover 6

The Hive

The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
  • Bee Wilson
00 reads
#349
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
  • Aaron Bobrow-Strain
3.52 reads
#350
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
  • Cynthia Barnett
3.256 reads
#351
Hunger
Hunger
  • Sharman Apt Russell
3.254 reads
#352
The Great Cat Massacre
The Great Cat Massacre
  • Robert Darnton
3.755 reads
#353
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
  • David M. Friedman
41 read
#354
Sweetness and Power
Sweetness and Power
  • Sidney W. Mintz
31 read
#355
A Crack in the Edge of the World
A Crack in the Edge of the World
  • Simon Winchester
3.314 reads
#356
The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat
The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat
  • Carl Van Vechten
00 reads
#357
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
  • Mario Livio
3.6516 reads
#358
A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
  • Mark Caldwell
00 reads
#359
Wanderlust
Wanderlust
  • Rebecca Solnit
3.588 reads
#360
Waste and Want
Waste and Want
  • Susan Strasser
00 reads
#361
Cover 6

The Story of Corn

The Story of Corn
  • Betty Fussell
00 reads
#362
Flow
Flow
  • Elissa Stein
  • Susan Kim
2.334 reads
#363
Garbage Land
Garbage Land
  • Elizabeth Royte
42 reads
#364
Necropolis
Necropolis
  • Catharine Arnold
31 read
#365
The Year 1000
The Year 1000
  • Robert Lacey
  • Danny Danziger
3.711 reads
#366
No Idle Hands
No Idle Hands
  • Anne Macdonald
00 reads
#367
Rats
Rats
  • Robert Sullivan
4.2211 reads
#368
The Art of Lying Down: A Guide to Horizontal Living
The Art of Lying Down: A Guide to Horizontal Living
  • Bernd Brunner
00 reads
#369
Cover 6

Iron Cages

Iron Cages : Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
  • Ronald Takaki
00 reads
#370
The Journey of Humanity
The Journey of Humanity
  • Oded Galor
3.45 reads
#371
There Are No Accidents
There Are No Accidents
  • Jessie Singer
4.3613 reads
#372
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
  • Jacob Goldstein
3.8434 reads
#373
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
  • Barrington Moore Jr.
00 reads
#374
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
  • Jason Hickel
00 reads
#375
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
  • Sally Coulthard
42 reads
#376
The Clocks are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time
The Clocks are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time
  • Scott Alan Johnston
00 reads
#377
The land of open graves
The land of open graves
  • Jason De León
54 reads
#378
Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
  • Bob Ostertag
00 reads
#379
Facebook: The Inside Story
Facebook: The Inside Story
  • Steven Levy
3.9317 reads
#380
The Race Underground
The Race Underground
  • Doug Most
3.52 reads
#381
Wicked Bugs
Wicked Bugs
  • Amy Stewart
  • Coleen Marlo
3.7318 reads
#382
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer
4.6149 reads
#383
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
  • Adam Kucharski
3.756 reads
#384
Wasteland
Wasteland
  • W. Scott Poole
3.676 reads
#385
Citizen canine
Citizen canine
  • David Grimm
00 reads
#386
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theory and Practice of Pedestrianism
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theory and Practice of Pedestrianism
  • Geoff Nicholson
00 reads
#387
Cover 3

A Guinea Pig's History of Biology

A Guinea Pig's History of Biology
  • Jim Endersby
32 reads
#388
Anxious Parents
Anxious Parents
  • Peter N. Stearns
00 reads
#389
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
  • Sonia Shah
42 reads
#390
The Psychopath Test
The Psychopath Test
  • Jon Ronson
3.7897 reads
#391
Lines
Lines
  • Tim Ingold
00 reads
#392
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
  • Simon Winchester
47 reads
#393
A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
  • Clifford D. Conner
00 reads
#394
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
  • John Tayman
3.9102 reads
#395
OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
  • Allan A. Metcalf
21 read
#396
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
  • Dennis Baron
21 read
#397
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
  • John Gaudet
00 reads
#398
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
  • Amy Stewart
3.5537 reads
#399
The Monster's Bones
The Monster's Bones
  • David K. Randall
3.8911 reads
#400
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
  • Dennis Baron
43 reads
#401
Cover 3

The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
  • Rob Dunn
31 read
#402
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
  • Nicholas P. Money
00 reads