Social & cultural history books

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Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated...  Read More >>

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land...  Read More >>

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to...  Read More >>

A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collection...  Read More >>

Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated...  Read More >>

Born in Hong Kong, Bernie Wong moved to the United States in the early 1960s to attend college. A decade later,...  Read More >>

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to...  Read More >>

Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of...  Read More >>

Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the...  Read More >>

A revelatory look at the photography that shaped the American Jazz Age. In this book, Alan John Ainsworth considers...  Read More >>

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Like the media coverage of the civil rights era itself, Hollywood dramas have reinforced regional stereotypes of...  Read More >>

Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party (BPP), one of the...  Read More >>

In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination...  Read More >>

Censorship of the written word has proved a constant source for debate and argument. To cut or not to cut is a question...  Read More >>

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The Charitable Imperative, first published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1939, The Diary of Dudley Ryder 1715–1716, comprises an early diary and a few related notes...  Read More >>

First published in 1932, this book looks at the rise and progress of the public library as it stood at that time....  Read More >>

Originally published in 1929, this volume discusses the early effects of the industrial revolution – the condition...  Read More >>

The Elements of Greek Philosophy (1922) is an overview of the basic principles of Ancient Greek philosophy, tracing...  Read More >>

The Solitary Warrior (1929) contains a large number of unpublished letters by Ruskin. They are of special importance...  Read More >>

From Renaissance to Revolution (1923) traces in some of its many expressions the influence of the Renaissance on...  Read More >>

In the Beginning (1957) represents a series of lectures given by the author at Cornell University, examining the...  Read More >>