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Monument Lab

Beginning in 2022, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit public art, history, and design studio, Monument Lab, launched a nationwide initiative organized around a central question: Which stories belong in publ…

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Fred S Naiden
Railroaded

The New York City subway system is one of the largest and oldest in the world, still carrying traces of the transport systems that came before it. Some of its elevated tracks are remnants of steam railroa…

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David Griscom
The Myth of Red Texas

A timely call for Texas---and the South---to reclaim its radical history, drawing lessons for today's struggle from the populists and socialists of yesteryear.In blood-red states such as Texas, politics o…

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Crafting Everyday Food

Focusing on East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present, Crafting Everyday Food highlights the role of technology in transforming traditional foods into modern ones and in reinventing industriali…

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Ernesto Sagás
Latino Colorado

Mexican Americans and other Latinos make up more than 22 percent of Colorado's population, play a vital role in its major economic sectors, and are becoming a political force to be reckoned with. Yet most…

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A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity

Examines the uses and meanings of plants from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere.

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era

Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume looks at how Renaissance learning and exploration irrevocably changed both our botanical knowledge and human impact on plants.

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era

Unravels the cultural history of plants from 500-1400, when ancient uses and meanings of plants were preserved but overlaid with new developments in agriculture, landscapes, medicines, eating habits and a…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century

Looks at the revolution of botanical study and the evolution of the new science of biology in the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, popu…

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses.

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era

Examines how our relationship with plants has evolved since 1920, through advances in agriculture, industry, science, and technology,, the impact of urbanization, and our increased understanding of the si…

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Angela Miller Keysor
The Voices of Need

Revealing how people in need advocated for and negotiated their own care until the development of standardized medicineThe Voices of Need uncovers how men and women in Charlestown, Massachusetts, who turn…

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Angela Miller Keysor
The Voices of Need

Revealing how people in need advocated for and negotiated their own care until the development of standardized medicineThe Voices of Need uncovers how men and women in Charlestown, Massachusetts, who turn…

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Paul Kohlbry
Plots and Deeds

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after mili…

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Paul Kohlbry
Plots and Deeds

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after mili…

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Thomas A Krainz
A Great Many Refugees

Thomas A. Krainz examines how communities in the American West cared for refugees during the Progressive Era.

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Jacob Soboroff
Firestorm

New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles TimesBestsellerA "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle ) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW rep…

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Jill Lepore
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

"The Artificial State is the factory farming of humans, the sorting and segmenting, the isolation and alienation, the destruction of both human community and the capacity for self-government," w…

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Sebastian Edwards
The Chile Project

How Chile became home to the world's most radical free-market experiment-and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the re…

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Stephanie Gorton
The Icon and the Idealist

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORYA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that prof…

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