Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 039324931X, 9780393249323

Coming through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America 9780822378433

In Coming through the Fire, prominent scholar and writer C. Eric Lincoln addresses the most important issue of our time

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Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America 9780813591575

In Lost, medical historian Shannon Withycombe weaves together women’s personal writings and doctors’ publications from t

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A Century of Wealth in America 9780674981362

Understanding wealth—who has it, how they acquired it, how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing challenges facing t

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The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America 9780520928039

The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished

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Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America 9781503618701

This book studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Time—the world-wide

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The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America 0807820466

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A Girl's Guide to Sex, Optimism, and Surviving in the 21st Century 0806526041, 9780806526041

Every girl can master the fine art of being female in a man's world if she takes Hawkes' advice on finding suc

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The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America 9780812291315

The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America illuminates the connections between poems and critical ideas abo

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The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism In Nineteenth-Century America 080148197X, 9780801481970

The utopian socialism of Charles Fourier spread throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was in the Unite

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The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America 9780812201215

Ranging from Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania to the backcountry regions of the South

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