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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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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 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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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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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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Jacob Soboroff
Firestorm

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

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Tom Hanchett
Affordable Housing in Charlotte

Shows in detail the housing crisis in North Carolina's (USA) most populous city and beyond.

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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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Dona Brown
Hill Farms

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

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Tyler Priest
Offshore Oildom

Offshore Oildom tells the riveting story of the United States' quest to secure the oil riches of the sea. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, Tyler Priest reveals how the offshore oil industry emerge…

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Paul Schmitz
New York's Family Grocer

From pushcart to pantry staple in the city that never sleepsNew York's Family Grocer tells how a neighborhood name became part of the city's daily rhythm. Patsy and Nicholas D'Agostino arrived from Italy,…

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Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria

A sustained critique of postwar reconstruction in Syria as a politically neutral processIn 2011, emboldened by the Arab Spring, the Syrians rose up against their government. The Syrian regime used violenc…

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John Gurda
Milwaukee

Paddle through the watery history of the Midwest's Cream City.The success and survival of Milwaukee lies in the rivers that meander through its streets and the great lake at its eastern boundary. The Indi…

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Anny Gaul
Nile Nightshade

"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It adds a fresh and original dimension to the study of modern Egypt."--Marilyn Booth, author of The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thi…

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Julia Brock
Closed Seasons

"In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, Julia Brock offers an innovative history of hunting in the …

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Norman Ohler,
Tripped

"A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read." --- Publishers Weekly (starred review)The author of th…

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Tim Wu
The Age of Extraction

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025 • Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants ) explains how we can reclaim control and cre…

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Peter Simons
Global Heartland

"Complicating and expanding ideas of the farm industry's role in American history, Global Heartland shows how Midwestern farmers were at the center of the making of the American Century. Peter Simons…

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