The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
By: Mark M. Smith
3.63
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnes…
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1. Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)
By: Edwin Hutchins
4.13
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and nav… read more
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2. Inventing America's "Worst" Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael
By: Nathaniel Deutsch
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how a poor white family from Indiana was scapego… read more
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- history
3. Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Civilization
By: Paul Kindstedt
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Behind every traditional type of cheese there is a fascinating story. By examining the role of the … read more
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4. After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
By: None
3.31
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
On April 8, 1865, after four years of civil war, General Robert E. Lee wrote to General Ulysses S. … read more
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5. History and Memory
By: None
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In recent years, "memory" has become a central and controversial concept in historical studies. It … read more
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6. The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis
By: None
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
This compelling micro-history explores how the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 affected f… read more
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7. Murder in Their Hearts: The Fall Creek Massacre
By: None
4.26
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In March 1824 a group of angry and intoxicated settlers brutally murdered nine Indians camping alon… read more
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8. Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding
By: Dorothy Ko
4.47
Format: 907 pages, Hardcover
The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated … read more
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9. Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
By: David Waldstreicher
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize s… read more
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10. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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11. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
12. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
13. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
14. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
By: Megan Kate Nelson
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur… read more
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- nonfiction
- american civil war
- history
- civil war
15. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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- nonfiction
16. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
By: Alice L. Baumgartner
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial rol… read more
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17. Perennial Girl: Ugly Me Book 2
By: J.E. Stamper
4.49
Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition
She's scared. She's hungry. She's exhausted. How much longer can she hold on? Randi Lewis is a mo… read more
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18. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
By: Pascal Boyer
3.92
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psycholo… read more
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"Humans were designed by evolution to live in societies, but they may not understand how societies work."-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"Information is our environment, our niche, and as we are complex animals we constantly transform that niche, sometimes in ways that make it possible to acquire even more information from our surround…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"Deliberation is made possible by our evolved reasoning capacities, and this explains why, as historians and political scientists have along observed, free and open deliberation generally leads to cho…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
"The proper place to start, in order to understand the various things called religion, is in the human capacity to entertain supernatural fantasy. This vast domain of cognition includes daydreaming, f…"-Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
19. The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
By: David T. Courtwright
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From a leading expert on addiction, a provocative, singularly authoritative history of how sophisti… read more
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20. Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination (Volume 42)
By: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
4.13
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh ce… read more
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21. The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World
By: Andrew Kettler
4.00
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic,… read more
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22. The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War
By: Mark M. Smith
3.63
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnes… read more
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- civil war
23. The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
By: Niall Atkinson
3.86
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Fl… read more
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24. City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris (Studies in Sensory History)
By: Aimee Boutin
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the … read more
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25. The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
By: Emily Thompson
3.90
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America. … read more
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26. The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
By: Stefanos Geroulanos
3.76
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
An eminent historian demonstrates how claims about the origins of humanity have been used to justif… read more
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27. Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (Civil War America)
By: Kevin M. Levin
4.31
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations… read more
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28. An Environmental History of the Civil War
By: Judkin Browning
4.29
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a… read more
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29. Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: Laura F. Edwards
3.63
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those wh… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North
By: Sarah Handley-Cousins
4.46
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war a… read more
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31. The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)
By: Jenifer L. Barclay
4.49
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery… read more
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