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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790

By Robertson, Ritchie

An Edible History of Humanity

By Standage, Tom

American Slavery: 1619-1877

By Kolchin, Peter

Hunger History: Food Shortage, Proverty, and Deprivation (Food Shortage, Poverty and Deprivation)

By F. Newman, Lucile

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England: 29 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 29)

By Dobson, Mary J.

Women and Families: An Oral History 1940-1970 (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)

By Roberts, Elizabeth

How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War

By Longmate, Norman

This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

By Read, Rupert, Alexander, Samuel

Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment

By JOHNS, Alessa

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

By Harrison, Mark

Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health

By Laura Dawes

Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760

By Spary, E. C.

Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Global and Insurgent Legalities)

By Brenna Bhandar

The Demographic Transition: Stages, Patterns, and Economic Implications

By Chesnais, Jean-Claude, Kreager, Elizabeth, Philip

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

By Woolf, Greg

Humanology: A Scientist’s Guide to our Amazing Existence

By O'Neill, Luke

White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History

By Fredrickson, George M.

Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend (Culture and Economic Life)

By Cassi Pittman Claytor

Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

By Matyszak, Philip

Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past

By Oliver, Neil

Einstein’s Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe

By Sen, Paul

Social Capital, Trust and the Industrial Revolution: 1780–1880: 34 (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

By Sunderland, David

Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas

By MacNamara, Trent

The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village

By Basu, Shrabani

The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology

By Morris, Aldon

A War for the Soul of America, Second Edition: A History of the Culture Wars

By Hartman, Andrew

Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

By Bell, Derrick

British Population History: From the Black Death to the Present Day (New Studies in Economic and Social History)

By Anderson, Michael

Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of Plants, Poisons and Processed Foods

By George Zaidan

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery

By Renton, Alex