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Microhistories -- Sweeping Social Histories Of Just One Thing
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The Devil in the White City:  Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, an...
by Erik Larson 15 people voted »
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage 8 people voted »
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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky 6 people voted »
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who ...
by Dava Sobel 4 people voted »
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century 's On-line Pioneers
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of...
by Tom Standage 4 people voted »
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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Ma...
by Henry Hobhouse 4 people voted »
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Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy...
by Stephanie Coontz 2 people voted »
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Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times
Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine ...
by Don Kladstrup 2 people voted »
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the...
by Michael Pollan 2 people voted »
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats
Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover ...
by Steve Ettlinger 2 people voted »
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Cod
Cod
by Mark Kurlansky 2 people voted »
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The True History of Chocolate
The True History of Chocolate
by Michael D. Coe, Sophie D. Coe 2 people voted »
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Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them
Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers ...
by Tim Walsh 1 person voted »
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
by D.T. Max 1 person voted »
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American Quaker War Tax Resistance: from the 17th through the 19th centuries
American Quaker War Tax Resistance: from the 17...
by David M. Gross (Goodreads author) (Editor), John Woolman (Contributor) 1 person voted »
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Waste and Want
Waste and Want
by Susan Strasser 1 person voted »
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No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
No Idle Hands: The Social History of American K...
by Anne Macdonald 1 person voted »
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Nature's Perfect Food
Nature's Perfect Food
by E. Melanie DuPuis 1 person voted »
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Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease
Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and ...
by Arno Karlen 1 person voted »
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Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
by Gina Kolata 1 person voted »
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This Thing of Darkness
This Thing of Darkness
by Harry Thompson 1 person voted »
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Play...
by Karen Abbott 1 person voted »
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Stealing Lincoln's Body
Stealing Lincoln's Body
by Thomas J. Craughwell 1 person voted »
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Doubting Jesus' Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box?
Doubting Jesus' Resurrection: What Happened in ...
by Kris Komarnitsky 1 person voted »
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Woman: An Intimate Geography
Woman: An Intimate Geography
by Natalie Angier 1 person voted »
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Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
by Margaret Horsfield 1 person voted »
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Never Satisfied : A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies & Fat
Never Satisfied : A Cultural History of Diets, ...
by Hillel Schwartz 1 person voted »
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski 1 person voted »
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C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America
C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story o...
by Geoff Williams 1 person voted »
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Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Ma...
by John McMillan 1 person voted »
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Latter Days: An Insider's Guide to Mormonism, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Latter Days: An Insider's Guide to Mormonism, T...
by Coke Newell 1 person voted »
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the ...
by Dan Koeppel 1 person voted »
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Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding
by Scott Weidensaul 1 person voted »
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Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highw...
by Tom Lewis 1 person voted »
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Discovery That Changed the Course of History
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed T...
by Thomas Hager 1 person voted »
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Nathaniel Nutmeg
Nathaniel Nutmeg
by Giles Miles 1 person voted »
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theo...
by Franklin Foer 1 person voted »
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Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
by Laura Hillenbrand 1 person voted »
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Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America
Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Mo...
by Charles Leerhsen 1 person voted »
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Change...
by Simon Garfield 1 person voted »
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The Six-day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz-age Sport
The Six-day Bicycle Races: America's Jazz-age S...
by Peter Joffre Nye 1 person voted »
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Hotel: An American History
Hotel: An American History
by Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz 1 person voted »
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Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson 1 person voted »
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The Pawprints of History: Dogs and the Course of Human Events
The Pawprints of History: Dogs and the Course o...
by Stanley Coren 1 person voted »
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The Story of Corn
The Story of Corn
by Betty Fussell 1 person voted »
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Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet
Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of th...
by Lawrence Wright 1 person voted »
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: ...
by Nick Taylor (Goodreads author) 1 person voted »
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Mode...
by Sidney W. Mintz 1 person voted »
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the Wo...
by Marc Levinson 1 person voted »
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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of T...
by Marcy Norton 1 person voted »
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The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism:  The Woman and the City, 1800-1860
The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Femini...
by Barbara J. Berg 1 person voted »
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The Panama Hat Trail
The Panama Hat Trail
by Tom Miller, Tony Hillerman 1 person voted »
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Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics : The History of the Explosive Tath Changed the World
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics ...
by Jack Kelly 1 person voted »
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Wate...
by Robert D. Morris 1 person voted »
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Why Things Break: Understanding the World By the Way It Comes Apart
Why Things Break: Understanding the World By th...
by Mark Eberhart 1 person voted »
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal
Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary Histo...
by Margaret Visser 1 person voted »
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message 1: by Blueguitar411 (last edited Nov 10, 2008 09:05AM) (new)

1680769 This list is my brainstorming session before setting up a display in the case outside the small branch library where I work.

Written by me (public librarian in New York) my Dad (urban planner and should-be history teacher in Toronto) and my librarian friends on Facebook.

Please add books, comments..!


message 2: by Angel (new)

190365 This is one of my favorite book categories to read. Glad someone made a list for it.


message 3: by Doris (new)

2177806 and where are the classics? Cheese and worms by Ginzburg, Martin Guerre by Zamon-Davis and Montaillou by Ladurie?


message 4: by Stephen (new)

Nophoto-m-25x33 I love this book category as well. In fact I write these sorts of books, although they have gone somewhat out of favour for publishers lately. The list should include Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail, by Stephen R. Bown


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