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Top Drawer: American High Society from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties
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3.67 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Roman Cookery: Ancient Recipes for Modern Kitchens
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4.09 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family
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3.94 avg rating — 2,468 ratings
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Buildings without Architects: A Global Guide to Everyday Architecture
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3.76 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870
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4.04 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Library: An Illustrated History
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3.90 avg rating — 569 ratings
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Limping through Life: A Farm Boy's Polio Memoir
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3.93 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids
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3.61 avg rating — 3,736 ratings
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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
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3.83 avg rating — 794 ratings
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All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womenhood in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Sweet Tooth: The Bittersweet History of Candy
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3.09 avg rating — 124 ratings
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A Vineyard Odyssey: The Organic Fight to Save Wine from the Ravages of Nature
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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They Weren't Eating Colby Cheese
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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3.41 avg rating — 4,511 ratings
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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century
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3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
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3.75 avg rating — 5,709 ratings
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People's Warrior: John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumer Rights
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century
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3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945
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4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Mr. Kipling's Army: All the Queen's Men
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4.10 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Tea and Tea Drinking (Shire Library, 600)
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3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome
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3.85 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Keeping Watch - A History of American Time
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3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
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3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII
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4.58 avg rating — 43 ratings
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
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4.18 avg rating — 5,398 ratings
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From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765
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3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
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4.20 avg rating — 15,365 ratings
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In Search of Lost Roses
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4.21 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
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3.85 avg rating — 3,047 ratings
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The Cultural Life of the American Colonies
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3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Sugar-Plums and Sherbet: The Prehistory of Sweets
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Interpretation of Cultures
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4.11 avg rating — 3,906 ratings
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Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945
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3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America
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3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture
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3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
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3.75 avg rating — 2,629 ratings
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The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages
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3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Fundamentalism and American Culture
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4.16 avg rating — 964 ratings
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Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures
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4.09 avg rating — 1,798 ratings
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Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture
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3.83 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The King's Servants: Men's Dress At The Accession Of Henry VIII
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4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon
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3.49 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Youth in the Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, Authority in Germany, 1914-1918
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Roadside America: The Automobile in Design and Culture
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
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3.77 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
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3.98 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything
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3.63 avg rating — 607 ratings
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The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
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4.16 avg rating — 900 ratings
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Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South
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3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Paganism in the Roman Empire
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3.45 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Material Culture :
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture
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3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History
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3.88 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
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3.88 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Jellies & Their Moulds
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body
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3.51 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo Saxon England, AD 450-700
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4.37 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Way We Talk Now
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3.51 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Crossing the Gate: Everyday Lives of Women in Song Fujian (960-1279) (Chinese Philosophy Culture)
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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A Medieval Book of Seasons
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3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
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3.99 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet
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4.14 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
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3.72 avg rating — 5,187 ratings
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Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator
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3.66 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States
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3.65 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture and Politics
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3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
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3.97 avg rating — 350 ratings
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The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
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3.36 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
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3.72 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Family Trees: The Peach Culture of the Piedmont
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Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age
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3.94 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Lift: Fitness Culture, from Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors
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3.38 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
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3.65 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture
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4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste
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3.37 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures
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3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950
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The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
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3.98 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity
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Salted and Cured: Savoring the Culture, Heritage, and Flavor of America's Preserved Meats
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Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865 - 1980
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Frontier in American Culture
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3.61 avg rating — 66 ratings
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With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830
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4.02 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
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3.95 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Sex and Sexuality in Modern Southern Culture
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Fire: Nature and Culture
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
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4.29 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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Cheap Laffs: The Art of the Novelty Item
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4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago's 1893 World's Fair
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
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4.13 avg rating — 5,360 ratings
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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
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3.82 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal
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3.89 avg rating — 868 ratings
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The Great American Cereal Book: How Breakfast Got Its Crunch
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4.02 avg rating — 180 ratings
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