Browse Books in Social History

Strange Bewildering Time
Istanbul to Kathmandu in the Last Year of the Hippie Trail

James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38

Looking After Miss Alexander
Care, Mental Capacity, and the Court of Protection in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

In Their Own Write
Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900

Lunch-Bucket Lives
Remaking the Workers’ City

Les Juifs de la Révolution tranquille
Regards d’une minorité religieuse sur le Québec de 1945 à 1976

Monumental Fury
The History of Iconoclasm and the Future of Our Past

Enthusiasms and Loyalties
The Public History of Private Feelings in the Enlightenment Atlantic

Born with a Copper Spoon
A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980

Dyslexia
A History

The Boundaries of Ethnicity
German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario

Distant Stage
Quebec, Brazil, and the Making of Canada's Cultural Diplomacy

Distant Stage
Quebec, Brazil, and the Making of Canada’s Cultural Diplomacy

Being Neighbours
Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830–1960

Being Neighbours
Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830-1960

An Unrecognized Contribution
Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto

Drunk
How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization

Lessons in Legitimacy
Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia

10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada

Until Further Notice
A Year in Pandemic Time

A Good Country
My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America

Pleasure and Panic
New Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drugs

Patterns of Plague
Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348-1750

Patterns of Plague
Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348–1750