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A conversation on ‘Seeing Like A State’ — Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson Sep 3, 2026 32 pp.
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Eugen Weber
Peasants into Frenchmen The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914


Sep 2, 2026 Read the whole text... 949 pp.
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James C. Scott
Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed


Sep 2, 2026 Read the whole text... 648 pp.
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Liu Huaizhao, Wang Xiaodong
Bombing Civilization A Death Notice Sent to Humanity’s Future


Aug 22, 2026 Read the whole text... 294 pp.
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Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr
The History of Violence in America Historical and Comparative Perspectives


Aug 21, 2026 Read the whole text... 1139 pp.
Urbanization and Criminal Violence in the 19th Century — Roger Lane Aug 21, 2026 23 pp.
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Robert W. Snyder
The Voice of the City Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York
With a New Preface by the Author


Aug 12, 2026 Read the whole text... 227 pp.
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Lawrence W. Levine
Highbrow/Lowbrow The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America


Aug 11, 2026 Read the whole text... 348 pp.
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Kathy Peiss
Cheap Amusements Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York


Aug 9, 2026 Read the whole text... 296 pp.
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Neil Miller
Sex-Crime Panic A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s


Aug 7, 2026 Read the whole text... 295 pp.