Books in Non-Fiction
Found 16,264 books — showing 4,411–4,440
Small Stomachs, Big Consequences: The History of Child Poverty and Policy Responses
Tracing the social, medical, and educational impacts of child deprivation from industrial cities to modern welfare states
by Terry Hughes
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Climate Contingencies: Weather, Disaster, and Resilience in North American History
How Hurricanes, Droughts, and Cold Snaps Shaped Societies, Economies, and Policy
by Amber Myers
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From Bread Riots to Basic Income: Movements, Protest, and Political Struggles Against Poverty
A history of grassroots activism, social movements, and policy wins that challenged poverty
by Lauren Kim
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Rivers of Migration: Human Movement and the Making of Modern North America
Indigenous Displacement, European Settlement, and Immigrant Waves, 1600–1950
by Carolyn Owens
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Slum City: The Social History of Urban Poverty and Informal Settlements
From tenements to mega-slums, understanding life, resilience, and policy in urban marginalized communities
by Christine Jenkins
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Spicing Up Your Life
A Guide For Beginners
by Olivia Marshall
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Work That Counts: Informal Economies, Livelihoods, and Survival Strategies
An ethnographic and economic account of how informal work sustains lives in low-income settings
by Sean Wright
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Automation and the Working Poor: A Historical and Policy Analysis of Technology-Driven Displacement
From the mechanized loom to AI, how technological change reshaped labor markets and poverty patterns
by Donald Hamilton
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Caste, Color, and Class: Race, Ethnicity, and the Historical Roots of Poverty
A comparative study of how racial and caste hierarchies structured access to resources and entrenched poverty
by Nathan Fisher
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Hidden Landscapes: Environmental History of North America
Climate, Resource Extraction, and the Making of Modern Ecosystems
by James White
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Sickness and Scarcity: Epidemics, Public Health, and Poverty Through History
Exploring the two-way relationship between disease and poverty from plague to COVID-19
by Kyle Wright
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Empires of Need: Colonialism, Extraction, and the Making of Poverty
A critical history of how empire-building created and institutionalized deprivation in the Global South
by Bradley Carter
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Teaching North American History: A Practical Guide for Educators
Curriculum Design, Primary Sources, and Inclusive Pedagogy for K–12 and Undergraduate Classrooms
by Wayne Hunt
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Poverty in Print and Paint: Cultural Representations of Want in Art and Literature
How writers, artists, and photographers across centuries represented poverty and shaped public perception
by Helen Diaz
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Safety Nets or Sieve: The Political History of Welfare States and Anti-Poverty Policy
Comparative histories of social insurance, public assistance, and conditional programs across countries
by Julie Olson
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Women at the Crossroads: Gender, Labor, and Power in North American History
Domestic Life, Reform Movements, and Political Agency, 1600–2000
by Dennis Stephens
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Counting the Poor: A Practical History of Poverty Measurement and Statistics
How definitions, surveys, and metrics have shaped poverty policy from the 19th century to modern indices
by Christopher Simpson
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Faith and Power: Religion in the Political and Cultural History of North America
Missionary Movements, Indigenous Spirituality, Evangelicalism, and Church-State Relations
by Nathan Vasquez
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Theories of Want: Economic Thought on Poverty From Smith to Behavioral Economics
A thematic guide to how economists and social scientists have explained poverty and proposed remedies
by Carol Hayes
$6.99 (ebook), $21.99 (paperback)
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Law on the Continent: Judicial Histories and Constitutional Development in North America
Courts, Constitutionalism, and Legal Pluralism from Colonies to Modern States
by Zachary Ryan
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Sports and Society: Athletic Cultures in North American History
From Indigenous Games to Professional Leagues, Race, Class, and Identity in Play
by Sara Hunt
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Trade Winds and Ocean Routes: Maritime History of North America
Shipping, Fisheries, Piracy, and the Atlantic-Caribbean Connections
by Jason Barnes
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Public Memory and Monuments: How North America Remembers Its Past
Commemoration, Controversy, and the Politics of Historic Sites and Museums
by Aaron Phillips
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Factories and Famine: Poverty in the Age of Industrial Revolutions
How industrialization remade work, cities, and destitution in Europe and beyond
by Kenneth Porter
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Mapping a Continent: Cartography, Exploration, and the Knowledge Networks of North America
Maps, Surveys, and Scientific Expeditions that Shaped Territorial Claims and Identities
by Joshua Bryant
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The Long Shadow of Want: A Global History of Poverty
From hunter-gatherers to the 21st century, tracing how scarcity shaped societies
by Logan Brooks
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Tilled and Troubled: Agrarian Change and Rural Poverty Through the Ages
Examining land, labor, and policy that shaped rural impoverishment from feudalism to neoliberal agriculture
by Bradley Grant
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The Railroad Nation: Tracks, Capital, and the Transformation of North America
Infrastructure, Finance, and Social Change, 1830–1930
by Patrick Jordan
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Cold Frontiers: Arctic North America and the Politics of Frozen Lands
Indigenous Adaptation, Colonial Interest, and Geopolitics in the North
by Judy Hall
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Networks of Exchange: Indigenous Trade Systems and Precolonial Commerce in North America
Economic Complexity before European Contact and Its Long-Term Legacies
by Mary Evans
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