Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
By: Tiya Miles
4.17
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is …
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1. Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
By: Adria L. Imada
4.00
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
Aloha America reveals the role of hula in legitimating U.S. imperial ambitions in Hawai'i. Hula per… read more
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- history
2. Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
By: Christina Snyder
4.17
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For c… read more
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- american history
- history
- native american
- indigenous
- native american history
- nonfiction
3. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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- historical
"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
4. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Talitha L Leflouria , Talitha L. LeFlouria
4.25
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available f… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
5. Celia, A Slave
By: Melton A. McLaurin
3.52
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Compelling. . . a shocking tale. . . a remarkable account. . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in us… read more
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- american history
- biography
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- african american
6. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
7. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
8. A Mercy
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages,
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more
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- historical
- african american
9. A History of the World in 6 Glasses
By: Tom Standage
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
10. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
By: None
3.71
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trad… read more
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11. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
12. The Fifth Child
By: Doris Lessing
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less th… read more
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13. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
By: Andrés Reséndez
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A landmark history -- the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across … read more
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14. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
By: None
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edm… read more
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15. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
By: Theda Perdue
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and ni… read more
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16. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
By: Ned Blackhawk
3.88
Format: None pages,
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17. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
By: Thavolia Glymph
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender … read more
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18. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
(1939 translation) read more
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19. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By: None
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more
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20. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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- historical
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
21. Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
By: James Hannaham
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this “dangerously hilarious” novel ( Los Angeles Time s), a trans woman reenters life on the out… read more
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- race
22. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
23. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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- native american
- indigenous
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
24. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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- american history
- history
- historical
- native american
- native american history
- indigenous
- nonfiction
25. Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
2018 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History, Organization of American Historians… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
26. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
By: Tiya Miles
4.17
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is … read more
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- american history
- race
- biography
- history
- historical
- native american
- native american history
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- african american
27. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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- historical
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
28. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Sophie White
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- american history
29. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
30. The Black Revolution on Campus
By: Martha Biondi
4.22
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
The Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- african american
31. From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715
By: Robbie Ethridge
3.70
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the N… read more
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- american history
- history
- native american
