Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
By: Ada Ferrer
4.19
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern worl…
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1. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith
4.10
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
2. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
3. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- grad school
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- history
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
4. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
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"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
5. Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
By: Thomas G. Andrews
3.94
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mi… read more
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- grad school
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
6. The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
By: Greg Grandin
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates… read more
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- american history
- race
- history
- world history
- nonfiction
7. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
By: Piero Gleijeses
1.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its es… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
- world history
8. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
10. 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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- grad school
- nonfiction
- race
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11. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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- race
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- world history
12. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
13. Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844
By: None
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms… read more
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14. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
15. Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.02
Format: 288 pages, School & Library Binding
Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away … read more
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"…hate's got to be a disease with me."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
"We always hate people who surprise our secrets…"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
"A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing..."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
"Today has been a day dropped out of June into April."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
16. Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.17
Format: 227 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780553213188 Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, … read more
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"…but youth yearned to youth."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"We belong to the race that knows Joseph"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"Death grows friendlier as we grow older."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
"It takes all kinds of people to make a world."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
17. Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6)
By: L.M. Montgomery
3.88
Format: None pages,
Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on… read more
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18. 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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19. Capitalism & Slavery
By: Eric Williams , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more
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20. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By: Tiya Miles
3.95
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more
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- american history
- race
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"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
21. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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- race
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- nonfiction
22. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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- american history
- race
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- nonfiction
23. Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
By: L.M. Montgomery
4.27
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for… read more
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"Home and I are such good friends."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
"Have you any unfulfilled dreams, Anne?"-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
"Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
"We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy."-L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
24. 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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- american history
- history
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- world history
25. Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
By: Ada Ferrer
4.19
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern worl… read more
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- race
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- world history
- war
- grad school
- nonfiction
- latin american history
26. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
By: Julius S. Scott
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more
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- american history
- race
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- world history
- grad school
- nonfiction
27. Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (Studies in Legal History)
By: Alejandro de la Fuente
4.32
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of … read more
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- race
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- nonfiction
28. Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (Early American Studies)
By: Sasha Turner
4.14
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive… read more
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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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- history
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- world history
30. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787 - 1804
By: Laurent Dubois
4.00
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois de… read more
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31. A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba
By: Alejandro de la Fuente
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by … read more
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