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…
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1. 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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"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
2. 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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- 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
3. The Sugar Barons
By: Matthew Parker
3.96
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
The contemporary image of the West Indies as paradise islands conceals a turbulent, dramatic and sh… read more
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4. The Good Lord Bird
By: James McBride
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy … read more
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5. 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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6. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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7. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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8. Nazi Literature in the Americas
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. Whe… read more
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9. Chroniques de Jérusalem
By: Guy Delisle
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Guy Delisle et sa famille s'installent pour une annee a Jerusalem. Pas evident de se reperer dans c… read more
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10. Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
By: David Eagleman
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sumis a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives--each … read more
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11. 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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12. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
13. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
14. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
15. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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16. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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17. Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory
By: Mike Davis
3.96
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nin… read more
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18. 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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19. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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20. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
By: Kidada E. Williams
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more
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21. Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
By: Warwick Anderson
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the America… read more
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