Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an…
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1. Second Class Citizen
By: Buchi Emecheta
4.09
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women an… read more
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- africa
"She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost."-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Tho…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
2. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography
By: Mark Mathabane
4.17
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
The classic story of life in Apartheid South Africa. Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating pove… read more
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- africa
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth."-Mark Mathabane, Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography
3. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
By: Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.
4.46
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed thems… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
4. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
By: Juliana Barr
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs … read more
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- grad school
- nonfiction
- history
- 18th century
5. 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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- history
- world history
- academic
- grad school
- nonfiction
"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
6. 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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- historical
7. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- academic
8. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
By: Marc Reisner
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968
By: Helen Epstein , Heda Margolius Kovály , None
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A memoir of the author who describes the lives caught up in Czechoslovakia's tragic fate under the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- war
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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- nonfiction
- race
- history
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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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- world history
12. The Shawl
By: Cynthia Ozick
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Depicting both the horrors of the Holocaust and the lifetime of emptiness that pursues a survivor, … read more
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13. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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14. TransAtlantic
By: Colum McCann
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation o… read more
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15. 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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17. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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18. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.54
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
19. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
20. The Shadow King
By: Maaza Mengiste
3.67
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Ethiopia. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to … read more
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- historical
- africa
- war
"The routine dulls the terror."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"He holds no importance except what memory allows."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"What is lost is gone, my child, what is lost makes room for something else."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
21. Our Hideous Progeny
By: C.E. McGill
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . . For readers of Circe o… read more
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- historical
"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny
22. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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- race
- history
23. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- world history
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
24. People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
By: Robert Michael Morrissey
4.38
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from th… read more
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25. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
By: Elizabeth N. Ellis
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In The Great Power of Small Nations, Elizabeth N. Ellis (Peoria) tells the stories of the many smal… read more
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- history
26. 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
- nonfiction
- history
- world history
27. Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
By: Christina Snyder
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Ch… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
28. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an… read more
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- africa
- race
- history
- world history
- historical
- war
- academic
- grad school
- nonfiction
- 18th century
29. The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
By: Ulbe Bosma
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
30. Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
By: Marjoleine Kars
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive slave revolt that almost changed … read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- 18th century
31. Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
By: Rebecca J. Scott
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribb… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
