Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
By: Hidetaka Hirota
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially…
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1. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
By: Beth L. Bailey
3.68
Format: 181 pages, Paperback
From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back… read more
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- american history
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2. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
By: Kim Phillips-Fein
4.21
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster―and an … read more
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- american history
3. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
By: Paul Gilroy
4.03
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural national… read more
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4. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
5. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
6. Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
By: Elaine Tyler May
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
7. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
By: George Chauncey
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more
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- american history
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8. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
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- politics
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- history
- american history
9. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root… read more
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10. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
By: None , None
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to… read more
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11. 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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12. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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13. 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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"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 establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
14. Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation
By: None
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of ear… read more
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15. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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- american history
16. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
17. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
By: Adom Getachew
4.12
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard hi… read more
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18. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By: Kevin M. Kruse
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more
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"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
19. Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
By: April R. Haynes
4.00
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause ill… read more
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- american history
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20. The Art of Social Theory
By: Richard Swedberg
3.38
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A practical guide to the art of theorizing in the social sciences In the social sciences today, st… read more
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21. Married To A Daughter Of The Land: Spanish-Mexican Women And Interethnic Marriage In California, 1820-80
By: Maria Raque'l Casas
3.09
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California. Until recently, most studies o… read more
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22. Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
By: Hidetaka Hirota
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially… read more
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23. Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (Volume 63) (American Crossroads)
By: Moon-Ho Jung
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
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- american history
24. Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
By: Natalia Molina
4.08
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science … read more
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25. Animal City: The Domestication of America
By: Andrew A. Robichaud
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Why do America's cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by loo… read more
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- american history
26. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
By: Kristin L. Hoganson
3.74
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expans… read more
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27. Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
By: Dylan Penningroth
4.27
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the … read more
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28. Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
By: Stacey L. Smith
3.82
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusivel… read more
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29. Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States
By: Stephen Kantrowitz
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American t… read more
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30. Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy
By: Katherine Benton-Cohen
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a na… read more
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31. Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction
By: Carly Goodman
4.24
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent r… read more
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