Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
By: James H. Sweet
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atl…
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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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"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. Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
By: Inga Clendinnen
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men a… read more
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4. 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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5. 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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6. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
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7. The Comanche Empire
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fie… read more
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8. The Return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more
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9. The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
By: None
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "fr… read more
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10. 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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11. The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
By: Robert W. Harms
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Diligentbegan her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast wh… read more
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12. 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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- latin american history
- anthropology
"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
13. Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico
By: María Elena Martínez
4.14
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
María Elena Martínez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship betwee… read more
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14. 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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- history
15. Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
By: James H. Sweet
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atl… read more
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- school
- medicine
- religion
- nonfiction
- latin american history
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16. The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
By: Pablo F. Gómez
4.12
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned so… read more
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17. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
By: Londa Schiebinger
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national a… read more
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18. African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
By: Herman L. Bennett
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and… read more
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19. 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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20. Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South
By: Alejandra Dubcovsky
4.18
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority “An… read more
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21. Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (Published by the Omohundro ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Allison Margaret Bigelow
4.00
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World;… read more
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