Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
By: John K. Thornton
3.85
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in…
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1. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
By: Marcy Norton
3.70
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Before Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever seen, much less tasted, tobacco or c… read more
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2. Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Brett Rushforth
4.05
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated … read more
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3. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography
By: Martin W. Lewis , None , Kären Wigen
3.87
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reex… read more
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4. 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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5. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
By: Walter Johnson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton planta… read more
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6. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
By: David Christian
3.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the begi… read more
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7. Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
By: Peniel E. Joseph
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A gripping narrative that brings to life a legendary moment in American history: the birth, life, a… read more
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8. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours
By: Bernard Bailyn
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Atlantic history is a newly and rapidly developing field of historical study. Bringing together ele… read more
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9. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
3.88
Format: 461 pages, Hardcover
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more
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"W"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
10. 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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11. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A sweeping collection of new and selected essays on the Obama era by the National Book Award-winnin… read more
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12. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
By: Kenneth Pomeranz
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustain… read more
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13. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
By: Daina Ramey Berry
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and b… read more
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14. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950
By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
4.67
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
The civil rights movement that loomed over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal… read more
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15. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
By: John Robert McNeill
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Hardcover
This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of t… read more
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16. Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Multicultural Education Series)
By: James W. Loewen
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American His… read more
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17. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Raymond Arsenault
4.24
Format: 96 pages,
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18. 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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19. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
20. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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21. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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22. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
By: Toby Green
4.05
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2019 An Observer and Wall St… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- world history
23. 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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- latin american history
24. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
By: John K. Thornton
3.85
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in… read more
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- nonfiction
- latin american history
25. How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation
By: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Profound, vital and correct. Hirsch highlights the essence of our American being and the radical c… read more
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26. Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
By: Adam Fairclough
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Po… read more
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27. The Atlantic Slave Trade (New Approaches to the Americas)
By: Herbert S. Klein
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This survey synthesizes the economic, social, cultural and political history of the Atlantic slave … read more
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28. Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa
By: Lisa A. Lindsay
4.21
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his… read more
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29. Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) (Volume 37)
By: Luise White
3.53
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for… read more
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"In Uganda, I wrote a questionaire that I had my research assistants give; on it, I asked about the embalasassa, a speckled lizard said to be poisonous and to have been sent by Prime minsister Milton …"-Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) (Volume 37)
30. Black People and the South African War 1899-1902
By: Peter Warwick
3.50
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
The South African War was a costly and bitterly contested struggle. It was fought in a region popul… read more
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31. Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London (Institute of Historical Research)
By: Simon P. Newman
3.57
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of Britain’s enslaved people and their liberation. Th… read more
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