An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade
By: Alexandra J. Finley
4.45
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
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1. Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago
By: Heath W. Carter
4.22
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that sought … read more
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2. My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)
By: Brodi Ashton , Cynthia Hand , Jodi Meadows
3.75
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane,… read more
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3. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
4. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
By: Steven Hahn
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed … read more
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5. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
By: Seth Rockman
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-bo… read more
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6. Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908- 1918
By: None
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The break-up of the Ottoman empire and the disintegration of the Russian empire were watershed even… read more
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7. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
By: Mary L. Dudziak
4.25
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for steali… read more
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8. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Car… read more
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9. Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
By: Scott Reynolds Nelson
4.13
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the migh… read more
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10. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
4.07
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more
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11. 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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12. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
By: Eric Foner
3.91
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From a master historian, the story of Lincoln's--and the nation's--transformation through the cruci… read more
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13. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
By: Eugene D. Genovese
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
A profound, learned and detailed analysis of Negro slavery. It covers an incredible range of topics… read more
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14. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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15. My Own Words
By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Mary Hartnett , Wendy W. Williams
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, en… read more
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16. Night Watch
By: Jayne Anne Phillips
3.79
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more
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17. Too Hot to Handle (Romancing the Clarksons, #1)
By: Tessa Bailey
3.30
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hook, Line, & Sinker comes "a sparkling rom-com … read more
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"If you never left again, I would still spend the rest of my life missing you."-Tessa Bailey, Too Hot to Handle (Romancing the Clarksons, #1)
18. 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
19. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.52
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more
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"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
20. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
21. Raiders of the Lost Heart
By: Jo Segura
3.44
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers—and… read more
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22. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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23. The House on Biscayne Bay
By: Chanel Cleeton
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and presen… read more
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"I think it did. He was quite staggered by the place. Then again, Vizcaya tends to have that effect. Is the home that grand? It Is. Vizcaya has brought the Mediterranean to Florida."-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
"I like to think of the houses I build as having their own personalities. Oh, there's the people who are their custodians to consider, of course, a symbiosis in the relationship between the house and …"-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
24. Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
2018 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History, Organization of American Historians… read more
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25. 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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26. Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
By: Sven Beckert
4.06
Format: 416 pages, ebook
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and… read more
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27. American Royalty (American Royalty, #1)
By: Tracey Livesay
3.65
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In this dangerously sexy rom-com that evokes the real-life romance between Prince Harry and Duchess… read more
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28. Embers on the Wind
By: Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
3.76
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
The past and the present converge in this enthralling, serpentine tale of women connected by mother… read more
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29. An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade
By: Alexandra J. Finley
4.45
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Alexandra J. Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship betw… read more
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30. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more
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31. Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition
By: Debt Collective
4.25
Format: None pages, ebook
With debt cancellation emerging as both a key area of debate in the Democratic primary and a cataly… read more
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