24 Best history books like The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina by Manisha Sinha

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The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina

By: Manisha Sinha

4.19

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha…

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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

By: Tera W. Hunter

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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2. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

By: Stephanie McCurry

3.99

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by wh… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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3. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South

By: Adam Rothman

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Slave Country tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the w… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. 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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  • american history
  • race
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  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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5. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more

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  • american history
  • race
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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. American Negro Slave Revolts

By: Herbert Aptheker , None

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and… read more

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  • race
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  • nonfiction

8. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

By: Peter Linebaugh , Marcus Rediker

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Using a decade of original research into the 17th and 18th century, this text unearths ideas and st… read more

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9. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s

By: Robert O. Self

4.23

Format: 121 pages,

"Provocative . . . Tells us a great deal about recent political history." --The Wall Street Journal… read more

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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. Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… 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. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

By: None

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more

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14. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War

By: Eric Foner

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Menhas been recognized as … read more

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15. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

By: Imani Perry

3.97

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more

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  • social justice
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"

-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

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16. 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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17. 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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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
"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

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18. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship by Christopher James Bonner

19. Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship

By: Christopher James Bonner

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and comprehensive history of black citizenship in the nineteenth century Citizenship … read more

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  • history
  • american history
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20. On Juneteenth

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

4.18

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more

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"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"

-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth

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21. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

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Cover of Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

22. Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Why does white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues… read more

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Cover of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

23. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

By: Sarah Schulman

4.52

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive politica… read more

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24. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution

By: Julius S. Scott

4.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more

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Cover of Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series) by LaShawn Harris

25. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)

By: LaShawn Harris

4.27

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique nic… read more

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"I had to live, had no money, and therefore resorted to commercial prostitution.' Smith was introduced to the urban sex trade by a middle-aged black woman who seemed genuinely concerned for her well-b…"

-LaShawn Harris, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series)

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26. The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina

By: Manisha Sinha

4.19

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha… read more

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27. At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

By: Tamika Y. Nunley

4.33

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C.… read more

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Cover of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae M. Ngai

28. 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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Cover of I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction by Kidada E. Williams

29. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

By: Kidada E. Williams

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the … read more

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Cover of Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom by Kathryn Olivarius

30. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

By: Kathryn Olivarius

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immun… read more

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Cover of Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America by Karen Cook Bell

31. Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

By: Karen Cook Bell

4.06

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all… read more

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18 Best politics books like The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina by Manisha Sinha

Transform Your Habits

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South

Stephanie McCurry

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Walter Johnson

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

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14 Best history books like The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott

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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Saidiya Hartman

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Sugar Barons

Matthew Parker

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

C.L.R. James

4.55

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