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
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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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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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3. 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
4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. To Have and Have Not
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.52
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into runnin… read more
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"He was mad and plenty brave."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
8. Age of Fracture
By: Daniel T. Rodgers
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fra… read more
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9. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movem… read more
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10. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
4.80
Format: None pages,
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11. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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12. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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13. The Question of Palestine
By: None
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most re… read more
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14. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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15. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen … read more
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16. 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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17. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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18. Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
By: Robert G. Parkinson
4.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the m… read more
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19. Ring Shout
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.99
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America,… read more
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"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
20. 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
21. 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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22. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
By: David Treuer
4.23
Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A sweeping history—and counter-narr… read more
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23. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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24. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah Haley
4.45
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms o… read more
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25. 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
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26. 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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27. The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America
By: Gabriel N. Rosenberg
4.00
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
"Eureka! Who would have thought that a history of the 4-H club could brilliantly illuminate so many… read more
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28. 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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29. 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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30. Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
By: Margot Canaday
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as … read more
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31. Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America
By: Rebecca Herman
3.75
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sove… read more
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