My Egypt Archive
By: Alan Mikhail
4.06
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism t…
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1. Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
By: Kathryn Burns
3.93
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writi… read more
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2. The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
By: Karen Kelsky
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get ten… read more
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"... the modern university system systematically requires an unending supply of young, vulnerable idealists to work for poverty wages as graduate student teaching assistants (and, of course, adjuncts)…"-Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
3. Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
3.97
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such… read more
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4. Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
By: Elaine Tyler May
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism… read more
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5. 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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6. Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency
By: Charles Rappleye
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Rappleye's surprising portrait of a Depression-era president Herbert Hoover reveals a very differen… read more
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7. Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End
By: Sara M. Evans
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
As recently as 1960 few women worked outside the home, married women could not borrow money in thei… read more
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8. The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
By: Mark Atwood Lawrence
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking parallels … read more
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9. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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10. From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor
By: Steven M. Cahn
4.75
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Steven M. Cahn's advice on the professorial life covers an extensive range of critical issues: how … read more
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11. The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
By: None
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent America… read more
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12. The Great Depression: America 1929-1941
By: Robert S. McElvaine
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with… read more
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13. The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)
By: Robert Ludlum
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found Who is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a… read more
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14. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
By: Lisa McGirr
4.50
Format: 144 pages,
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamor… read more
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15. The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society
By: Julian E. Zelizer
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon John… read more
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16. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
By: Christian G. Appy
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading th… read more
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17. Lost Children Archive
By: Valeria Luiselli
3.81
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a fa… read more
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"Mouths open to the sun, they sleep."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Ağızlarını güneşe doğru açmış, uyuyorlar."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Our mother teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
"Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh."-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive
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. King: A Biography
By: David Levering Lewis
3.87
Format: 481 pages, Paperback
This edition updates Lewis's notable assessment of Martin Luther King, Jr., a book acclaimed by lea… read more
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20. 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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21. My Egypt Archive
By: Alan Mikhail
4.06
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism t… read more
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22. Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (Early American Studies)
By: Sasha Turner
4.14
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive… read more
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23. Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon
By: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
3.25
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal w… read more
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24. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
By: Peter H. Wood
4.04
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association. read more
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25. Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany (New Studies in European History)
By: Sebastian Conrad
3.59
Format: 506 pages, Hardcover
The process of globalisation in the late nineteenth century had a profound effect on the trajectori… read more
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26. The First Black Slave Society: Britain’s “Barbarity Time” in Barbados, 1636-1876 (Beckles' Trio Book 2)
By: Hilary McD. Beckles
4.36
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized. The geograp… read more
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27. Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930
By: Kelly J. Baker
3.72
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or post… read more
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28. Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
By: Alexis McCrossen
3.85
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces—bells… read more
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29. The Populist Vision
By: Charles Postel
3.63
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam p… read more
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30. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
By: Beth Lew-Williams
4.28
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miner… read more
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31. Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
By: Nicholas Guyatt
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that… read more
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"Colonization proposals were crafted by intellectuals, reformers, and politicians--men (and occasionally women) who saw themselves as "liberal" in their sentiments. To be liberal in the early United S…"-Nicholas Guyatt, Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation