7 best-selling history books like Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies by Sarah Carter

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Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

By: Sarah Carter

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Sarah Carter’s "Imperial Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Pra…

If you liked the history plot in Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies by Sarah Carter , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945

By: Lisa Rose Mar

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as in… read more

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  • history

2. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

By: Dan Flores

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeAmerica's Great Plains once possess… read more

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3. Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

By: Chip Colwell

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to d… read more

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4. Me

By: Elton John

4.33

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In his only official autobiography, music icon Elton John writes about his extraordinary life, whic… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It was insanity, but it sounded romantic."

-Elton John, Me

"You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it’s just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate."

-Elton John, Me

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5. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
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6. Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a m… read more

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"Wood and glass and a roof do not constitute a world."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

"So I’ll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

"So I'll be wed in the Church of the Holy Incestuous Mushroom?"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

"She wondered if he kept a pair of calipers to measure his guests' skulls."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

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7. Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia (Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies)

By: R. Cole Harris

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This elegantly written and insightful book provides a geographical history of the Indian reserve in… read more

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8. Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake

By: Lianne Leddy

4.35

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Serpent River Resurgence tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

By: Sarah Carter

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Sarah Carter’s "Imperial Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Pra… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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10. I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land

By: Alaina E. Roberts

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Though Oklahoma is known in African American history circles for its all-Black spaces, like the famed ‘Black Wall Street’ of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, the first Black inhabitants of Indian Territor…"

-Alaina E. Roberts, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land

"Apart from Cherokee freedpeople, Cherokee citizens also spoke out against the present of African Americans from the United States. In 1894, the editor of the Cherokee Advocate incited his fellow trib…"

-Alaina E. Roberts, I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land

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11. A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands

By: Benjamin Hoy

3.95

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. O… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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12. Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 (Studies in Gender and History)

By: Valerie Korinek

4.21

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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13. Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History (Studies in Gender and History)

By: Franca Iacovetta

4.39

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Stranger… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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14. Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier, 1870-1930

By: Barbara Handy-Marchello

3.78

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Nuclear Country: The Origins of the Rural New Right (Haney Foundation Series)

By: Catherine McNicol Stock

3.75

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Militarization and nuclearization were the historical developments most essential to the creation o… read more

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9 Top nonfiction books like Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies by Sarah Carter

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Me

Elton John

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake

Lianne Leddy

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

Sarah Carter

3.94

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18 best-selling history books like I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E. Roberts

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

Tera W. Hunter

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage

William Loren Katz

4.11

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The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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Cleopatra: A Life

Stacy Schiff

4.09

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