21 Best history books like Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (Early American Studies) by Sasha Turner

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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…

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Cover of Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Clayton Eshleman, Aimé Césaire, Annette Smith, Annette Smith

1. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith

4.10

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more

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  • nonfiction
"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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2. Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America

By: Christina Snyder

4.17

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For c… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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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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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4. 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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  • grad school
  • history
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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

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5. 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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  • grad school
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 by George Chauncey

6. 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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  • nonfiction
Cover of Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency by Charles Rappleye

7. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction

8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

By: Jill Lepore

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, t… read more

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12. 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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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
"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

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13. The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

By: Aiden Thomas

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the h… read more

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"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings" Niya circled Teo back on the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"No hetero, but damn, Teo, your wings!" Niya circled Teo back onto the boat. "Does this make me a furry?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else's, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted?"

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

"Why was it that just because his body was different from everyone else’s, they thought they could ask whatever inappropriate questions they wanted."

-Aiden Thomas, The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)

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14. Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism

By: Stephen G. Rabe

3.83

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Stephen Rabe's timely book examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and asse… read more

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Cover of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

15. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 by Kristin L. Hoganson

16. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. 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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  • history
  • race
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué

18. 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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Cover of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion by Peter H. Wood

19. 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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Cover of Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany (New Studies in European History) by Sebastian Conrad

20. 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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  • history
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21. 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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  • history
Cover of Gospel According to the Klan: The KKK's Appeal to Protestant America, 1915-1930 by Kelly J. Baker

22. 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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Cover of Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life by Alexis McCrossen

23. 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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  • nonfiction
Cover of Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Kristina Shull

24. Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance (Justice, Power, and Politics)

By: Kristina Shull

3.60

Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition

The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the Un… read more

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25. The Black Carib Wars: Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna

By: Christopher Taylor

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the st… read more

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  • history
Cover of Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas by Tamar Herzog

26. Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

By: Tamar Herzog

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas du… read more

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Cover of Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925 by David Monod

27. Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925

By: David Monod

3.33

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly reveale… read more

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Cover of Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Julia Guarneri

28. Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans (Historical Studies of Urban America)

By: Julia Guarneri

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph H… read more

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Cover of Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas by Sam W. Haynes

29. Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for Texas

By: Sam W. Haynes

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Texas Revolution has long been cast as an epic episode in the origins of the American West. As … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World by Jeremy Adelman

30. Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World

By: Jeremy Adelman

3.33

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

This book is a political history of economic life. Through a description of the convulsions of long… read more

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Cover of Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico by Brian P. Owensby

31. Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico

By: Brian P. Owensby

4.06

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico shows how Indian litigants and petitioners made… read more

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15 Best nonfiction books like Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica (Early American Studies) by Sasha Turner

Transform Your Habits

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America

Christina Snyder

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

Grace Elizabeth Hale

3.97

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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

Grace Elizabeth Hale

3.97

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Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era

Elaine Tyler May

4.05

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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940

George Chauncey

3.84

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Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency

Charles Rappleye

3.50

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