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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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)
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
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
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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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- 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
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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- history
- nonfiction
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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- history
- nonfiction
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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- 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
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)
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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- history
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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- history
- race
- nonfiction
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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- grad school
- history
- nonfiction
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
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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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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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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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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
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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- race
- nonfiction
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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