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.
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1. 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
2. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
By: Fred Anderson
4.19
Format: 912 pages, Paperback
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the Am… read more
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3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
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. 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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6. The Case for Christ
By: Lee Strobel
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Lee Strobe… read more
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7. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
By: None
4.21
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat … read more
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8. Absalom, Absalom!
By: William Faulkner
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… 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. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
By: James Oakes
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and t… read more
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11. Silence
By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more
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12. Rutherford B. Hayes (The American Presidents, #19)
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Hans L. Trefousse
0.00
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
A leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle … read more
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13. 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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- nonfiction
- race
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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
14. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By: Ilyon Woo
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more
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15. Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
By: Richard Bell
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery… read more
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16. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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17. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
By: Julius S. Scott
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more
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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. Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
By: Karen Cook Bell
4.06
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all… read more
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21. 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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