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…
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. 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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3. Celia, A Slave
By: Melton A. McLaurin
3.52
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Compelling. . . a shocking tale. . . a remarkable account. . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in us… read more
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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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6. Slavery and the British Empire
By: Kenneth Morgan
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Slavery and the British Empireprovides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvemen… read more
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7. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration
By: Steven Hahn
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed … read more
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8. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
By: Tony Judt
4.37
Format: 933 pages, Paperback
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more
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"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
9. 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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10. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
By: Richard White
3.75
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Oxford History of the United Statesis the most respected multivolume history of the American na… read more
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11. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
By: Ernest Freeberg
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The late 19th century saw a surge of technological advancement, but probably nothing as important a… read more
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12. Nations and Nationalism
By: Ernest Gellner , None , None , None
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
From reviews of the first edition: "Brilliant, provocative . . . a great book."--New Statesman "An… read more
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13. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… 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. Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
By: Karl Jacoby
4.25
Format: None pages,
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16. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more
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17. The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898
By: Walter F. LaFeber
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This classic work, by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber, presents his widely influential a… read more
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18. Capitalism & Slavery
By: Eric Williams , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more
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19. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
By: James R. Green
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of wh… read more
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20. 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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21. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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22. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
By: Heather Cox Richardson
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more
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23. Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948
By: Tara Zahra
4.23
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Throughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for ru… read more
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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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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29. 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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30. 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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31. A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
By: Simon P. Newman
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor … read more
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