Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
By: Kathryn Olivarius
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immun…
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1. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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2. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
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3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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3. The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
By: Janine Di Giovanni
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
n May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relatio… read more
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By: David Auburn
3.63
Format: 256 pages,
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5. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
By: David R. Roediger
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
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6. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
By: Jean M. O'Brien
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local h… read more
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7. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
By: Erik Larson
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on Decem… read more
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9. Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
By: Jennifer Wright
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A humorous book about history's worst plagues--from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio--and … read more
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10. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
By: Stephen Graham Jones
4.21
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more
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11. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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12. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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13. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
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14. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
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15. You Dreamed of Empires
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3.85
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From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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16. I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
By: Sue Prideaux
4.31
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A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one o… read more
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17. Health Communism
By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
4.31
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18. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
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4.14
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19. Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
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4.06
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20. A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (Historical Studies of Urban America)
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4.29
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4.17
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22. Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
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4.16
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23. Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
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4.22
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24. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
By: Kathryn Olivarius
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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25. Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
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4.31
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26. Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Gender and American Culture) (Gender & American Culture)
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27. Mars
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28. Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
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4.32
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29. Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World
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3.57
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30. The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Global Health Histories)
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