The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
By: Beth Lew-Williams
4.28
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miner…
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1. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
By: Stephanie McCurry
3.99
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by wh… read more
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2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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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
3. 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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4. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more
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5. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
By: Linda Gordon
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the … read more
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6. God's Red Son: the Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
By: Louis S. Warren
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles unti… read more
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7. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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8. Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China
By: None
2.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 1935, a Chinese woman by the name of Shi Jianqiao murdered the notorious warlord Sun Chuanfang a… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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11. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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13. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
By: Caroline Elkins
4.26
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more
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14. America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
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4.34
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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15. Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West)
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4.47
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
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16. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
By: Joanne B. Freeman
4.09
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
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17. Colonialism in Global Perspective
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3.68
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18. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
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3.74
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19. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
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20. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
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4.16
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21. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
By: Beth Lew-Williams
4.28
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miner… read more
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