Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
By: Tom Zoellner
4.13
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times bestselling author, a gripping account of the slave rebellion that led to the…
Want to Read $ 16.15"Here was a remarkable admission of Jamaican weakness, as well as a revealing disclosure that the sugar gentry were as afraid of an idea as they were of knives."-Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
"The growth of literacy was sparking an awakening – welcome to some, dreadful to others – across the slave-empire of Jamaica. Reading seemed to ignite a hidden store of fuel within an enslaved person."-Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
"The Jamaican violence had given humanitarians powerful evidence that the institution was costing Britain far more than it was giving back, and the humanitarians could now make extended pragmatic arguments as well as moral ones."-Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
"If Samuel Sharpe had been trying to seize the attention of the mother country – just as Nat Turner had given the American South a brief window through which to reconsider slavery – he succeeded far beyond what he might have hoped. Never before had enslaved people spoken so loudly in Britain."-Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
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1. A People's History Of The Vietnam War (New Press People's History)
By: Howard Zinn , Jonathan Neale
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
This latest addition to The New Press's People's History series offers an incisive account of the w… read more
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- historical
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- history
- nonfiction
2. The Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee
4.09
Format: 625 pages, Paperback
First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more
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"All for one and one for all."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
3. Assata: An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds
4.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more
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- politics
- race
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4. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
By: Jonathan D. Spence , David Lindroth
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshad… read more
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5. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- history
- british literature
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- audiobook
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
7. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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- audiobook
"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
8. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- politics
- history
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- audiobook
10. 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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- historical
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- european history
- audiobook
11. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
By: Zeinab Badawi
3.97
Format: 531 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Afric… read more
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- history
- historical
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- audiobook
12. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
By: Carol Anderson
4.33
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the … read more
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- politics
- race
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13. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
By: Buddy Levy
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more
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- historical
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- audiobook
14. All The Blood We Share
By: Camilla Bruce
3.52
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
15. Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
By: Vincent Brown
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an… read more
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- race
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16. How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
By: Adam Rutherford
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this. Racist pseudoscience … read more
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- race
- history
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Scientific racism’ or ‘race science’ are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
17. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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18. An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
By: Santi Elijah Holley
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as se… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
By: Robert Draper
4.30
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reck… read more
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20. The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
By: Scott Carney
4.40
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nucl… read more
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21. Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
By: Tom Zoellner
4.13
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times bestselling author, a gripping account of the slave rebellion that led to the… read more
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- british literature
- 19th century
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- politics
- nonfiction
- european history
- audiobook
"Here was a remarkable admission of Jamaican weakness, as well as a revealing disclosure that the sugar gentry were as afraid of an idea as they were of knives."-Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
"The growth of literacy was sparking an awakening – welcome to some, dreadful to others – across the slave-empire of Jamaica. Reading seemed to ignite a hidden store of fuel within an enslaved person."-Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
"The Jamaican violence had given humanitarians powerful evidence that the institution was costing Britain far more than it was giving back, and the humanitarians could now make extended pragmatic argu…"-Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
"If Samuel Sharpe had been trying to seize the attention of the mother country – just as Nat Turner had given the American South a brief window through which to reconsider slavery – he succeeded far b…"-Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
