8 Top american history books like A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights by Elizabeth Borgwardt

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A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights

By: Elizabeth Borgwardt

3.30

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World…

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1. The Age of Reform

By: Richard Hofstadter

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent histo… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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"Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die."

-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform

"Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arra…"

-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform

"What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man…"

-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform

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2. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

By: Danielle L. McGuire

4.47

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a st… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
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"Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fractur…"

-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

"Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate the 1921 law and ordered him to pay a five-hundred-dollar fine or se…"

-Danielle L. McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

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3. Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

By: Thomas G. Andrews

3.94

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mi… read more

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4. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more

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  • grad school
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5. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long

By: Richard D. White Jr.

3.80

Format: None pages,

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6. 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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7. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War

By: Alan Brinkley

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

At a time when liberalism is in disarray, this vastly illuminating book locates the origins of its … read more

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8. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

By: Jefferson R. Cowie

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An epic account of how middle-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals o… read more

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9. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

By: Kenneth Pomeranz

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustain… read more

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10. 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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11. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

By: Joanne B. Freeman

4.09

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

In The Field of Blood, the historian Joanne B. Freeman offers a new and dramatically rendered portr… read more

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12. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

By: Christopher Capozzola

3.91

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Ame… read more

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  • american history
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13. The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State

By: Mary Poole

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between … read more

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14. A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights

By: Elizabeth Borgwardt

3.30

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World… read more

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Cover of Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict (International Library of Twentieth Century History Book 68) by Andrew Tait Jarboe

15. Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict (International Library of Twentieth Century History Book 68)

By: Andrew Tait Jarboe

3.33

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signaled the commencement of what would become the wo… read more

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16. World War I in Africa: The Forgotten Conflict Among the European Powers (International Library of Twentieth Century History)

By: Anne Samson

3.00

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The First World War in German Southern and East Africa was fought in extremely different circumstan… read more

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17. Asia and the Great War: A Shared History

By: Guoqi Xu

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There is no single volume that shines a light on Asia's collective involvement in the First World W… read more

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  • history
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18. World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict

By: Heather E. Streets-Salter

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact al… read more

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Cover of History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition) by Norman J. Wilson

19. History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition)

By: Norman J. Wilson

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current tren… read more

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20. Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

By: Peter James Hudson

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarke… read more

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Cover of Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press) by Samantha Seeley

21. Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

By: Samantha Seeley

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America? In the country's founding dec… read more

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12 Top history books like A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights by Elizabeth Borgwardt

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Reform

Richard Hofstadter

3.91

Transform Your Habits

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

Danielle L. McGuire

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

Thomas G. Andrews

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

John Lewis Gaddis

3.63

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7 Best history books like World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict by Heather E. Streets-Salter

Transform Your Habits

The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932

William E. Leuchtenburg , Daniel J. Boorstin

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

David M. Kennedy

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

Christopher Capozzola

3.91

Transform Your Habits

A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights

Elizabeth Borgwardt

3.30

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