Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
By: Ann Laura Stoler
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective regis…
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1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- history
- world history
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- anthropology
"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
2. El entenado
By: Juan José Saer
3.96
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Arcydzieło literatury światowej II połowy XX wieku. Bezimienny majtek wyrusza z Hiszpanii do Río… read more
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"Aprendí, gracias a esos envoltorios vacíos que pretendían llamarse hombres, la risa amarga y un poco superior de quien posee, en relación con los manipuladores de generalidades, la ventaja de la expe…"-Juan José Saer, El entenado
3. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
By: Robert M. Emerson , Rachel I. Fretz , Linda L. Shaw
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this companion volume John van Maanen's Tales of the Field, three scholars reveal how the ethnog… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- ethnography
- anthropology
5. Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses - and Misuses - of History
By: Barry Eichengreen
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Gr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- history
- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
7. Chopsticks: A Cultural and Culinary History
By: Q. Edward Wang
3.71
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Japanese, Chinese and Korean culinary experienc… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
8. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
By: None , Marisa J. Fuentes
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free wo… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
9. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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10. When the Emperor Was Divine
By: Julie Otsuka
3.29
Format: None pages,
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more
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11. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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12. Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.16
Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition
A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, but… read more
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"There are few things in life as steadying as someone you have to be brave for."-T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)
"Are you sure you wouldn't like some nice murderers instead?" he asked plaintively. "Quite sure, thanks"-T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)
"If I'd given him too much, he'd know something was afoot. Too much money is as dangerous as too little; it means you want it too bad."-T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War, #1)
13. At Night All Blood is Black
By: David Diop
3.82
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting a… read more
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"La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Laughter brings laughter and smiles bring smiles."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"God's truth, each thing carries its opposite within."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
14. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
15. Swordheart
By: T. Kingfisher
4.15
Format: 426 pages, Hardcover
Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate… and, unfortunately, his… read more
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"Your god. Why a rat?"-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
"Zale steepled their fingers. “Do you want to talk about that?"-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
"Sarkis turned around and began to beat his forehead very gently against the wall. “The great god is punishing me,"-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
"The miller back home was like that,' she said. 'He had a little bit of power and he lorded it over everyone. Although there's less damage you can do with a mill than with a religious order."-T. Kingfisher, Swordheart
16. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
17. Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.23
Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition
He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a… read more
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"I somehow thought you had experience with stealth missions."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
"Saints teeth, everyone gets younger every year I think. Except me."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
"The larger part of power was understanding the power you had over others, even if you would rather not have had that much power in the first place."-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel, #2)
18. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
By: Ned Blackhawk
4.18
Format: 596 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
19. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
"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
20. 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
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
22. The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)
By: T. Kingfisher
4.22
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin.… read more
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"It could,"-T. Kingfisher, The Wonder Engine (Clocktaur War, #2)
23. Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
By: Jennifer L. Morgan
4.37
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African wom… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
24. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
By: Bathsheba Demuth
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Salué comme un événement scientifique, primé à neuf reprises, ce livre magistral est la toute premi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
25. The Allure of the Archives
By: Arlette Farge
3.91
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
26. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.27
Format: 172 pages, ebook
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
27. Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
By: Ann Laura Stoler
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective regis… read more
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- academia
- history
- world history
- ethnography
- theory
- library science
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
- anthropology
28. Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500
By: Charles S. Maier
3.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories―politically bou… read more
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- history
- sociology
- world history
29. African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (The Early Modern Americas)
By: Herman L. Bennett
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
30. A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Kent Blansett
4.23
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leade… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
31. Urgent Archives (Routledge Studies in Archives)
By: Michelle Caswell
4.17
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Urgent Archives argues that archivists can and should do more to disrupt white supremacy and hetero… read more
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