Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
By: Marjoleine Kars
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive slave revolt that almost changed …
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1. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
2. 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
- race
- history
3. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
4. A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
By: Tim Hannigan
4.13
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Paul Revere's Ride
By: David Hackett Fischer
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Paul Revere's midnight ride is a legendary event in American history - yet it has been largely igno… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
6. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
By: Peter Linebaugh , Marcus Rediker
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Using a decade of original research into the 17th and 18th century, this text unearths ideas and st… read more
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7. The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima
By: Constantine Pleshakov
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
On May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, it… read more
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8. Cryptonomicon
By: Neal Stephenson
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time … read more
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9. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
By: Ernest Freeberg
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The late 19th century saw a surge of technological advancement, but probably nothing as important a… read more
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10. The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
By: Kara Cooney
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of he… read more
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11. Negroes with Guns
By: None
4.60
Format: 645 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to… read more
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12. Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
By: Mike Dash
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king's r… read more
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13. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
By: Joseph J. Ellis
2.80
Format: None pages,
Informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the… read more
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14. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more
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15. Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade
By: Anthony Kaldellis
4.23
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: f… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
16. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
By: Shelley Puhak
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
17. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
18. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
19. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
20. On Juneteenth
By: Annette Gordon-Reed
4.18
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet… read more
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- race
- history
"History is always being revised, as new information, comes to light and when different people see known documents and have their own responses to them, shaped by their individual experiences."-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self; telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe in. They usu…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
"Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had w…"-Annette Gordon-Reed, On Juneteenth
21. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
22. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By: David Graeber
3.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more
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- africa
- history
- nonfiction
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
23. The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
By: Michael Wood
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its si… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
24. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
By: Ben Raines
4.34
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved peop… read more
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- africa
- race
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
25. 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
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- 18th century
26. The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
By: Nicholas Morton
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages … read more
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- history
27. Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
By: Colin Elliott
3.76
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
28. 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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- nonfiction
- history
29. The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
By: Linda Colley
3.79
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the g… read more
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- history
30. Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
By: Marjoleine Kars
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A breathtakingly original work of history that uncovers a massive slave revolt that almost changed … read more
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- race
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- historical
- nonfiction
- 18th century
