Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Daniel H. Usner Jr.
3.86
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
In this pioneering book Daniel Usner examines the economic and cultural interactions among the Indi…
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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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"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. Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
By: Mark David Spence
4.22
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherish… read more
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3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
4. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
By: Walter Johnson
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton planta… read more
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5. Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America
By: Kathleen M. Brown
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of … read more
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6. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
By: Lisa Brooks
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught betw… read more
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7. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
By: Brian Selznick
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his s… read more
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8. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
By: William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete
3.66
Format: 296 pages,
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9. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des … read more
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10. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the… read more
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11. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
By: Allan Greer
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
On October 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Saint Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native North … read more
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12. Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier
By: None
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
James Merrell's brilliant book is an account of the "go-betweens," the Europeans and Indians who mo… read more
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13. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By: Michael Pollan
3.66
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more
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14. The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
By: None
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "fr… read more
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15. They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School
By: K. Tsianina Lomawaima
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was … read more
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16. The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
By: Jill Lepore
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, t… read more
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17. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
18. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
19. Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Daniel H. Usner Jr.
3.86
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
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