7 must-read history books like Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South by Erin Stewart Mauldin

Cover of Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South by Erin Stewart Mauldin

Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South

By: Erin Stewart Mauldin

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape…

If you liked the history plot in Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South by Erin Stewart Mauldin , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

By: Marc Bloch , Joseph R. Strayer , None

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

In this classic work, distinguished French economic historian, Marc Bloch, discusses the techniques… read more

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2. The Story of Mr Sommer

By: Jean-Jacques Sempé , Patrick Süskind

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Unknown Binding

From the internationally acclaimed author of Perfume comes a very adult story about growing up. read more

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3. How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

By: Mark M. Smith

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just… read more

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4. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

By: Jared Diamond

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more

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5. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

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  • history
Cover of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

6. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

By: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.62

Format: 590 pages, Hardcover

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a revealing vision of the American past and present. … read more

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  • american history
  • history
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7. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

By: Tiya Miles

3.95

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In a display case in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture sits… read more

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  • american history
  • history
"Though necessary to the work of uncovering the past, archives are nevertheless limited and misleading storehouses of information. While at times imposing and formal enough as to seem all-encompassing…"

-Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

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8. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)

By: Kyle Harper

4.21

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental rete… read more

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  • history
  • environment
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9. 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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  • history
  • environment
Cover of Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376 - 568 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Guy Halsall

10. Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376 - 568 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)

By: Guy Halsall

4.29

Format: 614 pages, Paperback

This is a major survey of the barbarian migrations and their role in the fall of the Roman Empire a… read more

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  • history
Cover of Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South by Erin Stewart Mauldin

11. Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South

By: Erin Stewart Mauldin

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape… read more

Similar categories in Erin Stewart Mauldin's Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South book and Erin Stewart Mauldin's Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South

  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • environment

18 best-selling audiobook books like The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Transform Your Habits

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

4.54

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

3.97

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