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…
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. 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
3. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
4. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels #3)
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's … read more
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5. Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
By: Sally E. Hadden
3.52
Format: None pages, Paperback
Obscured from our view of slaves and masters in America is a critical third party: the state, with … read more
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6. 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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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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8. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
By: Daina Ramey Berry
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and b… read more
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9. 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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10. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
By: None
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edm… read more
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11. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By: Ibram X. Kendi
4.54
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Blac… read more
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12. The Only Good Indians
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.70
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, c… read more
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"Names are stupid, though. Pretty soon he won't even need his."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Lewis finds the fourteen-foot aluminum ladder under boxes in the garage, Three Stooges in into the backyard..."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"Dealing with cops is like being around a skittish horse: No sudden movements, nothing shiny or loud. Zero jokes."-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
"An elk mother, cornered, will slash with her hooves and tear with her mouth and even offer the hope of her own hamstrings, and if none of that works, she'll rise again years and years later, because …"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
13. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Jessica Marie Johnson
4.27
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and… read more
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- history
14. 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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15. 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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16. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
4.29
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bri… read more
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"Historians who explore slavery's relationship to capitalism generally focus on the roles that men played in the development of both. But if we considered the very real possibility that some of the en…"-Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
17. Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico
By: María Elena Martínez
4.14
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
María Elena Martínez's Genealogical Fictions is the first in-depth study of the relationship betwee… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
By: Julius S. Scott
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more
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21. Thinking About History
By: Sarah C. Maza
4.09
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more
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22. 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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23. Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
By: James H. Sweet
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atl… read more
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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations (Afro-Latin America)
By: Adriana Chira
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In nineteenth-century Santiago de Cuba, the island of Cuba's radical cradle, Afro-descendant peasan… read more
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