The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896
By: Sven Beckert
4.03
Format: 492 pages, Paperback
Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a …
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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
By: Tera W. Hunter
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more
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2. 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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3. The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
By: William J. Novak
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations… read more
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- the united states of america
4. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
By: Patricia Nelson Limerick
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
The 'settling' of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, … read more
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- american history
- american
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5. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
By: None
4.21
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat … read more
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- american history
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6. Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson
By: None , Blair L.M. Kelley
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullne… read more
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7. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
By: None
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
Lily white. White knights. The white dove of peace. White lie, white list, white magic. Our languag… read more
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8. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Glenda Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Car… read more
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9. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
By: None
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "… read more
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10. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
By: None
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of … read more
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11. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
By: Dara Horn
4.36
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more
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"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
12. Exhalation
By: Ted Chiang
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more
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"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."-Ted Chiang, Exhalation
13. Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Why does white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues… read more
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14. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
By: Alice L. Baumgartner
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial rol… read more
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- history
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- the united states of america
15. The Young Lords: A Radical History
By: Johanna Fernandez
4.61
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of… read more
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16. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By: Mae M. Ngai
4.08
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more
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17. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896
By: Sven Beckert
4.03
Format: 492 pages, Paperback
Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a … read more
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18. Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories (Oxford Legal History)
By: Gregory Ablavsky
4.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and… read more
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19. A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights (New Histories of American Law)
By: Laura F. Edwards
4.16
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest … read more
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20. Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
By: Samantha Seeley
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Who had the right to live within the newly united states of America? In the country's founding dec… read more
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21. Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (Cultural Studies of the United States)
By: Laura Wexler
3.85
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contri… read more
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