The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700 (Critical Perspectives on Empire)
By: Rebecca Earle
4.06
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bo…
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1. History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: John H. Arnold
3.78
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might ima… read more
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"History is above all else an argument."-John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"A historian is like a detective investigating a crime."-John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
"history is to society what memory is to the individual."-John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
" all history in some ways wishes to say something about its own present time."-John H. Arnold, History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
2. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
By: None
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of fed… read more
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3. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more
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4. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
5. The Return of Martin Guerre
By: Natalie Zemon Davis
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered i… read more
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6. Lessico famigliare
By: Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Garboli
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Lessico famigliaree la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge … read more
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8. Camere separate
By: Pier Vittorio Tondelli
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"'Camere separate' e uno straordinario e felice romanzo d'amore e di morte, di nostalgia e maturita… read more
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9. Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
By: Greg Grandin
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is … read more
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10. When the Emperor Was Divine
By: Julie Otsuka
3.29
Format: None pages,
Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more
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11. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
12. Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
By: Maud Newton
3.34
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–an… read more
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13. The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700 (Critical Perspectives on Empire)
By: Rebecca Earle
4.06
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bo… read more
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14. The Book of Common Prayer: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Brian Cummings
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Book of Common Prayer is one of the most influential books in history. First published in the r… read more
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