8 best-selling nonfiction books like North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes by Harvey Amani Whitfield

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North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

By: Harvey Amani Whitfield

3.97

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves …

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1. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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2. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

By: None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, clima… read more

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4. Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World

By: Adele Perry

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one ext… read more

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5. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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6. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

By: None

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more

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7. A Special Hell: Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years

By: None

3.00

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmenta… read more

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8. Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

By: Constance Backhouse

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Alth… read more

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9. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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10. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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11. Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21)

By: Brittany Luby

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

" The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory" explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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12. Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia

By: Sean Carleton

4.64

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

An examination of how early state schooling in British Columbia taught students the legitimacy of s… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
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13. North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

By: Harvey Amani Whitfield

3.97

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
Cover of Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (Studies in North American Indian History) by Allan Greer

14. Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (Studies in North American Indian History)

By: Allan Greer

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were disposses… read more

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  • history
Cover of Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945 (Canadian Social History Series) by Angus McLaren

15. Our Own Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945 (Canadian Social History Series)

By: Angus McLaren

3.96

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 193… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada

9 best-selling history books like North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes by Harvey Amani Whitfield

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Transform Your Habits

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Transform Your Habits

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

4.29

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16 best-selling history books like Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory (Critical Studies in Native History, 21) by Brittany Luby

Transform Your Habits

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

4.30

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