No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s
By: Sarah F. Rose
4.23
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities …
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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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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3. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
4. The New Disability History: American Perspectives
By: Lauri Umansky , Richard P. Bentall
4.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates… read more
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- disability studies
5. A Disability History of the United States
By: Kim E. Nielsen
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability… read more
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6. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
By: Theodor W. Adorno , None
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more
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7. 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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8. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
By: Ira Berlin
4.00
Format: 112 pages,
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9. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
10. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
11. 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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"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
12. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
By: Bryan Burrough
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths,… read more
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13. Health Communism
By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more
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14. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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15. Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.82
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children i… read more
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16. No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Justice, Power, and Politics)
By: Sarah Haley
4.45
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms o… read more
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17. Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North
By: Sarah Handley-Cousins
4.46
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is virtually synonymous with amputation. But war a… read more
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18. Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
By: Douglas C. Baynton
4.10
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, ove… read more
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19. Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions
By: Susan Burch
4.30
Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition
Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Na… read more
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20. No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s
By: Sarah F. Rose
4.23
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities … read more
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21. The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
By: Ernest Freeberg
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In the mid-nineteenth century, Laura Bridgman, a young child from New Hampshire, became one of the … read more
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22. Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
By: Marta Russell
4.44
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disab… read more
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23. Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean
By: Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as monst… read more
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