5 Best history books like Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire by Sam Erman

Cover of Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire by Sam Erman

Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

By: Sam Erman

4.05

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citize…

If you liked the history plot in Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire by Sam Erman , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe

1. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.73

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more

Similar categories in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) book and Sam Erman's Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

"Let us not reason like cowards,"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"There is no story that is not true."

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew

2. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

By: Kathleen Belew

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Belew's Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America book and Sam Erman's Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"

-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Cover of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History) by Martha S. Jones

3. Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History)

By: Martha S. Jones

4.05

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizen… read more

Similar categories in Martha S. Jones's Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Studies in Legal History) book and Sam Erman's Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
  • law
Cover of The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo

4. The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico

By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo

4.17

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

In The Lettered Barriada , Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educ… read more

Similar categories in Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico book and Sam Erman's Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

  • history
Cover of Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism by Margaret M. Power

5. Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism

By: Margaret M. Power

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party’s (PNPR) understood that to successfully establish an independen… read more

Similar categories in Margaret M. Power's Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism book and Sam Erman's Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

  • history
Cover of Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire by Sam Erman

6. Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

By: Sam Erman

4.05

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citize… read more

Similar categories in Sam Erman's Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire book and Sam Erman's Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • american history
  • law

19 Top fiction books like Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe

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Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

4.14

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Toni Morrison

4.12

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4.02

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Jean Rhys

3.59

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