7 Best nonfiction books like Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

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Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America

By: Karen Ordahl Kupperman

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understandi…

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1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more

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  • grad school
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • anthropology
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."

-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"

-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"

-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

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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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  • grad school
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

By: William Cronon

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

By: David M. Kennedy

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depressi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

By: Drew Gilpin Faust

3.93

Format: 316 pages,

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World

By: None

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a… read more

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7. American Slavery, American Freedom

By: Edmund S. Morgan

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. Ge… read more

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8. Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History

By: Karl Jacoby

4.25

Format: None pages,

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9. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

By: Lisa Brooks

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • native american history
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10. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America

By: Karen Ordahl Kupperman

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understandi… read more

Similar categories in Karen Ordahl Kupperman's Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America book and Karen Ordahl Kupperman's Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America

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  • history
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  • nonfiction
  • anthropology

7 Best history books like Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Transform Your Habits

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

Walter Johnson

4.11

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

William Cronon

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

David M. Kennedy

4.43

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17 Best american history books like Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) by Lisa Brooks

Transform Your Habits

Indians in Unexpected Places

Philip J. Deloria

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts

Daniel K. Richter

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

Juliana Barr

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

William Cronon , John Putnam Demos , Tere LoPrete

3.66

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