5 Top history books like The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography) by Moon-Ho Jung

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The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

By: Moon-Ho Jung

4.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Rising Tide of Color challenges familiar narratives of race in American history that all too of…

If you liked the history plot in The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography) by Moon-Ho Jung , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman

1. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more

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"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"

-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Cover of Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage

2. 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

3. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America

By: John Charles Chasteen

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Drawing on the most current scholarship, this concise text presents a direct, compelling narrative … read more

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Cover of Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández

4. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more

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Cover of The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism by Mike  Davis

5. The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism

By: Mike Davis

4.12

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In this substantially expanded edition of his earlier book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned a… read more

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Cover of The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography) by Moon-Ho Jung

6. The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements across the Pacific (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

By: Moon-Ho Jung

4.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Rising Tide of Color challenges familiar narratives of race in American history that all too of… read more

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18 Best history books like The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu and the Plagues of Capitalism by Mike Davis

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Tim Weiner

3.94

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4.42

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4.20

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