5 Best history books like Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks

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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

By: James F. Brooks

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive ex…

If you liked the history plot in Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

By: James Agee , Walker Evans

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more

Similar categories in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men book and James F. Brooks's Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

  • nonfiction
  • history

2. Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

By: Hampton Sides

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won--a Sweeping Tale of Shame and Glory In the fal… read more

Similar categories in Hampton Sides's Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West book and James F. Brooks's Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho

By: Margaret Coel

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Ind… read more

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4. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

By: Andrés Reséndez

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A landmark history -- the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across … read more

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5. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

By: Ned Blackhawk

3.88

Format: None pages,

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6. Taste: My Life Through Food

By: Stanley Tucci

4.21

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of … read more

Similar categories in Stanley Tucci's Taste: My Life Through Food book and James F. Brooks's Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

  • nonfiction
"And anyway one is never drinking alone. Someone else is always drinking somewhere."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"Cooking for her is at once a creative outlet and a way of feeding the family well."

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"Losing a beloved family heirloom is a very real personal loss; they're things that cannot ever be replaced or re-created. But perhaps the most precious heirlooms are family recipes. Like a physical h…"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

"It is the connection between customer and purveyor that makes our interactions stronger, to me eating well is not just about what tastes good but about the connections that are made through the food …"

-Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

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7. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

By: Megan Kate Nelson

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West dur… read more

Similar categories in Megan Kate Nelson's The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West book and James F. Brooks's Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • native american
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8. Thinking About History

By: Sarah C. Maza

4.09

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating questio… read more

Similar categories in Sarah C. Maza's Thinking About History book and James F. Brooks's Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

  • grad school
  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded

By: Anton Treuer

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A revised and updated edition of a modern classic offers answers to nearly 200 essential and though… read more

Similar categories in Anton Treuer's Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded book and James F. Brooks's Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

  • nonfiction
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10. Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

By: James F. Brooks

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive ex… read more

Similar categories in James F. Brooks's Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands book and James F. Brooks's Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • native american
  • native american history
  • indigenous
  • grad school
  • the americas
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
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11. Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo

By: Jennifer Koshatka Seman

3.92

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

2022 Americo Paredes Award, Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College Santa Ter… read more

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12. Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina

By: Paulina L Alberto

4.18

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories a… read more

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7 must-read nonfiction books like Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

James Agee , Walker Evans

3.84

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Hampton Sides

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Taste: My Life Through Food

Stanley Tucci

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

Megan Kate Nelson

4.03

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18 Top history books like The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson

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Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

Gary D. Joiner , O. Edward Cunningham , Timothy B. Smith

4.06

Transform Your Habits

This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

James M. McPherson

3.20

Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Hampton Sides

3.92

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"The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour.

Eric J. Wittenberg

5.00

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