18 Top history books like The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921 by Adam D. Shprintzen

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The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921

By: Adam D. Shprintzen

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early y…

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1. To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

By: Tera W. Hunter

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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3. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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4. Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration

By: Hasia R. Diner

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, bu… read more

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  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
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5. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

By: Mae M. Ngai

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more

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"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

7. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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8. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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9. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

By: Emily R. Austin

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s per… read more

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"Think about it,"

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

"My death, and the death of everyone I love, is inevitable. Pine again."

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

"I wonder if anyone really identifies as the adult they've morphed into."

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

"I am inside of an ecosystem I don't belong in... I feel like a foreign object inside a body, waiting to be rejected."

-Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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10. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction

By: Nell Irvin Painter

3.83

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves. read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender & American Culture)

By: Hannah Rosen

4.12

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

By: Mae M. Ngai

4.08

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War

By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean

3.97

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg―tens of thousands of soldiers died on these battlefields, and … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning

By: Rafia Zafar

4.15

Format: None pages, ebook

Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food a… read more

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  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
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15. Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Felicity M. Turner

4.00

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth ce… read more

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  • history
Cover of Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (American Encounters/Global Interactions) by Penny M. Von Eschen

16. Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989 (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

By: Penny M. Von Eschen

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In Paradoxes of Nostalgia Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping examination of the cold war’s after… read more

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  • history

17. Administering Freedom: The State of Emancipation after the Freedmen's Bureau

By: Dale Kretz

4.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

This book offers the definitive history of how formerly enslaved men and women pursued federal bene… read more

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18. The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921

By: Adam D. Shprintzen

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early y… read more

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  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
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19. Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South

By: Yael A. Sternhell

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Civil War thrust millions of men and women-rich and poor, soldiers and civilians, enslaved and … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The Body in the Reservoir: Murder and Sensationalism in the South

By: Michael Ayers Trotti

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virgi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

By: Karen R. Jones

3.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West’s most notorious woman: Calamity … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Confederate Conscription and the Struggle for Southern Soldiers (Jules and Frances Landry Award)

By: John M. Sacher

3.67

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award In April 1862, the Confederacy faced a dire militar… read more

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Tera W. Hunter

4.18

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4.05

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4.36

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2.83

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Tera W. Hunter

4.18

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Grace Elizabeth Hale

3.97

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4.36

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Kathleen M. Brown

3.50

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