American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Andrew Preston
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
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1. Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies in International Security)
By: Lee Kuan Yew , Graham Allison , Robert D. Blackwill , Ali Wyne , Henry Kissinger
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on … read more
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- politics
- international relations
- history
- nonfiction
2. 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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"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
3. Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
By: Charles B. Dew
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the s… read more
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- american history
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- nonfiction
4. Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic, #1)
By: Tamora Pierce
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Mass Market Paperback
With her gift of weaving silk thread and creating light, Sandry is brought to the Winding Circle co… read more
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- history
6. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
By: Nate Silver
3.75
Format: None pages,
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 elec… read more
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- politics
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7. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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8. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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9. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
By: Chandra Manning
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root… read more
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10. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
By: Lizabeth Cohen
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
The lives of Chicago workers are traced in the mid thirties to reveal how their experiences as citi… read more
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11. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
By: David W. Blight
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In… read more
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12. No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta
By: None
3.87
Format: 515 pages, Hardcover
In No Depression in Heaven, Alison Collis Greene demonstrates how the Great Depression and New Deal… read more
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13. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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14. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction
By: Manfred B. Steger
3.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
"Globalization" has become the buzz-word of our time. A growing number of scholars and political ac… read more
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15. The Forever War
By: Dexter Filkins
3.82
Format: 160 pages,
An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever Waris the definitive account of America's conflict… read more
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16. Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
By: David Waldstreicher
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize s… read more
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17. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
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18. All That's Left Unsaid
By: Tracey Lien
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more
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"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid
19. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
By: Claudio Saunt
4.23
Format: 396 pages, Hardcover
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East t… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
20. American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Andrew Preston
3.74
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
For better or worse--be it militarily, politically, economically, technologically, or culturally--A… read more
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21. America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror (America in the World, 14)
By: Jeffrey A. Engel
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principle… read more
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22. Bibi: My Story
By: Benjamin Netanyahu
4.48
Format: 733 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s ”compelling” (The Economist) and“substa… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
23. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
24. A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
By: John Gibney
3.73
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the daw… read more
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25. A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
By: Johannes Krause
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A radical retelling of humanity's restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary … read more
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26. 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
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27. Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
By: Thomas S. Mullaney
3.94
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the… read more
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28. Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
By: Sam Wineburg
4.04
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are… read more
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- history
"A history of unalloyed certainties is dangerous because it invites a slide into intellectual torpor. History as truth, issued from the left or the right, abhors shades of gray. It seeks to stamp out …"-Sam Wineburg, Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)
29. The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools (History and Philosophy of Education Series)
By: Jonathan Zimmerman
3.95
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
From the fights about the teaching of evolution to the details of sex education, it may seem like A… read more
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30. A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
By: Jeanne Theoharis
4.32
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
Explodes the fables that have been created about the civil rights movement The civil rights move… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
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"Racial injustice is America’s original sin and deepest silence."-Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
"In short, we prefer our heroes and heroines in the past and will cast aside the parts of the story that raise questions about our current directions."-Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
"There has been a tendency to personify racism in the figure of a working-class white redneck who dislikes Black people and spouts hateful things, as opposed to a middle-or upper-class white person wh…"-Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
"But if racism is pictured as parents asserting their rights as taxpayers & questioning whether the Brown decision applies to "their schools"; if it is shown in calls for more "law & order" & "fiscal …"-Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
31. The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921 (SUNY Series in American Social History)
By: Stephen Meyer III
3.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in a small Detroit workshop. Five years later, h… read more
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