Books like A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
12 books with a reading profile close to A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Rashid Khalidi frames the modern history of Palestine as a sequence of six distinct colonial declarations of war, beginning with the 1917 Balfour Declaration and continuing through the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the m…
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Ibram X.
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
William L.
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The Origins of Freemasonry
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
In this historical study, Margaret Jacob traces the evolution of Freemasonry from its roots in Scottish stonemason guilds to its expansion across eighteenth-century Europe.
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Russia Against Napoleon
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Dominic Lieven recalibrates the history of the Napoleonic Wars by shifting the focus from Western European maneuvers to the Russian imperial perspective.
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Angela Davis connects disparate liberation efforts through a framework of intersectional internationalism.
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
James McPherson traces the intersection of political collapse and military strategy from the 1846 Mexican-American War through the Confederate surrender at Appomattox.
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Richard Rothstein identifies the specific local, state, and federal policies that created and enforced residential segregation across the United States.
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The Cambridge Companion to Debussy
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
This collection of essays analyzes Claude Debussy’s compositional innovations through the lenses of sonority, rhythm, and structural form.
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Rethinking German History (Routledge Revivals)
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Richard J.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Umberto Eco examines the shifting definitions of aesthetics in Western civilization from ancient Greece to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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