Books like Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
12 books with a reading profile close to Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Invention of the Restaurant
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Rebecca Spang traces the origins of the restaurant to eighteenth-century Paris, arguing that these establishments did not begin as places for gluttony, but as quasi-medical spas.
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Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Jonathan Harris reconstructs the urban landscape and political culture of Constantinople during the peak of its influence around the year 1200.
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Russia and the Russians
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Geoffrey Hosking analyzes the tension between the expansion of the Russian state and the development of its national identity.
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Damascus
by Ross Burns
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Ross Burns provides a chronological history of Damascus, focusing on how its urban layout and architectural layers reflect shifting political control.
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Food and Drink in Medieval Poland
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Maria Dembinska provides a technical reconstruction of dietary patterns in Poland from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
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Hitler's Gift
Also outward-looking · history, academic
In 1933, the Civil Service Law stripped Jewish academics of their positions, dismantling Germany’s global dominance in science and physics.
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
by Iris Chang
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Iris Chang chronicles the 1937 massacre of Chinese civilians and prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army following the fall of Nanking.
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Tastes of Byzantium
by Andrew Dalby
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Andrew Dalby reconstructs the culinary landscape of the Eastern Roman Empire, focusing on the markets and kitchens of Constantinople.
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S.C. Gwynne
Also outward-looking · history, academic
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Pasta
by Silvano Serventi, Françoise Sabban
Also outward-looking · history, academic
This history traces the technical and cultural evolution of noodles and macaroni from ancient China and medieval Italy to the modern global market.
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Isabel Wilkerson argues that the United States is governed by a rigid, unspoken hierarchy that functions like a caste system rather than just a collection of racial prejudices.
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