Colonial History


King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
John Adams
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Sailors, Settlers & Sinners: The Hall Family in Hull and New Zealand, 1795-1907
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1776
American Colonies: The Settling of North America
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Alexander Hamilton
The Wretched of the Earth
Thanks to Life by Ericka Kim VerbaMestiza by Patricia Cerda PincheiraInés of My Soul by Isabel AllendeSalvador Allende Reader by Salvador Allende GossensMemoirs by Pablo Neruda
Chilean History. Historia de Chile
37 books — 13 voters
Mayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickAlbion's Seed  by David Hackett FischerAmerica at 1750 by Richard HofstadterAmerican Jezebel by Eve LaPlanteThe Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
Nonfiction about Early America
196 books — 53 voters

Mayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickRoger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul by John M. BarryMaking Haste from Babylon by Nick BunkerThe Name of War by Jill LeporeKing Philip's War by Eric B. Schultz
Puritans (nonfiction)
120 books — 15 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
4,144 books — 4,787 voters

Abhijit Naskar
“ The Unholy Trinity (Naskaristana 2533) History of the world written by colonizers is no different from map of the world made by flat earthers - just like flat earthers flatten the globe to fit their delusion, colonizers flatten civilizations into savages, philosophies into myths, cosmologies into coincidences, lived holiness into paganism, erasure into expansion, trafficking into trade, native resistance into terrorism, and colonial terrorism into civilizing. The vatican, british empire, and ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

Abhijit Naskar
“ History of the world written by colonizers is no different from map of the world made by flat earthers. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

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