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Island Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 48,159 ratings — published 2009
The Healing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8,846 ratings — published 2012
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,270,217 ratings — published 1936
Conquistadora (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 3,664 ratings — published 2011
Sugar (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 2,875 ratings — published 2013
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 311,357 ratings — published 2010
The Cutting Season (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 17,635 ratings — published 2012
The Indigo Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 54,633 ratings — published 2017
Roses (Roses, #2)
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avg rating 4.10 — 18,674 ratings — published 2010
A Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home (Celeste, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,964 ratings — published 2010
Holly (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 4,829 ratings — published 2003
Beyond the Rice Fields (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 445 ratings — published 2016
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.84 — 728 ratings — published 2021
Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia’s Plantations (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 2014
Ecofeminism (Critique Influence Change)
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avg rating 4.14 — 593 ratings — published 1993
The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 82 ratings — published 2010
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 185 ratings — published 2023
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 309 ratings — published 2019
Violence Against An Ethnic Minority In Malaysia: Kampung Medan, 2001 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2012
Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published
Indians in Malaysia and Singapore (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1786–1941 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published
Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 140 ratings — published 2013
Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 4,829 ratings — published 2008
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 5,628 ratings — published 2019
The Emergence of Agricultural Science: Justus Liebig and the Americans, 1840-1880 (Studies in the History of Science and Medicine)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1975
Plantation Worlds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Indians in Malaya: Some Aspects of their Immigration and Settlement (1786–1957)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1969
Hidup Bersama Raksasa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 100 ratings — published
Tales of the Post-Plantation: Unlikely Protagonists of Modern Philippine Banana History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 2023
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 76 ratings — published
Oil Palm: A Global History (Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges)
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avg rating 3.94 — 32 ratings — published 2021
Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything — And Endangered the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 268 ratings — published 2021
The Big Here and the Long Now: From Global Uniformity to the New Diversities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 155 ratings — published 1991
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 7,948 ratings — published 1938
Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 71 ratings — published 2019
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 4,632 ratings — published 2011
Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950 (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Cage of Freedom: Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 2006
South Indians on the Plantation Frontier in Malaya (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,892 ratings — published 1985
We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of indenture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.53 — 34 ratings — published 2018
Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (Volume 4) (Vagabonds)
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avg rating 3.99 — 84 ratings — published
Sucked Oranges - The Indian Poor in Malaysia (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
River Sing Me Home (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 33,203 ratings — published 2023
Burn Down Master's House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 19,665 ratings — published 2026
Lost Plantations of the South (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 112 ratings — published
Song of Slaves in the Desert (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.39 — 140 ratings — published 2011
“As she gracefully descended down portico, the white gloved hand of the lady of the estate met the white-glove worn by a Negro footman, as a vast expanse of hoop skirt filled the carriage doorway. It was a skirt of fine white lawn with ruffles embroidered with little pink and blue flowers complete with green stems. The white trash girl looked on in amazement, involuntarily wincing at the thought of the long hours plantation slave seamstresses had devoted to decorating a dress that might only be worn a half dozen times and survive as many launderings.”
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“..the guests milled back and forth: men stood with their heads together, discussing politics and crops, their stiff white shirts puffed and ruffled, their voices rising and falling in steadfast opinions as women of fair whispered to one another and laughed behind silk fans, occasionally calling out gaily to pull another into their ring of white shoulder flounced with satin as house niggers dipped and weaved all around them bearing trays of syllabub and sack, almost invisible as the shadows they cast”
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