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Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts

9 best books like Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts (Daniel K. Richter): Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up, Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora, The Last Good Guy, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball, Forging Diaspora, Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus

Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
AuthorTom Phillips
An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.
In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long...
Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
AuthorJohn Soluri
ISBN0292712561
Winner, George Perkins Marsh Award for Best Book in Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History, 2007

Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic...
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
AuthorStephanie E. Smallwood
ISBN0674023498
This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market.

Smallwood's...
The Last Good Guy
AuthorT. Jefferson Parker
ISBN0525537643
In this electrifying new thriller from three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, Private Investigator Roland Ford hunts for a missing teenager and uncovers a dark conspiracy in his most personal case yet.

When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman...
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
AuthorNathaniel Philbrick
ISBN0525426787
From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.
 
In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure...
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
AuthorKathleen DuVal
ISBN1400068959
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society

Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America’s...
Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball
AuthorAdrian Burgos Jr.
ISBN0809037203
When the selection committee voted Alejandro “Alex” Pompez into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, some cried foul. A Negro-league owner during baseball’s glory days, Pompez was known as an early and steadfast advocate for Latino players, helping bring baseball into the modern age. So why was...
Forging Diaspora
AuthorFrank Andre Guridy
ISBN0807871036
Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national relationships...
Histoire des grands-parents que je n'ai pas eus
AuthorIvan Jablonka
ISBN2020991012
Je suis parti, en historien, sur les traces des grands-parents que
je n'ai pas eus. Leur vie s'achève longtemps avant que la
mienne ne commence: Matès et Idesa Jablonka sont autant
mes proches que de parfaits étrangers. Ils ne sont pas célèbres.
Pourchassés comme communistes...
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