Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
10 best books like Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Anne McClintock): The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, The Wretched of the Earth, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Sex in History, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present, The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
| Author | Jill Lepore |
| ISBN | 0375702628 |
Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society
King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres...
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831115 |
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald...
| Author | Reay Tannahill |
| ISBN | 0812885406 |
SEX IN HISTORY chronicles the pleasures- and perils- of the flesh from the time of mankind's distant ancestors to the modern day; from a sexual act which was bried, crude and purposeful, to the myriad varieties of contemporary sexual mores. Reay Tannahill's scholarly, yet accessible study ranges...
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
| Author | Lillian Faderman |
| ISBN | 0688133304 |
I found this book wholly fascinating and compelling, yet sad. It tells the story of love between women and how perceptions and prejudices have shaped it across the centuries. As it was first published in 1981, the subtitle is no longer accurate. The lesbian-feminist movement of the 1970s is the last...
The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
| Author | Rachel P. Maines |
| ISBN | 0801866464 |
From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries...
| Author | John D'Emilio |
| ISBN | 0226142647 |
The 1st full length study of the history of American sexuality, Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into sexual behavior from colonial times to today. D'Emilio & Freedman give a deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics & culture throughout history.
...
| Author | Pauline Maier |
| ISBN | 0684868547 |
When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether...
In "a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down" (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tells how the brutal war between the colonial government and the insurrectionist Mau Mau between 1952...
| Author | Richard White |
| ISBN | 0521424607 |
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...
The Death of the Liberal Class
| Author | Chris Hedges |
| ISBN | 1568586442 |
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define...
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
| Author | Walter Johnson |
| ISBN | 0674005392 |
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged,...
Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
| Author | Elaine Tyler May |
| ISBN | 0465030556 |
In the 1950s, the term ”containment” referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the ”sphere of influence” was the home. Within its walls, potentially...
