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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America

10 best books like Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America (Peter Silver): Confessions, About a Boy, Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830, Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America, A Man With One of Those Faces

Confessions
AuthorAugustine of Hippo
ISBN0192833723
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
About a Boy
AuthorNick Hornby
ISBN0140285679
'How cool was Will Freeman?'

Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping...
Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
AuthorAndrew M. Schocket
ISBN0814708161
The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of...
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
AuthorDeborah Feldman
ISBN1439187010
The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.

As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism,...
Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground
AuthorRobert Eisenberg
ISBN0062512234
Boychiks in the Hood is your passport to the Hasidic "underworld" -- a destination far different from popular expectations. Join Robert Eisenberg as he hangs out with an ex-Deadhead in Antwerp, makes a pilgrimage to the grave of the revered Rebbie Nachman in the Ukraine, munches mini-bagels with Rollerblading...
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness
AuthorAdina Hoffman
ISBN0300141505
Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist’s eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.

Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee during the war in 1948. He traveled on foot...
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
AuthorJ. H. Elliott
ISBN0300114311
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on...
Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier
AuthorJames H. Merrell
ISBN0393319768
James Merrell's brilliant book is an account of the "go-betweens," the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a reflection on the meanings of wilderness to the colonists and natives of the New World. From the Quaker...
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
AuthorJohn Putnam Demos
ISBN0679759611
As a historical novel, it is a fantastic book and a wonderful read. Unfortunately, it wasn’t billed as such, and as an historical text, there are some significant issues here. Most critically, Demos in places confuses the Mohawks involvement with what were actually Abenaki, and he also seems to have...
A Man With One of Those Faces
AuthorCaimh McDonnell
LOVED IT!!!

Do you know which famous person you look like?
I've been told that I have an uncanny resemblance to Brad Pitt...in the sense that we both have a body with two legs, two feet, two arms, two hands, and a head with two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth and hair. It's only the shape of everything...
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
AuthorNadja Spiegelman
ISBN1594631921
A memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.  

For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most...
America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers
AuthorJoyce Antler
ISBN0807036072
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Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
AuthorDavid Waldstreicher
ISBN0809094533
Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery’s place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests...
Khirbet Khizeh
AuthorS. Yizhar
ISBN9659012594
This classic 1949 novella about the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army has long been considered a high point in Hebrew literature, as it has also given rise to fierce controversy over the years. Published just months after the end of the 1948 war (in which the author fought)...
With an Iron Pen: Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry
AuthorRachel Tzvia Back
ISBN1438426488
The eighty-eight poems in With an Iron Pen, all originally written in Hebrew, offer a collective protest to the continuing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Palestinian territories--"the sin of Judah," which is written "with an iron pen, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their...
J'Accuse
AuthorAharon Shabtai
ISBN0811215393
Playing on Zola's famous letter denouncing the anti-Semitism of the French government throughout the Dreyfus affair, Aharon Shabtai's title can be taken literally: it charges his government and his people with crimes against the humanity of their neighbors. Here we find snipers shooting children,...
State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts
AuthorNick Hornby
ISBN0593087348
A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity.

"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once." - The New...
The Day That Never Comes
AuthorCaimh McDonnell
Remember those people that destroyed the economy and then cruised off on their yachts? Well guess what - someone is killing them.

Dublin is in the middle of a heat wave and tempers are running high. The Celtic Tiger is well and truly dead, activists have taken over the headquarters of a failed...
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