The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
7 best books like The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Vincent Brown): Brokeback Mountain, The Conquest of New Spain, Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
| Author | Annie Proulx |
| ISBN | 0743271327 |
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender...
The Conquest of New Spain
| Author | Bernal Díaz del Castillo |
| ISBN | 0140441239 |
Vivid and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma’s Aztec empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly...
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
| Author | Rachel Hope Cleves |
| ISBN | 0199335427 |
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new.
Born in 1777,...
| Author | Tim Ingold |
| ISBN | 0415576849 |
Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social....
| Author | George Chauncey |
| ISBN | 0465026214 |
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
| Author | Matt Dembicki |
| ISBN | 1555917518 |
District Comics is a graphic anthology featuring lesser-known stories about Washington, DC, from its earliest days as a rustic settlement along the swampy banks of the Potomac to the modern-day metropolis. Spanning 1794-2009, District Comics stops along the way for a duel, a drink in the Senate's...
| Author | Stephanie E. Smallwood |
| ISBN | 0674023498 |
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...
