Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

10 best books like Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Ned Blackhawk): The Empire of Ashes, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South, The Rage of Dragons, The Wolf's Call, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815, The Warring Son

The Empire of Ashes
AuthorAnthony Ryan
ISBN0356506444
For hundreds of years, the Ironship Trading Syndicate was fuelled by drake blood–and protected by the Blood-blessed, those few who could drink it and wield fearsome powers. But now the very thing that sustained the corporate world threatens to destroy it.

A drake of unimaginable power...
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
AuthorDavid Treuer
A sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

Dee Brown's 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was the first truly popular book of Indian history ever published. But it promulgated the impression that American Indian...
Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
AuthorDeborah Gray White
ISBN0393314812
Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in the plantation South assumed roles within the family and community that contrasted sharply with traditional female roles in the larger American society. This new edition of Ar'n't I a Woman? reviews and updates the scholarship on slave...
The Rage of Dragons
AuthorEvan Winter
Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.

The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war...
The Wolf's Call
AuthorAnthony Ryan
Anthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song - book one of the Raven's Shadow series - took the fantasy world by storm. The sequels, Tower Lord and Queen of Fire were both New York Times bestsellers. Now, Anthony Ryan returns to the world of this acclaimed fantasy series with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling...
AuthorJennifer L. Morgan
ISBN0812218736
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery,...
AuthorTiya Miles
ISBN0520250028
This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master...
AuthorMargot Canaday
ISBN0691135983
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
AuthorRichard White
ISBN0521424607
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 Warring Son
AuthorBryce O'Connor
**Book 2 in the Top 10 Bestselling Epic Fantasy series on Amazon**

Raz i'Syul Arro is a hunted man. To the south, the Mahsadën of Miropa are gone. The šef lay dead, slain at Raz's own hands, their cruel will ripped from the shadows of the city. In response, riders careen to every reachable...
Child of the Daystar
AuthorBryce O'Connor
Among the scattered fringe cities bordering the Cienbal desert, the true name of the Monster of Karth is spoken only in whispers... 

RAZ I'SYUL ARRO. 

A sellsword of the utmost caliber, Raz is a killer of paramount skill and highest regard. Towering tall even amongst the atherian,...
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