Race, Conservation, and the Outdoors

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,543 ratings
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature 4.22 avg rating — 3,230 ratings
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Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape 4.08 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock 4.37 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks 4.21 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums 3.76 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors 4.06 avg rating — 956 ratings
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Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage 3.55 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land 3.50 avg rating — 4,587 ratings
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Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry 4.61 avg rating — 473 ratings
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Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North 4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Atlanta's Concealment of the Baby Gun Club Landfill
Atlanta's Concealment of the Baby Gun Club Landfill 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town
Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town 3.92 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection 3.95 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Sound of Mountain Water
The Sound of Mountain Water 3.99 avg rating — 417 ratings
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The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World 4.10 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy
The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy 3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings
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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind 4.08 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States 3.69 avg rating — 160 ratings
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American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place
American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice
Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice 4.34 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change
The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger
Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger
by: Julie Sze
3.86 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Black Cloud: The Great Florida Hurricane of 1928
Black Cloud: The Great Florida Hurricane of 1928 3.76 avg rating — 93 ratings
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World 3.91 avg rating — 120 ratings
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp 3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land 4.67 avg rating — 509 ratings
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,442 ratings
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism 4.30 avg rating — 1,955 ratings
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Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature
Spirit of the Earth: Indian Voices on Nature 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Nature and Antiquities: The Making of Archaeology in the Americas
Nature and Antiquities: The Making of Archaeology in the Americas it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities
There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities 4.06 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors
The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors 3.92 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana
Natchez Country: Indians, Colonists, and the Landscapes of Race in French Louisiana 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West 4.17 avg rating — 1,926 ratings
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Belonging: A Culture of Place
Belonging: A Culture of Place 4.23 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
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Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming 4.32 avg rating — 319 ratings
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This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving 4.23 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West 3.99 avg rating — 388 ratings
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The Hidden Wound
The Hidden Wound 4.18 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) 3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Legacy On The Land
Legacy On The Land 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas
Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas 3.79 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices From the Grassroots
Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices From the Grassroots 4.11 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory (Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas)
Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory (Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Columbian Consequences, Volume 2
Columbian Consequences, Volume 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life 4.37 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England 4.10 avg rating — 3,912 ratings
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Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders
Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders 3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab 3.93 avg rating — 1,829 ratings
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The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution 3.91 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America
Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Triumph of the Eccunna Nuxulge
Triumph of the Eccunna Nuxulge 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821–1910
Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821–1910 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England (Indigenous Americas)
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England (Indigenous Americas) 4.14 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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FORESTS, ALLIGATORS, BATTLEFIELDS: My Journey through the National Parks of the South
FORESTS, ALLIGATORS, BATTLEFIELDS: My Journey through the National Parks of the South 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Stone Mountain Park
Stone Mountain Park 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Our Mark on This Land: A Guide to the Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in America's Parks
Our Mark on This Land: A Guide to the Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in America's Parks
by: Ren Davis
3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Atlanta's Stone Mountain: A Multicultural History
Atlanta's Stone Mountain: A Multicultural History 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South
Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life
The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Archaeology of Slavery: A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion (Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper, 41)
The Archaeology of Slavery: A Comparative Approach to Captivity and Coercion (Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper, 41) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy
Shackles From the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave Ship, a Bitter Past, and a Rich Legacy 3.67 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie
Slave Ship: The Story of the Henrietta Marie 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American's Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship's Past 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 3.72 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,191 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created 4.12 avg rating — 20,587 ratings
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Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants (Vol. I)
Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants (Vol. I) 4.43 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants (Vol. II)
Conquistador Voices: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants (Vol. II) 4.49 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica
Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Dream State: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, And Other Florida Wildlife
Dream State: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, And Other Florida Wildlife 3.84 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence
The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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LIKE JUDGMENT DAY, The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood
LIKE JUDGMENT DAY, The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood 4.25 avg rating — 154 ratings
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The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree 4.50 avg rating — 6,060 ratings
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America 4.65 avg rating — 642 ratings
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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America 3.99 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Lynching in the West: 1850-1935
Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings
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New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast
New Worlds of Violence: Cultures and Conquests in the Early American Southeast really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History
Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History 4.12 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found 4.13 avg rating — 2,303 ratings
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Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence 3.85 avg rating — 730 ratings
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The Bioarchaeology of Violence
The Bioarchaeology of Violence 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928
Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928 4.23 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America
The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America 3.86 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies) 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas
A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move 4.02 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature 4.08 avg rating — 791 ratings
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No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands
No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands 3.86 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Texas Railroad: The Scandalous and Violent History of the International and Great Northern Railroad, 1866-1925
The Texas Railroad: The Scandalous and Violent History of the International and Great Northern Railroad, 1866-1925 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 4.30 avg rating — 5,843 ratings
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice 4.30 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia 4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings
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Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice 4.31 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide 3.99 avg rating — 4,139 ratings
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Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society
Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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