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Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet by Nina Lakhani (2020)

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)

The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement by Lorena Oropeza (2019)

Paris, Capital of Modernity by David Harvey (2006)

To Chicago and Back by Aleko Konstantinov (1894)

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016)

City in a Garden: Environmental Transformations and Racial Justice in Twentieth-Century Austin, Texas by Andrew M. Busch (2017)

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, by William Cronon (1983)

A Poverty of Rights, Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro by Brodwyn Fischer (2008)

Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort, By Paul J. Vanderwood (2009)

Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War (2016)

A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America by Grace Elizabeth Hale (2011)

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (2015)

Rethinking American Grand Strategy in the Asia Pacific

The End of White Christian America, by Robert P. Jones (2016)

Americans Against the City, By Stephen Conn (2014)

Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth’s Slave Trader, by Harry Kelsey (2003)

More to Read about Caste and South Asia

Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in The Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973, by Heidi Tinsman

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State (2008) by Yasheng Huang

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert C. Allen (2009)

The Fish that Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King, by Rich Cohen (2012)

Great Books on Modern Economic History

The Founders and Finance by Thomas K. McGraw (2012)

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2009)

Great Books on The Rise of American Capitalism

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