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Emma Herman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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PhD in US history @Harvard | race, space + the architecture of security; energy infrastructure + environment | fact-checker @ Public Books

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Book Cover for: Private Empire: Exxonmobil and American Power, Steve Coll

Private Empire: Exxonmobil and American Power

Steve Coll
Emma HermanEmma Herman

The internal forecasts referenced were made around 2004, per Steve Coll's PRIVATE EMPIRE: EXXONMOBILE AND AMERICAN POWER (Penguin, 2012).

Paperback, 2013

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West, Christopher Ketcham

This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West

Christopher Ketcham
Emma HermanEmma Herman

THIS LAND by Christopher Ketcham is furious and brilliant and absolutely worth a read—the somewhat hokey subtitle doesn’t do it justice: https://t.co/hGQf7sa3Ld

Paperback, 2020

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary, Alex Lubin

Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary

Alex Lubin
Emma HermanEmma Herman

@Prime_116 @marclamonthill @breakfastclubam Hollow Land by @weizman_eyal; The Way to the Spring // Ben Ehrenrich; Kingdom of Olives and Ash // ed. Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman. You may also be interested in Alex Lubin's Geographies of Liberation for the links between black radicalism and the Palestinian liberation mvmt

Paperback, 2014

$37.50$18.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Thirty Years War, C. V. Wedgwood

The Thirty Years War

C. V. Wedgwood
Emma HermanEmma Herman

I've had C.V. Wedgwood's classic, THE THIRTY YEARS WAR, on my shelf for half a decade and never realized, or even thought to wonder if, its author was a woman.

Paperback, 2005

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy, Nikhil Pal Singh

Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

Nikhil Pal Singh
Emma HermanEmma Herman

@trishkahle @iasann Not an article, but a book: Nikhil Pal Singh's Black Is a Country changed a lot of my thinking on race and US democracy when I read it as an undergrad

Paperback, 2005

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation, Michael Chabon

Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

Michael Chabon
Emma HermanEmma Herman

@Prime_116 @marclamonthill @breakfastclubam Hollow Land by @weizman_eyal; The Way to the Spring // Ben Ehrenrich; Kingdom of Olives and Ash // ed. Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman. You may also be interested in Alex Lubin's Geographies of Liberation for the links between black radicalism and the Palestinian liberation mvmt

Paperback, 2017

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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