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

Private Empire: Exxonmobil and American Power
Steve Coll
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
This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West
Christopher Ketcham
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
Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
Alex Lubin
@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
The Thirty Years War
C. V. Wedgwood
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
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Nikhil Pal Singh
@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
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
Michael Chabon
@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