Manisha Sinha Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Historian of Slavery, Abolition, Civil War and Reconstruction, Author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination
Robert H. AbzugManisha Sinha@LarryGlickman @rebeccaonion @RachelCleves @EmilyContois Yup abolitionists were really into Graham crackers! Robert Abzug in Cosmos Crumbling is good in this.
Paperback, 1994
$108.00$83.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
James WalvinManisha Sinha@sejr_historian @somustakeem Stephanie Smallwood Joseph Miller Saidiya Hartman @MarcusRediker and for some real classics Sir Walter Rodney and first half of Eric Williams which is much better than the second half. Also see new book on the Zong massacre by James Walvin.
Paperback, 2019
$42.00$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mother India
Katherine MayoManisha Sinha@ThatJBF And white women including the very racist Katherine Mayo from the US My sister write about this in Mother India hence the reference above!
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Underground Railroad
Colson WhiteheadManisha SinhaRT @poniewozik: Barry Jenkins' "The Underground Railroad" is a visual tour de force worthy of Colson Whitehead's imaginative one. https://t…
Paperback, 2018
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Underground Railroad
William StillManisha SinhaRT @ProenzaColes: Abolitionist William Still assisted some 1000 Americans pursuing freedom with the Underground Railroad. Author, entrepren…
Paperback, 2022
$37.99$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
Jeremy A. YellenManisha Sinha@Troasts3 @ProenzaColes Maybe but a Philippines republic under American protection that entire brutal war was unnecessary pretty much how Japan behaved in the Greater East Asia co prosperity sphere
Paperback, 2023
$35.95$17.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860
Carl KaestleManisha Sinha@baseballcrank That’s pretty uninformed, no they were common schools and it’s what Mann built on. They had nothing in common with private or Catholic schools which they opposed. Read Carl Kaestle’s Pillars of the Republic.
Paperback, 1983
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Uncollected Letters of Abraham Lincoln: 1
Abraham LincolnManisha SinhaCivil War historian here, tune in for the #January6thCommiteeHearings at 1 pm when racist Steve Bannon will testify on Trump’s attempted coup “that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the face of the earth.” Abraham Lincoln, 1863 #HATH https://t.co/nGlAz70agd
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Forest Leaves: And Other Poems
Charles Wesley KyleManisha SinhaAnd her first book of poems Forest Leaves published earlier was discovered by my former student Johanna Ortner who has just defended her deeply researched dissertation on Harper. @AlexC_PhD @CrystalDonkor @jwbernier https://t.co/LaglVPDKj6
Hardcover, 2016
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire
Mrinalini SinhaManisha SinhaHappy #InternationalWomensDay a good day to announce that Sati was banned in India and your performative condemnation in 2022 is signaling something else. Read Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (Radical Perspectives) https://t.co/adhEqpSXpX
Paperback, 2006
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book