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Books like Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches
The best books like Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches are Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches by S. C. Gwynne is about conquest, indigenous history, american west. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown · History
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, published in 1970, is Dee Brown's account of the systematic dispossession of Native American peoples across the American West between 1860 and 1890.
Shares conquest and indigenous history with Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred history read.
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- Long Walk to Freedom
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Nelson Mandela · Memoir
Nelson Mandela's autobiography traces his life from a rural Xhosa childhood in the Transkei to his release from prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years of incarceration, and ends with his election as South Africa's first democratically chosen president in 1994.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro · Biography
Robert A.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · History
Charles Mann's 1491 sets out to correct a widespread misconception: that the Americas before Columbus were a mostly empty wilderness populated by small, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers living in gentle harmony with an untouched nature.
Both dig into indigenous history.
Read the summary → - Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert · History
Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton argues that cotton was not just the raw material of the Industrial Revolution but the commodity through which modern capitalism was invented.
Both dig into colonialism.
Read the summary → - Strategy: The Indirect Approach
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Strategy: The Indirect Approach
B. H. Liddell Hart · History
Strategy: The Indirect Approach, first published in 1929 and substantially revised and expanded through a definitive 1954 edition, is Basil Liddell Hart's argument that the most effective military strategies throughout history have been indirect — working around an opponent's strength rather than against it — and that direct confrontation, however courageous, tends to be costly and inconclusive.
Both dig into warfare.
Read the summary → - The Black Jacobins
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C.L.R. James · History
The Black Jacobins is C.L.R.
Both dig into colonialism.
Read the summary → - The Wretched of the Earth
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Frantz Fanon · History
The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961 shortly before Fanon's death from leukemia, is a political and psychiatric analysis of colonialism and the conditions required for genuine decolonization.
Both dig into colonialism.
Read the summary → - This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa · History
This Bridge Called My Back, first published in 1981 and edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, is a landmark anthology of writing by women of color in the United States.
Both dig into colonialism.
Read the summary → - Babel
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R.F. Kuang · Historical fiction
Set in an alternate 1830s Oxford, Babel imagines a Royal Institute of Translation at the heart of the British Empire — a place where silver bars engraved with translation "match-words" generate the industrial magic that powers British supremacy.
Both dig into colonialism.
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Books like Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches: quick answers
What are the best books like Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches?
The best books like Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches by S. C. Gwynne are Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, such as conquest, indigenous history, american west.
What should I read after Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches?
A natural next read after Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches is Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown. Shares conquest and indigenous history with Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches. Other strong choices are Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
What books are similar to Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches by S. C. Gwynne?
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches centers on conquest, indigenous history, american west. Books with a similar feel include Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
