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24 alternatives to The Black Jacobins

Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Black Jacobins launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris▲65

   Edmund White's travelogue of his time in Paris

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations with Julian Bond▲76

   Fascinating oral histories and insights on leadership

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Sapiens▲185

   A brief history of humankind

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   War in Val D’Orcia▲55

   An Italian War diary 1943–1944

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove▲60

   Questlove's Autobiography

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Hamilton: The Revolution▲66

   Book version of the groundbreaking musical

   2016 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Black Swan▲80

   The impact of the highly improbable

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   The Good Soldier Svejk▲55

   Jaroslav Hašek's black satire, the inspiration for such work

   2016 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Tipping the Velvet ▲67

   A saucy, sensuous and multi-layered historical romance

   2015 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    The Traitor Baru Cormorant▲55

    An epic geopolitical fantasy

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Leonardo's Notebooks▲69

    Writing and art of the great master

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The Old Way▲77

    A story of the first people

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Originals▲66

    How non-conformists move the world.

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Long Walk to Freedom ▲71

    The autobiography of Nelson Mandela

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Trespass. A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art▲71

    Taschen tome profiling "The City as Canvas"

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Playing The Enemy ▲60

    Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning▲56

    A new interpretation of Hitler's frightening worldview

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Candy▲57

    Satire of Voltaire's Candide

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West ▲67

    An epic of the violence and depravity of Manifest Destiny

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore▲74

    Detailed biography of a quiet revolutionary

    2015 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

    The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

    2017 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Streetfight▲63

    Handbook for an urban revolution

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Medieval Graffiti▲70

    The lost voices of England's churches

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    How to be black▲85

    The title says it all.

    2015 · its alternatives →

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