Books like Stolen continents by Ronald Wright

A compelling overview of American history through the eyes and experiences of its women, workers, African Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working poor.

Roxanne Dunbar‑Ortiz presents a comprehensive account of United States history from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, exposing the long‑running colonial and genocidal policies that have silenced native voices.

An exploration of African influence on pre-Columbian America.

Daniel K. Richter brings Native peoples to the center of early American history, showing how they shaped, resisted, and were ultimately displaced during the long process that created the United States.

Sir Walter Raleigh’s ill‑fated Roanoke colonists and their encounters with Native Americans unfold in Giles Milton’s well‑researched narrative that spans English exploration, the mysterious disappearance of early settlers, and Elizabeth I’s legendary title, "Big Chief."

David E. Stannard examines the 400‑year assault on Native peoples of North and South America, arguing that European colonization and later American expansion constituted the world’s largest genocide.

Description. The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards' conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean.

A historical account of the near destruction of the Mi'kmaq and other North American First Nations by European colonization, concentrating on British actions and their lasting impact.

Kathleen DuVal places indigenous peoples at the center of early North American history, showing how Indians—not Europeans—shaped the relations along the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers during the colonial era.

This study examines the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. In a series of readings of travel narratives, judicial documents and official documents, Greenblatt shows that "the experience of the marvellous", central to both art and philosophy, was yoked by Columbus and others to service of colonial appropriation. He argues that the traditional symbolic actions and legal rituals through which European sovereignty was asserted were strained to breaking point by the unprecedented nature of the discovery of the New World. But the book also shows that "the experience of the marvellous" is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Lery and Montaigne - and notably in "Mandeville's Travels"--Wonder is the sign of a recognition of cultural difference. Greenblatt reaches back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the present to ask how it is possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other and possesiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder from being poisoned.

A revolutionary text by Frantz Fanon, providing insight into the fight for freedom and national culture in decolonization era.