Zachary Joseph Wone has tagged me again, so Ill go another top five, this time all non-fiction. These things really are very earnest, but maybe Tom Clark hasnt been asked yet and wouldnt mind giving us five non-fiction books that have stuck with him? Or Rebekah Alexander? 1. Beyond a Boundary - CLR James (autobiography of one of the greatest West Indians of the 20th century, historian, Labour Party secretary, revolutionary Trotskyist, and widely regarded as the finest book on cricket ever written) 2. The Black Jacobins- CLR James, the story of the only successful slave revolt in history, the Haitian Revolution. 3. Drawing the Global Colour Line, Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds. A groundbreaking recent transnational history, by two eminent Australian historians, looking at how interconnected nations and nationalisms constructed everything from citizenship to passports to control bodies and spaces across the globe in order to privilege some and exclude others. 3. The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter, an American-centric, but very enlightening study of the creation of an identity out of many different ethnicities, from the author of Creating Black Americans. The evidence on 20th century American eugenics is horrifying. 4. The True Story of Jimmy Governor, Moore and Williams. The story of Aboriginal bushranger Jimmy Governor and his rampage across northern NSW. 5. A swindlers progress, Kirsten McKenzie, the story of imposter and conman, John Dow aka Edward Lascelles, heir to a slave-built West Indian fortune, who arrives in Australia with mysterious sealed boxes and starts booking up goods and services by the truckload, based on his supposed, claimed nobility. A real classic of transnational history, cultural history and history of empire.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:06:54 +0000
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