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Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever...
By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet, from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR

By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet, from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR

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White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial [...]

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FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREETTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human...
The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

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Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America

Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America

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How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America...
The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World

The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World

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Race, Nation, and Empire in American History

Race, Nation, and Empire in American History

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While public debates over America's current foreign policy often treat American empire as a new phenomenon, this lively collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national and...
Trouser People: A Quest for the Victorian Footballer Who Made Burma Play the Empire's Game

Trouser People: A Quest for the Victorian Footballer Who Made Burma Play the Empire's Game

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The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

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Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Wingate Pasha: the Life of General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate 1861-1953

Wingate Pasha: the Life of General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate 1861-1953

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Author: R. J. M. PughFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 320 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Wingate Pasha is the first biography of an emminent Scottish soldier-statesman who...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China

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Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship

The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship

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Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
East and West

East and West

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Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory

Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory

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Author: Deborah WillisFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 203mm, 660g, 176 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial...
America Declares Independence

America Declares Independence

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Deanna Bowen

Deanna Bowen

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Author: Crystal MowryFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 305mm, 1700g, 234 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization...
Empire with Imperialism: The Globalizing Dynamics of Neoliberal Capitalism

Empire with Imperialism: The Globalizing Dynamics of Neoliberal Capitalism

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Fear of Black Consciousness

Fear of Black Consciousness

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In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

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Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of...
Bligh in Australia: A New Appraisal of William Bligh and the Rum Rebellion

Bligh in Australia: A New Appraisal of William Bligh and the Rum Rebellion

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Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations

Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations

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The Protectors: A journey through whitefella past

The Protectors: A journey through whitefella past

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Australia's Empire

Australia's Empire

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The First Dismissal: Penguin Special

The First Dismissal: Penguin Special

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La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria

La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria

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Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

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A System of Ambition?: British Foreign Policy, 1660-1793

A System of Ambition?: British Foreign Policy, 1660-1793

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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Freedom's Sword: Scotland's Wars of Independence

Freedom's Sword: Scotland's Wars of Independence

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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

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Author: Marc-William Palen (Senior Lecturer) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

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Author: Olaudah Equiano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave...
The Architecture of Modern Empire

The Architecture of Modern Empire

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Author: Arundhati Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

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Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Forgotten War: new edition

Forgotten War: new edition

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Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

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Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

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Author: Will Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois'...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

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Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human...
Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire

Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire

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The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V

The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V

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We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

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Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by the itinerary...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in...