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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 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...
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...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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Author: Lawrence James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator 'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has...
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 family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors...
Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir

Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir

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Author: Cal Flyn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However,...
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...
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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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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Thicker Than Water

Thicker Than Water

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Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

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The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong

Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong

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Author: Claire Ratinon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world, from food...
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...
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling

Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling

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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...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

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Author: Marjoleine Kars Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass...
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 Mind of a Thief

The Mind of a Thief

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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 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'...
Empire in the Age of Globalisation: US Hegemony and Neo-Liberal Disorder

Empire in the Age of Globalisation: US Hegemony and Neo-Liberal Disorder

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The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

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Author: Edward Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Superbly entertaining.' - Financial Times 'Jaw-dropping.' - Sunday Times 'Fascinating.' - Guardian 'Gripping.' - The Times 'Terrific . . . A...
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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Author: Iain Sinclair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and...