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White Boy Running
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We Dared to Win: The SAS in Rhodesia
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Faces of Africa
"I try to read people's lives," says photographer Mario Marino. In this new photo book, the Austrian-born camera artist presents over 220 colour and black-and-white photographs from some of the...
Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899
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Lords of the Earth: The Entwined Destiny of Wildlife and Humanity
For more than 40 years, Cyril Christo son of the artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude his wife Marie, and his son Lysander have been travelling among the last indigenous peoples...
African Myths & Legends: Tales of Heroes, Gods & Monsters
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. With its powerful tradition of storytelling, the myths of the continent of Africa have survived colonialism and slavery, bringing together a rich diversity of cultures from Ethiopia...
Black Victorians: Hidden in History
Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary....
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
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Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History
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Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will
It's wrong in principle and it doesn't work in practice. (And no, it's not good for tourism.) It doesn't have to be this way. They say Britain should be proud...
Cleopatra and Antony
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Mandela: Nelson Mandela by Himself
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African Europeans: An Untold History
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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 -- Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans...
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds of Britain Europe & Africa: A Comprehensive Visual Guide and Identifier to Over 550 Birds
The habitats of Great Britain, Europe and Africa boast some of the most interesting and adaptable members of the avian world. This accessible and fully illustrated guide presents some of...
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
An all-encompassing, insightful and wry look at living in a racist world, by a leading Black British voice in the academy and in the media Take a step through the...
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story...
The World After Gaza
From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramifications Memory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' - Washington Post '[An] epic history ......
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army
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Protecting the Empire's Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830-1870
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In the Words of Nelson Mandela: A Little Pocketbook
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Vanessa Nakate: Volume 100
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Vanessa Nakate, the Ugandan climate-justice activist. As a kid, when little...
Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections
Nigerian art has long been sought after by art collectors in France. Accompanying an important exhibition, Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections explores Nigeria's rich artistic production through a...
Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840
Writing from and between a variety of disciplines, scholars from European, Polynesian and Settler backgrounds show how the Pacific reveals a more various and contradictory history than that supposed by...
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Story of Nuncomar
The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885) examines some of the most controversial events of 18th century English colonial legal history from the point of...
The Violence of Empire: The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad
The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa. In September 1927, a 30-year-old man was taken from his village in the French...
Africa Squadron: the U.S. Navy and the slave trade, 1842-1861
Presents the history of the US Navy's Africa Squadron. Established in 1842 to enforce the ban on importing slaves to the United States, in twenty years' time the squadron proved...
Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
During the fifteenth century, the Mamluk sultanate that had ruled Egypt and Syria since 1249-50 faced a series of sustained economic and political challenges to its rule, from the effects...
Faces of Africa
"I try to read people's lives," says photographer Mario Marino. In this new photo book, the Austrian-born camera artist presents over 220 colour and black-and-white photographs from some of the...
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
Cairo Museum
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The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for revealing detail' William Dalrymple'James has a...
The Violence of Empire: The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad
The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa. In September 1927, a 30-year-old man was taken from his village in the French...
Abandon Ship!: The True World War II Story about the Sinking of [...]
On September 12, 1942, the RMS Laconia was attacked by a German submarine five hundred miles off the coast of western Africa. What the Germans didn't know was that they...
Ghost Season
With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan.A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
The Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt
This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and...
The Egyptians
This is an account of the Egyptians from the first settlers in the Nile Valley through to the present day. Egypt has the longest, continuous, known history of any country...
War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations
The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enemies - people from Nubia, Libya and...
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power
With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and...
War and Trade with the Pharaohs: An Archaeological Study of Ancient Egypt's Foreign Relations
The ancient Egyptians presented themselves as superior to all other people in the world; on temple walls, the pharaoh is shown smiting foreign enemies - people from Nubia, Libya and...
The Black Joy Project
Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork...
The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works
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The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America
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Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Despatches in this volume include the despatch on the campaign from Alamein to Tunis,...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
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 Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works
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Author: Alfred Joshua Butler
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 796
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