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Possessions: A Memoir of Transformation in an Era of Precarity
'I was so thirsty for the prize of academia, so thrilled to defy the fates, that I suffocated my own history and culture, my Burmese heritage and my mother's language....
The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present
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A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now...
Mehmed Ali: From Ottoman Governor to Ruler of Egypt
Kavalali Mehmed Ali Pasha (c. 1770-1849), often dubbed "the founder of modern Egypt", was one of the most important figures in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Born in what...
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
Set in Alexandria, this classic and much-loved memoir chronicles the exploits of Andre Aciman's colourful Sephardic Jewish family from its arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to...
Whose India?: The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction
The author emphasizes the selected nature of the facts provided by historical texts, and demonstrates the historicity of fiction. She calls into question assumptions about the end of nationalism implicit...
Egypt and the Egyptians
The richness of more than 3000 years of Egyptian civilization comes alive in the pages of this book. From the geology of the land, the first cities, social structure, religion,...
Colonising Egypt
Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.
The Penguin Guide to Ancient Egypt
This work combines a guide with a cultural history. The first section, which provides a background to ancient Egypt, its institutions and its people, is fully cross-referenced to the sights...
Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments
A moving account of how war is remembered - and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David...
The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to
It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all...
First Day Around the World
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londono, this lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent explores what going back to...
Mandela: The Authorised Biography
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The author has known Mandela since the 1950s, and has been given complete access to all his personal papers, to Mandela himself, and to his friends and political associates, to...
Iboga: The Visionary Root of African Shamanism
Shows how African shamans have used ibogaine for hundreds of years to communicate with ancestral spirits * Includes an interview with shaman Mallendi, initiation-master of the sacred root * Shows...
Nelson Mandela: A Force for Freedom
Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered public figures, a man synonymous with the long, bitter struggle to rid South Africa of an apartheid regime and replace it...
Freedom Next Time
The latest hard-hitting investigative book from John Pilger, the bestselling author of Heroes, Hidden Voices and A Secret Country. FULLY UPDATED FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION. John Pilger is one of...
Serowe: Village of the Rainwind
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An examination of Serowe's recent past - seen through the words and memories of the village inhabitants.
Ritual Figures of Congo
A sophisticated publication dedicated to one of the most astonishing collections of African art. This book presents a variety of ritual figures from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Figurative sculpture...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani: Egyptian Text,
Complete reproduction of Ani's papyrus, finest ever found. Full hieroglyphic text, interlinear transliteration, word-for-word translation, smooth translation. The sacred wisdom of the priests of ancient Egypt and the experiences of...
Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession
"An engaging romp." - New York Times Book Review "A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target...
Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission
Silver Medal winner in Military History Matters 'Book of the Year' Award "Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight " Military History Matters judges' comment Striking where the enemy...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of
In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places...
Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the soul of the ANC
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As a spokesman for a country, a continent and the developing world, Thabo Mbeki plays a crucial role in world politics, but to many people he is an enigma. Is...
Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World
Louis Jacobs opened the eyes of paleontologists to the African continent when he uncovered a major fossil site in the hills of Malawi in the 1980s. During five digging seasons...
The Chronicle of Jazz: Year-by-year, the Personalities, the Stories,
A year-by-year history of people and events telling the story of jazz and the personalities which have formed this music style. Beginning at the turn of the century, the text...
The Dawn of Universal History
This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...
Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived
First time in Modern Classics for Penelope Lively's evocative memoir of her childhood in Egypt. This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood...
Wilfrid Blunt's Egyptian Garden: Fox Hunting in Cairo
In the days of Empire, the British way of life was carried on with a blithe disregard for local peculiarities and this went hand in hand with a sometimes benevolent,...
African Stories: Once Upon a Giraffe
Inspired by traditional animal stories from Africa, find out WHY Giraffe has a long neck. Once upon a time, Giraffe's neck was quite short. Until the hartebeests wouldn't share their...
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A fierce and moving account of the genocide practised by the Spanish colonialists Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World....
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
New to Black Classics from 20th C. (0141181001) 'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction...
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...
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...
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
' Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor ' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times ' Dynamic, original and supremely...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...
Eyes Over Africa
In 2006, to fulfill a long-held dream, widely acclaimed photographer Michael Poliza and friend Stefan Breuer undertook a helicopter journey across Africa. Skimming close to the ground, they flew over...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning
'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...
When We Ruled: 'A history the world needs' Bettany Hughes
'A searing, nourishing journey through a history the world needs' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 'Please read it!' - Philippa Gregory, bestselling...
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This...
Beasts of a Little Land: The International Bestseller
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an...
A field guide to wild flowers of Kwa-Zulu Natal and the Easter Region
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This is a guide to wild flowers in the summer rainfall area, describing over 2100 species from subtropical coastal dunes to mountain peaks, with the focus on KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape,...
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan "Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent...
A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition
A fresh and penetrating exploration of South Africa's history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present "I did not think it was possible for a...
When We Sold God's Eye: 'A MODERN CLASSIC OF LITERARY NONFICTION' -
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass
From award-winning booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world's favourite alcoholic...
City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule
For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong...
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and...
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance- an African diplomat's guide to Africa In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a...