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The Black Joy Project

The Black Joy Project

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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...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to...
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey

Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey

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Maya and the Lord of Shadows

Maya and the Lord of Shadows

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In the thrilling third and final book in the acclaimed Maya and the Rising Dark trilogy that Kirkus calls "truly #BlackGirlMagic," Maya must face off with the Lord of Shadows...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works

The Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works

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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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Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

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Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944

Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944

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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

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 Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works

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 0
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...
Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944

Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944

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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,...
Long Walk To Freedom: Film Tie In

Long Walk To Freedom: Film Tie In

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East and West

East and West

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Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency: African Photography from The Walther Collection

Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency: African Photography from The Walther Collection

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This book is a comprehensive investigation into photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the "colonial gaze" as its starting point, Events...
Breaking the Maafa Chain

Breaking the Maafa Chain

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Breaking the Maafa Chain chronicles two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century, when transporting slaves from Africa to America was an illegal but lucrative business.Nineteenth century-Two sisters,...
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...
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History

I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History

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'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSONAn astonishing search for a missing person, the...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One

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Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...
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...