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The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World
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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...
1788: The Brutal Truth Of The First Fleet
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An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children. Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this....
The Architecture of Modern Empire
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From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back...
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking
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Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the...
Orientalism
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The book that redefined our understanding of the legacy of European colonialism and empire, now reissued with a new PMC jacket 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer In this highly acclaimed...
The Fatal Shore
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'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
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An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on the frontier of Australia - with introduction from Inga Clendinnen. An extraordinary piece of history - the Scottish Highlanders on...
The Parade
From the best-selling author of The Circle, a powerful modern fable on the legacy of colonialism, the dark power of global corporations, and the challenge of truly 'doing good' Two...
Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Dark Star Trilogy Book 1
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The story of a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many answers . . . Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter...
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
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The groundbreaking bestseller which examines the effect of empire on modern Britain In Britain, imperialism is everywhere - though we often choose not to see it. From the way we...
Personal Writings
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A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side, Nuptials and Summer This volume contains some of Camus' most intimate...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization
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An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life
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'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing...
Warrior: A legendary leader's dramatic life and violent death on the colonial frontier
Winner of the 2015 Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance Winner of the 2016 Magarey Medal for Biography 'Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our...
Tasmania's Convicts: How felons built a free society
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells...
Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland's frontier killing times
'This is an important, well researched book: challenging, compelling and controversial. It is a must read for anyone interested in Australian history.' - Henry Reynolds The Queensland frontier was more...
The Colony: A history of early Sydney
Winner of the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 'Grace Karskens writes with the passion and insight of a novelist, and the accuracy of a historian. To read it...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition...
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 ......
Coconut: A Black girl fostered by a white family in the 1960s and her
'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. 'What do you mean?' A tender finger brushed against my cheek. 'Well,...
Young Elizabeth: One Extraordinary African Summer in the Life of the
Young Elizabeth captures in vivid detail perhaps the single-most important formative experience in Queen Elizabeth's life, the 1947 royal tour of southern Africa with her parents King George VI, Queen...
Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970
One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in one of Africa's first post-independence...
Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the
'Impostor ', 'greedy' and 'incompetent' - Edmund Hammond Hargraves was beloved by few and reviled by many more. Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward...
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...
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...
From Christian Egypt to Islamic Egypt: Religion, Identity, and
From Christian Egypt to Islamic Egypt: Religion, Identity, and
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...
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...
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...
The Babylon Plot (Joe Mason, Book 4)
'Five-star turbo-charged, non-stop action thriller... It reads like a movie reel... Needs to be on every thrill seeker's reading list' NetGalley review ????? Don't miss the next instalment of...
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...
The Living and the Rest
"The limitless possibilities of fiction are brilliantly utilised . . . Ingenious" Irish Times"Agualusa's funny and lively tale turns increasingly ominous ahead of an explosive conclusion" Guardian***A Financial Times Fiction...
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...
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...
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
'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...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial [...]
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 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...
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...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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 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 Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
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...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
Author: Mary BeardFormat: Hardback, 148mm x 218mm, 670g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard...
The New African Portraiture: The Shariat Collections
Author: Florian SteiningerFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 280mm, 960g, 176 pagesPublished: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Germany, 2023This catalogue brings together leading figures from a generation of thrilling figurative artists of...
Deanna Bowen
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...
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE.
Author: Richard Fidler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established...