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Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern
Allan Greer examines the processes by which forms of land tenure emerged and natives were dispossessed from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries in New France (Canada), New Spain (Mexico),...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...
The Egyptians
The Egyptians is a vibrant, accessible introduction to the people who lived along the Nile for almost thirty-five centuries. In this collection of essays, eleven internationally renowned Egyptologists present studies...
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...
African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" ( Smithsonian ) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History...
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...
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience
A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important territory of the British Empire The British in this book lived...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)
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In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son...
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...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
'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...
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 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...
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...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 452 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding...
Macquarie
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony
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...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony
'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...