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Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

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The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile

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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
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,...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

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Author: Marc-William Palen (Senior Lecturer) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free...
The Mind of a Thief

The Mind of a Thief

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

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Author: Olaudah Equiano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave...
Through My African Eyes (SIGNED)

Through My African Eyes (SIGNED)

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Africa View

Africa View

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The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River

The Strong Brown God: The Story of the Niger River

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In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo

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Author: Michela Wrong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Joyous ... a book that makes other journalists weep with envy' The Economist 'Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent,...
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

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Africa on the Tightrope

Africa on the Tightrope

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Kakuli (SIGNED)

Kakuli (SIGNED)

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Realm of the Evening Star

Realm of the Evening Star

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Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

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Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Forgotten War: new edition

Forgotten War: new edition

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Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

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Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s

Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s

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Macquarie

Macquarie

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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...
Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten

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Author: Will Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois'...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

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Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human...
Kingdom of the Ark: That Startling Story of How the Ancient British Race is Descended from the Pharaohs

Kingdom of the Ark: That Startling Story of How the Ancient British Race is Descended from the Pharaohs

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Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire

Gandhi: The Man, His People and the Empire

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The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V

The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V

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Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

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Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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Author: Lawrence James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator 'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has...
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

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Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time

Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time

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Author: Jonathan Kingdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found...
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time

Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time

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Author: Jonathan Kingdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found...
The Heart of the Hunter

The Heart of the Hunter

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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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Author: Emmanuel Iduma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic...
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...
City of Blood Revisited

City of Blood Revisited

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In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two

In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two

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Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One

In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One

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Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
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,...
Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya

Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya

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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...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

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Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
The Conquest Of The Niger By Land And Sea: From The Early Explorers And Pioneer Steamships To Elder Dempster And Company

The Conquest Of The Niger By Land And Sea: From The Early Explorers And Pioneer Steamships To Elder Dempster And Company

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Out of Africa & Shadows On the Grass

Out of Africa & Shadows On the Grass

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Explorers Eye: First Hand Accounts of Adventure & Exploration

Explorers Eye: First Hand Accounts of Adventure & Exploration

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Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country

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Maalika: My Life Among the Afar Nomads of Africa

Maalika: My Life Among the Afar Nomads of Africa

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