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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...
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...
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...
Ghost Season
With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan.A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel...
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 Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt
This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and...
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...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African [...]
A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice...
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...
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...
Piazza San Marco
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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...
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 Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works
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Operations in North Africa and the Middle East 1942-1944
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 Arab Conquest of Egypt and the Last Thirty Years of the Roman Dominion, and Other Works
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Author: Alfred Joshua Butler
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Number of Pages: 796
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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...
Nemesis: The historical epic from Master of Adventure, Wilbur Smith
Author: Wilbur SmithFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 348g, 480 pagesPublished: Bonnier Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE.Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the...
Young Mandela
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Into the House of the Ancestors
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The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj
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The Making of the Aborigines
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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...
Memoria: Tales of a different History
Author: Nadine HounkpatinFormat: Paperback, 212mm x 246mm, 440g, 112 pagesPublished: Actes Sud, France, 2021Memoria: stories from another History is the idea of a collective memory made up of a myriad...
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory
Author: Deborah WillisFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 203mm, 660g, 176 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2022'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial...
America Declares Independence
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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...
Fear of Black Consciousness
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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...
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon
Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of...
African Europeans: An Untold History
Author: Olivette Otele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold...
Caliban Shore
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The Protectors: A journey through whitefella past
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La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria
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Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands
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The Blue Nile
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They Went to Bush
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
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 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,...
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
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...
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...
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World
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
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