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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence by Christopher Turner 9781838510558
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €24.63Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonization and defiance. Its leading proponents, British architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry, adapted a utopian Bauhaus-derived Modernist... -
The Question of Palestine Edward Said 9781804271353
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.86A major work by one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, The Question of Palestine was the first book to narrate the modern Palestinian experience in English. Edward Said's project to 'bring Palestine into history' was... -
Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative Isabella Hammad 9781911717379
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.69An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women's Prize for Fiction-shortlisted author of Enter Ghost'Combines intellectual brilliance with moral clarity and profound resoluteness of purpose' SALLY... -
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar 9780008511678
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €8.90The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the... -
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.44'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism' Deborah... -
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.00As 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 of Vasco da Gama to India and beat... -
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins 9780099540250
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.95A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Masterly... This book is dynamite' - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize**A searing, landmark study of the... -
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.66THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER,... -
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict Ilan Pappe 9780861549719
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.69An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. 'Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's "new historians".' Avi Shlaim, author of Three Worlds The... -
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence by Mishal Husain 9780008531683
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.07A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully written, emotional and deeply personal, yet universal ..... -
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.69'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela DavisWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth has provided... -
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.47The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer'Magisterial' Terry EagletonIn this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and... -
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk 9781841150086
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €18.36Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis. The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking... -
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World Noam Chomsky 9780241700884
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.55'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time. When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky's work will survive' Arundhati RoyFrom one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of... -
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €11.85The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam... -
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe Sathnam Sanghera 9780241997086
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.47THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the world.'A wonderful book' Rory Stewart'Nuanced and deeply researched' Financial Times'Not just a welcome corrective but a... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor 9780141987149
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.47The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ..... -
Exterminate All The Brutes by Sven Lindqvist 9781847081988
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.94The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quarter of a century ago historian Sven Lindqvist set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line... -
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.08What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century... -
Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity Manu Pillai 9780241456941
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €27.72'A brave and magnificent book, and a vital intervention: as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly. Manu Pillai is fast becoming one of India's most accomplished and impressively wide-ranging historians'... -
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €28.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573954Author William DalrympleFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams)... -
How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.11'Wry, readable and often astonishing... A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire.We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still... -
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller 9781849832960
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.96Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnesstells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as... -
Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World by Otto English
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.04'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 told and how they've been used over time.Lincoln did not believe... -
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India by William Dalrymple
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.80From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted 'Return of a King', the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time. James Achilles... -
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China by John Man
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.47Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire by Nigel Dalziel
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.55The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire traces the emergence of the world's greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British Isles, through its ascendancy in Victorian times, to its ultimate collapse in the mid-20th century. It... -
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623176242Author Vanessa Machado De OliveiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain by Corinne Fowler 9780241561638
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €17.30'This is an essential and fascinating book because it brings to light, through conversations and nature walks, some of the buried connections between Britain's landscape and historic buildings and its complicated hidden histories. Fowler does not judge... -
Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass Martin Shaw 9781915294630
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.02'A modern-day bard.' Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles 'Shaw has so much wisdom and knowledge about the old stories, it emanates from his pores.' John Densmore, The Doors 'Through feral tales and poetic exegesis, Martin Shaw... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.31'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in... -
American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 9781517916244
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €19.79Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial,... -
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.31Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Stunning.' Andre Aciman 'Masterly ... Casts a spell.' Jan... -
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects by Noah Angell 9781800961340
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €15.83'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison filled with imperial plunder and restless spirits clamouring... -
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony by Nelson A. Denis
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €15.11In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President... -
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €18.14The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.94***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew... -
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €27.89First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This... -
Look Again: Complicity by Jay Bernard 9781849768269
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €8.70Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today. Written by leading voices from the worlds of literature,... -
Abolition Revolution Aviah Sarah Day (Birkbeck, University of London) 9780745346519
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.88**Winner of the Bread and Roses Prize 2024** **Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2023** George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive ears around the world. Shortly...