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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.35WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND'***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The real remedy is education of... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor 9780141987149
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37The 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 ... -
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The 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 ... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire by Nigel Dalziel
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66The 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... -
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects by Noah Angell 9781800961340
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $14.74'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... -
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins 9780006388517
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.14The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the... -
The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, Isis, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal 9781788732307
Booksplease Price: $35.64Since the 1970s, Washington has been secretly funding some of the worst terrorists in the Middle East. America has supported extremists with money and hardware, including enemies such as Bin Laden... -
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power... -
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj Anita Anand 9781471174247
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 'Reads like something from a thriller...colourful, detailed and meticulously researched' Sunday Times'Gripping from start to finish' Peter Frankopan, author of... -
What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule by Max Siollun 9781911723264
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.61Most accounts of Nigeria's colonisation were written by British officials, presenting it as a noble civilising mission to rid Africans of barbaric superstition and corrupt tribal leadership. Thanks... -
Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire by Christopher Bayly 9780141017389
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.48This extraordinary book is a vivid, highly original account of the creation of a new Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. It... -
Home And Exile by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80This trenchant and illuminating book by one of Africa's most influential and celebrated writers is a major statement on the importance and dangers of stories, one in which Achebe makes telling use of... -
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empireOnce vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of... -
A Radical History of the World by Neil Faulkner
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.82History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future. This is a history of... -
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and... -
American Colonies: The Settlement of North America to 1800 by Alan Taylor 9780142002100
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in... -
The Forty Year War in Afghanistan and Its Predictable Outcome by 9781839768170
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56The NATO occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance-sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpest and most prescient.Rarely has there been... -
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08WINNER OF THE BARBARA JELAVICH BOOK PRIZE'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle' Norman StoneThe... -
Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.05The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas's Rivers of Gold brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by... -
On Zionist Literature by Ghassan Kanafani 9781739985233
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739985233Author Ghassan KanafaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint
War Is A Racket: Original Edition by Smedley D Butler 9781939438584
RRP: $6.70Booksplease Price: $6.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939438584Author Smedley D ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint
Culloden: Battle & Aftermath by Paul O'Keeffe
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne...
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple 9780006544159
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.84One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of 'Return of a King', which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize. At the...
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745346229
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.15New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk into any Western museum today and you will...
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V Carby
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh...
Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77Russia is a country of contradictions: a nation of cultural refinement and artistic originality and yet also a country that rules by 'the iron fist'. In this riveting history, Martin Sixsmith shows...
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes...
American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers Perry Anderson 9781786630483
Booksplease Price: $32.94Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the...
Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story Fanny Pigeaud 9780745341798
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.23Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism. The CFA Franc was...
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm 9781526623836
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria'A work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its sources is truly...
The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order by Glenn Diesen 9781949762952
RRP: $34.17Booksplease Price: $24.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762952Author Glenn DiesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint <
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATUREEconomist BOOKS...
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History by David Reynolds
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the...
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise Willard A. Hanna 9780804847315
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.01This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is...
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain Peter Fryer 9780745338309
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.75Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the...
Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY'This book is a terrific read ... I could not put it down' Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe...
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John DarwinThe British Empire shaped the world in...
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent...
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of...
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas 9780141034492
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.26Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas's The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish...