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Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V Carby
RRP: $16.76$14.20'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 mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and... -
Kitson's Irish War: Mastermind of the Dirty War in Ireland by David Burke 9781781177983
RRP: $19.34$14.98Only a few now bother to deny that a 'dirty war' took place in Northern Ireland during the 'Troubles'. It began with the arrival of Brigadier Frank Kitson in Belfast in September 1970. He adapted many of the counter-insurgency tactics he had developed in... -
The Violence of Colonial Photography by Daniel Foliard
RRP: $21.92$16.62SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING 2023The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the first... -
The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, Isis, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal
RRP: $14.18$11.53Since 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. The Pentagon's willingness to make alliances abroad... -
Settler Colonialism: An Introduction by Sai Englert
RRP: $21.92$14.89From the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid, to First Nations' mass campaigns against pipeline construction in North America, Indigenous peoples are at the forefront of some of the crucial struggles of our age. Rich with their distinct... -
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
RRP: $14.18$10.02The 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... -
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
RRP: $14.18$8.46WINNER 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 the kind that Sanghera has embraced - accepting, not... -
Why the West Can't Win: From Bretton Woods to a Multipolar World by Fadi Lama
RRP: $32.25$23.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762747Author Fadi LamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 357Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 156mm * 24mm -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor 9780141987149
RRP: $14.18$10.02The 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 ..... -
Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain by Charlotte Lydia Riley 9781847926432
RRP: $32.25$21.32Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years.'Masterful ... you won't look at Britain in the same way ever again' OWEN JONESAfter the Second World War, Britain's overseas... -
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey In The Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple 9780006547747
RRP: $16.76$10.94A rich blend of history and spirituality, adventure and politics, laced with the thread of black comedy familiar to readers of William Dalrymple's previous work. In AD 587, two monks, John Moschos and Sophronius the Sophist, embarked on an... -
In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present by Michael R.J. Bonner
RRP: $23.21$15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823060Author Michael RJ BonnerFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World by Roger Crowley 9780300267471
RRP: $25.80$22.42The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an... -
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain Peter Fryer 9780745338309
RRP: $21.92$15.40Staying 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 abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of... -
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins
RRP: $21.92$14.80The 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 surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the... -
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj Anita Anand 9781471174247
RRP: $12.89$8.27WINNER 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 The Silk Roads Hundreds of peaceful civilians were... -
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $16.76$11.73Niall 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 America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: $14.18$9.35'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... -
Shooting an Elephant;With the Introductory Essay 'Why I Write' by George Orwell 9781528719049
RRP: $12.89$11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528719049Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 32gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 2mm -
Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes
RRP: $19.34$14.13NAMED 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 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of... -
Writings From Prison: Bobby Sands by Bobby Sands
RRP: $16.76$14.98In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and... -
50 Things About Us: What We Really Need to Know About Britain Mark Thomas 9781912836550
RRP: $16.76$11.09In 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, stand-up, mischief and really, really well-researched material to examine how we have come to inhabit this divided wasteland that some of us call the United Kingdom. Based on... -
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India by William Dalrymple
RRP: $24.50$17.20From 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... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias 9780715655177
RRP: $14.18$9.52The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
World War I Illustrated Atlas by Professor Michael S Neiberg 9781838863548
RRP: $29.66$21.32World War I might conjure up images of the trenches of the Western Front where the fighting raged for nearly four and half years, but this was only part of what was truly a world war. It was a complex conflict fought in a number of theatres: an air war,... -
Culture And Imperialism by Edward W. Said
RRP: $19.34$14.13Following his profoundly influential study, "Orientalism", Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, "Culture and Imperialism" is a broad, fierce and wonderfully readable... -
Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back by Ulises A. Mejias 9780753560204
RRP: $28.38$20.67Your life online is their product.In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from countries around the world. It promised to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It stole from... -
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: $10.31$7.47Vladimir 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 colonialism. He prophesied that those third world... -
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
RRP: $16.76$11.73Vivid, 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 and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo,... -
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
RRP: $19.34$15.51WINNER 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 OF THE YEAR 2015'Knowledgeable and stunning' Orhan Pamuk... -
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
$26.08John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... -
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba by Teresa Aranguren 9781642599800
RRP: $45.15$31.01A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian society prior to occupation.This book tells the story, in both English and Arabic, of a land full of... -
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism by Philip J. Stern 9780674988125
RRP: $38.64$31.04"A landmark book...[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire."-Caroline Elkins, Foreign AffairsAn award-winning historian places the corporation-more than the Crown-at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and... -
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: $16.76$11.73WINNER 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 Berlin-Baghdad Express explores one of the big, previously... -
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
RRP: $21.92$15.84A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful... -
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra 9780241954669
RRP: $14.18$10.02Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2013Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress,... -
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm 9781526623812
RRP: $38.70$35.71The 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 extraordinary . . . Frahm punctures a fair share of myths... -
A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective by Francoise Verges
RRP: $16.76$11.09'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745346229
RRP: $16.76$11.09New 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 see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind... -
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History by David Reynolds
RRP: $24.50$17.56It 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 saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and...