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African Europeans by Olivette Otele
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the... -
African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele 9781541619920
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619920Author Olivette OteleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies by Olivette Otele 9783030548896
Booksplease Price: £112.12As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly... -
Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies by Olivette Otele 9783030548865
Booksplease Price: £112.12As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly... -
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice ... -
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton 9780008443832
Booksplease Price: £5.60A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors' Choice ... -
Motherland: A Journey Through African History, Culture and Identity by Luke Pepera 9781398707382
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Join historian and anthropologist Luke Pepera on a journey through African history to discover the stories that still shape our culture today'Absolutely riveting' OLIVETTE OTELE'A masterful... -
Motherland: 500,000 Years of African History, Cultures and Identity Luke Pepera 9781398707368
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71'An essential read' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Magisterial, brilliant, capacious and transformative' Kate WilliamsMotherland is a ground-breaking exploration of African culture and identity, told via... -
Motherland: 500,000 Years of African History, Cultures and Identity by Luke Pepera 9781398707375
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35'An essential read' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Magisterial, brilliant, capacious and transformative' Kate WilliamsMotherland is a ground-breaking exploration of African culture and identity, told via... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi 9781529114676
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X... -
Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University Julie Cupples 9781138061804
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94The westernized university is a site where the production of knowledge is embedded in Eurocentric epistemologies that are posited as objective, disembodied and universal and in which non-Eurocentric... -
When We Ruled: 'A history the world needs' Bettany Hughes by Paula Akpan 9781398719910
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'POETIC AND FIERCE' - Olivette Otele, author of AFRICAN EUROPEANS'A RICH, SUMPTUOUS AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN TAPESTRY' - Candice Carty-Williams, author of QUEENIE'A SEARING, NOURISHING JOURNEY THROUGH... -
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram 9780007575572
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021 ... -
Trapped Life: A Year with the Mandem on a London Estate by Ebony Reid 9781529911893
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07'Vital' Marcel Theroux'I loved this book' Anna Whitwham'This book will fundamentally alter your mindset. There is no going back for peopledem after reading Trapped Life.' Olivette Otele'This book... -
Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the... -
When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors Paula Akpan 9781398719897
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.88Njinga MbandeNana Yaa AsantewaaMakobo Modjadji VIRanavalona the FirstThese queens and warriors ruled vast swathes of the African continent, where they led, loved and fought for their kingdoms and... -
Mixed Up: Confessions of an Interracial Couple Tineka Smith 9781472286987
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An uncensored account of the obstacles and triumphs of a mixed-race relationship during the biggest civil rights movement in history.'An illuminating book that will challenge what you think you know... -
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Winner of the Jhalak PrizeWinner of the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 'A revelation' Owen Jones'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's relationship with... -
Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active... -
Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times by Ann Laura Stoler 9780822362524
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active... -
Part of a Story That Started Before Me: Poems about Black British History by George the Poet
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16"This is an anthology to contemplate, revisit and relish" - LoveReading4Kids'It's time we told our story too. The melanin speaks for itself.' - George the PoetPart of a Story That Started Before Me... -
Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story Fanny Pigeaud 9780745341798
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.24Colonialism 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... -
Part of a Story That Started Before Me: Poems about Black British History George the Poet 9780241567005
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024."This is an anthology to contemplate, revisit and relish" - LoveReading4Kids'It's time we told our story too. The melanin speaks for itself.' - George the... -
Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story by Fanny Pigeaud 9780745341781
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £69.60Colonialism 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... -
Legenda: A New History of Nations Through the Medieval Women at the Heart of Them by Janina Ramirez 9780753560426
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.22From the bestselling author of FEMINA, a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political, nation-building ends.In LEGENDA, bestselling... -
Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago Laura Jeffery 9781032486833
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £127.83Challenges and Prospects for the Chagos Archipelago considers the origins, challenges and future of Chagos, bringing together leading experts and academics specialising in differing aspects of the... -
The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way by Anthony Seldon 9781838957421
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month'A formidable achievement' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator'A noble endeavour' New StatesmanWithout a... -
Legenda: A New History of Nations Through the Medieval Women at the Heart of Them by Janina Ramirez 9780753560419
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44From the bestselling author of FEMINA, a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political, nation-building ends.In LEGENDA, bestselling... -
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History Josephine Quinn 9781526605221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Ancient Greece and Rome have long been considered the parents of Western civilisation. But the ancient world was a very wide one, of conversation, commerce and theft, sex, war and enslavement. It was... -
What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule by Max Siollun 9781911723264
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.89Most 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... -
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Professor James Walvin 9781472144331
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.60A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can only be fully understood by stepping back from... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison Nicholas Guyatt 9781786079893
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison Nicholas Guyatt 9780861542215
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.37'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's... -
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
Booksplease Price: £23.73Winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Prize A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American... -
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram 9780226790411
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £16.89This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resistance in the face of unprecedented globalization and... -
The World: A Family History by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781780225616
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the...