Colonialism & imperialism books

Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022 A compelling, funny, first-hand...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging and incisive collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, addressing the urgent questions of this...  Read More >>

"A wide-ranging and incisive collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, addressing the urgent questions of this...  Read More >>

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In the mid-20th century, the challenges raised by Africa’s emergence into the modern world touched on every aspect...  Read More >>

Taking the theme of 'abolition' as its point of departure, this book builds on the significant growth in scholarship...  Read More >>

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This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India...  Read More >>

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A dazzling history of the world's emperors, spanning the last thousand years For millennia much of the world was...  Read More >>

This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India...  Read More >>

From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and...  Read More >>

The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur...  Read More >>

How to Make a New Spain presents an unprecedented view of the material worlds of Mexico City in the sixteenth century,...  Read More >>

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History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first...  Read More >>

James Smith (1989) is study of this hitherto-neglected maker of colonial culture, and traces the rise and decline...  Read More >>

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The Twilight of European Colonialism (1961) charts the political development of each colony, the author analyses...  Read More >>

Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it...  Read More >>

Imperialism and Social Reform (1960) examines British social-imperialism and the development of social-imperial...  Read More >>

The main focus of The Palestinians in Israel (1979) is the position of the Arab minority in Israel, becoming a minority...  Read More >>

In Defence of British India (1984) illustrates the problems arising from the British need to defend an Indian empire....  Read More >>

West Africa (1977) surveys the first century of European enterprise – rivalry, and exploitation – in West Africa....  Read More >>

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 (1977) studies a classic case of rival imperialisms. British leaders tended to believe...  Read More >>