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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 27 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain
    The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy - by Philippe QC Sands

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781474618144 | ISBN 10: 1474618146

    FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILIE GIFFORD PRIZE  THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  ‘Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human rights’ Elif Shafak ‘An essential account’ Sunday Times ‘Powerful and persuasi ... more

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  • Cover image of book These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East by Sabrina Mahfouz
    These Bodies of Water: A Personal History of the British Empire in the Middle East - by Sabrina Mahfouz

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472282507 | ISBN 10: 1472282507

    ‘Impossible to put down while you’re reading, and impossible to forget about when you’ve finished’ Glamour  After a gruelling job interview where she was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her family background, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram
    Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire - by Kojo Koram

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529338645 | ISBN 10: 1529338646

    Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding A Guardian Book of the Year  ‘Brilliantly arranged and rich with fresh insights’ Akala  ‘A ... more

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  • Cover image of book Settler Colonialism: An Introduction by Sai Englert
    Settler Colonialism: An Introduction - by Sai Englert

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745344904 | ISBN 10: 0745344909

    From 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 unique hist ... more

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  • Cover image of book Britain
    Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt - by Richard Gott

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839764226 | ISBN 10: 1839764228

    A magisterial history of the foundation of the British empire, and the forgotten story of resistance to its formation.  Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilizing power bringing ... more

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  • Cover image of book Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
    Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain - by Sathnam Sanghera

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241445310 | ISBN 10: 0241445310

    In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past.   In prose that is, at once, both clear-eyed and full of acerbic wit, Sanghera sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book We
    We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire - by Ian Sanjay Patel

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788737678 | ISBN 10: 1788737679

    What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain?  Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ian Sanjay Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state ra ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk About It by Alice Procter
    The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk About It - by Alice Procter

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788402453 | ISBN 10: 1788402456

    Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?  How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only ... more

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  • Cover image of book Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England by Corinne Fowler
    Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England - by Corinne Fowler

    £19.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781845234829 | ISBN 10: 1845234820

    Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside’s repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness.  The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and globa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal
    Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent - by Priyamvada Gopal

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784784133 | ISBN 10: 1784784133

    Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. The possibility of reverse influence has been largely overlooked.  Insurge ... more

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  • Cover image of book As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
    As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance - by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    £18.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781517903862 | ISBN 10: 1517903866

    How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism.  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, or ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
    Black Skin, White Masks - by Frantz Fanon

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745399546 | ISBN 10: 0745399541

    Black Skin, White Masks is a classic, devastating account of the dehumanising effects of colonisation experienced by black subjects living in a white world. First published in English in 1967, this book provides an unsurpassed study of the psychology ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lord Leverhulme
    Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo - by Jules Marchal

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784786311 | ISBN 10: 1784786314

    The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild.  In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous reg ... more

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  • Cover image of book Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class by Immanuel Ness
    Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class - by Immanuel Ness

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335995 | ISBN 10: 0745335993

    The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers’ self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sexual History of the Global South: Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America by Saskia Wieringa and Horacio Sivori (Editors)
    The Sexual History of the Global South: Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America - by Saskia Wieringa and Horacio Sivori (Editors)

    £20.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780324029 | ISBN 10: 1780324022

    The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique. Featuring twelve case studies, based on original historical and ethnographic research from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin Ame ... more

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  • Cover image of book Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance by Noam Chomsky
    Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance - by Noam Chomsky

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241952580 | ISBN 10: 0241952581

    "Making the Future" is the latest collection of essays from Noam Chomsky, one of our most vital and provocative voices of political dissent. Taking up the thread from 2007's "Interventions", these penetrating and compelling articles examine numerous ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe
    The Education of a British-Protected Child - by Chinua Achebe

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141043616 | ISBN 10: 014104361x

    The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship.   For the first ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature & Society... by Johah Raskin
    The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature & Society... - by Johah Raskin

    £15.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781583671863 | ISBN 10: 1583671862

    “We, the readers and students of literature, have been hijacked. The literary critics, our teachers, those assassins of culture, have put us up against the wall and held us captive.” So begins Jonah Raskin’s The Mythology of Imperialism. When fi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walden Bello presents Ho Chi Minh: Down with Colonialism! by Walden Bello
    Walden Bello presents Ho Chi Minh: Down with Colonialism! - by Walden Bello

    £17.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844671779 | ISBN 10: 1844671771

    Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) was the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He played a key role in the formation of the French, Chinese, and Vietnamese Communist movements and fought successfully against Japanese, Fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Edge of Empire: Conquest & Collecting in the East 1750-1850 by Maya Jasanoff
    Edge of Empire: Conquest & Collecting in the East 1750-1850 - by Maya Jasanoff

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007180110 | ISBN 10: 000718011x

    A Palladian mansion filled with western art in the centre of old Calcutta, the Mughal Emperor's letters in an archive in the French Alps, the names of Italian adventurers scratched into the walls of Egyptian temples: in this imaginative book, Maya Ja ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beyond a Boundary by C L R James
    Beyond a Boundary - by C L R James

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780224074278 | ISBN 10: 022407427x

    C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket.   In this classic summation of half a lifetime spent playing, watching and writing about the sport, he recounts the story of his overriding pas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Indigo Or Mapping The Waters by Marina Warner
    Indigo Or Mapping The Waters - by Marina Warner

    £9.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780099154518 | ISBN 10: 009915451x

    Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries.   Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores the intertwined histories of the Ev ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism by Ania Loomba
    Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism - by Ania Loomba

    £18.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780198711742 | ISBN 10: 0198711743

    For centuries, plays like Othello and The Tempest have spoken about 'race' to audiences whose lives have been, and continue to be, enormously affected by the racial question. But are concepts such as 'race' or 'racism', 'xenophobia', 'ethnicity', or ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
    The Wretched of the Earth - by Frantz Fanon

    £9.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141186542 | ISBN 10: 0141186542

    Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence, Frantz Fanon's classic text has provided inspiration for anti-colonial movements ever since.   With power and anger, Fanon makes clear the economic and psychological degradation infl ... more

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  • Cover image of book From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii by Haunani-Kay Trask
    From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii - by Haunani-Kay Trask

    £26.95   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780824820596 | ISBN 10: 0824820592

    Since its publication in 1993 From a Native Daughter, a provocative, well reasoned attack against the rampant abuse of Native Hawaiian rights, institutional racism, and gender discrimination, has generated heated debates in Hawai'i and throughout the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said
    Culture and Imperialism - by Edward W. Said

    £12.99   paperback   (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780099967507 | ISBN 10: 0099967502

    Following 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 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance by Edited by Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel
    Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance - by Edited by Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel

    £17.99   paperback   (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780253207050 | ISBN 10: 0253207053

    "“[Western Women and Imperialism] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women’s studies and (p ... more

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