Colonialism & Imperialism

A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land e...

A writer of great subtlety and intelligence . . . a beautifully written and compelling story of how families fall apart and what remains of the aft...

'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow...

A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and imm...

Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: i...

An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars.Prompted b...

Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. But India was represented by a cricket team long before ...

This book examines how education contributed to the creation of US empire in the Philippines by focusing on American teachers and the Filipinos wit...

Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking The Case for Colonialism demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism ...

In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to ref...

Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commenta...

Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?As acclai...

In 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, stand-up, mischief and really, really well-researched material to ex...

Insurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British i...

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 ...

It is twenty-five years since the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda when in the course of three terrible months more than 1 million people were ...