Colonialism in Global Perspective
By: Kris Manjapra
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe's …
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1. Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru
By: Kathryn Burns
3.93
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writi… read more
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2. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600 - 1850
By: Prasannan Parthasarathi
3.55
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why… read more
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3. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
4. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
5. The Anatomy of Fascism
By: Robert O. Paxton
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more
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6. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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7. The Politics of the Veil
By: Joan Wallach Scott
4.03
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious … read more
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8. No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations
By: Mark Mazower
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
"No Enchanted Palace" traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the mo… read more
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9. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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10. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
11. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
13. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- nonfiction
14. The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America
By: Joshua Piker
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighte… read more
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- history
15. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
By: Isabel V. Hull
4.05
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for… read more
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16. The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity
By: Darryl Li
4.37
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2021 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, sponsored by the Society … read more
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17. The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
By: Megan A. Black
4.25
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh PrizeWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath PrizeWinner of the W. Turre… read more
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18. Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet (A Ferris and Ferris Book)
By: Bart Elmore
3.73
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That… read more
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19. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
By: Bathsheba Demuth
4.30
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Salué comme un événement scientifique, primé à neuf reprises, ce livre magistral est la toute premi… read more
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20. Colonialism in Global Perspective
By: Kris Manjapra
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe's … read more
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21. Colonialism: A Global History
By: Lorenzo Veracini
3.55
Format: 218 pages, ebook
Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterised by di… read more
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