Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State
By: Frederick Cooper
3.50
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
At the Second World War's end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not re…
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1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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2. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
3. Unaccustomed Earth
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written--that take us fr… read more
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4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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5. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have reinforced the central importance of … read more
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6. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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7. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
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In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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8. Beloved
By: Toni Morrison
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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9. 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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10. Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
By: Mahmood Mamdani
4.26
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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11. Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
By: Alex von Tunzelmann
4.06
Format: 272 pages, ebook
In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author o… read more
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12. Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
By: Kishore Mahbubani
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is i… read more
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"... any American effort to decouple itself from China could well result in America decoupling itself from the world."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
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13. Africa in the World: Capitalism, Empire, Nation-State
By: Frederick Cooper
3.50
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
At the Second World War's end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not re… read more
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