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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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King Leopold's Ghost

By Adam Hochschild ,

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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
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The Great Derangement

By Amitav Ghosh ,

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Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gambling with Armageddon

By Martin J. Sherwin ,

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Black Skin, White Masks
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Black Skin, White Masks

By Frantz Fanon , Richard Philcox (translator) ,

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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
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Empireland

By Sathnam Sanghera ,

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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Stamped from the Beginning

By Ibram X. Kendi ,

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By Walter Rodney ,

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Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
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Japan's Total Empire

By Louise Young ,

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The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
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The Divide

By Jason Hickel ,

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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
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Dwellings

By Linda Hogan ,

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1946: The Making of the Modern World
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1946

By Victor Sebestyen ,

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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
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Fire in the Lake

By Frances FitzGerald ,

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Black Mass
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Black Mass

By John Gray ,

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Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany
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Advertising Empire

By David Ciarlo ,

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A Relational Theory of World Politics
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A Relational Theory of World Politics

By Yaqing Qin ,

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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
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The Deluge

By Adam Tooze ,

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Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920
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Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities

By Lenny A. Ureña Valerio ,

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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
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In the Forest of No Joy

By J.P. Daughton ,

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Travels in the Congo
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Travels in the Congo

By Andre Gide ,

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Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960
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Citizenship Between Empire and Nation

By Frederick Cooper ,

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Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems
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Can You Sign My Tentacle?

By Brandon O'Brien ,

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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
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The Enlightenment

By Ritchie Robertson ,

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The Invention of Somalia
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The Invention of Somalia

By Ali Jimale Ahmed (editor) ,

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Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War
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Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia

By Catherine Besteman (editor) , Catherine Besteman (editor) , Lee V. Cassanelli (editor)

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The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State
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The Black Man’s Burden

By Basil Davidson ,

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The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly
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The State in Africa

By Jean-Francois Bayart ,

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The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines
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The Embarrassment of Slavery

By Michael Salman ,

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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
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States and Power in Africa

By Jeffrey Herbst ,

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Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir
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Dreams in a Time of War

By Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ,

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The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
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The Fourth Revolution

By John Micklethwait , Adrian Wooldridge ,

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Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World
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Hidden Hand

By Clive Hamilton , Mareike Ohlberg ,

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Liberalism: A Counter-History
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Liberalism

By Domenico Losurdo , Gregory Elliott (translator) ,

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Liberal Internationalism: Theory, History, Practice
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Liberal Internationalism

By Beate Jahn ,

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Of Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647
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Of Plymouth Plantation 1620 - 1647

By William Bradford ,

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Arms and Influence: With a New Preface and Afterword
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Arms and Influence

By Thomas C. Schelling ,

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North of South
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North of South

By Shiva Naipaul ,

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Latin America's Cold War
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Latin America's Cold War

By Hal Brands ,

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The Transnational World of the Cominternians
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The Transnational World of the Cominternians

By Brigitte Studer ,

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The False Promise of Liberal Order: Nostalgia, Delusion and the Rise of Trump
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The False Promise of Liberal Order

By Patrick Porter ,

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Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
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Not "A Nation of Immigrants"

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ,

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Palimpsestic Memory: The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film
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Palimpsestic Memory

By Max Silverman ,

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Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies
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Aesthetic Programming

By Winnie Soon , Geoff Cox ,

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The Oil Wars Myth: Petroleum and the Causes of International Conflict
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The Oil Wars Myth

By Emily Meierding ,

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War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
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War for Eternity

By Benjamin R. Teitelbaum ,

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Siamese White
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Siamese White

By Maurice Collis ,

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Teak-Wallah: The Adventures of a Young Englishman in Thailand in the 1920s
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Teak-Wallah

By Reginald Campbell ,

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Martin Rattler
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Martin Rattler

By R.M. Ballantyne ,

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External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies
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External Powers and the Gulf Monarchies

By Jonathan Fulton (editor) , Li-Chen Sim (editor) ,

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The Illusion of the End
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The Illusion of the End

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The Haitians: A Decolonial History
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The Haitians

By Jean Casimir , Laurent Dubois (translator) ,

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Making Diplomacy Work: Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World
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Making Diplomacy Work

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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
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The Accidental Superpower

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Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy
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Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy

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Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
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Mutiny at the Margins

By Gavin Rand (editor) , Crispin Bates (editor) ,

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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
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How the World Became Rich

By Mark Koyama , Jared Rubin ,

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In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
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In the Name of Identity

By Amin Maalouf , Barbara Bray (translator) ,

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

By Yuval Noah Harari ,

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The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
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The Pursuit of Power

By William H. McNeill ,

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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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The Sovereign Individual

By James Dale Davidson , William Rees-Mogg ,

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Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
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Speaking with Vampires

By Luise White ,

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Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village
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Harmony Ideology

By Laura Nader ,

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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
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A Fistful of Shells

By Toby Green ,

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A Disappearance In Fiji
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A Disappearance In Fiji

By Nilima Rao ,

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From Sand Creek
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From Sand Creek

By Simon J. Ortiz ,

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Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia: Pagans, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Nile
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Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia

By Derek A. Welsby ,

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Max Havelaar
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Max Havelaar

By Multatuli , Roy Edwards (translator) ,

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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
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Legacy of Violence

By Caroline Elkins ,

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The Making of Global International Relations
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The Making of Global International Relations

By Amitav Acharya , Barry Buzan ,

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Rum Histories
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Rum Histories

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Zionism
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Zionism

By Derek J. Penslar ,

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Discourse on Colonialism
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Discourse on Colonialism

By Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham (translator) ,

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The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power
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The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power

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