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The Vaster Wilds
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The Vaster Wilds

By Lauren Groff ,

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Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
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Tacky's Revolt

By Vincent Brown ,

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Afterlives
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Afterlives

By Abdulrazak Gurnah ,

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Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
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Waves Across the South

By Sujit Sivasundaram ,

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Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean
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Captives of Conquest

By Erin Woodruff Stone ,

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Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain's Atlantic Empire
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Jamaica Ladies

By Christine Walker ,

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Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa
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Blood and Diamonds

By Steven Press ,

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Archipelago of Justice: Law in France's Early Modern Empire
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Archipelago of Justice

By Laurie M. Wood ,

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Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World
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Outsourcing Empire

By Andrew Phillips , J.C. Sharman ,

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The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria
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The Blood of the Colony

By Owen White ,

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Resisting Independence
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Resisting Independence

By Brad A. Jones ,

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Intercolonial Intimacies: Relinking Latin/O America to the Philippines, 1898-1964
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Intercolonial Intimacies

By Paula C. Park ,

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Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean: The Greater Antilles, 1493-1550
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Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean

By Ida Altman ,

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The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860
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The Yellow Flag

By Alex Chase-Levenson ,

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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
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The Cause

By Joseph J. Ellis ,

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The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it
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The Whole Picture

By Alice Procter ,

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No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic
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No Wood, No Kingdom

By Keith Pluymers ,

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An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic
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An Empire Transformed

By Kate Luce Mulry ,

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Colonizing Animals
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Colonizing Animals

By Jonathan Saha ,

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Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean
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Slaves and Highlanders

By David Alston ,

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Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
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Time's Monster

By Priya Satia ,

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Surviving Daybreak
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Surviving Daybreak

By Kendra Merritt ,

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The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire
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The King's Peace

By Lisa Ford ,

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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
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Empire, Incorporated

By Philip J. Stern ,

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The Quality of Mercy
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The Quality of Mercy

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu ,

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Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire
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Age of Emergency

By Erik Linstrum ,

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