Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
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The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
$23.00 Add to cartA stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century
“Engaging . .- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242815
- Language: English
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The Rebirth of the African Phoenix A View from Bablyon
$30.00 Add to cartAfrica is a phoenix rising from the ashes of the burnt out colonial world.
This sets the background for this new book in a time of genuine challenge to the power system that has dominated the world sin
- Author: McKenzie, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1907464794
- Language: English
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The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy
$21.00 Read moreAn exploration of the Zapatista project, from its conception to the present.
On the thirtieth anniversary of the Mayan Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, The Zapatista Experience reconstructs the trajecto
- Author: Baschet, J?r?me
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1849355703
- Language: English
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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
$25.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book
“One of the greatest writers of o
Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial literary criticism from one of the giants of contemporary letters
- Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979322
- Language: English
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Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums
$35.00 Add to cart‘Eloquent and powerful … an invaluable collection of forgotten histories. The authors show that colonial conquest was not only about erasing, expropriating, dispossessing, extracting, exploiting, bu
- Author: Adjei, Sela K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 745349528
- Language: English
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Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
$22.95 Add to cartA pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis–featuring a new preface by the author.
“Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more tha
- Author: T??w?, Ol?fẹ́mi O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903698
- Language: English
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Rednecks and Barbarians: Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class
$22.95 Read more“Houria Bouteldja is one of the most interesting antiracist decolonial activists. Known for her incisive analysis, Bouteldja offers a strong argument for unity between ‘rednecks’ and ‘barbarians'” Fra
- Author: Bouteldja, Houria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745349552
- Language: English
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
$32.00 Add to cartFrom a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman’s OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshapi… [more below]
- Author: Hao, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0593657500
- Language: English
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A New Era of Philanthropy: Ten Practices to Transform Wealth Into a More Just and Sustainable Future–How We Fund in Times of Crisis and Opportunity
$20.95 Add to cart“A must-read for anyone in philanthropy, particularly those who question whether and how philanthropic resources can address the current, complex challenges our world faces.” –Nick Tedesco, president… [more below]
- Author: Abichandani, Dimple
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
$50.00 Read morePioneering and sometimes problematic Tropical Modernism is an essential subject for fans of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus
Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is o- Author: Turner, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1838510559
- Language: English
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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
$16.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence
This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does- Author: Habib, Shahnaz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222393
- Language: English
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Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore
$29.99 Add to cartA stunning history of Pakistan’s cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a viol
- Author: Asif, Manan Ahmed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1595589074
- Language: English
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Revolution by Fire: New York’s Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel
$18.95 Add to cartBased on the little known real life “Slave Insurrection” of 1741, this book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial s… [more below]
- Author: Lester, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0807012556
- Language: English
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How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment
$18.95 Add to cartAn incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.
Critics of abolition sometimes castigate the movement for its utopianism, but in How to Abo- Author: Herzing, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888900833
- Language: English
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
$19.00 Add to cartAN ECONOMIST AND SMITHSONIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indig… [more below]
- Author: Pennock, Caroline Dodds
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593082532
- Language: English
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The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
$24.95 Read moreWinner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and- Author: Scott, Julius S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1788732480
- Language: English
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Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Against, Within, and Beyond Settler Colonialism
$14.95 Add to cartDrawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for “the commons” within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons interrogates a very im… [more below]
- Series: Semaphore #14
- Author: Fortier, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1894037979
- Language: English
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Kindred Creation: Parables and Paradigms for Freedom–Black Worldmaking to Reclaim Our Heritage and Humanity
$20.95 Add to cartA vital path home. Employing African epistemologies and an embodied African beingness, this book embraces the revelation and miracle of Blackness.
Creating a world worthy of our children requires reca- Author: Davis, Aida Mariam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889841364
- Language: English
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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
$29.95 Read moreA major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers
For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless wor- Author: Savoy, Bénédicte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234736
- Language: English
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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
$35.00 Add to cartIn Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the da… [more below]
- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0812994000
- Language: English
