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Random House Australia 2010; US$ 18.08An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children.Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Set against the backdrop of Georgian England with its peculiar mix of elegance, prosperity, progress and squalor, the story of the First Fleet is one of courage, of short-sightedness,... more...
The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 20.00In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts. Childs explains... more...
The Absent-Minded Imperialists
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 37.99Kipling, Elgar, Mafeking Night . . . all these conjure up an image of a British society besotted with imperial pride in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact the true picture was more complex than this and people reacted to their empire in different ways. Many were hardly aware of it at all. This lively book is the first study of the... more...
Access to History: Britain and India 1845-1947
Hodder Education 2008; US$ 17.95A new title in the Access to History series, written specifically to cover the key content of the Edexcel 2008 AS and A2 specifications. more...
The African City
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 21.00Gives a comprehensive picture of cities in Africa from early origins to the present. more...
African Filmmaking
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 107.46A comprehensive study in English linking filmmaking in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with that in francophone West Africa and examining the factors (including Islam and the involvement of African and French governments) which have shaped post-independence production. more...
African Historical Studies
Taylor and Francis 1979; US$ 108.95The twelve essays here brought together in one book are being accorded accessibility and permanence of a kind they have lacked as monographs or articles in journals. Written mostly in the last eight years in different circumstances, they are unified more in intent, in argument, and in perspective than in theme. Moreover, illustrations are heavily... more...
The African Inheritance
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 67.95Africa is a continent gripped by civil wars and widespread famine. The causes of many of the continent's problems are deep rooted and can be traced to Africa's colonial past, when European powers divided the spoils of the continent into separate sovereign states. The African Inheritance examines the effect this "balkanization" of Africa has had,... more...
African Queen
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 23.95Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810?hailed as ?the Hottentot Venus? for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod... more...
After Empire
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 22.50In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empire—Paul Scott, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie—have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity left in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on race, Gorra begins with Scott's portrait,... more...









