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From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human....

An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the...

WAR. OPPRESSION. REBELLION. Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. But now,...

A provocative, beautiful and defiant essay highlighting the pitfalls of integration in France by a talented young writer with North African roots Is social integration all it’s cracked up to...

From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight backOver a lifetime spent...

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca's throne and to face the consequences...

A powerful and important reckoning with Britain's imperial legacy and contemporary systemic racismFrom the 1500s to the mid-twentieth century, the events that took place in the Caribbean - from conquest,...

From an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choice Anyone alive today...

 'A talented writer with much to say' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Witty and accessible' ANGELA SAINI 'A vital piece of work in our challenging times' ROMA AGRAWAL 'Stunning' DAN HICKS Western civilisation is a powerful...

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers...

'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH TIMES Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed...

Presents a significant new way of looking at classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan...

An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In...

And the Making of a New World Order A major new examination of the Indian Ocean, revealing how the region has become a hotly contested geopolitical flashpoint Throughout history, the Indian...

On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods — from...