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  • All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa

    by Richard Conyngham ...
    A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2022A USBBY 2023 Outstanding International BookA 2022 Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner (Graphic Novels & Comics Category)Honorable mention, 2023 Children's Africana Book AwardsAll Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country’s colonial government in the ... ... Read more

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    On Race, Identity and Belonging

    by Afua Hirsch ...
    From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today.You're British.Your parents are British.Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.So why do people keep asking where you're from?We are a nation in denial about our imperial past and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Address Book

    What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

    by Deirdre Mask ...
    Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards"An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book ReviewWhen most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, i... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Brutish Museums

    The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

    by Dan Hicks ...
    New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' – Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer'– EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen ... Read more

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  • Rule Britannia

    Brexit and the End of Empire

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreamers and Schemers

    A Political History of Australia

    by Frank Bongiorno ...
    A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day.Depicting a wonderful parade of dreamers and schemers, Bongiorno surveys moments of political renewal and sheds fresh light on our ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Empireland

    How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

    by Sathnam Sanghera ...
    A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its colonial past. Empireland boldly and lucidly makes the case that in order to understand America, we must first understand British imperialism."Empireland is brilliantly written, deeply researched and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • There Is No Alternative

    Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

    by Claire Berlinski ...
    Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline -- ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain's Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the ... Read more

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  • A Thinking Reed

    by Barry Jones ...
    From quiz kid to Australian Minister for Science, from frustrated school teacher to National President of the ALP, from the suburbs of Melbourne to UNESCO in Paris, Barry Jones has had a prodigious public life.Barry Jones first came to public prominence as Pick-a-Box quiz champion, and from then on he has embraced a myriad of passions and causes. A Thinking Reed spans his remarkable career, from a ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of South Africa

    by Robert Ross ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Lays emphasis on the continuing influence of the country's African heritage whilst also chronicling the processes of colonial conquest and of economic development stemming from the industrial revolution. This is followed by an analysis of the fundamental political changes South Africa has undergone, and a background for understanding those many things which have not changed. ... Read more

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  • Climbing The Bookshelves

    The autobiography of Shirley Williams

    by Shirley Williams ...
    'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother, Vera Brittan, her father George Catlin, a leading political scientist, encouraged his daughter to have high ambitions for herself - including daring to climb the bookshelves in his library. Elected as MP for Hitchin in 1964, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tafelberg Short: A chief is a chief by the grace of his people

    Once we had leaders

    by Max du Preez ...
    Series series Tafelberg Kort/Tafelberg Short
    South Africa suffers a crisis of leadership. Yet history offers many an example of spectacular, authentically African leaders, untouched by white influence. Max du Preez has unearthed new data on visionary leaders Maqoma, Mohlomi and especially Moshoeshoe, who founded a peaceful nation through persuasion and prosperity. Moshoeshoe, embracing diversity and new technologies, knew that nothing ... Read more

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