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A splendid investigation of merchants, sailors, migrants etc reveals an England less insular in its peoples than in its geography. ND's Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins... read more

This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England ...

Nandini Das

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Published to mark the opening of a new museum in Bruges, this handsomely illustrated book celebrates the medieval city that stood at the centre of global trade networks.

Connected Worlds of Bruges (900-1550)

Peter Frankopan

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An account of how the chaos of WW2 throughout Asia gave rise to an anti-colonial movement that defeated both Japanese and European imperialism.

Blood Dawn: World War II and the Making of Modern Asia ...

Hans van de Ven

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The late C18th odyssey of Ahmad Khan, whom Selim III spotted in Constantinople in the retinue of the French envoy and who later reached London.

A Passage to Europe: The Astonishing Travels of an Indian Prince in th ...

Rahul Markovits

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Largely responsible for the Boer War and one of the drivers of British colonialism, Milner was a complex man whose legacy is now examined by a South African author (biographer of Jan Smuts).

Milner: Last of the Empire Builders

Richard Steyn

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Set in Zanzibar, Gurnah's latest novel follows several characters across the final decades of the C20th and into the 21st. Their families overlap as their lives play out against the backdrop... read more

Theft

Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Catalogue of the largest exhibition to date in India of the superb 'Company' paintings - by Indian artists for European patrons, spanning botanical, architectural, horticultural and many oth... read more

A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings, c. 1790-1835 ...

Giles Tillotson

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Neptune’s Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts o ...

Julian Sancton

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Following The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, Gingeras has turned his attention to the shadowy history of the relations between gangsters, corporations and political leaders.

Mafia: A Global History

Ryan Gingeras

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Looks at the rich cultural exchange between both Eastern and Western artists during a period of ruthless commerce, highlighting the artists' technical experimentation and mutual influence. W... read more

Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750 ...

Laurel O Peterson

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Savvy, determined and droll, Barnes has travelled all over the former USSR since the invasion of Ukraine. This is a remarkable account of these varied territories.

Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR ...

Joe Luc Barnes

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Although very different in temperament, these two great Whig figures joined to fight the slave trade, impeach the governor-general of the East India Company and support the rebellious Americ... read more

Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revo ...

James Grant

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Recounts not just the Genoese navigator's life but also his afterlives, in which he is castigated for bringing pillage and genocide to the Americas.

The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

Matthew Restall

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Relates the role of William Miller, son of a Kent baker who fought in the Peninsular War, commanded Cochrane's marines in the Pacific and became the only foreign general instrumental in the ... read more

English Liberator: The Struggle for Independence in Spanish South Amer ...

John Hemming

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A remarkable memoir by a man who came to England in the 1980s as a refugee, when refugees were allowed to work. He has led an exceptionally industrious and successful life since then, but in... read more

No Safer Kinder Hatred: How Racial Hatred and Ethnic Violence Shaped Z ...

Frank Thabani Sayi

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A dazzling work of scholarship that brings together firsthand accounts from myriad sources to show that the primary driver for the abolition of slavery was the enslaved themselves. By the au... read more

Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atl ...

Sudhir Hazareesingh

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Retells the startling story of 'Dunsterforce', the bunch of loons under Lionel Dunsterville whom the British government authorised to go to the Caspian after WW1 to stop the Bolsheviks, secu... read more

Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World W ...

Nick Higham

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The first-person account of a Palestinian man in his thirties, whose everyday existence is disrupted by the brutal realities of war and occupation.

Who Will Tell My Story? A Gaza Diary

Anonymous

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A collection of frontline reportage, poetry, photography and art.

Gaza: The Story of a Genocide

Fatima Bhutto

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An erudite account of Islam from the end of the C19th to the present day: the effect of European imperialism and the shift from subjection to agency.

Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam

Faisal Devji

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Dimbleby went to Palestine as a reporter in the 1970s with his colleague Don McCullin. Triggered by Golda Meir's statement that Palestinians 'do not exist,' they sought to show that they did... read more

The Palestinians

Jonathan Dimbleby

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Operating out of Cairo's Savoy hotel, the British Empire's Middle Eastern intelligence section faced unique challenges during WW1. This is the compelling account of how it navigated the nuan... read more

The Arab Bureau: The Story of Britain’s Most Ingenious Intellige ...

Eamonn Gearon

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A meticulously researched history of Gaza, from 1948 to the present catastrophe.

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan

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Considers the precise nature of war crimes and the world's ambivalent responses - or complicity. Robertson KC has represented, amongst many others, Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie and the cur... read more

Eyeless in Gaza: Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes

Geoffrey Robertson

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As borders dominate the narrative of global geopolitics, this striking gathering of maps provides valuable insight into a fraught and complex phenomenon.

Atlas of Borders: Conflict, Movement and Unity in 70 Maps ...

Xemartin Laborde

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Striking line drawings and heart-rending lyrics give humble expression to the collective suffering in Gaza.

The Nightmare Sequence

Omar Sakr

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The unveiling of a new Great Game by a geo-strategic policy maker - the players also include China and Russia.

So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump ...

Elizabeth Buchanan

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The contentious history of Arctic cartography and the going in search of the ends of the earth.

Mapping the North: Myth, Exploration, Encounter

Charlotta Forss

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A valuable alternative to Niall Ferguson's, whose immense vol 1 still waits for vol 2. Translated from the French.

Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of the Master of Realpolitik ...

Jeremie Gallon

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The entanglement of Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth et al in the racial politics of their age: a fascinating and original perspective in which feeling and scholarship are deftly balanced.

The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archi ...

Mathelinda Nabugodi

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This brilliant exploration of a C17th West African slave port, through the Inquisition's investigation of its most powerful (female) slave trader, reshapes our understanding of the slave tra... read more

The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century We ...

Toby Green

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A meticulous, fascinating account of the labour, scandal and chicanery beneath the fortunes of nine heiresses and their influence in politics and art.

Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery ...

Miranda Kaufmann

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An astonishing study from disparate sources of a little-understood phenomenon.

Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in t ...

Justin Marozzi

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Wool barons, pirates and Pole-seekers in South Georgia, Tierra del Fuego, Uruguay: kaleidoscopic.

Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South Ame ...

Shafik Meghji

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The un-making of the Raj: the 50-year process by which a single entity was torn into a dozen modern nations. SD tackles the immense complexities with gusto and intelligence.

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia ...

Sam Dalrymple

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A difficult subject to write about, this, since wreckers tended not to leave written records, but this thrilling survey of maritime realpolitik from C15th - C17th sheds a vivid light on the ... read more

Wreckers: Disaster in the Age of Discovery

Simon Park

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