Cost of Colonialism
India's Economic Decline Under British Rule
ISBN: HB: 9781805264170,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2026
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
A shrewd, unsentimental inspection of the archives, laying bare the charge-sheet against the British and their economic policy in India: the numbers don't lie.
With colonialism debates raging worldwide, when it comes to India, a whole spectrum of Em...
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25.00 GBP
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Prisoners of Empire
How Former Colonies Were Set Up to Fail
ISBN: PB: 9781805265733,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2026
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A compelling social and political balance-sheet of empire, revealing how former colonies worldwide are still shackled by the legacies of colonial oppression.
Why do some former colonies fail, staggering from crisis to crisis, while others recover? W...
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19.99 GBP
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300278552,
Yale University Press,
March 2026
392 pp., 30,4x22,8 cm, 332 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
392 pp., 30,4x22,8 cm, 332 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
A monumental cartographic history of the African slave trade, updated and expanded in a new edition.
In the first edition of "Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade", two leading historians explored details of the 350-year history of African slave...
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50.00 GBP
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Pirate Imperialism
Trade, Abolition, and Global Suppression of Maritime Raiding, 1825-1870
ISBN: HB: 9780300269451,
Yale University Press,
March 2026
296 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 19 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 19 black&white illus.
This first truly global history of the suppression of piracy links maritime raiding to empire building in the nineteenth century.
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, imperial powers around the world came into direct confrontation with...
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30.00 GBP
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Terra Nova
Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300264357,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
344 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 20 black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic.
In the early decades of the sixteenth century, mariners from across Europe forged a vast...
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25.00 GBP
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Spies in History
From the Ancient World to the Silver Screen
ISBN: HB: 9789190021002,
Yale University Press,
Stolpe Publishing,
November 2025
344 pp., 23,7x15,6 cm, 11 colour and black&white illus.
344 pp., 23,7x15,6 cm, 11 colour and black&white illus.
Secret agents, spies and intelligence throughout history.
The public appetite for spies, both real and fictional, seems inexhaustible. But where and when did spying begin, and how has the art and craft of espionage developed over the centuries? "Spi...
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16.99 GBP
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Ever-Changing Past
Why All History Is Revisionist History
ISBN: PB: 9780300283273,
Yale University Press,
September 2025
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge.
History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking readers from Thucydides t...
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14.99 GBP
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Death to Order
A History of Modern Assassination
ISBN: HB: 9780300258042,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto...
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25.00 GBP
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Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300281125,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 37 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 37 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.
Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on...
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11.99 GBP
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Market
Money, States and Ideas for a Free World
ISBN: HB: 9789189882355,
Yale University Press,
Stolpe Publishing,
June 2025
320 pp., 24,4x17,4 cm, 35 colour and black&white illus.
320 pp., 24,4x17,4 cm, 35 colour and black&white illus.
In-depth exploration of markets and navigation towards a sustainable future.
From the Roman market to digital currencies - how has the market developed over the course of history and what could it look like in the future? This anthology provides an...
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25.00 GBP
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