Colonialism


Heart of Darkness
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
The Wretched of the Earth
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Discourse on Colonialism
Babel
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Orientalism
A Passage to India
Black Skin, White Masks
The Poisonwood Bible
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Homegoing
Culture and Imperialism
Being “Dutch” in the Indies by Ulbe BosmaThe Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949 by Jan A. KrancherAmerican Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia by Frances GoudaThe Jakarta Method by Vincent BevinsThe British Occupation of Indonesia, 1945-1946 by Richard D. McMillan
Indo, Indische, Dutch East Indies
102 books — 4 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,769 books — 1,648 voters

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan             MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
471 books — 372 voters
Big Freedia by Big FreediaI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldSexuality and Its Impact on History by Hunter S. JonesCreole by Sybil KeinBlack Life in Old New Orleans by Victor Block
New Orleans (nonfiction)
94 books — 32 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
679 books — 240 voters
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
223 books — 208 voters

Anthony Burgess
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
Anthony Burgess

Carl Sagan
For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. ...more
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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