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
Orientalism
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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
Homegoing
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Gone Native
88 books — 53 voters

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
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithWhen a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
africa_book_club_meetup
176 books — 70 voters

Poor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
228 books — 210 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,123 books — 2,355 voters

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

Christopher Hitchens
Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—'a land without a people for a people without a land'—disclosed its own ne ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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