44 books
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Colonialism Books
Showing 1-50 of 10,637
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.43 — 553,107 ratings — published 1899
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 251 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.74 — 408,469 ratings — published 1958
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,601 ratings — published 1961
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 193 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,859 ratings — published 1998
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,719 ratings — published 1950
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.15 — 442,247 ratings — published 2022
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,160 ratings — published 1978
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,161 ratings — published 1971
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.67 — 85,300 ratings — published 1924
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,771 ratings — published 1952
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.11 — 788,090 ratings — published 1998
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.49 — 33,339 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.47 — 396,185 ratings — published 2016
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,936 ratings — published 1971
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,744 ratings — published 1993
The Colonizer and the Colonized (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,961 ratings — published 1957
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,555 ratings — published 2016
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.59 — 105,537 ratings — published 1966
A Dying Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,542 ratings — published 1959
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 56 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,040 ratings — published 2014
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,941 ratings — published 1934
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,094 ratings — published 2019
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 180,722 ratings — published 2006
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,178 ratings — published 1970
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,633 ratings — published 1988
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.46 — 20,412 ratings — published 2019
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.70 — 39,768 ratings — published 1901
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,549 ratings — published 2008
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,097 ratings — published 2000
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,202 ratings — published 2006
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,849 ratings — published 1981
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,383 ratings — published 1980
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,680 ratings — published 2021
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,612 ratings — published 1992
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 616 ratings — published 1965
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,474 ratings — published 2007
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.06 — 18,021 ratings — published 1988
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.91 — 47,626 ratings — published 1937
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,400 ratings — published 1938
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,285 ratings — published 1955
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.61 — 16,190 ratings — published 2020
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 606,957 ratings — published 2017
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,078 ratings — published 1966
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.96 — 30,637 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,362,188 ratings — published 1942
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.51 — 38,744 ratings — published 2024
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.36 — 15,395 ratings — published 2023
The Word for World Is Forest (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.06 — 42,177 ratings — published 1972
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,053 ratings — published 1983
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.04 — 452,053 ratings — published 1997
“Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for hat we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilisations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.”
― A Small Place
― A Small Place
“Colonialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natural resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth












