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 Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Homegoing
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The Colonizer and the Colonized
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
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaFrom Another World by Ana Maria MachadoAya by Marguerite AbouetMy Bones and My Flute by Edgar MittelholzerQueer as Folk Tales by James Penha
Postcolonial Young Adult Literature
40 books — 4 voters

Lord Krishna's Cuisine by Yamuna DeviMade in India by Meera SodhaClassic Indian Cooking by Julie SahniIndia, The Cookbook by Pushpesh PantChetna's 30 Minute Indian by Chetna Makan
Best Indian Cookbooks
78 books — 10 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
688 books — 241 voters

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

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world. ...more
J.M. Blaut, The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

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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