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Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.43 — 563,488 ratings — published 1899
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 260 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.75 — 416,743 ratings — published 1958
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,135 ratings — published 1961
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 197 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 70,138 ratings — published 1998
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.44 — 8,210 ratings — published 1950
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.14 — 492,542 ratings — published 2022
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,646 ratings — published 1971
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,161 ratings — published 1978
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.67 — 86,451 ratings — published 1924
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,618 ratings — published 1952
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.11 — 798,688 ratings — published 1998
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,452 ratings — published 2020
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.47 — 410,691 ratings — published 2016
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.31 — 28,338 ratings — published 1971
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,861 ratings — published 1993
The Colonizer and the Colonized (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,021 ratings — published 1957
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,814 ratings — published 2016
A Dying Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,633 ratings — published 1959
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.59 — 108,430 ratings — published 1966
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.87 — 32,916 ratings — published 1934
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 57 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,902 ratings — published 2014
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,001 ratings — published 2019
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.26 — 103,393 ratings — published 1970
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,170 ratings — published 2019
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,277 ratings — published 1901
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,422 ratings — published 1988
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 186,022 ratings — published 2006
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.55 — 10,658 ratings — published 2006
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,152 ratings — published 2000
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.37 — 667 ratings — published 1965
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,986 ratings — published 1981
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,757 ratings — published 1992
Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 30,104 ratings — published 2008
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,655 ratings — published 1938
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,207 ratings — published 1980
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,105 ratings — published 2021
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.61 — 18,227 ratings — published 2020
A Small Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.06 — 19,025 ratings — published 1988
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.91 — 48,506 ratings — published 1937
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,519 ratings — published 2007
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.49 — 43,186 ratings — published 2024
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.34 — 642,408 ratings — published 2017
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,622 ratings — published 1955
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.36 — 17,158 ratings — published 2023
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,058 ratings — published 1966
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,918 ratings — published 1997
The Word for World Is Forest (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,306 ratings — published 1972
The Heart of the Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as colonialism)
avg rating 3.96 — 31,048 ratings — published 1948
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,435,227 ratings — published 1942
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as colonialism)
avg rating 4.05 — 96,029 ratings — published 2005
“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.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world”
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