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A powerful and impassioned historical account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1803

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Empireland examined imperialism's lasting impact on Britain.
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Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone.

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Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Crusades – the sequence of religious wars fought between the late eleventh century and late medieval pe…

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The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package

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