Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
6 best books like Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (David Anderson): All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, The Wretched of the Earth, Facing Mount Kenya, No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
| Author | Stephen Kinzer |
| ISBN | 0471678783 |
An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew a Middle Eastern government for the first time. The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup seemed a success at first, today it serves...
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
| Author | Jomo Kenyatta |
| ISBN | 0394702107 |
With an Introduction by Bronislav Malinkowski, Facing Mount Kenya is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable key to the structure of African society and the nature of the African mind. Facing Mount Kenya is not only a formal study of life and death,...
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
| Author | Felice Benuzzi |
| ISBN | 1558218769 |
Let me begin by stating that I am a climber and have a desire for adventure; sure, those might seem to go hand in hand, but how many climbers are willing to suffer in their thirst for adventure? My suffering has been hardly that, but the limited hardship I've endured has brought an appreciation for those...
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
| Author | Richard Layard |
| ISBN | 0143037013 |
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence...
| Author | Anne McClintock |
| ISBN | 0415908906 |
Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between...
