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Empireworld
How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
2024 || Hardcover || Sathnam Sanghera || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Beautifully written, and not just a welcome corrective but a book for our times. This is essential reading' Peter Frankopan
From the award-winning author of Empireland – the book that started a national conversation about how we talk about race and imperial history in Britain – a ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today.
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Empireland examined imperialism's lasting impact on Britain. Empirew...
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Age of Revolutions
Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
2024 || Hardcover || Fareed Zakaria || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The international best-selling author explores the revolutions―past and present―that define the chaotic, polarized and unstable age in which we live
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers and an international system studded with catastrophic risk ― the early decades of the 21st century may be one of the most revolutionary periods in modern history. But they are not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one grea...
Impossible City
Paris in the Twenty-First Century
2024 || Hardcover || Simon Kuper || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.
Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on his family's neighbourhood. Over two decades of bec...