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'Exterminate All The Brutes'
Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind of experiential history writing, set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line from …
"Exterminate All the Brutes"
"Exterminate All the Brutes" is a searching examination of Europe's dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as his point of …
Terra Nullius
In the critically acclaimed Desert Divers and Exterminate All the Brutes, Sven Lindqvist travelled through Africa's deserts and unearthed the cruelty of colonialism. Now he has …
Dig Where You Stand: How to Research a Job
On the 45th anniversary of its initial publication in Swedish, Sven Lindqvist's polemic on history, politics and power is finally available in English for the first time. This …
The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu
'During the Tang dynasty, the Chinese artist Wu Tao-tzu was one day standing looking at a mural he had just completed. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and the temple gate opened. …
A History of Bombing
Myth of Wu Tao-tzu
'During the Tang dynasty, the Chinese artist Wu Tao-tzu was one day standing looking at a mural he had just completed. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and the temple gate opened. He …
Exterminate All The Brutes
Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind of experiential history writing, set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line from …
The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism
In 1981, Stephen Jay Gould exposed the bad science behind nineteenth-century American studies that proved that Anglo-Saxons were superior because they had larger brains. In The …
Desert divers
In the first half of the twentieth centruy, European writers plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams. What did they hope to find? …
Dead Do Not Die
Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach-uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical …
Skull Measurer's Mistake
Enlightening stories of courageous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century men and women who defied the racial prejudices of their communitiesIn this unique book, Sven Lindqvist, author …