Product Description: 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 excavation—renders his books devastating and unforgettable.Now, for the first time, Lindqvist’s most beloved works are available in one beautiful and affordable volume with a new introduction by Adam Hochschild...read more

A provocative history of the creation of white Australia documents the hidden genocide activities directed at Aborigines, touring regions where beliefs about the rights of white people and the 'inevitable extinction' of 'lower races' were put into practice.

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Product Description: This book follows the author on a personal journey into the Sahara and examination into the racist assumptions of those writers who have gone before him. Taking as a metaphor the divers who cleaned out desert wells, Lindqvist drags to the surface the story of colonial slaughter and sexual exploitation which contaminate his boyhood idols...read more

An daring literary and historical look at the ideologies of war and violence, by the author of "Exterminate All the Brutes." On November 1, 1911, Lieutenant Cavotti leaned out of the cockpit of his delicate aircraft and, holding a Haasen hand grenade, began one of the most devastating military tactics of the twentieth century: aerial bombing. This is but one of the many points of entry Lindqvist presents in this cleverly constructed, innovative history. Structuring his book in a way that reenacts the disruptions of history caused by the advent of the bomb, Lindqvist presents a series of "entries" that mirror the disturbing story he unravels. Picking up where his controversial "Exterminate All the Brutes" left off, Lindqvist focuses this time on the fascinating histories behind the development of air power, bombs, and the laws of war and international justice, demonstrating how the practices of the two world wars were born of colonial warfare.

Product Description: This is a study of Europe's dark history in Africa, written both in the form of a travel diary and as a historical examination of European imperialism and racism over the past two centuries. Sven Lindqvist draws on newspaper accounts, the writings of European explorers theologians, politicians and historians, from the late-18th century onwards, in his search to make sense of that most terrifying of Conrad's lines: "Exterminate all the brutes...read more

Product Description: 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 Skull Measurer’s Mistake, Sven Lindqvist tells the story of Friedrich Tiedemann, the nineteenth-century German doctor who dared to speak out against such racist science when it was first practiced...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A unique study of Europe's history in Africa and an examination of Europe's racism toward the 'dark continent' traces the writings of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians, written in the form of a travel diary. (view table of contents)