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Alan Lester (1)

Author of The Truth About Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism

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Alan Lester is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex.

Works by Alan Lester

The Truth About Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism (2024) 19 copies

Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (2021) 10 copies

Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth Century South Africa and Britain (2001) 7 copies

Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (Critical Perspectives on Empire) (2014) 7 copies

Deny & Disavow: Distancing the Imperial Past in the Culture Wars (2021) 5 copies

Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World (2015) — Editor — 4 copies

South Africa, past, present and future : gold at the end of the rainbow? (2014) 2 copies

From Colonization To Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africa (International Library of African Studies) (1998) 1 copy

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ISBNs: 27

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