History

The History list at Zed Books focusses on the modern political histories and modern histories of inequality, struggle and revolution, although the list is not exclusively a modern history list.

The Zed Books History list provides historical context and grounding for many of the regions we publish on, as well as for a number of our thematic subjects, offering much needed feminist, queer and postcolonial lenses to history. As with all our lists it is internationally focussed.

Titles in subject

Palestine

A Four Thousand Year History

Nur Masalha

Food Aid in Sudan

A History of Power, Politics and Profit

Susanne Jaspars

An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba

Edited by Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha

The History of Development

From Western Origins to Global Faith

Gilbert Rist
Translated by Patrick Camiller Development Essentials Edition

Back to Black

Black Radicalism for the 21st Century

Kehinde Andrews

China and Her Neighbours

Asian Diplomacy from Ancient History to the Present

Michael Tai

England’s Other Countrymen

Black Tudor Society

Onyeka Nubia

Black British History

New Perspectives

Edited by Hakim Adi

Holocaust Escapees and Global Development

Hidden Histories

David Simon

Pentecostal Republic

Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria

Ebenezer Obadare

Psychedelic Revolutionaries

Three Medical Pioneers, the Fall of Hallucinogenic Research and the Rise of Big Pharma

P.W. Barber

Thailand

Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China

Benjamin Zawacki

A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property

Edited by Mat Callahan and Jim Rogers

Burkina Faso

A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution

Ernest Harsch

Cosmic Shift

Russian Contemporary Art Writing

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Boris Groys, Pavel Pepperstein, Dmitri Prigov, Anton Vidokle, Andrey Monastyrsky and Arseny Zhilyaev among many others
Edited by Elena Zaytseva and Alex Anikina
Foreword by Bart De Baere

The Experiment

Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921

Eric Lee

Haiti Will Not Perish

A Recent History

Michael Deibert

Land, Freedom and Fiction

History and Ideology in Kenya

David Maughan-Brown
With a Foreword by Stephen Clingman New Edition

The End of Development

A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity

Andrew Brooks

The Story of an African Working Class

Ghanaian Miners' Struggles 1870-1980

Jeff Crisp
With a new Foreword by Gavin Hilson New Edition

A History of Africa

Hosea Jaffe and preface by Samir Amin New Edition

Yours for the Union

Class and Community Struggles in South Africa

Baruch Hirson
With a new Foreword by Tom Lodge New Edition

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky

The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1963-74

Basil Davidson
With Forewords by Zachary Mampilly and Amilcar Cabral and a Preface by Aristides Pereira New Edition

Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America

An Oral History

Dirk Kruijt
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