📚 Colonization

Books with colonization on their catalogue record, first published between 1776 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject colonization in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 9,568 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	1776	124
	Europe and a wider world, 1415-1715	J. H. Parry	1949	21
	The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912	Thomas Pakenham	1990	21
	The English in Ireland in the eighteenth century	James Anthony Froude	1872	19
	The expansion of Europe	Ramsay Muir	1917	18
	Situations	Jean-Paul Sartre	1947	15
	An introduction to neo-colonialism	Jack Woddis	1967	13
	A history of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie	Beamish Murdoch	1865	12
	Last poems	A. E. Housman	1922	12
	Portrait du colonisé, précédé du portrait du colonisateur	Albert Memmi	1965	12
	Colonies communistes et coopératives	Charles Gide	1930	11
	Yaradee	Frederick Freeman	1836	10
	Europe and Africa	Harris, Norman Dwight	1914	10
	The rape of Africa	Lamar Middleton	1936	9
	Towards colonial freedom	Kwame Nkrumah	1962	9
	Political and Literary Essays, 1908-1913	Evelyn Baring	2006	9
	English colonization and empire	Alfred Caldecott	1891	8
	Sir Harry Johnston & the scramble for Africa	Roland Anthony Oliver	1957	8
	L' expansion européenne	Frédéric Mauro	1964	8
	The West and the rest of us	Chinweizu	1975	8
	The last frontier	E. Alexander Powell	1912	7
	European imperialism in Africa	Hoskins, Halford Lancaster	1930	7
	The Spanish Main	Philip Ainsworth Means	1935	7
	History of the Americas	John Francis Bannon	1952	7
	Conquest and resistance to colonialism in Africa	Gregory Maddox	1993	7
	The case for Israel	Alan M. Dershowitz	2003	7
	The Last Colony	Philippe Sands	2022	7
	Thoughts on African colonization	William Lloyd Garrison	1832	6
	Facts & opinions touching the real origin, character & influence of the American colonization society	Giles Badger Stebbins	1853	5
	Two Rothschilds & the Land of Israel	Simon Schama	1978	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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