Author: Sven Lindqvist

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Sven Lindqvist was the author of more than thirty books, including “Exterminate All the Brutes, ” The Skull Measurer”s Mistake, A History of Bombing, Terra Nullius, and The Dead Do Not Die (all published by The New Press). A resident of Stockholm, he held a Ph D in the history of literature from Stockholm University, an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, and an honorary professorship from the Swedish government.




9 Ebooks by Sven Lindqvist

Sven Lindqvist: The 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 excavation—renders his books dev …
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€21.99
Sven Lindqvist: Bench Press
In the late 1980s, Sven Lindqvist fell into conversation with an evangelical bodybuilder while relaxing in the sauna after his weekly swim. The conversation challenged Lindqvist’s view of the sport a …
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€14.05
Sven Lindqvist: 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? And what was really t …
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€11.56
Sven Lindqvist: 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 went into his work …
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€20.49
Sven Lindqvist: ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’
Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa—and the terr …
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€16.99
Sven Lindqvist: The Skull Measurer’s Mistake
Enlightening stories of courageous eighteenth- and nineteenth-century men and women who defied the racial prejudices of their communities In this unique book, Sven Lindqvist, author of the acclaimed …
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€17.99
Sven Lindqvist: 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 Conrad’s The Heart of D …
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€16.60
Sven Lindqvist: Dig Where You Stand
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€10.30
Sven Lindqvist: Rottet die Bestien aus!
Auf einer Reise durch die Sahara setzt sich Sven Lind­qvist mit der Kolonialzeit auseinander. Dem Selbstbild Europas als »Wiege des Fortschritts« stellt er die brutale europäische Expansionspolitik e …
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€24.99