ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

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Christopher J Lee Author & Editor

Christopher J. Lee is associate professor of history at Lafayette College.

Culture and Liberation cover

Culture and Liberation

Alex La Guma - Hardback

£34.99

Unreasonable Histories cover

Unreasonable Histories

Christopher J Lee - Paperback

£32.00

A Soviet Journey cover

A Soviet Journey

2 authors - Paperback

£39.00

Making a World After Empire cover

Making a World After Empire

Christopher J Lee - Paperback

£26.99

Kwame Anthony Appiah cover

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Christopher J Lee - Paperback

£21.99

Frantz Fanon cover

Frantz Fanon

Christopher J Lee - Paperback

£15.99

Kwame Anthony Appiah cover

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Christopher J Lee - Hardback

£105.00

Break Your Strings cover

Break Your Strings

Christopher J Lee - Paperback

£6.00

Frantz Fanon cover

Frantz Fanon

Christopher J Lee - Paperback

£9.99

South African Transitions cover

South African Transitions

2 contributors - Hardback

£145.00

Rethinking South Africa’s Past cover

Rethinking South Africa’s Past

2 contributors - Hardback

£145.00