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Africa and the West: Intellectual Responses to European Culture

By Philip D. Curtin

Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830

By Joseph C. Miller

The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century: An Old Regime Business

By Robert Louis Stein

The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa and the Americas

By David Eltis, James Walvin, Svend Green-Pederson

Slavery In Africa: Historical & Anthropological Perspectives

By Suzanne Miers, Igor Kopytoff

Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850

By James L.A. Webb, Jr

Kingdoms of the Savanna

By J. Vansina

Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade

By Philip D. Curtin

The Children of Woot

By J. Vansina

Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania

By Steven Feierman (Professor of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)

Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain

Confronting History: A Memoir

By George L. Mosse

The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs

By John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, Donald N. McClosky

Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields

By Miriam Goheen

Orisa Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yoruba Religious Culture

By Jacob K. Olupona, Terry Rey

The Kingdom of Congo: Civil War and Transition, 1641-1718

By John K. Thornton

The End of Slavery in Africa

By Suzanne Miers, Richard L. Roberts

Europe Emerges

By Robert L. Reynolds

Kings and Clans: Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780-1840

By David Newbury

Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence

By Scott Straus, Lars Waldorf

Power and Resistance in an African Society: Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa

American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre

By Rob Wilson

People of the Plow: Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800-1900

By James C. McCann

The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana

By Jean Marie Allman

The Creoles of Sierra Leone: Responses to Colonialism, 1870-1945

By Leo Spitzer

The Tongue is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid

Cooperatives and Development: Agricultural Politics in Ghana and Uganda

The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010

By crawford young

Living with Africa

Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-century Telugu Poetry from India