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Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa

By J. Vansina

History of the Persian Empire

By A. T. Olmstead

Vision and Method in Historical Sociology

By Theda Skocpol (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

Europe and the People Without History: With a New Preface

By Eric R. Wolf

Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion

By Cecilia Busby, I. M. Lewis

Food And Evolution: Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits

By Marvin Harris

Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

By Paul Landau, Deborah Kaspin

Western Diseases: An Evolutionary Perspective

By Tessa M. Pollard (University of Durham)

The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-century Ethnography, Literature and Art

By James Clifford, Clifford, J

Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity

By Michael J. Mazarr

Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda

By Sverker Finnstroem

Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa

By Martin A. Klein (University of Toronto)

Africa After Gender?

By Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, Stephan F. Miescher

Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania

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

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

By Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

By Paul Gilroy

The Question of Zion

By Jacqueline Rose

Slavery as Salvation: Metaphor of Slavery in Pauline Christianity

By Dale B. Martin

Capitalist Development and Democracy

By Dietrich Rueschemeyer, etc., Evelyne Huber Stephens (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, USA), John D. Stephens (Lecturer of Political Science

The Idea of the Modern State

By McLennan

Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

By Stephen Spector (Professor of English, Professor of English, SUNY Stony Brook)

Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley

By John Gaventa

Egyptology Today

By Richard H. Wilkinson (University of Arizona)

Social Policy and the Environment

By Huby

Social Theory and the Environment

By David Goldblatt (Open University)

Sociology of Contemporary Cultural Change

By Bernice Martin

The Anthropology of Texts, Persons and Publics

By Karin Barber (University of Birmingham)

Introducing Baudrillard

By Chris Horrocks

African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms

By John Miller Chernoff

Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception

By Richard Leppert, Susan McClary