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Smugglers and Saints of the Sahara: Regional Connectivity in the Twentieth Century

By Judith Scheele (University of Oxford)

Purchasing Power

By Russill

The Building of an Empire

By Haile M. Larebo

The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, 1880-1995

By Thomas J. Bassett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Economic Liberalization and Political Violence: Utopia or Dystopia?

By Francisco Gutierrez, Gerd Schoenwalder (IDRC)

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

By Nate Silver

The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea REVISED AND UPDATED

By Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R. Mekonnen

Famine That Kills: Darfur, Sudan, 1984-85

By Alex De Waal

On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa

By Ghislaine Lydon (University of California, Los Angeles)

The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia: A Wealthy Theocracy in Comparative Perspective

By Stanley Barrett

The Buildings of an Industrial Community: Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge

By W.Grant Muter, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa

By Joseph Hanlon

War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist

By Benjamin Pogrund, Harold Evans

Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization

By Nayan Chanda

Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

By Robert Harms

Cooperatives and Development: Agricultural Politics in Ghana and Uganda

A Taste of Freedom: Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa in Rural South Africa, 1924-30

By Helen Bradford

Latin America, Economic Imperialism and the State: The Political Economy of the External Connection from Independence to the Present

By Christopher Abel, Colin M. Lewis

Population, Health and Nutrition in the Sahel: Issues in the Welfare of Selected West African Communities

By Allan G. Hill

Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street

By Ruth Dudley Edwards

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

By Christopher Leonard

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

By Walter Scheidel

Leaf of Allah: Khat and Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia, 1875-1991

By Ezekiel Gebissa

Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa

By Frederick Cooper (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Africa's Moment

By Jean-Michel Severino, Olivier Ray

On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39

By Professor O Nigel Bolland

Wcs;Labour In The Caribbean

By Malcolm Cross, Gad Heuman

A New System of Slavery: Export of Indian Labour Overseas, 1830-1920

By Hugh Tinker

Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1987

By D. K. Fieldhouse (Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge)

Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century

By Martin Lynn (Queen's University Belfast)