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Africa: Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize

By Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners International Ltd)

Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism

By Stefano Liberti, Enda Flannelly

Shade-Grown Slavery: The Lives of Slaves on Coffee Plantations in Cuba

By William C. Van Norman

From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa

By Robin Law (University of Stirling)

Sweetening Bitter Sugar: Jock Campbell - The Booker Reformer in British Guiana 1934-1966

By Clem Seecharan

Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

By David Eltis

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

By Sylviane A. Diouf

Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

By David Eltis (College Master, Algonquin College, Ontario, College Master, Ontario)

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

By David Eltis, James Walvin, Svend Green-Pederson

Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983

By Stephen G. Bunker

River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, 1500-1891

By Robert W. Harms

Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana

By Bayo Holsey

The Governance Report 2013

By Hertie School of Governance (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany)

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

By Robert Louis Stein

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History

By Angus Maddison (, The late Emeritus Professor of Economic Growth and Development, University of Groningen)

Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present

By W. W. Rostow

Economic Growth in the Third World: 1850-1980

By Lloyd G. Reynolds

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

By Paul Collier

The Future of Africa: A New Order in Sight

By Jeffrey Herbst

African Modernities

By Deutsch

The Randlords: The Men Who Made South Africa

By Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

By Chris Wickham (Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford.)

Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West

By Daniel Waldenstroem

Mining in Africa: Regulation and Development

By Bonnie Campbell

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century

By P. J. Marshall (Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, University of London), Alaine Low, Wm. Roger Louis

Africa: A Beginner's Guide

By Tom Young

Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

By Peter Brown

Africa's Future: How the past is shaping Africa's economic evolution

By Duncan Clarke (Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners International Ltd)

Mercenaries: An African Security Dilemma

By Abdel-Fatau Musah, J. Kayode Fayemi

Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia

By Amanda Kay McVety (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Miami University)