books by subject
History of Eastern Africa

Holy War: The Untold Story of Catholic Italy's Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar

Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity in Post-abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945

The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers

The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay

The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History

We Are The Voice of the Grass: Interfaith Peace Activism in Northern Uganda

Me Against My Brother

The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame

Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda

Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization

Of Lions and Dung Beetles: A Man in the Middle of Colonial Administration in Kenya

Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite Bourgeoisie, 1905-70

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda

Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa

Lost Nationalism: Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan

Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya

Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

The Happy Valley

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

Politics and Violence in Burundi: The Language of Truth in an Emerging State
