books by subject
History of Eastern Africa

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

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

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

The Happy Valley

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

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

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

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

Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda

Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration

Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011

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

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

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

Operation Solomon: The Daring Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews

Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa

Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania

War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa: The Patterns and Meanings of State-Level Conflict in the 19th Century

Capricorn: David Stirling's Africa Campaign

Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru

The Flags Changed at Midnight: Towards the Independence of Tanganyika

Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale

The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism, 1941-1993

The Ugandan Churches and the Political Centre: Cooperation, Co-option and Confrontation

When The Walking Defeats You: One Man's Journey as Joseph Kony's Bodyguard

A History of Modern Uganda

Kau: The Kenya African Union
