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Silent Violence: Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria

By Michael J. Watts

Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa

By Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz, Silke Strickrodt, Bronwen Everill (Customer), Christopher Brown (Contributor)

The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy

By Neil Carter (University of York)

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)

Economic Growth in the Third World: 1850-1980

By Lloyd G. Reynolds

Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa: The Centrality of the Margins

By Paul Nugent (University of Edinburgh)

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

By Paul Collier

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)

Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation

By Joerg Wiegratz, Giuliano Martiniello, Elisa Greco

Foundations for Local Governance: Decentralization in Comparative Perspective

By Fumihiko Saito

A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

By Michael Peel

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer

Political Power in Pre-colonial Buganda: Economy, Society and Warfare in the 19th Century

By Richard Reid

Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime

By Aili Mari Tripp

The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940

By James Leonard Giblin

The Scramble for African Oil: Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa’s Natural Resources (New Politics, Progressive Policy)

By Yates, Douglas A.

A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics

By Hans Kung

Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System

By David Kotz, Fred Weir

Benefits of Famine: A Political Economy of Famine and Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983-9

By David Keen

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

Organizing Interests in Western Europe: Pluralism, Corporatism, and the Transformation of Politics

By Suzanne Berger

The Politics of Improving Urban Air Quality

By Wyn P. Grant, Anthony Perl, Peter Knoepfel

Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well

By Terry L. Anderson, Donald R. Leal

Uganda's Economic Reforms: Insider Accounts

By Florence Kuteesa (Public Expenditure Management Consultant based in Kampala), Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile (Governor of the Bank of Uganda), Alan Whitworth (Economic Adviser, DFID Zambia), Tim Williamson (Independent economic consultant based in Kampala...

Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto

By Aaron Bastani

Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

By Ha-Joon Chang

Global Issues: An Introduction

By John L. Seitz

Integrated Rural Development: Ethiopian Experience and the Debate

By Cohen, John M.

Models in Political Economy

By Michael Barratt Brown