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Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute

By Wendy James, N. J. Allen

Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion

By Cecilia Busby, I. M. Lewis

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

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

Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry

By Colin Bundy

Between The World And Me

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

By James Belich

American Midnight

By Adam Hochschild

Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies

By Tom Griffiths, Libby Robin

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance

By Peter Linebaugh

Law in Colonial Africa

By Kristin Mann (Customer), Richard L. Roberts (Royalty Account)

The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

By Marcus Rediker, Peter Linebaugh

The Problem of Slavery as History: A Global Approach

By Joseph C. Miller

Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic

By James Sidbury (Professor History, Professor History, University of Texas at Austin, USA)

The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay

By Christopher Clapham

'Exterminate All The Brutes'

By Sven Lindqvist

A Reliable Account of the Coast of Guinea (1760)

By Ludewig Ferdinand Romer, Selena Axelrod Winsnes

The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade

By William St Clair

Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective

By Seymour Drescher

Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands

By Stuart Hall (Author)

From Colonization to Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africa

By Alan Lester

A History of Sub-Saharan Africa

By Robert O. Collins (University of California, Santa Barbara), James M. Burns (Clemson University, South Carolina)

The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England

By Michael Twaddle (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK)

The Caribbean Basin: An International History

By Graeme Mount, Stephen Randall

Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind

By Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan (University of California USA)

Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self

By Karin Barber

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

By John Parker (Senior Lecturer in African History, Senior Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Richard Reid (Professor of the History of Africa, Professor of the History of Africa, School of Oriental...

The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World

By Toyin Falola, Matt D. Childs

Bloody Old Britain: O.G.S. Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life

By Kitty Hauser

Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660

By Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton (Boston University)