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

By Jonathon L. Earle (Centre College, Danville, Kentucky)

Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa

By Martin A. Klein (University of Toronto)

Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

By Adel Iskandar, Hakem Rustom

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

By Thomas Spear (Author)

Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania

By Steven Feierman (Professor of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1950

By Tabitha Kanogo

First World War: Still No End in Sight

By Professor Frank Furedi (Professor of Sociology, university of kent, UK)

Africa's Discovery of Europe

By Northrup

Narrative and Genre

By Mary Chamberlain, Paul Thompson

Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007

By Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

By Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui

Subaltern Studies: v. 3

By Ranajit Guha

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

By Toby Green

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

By Paul Gilroy

Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora

By Michael A. Gomez (New York University)

Island People: The Caribbean and the World

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Isaiah Berlin

By John Gray

The Graves are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa

By Bill Berkeley

Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others

By David Day (University of Western Australia Business School)

I Will Not Eat Stone: A Woman's History of Colonial Asante

By Jean Allman

Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences

By Tom Lodge (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick)

Love, Sex and Tragedy: Why Classics Matter

By Goldhill, Simon

Constance Street: The true story of one family and one street in London's East End

By Connelly, Charlie

The Greeks

By Sir Kenneth J. Dover

The Greeks

By Sir Kenneth J. Dover

The Politics of Socialism: An Essay in Political Theory

By John Dunn

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

By David Keen

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906

By David Cannadine

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World

By Jeff Pearce