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The English Pleasure Garden 1660-1860

By Sarah Jane Downing

Re-Orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East

By G. Maclean

A History of Civilizations

By Braudel, Fernand, Mayne, Richard

Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875

By Professor Trevor Getz (, San Francisco State University)

The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy

By PETER BURKE

The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters

By Ibrahim Abu Lughod

Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World

By Christian Wolmar

Back to the Garden: Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present

By Mcgregor, James H. S.

Mill and Liberalism

By Maurice Cowling

Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws

By Charles de Montesquieu, Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller, Harold Samuel Stone

The Invention of Tradition (Canto)

By Hobsbawm, Eric, Ranger, Terence

Mandela

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

The Making of the South African Past: Historians on Race and Class

By Christopher Saunders

Industrialization and Social Change in South Africa: African Class, Culture and Consciousness, 1870-1930

By S. Marks, R. Rathbone

Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa

By A Atmore, S. Marks

Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town: Group Identity and Social Practice, 1875-1902

By Vivian Bickford-Smith

Towards a Reconstructed Past

By D. W. Cohen

The Roots of Ethnicity: The Origins of the Acholi of Uganda Before 18

By Ronald R. Atkinson

A History of South Africa

By Welsh, Frank

Politics and Government in African States

By Peter Duignan, Robert H. Jackson

Honour Among Men and Nations: Transformations of an idea

By Geoffrey Best

Nationalism

By Gellner, Ernest

The Decline and Fall of the Roman City

By J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz (, Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Nottingham)

Labouring Men

By Prof Eric Hobsbawm

Political Philosophy: A History of the Search for Order

By James Wiser

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World

By Mike Davis

Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940: Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk

By S. Polu

Male Homosexuality in West Germany: Between Persecution and Freedom, 1945-69

By Clayton J. Whisnant

Power and State Formation in West Africa: Appolonia from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

By P. Valsecchi

Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship

By Marion Farouk-Sluglett, Peter Sluglett