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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)

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