books by subject
Social & Cultural History

Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind

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

The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World

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

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

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

Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa

Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

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

Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1950

First World War: Still No End in Sight

Africa's Discovery of Europe

Narrative and Genre

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

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

Subaltern Studies: v. 3

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

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora

Island People: The Caribbean and the World

Isaiah Berlin

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

Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others

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

Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences

Love, Sex and Tragedy: Why Classics Matter

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