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Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa

By Sarah Nuttall, Carli Coetzee

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985

By Charles van Onselen

Salt

By Mark Kurlansky

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

By Walter Scheidel

The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

By Masha Gessen

The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year

By Professor Nick Groom

Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History

By Rozina Visram

Mobilizing the Masses

By Schmidt

A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

By James Copnall

Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1987

By D. K. Fieldhouse (Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge)

People of the Plow: Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800-1900

By James C. McCann

Caribbean Freedom: Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present

By Hilary McD. Beckles, Verene Shepherd

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By Orlando Figes

Towards Decolonisation: Political, Labour and Economic Developments in Jamaica 1938-1945

By Richard Hart

Africa's Urban Past

By David M. Anderson

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century

By P. J. Marshall (Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, University of London), Alaine Low, Wm. Roger Louis

Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war

By Lynne Olson

McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime

By Misha Glenny

Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century: 2 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 2)

By Pocock, J. G. A.

The Rose

By Jennifer Potter

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

By Janice Hadlow

Post Offices

By Julian Stray

One Hundred Years of Protest

By Christopher Catherwood (Author)

The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (Helicon arts & music)

By Eden, Ronald

Unfinished Business the Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

By David, Aaronovitch, Illustrated

Passovotchka: Moscow Dynamo

By David Downing

Barca: A People's Passion

By Jimmy Burns

When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies

By Andy Beckett

Nottingham: An Illustrated History