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A Historical Guide to World Slavery

By Seymour Drescher (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh), Stanley L. Engerman (Munro Professor of Economics, Munro Professor of Economics, University of Rochester)

Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870-1914

By Frances Steel

The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics

By Giacomo Macola

Women and Slavery, Volume One: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic

By Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller

Slavery and Slaving in African History

By Sean Stilwell (University of Vermont)

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

By Davis

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

Madagascar: A Short History

By Solofo Randrianja, Stephen Ellis

Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana

By Bayo Holsey

Real Victorians: Digital Time Traveller

By Corbishley, Mike, Owen, Dai

History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822

By Pier M. Larson

Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

By Philip Mansel

Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present

By W. W. Rostow

The Portable Hannah Arendt

By Hannah Arendt, Peter Baehr

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

By Iain Dale

British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment 1830-1865

By William A. Green (Professor of History, Professor of History, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts)

War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar

By Jonathon Glassman

Difficult Folk?: A Political History of Social Anthropology

By David Mills

Decolonizing Native Histories: Collaboration, Knowledge, and Language in the Americas

By Florencia E. Mallon, Gladys McCormick

African Modernities

By Deutsch

Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute

By Wendy James, N. J. Allen

Arguments with Ethnography: Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion

By Cecilia Busby, I. M. Lewis

Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

By Chris Wickham (Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford.)

Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry

By Colin Bundy

Between The World And Me

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

By James Belich

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