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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

By Maryanne Wolf

L'Alphabet touareg: Histoire d'un vieil alphabet africain

By Casajus, Dominique

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

By Andro Linklater

Destined for a Life of Service: Defining African-Jamaican Womanhood, 1865-1938

By Henrice Altink

The Unbelievable Truth

By Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, David Mitchell

A Curious History of Sex

By Kate Lister

The Making of Modern Japan

By Marius B. Jansen

Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria

By Tony Rennell

African Americans and Africa: A New History

By Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

By Piero Gleijeses

Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

By David Eltis

Stand the Storm: History of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By Edward Reynolds

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

By Sylviane A. Diouf

Race, War and Nationalism: A Social History of West Indians in the First World War

By Glenford Deroy Howe

Political Ideology in the Arab World: Accommodation and Transformation

By Michaelle L. Browers (Wake Forest University, North Carolina)

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