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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

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)