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The Politics of Socialism: An Essay in Political Theory

By John Dunn

Benefits of Famine: A Political Economy of Famine and Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983-9

By David Keen

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906

By David Cannadine

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World

By Jeff Pearce

The Oral History Reader

By Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson

Oral History: A Handbook

By Ken Howarth

Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830 - 1867

By Hall, Catherine

Private Battles

By Simon Garfield

Sex in Elizabethan England

By Haynes

An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War

By Donald Thomas

Lancashire of One Hundred Years Ago

By John Hudson

London - Brixton and Norwood

By J. Dudman

Mesopotamia (Introductory Guides)

By Julian Reade

The Oxford Illustrated History of the World

By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Wm. P. Reynolds Professor of History, University of Notre Dame)

The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

By Ron Ramdin

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography

By John Swanson Jacobs, Jonathan D S Schroeder

The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

By Peniel E Joseph

Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture

By Paul Gilroy

Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century

By Mike Jay

Everyday Life in Medieval England

By Professor Christopher Dyer

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395-600

By Averil Cameron (University of Oxford, UK)

Dark Age Economics: Origins of Towns and Trade, A.D.600-1000

By Richard Hodges

Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants

By Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Dangerous Tastes: The Story of Spices

By Andrew Dalby

Visualizations

By Mr Martin Kemp

The Sweat of the Gods: Myths and Legends of Bicycle Racing

By Benjo Maso, Michiel Horn

Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

By Bill Bryson

Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

By Ha-Joon Chang

An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners

By Fiona Davison