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Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

By David Kynaston, Francis Green

How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women

By Lindsey German

Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru

By Thomas Spear (Author)

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

By Jeff Pearce

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906

By David Cannadine

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

By David Keen

The Politics of Socialism: An Essay in Political Theory

By John Dunn

The Greeks

By Sir Kenneth J. Dover

The Greeks

By Sir Kenneth J. Dover

Constance Street: The true story of one family and one street in London's East End

By Connelly, Charlie

Love, Sex and Tragedy: Why Classics Matter

By Goldhill, Simon

Sharpeville: An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences

By Tom Lodge (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick)

I Will Not Eat Stone: A Woman's History of Colonial Asante

By Jean Allman

Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others

By David Day (University of Western Australia Business School)

The Graves are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa

By Bill Berkeley

Isaiah Berlin

By John Gray

Island People: The Caribbean and the World

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora

By Michael A. Gomez (New York University)

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

By Paul Gilroy

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

By Toby Green

Subaltern Studies: v. 3

By Ranajit Guha

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

By Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui

Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007

By Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman

Narrative and Genre

By Mary Chamberlain, Paul Thompson

Africa's Discovery of Europe

By Northrup

First World War: Still No End in Sight

By Professor Frank Furedi (Professor of Sociology, university of kent, UK)

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1950

By Tabitha Kanogo

Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania

By Steven Feierman (Professor of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)

From Colonization to Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africa

By Alan Lester