Social & Cultural History

Oral History: A Handbook

By Ken Howarth

The Oral History Reader

By Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson

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

Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind

By Professor of Anthropology Brian Fagan (University of California USA)

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