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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

By James C. Scott

Land of the Ilich: Journey's into Islay's Past

By Steven Mithen

Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain

By Robert Verkaik

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power

By Deirdre Mask

The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry

By Colin Bundy

Canterbury Cathedral: Photographic Memories

By Martin Andrew, The Francis Frith Collection

The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation

By J.P.C. Laband

Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838

By Barbara Bush

It’s Our Turn to Eat

By Wrong, Michela

African's Life, 1745-1797: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano

By James Walvin (University of York, UK)

Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

By George E. Brooks

Servitude in Modern Times

By M. L. Bush (Manchester Metropolitan University)

The African Slave Trade

By Basil Davidson

I Never Said Goodbye: A Mother's Memoir of Love and Brutal Loss Inside Saddam's Regime

By Pauline Knowles-Samarraie, Karen O'Brien

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

By Serhii Plokhy

The Sunday Times Sporting Century: 50 Momentous Stories in Sports History

By Alan English

The Concept of Race in South Asia

By Peter Robb

Bound for Glory American in Color: America in Color 1939-43

By Hendricks Paul

Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban, 1910-90

By Bill Freund

Europe Divided: 1559 - 1598

By John H. Elliott (University of Oxford)

Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body

By Barbara Thompson

Landed Obligation

By Hanson

Identity Theft: Cultural Colonisation and Contemporary Art

By Jonathan Harris (Professor in Global Art & Design Studies, Birmingham City University (United Kingdom))

Negotiating the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa

By Sarah Nuttall, Carli Coetzee

The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894-1985

By Charles van Onselen

Salt

By Mark Kurlansky

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

By Walter Scheidel

The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

By Masha Gessen

The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year

By Professor Nick Groom

Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History

By Rozina Visram