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Mobilizing the Masses

By Schmidt

A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

By James Copnall

Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929-1987

By D. K. Fieldhouse (Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge)

People of the Plow: Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800-1900

By James C. McCann

Caribbean Freedom: Economy and Society from Emancipation to the Present

By Hilary McD. Beckles, Verene Shepherd

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By Orlando Figes

Towards Decolonisation: Political, Labour and Economic Developments in Jamaica 1938-1945

By Richard Hart

Africa's Urban Past

By David M. Anderson

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century

By P. J. Marshall (Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, University of London), Alaine Low, Wm. Roger Louis

Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war

By Lynne Olson

McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime

By Misha Glenny

Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century: 2 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 2)

By Pocock, J. G. A.

The Rose

By Jennifer Potter

The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

By Janice Hadlow

Post Offices

By Julian Stray

One Hundred Years of Protest

By Christopher Catherwood (Author)

The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (Helicon arts & music)

By Eden, Ronald

Unfinished Business the Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

By David, Aaronovitch, Illustrated

Passovotchka: Moscow Dynamo

By David Downing

Barca: A People's Passion

By Jimmy Burns

When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies

By Andy Beckett

Nottingham: An Illustrated History

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

Drugs and the World

By Axel Klein

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Jenni Murray

United Nations in the Contemporary World

By David J. Whittaker

The History of Toys: From Spinning Tops to Robots

By DEBORAH JAFFE

The Ten-Cent Plague: Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, The

By David Hajdu

Lookout! Mostly Monks

By Elizabeth Newbery