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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature: West Meets East

By Hakutani, Yoshinobu

One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History

By Larry Flynt, David Eisenbach, Ph.D.

Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway: Situating the Western Experience in Performing Arts

By R. Wattenberg

Books between Europe and the Americas: Connections and Communities, 1620-1860

By L. Howsam, J. Raven

Wealth, Power, and the Crisis of Laissez Faire Capitalism

By D. Gibson

The Supreme Court in American Politics

By I. Unah

May it Please the Court: 23 Live Recordings of Landmark Cases as Argued before the Supreme Court, Including the Actual Voices of the Attorneys and Ju

By Peter Irons, Stephanie Guitton (Editors)

Britain in Our Century: Images and Controversies

By Arthur Marwick

States and Power

By Richard Lachmann

America, Russia and the Cold War, 1945-75

By Walter Lafeber

Africa's Past, Our Future

By Kathleen R. Smythe

Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions

By Paul E. Lovejoy

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain

By Padraic X. Scanlan

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

By Andro Linklater

The Making of Modern Japan

By Marius B. Jansen

Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920

By David Robinson

From Slavery to Emancipation in the Atlantic World

By Sylvia R. Frey, Betty Wood

The Cold War and After: Capitalism, Revolution and Superpower Politics

By Richard Saull

Stand the Storm: History of the Atlantic Slave Trade

By Edward Reynolds

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt

By Chris Toensing, Jeannie Sowers

The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas

By David Eltis (Queen's University, Ontario)

The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa and the Americas

By David Eltis, James Walvin, Svend Green-Pederson

Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina

By Daniel F. Littlefield

Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction

By David Fleming, Richard Benjamin

The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics

By Giacomo Macola

The History of Islam in Africa

By Nehemia Levtzion, Randall L. Pouwels

The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History

By Philip D. Curtin

Expanding Empires: Cultural Interaction and Exchange in World Societies from Ancient to Early Modern Times

By Michael A. Polushin, Wendy Kasinec

The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500

By Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear