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Oil Palm: A Global History

By Jonathan E. Robins

Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain

By Charlotte Lydia Riley

Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924

By Charles Emmerson

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

By Applebaum, Anne

George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

By Robert Darnton (Harvard University)

Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States

By Gary Y. Okihiro

Why Food Matters

By Paul Freedman

The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic

By Owen Davies (Professor of Social History, Professor of Social History, University of Hertfordshire)

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

By Simon Schama

One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink

By Matthew Parker

The Witches: Salem, 1692

By Stacy Schiff

Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

By Tiya Miles

African Europeans: An Untold History

By Olivette Otele

Settling the Earth: The Archaeology of Deep Human History

By Clive Gamble (University of Southampton)

Heroes, Rascals and Rogues

Robes of the Realm

By HRH the Prince Charles Duke of Rothesay

Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World

By Maxim Samson

The 'Kindergarten' in Edwardian Imperial Affairs

By Walter Nimocks

Thebes in Egypt: A Guide to Tombs and Temples in Ancient Luxor

By Nigel Strudwick, Helen M. Strudwick

Egyptian Mysteries: New Light on Ancient Knowledge (Art & Imagination)

By Lamy, Lucie

The Portuguese: The Land and Its People

Edward VII's Children

By John Van der Kiste

Rules of the Game: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, 1896-1933

By Nicholas Mosley

Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime

By Dominic Lieven

Rasputin: Rascal Master

By Jane Oakley

"Country Life" Book of Britain in the Seventies

By Ronald Allison

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

By Charles C. Mann

The Scramble for Africa

By Pakenham, Thomas, Thomas., Thomas Pakenham

Oman Before 1970: The End of an Era

By Ian Skeet

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages

By Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Troy Tice