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Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

By Mark Leopold

Decentralisation in Africa: A Pathway out of Poverty and Conflict?

By Christof Hartmann, Gordon Crawford

Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice

By Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)

Making History: Writings on History and Culture

By E. P. Thompson

The Revolution of the Dons: Cambridge and Society in Victorian England

By Sheldon Rothblatt

A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period

By Jamil M. Abun-Nasr

Dead Man Running

By M MCGARTLAND

The Library: A Fragile History

By Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew Pettegree

Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

By Gregory Mann

Historical Archaeology: A Structural Approach in an African Culture

Medieval People: Vivid Lives in a Distant Landscape - From Charlemagne to Piero della Francesca

By Michael Prestwich

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By C.L.R. James, David Scott Scott

The Archaeology of Early Christianity: A History

By W. H. C. Frend

Simon Bolivar (Simon Bolivar): A Life

By John Lynch

Ancient and Modern Britons

By David Macritchie

Molotov'S Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History

By Rachel Polonsky

Flag on the Mountain: A Political Anthropology of War in Croatia and Bosnia

By Ivo Zanic

The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire

By Susan Pedersen (Professor and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum, Professor and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum, Columbia University)

The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire

By Giordano Nanni

The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander

By Phiroze Vasunia

Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World, 1400-2000

By John R. Chavez (Professor of History, Southern Methodist University, Texas)

The Study of Africa: v. 1: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Encounters

By Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807-1956

By Gareth Austin

The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater

By Karin Barber

Games against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa

By Robert Harms (Yale University, Connecticut)

A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization

By Kenneth F. Kiple (Bowling Green State University, Ohio)

Horizons: A Global History of Science

By James Poskett

South Africa in World History

By Iris Berger

The Mbeki legacy

By Brian Pottinger

Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture, and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe

By Terence O. Ranger (Oxford University)