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Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa

By Frederick Cooper (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960

By Frederick Cooper

The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Journal of Colonial and Foreign Service

By Richard Posnett, David FWD>Owen

A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994

By Arnold Hughes, David Perfect

Slave Population 1807-1834

By Higman

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

By Harari, Yuval Noah

The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

By Headrick

Helen Waddell

By Felicitas Corrigan

Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and their Hinterland, c.1600-c.1960

By Ralph A. Austen (University of Chicago), Jonathan Derrick

Family Identity And The State In The Bamako Kafu, C. 1800-c. 1900

By B. Marie Perinbam, B Marie Perinbam

Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra

By John Parker

Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier: The Life of the Borderlands since 1914

By Paul Nugent

Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order

By Ivor Wilks

The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana

By Jean Marie Allman

The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan

By Alai oSaalioh Karraar

A History of Modern Tunisia

By Kenneth Perkins (University of South Carolina)

The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind

By Justin Pollard, HOWARD REID

The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taino

Tales from the King's African Rifles

By John Nunneley

The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur

By Brian Steidle, Gretchen Steidle Wallace

The Teeth May Smile But the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda

By Andrew Rice

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920

By Rogan, Eugene

Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters, and History

By Bernard Lewis

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

By Richard Hart

The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados, 1823-1843

By Kathleen Mary Butler

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

By Scott McClellan

Africa's Urban Past

By David M. Anderson

A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

By William Finnegan

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 III: The Nineteenth Century

By Andrew Porter (Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, University of London), Wm Roger Louis