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Africa and the Disciplines: The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities

By Robert H. Bates, V. Y. Mudimbe, Jean F. O'Barr

Religion versus Empire?: British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914

By A. Porter

Introduction to African Culture: v. 1: General Aspects

By International Bureau of Education

AFTER THE END HISTORY

New Towns of the Middle Ages: Town Plantation in England, Wales and Gascony

By Maurice Beresford

Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries

By A. C. Duke

Everyday Life in Medieval England

By Christopher Dyer

Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa

By Philip D. Curtin (The Johns Hopkins University)

Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history

By Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness

By Megan Vaughan

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

By Elizabeth Abbott

The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power

By James Traub

The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past is Taught to Children

By Marc Ferro

On the Edge of the New Century

By Eric Hobsbawm, Antonio Polito

Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of Caribbean Society in Its Ideological Aspects, 1492 - 1900

By Gordon K. Lewis

Protest and Survival: The Historical Experience

By John Rule

Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's a Good Thing

By Danny Dorling, Kirsten McClure

The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years

By Noam Chomsky, Richard C. Lewontin, Ira Katznelson, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann

Class Struggles in USSR I 1923-30

By Charles Bettelheim

Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, Updated Edition

By Kanan Makiya

One World Divisible: A Global History Since 1945

By David Reynolds, Ph.D. (Cambridge University)

On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture

By Louis A. Perez Jr.

Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945

By Tom Lodge

Power and Resistance in an African Society: Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa

Child soldier: Fighting for my life

By China Keitetsi

What Is Africa's Problem

By Yoweri K. Museveni

Red Victory: History of the Russian Civil War

By W. Bruce Lincoln

The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century

By Samuel P. Huntington

Honour in African History

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lock-out: The Struggle for Dignity

By Alan Campbell, Keith Gildart, John McIlroy