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Scotland: The Story of a Nation

By Magnusson, Magnus

Modern China

By Rana Mitter

The Shortest History of China

By Linda Jaivin

Good As You: From Prejudice to Pride - 30 Years of Gay Britain

By Paul Flynn

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

By Eric Schlosser

The Road to War

By R. J. Overy, Andrew Wheatcroft

Britain at War

By Daily Mail

L'Empire colonial sous Vichy

By Cantier, Jacques, Jennings, Eric

An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914

By J. P. Daughton (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University)

The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa

By Jeremy Keenan

Verdict on Vichy: Power and Prejudice in the Vichy France Regime

By Michael Curtis (Reader in Pharmacology King's College London UK)

The French Empire Between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics and Society

By Martin Thomas

A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807

By A. R. Disney (La Trobe University, Victoria)

Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991: From a Monarchical Autocracy to a Military Oligarchy

By Teferra Haile-Selassie

The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974

By Bahru Zewde

Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism & After

By Wendy James, Eisei Kurimoto, Donald L. Donham, Alessandro Triulzi

The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule

By John Lamphear (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin)

The Building of an Empire

By Haile M. Larebo

A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991: Updated and revised edition

By Bahru Zewde

Les Empires coloniaux. Une histoire-monde

By Frémeaux, Jacques

Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years

By Felipe Fernaandez-Armesto

Colonialism in Africa: Volume 2

By L. H. Gann

Administering the Empire, 1801-1968 - a Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office

By Mandy Banton

Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960: Volume 5, A Bibliographic Guide to Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Peter Duignan, L. H. Gann

The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing Since 1900

By Carl Berger

Philosophy, History and Civilization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on R. G. Collingwood

By David Boucher, Tariq Modood, James Connelly

Margery Perham and British Rule in Africa

By Mary Bull, Alison Smith

Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth

By Frederick Madden, D. K. Fieldhouse

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

By Neil Sheehan

Elephant, The Tiger And The Cell Phone: India: The Emerging 21st-Century Power

By Shashi Tharoor