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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

Northern Ireland: The Orange State

By Michael Farrel

Live Working or Die Fighting: How The Working Class Went Global

By Paul Mason

The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England, 1760-1800

By J.C.S. Mason

The Battle for the Arab Spring - Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era

By Lin Noueihed, Alex Warren

A History of Medieval Islam

By John Joseph Saunders

Myth, History And Society: The Collected Workd of Adele Afigbo

By Toyin Falola