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Egypt: How A Lost Civilisation Was Rediscovered

By Joyce Tyldesley

The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism, 1941-1993

By Ruth Iyob (University of Missouri, St Louis)

Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo

By Jules Marchal, Adam Hochschild, Martin Thom

Capricorn: David Stirling's Africa Campaign

By Richard Hughes

War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa: The Patterns and Meanings of State-Level Conflict in the 19th Century

By Richard Reid

Hitler's Mediterranean Gamble: The North African and the Mediterranean Campaigns in World War II

By Douglas Porch

Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War

By Prof David Killingray, Martin Plaut

Vital Crossroads: Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940

By Reynolds M. Salerno

Islam and Muslim History in South Asia

By Francis Robinson (Professor of South Asian History and Vice Principal, Professor of South Asian History and Vice Principal, Royal Holloway, University of London)

The New History: The 1980s and Beyond

By Theodore K. Rabb, Robert I. Rotberg

Palgrave Advances in World Histories

By M. Hughes-Warrington

Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56

By Elizabeth Hodgkin

Why History?

By Keith Jenkins (University College Chichester, UK)

Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa

By Richard Sandbrook

Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past

By P. Manning

Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa

By Luise White

Contested Terrains And Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa In Focus

By George Clement Bond, Nigel C. Gibson

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

By Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui

The Rise of a Party-State in Kenya: From Harambee! to Nyayo!

By Jennifer A. Widner

Forgotten Saints: History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco

By Sahar Bazzaz

Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora

By Michael A. Gomez (New York University)

Themes in West Africa's History

By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture

By Patrick Manning (Professor, University of Pittsburgh)

Europe in the Central Middle Ages 962-1154

By C. Brooke

Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

By Lauren Benton (New York University)

The New Imperial Histories Reader

By Stephen Howe

God's Terrorists

By Charles Allen

The Graves are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa

By Bill Berkeley

Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others

By David Day (University of Western Australia Business School)

I Will Not Eat Stone: A Woman's History of Colonial Asante

By Jean Allman