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I Am Evelyn Amony
Reclaiming My Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army
Evelyn Amony, Edited with an introduction by Erin Baines
Fall 2015

From War to Genocide
Criminal Politics in Rwanda, 1990–1994
André Guichaoua, Translated by Don E. Webster, Foreword by Scott Straus
Fall 2015

Education as Politics
Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s–1914
Kelly M. Duke Bryant
Spring 2015

Cubans in Angola
South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991
Christine Hatzky
Fall 2014

Remaking Rwanda
State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf
Spring 2011

Court of Remorse
Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Thierry Cruvellier
Spring 2010

Being Colonized
The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960
Jan Vansina
Spring 2010

Naming Colonialism
History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870–1960
Osumaka Likaka
Fall 2009

Nachituti’s Gift
Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa
David M. Gordon
Fall 2005

The Lunda-Ndembu
Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa
James A. Pritchett
Spring 2001

Way of Death
Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830
Joseph C. Miller
Spring 1997

People of the Plow
An Agricultural History of Ethiopia, 1800–1990
James C. McCann
Spring 1995


Breaking the Chains
Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia
Edited by Martin A. Klein
Fall 1993


Confronting Historical Paradigms
Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America
Frederick Cooper, Allen F. Isaacman, Florencia C. Mallon, William Roseberry, and Steve J. Stern
Spring 1993


Kings and Clans
Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu Rift, 1780–1840
David Newbury
Spring 1992


Red Gold of Africa
Copper in Precolonial History and Culture
Eugenia W. Herbert
Spring 1984


Slavery in Africa
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff
Spring 1977


Africa and the West
Intellectual Responses to European Culture
Edited by Philip D. Curtin
Spring 1972


Time Longer Than Rope
A History of a Black Man’s Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
Edward Roux, With a Foreword by Philip D. Curtin
1964
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