African Studies Reading Room Titles in "Precolonial African History" in European Languages (published 2005-2016)
General and Comparative
- African archaeology : a critical introduction. Edited by Ann Brower Stahl. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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- Afrique, terre d'histoire : au coeur de la recherche avec Jean-Pierre Chrétien. Sous la direction de Christine Deslaurier et Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton. Paris : Karthala, c2007.
- L'Afrique, berceau de l'écriture : et ses manuscrits en péril. 2 vols. Sous la direction de Jacques Habib Sy. Paris : Harmattan, c2014.
- Alagoa, Ebiegberi Joe. The practice of history in Africa : a history of African historiography. Port Harcourt, Nigeria : Onyoma Research Publications, 2006.
- Archaeology of African plant use. Edited by Chris J. Stevens [et al.] Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2014] E-book
- Casely-Hayford, Gus. The lost kingdoms of Africa London : Bantam Press, 2012.
- Chami, Felix. The unity of African ancient history : 3000 BC to AD 500. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : E & D Ltd., c2006.
- Connah, Graham. African Civilizations : an archaeological perspective. 3rd ed. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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- Africa's development in historical perspective. Edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James A. Robinson.
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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- Diagne, Mamoussé. Critique de la raison orale : les pratiques discursives en Afrique noire. Paris : Karthala; Niamey : Centre d'études linguistiques et historiques par tradition orale; Dakar : Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, 2005.
- Diop, Cheikh Anta. Articles: publiés dans le bulletin de l'IFAN, Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, 1962-1977. Dakar, Senegal : Nouvelles du sud; Yaoundé, Cameroon : Silex, 2006.
- The Oxford handbook of African archaeology. Edited by Peter Mitchell and Paul Lane. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Writing African history. Edited by John Edward Philips. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005.
Africa and its Diasporas and Slave Trade & Slavery in Africa
- Africa, Brazil, and the construction of trans-Atlantic Black identities. Edited by Livio Sansone, Elisée Soumonni, and Boubacar Barry. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2008.
- African voices on slavery and the slave trade. Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, and Martin A. Klein. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, [ 2016]
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- Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora. Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
- Behrendt, Stephen D., A. J. H. Latham, and David Northrup. The diary of Antera Duke, an eighteenth-century African slave trader. New York : Oxford University Press, with the assistance of the International African Institute, 2010.
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- Carney, Judith Ann and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff. In the shadow of slavery : Africa's botanical legacy in the Atlantic world. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
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- Crosscurrents in the Black Atlantic, 1770-1965 : a brief history with documents. Edited by David Northrup. Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, c2008.
- Diouf, Sylviane A. Dreams of Africa in Alabama : the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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- Ferreira, Roquinaldo Amaral. Cross-cultural exchange in the Atlantic world : Angola and Brazil during the era of the slave trade New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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- Fields-Black, Edda L. Deep roots : rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
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- Fraser, Louis. Dahomey and the ending of the trans-Atlantic slave trade : the journals and correspondence of Vice-Consul Louis Fraser, 1851-1852; edited by Robin Law. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Green, Toby. The rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in western Africa, 1300-1589. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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- Hartman, Saidiya V. Lose your mother : a journey along the Atlantic slave route. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
- Hawthorne, Walter. From Africa to Brazil : culture, identity, and an Atlantic slave trade, 1600-1830. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Heywood, Linda M. and John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Otero, Solimar. Afro-Cuban diasporas in the Atlantic world. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2010.
- Repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade : the interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African diaspora. Edited by Carolyn Brown ...[et al.] Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2011.
- Slavery in Africa : archaeology and memory. Edited by Paul J. Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald. Oxford [England] ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2011.
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- Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater slavery : a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Sparks, Randy J. Where the Negroes are masters : an African port in the era of the slave trade. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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- Stilwell, Sean. Slavery and slaving in African history. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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- Sweet, James H. Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
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- The transatlantic slave trade : landmarks, legacies, expectations : proceedings of the international conference on historic slave route held at Accra, Ghana, on 30 August-2 September 2004. Edited by James Kwesi Anquandah; assisted by Nana Jane Oppku-Agyemang, Michel R. Doortmont. Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, c2007.
- Wilson-Fall, Wendy. Memories of Madagascar and slavery in the Black Atlantic. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2015.
- Wright, John. The trans-Saharan slave trade. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Young, Jason R. Rituals of resistance : African Atlantic religion in Kongo and the lowcountry South in the era of slavery. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
Central Africa
- Denbow, James R. The archaeology and ethnography of Central Africa. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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- Eternal ancestors : the art of the Central African reliquary. Edited by Alisa LaGamma ; with contributions by Barbara Boehm ... [et al.].
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
- LaGamma, Alisa. Kongo : power and majesty. With contributions by Josiah Blackmore et al. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2015.
- Macola, Giacomo. The gun in central Africa : a history of technology and politics. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
- Newbury, David S. The land beyond the mists : essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2009.
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- Nguema-Obam, Paulin. Fang du Gabon : les tambours de la tradition. Paris : Karthala, c2005.
- Roberts, Allen F. A dance of assassins : performing early colonial hegemony in the Congo. Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2013.
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Eastern Africa and Indian Ocean Islands
- Alpers, Edward A. East Africa and the Indian Ocean. Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2009.
- The archaeology of ancient Eritrea. Edited by Peter R. Schmidt, Matthew C. Curtis, and Zelalem Teka. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2008.
- Crossland, Zoë. Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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- Ehret, Christopher. History and the testimony of language. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
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- Gadla ʼEmna Walata Péṭros. The life and struggles of our mother Walatta Petros : a seventeenth-century African biography of an Ethiopian woman. Translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
- Kodesh, Neil. Beyond the royal gaze : clanship and public healing in Buganda. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2010.
- Land, literacy and the state in Sudanic Africa. Edited by Donald Crummey. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2005.
- O'Fahey, R. S. The Darfur Sultanate : a history. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
- Phillipson, D. W. Ancient churches of Ethiopia : fourth-fourteenth centuries. New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2009.
- Phillipson, D. W. Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum & the Northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300. Woodbridge, Suffolk [England] : James Currey ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2012.
- Saavedra Casco, José Arturo. Utenzi, war poems, and the German conquest of East Africa : Swahili poetry as a historical source. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, c2007.
- Sheriff, Abdul. Dhow cultures of the Indian Ocean : cosmopolitanism, commerce and Islam. New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.
- Slave routes and oral tradition in southeastern Africa Edited by Benigna Zimba, Edward Alpers, and Allen Isaacman. Maputo, Mozambique : Filsom Entertainment, c2005.
- Spaulding, Jay. The heroic age in Sinnār. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2007.
- Stephens, Rhiannon. A history of African motherhood : the case of Uganda, 700-1900. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- The Western Indian Ocean : essays on islands and islanders. Edited by Shawkat M. Toorawa. Port Louis, Mauritius : Hassan Toorawa Trust, c2007.
Northern Africa
- Ancient Nubia : African kingdoms on the Nile. Edited by Majorie M. Fisher ... [et al.] ; with photographs by Chester Higgins Jr. Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, c2012.
- Dossey, Leslie. Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
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- Egypt in the cartographic heritage, 1595-1840 A.D. : the cartographic collection of the National Libary of Egypt. Cairo : Dar al-Kutub wa-al-Watha'iq al-Qawmiyah, c2008.
- El Hamel, Chouki. Black Morocco : a history of slavery, race, and Islam. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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- Parkinson, R. B. Poetry and culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt : a dark side to perfection. London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2010.
- Ruffini, Giovanni. Medieval Nubia : a social and economic history. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
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Southern Africa
- Becoming Zimbabwe : a history from the pre-colonial period to 2008. Edited by Brian Raftopoulos and A. S. Mlambo. Harare : Weaver Press, 2009.
- Conceição, António da, Treatise on the rivers of Cuama = (Tratado dos rios de Cuama). Edited and translated by Malyn Newitt. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, c2009.
- Levine, Roger S. A living man from Africa : Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa chief and missionary, and the making of nineteenth-century South Africa. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
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- Mbenga, Bernard and Andrew Manson. 'People of the Dew' : a history of the Bafokeng of Phokeng-Rustenburg Region, South Africa, from early times to 2000. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana, 2010.
- Pringle, Thomas. The South African letters of Thomas Pringle. Edited and introduced by Randolph Vigne. Cape Town : Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2011.
- A search for origins : science, history and South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind'. Edited by Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen, Trefor Jenkins. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2007.
- Trials of slavery : selected documents concerning slaves from the criminal records of the Council of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope, 1705-1794. Edited by Nigel Worden and Gerald Groenewald. Cape Town : Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of South African Historical Documents, 2005.
- Zulu identities : being Zulu, past and present. Edited by Benedict Carton, John Laband and Jabulani Sithole. New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
Western Africa
- An African family archive : the Lawsons of little Popo/Aneho (Togo) 1841-1938. Edited by Adam Jones & Peter Sebald. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press for The British Academy, c2005.
- Afigbo, A. E. Myth, history and society : the collected works of Adiele Afigbo ; edited by Toyin Falola. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2006.
- Akan peoples in Africa and the Diaspora. 2 vols. Edited by Kwasi Konadu. Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, 2014-
- Clapperton, Hugh. Hugh Clapperton into the interior of Africa : records of the second expedition 1825-1827. Edited by Jamie Bruce Lockhart and Paul E. Lovejoy. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Current perspectives in the archaeology of Ghana. Edited by James Anquandah, Benjamin Kankpeyeng, Wazi Apoh. Legon-Accra, Ghana : For the University of Ghana by Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2014.
- Danish sources for the history of Ghana, 1657-1754. Edited by Ole Justesen ; translated by James Manley. Copenhagen : Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2005.
- The forgotten Peddie/Campbell expedition into Fuuta Jaloo, West Africa, 1815-17 : a record of elaborate planning and grand misfortune and misunderstanding. Edited by Bruce L. Mouser. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin-Madison, African Studies Program, 2007.
- Hall, Bruce S. A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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- Hunwick, John O. West Africa, Islam, and the Arab world : studies in honor of Basil Davidson. Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2006.
- Kane, Ousmane Oumar. Beyond Timbuktu : an intellectual history of Muslim West Africa. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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- Kesteloot, Lilyan. Histoire d'un coup d'état : Mamari Biton Koulibaly. Paris : Alfabarre, c2010.
- Kriger, Colleen E. Cloth in West African history. Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2006.
- Lydon, Ghislaine. On Trans-Saharan trails : Islamic law, trade networks, and cross-cultural exchange in nineteenth-century Western Africa. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Mann, Kristin. Slavery and the birth of an African city : Lagos, 1760-1900. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007.
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- McCaskie, T. C., Asante, kingdom of gold : essays in the history of an African culture. Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2015]
- McIntosh, Roderick J. Ancient Middle Niger : urbanism and the self-organizing landscape. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- The meanings of Timbuktu. Edited by Samil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne. Cape Town : HSRC Press in association with CODESRIA : distributed in North America by IPG, 2008.
- Mollien, Gaspard Théodore. Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique : aux sources du Sénégal et de la Gambie, fait en 1818. Paris : Harmattan, c2007.
- Mouser, Bruce L. American colony on the Rio Pongo : the War of 1812, the slave trade, and the proposed settlement of African Americans, 1810-1830. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2013.
- New perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio. Edited by Mac Dixon-Fyle and Gibril Cole. New York: Peter Lang, c2006.
- Nwokeji, G. Ugo. The slave trade and culture in the Bight of Biafra : an African society in the Atlantic world. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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- Osborn, Emily Lynn. Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011.
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- The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 : a documentary history. Edited by Malyn Newitt. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa : archaeological perspectives. Edited by J. Cameron Monroe, Akinwumi Ogundiran. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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- Precolonial Nigeria : essays in honor of Toyin Falola. Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2005.
- Reindorf, Carl Christian. History of the Gold Coast and Asante. 3rd ed.. Accra : Ghana Universities Press, 2007. [Originally published in 1895, reprinted with supplementary material in 1966].
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- Ta:rikh Mandinka de Bijini (Guinée-Bissau) : la mémoire des Mandinka et Sòoninkee du Kaabu. Traduction, notes et commentaires par Cornelia Giesing and Valentin Vydrine. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
- The trans-Saharan book trade : manuscript culture, Arabic literacy and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Edited by Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
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- Usman, Aribidesi Adisa. The Yoruba frontier : a regional history of community formation, experience, and changes in West Africa. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2012.
Book Series
African Studies Series. Published by Cambridge University Press, USA.
African Studies Center, Boston University Published by the University, USA.
African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Published by the University, USA.
Blacks in the Diaspora. Published by Indiana University Press, USA.
Fontes historiae Africanae. Published by Oxford University Press, UK.
New African Histories. Published by Ohio University Press, USA.
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora. Published by University of Rochester Press, USA.
Studien zur Kulturkunde. Published by Veröffentlichungen des Frobenius-Instituts an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität zu Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Van Riebeck Society (Series). Published by the Society, South Africa.