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Women's talk and the colonial state: the Wylde scandal, 1831-1833.

Towards a holistic review of Pan-Africanism: linking the idea and the movement.

News and the politics of information in the mid seventeenth century: the western design and the conquest of Jamaica.

Building bridges, breaking barriers.

Children in the archives: epistolary evidence, youth agency, and the social meanings of coming of age in interwar Nyasaland.

The aping apes of Poe and Wright: race, animality, and mimicry in The murders in the rue morgue and Native son.

Child slaves and freemen at the Spiritan Mission in Soyo, 1880-1885.

Killin'em with kindness: The porter and Hemingway's racial cauldron.

This Harlem life: black families and everyday life in the 1920s and 1930s.

Legislating separation and solidarity in plural societies: the Chinese in Indonesia and Malaysia.

The satisfaction of doing national work, the delight of change and a good salary: the health of British colonial nurses going to work in the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).

Transnational histories of sexualities in Asia.

Sexuality, Africa, history.

Social death and political life in the study of slavery.

On hope and Hitsville.

Interracial Roommate Relationships: Negotiating Daily Interactions

[Sciences and races in Brazil ca. 1900].

A longitudinal examination of racial identity and racial discrimination among African American adolescents.

Oscar Mallitte's Andaman photographs, 1857-8.

Who killed Meyer Hasenfus? Organized crime, policing and informing on the Witwatersrand, 1902-8.