Adloff, Richard. “West Africa The French-Speaking Nations Yesterday and Today.” New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. A history of the eight countries that make up modern day French-speaking Africa.
Brucker, Gene A. “Florence The Golden Age 1138-1737.” New York Abbeville Press, 1983. The art and architecture of Florence as well as information about everyday life.
———. “Renaissance Florence.” New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1968. A study of the community of Florence focusing on 1380-1450.
———. “The Society of Renaissance Florence.” New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Florence through historical documents.
Davidson, Basil. “Africa in History.” New York: Macmillan, 1968. Themes in African history.
———. “African Civilization Revisited.” Trenton: Africa World Press, 1991. African history from antiquity through historical documents.
———. “The African Past.” Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. African history from antiquity.
———. “A History of West Africa 1000-1800.” London: Longman Group, 1965. The history of the many peoples of Western Africa.
Dillahunt, Gordon. “Mali: A Historical Overview.” 1975. A thesis submitted to the Department of African Studies and State University College at New Paltz, New York.
Duffy, Bella. “The Tuscan Republics.” New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1893. The history of Florence, Siena, Pisa and Lueca.
Fage, J.D. “A History of Africa.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. African history from antiquity.
Freeman-Grenville, G.S. P. “Chronology of African History.” London: Oxford University Press, 1973. A time line of important dates in African history by regions.
Frugoni, Chiara. “A Distant City.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Contains a chapter on Lorenzetti’s Allegory of the Good and Bad Government.
Gies, Joseph and Gies, Frances. “Life in a Medieval City.” New York: Harper and Row, 1969. A complete discussion of everyday life in Troyes in the mid 13th century.
Girouard, Mark. “Cities and People A Social and Architectural History.” New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. A historical look at city life and city architecture.
Hallett, Robin. “Africa to 1875.” Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1970. History from antiquity to 1875.
Harris, Joseph E. “Africans and Their Past.” New York: Penguin Books, 1972. A history of the people of Africa.
Hyett, Francis A. “Florence Her History and Art.” A history of Florence from her beginning to 1530.
Jackson, John G. “Introduction to African Civilization.” Secaucus: Citadel Press, 1970. Africa’s ancient history.
July, Robert. “A History of the African People.” New York Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970. Comprehensive history of Africa. Contains helpful bibliographical information at the end of each chapter.
Lopez, Robert S. “The City Within the Wall” in “The Historian and the City” by Hanlon, Oscar and Burchard, John, eds. Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966.
Melczer, Peter. “Urbanization in Medieval Mali.” 1970. A thesis presented to the Graduate Faculty at California State College, Hayward.
Montezuma, Eduardo Matos. “The Aztecs.” New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989. Describes the culture of the Aztecs.
Oliver, Roland, ed. “The Cambridge History of Africa. Vol 3.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. A comprehensive history of Africa.
Oliver, Roland and Fage, J.D. “A Short History of Africa.” New York: Pacts on File, 1989. A brief history of ancient Africa.
Oliver, Roland and Oliver, Caroline, eds. “Africa in the Days of Exploration.” Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1965. African history at the time of European explorations.
Pirenne, Henri. “Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Discusses the origins of the medieval city in relationship to the development of commerce and trade.
Saalman, Howard. “Medieval Cities.” New York: George Braziller, 1968. Includes background information and maps about European Medieval cities.
Schevill, Ferdinand. “History of Florence.” New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936. A history of Florence through the Renaissance.
Soustelle, Jacques. “The Daily Life of the Aztecs.” New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. A complete study of all aspects of the Aztec culture.
Stride, G.T. and Ifeba, Caroline. “People and Empires of West Africa.” New York: African Publishing Corp, 1971. A history of the many different people of West Africa.
Welland, James. “The Great Sahara.” London: Hutchinson, 1964. A history of the people in and around the Sahara Desert.