- Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 (Social History of Africa Series)
- Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007
- Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America
- Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa (Social History of Africa)
- Mozambique: the Africanization of a European institution;: The Zambesi prazos, 1750-1902