| Neo-traditionalism and the limits of invention in British colonial Africa T Spear The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume III, 419-444, 2017 | 713 | 2017 |
| The Swahili: Reconstructing the history and language of an African society, 800-1500 D Nurse, T Spear University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985 | 574 | 1985 |
| Being Maasai: ethnicity and identity in East Africa T Spear, R Waller Ohio University Press, 1993 | 532 | 1993 |
| Mountain farmers: Moral economies of land & agricultural development in Arusha & Meru TT Spear Univ of California Press, 1997 | 314 | 1997 |
| The Kaya Complex: a history of the Mijikenda peoples of the Kenya coast to 1900 TT Spear | 242 | 1978 |
| Early Swahili history reconsidered T Spear The International Journal of African Historical Studies 33 (2), 257-290, 2000 | 174 | 2000 |
| Kenya's past: an introduction to historical method in Africa T Spear (No Title), 1981 | 139 | 1981 |
| East African Expressions of Christianity T Spear, IN Kimambo, TT Spear James Currey, 1999 | 122 | 1999 |
| Oral traditions: whose history T Spear History in Africa 8, 165-181, 1981 | 103 | 1981 |
| Being ‘Maasai’, but not ‘people of cattle’: Arusha agricultural Maasai in the nineteenth century T Spear Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity in East Africa, 120-136, 1993 | 82 | 1993 |
| The Shirazi in Swahili Traditions, Culture, and History1 T Spear History in Africa 11, 291-305, 1984 | 74 | 1984 |
| Toward the history of African Christianity T Spear East African Expressions of Christianity, 3-24, 1999 | 60 | 1999 |
| Richard Waller, eds. 1993 T Spear Being Maasai: ethnicity and identity in East Africa, 0 | 49 | |
| Mutesa, the missionaries, and Christian conversion in Buganda J Brierley, T Spear The International journal of African historical studies 21 (4), 601-618, 1988 | 44 | 1988 |
| Struggles for the Land: The political and moral economies of land on Mount Meru TT Spear University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994 | 41 | 1994 |
| Traditions of origin and their interpretation: the Mijikenda of Kenya TT Spear (No Title), 1981 | 41 | 1981 |
| A linguistic reconsideration of Swahili origins D Nurse AZANIA: Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 18 (1), 127-150, 1983 | 36 | 1983 |
| Traditional myths and historian's myths: variations on the singwaya theme of mijikenda origins TT Spear History in Africa 1, 67-84, 1974 | 31 | 1974 |
| Maasai farmers: the evolution of Arusha agriculture T Spear, D Nurse The International Journal of African Historical Studies 25 (3), 481-503, 1992 | 25 | 1992 |
| Shungwaya, the Mijikenda, and the Traditions J de Vere Allen, T Spear, J Allen The International Journal of African Historical Studies 16 (3), 455-485, 1983 | 20 | 1983 |
