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The Rise of Modern Diplomacy 1450-1919 by M.S. Anderson. London and New York: Longman, 1993. Pp. x + 320. £28.00 (hardback), £11.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-582-21232 4; 0-582-21237-5.
The Voyages of ...Jacques Cartier, with an introduction by Ramsay Cook. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. xli + 177. £32.50 (hardback); £11.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-8020-5015-8; 0-8020-6000-5.
The Life of Richard Kane: Britain's First Lieutenant-Governor of Minorca by Bruce Laurie. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1994. Pp. 291. £29.95. ISBN 0-8386-3501-6.
The New Cambridge History of India: The Mughal Empire by John F. Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi + 320, maps. £27.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 24119 2.
The New Cambridge History of India: The Marathas 1600-1818 by Stewart Gordon. Cambridge: University Press, 1993. Pp. xv + 202, maps. £24.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 26883 4.
An Imperial State at War: Britain from 1689 to 1815, edited by Lawrence Stone. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. ix + 372. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-415-06142-3.
The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution by John E. Crowley. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 215. £27.00. ISBN 0-8018-4667-6.
The Liberal Ideal and the Demons of Empire: Theories of Imperialism from Adam Smith to Lenin by Bernard Semmel. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xxi + 223. £29.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-8018-4540-8.
Colonialism and Development: Britain and its Tropical Colonies, 1850-1960 by Michael Havinden and David Meredith. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xvi + 420. £50.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-415-02043-3.
The Search for Africa: A History in the Making by Basil Davidson. London: James Currey, 1994. Pp. x + 374. £25.00 (hardback); £11.95 (paperback).
Imperial Affinities: Nineteenth Century Analogies and Exchanges between India and Ireland by S.B. Cook. London: Sage Publications, 1993. Pp. 162. £25.00 ISBN 0-8039-9121-5.
Drink in Canada: Historical Essays edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. vi + 272. £33.95 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-7735-1135-3; 0-7735-1126-1.
Pioneer Policing in Southern Alberta: Deane of the Mounties 1888-1914 edited by William M. Baker. Calgary: Alberta Records Publication Board, Historical Society of Alberta, Volume IX, 1993. Pp. xv + 269. $22.95. ISBN 0-929123-02-6.
A Sphere of Benevolence: The Life of Joseph Orton, Wesleyan Methodist Missionary (1795-1842) by Alex Tyrrell. Melbourne: State Library of Victoria, 1993. Pp. xiv + 265. AUS$49.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7306-3488-4.
Alexander Duff of India by Andrew A. Millar. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1992. Pp. viii + 212. £12.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-86241-390-7.
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India by David Arnold, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 354. $45.00 (hardback): $18.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-520-08124-2; 0-520-08295-8.
Forster and Further: The Tradition of Anglo-Indian Fiction by Sujit Mukherjee. London: Sangam Books, 1993. Pp. 302. £17.95. ISBN 0-86311-289-7.
Lord Curzon: The Last of the British Moghuls by Nayana Goradia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 309. £17.50 (hardback). ISBN 019-562824-1.
Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902 by Carman Miller. Montreal, Kingston and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi + 544, maps. £42.70 (hardback). ISBN 0-7735-0913-5.
Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire, 1918-1964 by Stephen Howe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xvi + 373. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-820423-X.
Communications and Power: Propaganda and the Press in the Indian Nationalist Struggle. 1920-1947 by Milton Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 336. £40.00 (hardback); £17.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-42037-7; 0-5214-6763-2.
On Trek in Kordofan: The Diaries of a British District Officer in the Sudan, 1931-1933 by C.A.E. Lea, edited by M.W. Daly. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1994. Pp. ix + 304, maps, plates. £35.00. ISBN 0-19-726128-0.
Governing the Nuer: Documents in Nuer History and Ethnography, 1922-1931 by Percy Coriat, edited by Douglas H. Johnson. Oxford: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 1993. Pp. lvi + 208, maps, plates. £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-870047-45-1.
From Empire to Commonwealth: Reflections on a Career in Britain's Overseas Service by John O'Regan. London: Radcliffe Press, 1994. Pp xi + 196. £19.95. ISBN 1-85043-777-7.
The New Ideology of Imperialism: Renewing the Moral Imperative by Frank Furedi. London: Pluto Press, 1994. Pp. 140. £28.00 (hardback); £8.95 (paper back). ISBN 0-7453-0845-7; 0-7453-0846-5.
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The Grand Strategy of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp.xx + 446, illus. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-300-07540-5.
Milton and the Imperial Vision edited ...by Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1999. Pp.vi + 376. £49.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-8207-0303-6.
If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730 by Donald Harman Akenson. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, distributed in Britain by Liverpool University Press, 1997. Pp.x+273. £29.95 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 085323-952-5; 985323-962-2.
Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography 1600-1830 by Chloe Chard. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp.ix + 278. £45.00 (hardback); £16.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-7190-4804-4; 0-7190-4805-2.
Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature and Empire in the Age of Johnson by Thomas M. Curley. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Pp.xxii + 698, illus. £69.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-299-15150-6.
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century edited by P.J. Marshall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.xxi + 639. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-820563-5.
Pacific Empires: Essays in Honour of Glyndwr Williams edited by Alan Frost and Jane Samson. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Pp.viii + 334, illus. £29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-522-84791-9.
The Search for the North West Passage by Ann Savours. London: Chatham Publishing, 1999. Pp.x + 342, maps, illus. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-86176-059-0.
Earl Bathurst and the British Empire 1762-1834 by Neville Thompson. Barnsley, Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 1999. Pp.xii + 308. £25.00 (hardback), ISBN 0-85052-650-0.
Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp.xvii + 283, illus. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7190-5413-3.
Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century by Diane Frost. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. Pp.viii + 278. £32.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 085323-523-6; 0853222-533-3.
Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the Making by John Cowley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xv + 293, illus. £37.50 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-48138-4; 0-521-65389-4.
Steel, Ships and Men: Cammell Laird, 1824-1993 by Kenneth Warren. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 313, maps and illus. £29.95 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-85323-912-6; 0-85323-992-3.
Embassies in the East: The Story of the British Embassies in Japan, China and Korea from 1859 to the Present by J.E. Hoare. Richmond: Curzon, 1999. Pp.xvi + 238, illus. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7007-0512-0.
The New Cambridge History of India, IV.2: Women in Modern India by Geraldine Forbes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996 and 1999. Pp.xix + 290. £35.00 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-26812-5; 0-521-65377-0
Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 by Bruce Vandervort. London: UCL Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 274, maps. £45.00 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-85728-486-0; 1-85728-487-9.
Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa by Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xiii + 256. £45.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-59169-4; 0-521-59835-4.
Frontiers of Medicine in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1899-1940 by Heather Bell. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp.xvi + 261, maps. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-820749-2.
The South African War 1899-1902 by Bill Nasson. London: Arnold, 1999. Pp.xvi + 304, maps. £45.00 (hardback); £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-340-74154-6; 0-340-61427-7.
Managing the South African War, 1899-1902: Politicians v. Generals by Keith Terrance Surridge. Woodbridge: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1998. Pp.ix + 205, maps. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 086193-238-2.
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K.S. Inglis, assisted by Jan Brazier. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 1998. Pp.xvi + 522, illus. $49.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-522-84572-8.
Indian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914-18 selected and edited by David Omissi. Pp.xx + 382, illus., maps. £40.00 (hardback); £17.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-333-75144-2; 0-333-75145-0.
Mandates and Empire: The League of Nations and Africa, 1914-1931 by Michael D. Callahan. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. Pp.ix + 297, map. £55.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-902210-23-9.
Writing West Indian Histories by B.W. Higman. Basingstoke: Macmillan, Warwick University Caribbean Studies, 1999. Pp.xiv + 298. £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-333-73296-0.
Uganda's Katikoro in England by Ham Mukasa with notes and introduction by Simon Gikandi. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pp.xvii + 211, maps. £40.00 (hardback), £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-7190-4898-2; 0-7190-5437-0.
Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain, 1919-1945 by Barbara Bush. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp.xviii + 394, illus. £17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-415-15973-3.
Alan Lennox-Boyd: A Biography by Philip Murphy. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999. Pp.xi + 276, illus. £24.50 (hardback). ISBN 1-86064-406-6.
A History of Selangor (1766-1939) by J.M. Gullick. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1998. Pp.vi + 220. Paperback (no price given). ISBN 967-9948-10-2.
The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya by T. N. Harper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xviii + 417. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-59040-X.
Isle of Discord: Nationalism, Imperialism and the Making of the Cyprus Problem by Yiannis D. Stefanidis. London: Hurst, 1999. Pp.xi + 315. £40.00. ISBN 1-85065-415-8.
Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT by Thomas W. Zeiler. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp.xi + 288. $39.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-8078-2458-5.
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1999. Pp.xxviii + 529. £21.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-520-21511-7.
Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus by Apurba Kundu. London: I. B. Tauris, 1998. Pp.viii + 230, maps, tables. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-86064-318-3.
Freedom, Trauma, Continuities: Northern India and Independence edited by D.A. Low and Howard Brasted. New Delhi and London: Sage Publications, 1998. Pp.237. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7619-9225-1.
Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India by Gyan Prakash. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp.xiii + 304. $49.50/£31.00 (hardback), $17.95/£11.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-691-00452-8; 0-691-00453-6.
Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality by David Scott. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp.233. $49.50/£29.95 (hardback); $16.95/£10.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-691-00485-4; 0-691-00486-2.
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NIGEL SPIVEY. The Ancient Olympics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 273. $39-95 (CDN). Reviewed by Onno M. van Nijf
KAUSHIK ROY. From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in ...India from 326 BC to AD 1999. New Delhi: Manohar, 2004. Pp. 283. Rs 595. Reviewed by Pradeep Barua
NATHAN ROSENSTEIN. Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. x, 339. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Elena Isayev
HENRY CHADWICK. East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church: From Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x,306. $203.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ian Wood
CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN. Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 247. $37.50 (CDN). Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith
MARGARET L. KEKEWICH and SUSAN ROSE. Britain, France, and the Empire, 1350-1500. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 308. $23.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by John France
OM PRAKASH. Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800. New Delhi: Manohar, 2004. Pp. 426. Rs 850. Reviewed by Anthony Disney
HARRO HÖPFL. Jesuit Political Thought: The Society of Jesus and the State, c.1540-1630. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 406. $90.00 (us). Reviewed by John Patrick Donnelly, SJ
RICHMOND BARBOUR. Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 238. $75.00 (us). Reviewed by Lawrence Manley
LYNN A. STRUVE, ed. The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 412. $49.50 (us). Reviewed by John W. Dardess
FA-TI FAN. British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 238. $49-95 (us). Reviewed by Peter C. Perdue
KRISTINA BROSS. Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 357. $21.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Daniel K. Richter
RAFAEL DE BIVAR MARQUESE. Feitores do corpo, missionários da mente: Senhores, letrados e o controle dos escravos nos Américas, 1660-1860. Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2004. Pp. 479. R$66.oo. Reviewed by Enrico Dal Rago
JAMES PRITCHARD. In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvii, 484. $75.00 (us). Reviewed by John G. Reid
JOHN D. GRAINGER. The Amiens Truce: Britain and Bonaparte, 1801-1803. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 222. $85.00 (us). Reviewed by Simon Burrows
TIMOTHY HAWKINS. José de Bustamante and Central American Independence: Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. Pp. xxviii, 283. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark A. Burkholder
JON KUKLA. A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003; dist. Toronto: Random House of Canada. Pp. x, 430. $45.00 (CDN). Reviewed by H. W. Brands
JULIAN GWYN. Ashore and Afloat: The British Navy and the Halifax Naval Yard before 1820. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2004; dist. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. xvii, 366. $60.00 (CDN), clodi; $35.00 (CDN), paper. Reviewed by Daniel A. Baugh
TREVOR R. GETZ. Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast. Athens: Ohio University Press; and Oxford: James Currey, 2004. Pp. xix, 257. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Gregory Mann
ANDREAS NEHRING. Orientalismus und Mission: Die Repräsentation der tamilischen Gesellschaft und Religion durch Leipziger Missionare, 1840-1940. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. Pp. 500. €48.00. Reviewed by Penelope Carson
BRUCE L. BATTEN. To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Pp. xiii, 337. $39.00 (us). Reviewed by Mark J. Hudson
CHARLES DESNOYERS, trans, widi an intro. A Journey to the East: Li Gui's A New Account of a Trip around the Globe. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 320. $70.00 (us). Reviewed by Richard J. Smith
ISABEL V. HULL. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 384. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Holger H. Herwig
JOHN C. G. RÖHL. Wilhelm II: The Kaiser's Personal Monarchy, 1888-1900, trans. Sheila de Bellaigue. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxi, 1,287. $150.00 (us). Reviewed by Lamar Cecil
JAMES BENNETT. 'Rats and Revolutionaries': The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand, 1890-1940. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. 214. $39.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Donald Denoon
TONY KUSHNER. We Europeans? Mass-Observation, 'Race', and British Identity in the Twentieth Century. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xi, 281. $99.95 (us). Reviewed by Martin Francis
MIRA WILKINS. The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. xxvi, 980. $95.00 (us). Reviewed by Alfred E. Eckes
TANJA LUCKINS. The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War. Fremande: Curtin University Books, 2004; dist. Portland, OR: ISBS. Pp. 304. $26.95 (us). Reviewed by Christina Twomey
PHILIP AYRES. Owen Dixon. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing, 2003; dist. Chicago: Paul & Company. Pp. xx, 400. $49.95 (us). Reviewed by Geoffrey Bolton
MICHAEL D. CALLAHAN. A Sacred Trust: The League of Nations and Africa, 1929-1946. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 308. $69.50. Reviewed by James Searing
JEFFREY J. MATTHEWS. Alanson B. Houghton: Ambassador of the New Era. Lanham: Scholarly Resources, 2004. Pp. xxii, 263. $26.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Anders Stephanson
HENRIK LUNDBAK. Danish Unity: A Political Party between Fascism and Resistance, 1936-1947. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2003; dist. Pordand, OR: ISBS. Pp.312. $31.00 (us). Reviewed by Nils Arne Sorensen
UWE LÜBKEN. Bedrohliche Nähe: Die USA und die nationalsozialistische Herausforderung in Lateinamerika, 1937-1945. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. 438. €50.00. Reviewed by Andreas Fahrmer
JOSHUA H. HOWARD. Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937-1953. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 452. $70.00 (us). Reviewed by Stephen G. Graft
S. P. MACKENZIE. The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 446. $57.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Barbara Hately-Broad
STEPHEN G. FRITZ. Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xvii, 382. $57-75 (CDN). Reviewed by Jill Stephenson
JAMES C. VAN HOOK. Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 312. $70.00 (us). Reviewed by Gary Herrigel
PATRICK IRELAND. Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and the Welfare State. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 274. $27.95 (us)> paper. Reviewed by Judith Roosblad
WILLIAM J. DAUGHERTY. Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xxiii, 298. $32.50 (us). Reviewed by James C. Van Hook
HERMAN LEBOVICS. Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi, 232. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Donald Reid
GERT OOSTINDIE and INGE KLINKERS. Decolonizing the Caribbean: Dutch Policies in a Comparative Perspective. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003; dist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 291. $35.00 (us), paper. Reviewed by Helen Hitjens
NICHOLAS TARLING. International Students in New Zealand: The Making of Policy since 1950. Auckland: New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland, 2004. Pp. 238. $35.00 (NZ), paper. Reviewed by Ann Trotter
MICHAEL J. COHEN. Strategy and Politics in the Middle East, 1954-1960. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2005. Pp. xiii, 272. $65.00 (us); CLIVE JONES. Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1965: Ministers, Mercenaries, and Mandarins: Foreign Policy and the Limits of Covert Action. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 273. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Tore Tingvold Petersen
CIHAT GÖKTEPE. British Foreign Policy towards Turkey, 1959-1965. London and New York: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xii, 236. $59.60 (us). Reviewed by Nur Bilge Criss
MARTIN KOFLER. Kennedy und Österreich: Neutralität im Kalten Krieg. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2003. Pp. 181. €19.50, paper. Reviewed by Ronald J. Granieri
ALICE L. GEORGE. Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; dist. Toronto: SBS. Pp. xxiii, 238. $49.50 (CDN). Reviewed by G. F. Goodwin
HOWARD JONES. Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. x, 562. $56.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Ralph B. Levering
GIL FEILER. Economic Relations between Egypt and the Gulf Oil States, 1967-2000: Petro-Wealth and Patterns of Influence. Brighton and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 407. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Robert Looney
JUSSI HANHIMÄKI. The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 554. $39.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Richard C. Thornton
DAVID FARBER. Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's F
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The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians edited by John Cannon with R.H.C. Davis, William Doyle and Jack P. Greene. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988. Pp.xiv + 480. £50.00.
Atlas of the British Empire, ...with Foreword by Norman Stone, edited by C.A. Bayly. Hamlyn Publishing Group/Amazon: London, 1989. Pp.256; illus. £25.00.
The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion c. 1400-1715 by G.V. Scammell. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. Pp.xix + 281; maps. £30.00 (hardback); £10.95 (paperback).
The History of Architecture in India: From the Dawn of Civilisation to the End of Raj by Christopher Tadgell. London: A.D.T Press, 1990. Pp.IX + 336. £65.00.
Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society 1700-1900 by Susan Bayly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp.xv + 504. £40.00.
A Dictionary of Modern Indian History, 1707-1947, by Parshotam Mehra. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985 (reprinted 1987). Pp.xiii + 823; £25.00.
Navies, Deterrence, and American Independence: Britain and Seapower in the 1760s and 1770s by Nicholas Tracy. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988. Pp.207. £21.80.
The Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution by Philip Lawson. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. Pp.x + 192. £29.65.
History's Anthropology. The Death of William Gooch by Greg Dening. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. Pp.xix + 122; maps and illus.
Thomas Clarkson: A Biography by Ellen Gibson Wilson. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xiv + 269. £35.00.
The Caribbean in Europe; Aspects of the West Indian Experience in Britain, France and the Netherlands. Edited by Colin Brock. London: Frank Cass, 1985. Pp.ix + 243. £20.00 (hardback).
The Transformation of Theology, 1830-1890. Positivism and Protestant Thought in Britain and America by Charles D. Cashdollar. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp.xii + 489. $35.00.
Social Welfare, 1850-1950: Australia, Argentina and Canada Compared edited by D.C.M. Platt. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xii + 208. £35.00.
Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism by Robert A. Stafford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.xii + 293. £30.00 (hardback).
Stanley: The Making of an African Explorer by Frank McLynn. London: Constable, 1989. Pp.410; maps and illustrations. £17.95.
Baden-Powell, by Tim Jeal. London: Hutchinson, 1989. Pp.xxi + 670. £18.95 (hardback).
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XII: 1891-1900 edited by Francess G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Pp.xxix + 1305. £48.50; $78.00.
The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905 by Aaron L. Friedberg. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988. Pp.xvii + 321, maps. $14.95 (paperback).
Lost Children of the Empire: The Untold Story of Britain's Child Migrants by Philip Bean and Joy Melville. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Pp. ix + 177; illus. £12.95 (hardback).
The History of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Volume III: The Hongkong Bank between the Wars and the Bank Interned, 1919-45; Return from Grandeur by Frank H.H. King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xxxviii + 705; maps and illus. £60.00.
Menzies and Churchill at War by David Day. London: Angus & Robertson, 1987. Pp.xi + 271. £12.50.
Documents on Australian Foreign Policy 1937-49, Vol. VII: 1944, edited by W.J. Hudson. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1988. Pp.lvi + 749; illus. AS39.95.
Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan by David Gilmartin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Pp.xii + 258. $32.00.
The Expedient Utopian: Bandaranaike and Ceylon by James Manor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.xiii + 338. £30.00.
Britain, the United States, and the End of the Palestine Mandate, 1942-1948 by Ritchie Ovendale. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1989. Pp.332. £37.50 (hardback).
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Charles D. Smith. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Pp.viii+ 308; maps. £10.99 (paperback).
Hearts and Minds in Guerrilla Warfare: The Malayan Emergency 1948-1960 by Richard Stubbs. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp.xiv + 286. £25.00.
Britain and the Korean War by Callum MacDonald. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp.vii + 112; map. £17.50 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).
The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation by Richard Sandbrook with Judith Barker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp.xvi + 180; maps. £17.50 (hardback); £7.95 (paperback).
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Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665: Reconstruction and Defeat by David Goodman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xvi + 305, maps, tables and illustrations. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN ...0-521-58063-3.
Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire 1688-1775 by H.V. Bowen. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp.xiii + 257. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-333-62208-1; 0-312-15876-9.
William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire edited by Stewart J. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 276. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-57083-2.
A Taste for Empire and Glory: Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1660-1800 by Philip Lawson. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997. Pp.xiv + 298. £49.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-86078-636-6.
Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India by Pamela G. Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996. Pp.xvii + 220. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-55247-8.
Questioning Slavery by James Walvin. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.xi + 202. £45.00 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-415-15356-5; 0-415-15357-3.
God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica by Shirley C. Gordon. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp.xiv + 159, map. £33.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-25330-52-1.
West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan edited by Roderick A. McDonald. Kingston: University Press of the West Indies, 1996. Pp.xvi + 388. No price indicated. ISBN 976-640-02-9.
Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography by Brian Jenkins. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996, distributed by Liverpool University Press. Pp.xii + 440. £32.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-85323-641-0; 0-85323-651-8.
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810-33: The Conflict between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule by Anthony J. Barker. Basingstoke: Macmillan, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp.viii + 225. £47.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-333-66048-X.
Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia by Deborah Oxley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 339, maps, figures and table. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-44131-5.
Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870 by C.A. Bayly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 412, maps. £40.00/$64.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-57085-9.
Mission and Tamil Society: Social and Religious Change in South India (1840-1900) by Henriette Bugge. Richmond: Curzon, 1996. Pp.223. No price indicated (pb). ISBN 0-7007-0292-X.
One Language, Two Scripts: The Hindi Movement in Nineteenth Century North India by Christopher R. King. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.232. £14.99 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-563565-5.
Return to Empire: Punjab under the Sikhs and British in the Mid-Nineteenth Century by Andrew J. Major. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1996. Pp.xii + 247. Rs. 400 (hardback). ISBN 81-207-1806-2.
Punjab, Volume 180: world Bibliographical Series, compiled by Darshan Singh Tatla and Ian Talbot. Oxford: Clio Press, 1995. Pp.xxxvii + 325, maps. £56.75 (hardback). ISBN 1-85109-232-3.
Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire by Stephen Arata. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 235. £30 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-56352-6.
Writings on Writing by Rudyard Kipling edited by Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xxviii + 213, illustrations. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-44527-2.
Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain by H.L. Malchow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 335, illustrations. £35 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 08047-2664-7; 08047-2793-7.
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996 edited by R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996. Pp.xi + 336, illustrations. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-904180-44-1.
Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 by H.L. Wesseling. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. Westport, Connecticut, and London: Praeger, 1996. Pp.xvi + 446. £20.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-275-95138-3.
Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners: The Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump by Mordechai Tamarkin. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1996. Pp.x + 339. £35.00 (hardback); £16.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-7146-4627-X; 0-7146-4627-3.
Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion by Robert Aldrich. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xvi + 369, maps. £45.00 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-333-56739-0; 0-333-56740-4.
Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns and the Making of Modern Siam: Diaries and Letters of King Chulalongkorn's General Adviser by W.E.J. Tips. Bangkok: White Lotus, 1996, with foreword by Baron Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns. Pp.xxvi + 477, 28 plates + 14 text illus. $35.00 (paperback). ISBN 974-8496-59-9.
The History of the Caribbean Telegraphs before the First World War by Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1996. Pp.215, maps. FIM 140 (paperback). ISBN 951-41-0804-3.
The Neglected War: The German South Pacific and the Influence of World War I by Hermann Joseph Hiery. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1995. Pp.xvii + 387, maps, tables, illus. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-8248-1668-4.
The North Atlantic Triangle in a Changing World: Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1902-1956 edited by B.J.C. McKercher and Lawrence Aronsen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp.298. £35.75 (hardback); £13.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-8020-0520-9; 0-8020-6957-6.
Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategies edited by Keith Neilson and Elizabeth Jane Errington. Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 1995. Pp.238. £49.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-275-94898-6.
Balfour and Foreign Policy: The International Thought of a Conservative Statesman by Jason Tomes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.x + 323. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521 -58118-4.
Ireland in the Twentieth Century: Divided Island by David Harkness. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.x + 190, map. £9.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-333-56796-X.
The Guthrie Flagship: United Sua Betong by C.N. Parkinson, edited and abridged by J.M. Gullick. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1996. Pp. x + 142, map, illustrations. No price given; obtainable in Britain from John Randall, bookseller. ISBN 967-9948-07-2.
British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence 1930-1957 by Simon C. Smith. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.x +234, plates. £16.99 (hardback). ISBN 967-65-3089-1.
The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947 by Ian Copland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 302. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-57179-0.
Containing the Cold War in East Asia: British Policies towards Japan, China and Korea, 1948-53 by Peter Lowe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 288, maps. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7190-2508-7.
Seretse Khama 1921-80 by Thomas Tlou, Neil Parsons, and Willie Henderson. Braamfontein: Macmillan Boleswa/South Africa, 1995. Pp.xxiii + 467, maps, illustrations. No price indicated. ISBN 0-7978-0580-X.
Kwame Nkrumah: The Years Abroad 1935-1947 by Marika Sherwood. Legon, Ghana: Freedom Publications, 1996. (Distributed by the African Books Collective, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HU.) Pp.202, illustrations. £9.50/$17.00 (paperback). ISBN 9988-7716-0-6.
Industrialisation and the British Colonial State: West Africa 1939-1951 by L.J. Butler. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.x + 310, diagram. £39.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-7146-4703-9.
Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans, 1945-1954 by Michael J. Cohen. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xv + 349, maps. £37.50 (hardback); £18.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-7146-4720-9; 0-7146-4269-X.
Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945-1958 by Paul W.T. Kingston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xi + 191. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-56346-1.
The Colonial Wars Source Book by Philip J. Haythornthwaite. Pp.384, illustrations, maps. London: Arms and Armour, Cassell, 1995. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-85409-196-4.
The British Empire: An Encyclopedia of the Crown's Holdings, 1493 through 1995 compiled by John Stewart. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland, 1996, distributed in Britain by Shelwing, Folkestone. Pp.xiv + 370. £58.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-7864-0177-X.
Dictionary of the British Empire and Commonwealth by Alan Palmer. London: John Murray, 1996. Pp. xviii + 395. £25.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-7195-5650-3; 0-7195-5657-0.
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World edited by Francis Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xxiii + 328, 16 maps, 120 coloured and 80 black/white illustrations. ...£24.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-43510-2.
The New Cambridge History of India, II: 5, European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-colonial India by Om Prakash. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 377, maps. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-25758-1.
Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta edited by Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Lakshmi Subramanian. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.viii + 281. Rs 555 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-564420-4.
The Book of Prophecies Edited by Christopher Columbus edited by Roberto Rusconi and translated by Blair Sullivan. Repertorium Columbianum volume 3. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 419. £35.00/$45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-520-200047-0.
Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate by Harry Kelsey. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 566, maps and illustrations. £22.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-300-07182-5.
Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545-1625 by Andrew Hadfield. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 305, plates. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-818480-8.
The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649 edited and translated by Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole C. M., and James Lockhart. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp.151, appendices, tables. £30.00/$45.00 (hardback); £9.95/$16.95 (paperback). ISBN 08047-3482-8; 08047-3483-6.
The New England Knight: Sir William Phips, 1651-1695 by Emerson W. Baker and John G. Reid. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp.xxii + 359, maps. $65.00/£42.00 (hardback); $19.95/£13.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-8020-0925-5; 0-8020-8171-1.
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry by Philip D. Morgan. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp.xxvi + 703, plates, maps and tables. £37.95 (hardback); £16.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-8078-2409-7; 0-8078-4717-8.
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade by Boubacar Barry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xxiii + 358, map. £45.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-59226-7; 0-521-59760-9.
UNESCO General History of the Caribbean, Volume III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean edited by Franklin W. Knight. Basingstoke: Macmillan Caribbean and UNESCO Publishing, 1997. Pp.xvi + 379. £40.00 (hardback); £25.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-333-65604-0; 0-333-65605-9.
Merchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York by Cathy Matson. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp.x + 458. £37.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-8018-5602-7.
Britain as a Military Power, 1688-1815 by Jeremy Black. London: UCL Press, 1999. Pp.xii + 332, maps, plates. £27.50 (hardback). ISBN 1-85728-772-X.
The Elder Pitt by Marie Peters. London: Longman, 1998. Pp.xiii + 284. £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-582-25957-6.
Hanoverian Britain and Empire: Essays in Memory of Philip Lawson edited by Stephen Taylor, Richard Connors and Clyve Jones. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1998. Pp.xxiv + 349. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-85115-720-3.
Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women's Travel Narratives of the 1790s edited by Deirdre Coleman. London: Leicester University Press, 1998. Pp.xviii + 247. £49.95 (hardback); £17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-7185-0149-7; 0-7185-0150-0.
Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution by John Gascoigne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.vii + 247. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-55069-6.
Literary Culture and the Pacific: Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters by Vanessa Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 296, illus., map. £35.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-57359-9.
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders edited by Donald Denoon, with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea, and Karen Nero. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xvii + 518, maps, figures. £60.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-44195-1.
A History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh. London: HarperCollins, 1993. Pp.xv + 624, maps, illustrations, appendices. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-00-215852-3.
Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius by William Kelleher Storey. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1997. Pp.ix + 238, map. $55.00/£35.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-58046-015-1.
Representations of India, 1740-1840: The Creation of India in the Colonial Imagination by Amal Chatterjee. London: Macmillan, 1998. Pp.vii + 229. £42.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-333-68942-9.
Delusions and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880-1930 by Benita Parry. London: Verso, 1998. Pp.vii + 274. £13.00 (paperback). ISBN 1-85984-128-7.
Paradigms of Indian Architecture: Space and Time in Representation and Design edited by G.H.R. Tillotson. Richmond: Curzon, 1998. Pp.199, illustrations. £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-7007-1038-8.
Caste, Class and Catholicism in India 1789-1914 by Kenneth Ballhatchet. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1998. Pp.xxi + 175, maps. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7007-1095-7.
Missionary Encounters: Sources and Issues edited by Robert A. Bickers and Rosemary Seton. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1996. Pp.vi + 255, appendix on archival sources. £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-7007-0370-5.
Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social and Cultural History edited and compiled by Richard Elphick and Rodney Davenport. Oxford: James Currey, 1998. Pp.xiv + 480, maps, illus. £45.00 (hardback); £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-85255-750-7; 0-85255-751-5.
Excessive Expectations: Maritime Commerce and the Economic Development of Nova Scotia, 1740-1870 by Julian Gwyn. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp.xvi + 291, maps, tables, illustrations. $32.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-7735-1548-8.
Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century by Martin Lynn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 270. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-59074-4.
Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey by Stanley B. Alpern. London: C. Hurst & Co., 1998. Pp.xii + 280, illustration. £35.00 (hardback); £12.55 (paperback). ISBN 1-85065-361-5; 1-85065-362-3.
Science and the Raj, 1857-1905 by Deepak Kumar. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.268. No price indicated. ISBN 0-19-564194-9.
The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma 1824-1994 by Raymond L. Bryant. London: Hurst & Company, 1997. Pp.xix + 257. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-85065-283-X.
'Ethiek' und Macht: Die niederländisch-indische Kolonialverwaltung und indonesische Emanziptionsbestrebungen 1901-1927 by Steven Wedema. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. Pp.353. No price indicated. ISBN 3-515-07264-0.
Sudan: The Reconquest Reappraised edited by Edward M. Spiers. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp.xiv + 269, maps, illustrations. £37.50 (hardback); £17.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-7146-4749-7; 0-7146-4426-9.
Imperial Boundary Making: The Diary of Captain Kelly and the Sudan-Uganda Boundary Commission of 1913 edited by G.H. Blake. Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 1997. Pp.xxxii + 109, maps, plates. £27.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-19-726154-X.
British Military Intelligence in the Palestine Campaign, 1914-1918 by Yigal Sheffy. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp.xviii + 380, maps. £45.00 (hardback); £22.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-7146-4677-6; 0-7146-4368-8.
My Gun, My Brother: The World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police, 1920-1960 by August Ibrum K. Kituai. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Pp.xx + 414, illustrations, maps. $48 (hardback). ISBN 0-8248-1747-8.
Emigration from Scotland between the Wars: Opportunity or Exile? by Marjory Harper. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pp.xv + 243. £47.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7190-4927-X.
Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century by Ritchie Ovendale. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp.vii + 202. £37.50 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-333-59612-9; 0-333-59613-7.
Radical Diplomat: The Life of Archibald Clark Kerr, Lord Inverchapel, 1882-1951 by Donald Gillies. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999. Pp.xvi + 256, maps. £29.50 (hardback). ISBN 1-86064-296-9.
Providence and the Raj: Imperial Mission and Missionary Imperialism by Gerald Studdert-Kennedy. New Delhi and London: Sage Publications, 1998. Pp.273. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-7619-9277-4.
Divide and Quit: An Eyewitness Account of the Partition of India by Penderel Moon. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.xxiii + 324. Rs 345.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-19-564422-0.
Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India by Parama Roy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp.vii + 236, 3 b/w illustrations. $45.00/£35.00 (hardback); $16.95/£12.50 (paperback). ISBN 0-520-20486-7; 0-520-20487-5.
Decolonisation of French India: Liberation Movements and Indo-French Relations 1947-1954 by Ajit K. Neogy. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondicherry, 1997. Pp.xxi + 297, map. ISBN 0971-3085.
Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963 by Robert L. Tignor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp.ix + 403. $55.00/£35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-691-01584-8.
Development Planning and Decolonization in Nigeria by Toyin Falola. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1996. Pp.xxiv + 215, tables. £39.95 (hardback). ISBN 0-8130-1422-0.
TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955-1965 by Susan Geiger. Oxford: James Currey, 1998. Pp.xix + 217, map, photographs. £40.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-85255-679-9; 0-85255-629-2.
Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History by Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Cambridge: Cambridge
