Reviews: Africa
Dorothy L. Hodgson, The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. xv + 307 pp. ISBN: 0-253-34568-5 (hbk.); 0-253-21762-8 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 105-107
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Dietmar Rothermund, The Routledge Companion to Decolonization. Routledge Companions to History. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. xii + 365 pp. ISBN: 0-415-35632-6 (hbk.); 0-415-35633-4 (pbk.); Hendrik Spruyt, Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition. Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. xiii + 305 pp. ISBN: 0-8014-8972-5 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 129-131
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Dorothy L. Hodgson, The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters Between Maasai and Missionaries. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-253-34568-5 (hbk.); 0-253-21762-8 (pbk.).
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Lisa Pollard, Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805–1923. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-520-24022-7 (hbk.); 0-520-24023-5 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 107-109
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Gordon M. Sayre, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. x + 357 pp. ISBN: 0-8078-2970-6 (hbk.); 0-8078-5632-0 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 131-133
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Pamela Scully and Diana Paton, eds, Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. vi + 376 pp. ISBN: 0-8223-3581-6 (hbk.); ISBN 0-8223-3594-8 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 133-134
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Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2005. xiv + 341 pp. ISBN 0-8223-3402-X (hbk.); 0-8223-3399-6 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 109-111
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Nigel Worden and Gerald Groenewald, eds, Trials of Slavery: Selected Documents Concerning Slaves from the Criminal Records of the Council of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope, 1705–1794. Van Riebeeck Society Second Series 36. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 2005. lxi + 681 pp. ISBN: 0-9584522-3-7 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 150-151
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Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1820. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 416 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4167-8 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 151-153
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Kevin Grant, A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1844–1926. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. xii + 223 pp. ISBN: 0-415-94900-9 (hbk.); 0-415-94901-7 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 134-136
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Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941–1945. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xxxiii + 555 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01748-X (hbk.); 0-674-02219-X (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 111-113
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John Laband, The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War, 1880–1881. Harlow: Pearson/Longman Publishers, 2005. xii + 264 pp. ISBN: 0-582-77261-3 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 136-138
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Elsbeth Locher-Scholten and Peter Rietbergen, eds, Hof en Adel: Aziatische Vorsten en de VOC 1620–1720. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 223. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2004. x + 349 pp. ISBN: 90-6718-231-1 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 153-155
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Michael R. Auslin, Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. ix + 263 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01521-5 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 113-114
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Debin Ma, Textiles in the Pacific, 1500–1900. The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2005. 382 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-4075-2 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 155-156
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John M. Carroll, Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. xii + 260 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01701-3 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 114-116
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James McCann, Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000. London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 289 pp. ISBN: 0-674-01718-8 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 138-140
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Reviews: Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
Inga Clendinnen, Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-521-85137-8 (hbk.); 0-521-61681-6 (pbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 156-158
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Robert Aldrich, Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories. London and New York, NY: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2005. ix + 383 pp. ISBN: 1-4039-3370-7 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 116-118
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Edward M. Spiers, The Victorian Soldier in Africa. Manchester and New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 2004. xii + 212 pp. ISBN: 0-7190-6121-0 (hbk.).
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- 22 April 2010, pp. 140-142
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