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Volume 50 - November 2009

Book Review

SEASONED IN MOTION - Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-century British Atlantic World. By Alexander X. Byrd. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Pp. xi+346. $49.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8071-3359-0).

A STATE-OF-THE-ART SURVEY OF HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP ON AFRICA - Africans: The History of a Continent. Second Edition. By John Iliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+365. £40 (isbn978-0-521-86438-1); £14.99, paperback (isbn978-0-521-68297-8).

AN UNBALANCED STUDY OF PORTUGUESE EXPANSION IN AFRICA - Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa. By Josiah Blackmore. Minneapolis, MN and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv+209. £15.50/$25, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8166-4833-7).

‘HEALTH’ IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ALGERIA - The Administration of Sickness: Medicine and Ethics in Nineteenth-century Algeria. By William Gallois. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. vi+262. £50, hardback (ISBN 978-0-230-50043-3).

AN UNORTHODOX COMPARISON BETWEEN THE CENTRAL SAHEL AND THE NORTH SEA - Rulers, Warriors, Traders, Clerics: The Central Sahel and the North Sea, 800–1500. By Anne Haour. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+178. $60 (isbn978-0-19-726411-9).

THE HISTORY OF MUSLIM ELITES IN ABIDJAN - Islam, histoire et modernité en Côte d'Ivoire. By Marie Miran. Paris: Karthala, 2006. Pp. 546. €35, paperback (ISBN 978-2-84586-776-5).

AN EFFECTIVE INTRODUCTION TO MODERN AFRICAN HISTORY - A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present. By Richard J. Reid. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xvi+386. £50/€60/$89.95, hardback (isbn978-1-4051-3264-0); £20/€24/$34.95, paperback (isbn978-1-4051-3265-7).

A PIONEERING ACCOUNT OF AFRICAN-BASED POLITICAL MOVEMENTS - Africa's ‘Agitators’: Militant Anti-colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918–1939. By Jonathan Derrick. London: Hurst & Company, 2008. Pp. ix+483. £17.99, paperback (isbn978-1-85065-936-5).

EXPRESSIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICAN TRADITION IN THE AMERICAS - Fighting For Honor: The History of African Martial Arts Traditions in the Atlantic World. By T. J. Desch Obi. Columbia SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2008. Pp. xi+346. $49 (isbn978-1-57003-718-4).

GRASSROOT POLITICS AND DECOLONIZATION IN GUINEA - Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958. By Elizabeth Schmidt. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+310. £49.50/$50, hardback (isbn978-0-8214-1763-8); £24.50/$30, paperback (isbn978-0-8214-1764-5).

THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF SLAVERY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD - The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. By Vincent Brown. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xvii+340. $35 (isbn978-0674024229).

GUINEA'S RICH AND TROUBLED TRAJECTORY AFTER INDEPENDENCE - Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution. By Jay Straker. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. 280. £47/$65, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-35288-0); £15.99/$24.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-22059-2).

THE FRAGILITY OF DISEASE BOUNDARIES - Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894–1901. By Myron Echenberg. New York: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+349. $50 (isbn978-0-8147-2232-9).

A HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY OF NEW BELL, DOUALA - The Strangers of New Bell: Immigration, Public Space and Community in Colonial Douala, Cameroon, 1914–1960. By Lynn Schler. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2008. Pp. v+159. £18.95/$24.95, paperback (ISBN 978-1-86888-489-6).

A SOCIAL HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF MURDER IN NIGERIA - The Man-leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria. By David Pratten. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London, 2007. Pp. xii+425. £55, hardback (isbn978-0-7486-2553-6).

FOOD AND THE IMPACT OF COLONIALISM ON EVERYDAY LIFE IN GABON - A Workman is Worthy of his Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary. By Jeremy Rich. Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Pp. xx+220. £25, hardback (isbn978-0-8032-1091-2).

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