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ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS Credit, Currencies and Culture: African Financial Institutions in Historical Perspective. Edited by ENDRE STIANSEN and JANE I. GUYER. Stockholm: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999. Pp. vi+174. SEK200, paperback (ISBN 91-7106-442-7).
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Encyclopaedia of the Boer War, 1899–1902. By MARTIN MARIX EVANS. Oxford and Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Ltd., 2000. Pp. xxvi+414. £44.95 (ISBN 1-85109-342-7); £14.99, paperback (ISBN 1-85109-332-X).
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SLAVERY IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study. Edited by MIURA TORU and JOHN EDWARD PHILIPS. London: Kegan Paul International, 2000. Pp. xii+248. £65 (ISBN 0-710-30660-1).
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THE CONTINGENCIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800–1990. By JAMES C. MCCANN. Oxford: James Currey and Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999. Pp. xvi + 201. £12.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-774-4).
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CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES IN UGANDA: Mission to the Upper Nile: The Story of St Joseph's Missionary Society of Mill Hill in Uganda. By ROBERT O'NEIL, MHM. London: Mission Book Service, 1999. Pp. viii + 363. £7.50, paperback (ISBN 095-202-3814).
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IMPERIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY Managing the Business of Empire: Essays in Honour of David Fieldhouse. Edited by PETER BURROUGHS and A. J. STOCKWELL. London: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. 262. £32 (ISBN 0-7146-4826-4).
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Historical Dictionary of South Africa. Second edition. By CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS and NICHOLAS SOUTHEY. (African Historical Dictionaries, 78). Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 2000. Pp. xxxiv+375. £76.50; $85 (ISBN 0-8108-3646-7).
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BREAKING WITH ‘TRADITION’ Nkrumah and the Chiefs:The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951–60. By RICHARD RATHBONE. Oxford: James Currey; Accra: F. Reimer; Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000. Pp. xi+176. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-771- X); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-770-1).
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EARLY HISTORY OF THE UPPER GUINEA COAST: Africa Encountered: European Contacts and Evidence, 1450–1700. By P. E. H. HAIR. Aldershot: Variorum. 1997. Pp. xx + 324. £57.50 (ISBN 0-86078-626-9).
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PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION AND TRAVEL ACCOUNTS Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. By JOHANNES FABIAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+320. $50.00, hardback (ISBN 0-520-22122-2); $19.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-22123-0).
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ARABIC CHRONICLE OF THE SENEGAL VALLEY Florilège au jardin de l'histoire des Noirs: Zuhūr al-basātīn. Par SHAYKH MUUSA KAMARA. Tome I. Volume I: L'aristocracie peule et la révolution des clercs musulmans (vallée du Sénégal). Sous la direction et avec une introduction de Jean Schmitz, avec la collaboration de Charles Becker, Abdoulaye Bara Diop, Constant Hamès, Oumar Kane, Olivier Kyburz, Olivier Leservoisier, David Robinson, Ibrahima Sall et Jean-Louis Triaud. Traduction de Saïd Bousbina. Paris: CNRS Editions, 1998. Pp. 460. FF390, paperback (ISBN 2-271-05519-9).
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REVIEWS TOGO AND BEYOND Histoire des Togolais, Volume I: Des origines à 1884. Edited by N. L. GAYIBOR. Lomé: Presses de l'Université du Benin, 1997. Pp. 443. No price given, paperback (ISBN 2-909886-26-3).
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MUSLIM NATIONALISTS IN TANGANYIKA: The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes (1924–1968): The Untold Story of the Muslim Struggle against British Colonialism in Tanganyika. By MOHAMED SAID. London: Minerva Press, 1998. Pp. 358. £11.99, paperback (ISBN 0-75410-223-8).
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WAR AND RELIGION Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda 1986–87. By HEIKE BEHREND. Oxford: James Currey; Kampala: Fountain Publishers; Nairobi: EAEP; Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv+210. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-248-3); £12.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-247-5).
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GOVERNMENT VERSUS FARMERS The State against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique. By MERLE L. BOWEN. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000. Pp. xvi+256. $65 (ISBN 08139-1910-X); $19.50, paperback (ISBN 0-8139-1917-7).
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COLONIALISM AND CHRISTIANITY: Of Revelation and Revolution. Volume II: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier. By JOHN L. COMAROFF and JEAN COMAROFF. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 588. £55.95 (ISBN 0-226-11443-0); £19.95, paperback (ISBN 0-226-11444-9).
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ECOLOGICAL HISTORY OF TANZANIA: Custodians of the Land. Edited by GREGORY MADDOX, JAMES GIBLIN and ISARIA KIMAMBO. Oxford: James Currey, 1996. Pp. xiv + 271. £35 (ISBN 0-85255-725-6); £12.95 paperback (ISBN 0-85255-724-8).
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MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTH AFRICA Diving up the Human Past: Perspectives of Maritime Archaeology with Specific Reference to Developments in South Africa until 1996. By BRUNO E. J. S. WERZ. (BAR International Series 749). Oxford: Archaeopress, 1999. Pp. xvi+214. £40, paperback (ISBN 0-86054-98366).
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NIGERIA – A HISTORY The History of Nigeria. By TOYIN FALOLA. (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations Series). London and Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. Pp. xviii+269. £27.95 (ISBN 0-313-30682-6).
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FAMILY RECONSTITUTION IN AFRICAN DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY Fertility, Mortality and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ovamboland in North Namibia, 1925–90. By VEIJO NOTKOLA and HARRI SIISKONEN. London: Macmillan Press and New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000. Pp. xiii+188. £45. ISBN 0-333-77722-0 (Macmillan) and 0-312-22661-6 (St Martin’s).
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