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Volume 47 - November 2006

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APARTHEID AND ECONOMIC GROWTH An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development. By CHARLES H. FEINSTEIN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxxiii+302. £45 (ISBN 0-521-85091-6); £19.99, paperback (ISBN 0-521-61641-7).

OUIDAH AND THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving ‘Port’ 1727–1892. By ROBIN LAW. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2004. Pp. xii+308. £50 (ISBN 0-85255-498-2); £18.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-497-4).

ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE MERINA EMPIRE An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire. By GWYN CAMPBELL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii+413. £55/$90 (ISBN 0-521-83935-1).

THE JAMESON RAID OF ITS DAY The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War, 1880–1881. By JOHN LABAND. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2005. Pp. xii+264. £19.99 (ISBN 0-582-77261-3).

GANDHI JUNIOR AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID Gandhi's Prisoner?: The Life of Gandhi's Son Manilal. By UMA DHUPELIA-MESTHRIE. Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2004; New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2005. Pp. 419. Rand 175 (ISBN 0-7957-0176-4).

ARCHITECTURE AND LABOUR Maisons royales demeures des grands a Madagascar: l'inscription de la réussite sociale dans l'espace urbain de Tananarive au XIXe siècle. By DIDIER NATIVEL. Paris: Karthala, 2005. Pp. 377. €29, paperback (ISBN 2-84586-539-2).

THE EMERGENCE OF A CONGO PROPHET Simon Kimbangu 1921: de la prédication à la déportation. Les Sources. Edited by JEAN-LUC VELLUT. Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2005. Pp. xxxiii+178. No price given (ISBN 90-75652-35-6).

THE RAND REVOLT White Rising: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa. By JEREMY KRIKLER. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii+405. £25 (ISBN 0-7190-6844-4).

REVIVING AFRICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY Labour, Land, and Capital in Ghana: from Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807–1956. By GARETH AUSTIN. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005. Pp. xxiv+589. £45 (ISBN 1-58046-161-1).

BOY SCOUTS IN AFRICAN HISTORY Race, Resistance and the Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa. By TIMOTHY H. PARSONS. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii+318. $59.95 (ISBN 0-8214-1595-6); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8214-1595-4).

CIVIL DISPUTES AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE FRENCH SOUDAN Litigants and Households: African Disputes and Colonial Courts in the French Soudan, 1895–1912. By RICHARD ROBERTS. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2005. Pp. xii+309. No price given (ISBN 0-325-00258-4).

WILD ANIMALS AND POLITICAL CONFLICT IN COLONIAL KENYA Black Poachers, White Hunters: A Social History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya. By EDWARD I. STEINHART. Oxford: James Currey, 2006. Pp. viii+248. £50 (ISBN 0-85255-961-5); £15.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-960-7).

PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDS AND PAUL JENKINS Getting Pictures Right: Context and Interpretation. Edited by MICHAEL ALBRECHT, VEIT ARLT, BARBARA MÜLLER and JÜRG SCHNEIDER. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2004. Pp. 192. €29.80, paperback (ISBN 3-89645-247-9).

EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN WAR VETERANS Reisen durch den Krieg: Erfahrungen und Lebensstrategien westafrikanischer Weltkriegsveteranen. By BRIGITTE REINWALD. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2005. Pp. 444. No price given, paperback (ISBN 3-87997-620-1).

MEDICINE MURDERS AND COLONIAL RULE: THE LESOTHO CASE Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho. By COLIN MURRAY and PETER SANDERS. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi+493. £50 (ISBN 0-7486-2285-4).

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