Editorial notes

The New Cambridge History of India: the Portuguese in India by M.N. Pearson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xviii + 178; maps. £17.50.

Colonial Chesapeake Society edited by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp.x + 512. £29.50.

A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British and the Mughals by Michael H. Fisher. London: Sangam Books Ltd., 1988. Pp.x + 284; illus. £17.95.

Common Law Aboriginal Title by Kent McNeil. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp.xli + 357. £40.00

Colonialism and Resistance in Belize; Essays in Historical Sociology by O. Nigel Bolland. Belize: Cubola Productions, 1988. Pp. + 218; maps and illus. US$10.00.

Labour in the Caribbean: From Emancipation to Independence edited by Malcolm Cross and Gad Heuman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Caribbean, 1988. Pp.xvii + 329; map. £10.95.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume V:1801 to 1820, edited by Francess G. Halpenny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp.xxv + 1044. £38.25; Volume VI, 1821 to 1835. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987. Pp.xxiv + 960. £42.50.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume VII: 1836 to 1850 edited by Francess G. Halpenny and Jean Hamelin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Pp.xxix + 1088. £45.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Volume VIII: 1851–60. Edited by Francess G. Halpenny. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp.xxxvii + 1129. £40.00.

The Upper House in Colonial New Zealand. A Study of the Legislative Council of New Zealand in the period 1854–1887 begun by the late A.H. McLintock, Revised and completed by G.A. Wood. Government Printer, 1987. Pp.271. N.p.

Liberalism and Naval Strategy: Ideology, Interest and Sea Power during the Pax Britannica by Bernard Semmel. Boston: Allen &; Unwin, 1986. Pp.xii + 239.

’Benefits Bestowed'? Education and British Imperialism edited by J. A. Mangan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp.ix + 242; illus. £29.95.

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power by Robert I. Rotberg with the collaboration of Miles F. Shore. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.xix + 800; maps and illus. £25.00.

Breaker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers edited with commentary by Arthur Davey. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series No.18, 1987. Pp.lxiv + 238; maps and illus. N.p.

The Enigma of Colonialism: British Policy in West Africa by Anne Phillips. London: James Currey and Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp.vii + 184. £25.00 hardback; £8.95 paperback.

Modern India, 1885–1947 by Sumit Sarkar (Cambridge Commonwealth Series). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xxv + 489. £35.00 hardback; £14.95 paperback.

Fabianism and Colonialism, the Life and Political Thought of Lord Sydney Olivier by Francis Lee. London: Defiant Books, 1988. Pp.v + 242.

Finance and Empire: Sir Charles Addis, 1861–1945 by R.A. Dayer. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xxi + 431; maps and illus. £35.00.

The Hongkong Bank in the Period of Imperialism and War: II, 1895–1918 by Frank H.H. King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xxxv + 720; maps and illus. £60.00.

The Origins of the Boxer Uprising by Joseph W. Esherick. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987. Pp.xx + 451. N.p.

The Dual Image of the Japanese Emperor by Kiyoko Takeda. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xvi + 183. £33.00.

The Cold War Begins in Asia: American East Asian Policy and the Fall of the Japanese Empire by Marc S. Gallicchio. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp.xvi + 188. US$25.00.

British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century by C.J. Bartlett. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.ix + 144. £20.00 hardback; £5.50 paperback.

British Imperial Policy and Decolonization 1938–64: Volume 2, 1951–64 by A.N. Porter and A.J. Stockwell (Cambridge Commonwealth Series). London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.xviii + 601 £45.00 hardback; £19.95 paperback.

Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History: The Short View by D.C.M Platt. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp.ix + 91. £24.50.     

A British high commissioner for Canada, 1927–28

Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom: The Manyika and their Portuguese and African Neighbours, 1575–1902 by H.H.K. Bhila. Salisbury: Longman, 1982. Pp. xvi + 291, maps; £7.lb50.

Indo‐Portuguese History: Sources and Problems edited by John Correia‐Afonso. Bombay: Oxford University Press India, 1981. Pp. xii + 201; £7.lb75.

The Sack of Panama by Peter Earle. London: Jill Norman &; Hobhouse, 1981. Pp. 304, maps and illus.; £9.lb95.

Scotus Americanus: A Survey of the Sources for Links between Scotland and America in the 18th Century by William R. Brock. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1982. Pp. viii + 293; £10.00.

The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment by P.J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams. London: J.M. Dent, 1982. Pp. 314; £16.lb50.

Slavery, War and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue 1793–1798 by David Geggus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 492, maps; £28.lb00.

The Peopling of Newfoundland. Essays in Historical Geography edited by John J. Mannion. St John's; Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1977. Pp. x + 289, maps, tables, illus.; $12.lb50.

Delhi Between Two Empires 1803–1931: Society, Government and Urban Growth by Narayani Gupta. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv + 260, maps, illu's.; Rs. 90.

The Other Side of the Frontier: An Interpretation of the Aboriginal Response to the Invasion and Settlement of Australia by Henry Reynolds. Townsville: James Cook University, 1981. Pp. 261; $A 7.lb50.

The Politics of Eastern Cape Separatism, 1820–1854 by Basil A. Le Cordeur. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 314, maps, illus.; NP.

Rule Britannia: The Victorian Navy; by Peter Padfield. London: Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1981. Pp. 246, illus.; £8.lb95.

Studies in the History of Plateau State, Nigeria edited by E. Isichei. London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xvi + 288, maps and illus.; £25.lb00.

Varieties of Christian Experience in Nigeria edited by Elizabeth Isichei. London: Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xi + 211, map and illus.; £17.lb50.

Britain and the War for the Union, by Brian Jenkins. Montreal and London: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2 vols., 1974 and 1980. Pp. 315, 470; $17.lb50 and $26.lb50.

Egypt for the Egyptians! The Socio‐political Crisis in Egypt 1878–82 by Alexander Schölch. London: Ithaca Press (for the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Oxford), 1981. Pp.xiv + 386, maps; £14.50.

Gentlemen Emigrants. From the British Public Schools to the Canadian Frontier by Patrick A. Dunae. Vancouver: Douglas &; McIntyre, 1981. Pp. 276; NP.

The Far Eastern Telegraphs. The History of Telegraphic Communications between the Far East, Europe and America before the First World War by Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1981. Pp. 226, maps and illus.; NP.

Anglo‐Russian Rivalry in Central Asia: 1810–1885 by Gerald Morgan, with an epilogue by Geoffrey Wheeler. London: Frank Cass, 1981. Pp. xix + 264, maps; £15.

Imperialism. The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880–1914 by Winfried Baumgart. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 239; cloth £15.lb00, paper £5.lb95.

Economic Control and Colonial Development. Crown Colony Financial Management in the Age of Joseph Chamberlain by R.M. Kesner. Oxford: Clio Press, 1982. Pp. xvii+ 305; £23.lb25.

Julian S. Corbett, 1854–1922: Historian of British Maritime Policy from Drake to Jellicoe by Donald M. Schurman. Royal Historical Society, Studies in History Series No. 26. London: Swift Printers, 1981. Pp. x + 216; £15.lb75/$US39.lb89.

British Malaya. A Bibliographical and Biographical Compendium by Robert Heussler. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1981. Pp. xvii + 193; $30.

Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth: Essays presented to Sir Edgar Williams edited by Frederick Madden and D.K. Fieldhouse. London: Croom Helm, 1982. Pp. vii + 167, 1 plate: £11.lb95.

British Policy Towards the Indian States, 1905–1939 by S.R. Ashton. London Studies on South Asia, No. 2. London: Curzon Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 231, map; £6.lb75.

The State and the Emergence of the British Oil Industry by Geoffrey Jones. London: Macmillan, in association with Business History Unit, University of London, 1981. Pp. xi + 264, maps, tables and figures; £20.lb00.

Mahatma Gandhi A Biography by B.R. Nanda. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 542; Rs. 80.

Canadians Behind Enemy Lines, 1939–1945 by Roy Maclaren. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Pp. xv + 330, maps and illus.; NP.

British Army Aid Group: Hong Kong Resistance, 1942–1945 by Edwin Ride. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 347, maps and illus.; £14.lb00.

The Turning Point in Africa: British Colonial Policy, 1938–1948 by R.D. Pearce. London: Frank Cass, 1982. Pp. 223; £15.lb00.

Domestic Roots of India's Foreign Policy 1947–1972 by A. Appadorai. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 244; Rs. 80.

New History: Studying Australia Today edited by G. Osborne and W.F. Mandle. Sydney: George Allen &; Unwin, 1982. Pp. 216.

Inventing Australia. Images and Identity 1688–1980 by Richard White. Sydney, London and Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1981. Pp. x + 205, illus; £10.lb00.

Sind Through the Centuries by Hamida Khuhro (ed.). Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. xvi + 301, 23 plates; £17.lb00.     

Ireland's two nations

A Concise History of Ireland by Máire and Conor Cruise O'Brien. London: Thames and Hudson, 1972. Pp. 192; £2.50. An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660 by L. M. Cullen. London: Batsford, 1972. Pp. 208; £2.00. The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism by Robert “Kee. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. Pp. 877; £5.95. Englishmen and Irish Troubles: British Public Opinion and the Making of Irish Policy, 1918–1922 by D. G. Boyce. London: Cape, 1972. Pp. 253; £4.50. Towards a New Ireland by Garret Fitzgerald. London: Knight, 1972. Pp. viii+190; £2.50.     

Boserup revisited: Population and technology in tropical African agriculture, 1900–1940

The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East 1680–1880 by R. Schwab, translated by G. Patterson‐Black and V. Reinking with a Foreword by E.W. Said. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Pp.xxiv + 542. $22.50 paperback.

Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal by T. Raychaudhuri. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.xvii + 369, £12.00.

Colonial Dutch Studies. An Interdisciplinary Approach edited by Eric Nooter and Patricia U. Bonomi. New York and London: New York University Press, 1988. Pp.xii + 141. $30.00.

The Economy of Colonial America by Edwin J. Perkins. Second edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Pp.xii + 251. $30.00 ($13.00 paper).

Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience edited by Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.viii + 298. £22.50.

The British Navy and the Use of Naval Power in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Jeremy Black and Philip Woodfine. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1988. Pp.xiv + 273; maps. £27.50.

The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom by Nicholas B. Dirks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xxiv + 458. £35.00.

Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire by C.A. Bayly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.xii + 230; maps, glossary and illus. £17.50.

Perfecting the World: The Life and Times of Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, 1798–1866 by Amalie M. Kass and Edward H. Kass. Boston: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Pp.xxx + 642; genealogy and illus. £24.50.

The Life of Charles Ledger (1818–1905): Alpacas and Quinine by Gabriele Gramiccia. London: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.xiv + 222. £30.00.

Benevolent Neutrality: Indian Government Policy and Labour Migration to British Guiana, 1854–1884 by Basdeo Mangru. London: Hansib Publishing, 1987. Pp.267; maps and illus. £12.95.

Sir Robert Falconer: A Biography by James G. Greenlee. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1988. Pp.407. £26.50; $43.00 (hardback).

Francophone Sub‐Saharan Africa, 1880–1985 by Patrick Manning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.199; maps + figures, bibliographical essay. £25.00 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).

Essays on African History: From the Slave Trade to Neocolonialism by Jean Suret Canale. Translated by C. Hurst. Preface by B. Davidson. Bibliography of works by Jean Suret Canale concerning Africa. London: C. Hurst and Co., 1988. Pp.232; index and bibliography. £25.00.

The Boer War and Military Reforms by Jay Stone and Erwin A. Schmidl. Lanham: University Press of America, 1988. Pp.xi + 345, maps. $22.75.

Rider Haggard and the Fiction of Empire: A Critical Study of British Imperial Fiction by Wendy R. Katz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp.ix + 171. £22.50.

The Commonwealth Armies: Manpower and Organisation in Two World Wars by F.W. Perry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp.vi + 250. £27.50.

Imperial Rearguard: Wars of Empire 1919–85 by Lawrence James. London: Brasseys, 1988. Pp. + 242, maps and illus. £19.95.

Colonial Development. Die Grundlegung moderner Entwicklungspolitik durch Grossbritannien, 1919–1949 by Herward Sieberg. Wiesbaden: F. Steiner Verlag, 1985. Pp.736. DM 78.

Appeasement and Germany's Last Bid for Colonies by A.J. Crazier. London: Macmillan in association with King's College, London, 1988. Pp.x + 349, maps. £33.00.

Australians, 1938 edited by Bill Gammage and Peter Spearritt, the fourth volume of Australians: A National Library, edited by Alan D. Gilbert and K.S. Inglis. Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987. Pp.xviii + 474. £350 (the set of 11 vols.).

Australians from 1939 edited by Ann Curthoys, A.W. Martin and Tim Rowse. Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987. Pp.xvii and 474, maps, tables and illus.

The Politics of Persuasion by Desmond Dinan. Lanham: University Press of America, 1988. Pp.xii + 307.

King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan by Mary C. Wilson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp.xxii + 289; maps and photographs. £25.00.

Collusion Across the Jordan by Avi Shlaim. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. Pp.x + 676; maps. £35.00.

The Commonwealth Armies and the Korean War: An Alliance Study by Jeffrey Grey. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp.xii + 244; maps and illus. £29.95.

The Oxford Book of Canadian Political Anecdotes edited by Jack McLeod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp.xiii + 273. £17.50.

Mastering Australian History by Ronald W. Laidlaw. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1988. Pp.vi + 477; illus. £5.95 (paperback).

British Review of New Zealand Studies edited by Ged Martin and Guy M. Robinson. No. I, July 1988.     

Book reviews

Reappraisals in British Imperial History by Ronald Hyam and Ged Martin. Cambridge Commonwealth Series, London: Macmillan, 1975. Pp. x + 234. £10.00.

The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783–1870 by James W. St. G. Walker. Dalhousie African Studies Series. London: Longman and Dalhousie University Press, 1976. Pp. xvi+438. £8.75. Paper £3.50. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1976. $24.00. Paper $10.00.

The Loyal Blacks by Ellen Gibson Wilson. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. Pp. xi+463. $7.95.

Bibliography of British History 1789–1851 edited by Lucy M. Brown and Ian R. Christie. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1977. Pp.xxxi+759. £20.

New South Wales—Autocracy to Parliament 1824–1856. Published by the Legislative Council of the Parliament of New South Wales, Parliament House, Sydney, 1976. Pp. vii + 137. Loose‐leaf edition limited to 300 copies.

Office‐Holders in Modern Britain. Volume VI, Colonial Office Officials compiled by J. C. Sainty. London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research. 1976. x + 52 pp. £4.00.

Indian Society and the Beginnings of Modernisation c. 1830–1850 edited by C. H. Philips and Mary Doreen Wainwright. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1976. Pp. vi+243. £2.50.

Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India by Blair B. Kling. University of California Press, 1976. Pp. xii+276. £15.60.

Buddhism in Sinhalese Society 1750–1900: A Study of Religious Revival and Change by Kitsiri Malalgoda. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1976. Pp. xiii+300. £13.20

Facets of Modern Ceylon History through the Letters of Jeronis Pieris by Michael Roberts. Colombo: Hansa Publishers Limited, 1975. Pp. 108, map, photographs, appendices. (No price is listed ; Distributors, H. W. Cave and Co. Ltd., P. O. Box 25, Colombo, Sri Lanka).

Southeast Asia: A History by Lea E. Williams. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xii+299. £7.50.

A History of Malaysia and Singapore by N. J. Ryan. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xiv+322. £16.00.

Comparative History of Civilizations in Asia by Edward L. Farmer et al. Reading (Mass.): Addison‐Wesley Publishing Co., 1977. 2 Vols. Pp. xxx+797. £11.20 each.

Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa by Donald Simpson. London: Paul Elek, 1976. Pp. xi+228. £7.50.

Europäische Kolonialherrschaft 1880–1940 by Rudolf von Albertini, in association with Albert Wirz. Zurich and Freiburg im Breisgau: Atlantis Verlag, 1976. Pp. 528, 20 maps. DM. 54 (hardback), DM. 45 (paperback).

Oil and Empire: British Policy and Mesopotamian Oil 1900–1920 by Marian Kent, London: Macmillan, 1976. Pp. xiii+273. £10.

On Revolt: Strategies of National Liberation by J. Bowyer Bell. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard U.P., 1976. Pp. xv+272. £11.25.

The Erosion of a Relationship: India and Britain since 1960 by Michael Lipton and John Firn. Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs: London, 1976. Pp. xvi+427. £13.00.     

The racial politics of criminal jurisdiction in the aftermath of the Anglo-American ‘destroyers-for-bases’ deal, 1940–50

Monopolists and Freebooters by O.H.K. Spate. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1983, Pp.xxi + 426, 28 maps, 19 plates; £29.95.

John Hawkes worth: Eighteenth‐Century Man of Letters by John Lawrence Abbott. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp. xvii + 241, frontispiece; £16.90.

The Papers of William Penn. Volume 1:1644–1679 edited by Mary Maples Dunn and Richard S. Dunn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981. Pp.xv + 703; $28.50.

Settlements, Trade and Politics in the 17th Century Gold Coast by Ray A. Kea. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp.475; £23.50.

White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis by David W. Galenson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp.xii + 291; £22.50.

Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies edited by J.E. Inikori. London: Hutchinson University Library for Africa, 1982. Pp.349, bibliography, index, maps and tables; £12.95 (cased), £5.95 (paper).

Tide of Empires: Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West. Volume II, 1654–1763 by Peter Padfield. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982. Pp.ix + 270, maps and illus.; £12.50.

A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act 1763–1765 by John L. Bullion. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1982. Pp.xv + 317; £18.

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763–1789 by Robert Middle‐kauff. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.xvi + 696, maps and portraits; £15.

Liberty and Empire: British Radical Solutions to the American Problem 1774–1776 by Robert E. Toohey. London: University of Kentucky Press, 1978. Pp.xiv + 210; £12.

Evangelicals United: Ecumenical Stirrings in Pre‐Victorian Britain, 1795–1830 by Roger H. Martin. Studies in Evangelicalism, No. 4. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1983. Pp. ix + 230. NP.

Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies by Michael Craton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. Pp. 389, maps and illus.; £25.

Readings in Caribbean History and Economics: An Introduction to the Region edited by R. M. Delson. New York: Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., 1981. Pp.xxi + 336; $35.

Tubbo: ‘The Great Peter's Run’ by Paul de Serville. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.256; £19.50.

The Precious Gift (Tuhfat al‐Nafis) by Raja Ali Haji Ibn Ahmad; translated and annotated by Virginia Matheson and Barbara Watson Andaya. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.xix + 476, maps and illus.; £29.50.

A Collection of Treaties and Other Documents Affecting the States of Malaysia 1761–1963 edited by J. de V. Allen, A. J. Stockwell and L. R. Wright. London, Rome, New York: Oceana Publications Inc., 1981.2 vols. Pp. xviii + 504, 683; $85.

Young Logan Campbell by R.C.J. Stone. Oxford University Press/Auckland University Press, 1983. Pp.287, illus.; £18.

Jack in Port: Sailortowns of Eastern Canada by Judith Fingard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. Pp.ix + 292, illus.; £9.25

City of Blood Revisited: A New Look at the Benin Expedition of 1897 by Robert Home. London: Rex Collings, 1982. Pp.xv + 141, maps and illus.; £8.75.

British Imperialism and African Response: The Niger Valley, 1851–1905 by A. D. Nzemeke. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1982. Pp.379, maps and tables; DM 58.

John X. Merriman: Paradoxical South African Statesman by Phyllis Lewsen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. Pp.xii + 431, maps and illus.; £31.

Black People and the South African War 1899–1902 by Peter Warwick. African Studies Series No. 40, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp.256; £25.

British Economists and the Empire by John Cunningham Wood. London: Croom Helm, 1983. Pp.299; £15.95.

Social Engineering in the Philippines; The Aims, Execution and Impact of American Colonial Policy, 1900–1913 by Glenn Anthony May. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp.xxvii + 268, photographs; £16.95.

European Colonial Rule, 1880–1940: The Impact of the West on India, Southeast Asia, and Africa by Rudolf von Albertini with Albert Wirz; translated by John G. Williamson. Oxford: Clio Press, 1982. Pp.ix + 581, maps and tables; £27.50.

WITS. The Early Years: A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Its Precursors 1896–1939 by Bruce K. Murray. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1982. Pp.xvii + 389, photographs; R 10,00.

Verwaltung in einem afrikanischen Bauernstaat: das koloniale Französisch‐Westafrika 1919–1939 by Gerd Spittler. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1981. Pp.208, maps; DM38 (paper).

Peasant Movements in Colonial India: North Bihar 1917–1942 by Stephen Henningham. Australian National University Monographs on South Asia No. 9. Canberra: The Australian National University, 1982. Pp.xvi + 286; NP.

Peasant Movements in India 1920–1950 by D. N. Dhanagare. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp.xiii + 254, 6 maps; £12.

Readings in the Constitutional History of India 1757–1947 edited by S. V. Desika Char. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp.xcii + 789; £29.

The Transfer of Power 1942–7 (Constitutional Relations Between Britain and India) edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon. Vol. XI: The Mount‐batten Viceroyalty: Announcement and Reception of the 3 June Plan; Vol. XII: The Mountbatten Viceroyalty: Princes, Partition and Independence. London: HMSO, 1982–3. Pp.cxxiv + 1021; cvxi + 851, maps and illus.; £70 each.

The Commonwealth Experience. Vol. I: The Durham Report to the Anglo‐Irish Treaty. Vol. II: From British to Multi‐racial Commonwealth by Nicholas Mansergh: Revised edition. London and Toronto: Macmillan and University of Toronto Press, 1982. Pp.xii + 275 and 299; £35 (cased); also available in paperback.

European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Woodruff D. Smith. Chicago: Nelson‐Hall, 1982. Pp.ix + 273; $20.95 (cased), $10.95 (paper).

Prime Ministers and Diplomats: The Making of Australian Foreign Policy, 1901–1949 by P.G. Edwards. Melbourne: Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1983. Pp.240; $24.99.

Asia: The Winning of Independence edited by Robin Jeffrey. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp.xv + 337, maps and illus.; £15 (cased), £5.95 (paper).

Sir Charles Arden‐Clarke by David Rooney. Rex Collings, London, 1982. Pp.222, maps and photos; £12.50.

The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp.xxvii + 211; £16.

Britain, Europe and the World 1850–1982: Delusions of Grandeur by Bernard Porter. London: Allen and Unwin, 1983. Pp.xv + 173; £10.

Canada Since 1945: Power, Politics, and Provincialism by Robert Bothwell, Ian Drummond and John English. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 1981. Pp.xii + 489, illus.; £12.     

The historiography of Malaysia: Recent writings in English on the history of the area since 1874

The Dutch in Western India 1601–1632—A Study of Mutual Accommodation, by Ann Bos Radwan, KLM Private Limited, Calcutta, 1978. Pp. XII + 159. Rs. 45.

Calcutta in Urban History, by Pradip Sinha, Calcutta: Firma KLM Private Ltd, 1978. Pp. xix + 268. Rs 65.

Social History of an Indian Caste: the Kayasths of Hyderabad by Karen Isaksen Leonard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. xviii + 353. £10.25.

Liberty and Empire: British Radical Solutions to the American Problem, 1774–1776 by Robert E. Toohey. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1978. Pp. xiv + 210. S13.00.

Patriot‐Heroes in England and America: Political Symbolism and Changing Values over three Centuries by Peter Karsten. Madison and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Pp. 257, 66 illustrations. £17.50.

David Livingstone: The Dark Interior by Oliver Ransford. London: John Murray, 1978. Pp. x + 332. 6 maps, 17 illustrations. £8.50.

Southeast Asian Transitions: Approaches through Social History. Edited by Ruth T. McVey with the assistance of Adrienne Suddard. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 242. £12.60.

The China Station: War and Diplomacy 1830–1860 by Gerald S. Graham. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. xix + 444, maps. £15.00.

The Foundation of the Conservative Party 1830–1867 by R. Stewart. London: Longman, 1978. Pp. xvii + 427. £12.00 ('A History of the Conservative Party’, vol. I).

The Discipline of Popular Government: Lord Salisbury's Domestic Statecraft, 1881–1902 by Peter Marsh. Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1978.Pp.x + 373; £16.50.

Colour, Class and the Victorians by Douglas A. Lorimer. Leicester University Press, 1978. Pp. 300; £8.50.

The International Economy and the Undeveloped World, 1865–1914 by A. J. H. Latham. London: Croom Helm Ltd., 1978. Pp. 217, maps and illus.; £9.95.

Clan Leaders and Colonial Chiefs in Lango by John Tosh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. xvi + 293. £11.50.

Reformers, Rebels and Revolutionaries: the Western Canadian Radical Movement, 1899–1919, by A. Ross McCormack. Toronto :University of Toronto Press, 1977.

Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya, by N. Best. Seeker and Warburg, 1979. Pp. 224. £6.95.

The Commonwealth and the Nation by S. R. Mehrotra, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1978. Rs.40; London: Independent Publishing Co. Pp. vi + 108. N.p.

The Princes of India in the Twilight of Empire: Dissolution of a Patron‐Client System, 1914–1939 by B. N. Ramusack. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1978. Pp. xxii + 322, map and illus.; $20.

Linlithgow and India. A Study of British Policy and the Political Impasse in India, 1936–43 by G. Rizvi. London: Royal Historical Society, 1978. Pp. x + 261. £9.30.

Four Families of Karimpur by Charlotte V. Wiser. Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University: Syracuse, 1978. Pp. xxix + 229. S6.50.

Hong Kong: Stability and Change by H. J. Lethbridge. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. 275. £14.50.

Dominanz oder Kooperation: die Entwicklung der regionalen Integration in Ostafrika by Goswin Baumhogger. Hamburg: Institut für Afrika‐Kunde, 1978. Pp. xiii + 374 (Hamburger Beiträge zur Afrika‐Kunde vol. 22).

Who are our enemies? Racism and the Australian Working Class edited by Ann Curthoys and Andrew Markus. Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, for the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Pp. xx + 211.     

The Children of Africa in the Colonies

British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion 1688–1914 by P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. London and New York: Longman, 1993. Pp. xv + 504, tables, maps. £38 (hardback); £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–49175–4; 0–582–491762.

British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction 1914–1990 by P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. London and New York: Longman, 1993. Pp. xiv + 337, tables, maps. £30 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–20966–8; 0–582–20965‐X.     

The ‘Pacific-First’ Alternative in American World War II Strategy

R.J. OVERY. The Air War, 1939–1945. London, Europa Publications, 1980. Pp. xn, 263. £12.50; H. PENROSE. British Aviation; Widening Horizons, 1930–1934. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Royal Air Force Museum, 1979. Pp.viii, 340. £7.95; British Aviation; Ominous Skies, 1935–1939. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Royal Air Force Museum, 1980. Pp. vm, 318. £7.95.     

Appeasement Revisited

R. A. C. PARKER. Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. v, 388. £35.00;

GAINES POST, JR. Dilemmas of Appeasement: British Deterrence and Defense, 1934–1937. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. $48.50 (US);

R. J. Q. ADAMS. British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935–39. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xii, 192. £40.00;

MICHAEL J. COHEN and MARTIN KOLINSKY, eds. Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s: Security Problems, 1935–1939. London: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xvii, 231. $40.00;

BENNY MORRIS. The Roots of Appeasement: The British Weekly Press and Nazi Germany during the 1930s. London: Frank Cass, 1992. Pp. 212. $40.00 (US);

GERARD J. DE GROOT. Liberal Crusader: The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair. New York: New York University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 266. $35.00 (US);

CLEMENT LEIBOVITZ. The Chamberlain-Hitler Deal. Edmonton, Alberta: Les Éditions Duval Inc., 1993. Pp. viii, 544. No Price Available.     

The Scots in South Africa: Ethnicity,Identity, Gender and Race, 1772–1914

In a Crystal Land: Canadian Explorers in Antarctica by Dean Beeby. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 262, illus., maps. £19.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8020–0362–1.

Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth‐Century Montreal by Louise Dechêne, translated by Liana Vardi. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. xxi + 428, map, tables. £52.25 (hardback); £21.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–7735–0658–6; 0–7735–0951–8.

While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women by Janice Potter‐MacKinnon. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. xvi + 200. £29.70 (hardback). ISBN 0–7735–0962–3.

The Caribbean in the Wider World, 1492–1992: A Regional Geography by Bonham C. Richardson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. vi + 235, maps, tables. £30.00 (hardback); £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–35186–3; 0–521–35977–5.

Black Poor and White Philanthropists: London's Blacks and the Foundation of the Sierra Leone Settlement 1786–1791 by Stephen J. Braidwood. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 324, maps. £16.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–85323–377–2.

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Volume I: From Early Times to c.1800 edited by Nicholas Tarling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xv + 655, maps, illus. £55.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–35505–2.

India's Colonial Encounter: Essays in Memory of Eric Stokes edited by Mushirul Hasan and Narayani Gupta. New Delhi: Manohar, 1993. Pp. vi + 412. Rs.400. ISBN 81–7304–007–9.

Welteroberung und Christentum: Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der Neuzeit by Horst Gründer. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1994. Pp. 751, maps and illustrations. DM 128. ISBN 3–579–00136–1.

Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo‐British Identity, 1689‐c.1830 by Colin Kidd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 322. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–43484‐X.

Academe and Empire: Some Oversees Connections of Aberdeen University 1860–1970 by John D. Hargreaves. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 142. £8.95. ISBN 1–85752–220–6.

Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800–1904) by Julia A. Clancy‐Smith. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii + 370. $45.00. ISBN 0–520–08242–7.

Servants and Gentlewomen to the Golden Land: The Emigration of Single Women from Britain to Southern Africa, 1820–1939 by Cecillie Swaisland. Oxford: Berg Publishers/University of Natal Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 186, illustrations. £25.00 (hardback); £10.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85496–745–1; 0–85496–870–9.

God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster by Donald Harman Akenson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 404, maps. $32.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8014–2755‐X.

Regiments: Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth 1758–1993. A Critical Bibliography of their Published Histories. Compiled and published by Roger Perkins, Newton Abbot, 1994. Pp. 806. £92.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–9506429–3–2. Available from Roger Perkins, PO Box 29, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 1XU.

The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860–1940 by David Omissi. London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xx + 313. £45.00. ISBN 0–333–55049–8.

Public Health in British India: Anglo‐Indian Preventive Medicine 1859–1914 by Mark Harrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii + 324. £19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–46688–1.

Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913 by Jung‐Fang Tsai. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xvix + 375, maps. $52.00. ISBN 0–231–07932‐X.

European Imperialism, 1860–1914 by Andrew Porter. Basingstoke, London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xiii + 119, maps. £5.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–48104–6.

Sons of the Empire: The Frontier and the Boy Scout Movement, 1890–1918 by Robert H. MacDonald. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. viii + 259. £22.75. ISBN 0–8020–2843–8.

The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux by James O. Gump. Lincoln, Nebraska and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 178, maps. £23.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8032–2152–5.

A History of Ethiopia by Harold G. Marcus. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of Calfornia Press, 1994. Pp. xv + 261, maps. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–520–08121–8.

Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897–1936, by Paul E. Lovejoy and Jan S. Hogendorn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 391. £45.00 (hardback); £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–37469–3; 0–521–44702‐X.

The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation edited by E. R. Forbes and D. A. Muise. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 628. $60.00 (hardback); $29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8020–5886–8; 0–8020–6817–0.

Australian History in New South Wales 1888 to 1938 by Brian H. Fletcher. Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1993. Pp. vii + 228. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–86840–269–9.

Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend by Alistair Thomson. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. vi + 282; photographs. £18.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–19553491–3.

Broken Promises: Popular Protest, Indian Nationalism and the Congress Party in Bihar, 1935–1946 by Vinita Damodaran. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 398, 5 maps, 3 figures, 18 tables, 3 appendices. £18.95. ISBN 0–19–562979–5.

Rajani Palme Dutt: A Study in British Stalinism by John Callaghan. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1993. Pp. xi + 213. £19.99. ISBN 0–85315–7790.

Immigration, Ethnicity and Racism in Britain, 1815–1945 by Panikos Panayi. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. vi + 170. £29.99 (hardback); £7.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–3697–6; 0–7190–3698–4.

Macmillan by John Turner. London: Longman, 1994. Pp. vii + 302. £24.99 (hardback); £10.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–21880–2; 0–582–55386–5.

The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan by Robert J. McMahon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 431, maps. £25.00. ISBN 0–231–08226–6.

The Twilight of British Ascendancy in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1941–1950 by Daniel Silverfarb. London: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xii + 306, 2 maps. £34.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–62525–0.

The Wars of French Decolonization by Anthony Clayton. London: Longman, 1994. Pp. x + 234, maps. £32.00 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback) ISBN 0–582–09802–5; 0–582–09801–7.

Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government by Nicholas Thomas. Oxford: Polity Press, 1994. Pp. viii + 238. £45.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–7456–0871‐X; 0–7456–1215–6.     

The Mid‐Victorian navy and imperial defence

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone‐Disraeli Era 1866–1880 by John F. Beeler. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp.xviii + 354, tables, illus. $49.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–8047–2981–6.

Birth of the Battleship: British Capital Ship Design 1870–1881 by John Beeler. London: Chatham Publishing, 2001. Pp.224, illus. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–86176–167–8.

Imperial Defence 1868–1887 by Donald Mackenzie Schurman, edited by John Beeler. London: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp.xx + 192. £39.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–7146–5006–4.     

Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Indian Women

The Americas in the Spanish World Order: The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century by James Muldoon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 239. £34.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8122–3245–3.

The European Outthrust and Encounter. The First Phase c.1400‐c.1700: Essays in Tribute to David Beers Quinn on His 85th Birthday edited by Cecil H. Clough and P.E.H. Hair. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Pp.348. £19.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–85323–229–6.

The Story of the Voyage: Sea‐Narratives in Eighteenth‐Century England by Philip Edwards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 244, illustrations. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–41301‐X.

Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage 1741–1747. Vol. 1: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741–1742 edited by William Barr and Glyndwr Williams. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1994. Pp. xii + 333, maps. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–904180–36–0.

The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire by Nancy F. Koehn. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Pp. xiv + 239, map, illustrations. £24.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8014–2699–5.

The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth‐Century Lancaster by Melinda Elder. Keele: Ryburn Publishing, 1994. Pp. 232. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–85331–030–1.

Economics and the Dreamtime: A Hypothetical History by N.G. Butlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 252, maps. £40.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–43236–7; 0–521–043820–9.

John Stuart Mill and India by Lynn Zastoupil. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 280. £30.00 (hardback) ISBN 0–8047–2256–0.

13 chapters of a History of Belize by Assad Shoman. Belize City: Angelus Press, 1994. Pp xviii + 344, tables, maps. US $12.50. ISBN 976–8052–19–8.

’The Killing Time’: The Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica by Gad Heuman. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. Pp. xxii + 199, maps. £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–49400–8.

A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana 1875–1917 by K.O. Laurence. Kingston: Ian Randle; and London: James Currey, 1994. Pp ix + 648. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 978–8100–32‐X.

A History of Mozambique by Malyn Newitt. London: Hurst, 1995. Pp. xxii + 679, maps, index. £35.00 (hardback); £16.50 (paperback). ISBN 1–85065–171‐X; 1–85065–172–8.

Travellers in Africa: British Travelogues, 1850–1900 by Tim Youngs. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 235. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7190–3969‐X.

Journey to Livingstone: Exploration of an Imperial Myth by Timothy Holmes. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 366. £17.99 (hardback). ISBN 0–86241–402–4.

The Ilberts in India, 1882–1886: An Imperial Miniature by Mary Bennett. London: British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, 76#fr1/2> Chartfield Avenue, London SW15 6HQ, 1995. Pp.xii + 204, illustrations. £9.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–907799–54‐X.

Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865–1915 by Antoinette Burton. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 391. $45.00 (hardback); $16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8078–2161–6; 0–8078–4471–3.

The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria 1880–1939 by Raelene Frances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 267. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–40199–2.

Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932–1947 by Joya Chatterji. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vi + 303, maps. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–41128–9.

The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public Sphere by Anthony Milner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii + 328, map. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–46565–6.

The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century by W. G. Huff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 472. £50.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–37037‐X.

Malaysian Development: A Retrospective by Martin Rudner. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1994. Pp. xvii + 406. $32.95 (hardback); $19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–88629–221–2; 0–88629–220–4.

Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929–1987 by D.K. Fieldhouse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xxviii + 832. £60.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–822625‐X.

British Documents on the End of Empire. Series A, Volume III: The Conservative Government and the End of Empire, 1951–57 edited by David Goldsworthy. London: HMSO, 1994.

Part I. International Relations. Pp.lxxxix + 422. £60.00. ISBN 0–11–290535–8.

Part II. Politics and Administration. Pp.xxvii + 410. £60.00. ISBN 0–11–290536–6.

Part III. Economic and Social Policies. Pp.xxviii + 422. £60.00. ISBN 0–11–290537–4.

A Republican Manifesto by John Hirst. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 144. £7.99. ISBN 0–19–553649–5.

The Muddle‐Headed Republic by Alan Atkinson. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 141. £7.99. ISBN 0–19–553638‐X.     

Empire: The View from Beyond

JOHN M. MACKENZIE. The Empire of Nature: Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Pp. x, 34a. £40.00;

STEPHEN CONSTANTINE, ed. Emigrants and Empire: British Settlement in the Dominions between the Wars. Manchester Manchester University Press; dist., St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. x, 208. £40.00;

J.A. MANGAN, ed. Making Imperial Mentalities: Socialisation and British Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 227. £40.00

RONALD HYAM. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Pp. ix. 234. £10.95 (paper);

W.J. READER. ‘At Duty's Call’: A Study in Obsolete Patriotism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. viii, 152. £45.00;

JACQUELINE BRATTON et al. Acts of Supremacy: The British Empire and the Stage, 1790–1930. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Pp. vii, 248. £40.00;

P.J. RICH. Elixir of Empire: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry, and Imperialism. London and New York: Regency Press, 2nd. ed., 1992. Pp. 152. £9.95.     

Book reviews

Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain edited by Susan Schroeder. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xxvi + 2000, maps. $45.00/£42.75 (hardback); $19.95/£18.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8032–4266–2; 0–8032–9249‐X.

European and Native American Warfare, 1675–1815 by Armstrong Starkey. London: UCL Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 208. £40.00 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 1–85728–554–9; 1–85728–555–7.

Frontier Profit and Loss: The British Army and the Fur Traders, 1760–1764 by Walter S. Dunn, Jr. Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp.xi + 196, map. £47.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–313–30605–2.

British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800 by Colin Kidd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.viii + 302. £35.00. ISBN 0–521–62403–7.

Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650‐ c. 1850 edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xii + 317. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–62077–5.

Scottish Highlanders in Colonial Georgia: The Recruitment, Emigration, and Settlement at Darien, 1735–1748 by Anthony W. Parker. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1997. Pp.xiii +182. £31.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–8203–1915–5.

In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy by Richard Buel, Jr. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp.xi + 397. £25.00/$35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–300–07388–7.

Science and Exploration in the Pacific: European Voyages to the Southern Oceans in the Eighteenth Century edited by Margarette Lincoln. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum, 1998. Pp.xix + 228, illus. £35.00/$63.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–85115–721–1.

Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands by Jane Samson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Pp.xiii + 240, maps. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8248–1927–6.

The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley, January to December 1803 edited by Anthony S. Bennell. Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing for the Army Records Society, 1998. Pp.xi + 458. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7509–2069–6.

Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India by Lata Mani. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 246, illustrations. $47.00/£37.50 (hardback); $18.00/£13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–520–21407–2 (paperback).

’Christen und Gewürze’: Konfrontation und Interaktion kolonialer und indigener Christentumsvarianten edited by Klaus Koschorke. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998. Pp.298. DM 98 (paperback). ISBN 3–525–55960–7.

Religion in Victorian Britain, Volume V: Culture and Empire edited by John Wolffe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp.viii + 359, illustrations. £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–5184–3.

Imperialism and Colonialism: Essays on the History of European Expansion by H.L. Wesseling. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp.x + 212. £47.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–313–30431–9.

The Foundations of Naval History: John Knox Laughton, the Royal Navy and the Historical Profession by Andrew Lambert. London: Chatham, 1998. Pp.256, illustrations. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–86176–086–8.

Sturm über dem Nil. Der Mahdi‐Aufstand: Aus den Anfängen des islamischen Fundamentalismus by Wilfried Westphal. Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1998. Pp.419, 23 pictures, three maps. DM 48.00 (hardback). ISBN 3–7995–0092–8.

The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley for 1862–1902 edited by Angus Hawkins and John Powell. Camden Fifth Series Volume 9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1997. Pp.xxii + 530. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0521–62328–6.

Lord Methuen and the British Army: Failure and Redemption in South Africa by Stephen M. Miller. London, and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp.viii + 279, maps. £39.50/$57.50 (hardback), £17.50/$26.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–7146–4904‐X; 0–7146–4460–9.

Francophone Sub‐Saharan Africa 1880–1995 by Patrick Manning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xii + 247, maps. £40.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–64255–8; 0–521–64519–0.

Mau Mau From Below by Greet Kershaw. Oxford: James Currey, 1997. Pp.xxx + 354. £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–731–0.

Mau Man and Kenya by Wunyabari O. Maloba. Oxford: James Currey, 1998. Pp.x + 228. £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–745–0.

History of Central Africa: The Contemporary Years Since 1960 edited by David Birmingham and Phyllis M. Martin. London: Longman, 1998. Pp.vii + 314. £17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–582–27607–1.

Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power by Cyrus Ghani, London: I.B. Tauris, 1998. Pp.xiv + 434. £29.50 (hardback). ISBN 1–86064–258–6.

A History of Laos by Martin Stuart‐Fox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xv + 253, maps. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–59235–6; 0–521–59746–3.

Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism 1900–1949 by Robert Bickers. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp.xii + 276, tables, illustrations. £45.00 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–4697–1; 0–7190–5697–7.

Between Two Oceans: A Military History of Singapore From First Settlement to Final British Withdrawal by Malcolm H. Murfett, John N. Miksic, Brian P. Farrell, and Chiang Ming Shun. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.xviii + 398. £35.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–19–588482–5.     

The Berlin West Africa conference of 1884–85 revisited: A report

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).     

The Wireless World at War, 1939–1945

F. H. HINSLEY. British Intelligence in the Second World War, abridged version.New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 628. $39.95 (US);

F. H. HINSLEY and ALAN STRIPP. Codebreakers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. 321. £17.95;

RALPH BENNETT. Behind the Battle: Intelligence in the War with Germany, 1939–1945. London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1994. Pp. xxiv, 328. £20.00;

CARL BOYD. Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General ōshima Hiroshi and Magic Intelligence, 1941–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. Pp. xviii, 271. $25.00 (US);

DEREK HOWSE. Radar at Sea: Tlie Royal Navy in World War Two. London: Macmillan, 1993. Pp. xviii, 383. £25.00;

JOHN WINTON. Ultra in the Pacific: How Breaking Japanese Codes and Ciphers Affected Naval Operations against Japan. London: Leo Cooper, 1993. Pp. 247. £17.50     

Book Reviews

BRIAN BOND. British Military Policy between the Two World Wars. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Pp. XVI, 419. £16.00. Reviewed by Paul Kennedy

Washington Despatches, 1941–1945: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy, edited by H.G. Nicholas, with an introduction by Isaiah Berlin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981. Pp. XVIII, 700. $40.00 (US), £20.00. Reviewed by David Reynolds

MARK C. WHEELER. Britain and the War for Yugoslavia, 1940–1943. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. Pp. 342 (East European Monographs, No. LXIV). SI8.50 (US). Reviewed by John O. Iatrides

PATRICIA JALLAND. The Liberals and Ireland. The Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914. Hassocks, Sussex, 1980. Pp. 250. £20.00. Reviewed by John Kendle

BRIAN JENKINS. Britain and the War for the Union. Volume II. Montreal: McGill- Queen's University Press, 1980. Pp. IX, 480. $26.50 (US). Reviewed by Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr.

GEOFFREY ELLIS. Napoleon's Continental Blockade: The Case of Alsace. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp. 355. $65.75. (CAN.) Reviewed by Richard Glover

R.D. THORPE. The Uncrowned Prime Ministers. London: Darkhorse Publishing, 1980. Pp. XV, 263. $35.00 (US). Reviewed by J.O. Stubbs

DAVID DILKS, ed. Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century. Vol. I. 1906–1939. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp. 213. £10. Reviewed by Trevor Burridge

DAVID DILKS, ed. Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century. Vol. II. After 1939. London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp. 198. £10. Reviewed by Ray Jones

CLAIRE HIRSCHFIELD. The Diplomacy of Partition: Britain, trance and the Creation of Nigeria, 1890–1898. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. Pp. 234, Fl. 90. Reviewed by A.S. Kanya-Forstner

PHILIP M. TAYLOR. The Projection of Britain: British Overseas Publicity and Propaganda 1919–1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp.xv, 363. £25.00. Reviewed by Keith Robbins

NAVY RECORDS SOCIETY. The Keyes Papers, Vol. III, 1939–1945, ed. Paul Halpern. London: Allen and Unwin, 1981. Pp. 398. $;37.50 (Can.). Reviewed by Donald M. Schurman

JOHN TURNER. Lloyd George's Secretariat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp.vm, 254 £15. Reviewed by Patricia Jalland

JAMES NEIDPATH. The Singapore Naval Base and the Defence of Britain's Eastern Empire, 1919–1941. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp.XVII, 296. £22.50. Reviewed by C.C. Ong

ELEANOR M. GATES. End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939–40. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981. Pp. XVIII, 630. $28.50 (US). Reviewed by P.M.H. Bell

F.H. HINSLEY ET AL. British Intelligence in the Second World War: Its Influence on Strategy and Operations. Vol. I, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. 616. $29.95 (US); Vol. H, ibid., 1981. Pp. 690. $39.50 (US). Reviewed by D.C. Watt

E. MARY SMALLWOOD. The Jews under Roman Rule: A Study in Political Relations. From Pompey to Diocletian. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981. Pp. XIV, 595. 96 guilders. Reviewed by Jacob Neusner     

Some theses completed in the United Kingdom, 1974

The North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century by K. G. Davies. Empire to Nations: Expansion in America 1713–1824 by Max Savelle. (Volumes IV and V of Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion, edited by Boyd C. Shafer) Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press and Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. xiv+366, xxi+335. £5.75 each.

The Royal Navy and North America: The Warren Papers, 1736–1752 edited by Julian Gwyn. London: Navy Records Society, 1975. Pp. 463; £6.00

Empire or Independence by I. R. Christie and B. W. Labaree. Phaidon Press, 1976. Pp. ix + 322; £5.95.

The Spirit of ‘76: The Growth of American Patriotism Before Independence by Carl Bridenbaugh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. xiv+ 162; £5.25.

Kingston, Jamaica: Urban Development and Social Change, 1692–1962 by Colin G. Clarke. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. xi+270; £15.00.

Convicts and Colonial Society 1788–1853 edited by Lloyd Evans and Paul Nicholls. Stanmore, N.S.W.: Cassell Australia, 1976. Pp. viii+250; $5.95.

Religion in Early Australia edited by Jean Woolmington. Stanmore, N.S.W.: Cassell Australia, 1976. Pp. xiii + 174; $5.95.

The North‐West Mounted Police and Law Enforcement 1873–1905 by R. C. Macleod. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976. Pp. xi+218; £10.50.

The Round Table and Imperial Union by John Kendle. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1975. Pp. xvi + 306; £8.75.

The Lion's Share: A Short History of British Imperialism 1850–1970 by Bernard Porter. London: Longman, 1975. Pp. xiii+408. £6.95 hard cover; £3.75 paper back.