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AFRICANS AND THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development. By JOSEPH E INIKORI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi+576. £55 (ISBN 0-521-81193-7); £20.99, paperback (ISBN 0-521-01079-9).
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THE MANDATE SYSTEM MATTERED A Sacred Trust: The League of Nations and Africa, 1929–1946. By MICHAEL D. CALLAHAN. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. Pp. xii+308. £55 (ISBN 1-84519-016-5).
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MISSIONS AND EMPIRE The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880–1914. Edited by ANDREW PORTER. Grand Rapids MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. Pp. xiii+250. £32.99, paperback (ISBN 0-8028-6087-7). Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire. Edited by BRIAN STANLEY and ALAINE LOW. Grand Rapids MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. Pp. x+313. $45; £32.99, paperback (ISBN 0-8028-2166-2).
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NEXT DOOR TO VICHY Soldiers, Airmen, Spies, and Whisperers: The Gold Coast in World War II. By NANCY ELLEN LAWLER. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii+286. $49.95 (ISBN 0-8214-1430-5).
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MAKING HISTORY AND DOING POLITICS IN IBADAN ‘Civil Disorder is the Disease of Ibadan’: Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City. By RUTH WATSON. Oxford: James Currey, 2003. Pp. xii+180. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-459-1); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-454-0).
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MALE ROYAL SLAVERY IN KANO Paradoxes of Power: The Kano ‘Mamluks’ and Male Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1804–1903. By SEAN STILWELL. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. x+281. £45.99 (ISBN 0-325-0741-5); £16.99, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07410-7).
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PRECOLONIAL HISTORY BY AN AFRICAN RULER ‘The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Country Itself’ and Other Writings by Otumfuo, Nana Agyeman Prempeh I. Edited by A. ADU BOAHEN, EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG, NANCY LAWLER, T. C. MCCASKIE and IVOR WILKS. Oxford: The British Academy, 2003. Pp. x+224. £30 (ISBN 0-19-726261-9).
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A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO THE END OF SLAVERY IN WEST AFRICA Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast. By TREVOR R. GETZ. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2004. Pp. xx+257. No price given (ISBN 085255-444-3); paperback (ISBN 0-8214-1521).
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THE RESURRECTION OF CHIEFTAINCY Le retour des rois: les autorités traditionelles et l'État en Afrique contemporaine. Edited by CLAUDE-HÉLÈNE PERROT and FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE-AYMAR. Paris: Editions Karthala, 2003. Pp. 568. €32 (ISBN 2-84586-343-8).
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THE WHITE SIDE OF THE TRANSITION Rethinking the Rise and Fall of Apartheid: South Africa and World Politics. By ADRIAN GUELKE. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xvii+248. $75 (ISBN 0-333-9812-7); £18.99/$24.95, paperback (ISBN 033-98123-5).
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GROWING KHAT FOR THE PARALLEL MARKET Leaf of Allah: Khat and Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia, 1875–1991. By EZEKIEL GEBISSA. Oxford: James Currey; Hargeisa: Btec; Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+210. £50 (ISBN 0-85255-481-8); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-480-X).
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SLOW DEATH; STILL ALIVE Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. By SUZANNE MIERS. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. Pp. xx+503. No price given (ISBN 0-7591-0339-9); paperback (ISBN 0-7591-0340-2).
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THE UNITED STATES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN AFRICA U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa: Four Case Studies in Conflict Resolution. By F. UGBOAJA OHAEGBULAM. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. xvi+280. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8204-7091-0).
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A HISTORY OF INEQUALITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY GHANA Le strutture della diseguaglianza, Capi, appartenenza e gerarchia nel mondo akan dell'Africa Occidentale. [The Structure of Inequality:Chiefs, Belonging and Hierarchies in the West African World of the Akan]. By STEFANO BONI. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2003. Pp. 303. €24, paperback (ISBN 88-464-4700-X).
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GERMAN GOVERNANCE IN NAMIBIA Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner: Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia (German Governance of Africans: Stately Claims to Power, and Reality in Colonial Namibia). By JÜRGEN ZIMMERER. Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 2001. Pp. xiv+329. €35.90 (ISBN 3-8258-7473-7); €24.90, paperback (ISBN 3-8258-5047-1).
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A MAJOR STUDY OF A NEGLECTED RESISTANCE WAR West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War. By MAHIR SAUL and PATRICK ROYER. Oxford: James Currey Publishers; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+404. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-474-5); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-479-6).
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CASEMENT ON KING LEOPOLD'S CONGO The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary. Edited by SÉAMAS Ó SÍOCHÁIN and MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN. Dublin: University College of Dublin Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+350. £39.95 (ISBN 1-900621-99-1); £18.95 paperback (ISBN 1-900621-98-3).
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OVERVIEWS OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY What Went Wrong with Africa: A Contemporary History. By ROEL VAN DER VEEN. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, 2004. Pp. 398. €32.50/£19.99, paperback (ISBN 90-6832-548-5). History of Africa, IV: Contemporary Developments. By HARRY GAILEY. Melbourne FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 2002. Pp. xii+166. $17.50, paperback (ISBN 1-57524-163-3).
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ALGERIAN INDEPENDENCE The Battlefield: Algeria 1988–2002. By HUGH ROBERTS. London: Verso Books, 2003. Pp. 402. £17 (ISBN 1-85984-684-X). A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria's Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era. By MATTHEW CONNELLY. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 400. No price given (ISBN 0-19-514513-5).
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WINDOWS INTO THE EXPERIENCE OF AN AFRICAN INDEPENDENT CHURCH The Man of Heaven and the Beautiful Ones of God: Umuntu Wasezulwini Nabantu Abahle Bakankulunkulu. Writings from Ibandla lamaNazaretha, a South African Church. By ELIZABETH GUNNER. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. xvi+245. €85; $99 (ISBN 90-04-12542-6).
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