Africa, Asia and Australasia

Boks reviewed: Africans: The History of a Continent. By John Iliffe In Pursuit of History: Fieldwork in Africa. Edited by Carolyn Keyes Adenaike and Jan Vansina Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830–1914. By Bruce Vandervort The Moon is Dead! Give us our Money! The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, Natal, South Africa, 1843–1900. By Keletso E. Atkins Work, Culture and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860–1910. By Patrick Harries ‘We Spend our Years as a Tale that is Told’: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom. By Isabel Hofmeyr The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1894–1985. By Charles van Onselen Liberals against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953–1968. By Randolph Vigne From Obscurity to Bright Dawn—how Nyasaland became Malawi: An Insider's Account. By Henry Phillips Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in East African History. Edited by David M. Anderson and Douglas H. Johnson Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru. By Thomas Spear Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria. Edited by Paul A. Beckett and Crawford Young All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. By Khaled Fahmy The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923. By Justin McCarthy The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions. By James Turner Johnson The History of Saudi Arabia. By Alexei Vassilev The Ottoman Gulf: The Creation of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. By Frederick F. Anscombe The Making of Iraq 1900–1963: Capital, Power and Ideology. By Samira Haj Great Britain, the United States, and the Security of the Middle East: The Formation of the Baghdad Pact. By Magnus Persson The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967. By Michael Dumper Palestine and the Palestinians. By Samih K. Farsoun with Christina E. Zacharia Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. By Rashid Khalidi Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace. By Sudipta Sen Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence. By Paul Brass Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius. By William Kelleher Storey Valour: A History of the Gurkhas. By E. D. Smith The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836–1889). By Gillian Bickley Sun Yat‐sen. By Marie‐Claire Bergère. Translated by J. Lloyd Passivity, Resistance and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937–45. By Poshek Fu Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. By Bruce Cumings