Africa, Asia and Australasia

Books reviewed: James R. Ryan, Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire Deirdre Coleman (eds.), Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women’s Travel Narratives of the 1790s Bill Nasson, The South African War, 1899‐1902 Keith Terrance Surridge, Managing the South African War, 1899‐1902: Politicians versus Generals Brian Titley, Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa Francis Robinson (ed.), The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World Dina Rizk Khoury, State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540‐1834 James Lunt, The Arab Legion, 1923‐1957 Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age Peter Robb, Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India Henry Schwarz, Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India Maria Misra, Business, Race and Politics in British India c.1850‐1960 John F. Riddick, Who Was Who in British India T. Christopher Jespersen, American Images of China, 1931‐1949 Odd Arne Westad (ed.), Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino‐Soviet Alliance, 1945‐1963 Walter LaFeber, The Clash: US‐Japanese Relations throughout History