Africa, Asia and Australasia

Books reviewed: James H. Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship and Religion in the African‐Portuguese World 1441–1770 .Paul Nugent, Africa since Independence: A Comparative History .Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger, South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid .Annie E. Coombes, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa .Jonathan K. Gosnell, The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930–1954 .Hugh Kennedy, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century .Denis Judd, The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj .Subho Basu, Does Class Matter? Colonial Capital and Workers’ Resistance in Bengal, 1890–1937 .Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy .Harry G. Gelber, Opium, Soldiers and Evangelicals: England's 1840–42 War with China and its Aftermath .James Hevia, English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth‐Century China .Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money .Kenneth J. Ruoff, The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945–1995 .Linda K. Menton, Noren W. Lush, Eileen H. Tamura, Chance I. Gusukuma, The Rise of Modern Japan .Craig Wilcox, Australia's Boer War: The War in South Africa, 1899–1902 .