ASA Review of Books, Volume 5 - 1979
- This volume was published under a former title. See this journal's title history.
Historical Overviews
Z. A. and J. M. Konczaki, eds. An Economic History of Tropical Africa: Volume 1: The Pre-Colonial Period. London and Totowa, New Jersey: Frank Cass and Co., 1977. xi + 310 pp. Maps, references, index. $25.00 - Z. A. and J. M. Konczaki, eds. An Economic History of Tropical Africa: Volume 2: The Colonial Period. London and Totowa, New Jersey: Frank Cass and Co., 1977. xv + 260 pp. Maps, charts, tables, references, index. $24.00
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Elizabeth Isichei. History of West Africa Since 1800. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1977. xii + 380 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, index. $19.50; $9.50 paper
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Michael Crowder. Colonial West Africa: Collected Essays. London: Frank Gass & Co. Ltd., 1978. 341 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. $22.50
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T. R. H. Davenport. South Africa: A Modern History. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1977. xvi + 432 pp. Illustrations, maps, graphs, tables, appendices, bibliographical notes, index. $6.95 paper
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A. J. Christopher. Southern Africa: An Historical Geography. Hamden, Connecticut: Dawson, Archon Books, 1976. 292 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $15.00
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Abdallah Laroui. The History of the Maghrib: An Interpretive Essay. Richard Manheim, trans. (Originally published in French) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Univeristy Press, 1977. viii + 431 pp. Maps, dynastic chronologies, bibliography, index. $22.50
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Kenneth J. Perkins, trans. Lucette Valensi. On the Eve of Colonialism: North Africa Before the French Conquest, 1970-1830. Originally published in French as Le Magreb avant la prise d'Alger, Paris: Flammarion et cie., 1969.) Perkins. New York and London: Africana Publishing Company, 1977. xxix + 154 pp. Map, bibliography, appendices, index. $15.50 hardcover; $8.50 paper
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Mark R. Lipschutz and R. Kent Rasmussen. Dictionary of African Historical Biography. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1978. pp. xi + 292 pp. Maps, bibliography, indexes, $ 19.50
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Urban Communities
Andrew Hake. African Metropolis: Nairobi's Self-Help City. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. 284 pp. Bibliography, index, maps, plates. $18.95 - Richard E. Stren. Housing the Urban Poor in Africa: Policy, Politics and Bureaucracy in Mombasa. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, Research Series, No. 34, 1978. 330 pp. $5.95
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J. Hinderink and J. Sterkenburg. Anatomy of an African Town. A Socio-Economic Study of Cape Coast, Ghana. Utrecht: Geographical Institute, State University of Utrecht, 1975. 344 pp. Tables, notes, figures, glossary, bibliography. Paper
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Deborah Pellow. Women in Accra, Options for Autonomy. Algonac, Michigan: Reference Publications Inc., 1977. 272 pp. Maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. Introduction by Gwendolyn Carter. $12.50
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Enid Schildkrout. People of the Zongo: The Transformation of Ethnic Identities in Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. xvi + 303 pp. Tables, maps, figures, glossary, bibliography, index. $19.95
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John A. WorksJr. Pilgrims in a Strange Land: Hausa Communities in Chad. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. xix + 280 pp. Maps, diagrams, tables, appendix, bibliography, index. $15.00
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Marxist Views on Africa
Africa in the World Order
Ole Gjerstad. The People in Power. An Account from Angola's Second War of Liberation. Richmond, British Columbia: Liberation Support Movement Information Center, 1977. 108 pp. Appendix. $1.00 paper - Oleg Ignatyev. Secret Weapon in Africa. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977. 189 pp. Bibliography. $4.10 paper - A. Lerumo. Fifty Fighting Years. London: Inkululeko Publications, 1971. vi + 216 pp. Appendices, index. $4.00 paper - Evgeny Tarabrin. The New Scramble for Africa. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. 319 pp. Tables, notes. $4.25 paper - Raul Valdes Vivo. Ethiopia's Revolution. New York: International Publishers, 1978. 124 pp. $1.75 paper
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Zdenek Cervenka. The Unfinished Quest for Unity: Africa and the OAU. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1977. xx + 251 pp. $18.00
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Perspectives on Egypt
Africa in the World Order
A.I. Dawisha. Egypt in the Arab World: The Elements of a Foreign Policy. New York: Halsted, Wiley, 1976. 234 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $24.50 - Ali E. Hillal Dessouki, ed. Democracy in Egypt: Problems and Prospects. Cairo: American University in Cairo, 1978; Cairo Papers in Social Science no. 2. 90 pp. Appendix $2.50 paper - E.G. Chibwe. Afro-Arab Relations in the New World Order. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. 150 pp. Tables, index, appendix. $17.95
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A. W. Singham, ed. The Nonaligned Movement in World Politics. Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1977. xxii and 273 pp. $7.95 paper
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John J. Stremlau. The International Politics of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. xix + 425 pp. Chronology, appendices, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $26.50
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Prehistory
Jack R. Harlan, Jan M. J. de Wet and Ann B.L. Stamler, eds. Origins of African Plant Domestication. The Hague: Mouton, 1976.
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D.W. Phillipson. The Later Prehistory of Eastern and Southern Africa. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1978. xiii + 323 pp. Maps, figures, photos, index. $26.50; $12.75 paper
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