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Volume 56 - Issue 1 - March 2015

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WARFARE AS STATE POLITICS - Civil War and State Formation: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Liberia. By Felix Gerdes. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2013. Pp. x+291. $49/€39·90, paperback (ISBN 9783593398921).

PROSPEROUS FAMILIES - The Métis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa. By Hilary Jones. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xi+276. $80, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-00673-8); $28, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-00674-5).

BEYOND ASSIMILATION - The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. By Gibril R. Cole. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013. Pp. xv+272. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2047-8).

AN IMPERSONAL PUBLIC SPHERE - The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa. By Stephanie Newell. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013. Pp. ix+255. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2032-4).

THE GLOSS OF WAR - Bringers of War: The Portuguese in Africa during the Age of Gunpowder and Sail from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. By John Laband. London: Frontline Books, 2013. Pp. xxvi+262. £25, hardback (ISBN 9781848326583).

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Volume 56 - Issue 1 - March 2015

Reviews of Books

WARFARE AS STATE POLITICS - Civil War and State Formation: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Liberia. By Felix Gerdes. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2013. Pp. x+291. $49/€39·90, paperback (ISBN 9783593398921).

PROSPEROUS FAMILIES - The Métis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa. By Hilary Jones. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xi+276. $80, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-00673-8); $28, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-00674-5).

BEYOND ASSIMILATION - The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. By Gibril R. Cole. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013. Pp. xv+272. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2047-8).

AN IMPERSONAL PUBLIC SPHERE - The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa. By Stephanie Newell. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013. Pp. ix+255. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2032-4).

THE GLOSS OF WAR - Bringers of War: The Portuguese in Africa during the Age of Gunpowder and Sail from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. By John Laband. London: Frontline Books, 2013. Pp. xxvi+262. £25, hardback (ISBN 9781848326583).

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