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GENDER AND COMMERCE Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890–1990. By CLAIRE C. ROBERTSON. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 341. £40.50 (ISBN 0-253-33360-1); £20.50, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21151-4).
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WARTIME COLONIAL POLITICS L'AOF et la second guerre mondiale: La vie politique (septembre 1939–octobre 1945). By CATHERINE AKPO-VACHE. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1997. Pp. 330. FF. 160 (ISBN 2-86537-640-0).
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SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND IDENTITIES Regard sur le Borgou: Pouvoir et altérité dans une région ouest-africaine. Sous la direction de ELISABETH BOESEN, CHRISTINE HARDUNG et RICHARD KUBA. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. Pp. 366. FF. 210, paperback (ISBN 2-7384-7138-2).
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FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN RESEARCH Des historiens africains en Afrique. L'histoire d'hier et d'aujourd'hui: Logiques du passé et dynamiques actuelles. Sous la direction de CATHERINE COQUERY- VIDROVITCH, ODILE GEORG et HERVÉ TENOUX. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. Pp. 360. FF. 190, paperback (ISBN 2-7384-6908-6).
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ON THE ETHIOPIAN PERIPHERY The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. By RICHARD PANKHURST. Lawrenceville: The Red Sea Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 489. $24.95/£12.99, paperback (ISBN 0-932415-19-9).
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Central African Republic. By PIERRE KALCK. World Bibliographical Series, 152. Oxford, Santa Barbara, Denver: Clio Press, 1993. Pp. liv + 153. £38 (ISBN 1-85109-172-6).
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CAPITAL OF ANCIENT GHANA Recherches archéologiques sur la capitale de l'empire de Ghana: Etude d'un secteur d'habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie. Campagnes II–III–IV–V, 1975–76 – 1980–81. By SOPHIE BERTHIER. (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 41). Oxford: Archaeopress, 1997. Pp. 143. £33 (ISBN 0-86054-868-6).
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HISTORY IN LITERATURE Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture. By CHRISTOPHER L. MILLER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 258 £32.50 (ISBN 0-226-52803-0); £13.50, paperback (ISBN 0-226-52804-9). Writing French Algeria. By PETER DUNWOODIE. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. vi + 334. £45 (ISBN 0-19-815972-2). Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography and the Novel. By ELENI COUNDOURIOTIS. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 211 $57/£40 (ISBN 0-231-11350-1); $19/£12.95, paperback (ISBN 0-231-11351-x).
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Natives Land Act 1913: Specific Cases of Evictions and Hardships. Compiled by R. W. MSIMANG. Cape Town: Friends of the South African Library, 1996. Pp. 32. No price given (ISBN 0-86968-116-8).
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ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge. Edited by FREDERICK COOPER and RANDALL PACKARD. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 361. £31·50 (ISBN 0-520-20956-7); £12.50, paperback (ISBN 0-520-20957-5).
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HISTORY OF A SAHARAN ELITE La région du Tagant en Mauritanie: L'oasis de Tijigja entre 1660 et 1960. By ABDALLAH OULD KHALIFA. Paris: Éditions Karthala, 1998. Pp. v + 686. FF. 220, paperback (ISBN 2-86537-894-2).
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QUESTIONING THE ‘CONSENSUAL VIEW’ OF WARTIME AFRICA Botswana 1939–1945: An African Country at War. By ASHLEY JACKSON. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. vii + 258. £40 (ISBN 0-19-820764-6).
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CAPTIVITY AND SLAVERY IN THE MAGHRIB White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives. By PAUL BAEPELER. London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. xiii + 310. £15.25/$19, paperback (ISBN 0-226-03404-6). Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco. By MOHAMMED ENNAJI. Trans. Seth Graebner. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martins Press, 1999. Pp. xxii + 166. £36.75/$49.95 (ISBN 0-333-75477-8).
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MATERIALIST HISTORY RECONSIDERED The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800 (Second edition). By BILL FREUND. London: Macmillan, 1998. Pp. xv + 334. £45 (ISBN 0-333-698711); £14.99, paperback (ISBN 0-333-69872X).
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WAR AND WARFARE War in the Early Modern World, 1450–1815. Edited by JEREMY BLACK. London: UCL Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 268. £40 (ISBN 1-85728-687-1); £13.95, paperback (ISBN 1-85728-688-x). War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under the Invasion of the British Empire, 1897–1903. By RISTO MARJOMAA. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1998. Pp. 305. No price given (ISBN 951-41-0849-3).
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CHRISTIANITY IN EAST AFRICA East African Expressions of Christianity. Edited by THOMAS SPEAR and ISARIA N. KIMAMBO. Oxford: James Currey; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota; Nairobi: EAEP; Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 340. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-757-4); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-758-2).
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Soweto – A History. By PHILIP BONNER and LAUREN SEGAL. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1998. Pp. 162. R. 95, paperback (ISBN 0-636-0303304). Video: Soweto – A History. Director: Angus Gibson. Free Film Makers Production, 1994. 6 × 26 minutes. R. 110.
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CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF COMMUNITY AND SELF Making Ethnic Ways: Communities and Their Transformations in Taita, Kenya, 1800–1950. By BILL BRAVMAN. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: EAEP, 1998. Pp. xiv + 283. $65.00 (ISBN 0-325-00105-7); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-00104-9).
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