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THE JESUITS IN ETHIOPIA Des Jésuites au royaume du prêtre Jean (Éthiopie): stratégies, rencontres et tentatives d'implantation 1495–1633. By HERVÉ PENNEC. Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2003. Pp. 373. No price given (ISBN 972-8462-32-8).
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HISTORIOGRAPHY AND VIOLENCE IN MOZAMBIQUE Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South-Central Africa, 1750–1920. By ALLEN E. ISAACMAN and BARBARA S. ISAACMAN. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii+370. £56.99 (ISBN 0-325-00261-4); £16.99, paperback (ISBN 0-325-00261-6).
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- 09 December 2005, pp. 517-519
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SLAVERY IN GHANA A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana: From the 15th to the 19th Century. By AKOSUA ADOMA PERBI. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2004. Pp. xxiv+231. $49.95 (ISBN 9988-550-95-2).
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COFFEE ECONOMIES: A GLOBAL COMPARISON The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500–1989. Edited by WILLIAM GERVASE CLARENCE-SMITH and STEVEN TOPIK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii+486. £60; $80 (ISBN 0-521-81851-6).
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ORIENTAL ORIGINS OF SACRED KINGSHIP? Das Königtum von Gobir: Götter, Priester, Feste einer sakralen Gesellschaft. By WALTER KÜHME. Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 2003. Pp. xiv+260. 37 colour photographs. No price given, paperback (ISBN 3-8300-0932-1).
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- 01 July 2005, pp. 338-339
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LA TRAJECTOIRE POLITIQUE TUNISIENNE A History of Modern Tunisia. Edited by KENNETH J. PERKINS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii+249. £40/$70 (ISBN 0-521-81124-4); £15.99/$24.99, paperback (ISBN 0-521-00972-3).
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- 09 December 2005, pp. 520-522
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VARIETIES OF INCARCERATION A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Edited by FLORENCE BERNAULT. Translated by JANET ROITMAN. Heinemann: Portsmouth NH, 2003. Pp. x+287. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07119-5); $28.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07125-X).
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THE DINKA AND HISTORY Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in Early South Sudan. By STEPHANIE BESWICK. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004. Pp. xxx+270. $75; £50 (ISBN 1-58046-151-4).
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- 01 July 2005, pp. 340-341
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPLORERS IN WEST AFRICA African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. Edited by JAMES FAIRHEAD, TIM GEYSBEEK, SVEND E. HOLSOE and MELISSA LEACH. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+488. $59.95 (ISBN 0-253-34194-9).
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ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIAN ART AND PORTUGUESE CONTACTS The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th–17th Centuries. Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (Arrábida, 26–30 November 1999). Edited by MANUEL JOÃO RAMOS with ISABEL BOAVIDA. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxx+181. 14 colour plates. £45 (ISBN 0-7546-5037-5).
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URBAN HISTORY IN AFRICA The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa c. 1750–2000. Edited by ANDREW BURTON. Nairobi: The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2002. Pp. xi+264. £15; $24, paperback (ISBN 1-872566-26-X). De la ville coloniale à la cour africaine: espaces, pouvoirs et sociétés à Ouagadougou et à Bobo-Dioulasso (Haute-Volta) fin XIXe siècle–1960. By LAURENT FOUCHARD. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001. Pp. 427. €35 paperback (ISBN 2-7475-2307-1).
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INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE WESTERN SAHARA La vie intellectuelle islamique dans le Sahel Quest-Africain (XVIe–XIXe siècles). Une étude sociale de l'enseignement islamique en Mauritanie et au Nord du Mali (XVIe–XIXe siècles) et traduction annotée deFath ash-Shakūrd'al-Bartilī al-Walātī (mort en 1805). By CHOUKI EL HAMEL. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002. Pp. 492. €40, paperback (ISBN 2-7475-2597-x).
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- 01 July 2005, pp. 342-344
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NEW APPROACHES TO GERMAN COLONIALISM Impossible Missions? German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa. By NINA BERMAN. Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. x+271. £37.95 (ISBN 0-8032-1334-4).
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CHALLENGING THE ‘AUTONOMY THESIS’ IN MAGHREBI HISTORIOGRAPHY The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777–1814: Army and Government of a North-African Ottoman Eyalet at the End of the Eighteenth Century. By ASMA MOALLA. Routledge Curzon: London, 2004. Pp. xxiii+175. £55 (ISBN 0-415-29781-8).
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REVISION AND CONTINUITY IN SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815–1854. By NORMAN ETHERINGTON. London: Longman, 2001. Pp. xxv+366. £16.99 (ISBN 0-582-31567-0).
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AN AFRICAN ATLANTIC Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery. Edited by JOSÉ C. CURTO and PAUL E. LOVEJOY. Amherst: Humanity Books, 2004. Pp. 323. No price given (ISBN 1-159102-153-7). Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441–1770. By JAMES H. SWEET. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+296. $19.95/£14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8078-5482-4).
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- 01 July 2005, pp. 344-346
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SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE OVAMBO FLOODPLAINS Re-Creating Eden: Land Use, Environment, and Society in Southern Angola and Northern Namibia. By EMMANUEL KREIKE. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii+294. $99.95 (ISBN 0-325-07077-6); £29.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07076-8).
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- 09 December 2005, pp. 526-527
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AN ATLANTIC ODYSSEY FROM OLD CALABAR The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey. By RANDY J. SPARKS. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 189. £14.95 (ISBN 0-674-01312-3).
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- 01 July 2005, pp. 347-348
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FOLLOWING THE MIGRANT MINEWORKERS HOME Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890–1940. By EDDY TSHIDISO MALOKA. Dakar: Codesria, 2004. Pp. xi+257. £28.95/$47.95, paperback (ISBN 2-85978-128-8).
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CRITICAL MASS AND PRODUCTIVE TENSION South Africa's Environmental History: Cases and Comparisons. Edited by STEPHEN DOVERS, RUTH EDGECOMB and BILLGUEST. Cape Town: David Philip, 2002; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2003. Pp. ix+326. $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8214-1498-4 [Ohio], 0-86486-492-2 [David Philip]).
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- 29 March 2005, pp. 165-166
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