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Volume 45 - July 2004

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KILIMANJARO ECONOMIC HISTORY RECONSIDERED Kilimanjaro – A Regional History, I: Production and Living Conditions, c. 1800–1920. By LUDGER WIMMELBÜCKER. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2002. Pp. 552. €41.90 (ISBN 3-8258-5846-4).

STUDYING THE POLITICS OF THE WOMB OVER MORE THAN A CENTURY Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction and the State in Kenya. By LYNN M. THOMAS. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 316. £42.95 (ISBN 0-520-22450-7); paperback, £16.95 (ISBN 0-520-23540-1).

VALUING COFFEE IN HAYA SOCIETY Sacred Trees, Bitter Harvests: Globalizing Coffee in Northwest Tanzania. By BRAD WEISS. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. vi+203. $26.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07097-0).

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMBAQUISTA NETWORK Afrikanische Pioniere: Trägerkarawanen im westlichen Zentralfrika (c. 1850–1890). By BEATRIX HEINTZE. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2002. Pp. 320. €25, paperback (ISBN 3-87476-410-9).

THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA Memories, Realities and Dreams: Aspects of the South African Jewish Experience. Edited by MILTON SHAIN and RICHARD MENDELSOHN. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, n.d. (2002?). Pp. 234. Rand 149.95, paperback (ISBN 1-86842-132-5).

DISCOURSES OF RACE AND CLASS IN BRITAIN AND SOUTH AFRICA Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa. By ZINE MAGUBANE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 222. $18; £13, paperback (ISBN 0-226-50177-9).

RECENT HISTORICAL CONTEXT, EXTINCT CULTURAL EXPRESSION Der Mond als Shuh: Zeichnungen der San: The Moon as Shoe: Drawings of the San. Edited by MIKLÓS SZALAY. Zurich: Scheidegger und Spiess, 2002. Pp. 311. SFr 98; €65 (ISBN 3-85881-138-6).

MAGIC AND SUBALTERN NATIONALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power, and the Political Imagination in South Africa. By CLIFTON CRAIS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi+297. No price given (ISBN 0-521-81721-8).

PUGILISTIC REVISIONISM The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. By RONALD HYAM and PETER HENSHAW. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv+379. £45; $60 (ISBN 0-521-82453-2); African ed., no price given (ISBN 0-521-53769-X).

HEALTH POLICY FROM ABOVE Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900–1960. By KIRK A. HOPPE. Westport CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Pp. xii+203. $67 (ISBN 0-325-07123-3).

MIND AND FOREST OVER THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest. By TAMARA GILES-VERNICK. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. Pp. xiii+293. £37.95 (ISBN 0-8139-2102-3); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8139-2103-1).

‘SUMMING UP’ ISLAM AND POLITICS IN SUDAN Islam, Secularism and Politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya. By GABRIEL WARBURG. London: Hurst, 2003. Pp. xvii+252. £45 (ISBN 1-85065-588-X); £19.95, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-590-1).

CHRISTIANITY AND SECURITY IN OVAMBOLAND To Dwell Secure: Generation, Christianity, and Colonialism in Ovamboland. By MEREDITH MCKITTRICK. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002. Pp. xvii+297. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-958-5); paperback, £16.95 (ISBN 0-85255-957-7).

AFRICAN MIDDLE-CLASS STRATEGIES IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898–1965. By MICHAEL O. WEST. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xv+324. $49.95 (ISBN 0-253-34085-3); $22.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21524-2).

CONTRIBUTIONS TO NIGERIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. Edited by ADEBAYO OYEBADE. Trenton NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2002. Pp. xi+638. $89.95 (ISBN 0-86543-997-4); $34.95, paperback (ISBN 0-86543-998-2).

MAINTAINING WHAT THEY YEARNED TO OVERTHROW Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. By HEATHER J. SHARKEY. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+232. $65 (ISBN 0-520-23558-4); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-23559-2).

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