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Volume 28 - March 1987

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South Africa without the Whites - A History of the African Peoples of South Africa: from the early Iron Age to the 1970s. By Paul Maylam. London: Croom Helm; Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1986. Pp. 259. R18.00 (Paperback).

The Partition - Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 6, c. 1870 to c. 1905. Edited by Roland Oliver and G. N. Sanderson. Combridge University Press, 1985 Pp. xvi + 956. £50.

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Of Slaves, and Souls of Men 1

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An Anthropology of Slavery - Anthropologie de l'esclavage: Le ventre defer et d'argent. By Claude Meillassoux. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1986. Pp. 375. 135F.

The Compleat Cambridge - Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 7, 1905 to 1940. Edited by A. D. Roberts. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp xx + 1063. £50.

Cowries - The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. By Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xv + 230. £25.00.

A Hero by any Name - The Epic of Son-Jara: A West African Tradition. Analytical study and translation by John William Johnson; text by Fa-Digi Sisàkò. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 242. $35.00.

Revisions and Reverberations - History of West Africa, Volume 1 (third edition). Edited by J. F. A. Ajayi and Michael Crowder. London: Longman, 1985. Pp. x + 742; maps. £10.95 (paperback).

The Nigerian Past - A History of Nigeria. By Elizabeth Isichei. Harlow: Longman, 1983. Pp. xix + 517. £19.95 (£7.95 paperback).

Copper, Commerce and Culture - Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture. By Eugenia W. Herbert. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Pp. xxiv + 413 $32.50.

Asante Diplomacy - Diplomacy and Diplomats in Nineteenth-Century Asante. By Joseph K. Adjaye. Lanham, Maryland; New York; London: University Press of America, 1984. Pp. viii + 310. $23.50 ($14.25 soft cover).

The French in Slave Trade - Répertoire des expéditions négrières françaises au XVIIe siècle. Tome II: Ports autres que Nantes. Edited by Serge and Michèle Daget; with index by Jean-Claude Nardin Paris: Société Française d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer, 1984. Pp. ix + 972.

The South-Western Marches of Ethiopia - The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology. Edited by Donald Donham and Wendy James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 308. £25.

Brandenburg in Africa - Brandenburg Sources for West African History 1680–1700. By Adam Jones. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1985. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 77.) Pp. xiv + 348 + maps, plates. DM 82.

An Enlightened Scot - John Philip (1775–1851): Missions, Race and Politics in South Africa. By Andrew Ross. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986, Pp. ix + 249. 14.90 (paper-back 8.90).

Slave Trading, State Building - Dar al-Kuti and the Last Years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. By Dennis D. Cordell. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Pp. 283. $35, £35.

Customary Law - Social Facts and Fabrications. Customary Law on Kilimanjaro 1880–1980. By Sally Falk Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 397.

Sultans of Sila - Sultans dadjo du Sila (Tchad). By Henri Berre. Paris: Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Contributions à la connaissance des élites africaines IV), 1985. Pp. xiv + 119. 75F.

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