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Volume 40 - 1999

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RETHINKING COLONIAL HISTORY IN CAMEROON. La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (1920–1960): Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie. Par ACHILLE MBEMBE. Paris: Karthala, 1996. Pp. 438. FF 180, paperback (ISBN 2-86537-600-1).

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Djibouti 1888–1967: Héritage ou Frustration? By Colette Dubois. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan 1997. Pp. 431. FFr 230 (ISBN 2-7384-5860-2).

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THE ETHIOPIAN STATE The Evolution of Ethiopian Absolutism: The Genesis and the Making of the Fiscal Military State, 1696–1913. (Studia Historica Uppsaliensia 180) By TSEGAYE TEGENU. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1996. Pp. 286. SEK 198 (ISBN 91-554-3856-3).

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ECOLOGICAL HISTORY Reframing Deforestation: Global Analysis and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa. By James Fairhead and Melissa Leach. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xxv+238. £50 (ISBN 0-415-18590-4); £17.99, paperback (ISBN 0-415-18591-2).

POLITICAL SATIRE IN THE PRESS. Straatpraatjes: Language, Politics and Popular Culture in Cape Town, 1909–1922. Edited by MOHAMED ADHIKARI. Pretoria: JL van Schaik, and Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1996. Pp. xii+193. R75, paperback (ISBN 0-627-02131-X).

A HISTORY OF PLANTAIN CULTIVATION Taxonomic–Linguistic Study of Plantain in Africa. By Gerda Rossel. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 1998. Pp. xvi+361. DFl 50/$25 (ISBN 90-5789-004-6).

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NIUMI IN WORLD HISTORY The World and a Very Small Place in Africa. By DONALD R. WRIGHT. Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharp, 1997. Pp. xv+278. £50.50 (ISBN 1-56324-959-6); £15.95, paperback (ISBN 1-56324-960-X).

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Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity. Edited by ANTHONY TIBBLES. London: HMSO, 1994. Pp 168. £14.95, paperback (ISBN: 0-11-290539-9).

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MEANING IN MATERIAL CULTURE. African Material Culture. Edited by MARY JO ARNOLDI, CHRISTRAUD M. GEARY and KRIS L. HARDEN. (African Systems of Thought.) Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xii+369. $49.95 (ISBN 0-253-33000-9); $24.50, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21037-2).

SOMALI CRISIS Mending Rips in the Sky: Options for Somali Communities in the Twenty-first Century. Edited by Hussein M. Adam and Richard Ford. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi+673. £17.99, paperback (ISBN 1-56902-074-4).

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HOUSING POLICIES IN COLONIAL ALGIERS Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule. By ZEYNEP ÇELIK. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 236. £29.95 (ISBN 0-5202-0457-3).

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WAR AND THEOLOGY. On the Frontline: Catholic Missions in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. By JANICE MCLAUGHLIN. Harare: Baobab Books, 1996. Pp. xvi+352. £21.50, paperback (ISBN 0-908311-79-6).

GHANAIAN MEDICAL HISTORY The Evolution of Modern Medicine in a Developing Country: Ghana, 1880–1960. By Stephen Addae. Edinburgh, Cambridge and Durham, NC: Durham Academic Press. 1996. Pp. xii+523. £32.50 (ISBN 1-900838-05-2).

DOCUMENTING THE LIBERATION MOVEMENT. South Africa's Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, Volume 2: 1943–1964. Edited by ALLISON DREW. Cape Town: Buchu Books/Mayibuye Books/University of Cape Town Press, 1997. Pp. 402. £20.95, paperback (ISBN 0-7992-1614-3).

POLITICAL CAREER OF A DICTATOR Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa. By Brian Titley. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii+258. £22.95 (ISBN 0-85323-712-3).

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GONJA HISTORIOGRAPHY History and Traditions of the Gonja. By J. A. BRAIMAH, H. H. TOMLINSON and OSAFROADU AMANKWATIA. (African Occasional Papers, no. 6) Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1997. Pp. viii+184. $15, paperback (ISBN 1-895176-38-7).

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SHORTER NOTICES Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Edited by David Eltis and David Richardson. London: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp. 248. £29.50 (ISBN 0-7146-4807-8); £15, paperback (ISBN 0-7146-4360-2).

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‘NUBIOLOGY’. Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, 2500–1500 B.C.: The Archaeological Discovery of an Ancient Nubian Empire. By TIMOTHY KENDALL. Washington: University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+142. $29.95, paperback (ISBN 0-9656001-0-6).

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