Book reviews

State Formation in Early Modern England c.1550–1700 by Michael J. Braddick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.ix + 448. £45.00 (hardback); £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–78346–1; 0–521–78955–9. Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542–1773 by Gauvin Alexander Bailey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 310, 100 black and white illus. £45.00/$65.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8020–4688–6. The Early Modern Atlantic Economy edited by John J. McCusker and Kenneth Morgan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xiii + 369. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–78249‐X. The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire by Francis Jennings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xii + 340. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–66255–9; 0–521–66481–0. An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia by Geoffrey Plank. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp.x + 239, maps. No price given (hardback). ISBN 0–8122–3571–1. Revolution, Religion, and National Identity: Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745–1795 by Peter M. Doll. London: Associated University Presses, 2000. Pp.336. £38.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8386–3830–9. A Year Inland: The Journal of a Hudson's Bay Company Winterer edited with a commentary by Barbara Belyea. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2000. Pp.vii +414. $Can.39.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–88920–343–1. A Reliable Account of The Coast of Guinea (1760) by Ludewig Ferdinand Romer. Translated from the Danish and edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2000. Pp.xxx + 290, maps, plates. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–726218‐X Chitra: Cities and Monuments of Eighteenth‐Century India from French Archives by Jean‐Marie Lafont. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp.xiv + 162. Rs. 750 (paperback). ISBN 0–19–565731–4. Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians. 1706–1835 by D. Dennis Hudson. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, and Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000. Pp.ix + 215. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7007–1244–5. White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India 1825–1875 by Peter Stanley. London: Hurst, 1998. Pp.xiv + 314. £20.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–85065–330–5. My Indian Peregrinations: The Private Letters of Charles Stewart Hardinge 1844–1847 edited by Bawa Satinder Singh. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2001. Pp.xxiv + 232, 19 illus. $34.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–89672–444–1. Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800–1947 by E. M. Collingham. Oxford: Polity, 2001. Pp.xiii + 273, 20 plates. £50.00 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7456–2369–7; 0–7456–2370–0. Gender. Geography and Empire: Victorian Women Travellers in West Africa by Cheryl McEwan. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Pp.ix + 250, maps, illus. £42.50 (hardback). ISBN 1–84014–252–9. For Home. Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880–1914 by Stephen Heathorn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp.xii + 300. $50.00/£35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8020–4436–0. The Boer War: Direction, Experience and Image edited by John Gooch. London: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp.xxi + 310, illus. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7146–5101‐X. Encyclopedia of the Boer War 1899–1902 by Martin Marix Evans. Oxford: ABC‐CLIO, 2000. Pp.xxvii + 414, maps and photographs. £44.95 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 1–85109–342–7; 1–85109–332‐X. Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton, and the Atlantic Wars by Brian Tennyson and Roger Sarty, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp.x + 495, maps, illus. $45.00/£25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8020–4492–1. Seychelles since 1770: History of a Slave and Post‐Slavery Society by Deryck Scarr. London: Hurst, 2000. Pp.xiv + 232, maps. £16.50 (paperback). ISBN 1–85065–364‐X. Afscheid van Indie: De val van het Nederlandse imperium in Azie by H.W.van den Doel. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2000. Pp.419. No price given (paperback). ISBN 90–5333–888–8. Hong Kong Invaded! A ‘97 Nightmare edited by Gillian Bickley. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001. Pp.xxi + 303, maps. HK$ 190 (paperback). ISBN 962–209–526–7. Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880–1920 by David Robinson. Oxford: James Currey, 2001. Pp.xvi + 361, maps, plates. £40.00 (hardback); £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–458–3; 0–85255–457–5. Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness In Colonial Southwest Nigeria by Jonathan Sadowsky. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp.xi + 169. $45.00 (hardback); $16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–520–21616–4, 0–520–21617–2. Gold Coast Diaries: Chronicles of Political Officers in West Africa. 1900–1919 by Thora Williamson, edited by Anthony Kirk‐Greene. London: Radcliffe Press, 2000. Pp.xvi + 419, maps. £24.50 (hardback). ISBN 1–86064–451–1. Sir Glyn Jones: A Proconsul in Africa by Colin .Baker. London: I. B. Tauris, 2000. Pp.xii + 352, maps. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–86064–461–9. India and Pakistan by Ian Talbot. London: Arnold, 2000. Pp.312. £50.00 (hardback); £19.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–340–70632–5; 0–340–70633–3. In the Margins of Independence: A Relief Worker in India and Pakistan (1942–1949) by Richard Symonds. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp.x + 150, illus, map. 515.00/Rs. 325 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–579440–0. A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xvii + 311, maps. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–55404–7; 0–521 55633–3. The British Empire as a World Power by Edward Ingram. London: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xiv + 282. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–7146–5151–6. The Typhoon of War: Micronesian Experiences of the Pacific War edited by Lin Poyer, Suzanne Falgout and Laurence Marshall Corucci. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. Pp.xiii + 493. $36.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8248–2168–8. The United States and Decolonization: Power and Freedom edited by David Ryan and Victor Pungong. Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan, 2000. Pp.xvii + 247. £42.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–73055–0. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam by Lawrence Freedman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xx + 528. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–513453–2. The Republican Option in Canada, Past and Present by David E. Smith. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 352. $50.00/£37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–8020–4469–7. Imperial and Commonwealth Conferences: List and Index Society. Volume 280 (2000), edited by Mandy Banton and David Blake. Available to non‐members of the Society at £18.00 plus postage and packing from The Secretary, The List and Index Society (LIS/1), Public Record Office, Kew.

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