Book reviews

The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093–1343 by R. R. Davies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.x + 213, maps. £15.99 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–820849–9. Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic Worldby Alison Games. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp.xiii + 320, maps. £27.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–674–57381–1. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution by Eliga H. Gould. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp.xxiv + 262. £37.50 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8078–4846–8; 0–8078–2529–8. The British Isles and the War of American Independence by Stephen Conway. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.xi + 407. £55.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–820659–3. The Atlantic Slave Trade by Herbert S. Klein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xxi + 234, maps and tables. £30.00 (hardback); £10.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–46020–4; 0–521–465588–5. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas by David Eltis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xvii + 353, maps and tables. £37.50 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–65231–6; 0–521–65548‐X. The British Army in the West Indies: Society and the Military in the Revolutionary Age by Roger Norman Buckley. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. Pp.xx + 441, illus. £43.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8130–1604–5. Double Vision: Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific edited by Nicholas Thomas and Diane Losche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.289. £45.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–64341–4; 0–521–65998–1. Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769–1840 edited by Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, and Bridget Orr. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. Pp.344. $45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8248–2039–8. Catalogue of East India Company Ships’ Journals and Logs 1600–1834 edited by Anthony Farrington. London: The British Library, 1999. Pp.789. £85.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7123–4646–5. A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers 1600–1834 edited by Anthony Farrington. London: The British Library, 1999. Pp.886. £85.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7123–4647–3. The Bombay Country Ships 1790–1833 by Anne Bulley. Richmond Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. Pp.272. £40.00 (Hardback). ISBN 0–7007–1236–4. The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799–1800 edited by Margaret Lenta and Basil le Cordeur. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, Second Series, Nos.29 and 30, 1999. 2 vols. Pp.xxxv + 368; x + 319, illus. No price given (hardback). ISBN 0–9584112–5–5; 0–9584112–6–3. The New Cambridge History of India, III.5, Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India by David Arnold. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xii + 234. £35.00. (hardback). ISBN 0–521–56319–4 J.S. Mill's Encounter with India edited by Martin I. Moir, Douglas M. Peers, and Lynn Zastoupil. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp.xii + 264. $60.00/£45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8020–0713–9. A Special Corps: The Beginnings of Gorkha Service with the British by A.P. Coleman. Edinburgh and Durham: Pentland Press, 1999. Pp.xxxii + 249. £20.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–85821–606–0. Memsahibs Abroad: Writings by Women Travellers in Nineteenth Century India edited by Indira Ghose. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.xvii, + 298. 645 Rs (hardback). ISBN 0–19–564423–9. The Begums of Bhopal: A Dynasty of Women Rulers in Raj India by Shaharyar M. Khan. London: I.B. Tauris, 2000. Pp.x +276, map. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–86064–528–3. Memoirs of Giambattista Scala: Consul of His Italian Majesty in Lagos in Guinea (1862) translated by Brenda Packman and edited by Robert Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2000. Pp.xxviii + 155, maps. £27.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–726204‐x. The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 2: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century edited by M.W. Daly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xiv + 463. £60.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–47211–3. A History of the Church in Africa by Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp.xix + 1232, maps. £85.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–58342‐X. Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth‐Century England by Susan Thorne. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 248. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–8047–3053–9. Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture by Stephen Howe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp.viii + 333. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–828025–1. Sir Garnet Wolseley: Victorian Hero by Halik Kochanski. London and Rio Grande: Hambledon Press, 2000. Pp.xviii + 340, map, illus. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–85285–188–0. Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914–1915 by Gordon Corrigan. Staplehurst: Spellmount, 2000. Pp.xiv + 274, maps, photographs, tables. £24.95 (hardback). ISBN 1–86227–054–6. Canada's Imperial Past: The Life of F.J. Ney 1884–1973 by James Sturgis and Margaret Bird. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Centre of Canadian Studies, 2000. Pp.iv + 325, illus. £15.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–905244–09–5. Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India by K. Sivaramakrishnan. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp.xi + 341, maps, illus. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8047–3563–8. Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber by Shawn William Miller. Stanford, California, 2000. Pp.xii + 326, map, illus. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8047–3396–1. Pakistan: A Modern History by Ian Talbot. London: Hurst, 1999. Pp.xvi + 432. £45.00 (hardback); £16.50 (paperback). ISBN 1–85065–351–8; 1–85065–385–2. Menzies and the ‘Great World Struggle’: Australia's Cold War, 1948–1954 by David Lowe. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. Pp.x + 243. A$35.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–86840–553–1. Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa 1947–1956 edited and annotated by Elizabeth Hodgkin and Michael Wolfers. London: HAAN Associates, 2000. Pp.x +214, maps. £18.95 (hardback); £10.95 (paperback). ISBN 1–874209–93–6; 1–974209–88‐X. Nkrumah and the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana 1951–60 by Richard Rathbone. Oxford: James Currey, 2000. Pp.xi +176, maps and photographs. £40.00 (hardback); £14.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–771‐X; 0–85255–770–1. Mouloud Feraoun, Journal 1955–1962: Reflections on the French‐Algerian War, edited by James D. Le Sueur, translated by Mary Ellen Wolf and Claude Fouillade. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Pp.li + 340, maps. £40.00 (hardback); £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8032–2002–2; 0–8032–6903‐X.

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