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Volume 53 - July 2012

Book Review

ABOLITIONISM AND IDEOLOGIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE SLAVE TRADE - Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic. Edited by Derek R. Peterson. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2010. Pp. ix+235. $64.95, hardback (isbn978-0-8214-1901-4); $28.95, paperback (isbn978-0-8214-1902-1).

SOLIDARITY OR CONFRONTATION IN SOUTH AFRICAN ISLAM - La controverse islamo-chrétienne en Afrique du Sud: Ahmed Deedat et les nouvelles formes de débat. By Samadia Sadouni. Aix-en-Provence: Presses universitaires de Provence, 2011. Pp. 257. €22, paperback (ISBN 978-2-85399-793-5).

A TRULY ATLANTIC HISTORY - From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity and the Atlantic Slave Trade 1600–1830. By Walter Hawthorne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxi+259. $85, hardback (isbn978-0-521-76409-4); $25.99, paperback (isbn978-0-521-15238-9).

NEO-LIBERAL GOVERNANCE AND THE DIVIDED CITY - Cape Town after Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City. By Tony Roshan Samara. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Pp. xi+238. $75, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8166-7000-0); $25, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8166-7001-7).

THE HISTORICAL DYNAMICS OF RACIAL DISCOURSE IN THE WESTERN SAHEL - A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960. By Bruce Hall. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii+335. $90, hardback (isbn978-0-253-35464-8).

SOCIAL IMAGINATION AND YOUTH IN CAIRO - Connected in Cairo: Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Modern Middle East. By Mark Allen Peterson. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. Pp. xvii + 263. $24.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-253-22311-1); $70, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-253-35628-4).

OF VECTORS AND VETERINARY SCIENCE - Mad Dogs and Meerkats: A History of Resurgent Rabies in Southern Africa. By Karen Brown. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv+234. $32, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-1953-3).

AN ALGERIAN DIASPORA - Algerians without Borders: The Making of a Global Frontier Society. By Allan Christelow. Gainesville, FL: Florida University Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 251. $74.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8130-3755-4).

ON MEMORY AND ITS VARIOUS USES - Historical Memory in Africa: Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context. Edited by Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan, and Jörn Rüsen. New York: Berghahn Books Inc., 2010. Pp. vi+276. $95, hardback (isbn978-1-84545-652-8).

NATIONALISM AND MEDICAL DISCOURSE - Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt. By Hibba Abugideiri. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2010. Pp. xiii + 268. $119.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-7546-6720-9).

THE INSTITUTION OF INCULTURATION - Domesticating a Religious Import: The Jesuits and the Inculturation of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, 1879–1980. By Nicholas M. Creary. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. Pp. xv+339. $45, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8232-3334-3).

BEYOND COLONIAL SCIENCE IN BRITISH-AFRICA - Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870–1950. By Helen Tilley. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2011. Pp. 496. $29, paperback (isbn978-0-226-80347-3).

A JESUIT IN ETHIOPIA - Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622, vol. 1. Edited by Isabel Boavida, Hervé Pennec, and Manuel João Ramos. Translated by Christopher J. Tribe. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. Pp. xx + 501. $99.95, hardback (ISBN: 9781908145000).

PAN-AFRICAN PILGRIMAGE - African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage. By Katharina Schramm. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2010. Pp. 319. $89, hardback (ISBN 978-1-59874-513-9); $34.95, paperback (ISBN 978-1-59874-514-6).

IDENTITY, RELIGION, AND POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA'S REMOTE AND RECENT PAST - Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948. By Paul S. Landau. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. 300+xvi. £55, hardback (isbn978-0-521-19603-1).

HISTORICIZING HERITAGE - Osogbo and the Art of Heritage: Monuments, Deities, and Money. By Peter Probst. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011. Pp. xi+207. $70, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-35611-6); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-22295-4).

AFRICA'S CHANGING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War. By Adekeye Adebajo. London: Hurst & Company, 2010. Pp. xxxiii+414. £50, hardback (isbn879-1-84904-095-2); £16.95, paperback (isbn978-1-84904-096-9).

ETHIOPIA AFFRONTED - The Siege of Magdala: The British Empire against the Emperor of Ethiopia. By Volker Matthies. Translated by Steven Rendall. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2012. Pp xxiv + 209. $28.95, paperback (ISBN 9781558765528); $88.95, hardback (ISBN 9781558765515).

THE PERILS OF ETHNIC HISTORY - I Say To You: Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya. By Gabrielle Lynch. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+291. $80, hardback (isbn978-022-649804-1); $27.50, paperback (isbn978-022-649805-1).

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