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Volume 46 - July 2005

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THE JESUITS IN ETHIOPIA Des Jésuites au royaume du prêtre Jean (Éthiopie): stratégies, rencontres et tentatives d'implantation 1495–1633. By HERVÉ PENNEC. Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2003. Pp. 373. No price given (ISBN 972-8462-32-8).

SLAVERY IN GHANA A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana: From the 15th to the 19th Century. By AKOSUA ADOMA PERBI. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2004. Pp. xxiv+231. $49.95 (ISBN 9988-550-95-2).

ORIENTAL ORIGINS OF SACRED KINGSHIP? Das Königtum von Gobir: Götter, Priester, Feste einer sakralen Gesellschaft. By WALTER KÜHME. Hamburg: Dr. Kovač, 2003. Pp. xiv+260. 37 colour photographs. No price given, paperback (ISBN 3-8300-0932-1).

COFFEE ECONOMIES: A GLOBAL COMPARISON The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500–1989. Edited by WILLIAM GERVASE CLARENCE-SMITH and STEVEN TOPIK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii+486. £60; $80 (ISBN 0-521-81851-6).

LA TRAJECTOIRE POLITIQUE TUNISIENNE A History of Modern Tunisia. Edited by KENNETH J. PERKINS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii+249. £40/$70 (ISBN 0-521-81124-4); £15.99/$24.99, paperback (ISBN 0-521-00972-3).

VARIETIES OF INCARCERATION A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Edited by FLORENCE BERNAULT. Translated by JANET ROITMAN. Heinemann: Portsmouth NH, 2003. Pp. x+287. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07119-5); $28.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07125-X).

THE DINKA AND HISTORY Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in Early South Sudan. By STEPHANIE BESWICK. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004. Pp. xxx+270. $75; £50 (ISBN 1-58046-151-4).

AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPLORERS IN WEST AFRICA African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. Edited by JAMES FAIRHEAD, TIM GEYSBEEK, SVEND E. HOLSOE and MELISSA LEACH. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+488. $59.95 (ISBN 0-253-34194-9).

NEW APPROACHES TO GERMAN COLONIALISM Impossible Missions? German Economic, Military, and Humanitarian Efforts in Africa. By NINA BERMAN. Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. x+271. £37.95 (ISBN 0-8032-1334-4).

REVISION AND CONTINUITY IN SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815–1854. By NORMAN ETHERINGTON. London: Longman, 2001. Pp. xxv+366. £16.99 (ISBN 0-582-31567-0).

SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE OVAMBO FLOODPLAINS Re-Creating Eden: Land Use, Environment, and Society in Southern Angola and Northern Namibia. By EMMANUEL KREIKE. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii+294. $99.95 (ISBN 0-325-07077-6); £29.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07076-8).

AN ATLANTIC ODYSSEY FROM OLD CALABAR The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey. By RANDY J. SPARKS. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 189. £14.95 (ISBN 0-674-01312-3).

FOLLOWING THE MIGRANT MINEWORKERS HOME Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890–1940. By EDDY TSHIDISO MALOKA. Dakar: Codesria, 2004. Pp. xi+257. £28.95/$47.95, paperback (ISBN 2-85978-128-8).

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