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Volume 54 - July 2013

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DECEPTIONS OF INDIRECT RULE - The Culture of Colonialism: The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru. By T. O. Beidelman. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Pp. xxvii+383. $85, hardback (isbn978-0-253-00215-0); $30, paperback (isbn978-0-253-00208-2).

REVISITING THE MYTHOLOGY OF AFRIKANER IDENTITY - The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History. By Elizabeth van Heyningen. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2013. Pp. xvii + 391. $28.75; R 255,36, hardback (isbn978-1-4314-0542-8).

MISSIONARIES CAUGHT BETWEEN COUNTRIES AND CONTINENTS - Embroiled: Swiss Churches, South Africa and Apartheid. By Caroline Jeannerat, Eric Morier-Genoud, and Didier Péclard. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2012. Pp. xvii + 373. €29·90, paperback (isbn978-3-8258-9796-3).

AN AMBIVALENT FOSTER CHILD OF EMPIRE - A Victorian Gentleman & Ethiopian Nationalist: The Life & Times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr. Charles Martin. By Peter P. Garretson. Suffolk, England: James Currey, 2012. Pp. xv+320. $95, hardback (isbn978-184701044-5).

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THE EDUCATED ELITE - Mau Mau's Children: The Making of Kenya's Postcolonial Elite. By David P. Sandgren. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. Pp. xxv + 185. $26.95, paperback (isbn978-0-299-28784-9).

LABOR REGIME - Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Mozambique. By Eric Allina. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012. Pp. xiii + 255. $49.50, hardback (isbn: 9780813932729).

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AN UNEASY SEXUAL VANGUARD - Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality & Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi. By Rachel Spronk. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. Pp. xi+310. $95, hardback (isbn978-0-85745-478-2).

CHALLENGING THE INTERNATIONAL LIBERAL ORDER - Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order. By Ryan M. Irwin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 244. $45, hardback (isbn978-0-19-985561-2).

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APOLITICAL POWER - The State and the Social: State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies. By Ørnulf Gulbrandsen. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. Pp. xix + 343. $120, hardback (isbn978-0-85745-297-9).

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REFINING CONFLICT RESOLUTION THEORY - Liberating Namibia: The Long Diplomatic Struggle Between the United Nations and South Africa. By E. Ike Udogu. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2012. Pp. ix+253. $55, paperback (isbn978-0-7864-6576-7).

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WAR AND PROSPERITY - Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa. By Clifton Crais. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 190. $90, hardback (isbn978-1-107-01361-2); $26.99, paperback (isbn978-1-107-60795-8).

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PERILS OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AND INDIGENEITY - Cultural Tourism and Identity: Rethinking Indigeneity. Edited by Keyan G. Tomaselli. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2012. Pp. xvi + 232. $58, paperback (isbn9789004234185).

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IMAGINING PATERNALISM - Imagining the Post-Apartheid State: An Ethnographic Account of Namibia. By John T. Friedman. New York: Berghahn Books2011. Pp. xii + 312. $120, hardback (978-0-85745-090-6).

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THE RISE OF A GOLD COAST KINGDOM - Power and State Formation in West Africa: Appolonia from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. By Pierluigi Valsecchi, trans. Allan Cameron. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. xi + 317. £55, hardback (isbn: 9780230117761).

AN UNCONSTRAINING EMBRACE - The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Edited by David Attwell and Derek Attridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii+877. $180, hardback (isbn978-0-521-19928-5).

ON THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE GRIQUA - The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902–1994. By Edward Cavanagh. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG, 2011. Pp. xii+140. $56.95, paperback (isbn978-3-0343-0778-9).

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BEYOND ETHNICITY - The Roots of Political Instability in Nigeria: Political Evolution and Development in the Niger Basin. By E. C. Ejiogu. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publising, 2011. Pp. xxvi + 223. $99.95, hardback (isbn978-0-7546-7987-5).

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