Africa, Asia and Australasia

Abstract

Books reviewed:Roland Oliver and Anthony Atmore, Medieval Africa, 1250–1800Jeff Guy, The View Across the River: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle against ImperialismThaddeus Sunseri, Vilimani. Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial TanzaniaTony Chafer, The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization?Clifton Crais, The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power, and the Political Imagination in South AfricaMartha Mundy and Basim Musallam (eds), The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab EastPaul Wheatley, The Places Where Men Pray Together. Cities in Islamic Lands: Seventh through the Tenth CenturiesPaul E. Walker, Exploring an Islamic Empire: Fatimid History and its SourcesHugh Kennedy, The Armies of the Caliphs. Military and Society in the Early Islamic StateKristian Molin, Unknown Crusader CastlesClaude Cahen and P. M. Holt (ed), The Formation of Turkey. The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth CenturyFarhad Daftary (ed), Mediaeval Isma’ili History and ThoughtAdam Sabra, Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam. Mamluk Egypt, 1250–1517Thomas Philipp, Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730–1831David Rolf, The Bloody Road to Tunis: Destruction of the Axis Forces in North Africa, November 1942–May 1943James D. Le Sueur, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during Decolonization of AlgeriaMartin Thomas, The French North Africa Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo‐French Relations, 1945–1962Irwin M. Wall, France, the United States, and the Algerian WarMary A. Procida, Married to the Empire: Gender, Politics and Imperialism in India, 1883–1947David Arnold, Gandhi: Profiles in PowerRoland Challis, Shadow of a Revolution: Indonesia and the GeneralsNicola Cooper, France in Indochina: Colonial EncountersWilliam Rowe, Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth Century ChinaChristian Henriot, Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849–1949Paul J. Bailey, China in the Twentieth Century (Second Edition)Joseph Fewsmith, China since Tiananmen: The Politics of TransitionEdmund S. K. Fung, In Search of Chinese Democracy: Civil Opposition in Nationalist China 1929–1949Pierre François Souyri, The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese SocietyJames L. McClain, Japan: A Modern HistoryRichard H. Mitchell, Justice in Japan: The Notorious Teijin ScandalCh’oi Chaesŏk, Ancient Korea‐Japan Relations and NihongiDonald Denoon and Philippa Mein Smith with Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand and the PacificBob Reece, The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South WalesPat Jalland, Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840–1918Geoffrey W. Rice, Heaton Rhodes of Otahuna: The Illustrated Biography