Africa, Asia and Australasia

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Books reviewed:James R. Ryan, Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British EmpireDeirdre Coleman (eds.), Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women’s Travel Narratives of the 1790sBill Nasson, The South African War, 1899‐1902Keith Terrance Surridge, Managing the South African War, 1899‐1902: Politicians versus GeneralsBrian Titley, Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor BokassaFrancis Robinson (ed.), The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic WorldDina Rizk Khoury, State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540‐1834James Lunt, The Arab Legion, 1923‐1957Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern AgePeter Robb, Ancient Rights and Future Comfort: Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in IndiaHenry Schwarz, Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial IndiaMaria Misra, Business, Race and Politics in British India c.1850‐1960John F. Riddick, Who Was Who in British IndiaT. Christopher Jespersen, American Images of China, 1931‐1949Odd Arne Westad (ed.), Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino‐Soviet Alliance, 1945‐1963Walter LaFeber, The Clash: US‐Japanese Relations throughout History