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Maori Origins and Migrations by M. P. K. Sorrenson. Auckland: Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. 102, illus.; £4.50. Historic Architecture of the Caribbean, by David Buisseret. London: Heinemann, 1980. Pp. xviii + 93, illus.; £4.90. Micmacs and Colonists: Indian‐White Relations in the Maritimes, 1713–1867 by L. F. S. Upton. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 243 ; illus. Perak, the Abode of Grace: A Study of an Eighteenth‐Century Malay State by Barbara Watson Andaya. Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1979. Pp. xviii + 444; £14.95. Pierre Sonnerat, I748–1814 by Madeleine Ly‐Tio‐Fane. Mauritius: for the author, 1976. Pp. 157. Colonial Eve. Sources on Women in Australia 1788–1914 edited by Ruth Teale. Melbourne, Oxford, Wellington, New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. XI+ 288; £5.75. Trade and Finance in the Bengal Presidency, 1793–1833 by Amales Tripathi. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xvi & 340; Rs 100. Survey our Empire! Robert Montgomery Martin (18017–1868). A Bio‐Bibliography by Frank H. H. King, with the assistance of Sara Joynes. Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, 1979. Pp. xxl + 443; HK $80.00 (paperback); HK $100.00 (hardback). The Grand Expedition: the British Invasion of Holland in 1809 by Gordon C. Bond. Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 1979. Pp. viii, 232, maps, appendices; $17 (U.S.). Economic Foundations of British Overseas Expansion, 1815–1914 by P. J. Cain. London: Macmillan, 1980. Pp. 85; £1.95. The Upper Canada Trade 1834–1872. A Study of the Buchanans ‘ Business by Douglas McCalla. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 231, maps, tables; £12.25. The Paramount Power and the Princely States of India. 1858–1881 by Ajit K. Neogy. Calcutta: K. P. Bagchi & Company, 1979. Pp. x + 323, appendices, bibliography. Christianity and Traditional Religion in Western Zimbabwe, 1859–1923 by Ngwabi Bhebe. London: Longman, 1979. Pp. xiv+ 190, maps; £7.95. Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Essays in Interpretation edited by James Hiller and Peter Neary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. Pp. viii+291; £4.50. The Scramble for Southern Africa, 1877–1895: the Politics of Partition Reappraised by D. M. Schreuder. Cambridge: University Press, 1980. Pp xiv + 384; £13.50. The Diplomacy of Partition: Britain. France and the Creation of Nigeria, 1890–1898 by Claire Hirshfield. The Hague: Mārtinus Nijhoff, 1979. The Ordeal of Love: C. F. Andrews and India, by Hugh‐Tinker. Delhi; Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xxi + 321, illus.; £9.75. The Leo Amery Diaries, Vol. 1 1896–1929 edited by John Barnes and David Nicholson with an introduction by Julian Amery. London, Hutchinson, 1980. Pp. 653‐, £27.50. Watershed in India 1914–1922 by Sir Algernon Rumbold, London: Athlone Press, 1979. Pp. 325; index; maps. £14.00. Political Identity in South Asia edited by David Taylor and Malcolm Yapp. Collected Papers on South Asia, No. 2. Centre of South Asian Studies, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Curzon Press, 1979. Pp. 266; £4.50. Arab Politics in Palestine, 1917–1939 by Ann Mosley Lesch. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1979. Pp. 257, maps; £10.50. Origins of the Israeli Polity by Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 272; £13.30. The District Officer in India, 1930–1947 by Roland Hunt and John Harrison. London: Scolar Press, 1980. Pp. xxii + 255, maps; £17.50. British Policy and Malay Politics During the Malayan Union Experiment 1942–1948 by A. J. Stockwell. Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Monograph No. 8, 1979. Pp. xvi + 206; photographs, appendices, index. Carving the Path to the Summit by Ahmad Boestamam. Translated with an introduction by William R. Roff. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1979. Pp. xxxii+ 149; £3.30 paper, £7.20 cloth. Constitutional Relations between Britain and India: The Transfer of Power 1942–7 edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderei Moon. Vol. IX, The Fixing of a Time Limit. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1980. Pp. cxxvi+ 1053, illus.; £55. Decolonisation and After: the British and French Experience edited by W. H. Morris‐Jones and Georges Fischer. (Studies in Commonwealth Politics and History, No. 7). London: Frank Cass, 1980. Pp. xvii+ 369; £15.00.