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Astride the Equator: An account of the Gilbert Islands (Translated by Ursula Nixon from Sous l'equateur du Pacifique) by Ernest Sabatier. Foreword by H. E. Maude. Melbourne: O.U.P. 1978. Pp. viii+386. £19.50. Contact and Conflict: Indian‐European Relations in British Columbia, 1774–1890 by Robin Fisher. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 1977. Pp. xvi+250. $18.00. Promoters and Politicians: The North‐Shore Railways in the History of Quebec 1854–85 by Brian J. Young. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978. Pp. xiii+193, 3 maps. $15.00. Canada and the Age of Conflict: A History of Canadian External Policies, vol. I: 1867–1921 by C. P. Stacey. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. 1977. Pp. 410. $19.95. Thirteen Facets: essays to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the Second 1952–1977, edited by Ian Wards. Wellington: Government Printer, 1978. Pp. xx + 388. SNZ13.95. Australian National Government by L. F. Crisp. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, fourth edition, 1978. Pp. xii + 523. £8.50. Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston: A Bio‐bibliography by James A. Casada. Basel; Communications from the Basel Africa Bibliography, vol. 18. 1977. Pp. 120, illustrations. Sw. Fr. 27. Drummer Hodge: The Poetry of the Anglo‐Boer War (1899–1902) by M van Wyk Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. xviii + 354 illustrations. £9.50. Population, Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Kano 1900 and 1970 by Polly Hill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xviii + 240. £8.50. Black Heart: Gore‐Browne and the Politics of Multiracial Zambia by Robert I. Rotberg. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1977. Pp. xviii+359. £10.50. Britain and the Politics of Rhodesian Independence by Elaine Windrich. London: Croom Helm, 1978. Pp.283. £10.95. Sobhuza II, Ngwenyama and King of Swaziland: The Story of an Hereditary Ruler and his Country by Hilda Kuper. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd., 1978. Pp. xiv+363, 2 maps, 32 illustrations. £15.00. The Correspondence of Lord William Bentinck Governor‐General of India, 1828–1835 edited by C. H. Philips. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xlix + 1483. £55.00. Rule, Protest, Identity edited by Peter Robb and David Taylor. London: Curzon Press, 1978. Pp. viii+234. £4.50. The Congress in Tamilnad: Nationalist Politics in South India 1919–1937 by David Arnold. London: Curzon Press, 1977. Pp. 252. £5.00. Britain and Tibet 1765–1947. The Background to the India‐China Border Dispute. A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Material in European Languages by Julie G. Marshall. La Trobe University Library Publication No. 10, Bundoora: La Trobe University Library, 1977. Pp. xxiv+372. Aus. $18.00. The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in colonial India by Eric Stokes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. viii + 308, 5 maps. £12.50. Rise of an Indian Public: Impact of Official Policy, 1870–1880 by Uma Dasgupta. Calcutta: RDDHI, 1977. Pp. xii + 322. N.p. Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India by David Lelyveld. Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. xx + 380. £25.00. Gokhale: The Indian Moderates and the British Raj by B. R. Nanda. Delhi and London: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xii + 520, illustrations. £5.25. Imperial Crime and Punishment. The Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh and British Judgment 1919–1920 by Helen Fein. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1977. Pp. xx+251. £12.00. Nehru and the Commonwealth by Cyriac Maprayil. New Delhi: Radiant Publishers, 1976. Pp. xxvi + 109. £8.50. The Fiji Indians by K. L. Gillion. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1977. Pp. x + 231. N.p. Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941–1945 by Christopher Thorne. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Pp. xxiv + 772. £15.00. Imperialism at Bay: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire, 1941–1945 by Wm. Roger Louis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. Pp. xvi + 595. £12.50.