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The Discovery of South America by J. H. Parry. London: Paul Elek, 1979. Pp. 320; £12.95. The Westward Enterprise: English Activities in Ireland, the Atlantic, and America 1480–1650 edited by K. R. Andrews, N. P. Canny and P. E. H. Hair. Liverpool University Press, 1978. Pp.xiv + 326; £15.00. The Great Explorers: the European Discovery of America by Samuel Eliot Morison. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp.xxv + 750; £6.95. Tide of Empires: Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West, Vol 1, 1481–1654 by Peter Padfield. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp.xiv + 252; 13 maps and diagrams, 24 illustrations; £7.95. Trade Without Rulers: Pre‐Colonial Economic Development in South‐Eastern Nigeria by David Northrup. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. viii + 269, maps, figures and tables; £9.00. Life and Times of Cantoo Baboo (Krisna Kanta Nandy), The Banian of Warren Hastings, Vol. I, The Early Career of Cantoo Baboo (1742–72) by Somendra Chandra Nandy. Calcutta: Allied Publishers, 1978, Pp.xviii + 606. Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795–1815 by Roger Norman Buckley, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979, Ppxi + 210;£12.60. India and British Portraiture 1770–1825 by Mildred Archer. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979. Pp.536; £40. Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab and Kalat, by Charles Masson, Vol. IV; Intro. H. T. Lambrick, ‘Oxford in Asia Historical Reprint'; Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1977. Pp. xxix + 463; £10.50. Patriarch and Patriot: William Grant Broughton 1788–1853; Colonial Statesman and Ecclesiastic, by G. P. Shaw. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 347; $18.60. A Modern History of Tanganyika, by John Iliffe. African Studies Series 25, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xvi + 616; £27.50 and £7.95. Land and Politics in Malawi 1875–1975 by Bridglal Pachai, Limestone Press, Ontario, Canada, 1978. Pp. xiv + 245. Economic Imperialism in Theory and Practice: The Case of South African Gold Mining Finance 1886–1914 by R. V. Kubicek. Duke University Press, Durham N.C., 1979. Pp xii + 239, tables, apps., bibl.; $12.75. Unilever Overseas: The Anatomy of a Multinational, 1895–1965 by D. K. Fieldhouse. London: Croom Helm; Stanford: The Hoover Institution Press, 1978. Pp 620; £25. South African Memories: Scraps of History by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick. Introduced and Edited by Deborah Lavin. Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1979. Pp. 308; Unpriced. Britain and Her Buffer State: The Collapse of the Persian Empire, 1890–1914 by David McLean. Royal Historical Society, 1979; £7.90. Tariff Reform in British Politics 1903–1913 by Alan Sykes. Oxford: Clarendon press, 1979. Pp. xiv+ 352; £16. The Indian Nationalist Movement, 1885–1947: Select Documents edited by B. N. Pandey. London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xxiii + 272; £10. Businessmen and Politics: Rising Nationalism and a Modernizing Economy in Bombay, 1918–1933 by A. D. D. Gordon. New Delhi: Manohar, 1978. No. 3 of Australian National University Monographs on South Asia. The Political Economy of the Raj 1914–1947: The Economics of Decolonization in India by B. R. Tomlinson. London: Macmillan 1979. Pp xiv + 199; £15.00. Churchill, Cripps, and India, 1939–1945 by R. J. Moore. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Pp. x, 152, illus.; £7.50. Constitutional Relations between Britain and India: The Transfer of Power 1942–7, edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon, Vol. VII, The Cabinet Mission, Vol. VIII, The Interim Government. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977–9. Pp lxxxiii + 1130, xciv+ 899; £35 each vol. The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa: Essays in Contemporary History, by John D. Hargreaves. London: Macmillan, 1979. 141 pp., Notes, Index; £10. Main Currents of West African History 1940–1978 by Frederick Pedler, London: Macmillan, 1979. 301 pp., Bibliography, Index, Maps; £12. Politics in Sri Lanka, 1947–1979 by A. J. Wilson. London: Macmillan, 1979. Pp. xii + 320, maps, tables; £15.00 and £5.95. Imperialism, Intervention and Development edited by Andrew Mack, David Plant and Ursula Doyle. London: Croom Helm Ltd., 1979. Pp. 393; £10.50 hardback, £4.50 paperback. The Concept of Duty in South Asia edited by W. D. O'Flaherty and J. D. M. Derrett. Delhi: Vikas Publishing House; London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978. Pp. xxii + 240.