Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia

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A World on the Move: The Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and America, 1415–1808. By A.J. R. Russell‐Wood. Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750–1960. Edited by Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1680. By John Thornton. White Man's Burden. By Kurt Loeb. Beyond the Pale: Essays on the History of Colonial South Africa. By Robert Ross. God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster. By Donald Harman Akenson. The Shona and their Neighbours. By David Beach. Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897–1936. By Paul Lovejoy and Jan Hogendorn. Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa. Book One: State and Class; Book Two: Violence and Ethnicity.By Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale. Struggle for Kenya: The Loss and Reassertion of Imperial Initiative, 1912–1923. By Robert M. Maxon. The Scattering Time: Turkana Responses to Colonial Rule. By John Lamphear. Swahili Origins: Swahili Culture and the Shungwaya Phenomenon. By James de Vere Allen. Trade and Empire in Muscat and Zanzibar: Roots of British Domination. By M. Reda Bhacker. Looking toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History. By Ronald Grigor Suny. The Origins of Arab Nationalism. By Rashid Khalidi, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslin and Reeva S. Simon. Home and Homeland: The Dialogics of Tribal and National Identities in Jordan. By Linda L. Layne. Two Kings in Arabia: Letters from Jeddah 1923–5 and 1936–9. By Sir Reader Bullard. Edited by E. C. Hodgkin. Foreword by Sir Michael Weir. The Shi'is of Iraq. By Yitzhak Nakash. The Arab Minority in Israel, 1967–1991: Political Aspects. By Jacob M. Landau. Orientalism and the Post‐colonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia. Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer. The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China. Translation and commentary by Ralph D. Sawyer with Mei‐chün Sawyer. Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China. By Suzanne Cahill. China 1898–1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan. By Douglas Reynolds. In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan. By John DeFrancis. Cold War and Revolution: Soviet‐American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War 1944–1946. By Odd Arne Westad. Warriors of Japan, as Portrayed in the War Tales. By Paul Varley. Japan's Orient: Rendering Past into History. By Stefan Tanaka. The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae. Translated with an introduction by Byron K. Marshall. The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period. By Leonard Y. Andaya. From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Edited by Saki Dockrill. Singapore 1941–1942. By Louis Allen. Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb. By George Feifer. The Battle of Bataan: a History of the 90 Day Siege and Eventual Surrender of 75,000 Filipino and United States Troops to the Japanese in World War II. By Donald J. Young. A Revolutionary War: Korea and the Transformation of the Postwar World. Edited by William J. Williams.