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  • Editor(s):
  • Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard University, USA
    Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
    Anne Mager, University of Cape Town, South Africa
    Justin Willis, University of Durham, UK

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Table of Contents - Volume 48 - Issue 02  

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Research Articles

 
 

POTS, WORDS AND THE BANTU PROBLEM: ON LEXICAL RECONSTRUCTION AND EARLY AFRICAN HISTORY

KOEN BOSTOEN

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 173-199
doi:10.1017/S002185370700254X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE COPAL TRADE IN THE TANZANIAN COASTAL HINTERLAND, c. 1820–1905

THADDEUS SUNSERI

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 201-220
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002733 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

CYCLICAL HISTORY IN THE GAMBIA/CASAMANCE BORDERLANDS: REFUGE, SETTLEMENT AND ISLAM FROM c. 1880 TO THE PRESENT

PAUL NUGENT

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 221-243
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002769 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

THE ELEPHANT SHOOTING: COLONIAL LAW AND INDIRECT RULE IN KAOKO, NORTHWESTERN NAMIBIA, IN THE 1920s AND 1930s

LORENA RIZZO

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 245-266
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002745 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISM IN URBAN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE: BULAWAYO, 1950 TO 1963

ENOCENT MSINDO

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 267-290
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002538 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

THE ENEMY WITHIN: LOYALISTS AND THE WAR AGAINST MAU MAU IN KENYA

DANIEL BRANCH

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 291-315
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002812 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

Book Reviews

 
 

THE HIGH POLITICS OF INDEPENDENT AFRICA Africa: A Modern History. By Guy Arnold. London: Atlantic Books, 2005. Pp. xliii+1,028. £35 (isbn 1-84354-175-0).

STEPHEN ELLIS

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 317-318
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002848 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A MAJOR WEST AFRICAN TOWN West African Early Towns: Archaeology of Households in Urban Landscapes. By Augustin F. C. Holl. (Anthropological Papers No. 95). Ann Arbor MI: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2006. Pp. ix+168. $26, paperback (isbn 0-915703-61-0).

PETER MITCHELL

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 318-319
doi:10.1017/S002185370700285X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

A BALANCED ASSESSMENT OF CATHOLIC MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE Cross and Flag in Africa: The ‘White Fathers’ during the Colonial Scramble (1892–1914). By Aylward Shorter. Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2006. Pp. xxxv+294. $25, paperback (isbn 1570756554).

ANDREW PORTER

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 320-321
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002861 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

EVOKING THE AFRICAN PAST THROUGH MOVIES Black and White in Colour. African History on Screen. Edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: Double Storey, 2007. Pp. ix+374. £14.95, paperback (isbn 978-184701-5228).

GLENN REYNOLDS

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 321-322
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002873 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

TIRAILLEURS AS A LINK BETWEEN FRANCE AND AFRICA Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. By Gregory Mann. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+333. $84 (isbn 0-8223-3775-X); $23.95, paperback (isbn 0-8223-3768-1).

MARTIN A. KLEIN

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 322-324
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002885 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

THE LIMITS OF INVENTION OF ETHNICITY Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana. By Carola Lentz. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+345. £29.95 (isbn 978-0-7486-2401-0).

WYATT MACGAFFEY

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 324-325
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002897 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

NEW INSIGHTS INTO MOZAMBIQUE'S POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa. The Case of Mozambique, 1975–1994. By Alice Dinerman. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xxiv+394. £80 (isbn 0-415-77017-3).

GERHARD SEIBERT

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 325-327
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002903 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

A LABORATORY FOR THEORIES OF GENDER AND RACE IN ZIMBABWE Surfacing Up. Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908–1968. By Lynette A. Jackson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+230. $55 (isbn 0-8014-4310-5); $24.95, paperback (isbn 0-8014-8940-7).

TERENCE RANGER

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 327-328
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002915 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

THE CENTRAL ROLE OF LAND IN ZIMBABWEAN HISTORY The Unsettled Land. State-making & the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe 1893–2003. By Jocelyn Alexander. Oxford: James Curry, 2006. Pp. x+230. £50 (isbn 0-85255-893-5); £18.95, paperback (isbn 0-85255-892-9).

IAN PHIMISTER

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 328-329
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002927 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

SCIENCE AND NATIONALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA A Commonwealth of Knowledge. Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820–2000. By Saul Dubow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+296. $60 (isbn 0-19-929663-4).

CHRISTOPH MARX

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 330-331
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002939 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

THE LONG HISTORY OF SAME-SEX DESIRE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in South Africa. By Marc Epprecht. Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+317. $57 (isbn 0-7735-2750-8); $18.95, paperback (isbn 0-7735-2751-6).

HEIKE SCHMIDT

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 332-333
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002940 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

WHAT SHAPED THE LIVES OF WORKING WOMEN IN UGANDA? Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900–2003. By Grace Bentebya Kyomuhendo and Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Oxford: James Currey, 2006. Pp. xii+308. £50 (isbn 0-85255-988-7); £17.95, paperback (isbn 0-85255-987-9).

BRETT L. SHADLE

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 333-334
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002952 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

BRIDEWEALTH INFLATION AND MARRIAGE CRISIS IN COLONIAL KENYA ‘Girl Cases’: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890–1970. By Brett L. Shadle. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2006. Pp. xliii+256. $92.95 (isbn 0-325-07092-X); $29.95, paperback (isbn 0-325-07094-6).

RICHARD WALLER

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 335-336
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002964 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

THE CHALLENGES FOR POSTCOLONIAL LEADERS IN EAST AFRICA Transformational Leadership in East Africa: Politics, Ideology and Community. By Eric Masinde Aseka. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2005. Pp. viii+464. £29.95; $39.95, paperback (isbn 9970-02-480-9).

JOHN LONSDALE

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 336-337
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002976 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

THE PRIVATE SPHERE IN TANZANIA A History of the Excluded: Making Family a Refuge from State in Twentieth-Century Tanzania. By James L. Giblin. Oxford: James Currey, 2005. Pp. xii+304. £50 (isbn 0-85255-467-2); £16.95, paperback (isbn 0-85255-466-4).

JAMES R. BRENNAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 337-340
doi:10.1017/S0021853707002988 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

COLONIAL NOTIONS OF URBAN ORDER IN DAR ES SALAAM African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam. By Andrew Burton. Oxford: James Currey; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. Published in association with The British Institute in Eastern Africa. Pp. xviii+301. £50 (isbn 0-8214-1635-9); £16.95, paperback (isbn 0-8214-1636-7).

JONATHON GLASSMAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 340-342
doi:10.1017/S002185370700299X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

SLOW DEATH FOR SLAVERY IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa c. 1884–1914. By Jan-Georg Deutsch. Oxford: James Currey, 2006. Pp. viii+276. £55 (isbn 0-85255-986-0); £17.95, paperback (isbn 0-85255-985-2).

THADDEUS SUNSERI

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 342-343
doi:10.1017/S0021853707003003 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

IS THE SUCCESSFUL MILITARY RESISTANCE TO EUROPEAN COLONIALISM IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ETHIOPIA STILL SIGNIFICANT TODAY? The Battle of Adwa: Reflections on Ethiopia's Historic Victory against European Colonialism. Edited by Paulos Milkias and Getachew Metaferia. New York: Algora Publishing, 2005. Pp. xv+320. $26.95, paperback (isbn 0-87586-413-9).

JAMES QUIRIN

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 344-345
doi:10.1017/S0021853707003015 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

Shorter Notices

 
 

SHORTER NOTICES Historical Dictionary of Gabon. Third edition. By David E. Gardinier and Douglas A. Yates. Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. Pp. ix+455. £79 (isbn 0-8108-4918-6).

RACHEL JEAN-BAPTISTE

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 345-346
doi:10.1017/S0021853707003027 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

SHORTER NOTICES Casualty of Empire: Britain's Unpaid Debt to an African Kingdom. By Cedric Pulford. Woodford Halse: Ituri, 2007. Pp. xiv+148. £11.99, paperback (isbn 978-095364307-3).

RICHARD REID

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 346-347
doi:10.1017/S0021853707003039 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
 

SHORTER NOTICES Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s. By Peter Benson. Fayetteville AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. Pp. xv+343. $29.95 (isbn 978-1-55728-816-5).

JUERGEN MARTSCHUKAT

The Journal of African History, Volume 48, Issue 02, July 2007, pp 347-347
doi:10.1017/S0021853707003040 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Sep 2007
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