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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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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

 
 

AFH volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp f1-f4
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990557 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

 
 

AFH volume 50 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp b1-b9
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990569 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

Research Articles

 
 

THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY OF AFRICA

A. G. HOPKINS

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 155-177
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990041 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

Governance and Inheritance in Precolonial Uganda

 
 

MAPPING CONFLICT: HETERARCHY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE ANCIENT CAPITAL OF BUGANDA

HOLLY HANSON

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 179-202
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990065 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

LINEAGE AND SOCIETY IN PRECOLONIAL UGANDA

RHIANNON STEPHENS

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 203-221
doi:10.1017/S0021853709004435 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

Colonial Conservation Measures

 
 

THE OWNER OF THE LAND: THE BENIN OBAS AND COLONIAL FOREST RESERVATION IN THE BENIN DIVISION, SOUTHERN NIGERIA

PAULINE VON HELLERMANN and UYILAWA USUANLELE

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 223-246
doi:10.1017/S002185370999003X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

A LASTING STORY: CONSERVATION AND AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES IN COLONIAL MALAWI

ERIK GREEN

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 247-267
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990028 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

DECOLONIZATION BY REFERENDUM: THE ANOMALY OF NIGER AND THE FALL OF SAWABA, 1958–1959

KLAAS VAN WALRAVEN

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 269-292
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990053 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

Book Reviews

 
 

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN AND SLAVERY Women and Slavery, volume 1: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic. Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers and Joseph C. Miller. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2008. Pp. xxx+402. £49.50/$55, hardback (isbn 978-0-8214-1723-2); £26.95/$30, paperback (isbn 978-9-8214-1724-9). Women and Slavery, volume 2: The Modern Atlantic. Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers and Joseph C. Miller. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2008. Pp. xxviii+331. £49.50/$55, hardback (isbn 978-0-8214-1725-6); £26.95/$30, paperback (isbn 978-0-8214-1726-3).

PATRICK MANNING

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 293-295
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990119 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

THE EMERGENCE OF AN ATLANTIC CREOLE CULTURE Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585–1660. By Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+370. £40/$75, hardback (isbn 978-0-521-77065-1); £16.99/$22.99, paperback (isbn 978-0-521-77922-7).

PHYLLIS M. MARTIN

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 295-296
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990120 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

HOW EMPIRE AND IMPERIAL CULTURE WERE CREATED IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Fabrication of Empire: The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890–1902. By D.A. Low. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xix+361. £60, hardback (isbn 978-0-521-84351-5). Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-century Africa. By Richard Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxix+371. £50, hardback (isbn 978-0-521-88968-1); £18.99, paperback (isbn 978-0-521-71819-6).

RICHARD REID

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 297-300
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990132 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

AN EFFECTIVE INTRODUCTION TO MODERN AFRICAN HISTORY A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present. By Richard J. Reid. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Pp. xvi+386. £50/€60/$89.95, hardback (isbn 978-1-4051-3264-0); £20/€24/$34.95, paperback (isbn 978-1-4051-3265-7).

THOMAS SPEAR

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 300-301
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990144 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

A PIONEERING ACCOUNT OF AFRICAN-BASED POLITICAL MOVEMENTS Africa's ‘Agitators’: Militant Anti-colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918–1939. By Jonathan Derrick. London: Hurst & Company, 2008. Pp. ix+483. £17.99, paperback (isbn 978-1-85065-936-5).

STEPHEN HOWE

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 301-303
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990156 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

GRASSROOT POLITICS AND DECOLONIZATION IN GUINEA Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958. By Elizabeth Schmidt. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+310. £49.50/$50, hardback (isbn 978-0-8214-1763-8); £24.50/$30, paperback (isbn 978-0-8214-1764-5).

TONY CHAFER

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 303-305
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990168 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

A SOCIAL HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF MURDER IN NIGERIA The Man-leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria. By David Pratten. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London, 2007. Pp. xii+425. £55, hardback (isbn 978-0-7486-2553-6).

DMITRI VAN DEN BERSSELAAR

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 305-306
doi:10.1017/S002185370999017X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

FOOD AND THE IMPACT OF COLONIALISM ON EVERYDAY LIFE IN GABON A Workman is Worthy of his Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary. By Jeremy Rich. Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Pp. xx+220. £25, hardback (isbn 978-0-8032-1091-2).

PETER GESCHIERE

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 306-308
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990181 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

A USEFUL SYNTHESIS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ANGOLAN HISTORY Angola: The Weight of History. Edited by Patrick Chabal and Nuno Vidal. London: Hurst & Company, 2007. Pp. iv+246. £45, hardback (isbn 978-1-85065-880-1); £17.99, paperback (isbn 978-1-85065-884-9).

ALEXANDER KEESE

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 308-309
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990193 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

POPULAR DANCE MUSIC AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN ZAIRE UNDER MOBUTU Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire. By Bob W. White. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xix+300. £51, hardback (isbn 978-0-8223-4091-1); £12.99, paperback (isbn 978-0-8223-4112-3).

MARISSA J. MOORMAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 310-311
doi:10.1017/S002185370999020X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

TOWNSHIP POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN ZIMBABWE The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe: Harare and Highfield, 1940–1964. By Timothy Scarnecchia. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+220. $80, hardback (isbn 978-1-58046-281-5).

GARY KYNOCH

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 312-313
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990211 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

A WIDE-RANGING HISTORY OF AFRIKANER NATIONALISM Oxwagon Sentinel: Radical Afrikaner Nationalism and the History of the Ossewabrandwag. By Christoph Marx. Pretoria/Berlin: University of South Africa Press/LIT, 2008. Pp. xii+654. Paperback, R400 (isbn 978-1-86888-453-7); €49.90 (isbn 978-3-8258-9797-4).

REINHART KÖSSLER

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 313-315
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990223 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

A REVISIONIST VIEW OF SHAKA Myth of Iron: Shaka in History. By Dan Wylie. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2006. Pp. xviii+615. £19.95, paperback (isbn 978-0-85255-441-8).

DAVID GORDON

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 315-316
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990235 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

LITTLE NEWS ON MAU MAU Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya. By S. M. Shamsul Alam. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiii+249. £42.50/$74.95, hardback (isbn 978-1-4039-8374-9).

MYLES OSBORNE

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 316-318
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990247 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE HISTORY OF DAR ES SALAAM Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis. Edited by James Brennan, Andrew Burton and Yusufu Qwaray Lawi. Dar es Salaam/Nairobi: Mkuki na Nyota/British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2007. Pp. vii+288. £24.95/$35, paperback (isbn 978-9-98744-970-5).

FRANCK RAIMBAULT

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 318-320
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990259 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

RESTORING THE LINK BETWEEN CULTURE, IDENTITY, POLITICS, AND GOVERNANCE Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa. By Francis M. Deng. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+271. $50, hardback (isbn 978-1-60127-035-1); $19.95, paperback (isbn 978-1-60127-034-4).

MICHAEL JENNINGS

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 320-322
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990260 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

PROPERTY IN LAND, LOCAL POLITICS, AND THE STATE Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa. By Christian Lund. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv+200. £45, hardback (isbn 978-0-521-88654-3).

KATJA WERTHMANN

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 322-323
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990272 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

AFRICAN STUDIES IN BERLIN BETWEEN THE WARS Afrikawissenschaften in Berlin von 1919 bis 1945: Zur Geschichte und Topographie eines wissenschaftlichen Netzwerkes. By Holger Stoecker. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2008. Pp. 359. 49€, hardback (isbn 978-3-51509-161-9).

RALPH A. AUSTEN

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 323-325
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990284 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

Shorter Notices

 
 

SHORTER NOTICES African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. By Herbert S. Klein and Ben Vinson III, 2nd, revised edition, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xi+286. £54, hardback (isbn 978-0-19-518941-4); £13.99, paperback (isbn 978-0-19-518942-1).

JOCHEN MEISSNER

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 325-326
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990296 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

SHORTER NOTICES White Men's God: The Extraordinary Story of Missionaries in Africa. By Martin Ballard. Oxford: Greenwood World Publishing, 2008. Pp. xiv+318. £34.95, hardback (isbn: 978-1-84645-032-2).

NORMAN ETHERINGTON

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 326-327
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990302 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

SHORTER NOTICES Grasland: Eine afrikanische Kultur. By Hans Knöpfli. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer, 2008. Pp. 328, 694 colour illustrations. €59, hardback (isbn 978-3-77950-197-8).

UTE RÖSCHENTHALER

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 327-328
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990314 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
 

SHORTER NOTICES The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku. By Stephanie Newell. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+233. £44.95/$46.95, hardback (isbn 978-0-8214-1709-6); £20.95/$22.95, paperback (isbn 978-0-8214-1710-2).

PETER J. YEARWOOD

The Journal of African History, Volume 50, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 328-329
doi:10.1017/S0021853709990533 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Sep 2009
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