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Book reviews

1985; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03086538508582706

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Gad Heuman, William Pencak, Glyndwr Williams, C.A. Bayly, Patrick J. N. Tuck, Jack P. Greene, David Gillard, Kenneth Bourne, James Sturgis, Anthony J. Barker, P.J. Marshall, James Walvin, S. Katzenellenbogen, David McLean, Charlotte Erickson, Andrew Porter, Donald Denoon, Colin Newbury, Adrian Graves, M.L. Dockrill, Iain Robert Smith, Keith Robbins, Peter Cain, John Turner, V.H. Rothwell, Christopher Thorne, C.M. Turnbull, Alan S. Milward, Ian Nish, David Hardiman, Rafe de Crespigny, Paul Kennedy, Anthony Clayton, John Robertson, Robin Palmer, Asa Briggs,

Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: The Historical Evolution of Caribbean Society in Its Ideological Aspects, 1492–1900 by Gordon K. Lewis. Baltimore; The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Pp.x + 375. £21.25. The Origins of Anglo‐American Radicalism, edited by Margaret Jacob and James Jacob. London: Allen & Unwin, 1984. Pp.x + 332. £18.50. The Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1984. Pp.xvii + 372, maps and illustrations; $30. North India Between Empires. Awadh, the Mughals and the British 1720–1801 by Richard B. Barnett. Berkeley; University of California Press, 1980. Pp.xviii + 276. £15. The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Vol. V, India: Madras and Bengal 1774–1785 edited by P.J. Marshall with W.B. Todd. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp.xv + 667. £55. George Grenville: A Political Life by Philip Lawson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp.x + 309. £19.50. Commitment to Empire: Prophecies of the Great Game in Asia, 1797–1800 by Edward Ingram. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp.xvi + 431, maps. £22.50. Mr Madison's War. Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830 by J.C.A. Stagg. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp.xviii + 538; £43.40 (cloth); £16.10 (paper). The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared edited by Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981, Pp.xiv + 360; £29 (cased), £6.95 (paper). The Scots Abolitionists 1833–1861 by C. Duncan Rice. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Pp.xii + 221. £16.50 (hardback); £6.60 (paperback). Cross‐cultural Trade in World History by Philip D. Curtin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp.xi + 293, maps. £22.50 (hardback); £7.95 (paperback). Roots and Branches: Current Directions in Slave Studies edited by M.J. Craton. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1979. Pp.292. NP. The French Encounter with Africans; White Responses to Blacks, 1530–1880 by William B. Cohen. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1980. Pp.360 $22.50. Between White and Black: Race Politics and the Free Coloureds in Jamaica, 1792–1805 by Gad J. Heuman. Oxford: The Clio Press, 1981, Pp.231. £20. Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680–1843 by Richard B. Sheridan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp.420. £25. History of Central Africa. Volumes I and II edited by David Birmingham and Phyllis M. Martin. London: Longmans 1983. Pp.xii + 314, and x + 432, maps, index. Vol.1: £24.95 (hardback); £7.95 (paperback) Vol.11: £27.95 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback). British Railways in Argentina, 1857–1914: A case study of Foreign Investment by Colin M. Lewis. London: Athlone Press, 1983. Pp.259; £20. Discarding the Asylum: from Child Rescue to the Welfare State in English‐Canada, 1800–1950 by Patricia T. Rooke and R.L. Schnell. Lanham, New York and London: University Press of America, 1983. Pp.xii + 497, illus.; £29.75. Far from a Low Gutter Girl: The Forgotten World of State Wards: South Australia, 1887–1940 by Margaret Barbalet. Melbourne, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983, Pp.xviii + 286, illus.; £22.50. Rhodes and Rhodesia. The White Conquest of Zimbabwe 1884–1902 by Arthur Keppel‐Jones. Kingston and Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1983; Pp.xiv + 674; illus. $60. Sol Plaatje, South African Nationalist, 1876–1932, by Brian Willan. London: Heinemann, 1984. Pp.xi + 391. £8.95 Indentured Labour in the British Empire 1834–1920 edited by Kay Saunders. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1984. Pp. 327, maps and illus.; £19.95. Chinese Mine Labour in the Transvaal by Peter Richardson. London: MacMillan, 1982. Pp.xiii + 287, maps and illus. £25. The Scaremongers: The Advocacy of War and Retrenchment 1896–1914 by A.J. A. Morris. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. Pp.xi + 495; £25. The Lion's Share: a short history of British imperialism 1850–1983 by Bernard Porter. London: Longman, second edition, 1984, Pp.418. £6.95 (paper). The Global Conflict, 1880–1970: the International Rivalry of the Great Powers by C.J. Bartlett, London: Longman, 1984, Pp.viii + 399, maps; £13.95 (cased), £6.95 (paper). Strategy and Diplomacy 1870–1945: Eight Studies by Paul Kennedy. London: Allen & Unwin, 1983. Pp.254. £15 (hardback). Wars and Welfare: Britain 1914–1945 by Max Beloff. London: Edward Arnold, 1984. Pp.vi + 282. £18.95 (hardback), £7.95 (paperback). Succeeding John Bull: America in Britain's Place 1900–1975 by D. Cameron Watt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp.xii and 302. £22.50. The Expansion of International Society edited by Hedley Bull and Adam Watson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. Pp.xi + 479. £25. Honourable Intentions: Talks on the British Empire in South‐East Asia delivered at the Royal Colonial Institute, 1874–1928 edited and introduced by Paul H. Kratoska. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp.x + 470, illustrations, appendices, index; £29.50 (cloth). Depression and Protectionism. Britain Between the Wars by Forrest Capie. London: Allen & Unwin 1983. Pp.166, £15.00. Britain and the Commonwealth Alliance, 1918–39 by R.F. Holland. London: Macmillan, 1981. 248pp. £20.00. Bengal 1920–1947, Volume I, The Land Question by Partha Chatterjee. Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi, 1984. Pp.lvi + 276; Rs.100. Discovering History In China: American Historical Writing On The Recent Chinese Past by Paul A. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Pp.xviii + 243. $32.50; Britischer Imperialismus im Fernen Osten: Strukturen der Durchdringung und einheimischer Widerstand auf dem chinesischen Markt 1932–1937 by Jürgen Osterhammel. Bochum: Studienverlag Brockmeyer, 1983. Pp.ix + 631, tables; NP. Haile Selassie's War by Anthony Mockler. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp.xxiv + 434, maps; £17.50. Documents on Australian Foreign Policy, 1937–1949 edited by W.J. Hudson and H.J.W. Stokes. Volume V: July 1941‐June 1942. Canberra, 1982. Pp.lxxi + 907. $A35. Volume VI: July 1942‐December 1943. Canberra, 1983. Pp.lvii + 677. $A35. White Liberals, Moderates and Radicals in Rhodesia 1953–1980 by Ian Hancock. London, Sydney and New York: Croom Helm and St. Martin's Press, 1984. Pp.230. £15.95. This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932–1983 by K.S. Inglis. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983. Pp.521. £22.50.