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1986; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 14; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03086538608582721

1743-9329

W. David McIntyre, Glyndwr Williams, Julian Gwyn, C.R. Boxer, Paul Kennedy, Nini Rodgers, R.J. Overy, Avner Offer, Christopher Abel, Peter Sluglett, F.S.V. Donnison, D.A. Low, Anthony Clayton, Gerald S. Graham, Ian Nish, Kenneth R. Robinson, Alan Sked, Colin Newbury, W.H. Morris‐Jones,

The British Empire 1558–1983 by T.O. Lloyd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp xiii + 430, maps and appendices. $19.50 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback). Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577–1580: Essays commemorating the quadricentennial of Drake's circumnavigation of the Earth edited by Norman J. Thrower. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1984. Pp.xix + 214, illus. and biblio.; £37.50. Pursuit of Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America. John Bradstreet's Quest by William G. Godfrey. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1982. Pp. xiv + 296, biblio.; $17.00. The Management of Monopoly. A Study of the English East India Company's Conduct of its Tea Trade, 1784–1833 by Hoh‐cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. Pp.xiv + 192, graphs and tables, £17.20 (cloth). Geschichte der europäischen Expansion, vol.1, Die alte Welt bis 1818, by Wolfgang Reinhard. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1983. Pp.280, maps and illus. DM79.00. The Barren Relationship: Britain and Ethiopia, 1805 to 1868. A Study of British Policy by K.V. Ram. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1985. Pp.XVI + 212, maps. Rs 125; $25. Der europäische Imperialisms by Gustav Schmidt. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1985. Pp.x + 244. NP. Argentina, Australia and Canada: Studies in Comparative Economic Development 1870–1965, edited by D.C.M. Platt and Guido di Telia. London: Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1985. Pp.xi + 237. £25. Settler Capitalism: the Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere by Donald Denoon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp.iv + 280. £22.50. Dudley Docker: the Life and Times of a Trade Warrior by R. Davenport‐Hines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp.xii + 295, illus. £25. Supremacy and Oil: Iraq, Turkey and the Anglo‐American World Order, 1918–1930 by William Stivers. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983. Pp.207. £17.00; $25.95. The Changing of Kings, Memories of Burma 1934–49 by Leslie Glass. London: Peter Owen, 1985. Pp.xiii + 241, map and illus. £12.50. The Cambridge History of Africa, Vol.8, from c. 1940 to c. 1975, edited by Michael Crowder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp.xvi + 810, Bibliographical essays, and bibliography. £50. Burma, The Longest War, 1941–45, by Louis Allen. London: J.M. Dent, 1984. Pp.xvii + 686, 35 maps, 43 illustrations. £16. U‐Boats against Canada: German Submarines in Canadian Waters by Michael L. Hadley. Kingston and Montreal: McGill ‐ Queen's University Press, 1985. Pp.xxii + 360. £18.95; $C28.50. North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys by Marc Milner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. Pp.xxiii + 327. SC29.96. The Issue of War: States, Societies and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941–5 by Christopher Thorne. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985, Pp.xix + 364, map. £15.00. Completing a Stewardship. The Malayan Civil Service 1942–57 by Robert Heussler Westpoint, CT and London: Greenwood Press 1983. Pp.xvii + 240. £34.50. The Foreign Policy of the British Labour Government 1945–1951 edited by Ritchie Ovendale. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1984. Pp.x + 198, select bibliography. £15. West African Diamonds 1919–83. An Economic History, by Peter Greenhalgh. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. Pp.xiii + 306, tables, maps, bibliography. £25.00. Indo‐British Review: A Journal of History, XI, 1. Special Issue: ‘Indo‐British relations in retrospect’, edited by Antony Copley and Gowher Rizvi, December 1984.