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Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on Southern Africa's Late-Cold War Conflicts. Edited by GARY BAINES and PETER VALE. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2008. xix + 342 pp. ISBN 1 86914 109 1.
The Zealous Conservator: A Life of Charles Lane Poole. By JOHN DARGAVEL. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 2008. xiii + 252 pp. ISBN 978 1 921401 145.
Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Edited by NORMAN ETHERINGTON. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Press, 2007. X + 220 pp. ISBN 978 0 9802964 4 0.
Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide. Edited by JOHN LABAND. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007. 301 pp. ISBN 1 86914 109 1.
Liberals, Marxists, and Nationalists: Competing Interpretations of South African History. By MERLE LIPTON. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 228 pp. ISBN 13:978 0 230 60059 1.
To the Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa. BY XOLELA MANGCU. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008. xv + 208pp. ISBN 978 1 86914 137 0.
L’épopée du diamant du sang en Afrique – Un creuseur Zaïro-Congolais à Lunda Norte. Mémoires lieux de savoir series. By DAMIEN DANIS MBIKI and EMMANUEL GUIDON MBIKI. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008. 282 pp. ISBN 978 2 296 04160 8.
De L-D. Kabila à J. Kabila – La vérité des faits! Comptes Rendus series. By YVON RAMAZANI, HENRI MOVA SAKANYI, and OMER NSONGO BROCHÉ. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008. 128 pp., ISBN 978 2 296 05644 2.