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South Asia: A Short History by Hugh Tinker. London: Macmillan, 2nd ed., 1989 Pp. xix + 290. £40.00 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback).

A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. Pp. xxiii + 288; maps and illustrations. £19.95 ($29.95).

A History of the Pacific Islands by I. C. Campbell. University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and University of California, Berkeley, 1989. Pp. 228 + 8 maps; index.

The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940 by Robert Aldrich. London: Macmillan, 1990. Pp. 339 + 5 maps; bibliography and index. £45.00.

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. xxi + 946; maps, tables, illustrations. £35.00

Navies and Armies. The Anglo‐Dutch Relationship in War and Peace, 1688–1988 edited by G. J. A. Raven and N. A.M. Rodger. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1990. Pp. x + 118. £20 (hardback).

Calcutta: City of Palaces. A Survey of the City in the Days of the East India Company 1690–1858 by J. P. Losty. London: The British Library, 1990. Pp. 136. £20.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback).

The English River Book: A North West Company Journal and Account Book of 1786 edited with an introduction by Harry W. Duckworth. Kingston and Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1990. Pp. xxxviii + 212. Issued to members of the Rupert's Land Record Society.

Awake Bold Bligh! William Bligh's Letters Describing the Mutiny on HMS Bounty edited by Paul Brunton. North Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin for State Library of New South Wales, 1989. Pp. viii + 88. £14.95.

The Elgins, 1766–1917: A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and their Wives by Sydney Checkland. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988. Pp. xiv. + 303; illus. £25.00.

Lawrence of Lucknow: A Biography by John Lawrence. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1990. Pp. xx + 275. £20.00.

Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India by Gauri Viswanathan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 206; illus. $37.50.

Labour Movement in India. Documents, 1850–1890. Vol. One: Mines and Plantations edited by S.D. Punekar and R. Varickayil. Bombay: Popular Prakashan (for the I.C.H.R.) 1989. Pp. xviii + 387. Rs.215.

Labour Movement in India. Documents, 1918–1920 edited by A.R. Desai. Bombay: Popular Prakashan (for the I.C.H.R.) 1988. Pp. xxii + 446. Rs.250.

Alexander Crummell (1819–1898) and the Creation of an Afro‐American Church in Liberia by J. R. Oldfield. New York, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, Studies in the History of Missions, Volume 6,1990. Pp. 165; maps. £29.95.

David Livingstone: Letters and Documents 1841–1872: The Zambian Collection at the Livingstone Museum edited by Timothy Holmes. London: James Currey, 1990. Pp. xx + 202; maps. £30.00

The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax by Judith Fingard. Halifax: Pottersfield Press. 1989. Pp. 224. $16.95.

The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime‐Ministerial Correspondence. Volume X, January 1881 ‐ June 1883; Volume XI, July 1883 ‐ December 1886. edited by H.C.G. Matthew. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1990. Pp. cxcii + 479; 702; illus.; appendices.

Bonds of Silk: The Human Factor in the British Administration of the Sudan by Francis M. Deng and M.W. Daly. East Lansing: Michigan University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv + 245. £20.00.

The Fantastic Invasion: Kipling, Conrad and Lawson by Lynn Sunderland. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 177; illustrations. $16.95 (paperback).

Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience by Ronald Hyam. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. Pp. xii + 234: maps. £35.00.

Imperialism and the Natural World edited by John M. MacKenzie. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. Pp. viii + 216. £37.50.

Cathedrals of Science. The Development of Colonial Natural History Museums during the late Nineteenth Century by Susan Sheets‐Pyenson. Kingston and Montreal: McGill‐Queens's University Press, 1988. Pp. 144 + xii.

The Empire of Nature. Hunting, Conservation and British Imperialism by John M. MacKenzie. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. 340; maps. £35.00.

Reappraising J. A. Hobson: Humanism and Welfare edited by Michael Freeden. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. Pp. xi + 185. £28.00.

Nations and Nationalism since 1780 by E. J. Hobsbawm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. viii + 191. £14.95.

The Rise and Decline of the Nation State edited by Michael Mann. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. vi + 233. £37.50.

Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New Armies, 1914–16 by Peter Simkins. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. xvi + 359. £37.50 (hardback), £13.95 (paperback).

The Politics of Manpower, 1914–18 by Keith Grieves. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988. Pp. vii + 241. £28.50.

Understanding the First World War: Illusions and Realities by Albert J. Fyfe. New York: Peter Lang, 1988. Pp. xv + 391. US$48.95.

Sea Power in the Atlantic and Mediterranean in World War I by Paolo C. Coletta. University Press of America, Lanham, NY: 1989. Pp. xiii + 176.

Imperialism's New Clothes: The Repartition of Tropical Africa, 1914–1919 by Brian Digre. New York, Bern, Frankfurt, Paris: Peter Lang, 1990. Pp. xiii + 225; maps.

The Secret Army and the Premier Conservative Paramilitary Organisations in New South Wales 1930–32 by Andrew Moore. Kensington: New South Wales University Press, 1989. Pp. x + 312. $29.95.

The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence by Ayesha Jalal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi + 362. £30.00

A History of Singapore 1819–1988 by C. M. Turnbull. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1989. pp.388.

Constitutional Heads and Political Crises: Commonwealth Episodes, 1945–85 edited by D.A. Low. London: Macmillan. Cambridge Commonwealth Series, 1988. Pp. viii + 244. £38.00.

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