Book reviews

Spanish Naval Power, 1589–1665: Reconstruction and Defeat by David Goodman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xvi + 305, maps, tables and illustrations. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–58063–3.

Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire 1688–1775 by H.V. Bowen. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp.xiii + 257. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–62208–1; 0–312–15876–9.

William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire edited by Stewart J. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 276. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–57083–2.

A Taste for Empire and Glory: Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1660–1800 by Philip Lawson. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997. Pp.xiv + 298. £49.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–86078–636–6.

Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India by Pamela G. Price. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996. Pp.xvii + 220. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–55247–8.

Questioning Slavery by James Walvin. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.xi + 202. £45.00 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–415–15356–5; 0–415–15357–3.

God Almighty Make Me Free: Christianity in Preemancipation Jamaica by Shirley C. Gordon. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp.xiv + 159, map. £33.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–25330–52–1.

West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan edited by Roderick A. McDonald. Kingston: University Press of the West Indies, 1996. Pp.xvi + 388. No price indicated. ISBN 976–640–02–9.

Henry Goulburn 1784–1856: A Political Biography by Brian Jenkins. Kingston and Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1996, distributed by Liverpool University Press. Pp.xii + 440. £32.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85323–641–0; 0–85323–651–8.

Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33: The Conflict between Economic Expansion and Humanitarian Reform under British Rule by Anthony J. Barker. Basingstoke: Macmillan, and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp.viii + 225. £47.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–333–66048‐X.

Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia by Deborah Oxley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 339, maps, figures and table. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–44131–5.

Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870 by C.A. Bayly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 412, maps. £40.00/$64.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–57085–9.

Mission and Tamil Society: Social and Religious Change in South India (1840–1900) by Henriette Bugge. Richmond: Curzon, 1996. Pp.223. No price indicated (pb). ISBN 0–7007–0292‐X.

One Language, Two Scripts: The Hindi Movement in Nineteenth Century North India by Christopher R. King. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.232. £14.99 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–563565–5.

Return to Empire: Punjab under the Sikhs and British in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century by Andrew J. Major. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1996. Pp.xii + 247. Rs. 400 (hardback). ISBN 81–207–1806–2.

Punjab, Volume 180: world Bibliographical Series, compiled by Darshan Singh Tatla and Ian Talbot. Oxford: Clio Press, 1995. Pp.xxxvii + 325, maps. £56.75 (hardback). ISBN 1–85109–232–3.

Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle: Identity and Empire by Stephen Arata. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 235. £30 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–56352–6.

Writings on Writing by Rudyard Kipling edited by Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xxviii + 213, illustrations. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–44527–2.

Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth‐Century Britain by H.L. Malchow. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 335, illustrations. £35 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 08047–2664–7; 08047–2793–7.

Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846–1996 edited by R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996. Pp.xi + 336, illustrations. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–904180–44–1.

Divide and Rule: The Partition of Africa, 1880–1914 by H.L. Wesseling. Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans. Westport, Connecticut, and London: Praeger, 1996. Pp.xvi + 446. £20.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–275–95138–3.

Cecil Rhodes and the Cape Afrikaners: The Imperial Colossus and the Colonial Parish Pump by Mordechai Tamarkin. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1996. Pp.x + 339. £35.00 (hardback); £16.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–7146–4627‐X; 0–7146–4627–3.

Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion by Robert Aldrich. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xvi + 369, maps. £45.00 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–56739–0; 0–333–56740–4.

Gustave Rolin‐Jaequemyns and the Making of Modern Siam: Diaries and Letters of King Chulalongkorn's General Adviser by W.E.J. Tips. Bangkok: White Lotus, 1996, with foreword by Baron Edouard Rolin‐Jaequemyns. Pp.xxvi + 477, 28 plates + 14 text illus. $35.00 (paperback). ISBN 974–8496–59–9.

The History of the Caribbean Telegraphs before the First World War by Jorma Ahvenainen. Helsinki: The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 1996. Pp.215, maps. FIM 140 (paperback). ISBN 951–41–0804–3.

The Neglected War: The German South Pacific and the Influence of World War I by Hermann Joseph Hiery. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1995. Pp.xvii + 387, maps, tables, illus. $35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8248–1668–4.

The North Atlantic Triangle in a Changing World: Anglo‐American‐Canadian Relations, 1902–1956 edited by B.J.C. McKercher and Lawrence Aronsen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp.298. £35.75 (hardback); £13.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–8020–0520–9; 0–8020–6957–6.

Navies and Global Defense: Theories and Strategies edited by Keith Neilson and Elizabeth Jane Errington. Westport, Conn., and London: Praeger, 1995. Pp.238. £49.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–275–94898–6.

Balfour and Foreign Policy: The International Thought of a Conservative Statesman by Jason Tomes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.x + 323. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521 ‐58118–4.

Ireland in the Twentieth Century: Divided Island by David Harkness. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.x + 190, map. £9.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–56796‐X.

The Guthrie Flagship: United Sua Betong by C.N. Parkinson, edited and abridged by J.M. Gullick. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1996. Pp. x + 142, map, illustrations. No price given; obtainable in Britain from John Randall, bookseller. ISBN 967–9948–07–2.

British Relations with the Malay Rulers from Decentralization to Malayan Independence 1930–1957 by Simon C. Smith. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.x +234, plates. £16.99 (hardback). ISBN 967–65–3089–1.

The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917–1947 by Ian Copland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 302. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–57179–0.

Containing the Cold War in East Asia: British Policies towards Japan, China and Korea, 1948–53 by Peter Lowe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 288, maps. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7190–2508–7.

Seretse Khama 1921–80 by Thomas Tlou, Neil Parsons, and Willie Henderson. Braamfontein: Macmillan Boleswa/South Africa, 1995. Pp.xxiii + 467, maps, illustrations. No price indicated. ISBN 0–7978–0580‐X.

Kwame Nkrumah: The Years Abroad 1935–1947 by Marika Sherwood. Legon, Ghana: Freedom Publications, 1996. (Distributed by the African Books Collective, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HU.) Pp.202, illustrations. £9.50/$17.00 (paperback). ISBN 9988–7716–0–6.

Industrialisation and the British Colonial State: West Africa 1939–1951 by L.J. Butler. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.x + 310, diagram. £39.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–7146–4703–9.

Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans, 1945–1954 by Michael J. Cohen. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xv + 349, maps. £37.50 (hardback); £18.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–7146–4720–9; 0–7146–4269‐X.

Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East, 1945–1958 by Paul W.T. Kingston. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xi + 191. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–56346–1.

The Colonial Wars Source Book by Philip J. Haythornthwaite. Pp.384, illustrations, maps. London: Arms and Armour, Cassell, 1995. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–85409–196–4.

The British Empire: An Encyclopedia of the Crown's Holdings, 1493 through 1995 compiled by John Stewart. Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland, 1996, distributed in Britain by Shelwing, Folkestone. Pp.xiv + 370. £58.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–7864–0177‐X.

Dictionary of the British Empire and Commonwealth by Alan Palmer. London: John Murray, 1996. Pp. xviii + 395. £25.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–7195–5650–3; 0–7195–5657–0.