Book reviews

The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, Volume 1: 660–1649 by N. A.M. Rodger, London: HarperCollins in association with the National Maritime Museum, 1997. Pp.xxviii + 691, illustrations. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–00–255128–4.

The Many Landfalls of John Cabot by Peter E. Pope. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 244. £37.50 (hardback); £11.75 (paperback). ISBN 0–8020–0786–4; 0–8020–7150–3.

Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities, 1580–1620 by Lesley B. Cormack. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 281. $68.00/£54.50 (hardback); $23.95/£19.25 (paperback). ISBN 0–226–11606–9; 0–226–11607–7.

Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past by Jeremy Black. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp.ix + 267, maps. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–300–06976–6.

The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and ‘Discovery’ in the Southeast edited by Patricia Galloway. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp.xvi + 457. £57.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8032–2157–6.

The Purchas Handbook: Studies of the Life, Times and Writings of Samuel Purchas 1577–1626 edited by L.E. Pennington. London: Hakluyt Society, 1997. 2 vo1s. Pp.xvii + 811, 28 illustrations. £80.00 (set). ISBN 0–904180–52–2 (vol.1); ISBN 0–904180–53–0 (vol.2); 0–904180–54–9 (set).

The English in West Africa 1681–1683: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England 1681–1699, Part I, edited by Robin Law, Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History I. London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1997. Pp.xx + 363, £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–726176–0.

Observations Made during a Voyage round the World by Johann Reinhold Forster, edited by Nicholas Thomas, Harriet Guest, and Michael Dettelbach. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996 [1778]. Pp.lxxviii + 447, maps, illustrations. $55.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8248–1725–7.

The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia by Simon Ryan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. £40.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521 ‐57112‐X; 0–521 ‐57791 ‐8.

Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon by Karen O'Brien. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 249. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–46533–8.

America or Europe? British Foreign Policy, 1739–63 by Jeremy Black. London: UCL Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 220, maps. £40.00 (hardback). ISBN 1–85728–185–3.

India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India 1600–1800 by Kate Teltscher. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.280 + illustrations. Rs.395/£13.99 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–563667–8.

Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century by Holden Furber, edited by Rosane Rocher. Aldershot: Variorum, 1997. Pp.xii + 322. £49.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–86078–619–6.

The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India, 1770–1830 by Seema Alavi. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp.xv + 315, maps. Rs.395 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–563484–5.

Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in India 1819–1835 by Douglas M. Peers. London and New York: I.B. Tauris Academic Studies, 1996. Pp.xi + 289, maps. £39.50 (hardback). ISBN 1–85043–954–0.

The Bahamas from Slavery to Servitude, 1783–1933 by Howard Johnson. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. Pp.xvii + 218, map. $39.95/£36.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–8130–1494–8.

‘Tiger in the Stars’; The Anatomy of Indian Achievement in British Guiana 1919–29 by Clem Seecharan. London: Macmillan, 1997 Pp.xxviii + 401. £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–333–68098–7.

Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration edited by Ian Duflield and James Bradley. London: Leicester University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 244. £49.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–7185–6075‐X.

The Empty Sleeve: The Story of the West India Regiments of the British Army by Brian Dyde. St John's, Antigua and London: Hansib. Pp.283, maps. £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 976–8163–05–4.

The Politics of the British Army by Hew Strachan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp.x + 311. £30.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–820670–4.

Victorian Science in Context edited by Bernard Lightman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.Pp.viii + 489.$70.00/£55.95(hardback);$22.50/£17.95(paper‐back). ISBN 0–226–48111–5; 0–226–48112–3.

Imperial Canada, 1867–1917 edited by Colin M. Coates. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Centre of Canadian Studies, 1997. Pp.x + 221. £10.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–905244–07–9.

A Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity edited by Michael L. Hadley, Rob Huebert, and Fred W. Crickard. Montreal and Kingston: McGill ‐ Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp.xxiv + 460, illustrations. £32.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7735–1506–2.

Colonization: A Global History by Marc Ferro. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp.xiii + 402, maps, £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–415–14008–0.

Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India by Henry Schwarz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp.x + 199. £30.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–8122–3373–5.

Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World edited by Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 470. $55.00/£42.00 (hardback); $19.95/£15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–520–20540–5; 0–520–20605–3.

Gender and Imperialism edited by Clare Midgley. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pp.xii + 228. £45.00 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–4819–2; ISBN 0–7190–4819–2; 0–7190–4820–6.

Missionsgeschichte, Kirchengeschichte, Weltgeschichte: Christliche Missionen im Kontext nationaler Entwicklungen in Afrika, Asien und Ozeanien edited by Ulrich van der Heyden and Heike Liebau. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1996. Pp.472. DM 120.00 (hardback). ISBN 3–515–06732–9.

Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and Conversion in Late‐Colonial India by Antony Copley. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xvii + 279. £25.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–56367–7.

Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore edited by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.xxx + 561. £60.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–59018–3.

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp.x + 303, maps. £45.00 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–415–16951–8; 0–415–16952–6.

Frankreich im Fernen Osten: Imperialistische Expansion und Aspiration in Siam und Malaya, Laos und China, 1880–1904 by Dieter Brotel. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. Pp.xviii + 890, maps. DM198.00 (hardback). ISBN 3–515–06838–4.

La France et l'Égypte de 1882 à 1914: Intérêts économiques et implications politiques by Samir Saul. Paris: Comité pour l'Histoire économique et Financière de la France, 1997. Pp.vii + 787. No price indicated (paperback). ISBN 2–11–088978–0.

Politics and Diplomacy in Egypt: The Diaries of Sir Miles Lampson, 1935–1937 edited by M.E. Yapp, Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy, 1997. Pp.xvii + 1044, maps, illustrations. £95.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–19–726155–8.

Peace through Law: Britain and the International Court in the 1920s by Lorna Lloyd. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Royal Historical Society, Boydell Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 306. £45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–86193–235–8.

British Foreign Policy 1919–39: ‘Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst’ by Paul W. Doerr. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. Pp.291. £45 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7190–4671–8; 0–7190–4672–6.

Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa by Frederick Cooper. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xvii + 677. £55.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–5625–1; 0–521–56600–2.

Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru by Thomas Spear. Oxford: James Currey, 1997. Pp.x + 262, maps, photographs, tables. £40.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–736–1; 0–85255–737‐X.

Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in East African History edited by David M. Anderson and Douglas H. Johnson. London: James Currey, 1995. Pp.x + 310, maps. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–718–3; 0–85255–717–5.

Religion and Politics in East Africa: The Period Since Independence edited by Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle. London: James Currey, 1995. Pp.x + 278, map. £35.00 (hardback); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–85255–385–4; 0–85255–384–6.

Viceroy: Curzon to Mountbatten by Hugh Tinker. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xii + 266, illustrations. No price indicated (hardback). ISBN 0–19–577698–4.

Mountbatten on the Record edited by C.M. Woolgar. Hartley Institute: University of Southampton, 1997. Pp.v + 74. Paperback, no price indicated. ISBN 085432–643‐X.

Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India by Ian Talbot. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1996. Pp.xiii + 193. £35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–7007–0427–2.

Something in India: A Memoir of Service in the Frontier Province by Sir Fraser Noble. Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1998. Pp.xiii + 354. £17.50 (hardback). ISBN 1–85821–537–4.

Of Free Trade and Native Interests: The Brookes and the Economic Development of Sarawak, 1841–1941 by Ooi Keat Gin. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xxiii + 414. £27.99 (hardback). ISBN 983–56–0023–6.

British Colonial Rule in Sarawak, 1946–1963 by Vernon L. Porritt. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xxv + 424. £27.99 (hardback). ISBN 983–56–0009–0.

Glimpses of Sarawak between 1912 and 1946: Autobiographical Extracts and Articles of an Officer of the Rajahs: John Beville Archer (1893–1948) compiled, edited, and introduced by Vernon L. Porritt. Hull: Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hull, 1997. Pp.xix + 96. £8.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–85958–906–4.