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The Barrel of a Gun: Political Power in Africa and the Coup d'État by Ruth First (London, Allen Lane Penguin Press, 1970, £4.20)
Spear and Scepter: Army, Police, and Politics in Tropical Africa by Ernest W. Lefever (Washington, The Brookings Institution, 1970, $6.50)
L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan (eds.), Colonialism in Africa, 1870–1960. Volume I: The History and Politics of Colonialism 1870–1914. (1969). Volume II: The History and Politics of Colonialism 1914–1960 (1970) (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, £5.00 each)
Protest and Power in Black Africa edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Ali A. Mazrui (New York, OUP, 1970, £10.75)
Australia, New Zealand and the United States: A Survey of International Relations 1941–1968 by Trevor R. Reese (London, OUP for RIIA, 1969, £3.15)
India's China War by Neville Maxwell (London, Cape, 1970, £5.00)
Industrial Conflict in Malaya by M. R. Stenson (London, OUP, 1970, £2.50)
Malayan Federalism 1945–1963: A Study of Federal Problems in a Plural Society by B. Simandjuntak (Kuala Lumpur, OUP, 1969, £6.25)
Politics and People in New Zealand by Austin Mitchell (Christchurch, NZ, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1969, $NZ 4.75)
Politics of the New Zealand Maori: Protest and Co‐operation, 1891–1909 by John A. Williams, (London, OUP for the University of Auckland, 1969, £3.75)
The Politics of Tradition: Continuity and Change in Northern Nigeria 1946–66 by C. S. Whitaker Jr. (Princeton University Press, London: OUP, 1970, £6.50)
Malta and the End of Empire by Dennis Austin (London, Cass, 1971, £2.50)
Frontiers of Development Administration edited by Fred W. Riggs (Durham NC, Duke UP, 1971, np)