The Oxford Handbook's Capacious Atlantic

Questioning Slavery. James Walvin. London and New York: Routledge. 1996. xi, 202pp. £45.00 (cloth); £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–415–15356–5; 0–415–15357–3.

A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. xiii, 262pp. £29.50; £00.00. ISBN 0–253–33247–8; 0–253–21086–0.

Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809–1867. Charles E. Heller. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. 1996. xii, 248 pp. £47.95. ISBN 0–3132–9863–7.

Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian. Hans L. Trefousse. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiii, 312 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–8078–2335‐X.

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Michael A. Morrison. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii, 396pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8078–2319–8.

Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. 330pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2326–0.

Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. Edited by Gert Oostindie. Leiden: Kitlv Press. 1995. viii, 272pp. £45.00. ISBN 90–6718–096–3.

’There Are No Slaves In France’: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime. Sue Peabody. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. x, 210pp. £30.00. ISBN 0–19–510198–7.     

Prisons,workhouses, and the control of slave labour in low country Georgia, 1763–1815

Engendering History. Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective. Edited by VERENE SHEPHERD, BRIDGET BRERETON, BARBARA BAILEY. London: James Currey, Kingston: Ian Randle. 1995. xxii, 406pp. £35.00 and £12.50.

Haiti, History and the Gods. JOAN DAYAN. Los Angeles; University of California Press. 1995. xxiii, 339pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–08900–6.

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by MARY TURNER. Kingston, Bloomington and Indianapolis, and London: Ian Randle Publishers, Indiana University Press, and James Currey. 1995. x, 309pp. £35.00 (cloth); £12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–253–32972–8; 0–253–21001–1.

The Black Loyalist Directory. African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution. Edited and with an Introduction by GRAHAM RUSSELL HODGES. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. li. 318pp. $37.00. ISBN 0–8153–2172–4.

The Abolitionists and the South, 1831–1861. STANLEY HARROLD. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press ofKentucky, 1995. x, 245 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–8131–1906–5.

The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Volume 2: Correspondence, 1823–1857. Edited by JOHN NIVEN. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. xxv, 489 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–87338–508‐X.

The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. JAMES G. HOLLANDSWORTH, Jr. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1995. xiv, 140pp. £23.95. ISBN 0–8071–1939–3.

The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995 (orig. pub. 1985). xvi, 318pp. £13.95. ISBN 0–80712028–6.

Caste &; Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880–1920. FON LOUISE GORDON. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. xvi, 179pp. £31.50. ISBN 0–8203–1711‐X.

African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina. AMELIA WALLACE VERNON. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1995. xiii, 309pp. $16.95.

Agentes de su propia libertad: Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegración de la esclavitud, 1821–1854. CARLOS AGU1RRE. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cató1ica del Perú, Fondo Editorial. 1993. 335pp. ISBN 84–89309–63–9.

Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800–1854. CHRISTINE HÜNEFELDT. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1994. xi, 269pp. ISBN 0–520–08235–4 (cloth); 0–520–08292–3 (paper).

Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel. 1600–1850. JAMES L.A. WEBB, Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xxvi, 227pp. £40.95 (cloth); £17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–299–14330–9.

From Slave Trade to ‘legitimate’ Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth‐Century West Africa. Edited by ROBIN LAW. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, African Studies Series 86. xi, 278pp. £35.00.

Slavery and Slaving in World History. A Bibliography. 1900–1991. JOSEPH C. MILLER. Millwood, NY. 1993. xvii, 556pp. $90.00. ISBN 0–527–63660–6.     

Book reviews

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Ira Berlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. x, 497pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–674–81092–9.

More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. xi, 341 pp. £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–253–21043–7.

From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. Seymour drescher. Foreword by Stanley L. Engerman. London: Macmillan. 1999. xxv, 454pp. £55.00. ISBN 0–333–73748–2.

Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Shane White and Graham White. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xv. 301pp. £23.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–80143179–4.

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 1998. 269pp. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–674–74711–9.

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. John W. Quist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1998. xi, 562pp. £45.90. ISBN 0–8071–2133–9.

Frccdpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860–1900. Jeffrey R. Kerr‐Ritchie. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina press. 1999. xv, 345 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2460–7; 0–8078–4763–1.

The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans. Barry A. Crouch. Austin: University of Texas at Austin Press. 1999. xix, 187pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–71219–7.

Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739–1912. B.W. Higman. Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies. 1998. xv, 384pp. £20.00/$35.00. ISBN 976–640–039–3.

In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. Rosemarijn Hoefte. Gainsville: University of Florida Press. 1998. xii, 275pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8130–1625–8.

Writing West Indian Histories. B.W. Higman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 1999. xiv, 289 pp. £15.50 (paper). ISBN 0–333–73296–0.

Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues. Edited by Tom Brass and Marcel Van Der Linden. Bern/Berlin/Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang. 1997 (International and Comparative Social History 5). 602 pp. £52.00. ISBN 3–906756–87–4.

Servicing the Master. Slavery and Society in Nineteenth Century Morocco. Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. London: Macmillan, 1999. xix, 166pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–333–75477–8.

Servants of Allah. Sylviane A. Diouf. New York: New York University Press. 1998. vii, 254 pp. $18.50. ISBN 0–8147–1905–8     

Slavery and liberty: The case of the Scottish Colliers

Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians. Peter Hunt. Cambridge: Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiv, 246pp. £37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–58429–9.

The English in West Africa, 1681–1683: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Part 1. Edited by Robin Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy. 1997. xix, 363pp. £45.00. ISBN 0–19–726176–0.

Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Anthony W. Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xvi, 390pp. £22.50/US$29.95. ISBN 0–521–58455–8.

Liberating the Family. Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823–1853. Pamela Scully. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Oxford: James Currey. xiii, 210, index, map. £40 (cloth); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0–85255–678–0; 0–85255–628–4.

The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion. Edited by Robert Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1996. xii, 383pp. £39.95. ISBN 0–8130–1428‐X.

Dictionary of Afro‐American Slavery. Updated with a New Introduction and Bibliography. Edited by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. xix, 892pp. £27.95 (paper). ISBN 0–275–95799–3.

Masters, Slaves, &; Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790. Robert Olwell. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvi, 294pp. £38.95 (cloth); £13.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8014–3488–3; 0–8014–8491‐X.

Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers. Graham Russell Hodges. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998. xi, 185pp. $55.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0–7656–0112–5; 0–7656–0113–3.

Designs against Charleston: The Trial Records of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Edward A. Pearson. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiii, 387pp. £31.50. ISBN: 0–8078–2446–1.

Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Paul Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998. xxi, 303pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–20794–7.

Race, Place, and the Law, 1836–1948. David Delaney. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1998. x, 229pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–7–1596‐X; 0–292–71597–8.     

Book reviews

’Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction’: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. Midori Takagi. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. 1999. xi, 187 pp. $37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8139–1834–0.

Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Barbara J. Heath. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 1999. x, 81 pp. $12.50 (paper). ISBN 0–8139–1867–7.

Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and ‘Race’ in New England, 1780–1860. Joannk Pope Melish. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvii, 296 pp. £26.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–8014–3413–0.

American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture. Audrey A. Fisch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. x, 139pp. £35.00/$59.95. (cloth). ISBN 0–521–66026–2.

Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1618–1782. Virginia Bernhard. Columbia. Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 1999. xviii, 316pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–8262–1227–1.

Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society. Hilary McD. Becklks. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers; Princeton: Marcus Weiner Publishers; Oxford: James Currey Publishers. 1999. xxv, 211 pp. £15.95 (paper). ISBN: 976–8123–78–8.

Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833–1874. Christopher Schmidt‐Nowara. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 1999. xiii, 239 pp. $50.00(cloth). ISBN 0–8229–4089–2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0–8229–5690 X.

Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth‐Century San Juan, Puerto Rico. Teresita MartíNez‐Vergne. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1999. xv, 235 pp. $32.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–292–75220–2; $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–75221–0.

The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History. Edited by Bridget Brereton and Kevin Yelvington. Kingston and Gainesville: The Press, University of the West Indies and the University Press of Florida. 1999. xxiii, 319 pp. $49.95 (cloth) ISBN 0–8130–1696–7; $30.00 (paper) ISBN 976–640–030‐X.     

Slavery in eighteenth‐century Rhode Island: Evidence from the census of 1774

Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Stephan Palmié (ed.). Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. 1995. xlvii, 283pp. $35.00. ISBN 087049–903–3.

Carnival. Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making. John Cowley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xv, 293pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–521–48138–4.

West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan. Roderick a. McDonald (ed.). Kingston, Jamaica: The Press, University of the West Indies. 1996. xvi, 388pp. £14.00 (paperback). ISBN 976–640–022–9.

L'Engrenage de la Liberté: Caraïbes ‐ XIXe siècle, Nelly Schmidt. Aix‐en‐Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence. 1995. 360pp. 250FF. ISBN 2–85399–359–0.

Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. Suzanne Schwarz (ed.). Wrexham: Bridge Books. 1995. 164pp. £8.95. ISBN 1–872424–42–2. The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth‐Century Lancaster. Melinda Elder. Halifax: Ryburn Publishing. 1992. 232pp. £25. ISBN 1–85331–030–1.

Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. William Dusinberre. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. xiv, 556pp. £40.00.

The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The narrative of Peter and Vina Still after forty years of slavery, Kate E.R. Pickard. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1995. xv, 103, 409 pp. £14.00. ISBN 0–8032–9233–3.

The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. van Horne (eds.). Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, in co‐operation with the Library Company of Philadelphia. 1994. xviii, 363pp.

’what nature suffers to groe’: Life, labor and landscape on the Georgia coast, 1680–1920. Mart A. Stewart. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix, 370pp. $45. ISBN 0–8203–1808–6.

Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective, Celia M. Azevedo. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.1995. xxvi, 200pp. ISBN 0–8153–2332–8.     

Emancipation studies: The demise of slavery in Pennsylvania and New York

Freedom By Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. By GARY B. NASH and JEAN R. SODERLUND. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 249 pp. £20.

Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New YorkCity, 1770–1810. By SHANE WHITE. Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xviii, 278 pp. $35.     

Race and economics in Nineteenth‐century Georgia

From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880. JOSEPH P. REIDY. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xiv+360pp. $45.00. ISBN 0–8078–2061‐X.

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure. EDMOND L. DRAGO. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c1982, 1992. xxii+211pp. $16.95. ISBN 0–8203–1438–2.     

White ‘ladies’, coloured ‘favourites’ and black ‘wenches’; some considerations on sex,race and class factors in social relations in white Creole Society in the British Caribbean

The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Alan Gallay. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 19S9, xx, 282 pp. $35.00.

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. By Rachel N. Klein. Chapel Hill &; London: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990. vii, 331 pp. $34.95.

Women and Sisters: Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. By Jean Fagan Yellin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. ix, 226 pp. £20.00/$29.95.

Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. By Lengougeon. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press. 1990. xiii, 408 pp. $45.00.

Race and Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. Madison: Madison House, 1990. 212pp. $27.95.

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Edited by B.A. Botkin. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xl, 297 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Religion and the Radical Republican Movement 1860–1870. By Victor B. Howard. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. 297 pp. $32.00.

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920. By Willard B. Gatewood. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990. cii; 450 pp. $39.95.

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830–1848. By Dale W. Tomich. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv, 353pp.

Indenture and Exile: The Indo‐Caribbean Experience. Edited by Frank Birbal‐Singh. Tsar, Toronto, 1989. 264 pp. £10.00.     

‘To be Free is Very Sweet’

Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670–1834. MOIRA FERGUSON. New York & London: Routledge, 1992. xiii, 465pp. £12.99. ISBN O‐415–90476–5.

The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. MOIRA FERGUSON. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. ix, 214pp. £38.00. ISBN O‐8032–1984–9.     

Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and The Radical Enlightenment

The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry. Joan R. Sherman (ed.).Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. 158pp. $29.95 and $12.95. ISBN 0–8078–2341–4.

Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and The Politics of Representative Identity. Robert S. Levine. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. x, 314pp. $45.00 and $18.95. ISBN 0–8078–2323–6.

Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner. Barbara Ladd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1997. xxi, 197pp. $30.00. ISBN 0–8071–2065–0.

Passing and the Fictions of Identity. Elaine K. Ginsberg (ed.). Durham: Duke University Press. 1996. £43.95 and £15.95. ISBN 0–8223–1755–9.     

Slavery: Annual bibliographical supplement (1993)

Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters. Edited by Reyahn King. London: National Portrait Gallery. 1997. 126pp. (paper). £10.95. ISBN 1–85514–192–2.

Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English‐speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Vincent Carretta. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 1996. xi, 385pp. $42.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8131–1976–6; 0–8131–0884–5.     

The transition from Encomienda to slavery in seventeenth‐century Barbacoas (Colombia)

Testing the Chains, Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. Michael Craton. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1982. 389pp. £27.90.

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Selected from the Holdings of the National Archives of the United States. Series II. The Black Military Experience ed. Ira Berlin, et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1983. xxx+ 852 pp. £37.50.

Slavery and Freedom (expanded edition, ed. by William W. Freehling). Willie Lee Rose. New York: Oxford University Press. 1982. xi, 254pp. £6.95.

The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South. Catherine Clinton. New York: Pantheon. 1982. xix + 331pp. $19.95.

Gregarious Saints: Self and Community in American Abolitionism, 1830–1870. Lawrence J. Friedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982. xi + 344 pp. £20.00.

Immigrants, Minorities and Race Relations: A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Presented at British and Irish Universities, 1900–1981. Victor F. Gilbert and Darshan Singh Tatla. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd. 1984. xxxiii, 153 pp. £13.50.     

Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa

Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619–1860. Thomas D. Morris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1996. x, 575pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8078–2238–8.

Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Judith Kelleher Schafer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1994. xix, 389pp. $32.95. ISBN: 0–8071–1845–1.     

So bad,so good: Slavery in the Southern United States

Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia. BETTY WOOD. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1995. x. 247 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). ISBN 1–878822–37–3; ISBN 0–8203–1667–9.

Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South. Edited by LARRY E. HUDSON, Jr. Rochester, NY, University of Rochester Press, 1994. xiii, 241pp. $19.95. ISBN 1–878822–38–1.     

Contemporary forms of slavery

Slavery in Brazil: A Link in the Chain of Modernisation: the Case of Amazonia, (A Report by Anti‐Slavery International, no.7 Human Rights Series). ALISON SUTTON. London, 1994. 154pp., bibliography, maps, glossary, photographs. £5.95. ISBN 0–900918–32–2.

Britain's Secret Slaves: An Investigation into the Plight of Overseas Domestic Workers (with contributions from Anti‐Slavery International & Kalayan and the Migrant Domestic Workers, no.5 Human Rights Series). BRIDGET ANDERSON. London, 1993. 122pp., references, appendices, photographs. £5.50. ISBN 0–900918–29–2.

Child Labour in Nepal (A Report by Anti‐Slavery International and Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre no.13 Child Labour Series), OMAR SATTAUR. London, 1993. 71pp., bibliography, maps, glossary, appendices, photographs. £5.00. ISBN 0–900918–31–4.

Ethnic Groups in Burma: Development, Democracy and Human Rights (A Report by Anti‐Slavery International, no.8 Human Rights Series), MARTIN SMITH. London, 1994. 139pp., bibliography, maps, chronology, photographs. £5.95. ISBN 0–9009–18–34–9.     

The unredeemed past: Academics and Indians on America's intellectual frontier

Susan B. Andrews and John Creed (eds.), Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xxvii + 177. $35 (hardback); $15 (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 1041 8 and 5933 6

Joy A. Bilharz, The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam: Forced Relocation Through Two Generations (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xxvi + 194. $40/£38 (hardback). ISBN 0 8032 1282 8

Devon A. Mihesuah (ed.), Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xi + 212. $15/£14 (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 8243 5

Roger Nichols, Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History (Lincoln, NE and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1988). Pp.xvii + 383. $60/£57 (hardback). ISBN 0 8032 3341 8

Eli Paul (ed.), The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865–1877 (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xii + 245. $15/£14 (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 8749 6

Gerald Vizenor, Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.238. NP (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 4664 1     

Global sports and patriot games: Rugby union and national identity in a united sporting kingdom since 1945

Richard Caplan and John Perrer (eds.), Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). Pp.xi + 241. £30 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 19 509148 5 and 509149 3

Tom Nairn, Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited (London: Verso, 1997). Pp.x + 246. £35 (hardback); £12 (paperback). ISBN 1 85984 823 0 and 194 5

Camille Guerin‐Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda (eds.), The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy since 1830 (New York: Holmes &; Meier, 1998). Pp.xi + 366. $20. ISBN 0 8419 1298 X

Karen Fog Olwig (ed.), Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post‐Emancipation Caribbean (London: Frank Cass, 1995). Pp.191. £30 (hardback); £17.50 (paperback). IBSN 0 7146 5476 and 4225 8

Mary Chamberlain (ed.), Caribbean Migration: Globalised Identities (London and New York: Routledge, 1998). Pp.xii + 267. ISBN 0 415 16580 6

Frank Füredi, The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race. Pp.282. £45 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7453 1303 5 and 1308 6

Paul J. Smith (ed.), Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and the Challenge to America's Immigration Tradition (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997). Pp.xv +207. $21.95. ISBN 0 89206 291 6

Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid (eds.), Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 1997). Pp.vii + 335. US$25 (paperback). ISBN 0 295 97613 6

Mordechai Rozin, The Rich and the Poor: Jewish Philanthropy and Social Control in Nineteenth‐Century London (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999). Pp.xii + 268. £45 (hardback). ISBN 1 898723 79 6

Judith Laikin Elkin, The Jews of Latin America (New York/London: Holmes &; Meier, 1998). Pp.xv + 339. £12. 95 (paperback). ISBN 0 84191369 2

Ignacio Klich and Jeffrey Lesser (eds.), Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America: Images and Realities (London: Frank Cass, 1998). Pp.xiv + 264. £32.50/$47.50 (hardback); £16.60/$22.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 7146 4873 6 and 4412 9

Robin Gwynn, The Huguenots of London (Brighton and Portland, OR: Alpha Press, 1998). Pp.viii + 67. £7.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 898595 24 0

Alec G. Hargreaves and Mark McKinney (eds.), Post‐Colonial Cultures in France (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). Pp.xv + 299. £45 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 415 14487 6 and 14488 4

Roger Bartlett and Karen Schönwälder (eds.), The German lands and Eastern Europe. Essays on the History of Their Social, Cultural and Political Relations (Studies in Russia and East Europe) (London: Macmillan/SSEES, 1999). Pp.x + 288. £47.50. (hardback). ISBN 0 333 72086 5

Donald M. MacRaild, Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750–1922 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999). Pp.x + 230 £40 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 67761 7 and 67762 5

Thomas Kenneally, The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New (London: Chatto &; Windus, 1999). Pp.xiii + 732. £25 (hardback). ISBN 1 85619 788 3

R.J. Scally, The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). Pp.266. £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 19 510659 8

Jill Blee, The Pines Hold Their Secrets (Victoria, Australia: Indra, 1998). Pp.283. NP (paperback). ISBN 0 9587718 8 X

Jan Critchett, Untold Stories: Memories and Lives of Victorian Kooris (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998). Pp.xxi + 283. NP. ISBN 0 522 84818 4

James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War (Baton Rouge, LA and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997). Pp.140 + xiv. £23.95/$24.95. ISBN 0 8071 1939 3

Geoffrey Self, The Hiawatha Man: The Life and Work of Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995: USA contact Ashgate, Brookfield, VT). Pp.326. £39.50. ISBN 0 085967 983 7

Brian Dyde, The Empty Sleeve: The Story of the West India Regiments of the British Army (London and Antigua: Hansib Caribbean, 1997). Pp.283. £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 976 8163 09 7

Philip Towle, Enforced Disarmament: From the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). Pp.x + 268. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 820636 4     

Toward a New Mississippi history

Political Culture in the Nineteenth‐Century South: Mississippi, 1830–1900. BRADLEY G. BOND. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1995. 342 pp., notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–807–1976–8.

Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860. CHRISTOPHER MORRIS. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995. 258 pp., notes, illustrations, appendices, index. $35.00. ISBN 0–19–508366–0.

"Worse than Slavery:”; Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. DAVID M. OSHINSKY. New York: Free Press. 1996. 306 pp., notes, illustrations, index. $25.00.

Mississippi: An American Journey. ANTHONY WALTON. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1996. 279 pp., illustrations. $24.00.