Tom Brooking, Eric Pawson. Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. 256 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85771-920-1.
Reviewed by Toby Harper (Columbia University) Published on H-Empire (January, 2012) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Growing Grass
Bill Nasson. The War for South Africa: The Anglo-Boer War. Cape Town: NB Publishers: Tafelberg, 2010. 352 pp. + 16 pp. of plates. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-624-04809-1.
Reviewed by Scott Spencer (University of Virginia) Published on H-Empire (January, 2012) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Jeremy Black. The Great War and the Making of the Modern World. London: Continuum, 2011. xv + 337 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8264-4093-8.
Reviewed by Andrew Keating (University of California, Berkeley) Published on H-Empire (January, 2012) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
No Longer A Mindless Slaughter: Revising the Great War
Toyin Falola, Emily Brownell, A. G. Hopkins, eds. Africa, Empire and Globalization: Essays in Honor of A. G. Hopkins. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2011. xxiv + 657 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59460-915-2.
Reviewed by Angela Thompsell (The College at Brockport, SUNY) Published on H-Empire (January, 2012) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Theodore Koditschek. Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 368 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-76791-0.
Reviewed by Bernard Porter (University of Newcastle) Published on H-Empire (December, 2011) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Sarah D. Shields. Fezzes in the River: Identity Politics and European Diplomacy in the Middle East on the Eve of World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xi + 306 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-539331-6.
Reviewed by David Getman (Rice University) Published on H-Empire (November, 2011) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Philip J. Stern. The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 300 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-539373-6; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-993036-4.
Reviewed by Ilya Vinkovetsky (Simon Fraser University) Published on H-Empire (November, 2011) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Hilary M. Carey. God’s Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c.1801–1908. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 446 S. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19410-5.
Reviewed by David Lindenfeld (Louisiana State University) Published on H-Empire (September, 2011) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Ministering to Settler Colonists
Nile Green. Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvi + 327 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-76924-2.
Reviewed by Fahad Bishara (Duke University) Published on H-Empire (September, 2011) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Indian Islam in the Age of Industry
Ilya Vinkovetsky. Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867. Oxford: [Wettingen], 2011. 272 S. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-539128-2.
Reviewed by Matthew Romaniello (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Published on H-Empire (June, 2011) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Meeting Russia’s American Frontier
