Eric Allina. Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. xiii + 255 pp. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8139-3272-9.
Reviewed by Chau J. Kelly (University of North Florida) Published on H-Empire (May, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Michael H. Fisher. Migration: A World History. The New Oxford World History Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii + 149 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-976433-4; $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-976434-1.
Reviewed by Stephen Jackson (University of Sioux Falls) Published on H-Empire (May, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Gordon Pirie. Cultures and Caricatures of British Imperial Aviation: Passengers, Pilots, Publicity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7190-8682-3.
Reviewed by John McAleer (University of Southampton) Published on H-Empire (May, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Jun Uchida. Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945. Harvard East Asian Monographs Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. xvi + 481 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-06253-5.
Reviewed by John Hennessey (Linnaeus University) Published on H-Empire (April, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Ann Fabian. The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xi + 270 pp. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-23349-9.
Reviewed by Sean Harvey (Seton Hall University) Published on H-Empire (April, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Emma Christopher. A Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 448 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-978255-0.
Reviewed by Christienna Fryar (SUNY Buffalo State) Published on H-Empire (April, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Vincent O'Malley. The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642-1840. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2012. 320 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-86940-594-6.
Reviewed by Richard N. Price (University of Maryland) Published on H-Empire (April, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Price on O'Malley, The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642-1840
David A. Wilson, Graeme Morton, eds. Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. 389 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7735-4151-1.
Reviewed by Scott Spencer (Tufts University) Published on H-Empire (April, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Pushing Aside the Natives
Dave St Aubyn Gosse. Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica: 1807-1838. Jamaica: University Of West Indies Press, 2012. 248 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-976-640-269-3.
Reviewed by Dionna Richardson (The University of Akron) Published on H-Empire (April, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Bad Management: The Many Costs of Ignorance and Oversight
David Sunderland. Financing the Raj: the City of London and Colonial India, 1858-1940. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013. viii + 240 pages. ISBN 978-1-84383-795-4.
Reviewed by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Empire (April, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Guha on Sunderland, Financing the Raj: the City of London and Colonial India, 1858-1940
Elizabeth Sinn. Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xviii + 454 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-988-8139-71-2.
Reviewed by Mathew Brundage (Kent State University) Published on H-Empire (February, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Relocation and Reexamination: Hong Kong and the “Pacific World”
David Igler. The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 255 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-991495-1.
Reviewed by Ronald Schultz (University of Wyoming) Published on H-Empire (January, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Bright Lights and Shadows in the Eastern Pacific
Owen White, J. P. Daughton, eds. In God's Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 324 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-539644-7.
Reviewed by Elise Franklin (Boston College) Published on H-Empire (January, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
A Mission to Moralize? French Missionaries in the Empire and Beyond
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin. One Colonial Woman's World: The Life and Writings of Mehetabel Chandler Coit. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. xxvii + 255 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-55849-966-9; $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55849-967-6.
Reviewed by Liberty Sproat (History, Purdue University) Published on H-Empire (January, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
Sadiah Qureshi. Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 382 S. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-70096-0.
Reviewed by Lara Atkin (Queen Mary, University of London) Published on H-Empire (January, 2014) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed
