Compiled by Terry A. Barringer
Commonwealth Bookshelf
Compiled by Terry A. Barringer
General
Reparations: slavery and the tyranny of imaginary guilt, by Nigel Biggar, London, Forum, 2025, 216 pp.
Empires of Violence: massacre in a revolutionary age, by Philip Dwyer and others, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 344 pp.
Relational Geographies of Islands in the Indo-Pacific: environment, society and politics, edited by Tokashi Yamazak and Godfrey Baldacchino, Springer, 2025. [Includes studies of Maldives and Sri Lankans in Sicily]
Africa
South Africa’s Constitution and the Law of the Township, by David Dickinson, Woodbridge, James Currey, 2025, 240 pp.
Christian Theological Education and the Response to the Crisis in Zimbabwe, edited by Bekithembe Dube and Gift Masengue, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 218pp.
Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa, by Nicholas Kerr, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 384 pp.
Enslaved Africans and Their Descendants; edited by Martin A. Klein and Stephen J. Rockel.
Athens, Ohio University press, 2025, 400 pp.
Teaching About the Violent Past [includes Kenya case study], by Line Kuppens and Justin Sheria Nfundiko, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2025, 280 pp. Open Access https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106302
Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni and the making of the Ugandan State, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2025, 352 pp.
Solidarity and Pressure: the story of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, by Connal Parr, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025, 336 pp.
Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence, edited by Hugh Pattenden, Carl P. Watts and Sue Onslow, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, xvi + 297 pp.
A Popular History of Idi Amin’s Uganda, by Derek Peterson, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2025, xv + 354 pp.
The Forgotten Era: Nigeria before British rule, by Max Siollun, London, Pluto Press, 2025, 336 pp.
The Bonds of Freedom: liberated Africans and the end of the Slave Trade, by Jake Subryan Richards, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2025, 336 pp.
Asia
Nationalism in India: multiple dimensions and ideologies, by Bidyut Chakrabarty, Delhi, Bloomsbury Academic India, 2025, 300pp.
Apostles of Development: six economists and the world they made, by David Engerman, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025, x +560 pp.
Majoritarianism in India: roots and consequences, by Javed Gaya, London, Hurst, 2025, 320 pp.
City if Kashmir: Srinigar, a popular history, by Sameer Hamdani, Hurst, 2025, 288 pp.
Rethinking Ourselves: justice, reform and ignorance in postnormal times, by Anwar Ibrahim, London, Hurst, 2025, 248 pp.
The Dismantling of Indian Democracy, by Prem Shanker Jha, New Delhi, Speaking Tiger, 2025, 372 pp.
Orientalism, Liberalism and Colonial Governality: deconstructing the imperialized historiography of modern South Asia, by Sanjeev Kumar HM, Delhi, Bloomsbury Academic India, 2025, 336 pp
The Colombo Plan: development internationalism in Cold War Asia, by David Lowe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, xiii +325 pp.
Progressive laws in Patriarchal Societies: lessons from Pakistan, by Sara Malkani, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 184 pp.
Coolie Migrants, Indian diplomacy: caste, class and indenture abroad, by Kalathmika Natarajan, London, Hurst, 2025, 320 pp.
Cinema and the Indian national emergency: histories and afterlives, by Parichay Patra and Dibyakusum Ray, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 264 pp.
Australasia
Turbulence: Australian foreign policy in the Trump era, by Clinton Fernandes, Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 2025, 144 pp.
Caribbean
The Anglican Church in the Anglophone Caribbean: historical and cultural perspectives, edited by Chris Fauske, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 224 pp.
Terry Barringer is the Book Review Editor of The Round Table Journal.
