Compiled by Terry A. Barringer

Commonwealth Bookshelf

Compiled by Terry A. Barringer

General

Chatham House: the first hundred years, edited by Michael Cox and others, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2026, xviii +299 pp.

Domesticating Brown: movements of racial imagination, by Christopher B. Patterson, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2026, 328 pp.

Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain: the Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire, by Rowan Thompson, London, University of London Press, 2026, 310 pp. Open Access

Africa

Elgar Encyclopedia of African Politics, edited by Anne Mette Kjaer and Xichavo Alecia Ndolovu, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2026, 558 pp.

Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni and the making of the Uganda state, by Mamdani Mahmood, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2025, 352 pp.

Social Constructions of Gender-Based Violence in African Countries, edited Tinuade Adekumbi Ojo, Tanusha Raniga and Samson Sambian Konlon, African Minds, 2026. Download from https://www.africanminds.co.za/gbv-africa/

Decolonizing NGO Peacebuilding and LiberalPeace Agenda in Northern Uganda, by Elias O. Opongo, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, 256 pp.

Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-2025, by Timothy Scarnecchia and Corrado Tornimbeni, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2026, 314 pp.

Historical Dictionary of Rwanda, by Aimable Twagilimana, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 3^rd edn, 2026, 384 pp.

Asia

Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier, by Jason Cons Berkeley, University of California Press, 2025. 210 pp.

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia, Part 1: Colonial India 1757-1947, edited by Latika Chaudhary, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026, 548 pp

Australasia

Gender and Politics Reimagined: centring Oceanic and Asian lenses,edited by Tanya Jakimow and others, Canberra, ANU press, 2025, free download.

Black Witness: the power of indigenous media, by Amy McQuire, Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 2024, 336 pp.

Oceans Between Us: Pacific People and Racism in Aotearoa, by Serena Noepi, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2025.

Vā Moana: space and relationality in Pacific though and identity, by Albert L. Refiti and others, Canberra, ANU Pres, 2026. [free download]

Caribbean

Reordering Caribbean Futures in the Fires of Global Change, edited by Patricia Northover and others, Kingston, University of West Indies Press, 2025, 438 pp.

 Terry Barringer is the Book Review Editor of The Round Table Journal.