Commonwealth Bookshelf - August. picture shows journal and book covers

Compiled by Terry A. Barringer

General

Empire with a Vengeance: honour and revenge in European colonial warfare 1815-1914, by Mark Condos, London, Hurst, 2026, 448 pp.

Africa

The Forgotten Era: Nigeria before British rule, by Max Siollun, London, Pluto Press, 2025, 325 pp.

Law, Liberation and the cost of dissent, by Brooks Marmon, Boulder, CO, Lynne Rienner, 2026 250 pp.

Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation: an ethnographic biography of Salatiel Ailonga, by Christian A. Williams, Windhoek, University of Namibia Press, 2026, 242 pp.

Asia

The Breakup of India and Palestine: the causes and legacies of partition, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2025, 312 pp.

Australasia

Terra in Our Mist: a Tūhoe Narrative of Indigenous Sovereignty and Settler-State Violence, by Pounamu Jade William Emery Aikman, Canberra, ANU Press, 2026, Free Download

A Different Kind of Power, by Jacinda Ardern, London, Macmillan, 2025, 352 pp.

Fragile Prosperity: Australia’s gigantic monetary gamble, by Stuart Kells, Canberra, ANU Press, 2026, Free Download.

Te Tiriti, Equality and the Future of New Zealand Democracy, by Dominic O’Sullivan, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2026, 264 pp.

Vā Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity, edited by: Albert L. Refiti and others, Canberra, ANU Press, 2026.

Neighbours: Australia and the Pacific, by Joanne Wallis and Jack Corbett, Collingwood, Vic, La Trobe University Press, 2026, 304 pp.

Canada

Irreconcilable: indigeneity and the violence of colonial erasure in contemporary Canada, by Joseph Weiss, Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2026, 242 pp.

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

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