Compiled by Terry A. Barringer
Africa
Ghana: a political and social history, by Jeffrey Ahlman, London, Zed Books, 2023, 273 pp. ISBN (hardbk) 9781788314220, (pbk) 9780755601561, (ebook) 9780755601578.
Protest in South Africa: rejection, reassertion, reclamation, edited by Heidi Brooks, Rekgotsofetse Chikane and Shauna Mottiar, South Africa, Mapungubwe Institute (MISTRA), 2023, 402 pp. ISBN 9781920690373.
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: social histories of accommodation, by Neil Ross, Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2024, 264 pp. ISBN (hardbk) 9780253068026 (paperbk) 9780253068033.
Joan Wicken: a lifelong collaboration with Mwalimu Nyerere, by Ali Maria Tripp, Dar es Salaam, Mkuki na Nyota Press, 2023, 226 pp. ISBN 9789987753857.
Malawi’s Transition From One-Party Autocracy to Enfeebled Democracy, by Denis Venter, Malawi, Mzuni Press, 2023, 572 pp. ISBN 978996076312.
Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: land, land reform and redistributive justice in South Africa, edited by Olaf Zenker, Cherryl Walker and Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 336 pp. (hardbk) ISBN 9781009380775.
Asia
The Cold War in the Himalayas: multinational perspectives on the Sino-Indian border conflict, 1950-1970, by Reed H. Chervin, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024, 293 pp. ISBN 9789048559350.
Australasia
Uneven Connections: a partial history of the mobile phone in Papua New Guinea, by Robert J. Foster, Canberra, Australian University Press, 2024, xvi + 221 pp. ISBN 978176046625. Free download.
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia’s security, by Rebecca Strating and Joanne Wallis, Collingwood, Vic., La Trobe University Press, in conjunction with Black Inc., 2024, 287 pp., ISBN (paperbk) 9781760644512, (ebook) 9781743823538.
