New books - May 2012

A selection of books added to the collection in May:

Namyalo, Doreen and Jacqueline Macalesher. The abolition of the death penalty and its alternative sanction in East Africa : Kenya and Uganda , London : Penal Reform International, c2012.


Ndlovu, Mary. Against the odds : a history of Zimbabwe project , Harare, Zimbabwe : Zimbabwe Project Trust : Weaver Pr., 2011.

Bertram, Geoffrey. Assessing the structure of small welfare states, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.

Malan, Jannie. Being similar, different and coexistent, Durban, South Africa : African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), 2011.

Kanyenze , Godfrey et al (eds). Beyond the enclave : towards a pro-poor and inclusive development strategy for Zimbabwe, Harare : Weaver Press in association with Alternatives to Neo-liberalism in Southern Africa, Labour & Economic Development Research Institute, Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, 2011.

Hopkins-Weise, Jeff. Blood brothers : the ANZAC genesis, Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2009.

Bano, Masooda. Breakdown in Pakistan : how aid is eroding institutions for collective action, Stanford, California : Stanford Economics and Finance, Stanford University Press, [2012].

Gwee, June (ed). Case studies in public governance : building institutions in Singapore, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Okombo , Okoth et al (eds). Challenging the rulers : a leadership model for good governance, Nairobi, Kenya : East African Educational Publishers Ltd. in partnership with Community Aid International, 2011.

DasGupta, Sumona . Citizen initiatives and democratic engagement : experiences from India, London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

McCowan, Tristan and Sonia Gomez. Citizenship education in Commonwealth countries, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2012.

Harris, David. Civil war and democracy in West Africa : conflict resolution, elections and justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia, London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.

Frayne, Bruce, Caroline Moser and Gina Ziervogel (eds). Climate change, assets and food security in Southern African cities, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Earthscan, 2012.

Falola, Toyin. Colonialism and violence in Nigeria, Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Nathan, Laurie. Community of insecurity : SADC's struggle for peace and security in Southern Africa, Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.

Lamba, Isaac Chikwekwere. Contradictions in post-war education policy formulation and application in colonial Malawi 1945-1961: a historical study of the dynamics of colonial survival, Zomba, Malawi : Kachere Series, 2010.

Constandinos, Andreas. The Cyprus crisis : examining the role of the British and American governments during 1974, Plymouth : University of Plymouth Press, 2012.

Mullen, Rani D. Decentralization, local governance, and social wellbeing in India : do local governments matter? New York : Routledge, 2012.

Theodore, Karl, Mahendra Reddy and Happy Siphambe. Development challenges of HIV/AIDS in small states : experiences from the Pacific, Southern Africa and the Caribbean, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.

Gardner, Katy. Discordant development : global capitalism and the struggle for connection in Bangladesh, London : Pluto Press ; New York, NY : distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Fonsah, Esendugue Gregory. Economics of banana production and marketing in the tropics : (a case study of Cameroon). Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, c2012.

Khan, Iffat Humayun. Electoral malpractices during the 2008 elections in Pakistan, Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Sutton, John and Bennet Kpentey. An enterprise map of Ghana, [London?] : International Growth Centre, 2012.

Smith, Jennifer and D. Michael Jackson (eds). The evolving Canadian crown, Kingston, Ont. : Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.

Gibson, Nigel C. Fanonian practices in South Africa : from Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo, New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; Scotsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011.

Tucker, Richard P. A forest history of India, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, c2011.

Handy , Femida et al. From Seva to cyberspace : the many faces of volunteering in India, New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2011.

Appleby, Gabrielle, Nicholas Aroney and Thomas John (eds). The future of Australian federalism : comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Sinha Roy, Mallarika. Gender and radical politics in India : magic moments of Naxalbari (1967-1975), London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Abshire, Jean E. The history of Singapore, Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2011.

Morrissey, Oliver and Evious Zgovu. The impact of China and India on sub-Saharan African countries : opportunities, challenges and policies, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.

Wildeman, Russell Andrew and Wellington Jogo. Implementing the public finance management act in South Africa : how far are we? Pretoria : Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2012.

Majumdar, Boria and Nalin Mehta. India and the Olympics, New York : Routledge, 2009.

Winegard, Timothy C. Indigenous peoples of the British dominions and the first world war, New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.

Graham, Andrew (ed). Innovations in public expenditure management : country cases from the Commonwealth, London : Commonweath Secretariat, c2011.

Kapila, Shruti. An intellectual history for India, New Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Vivekanandan, Jayashree. Interrogating international relations : India's strategic practice and the return of history, New Delhi ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Birchwood, Anthony and Marielle Goto. Issues in monetary and fiscal policy in small developing states : a case study of the Caribbean, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.

Jayaraman, T. K. and Paresh Narayan. Issues in monetary and fiscal policy in small developing states : a case study of the Pacific, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2011.

Fonjong, Lotsmart N. (ed). Issues in women's land rights in Cameroon, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub., c2012.

Levine, Allan. King : William Lyon Mackenzie King : a life guided by the hand of destiny, Vancouver, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, c2011.

Radwan, Ismail and Giulia Pellegrini. Knowledge, productivity, and innovation in Nigeria : creating a new economy, Washington, DC : World Bank, c2010.

Powles, L. D. The land of the pink pearl; or, Recollections of life in the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas : Media Pub., 1996. (First published in 1888, an unaltered and unabridged republication of the work originally published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington)

Keable , Ken (ed). London recruits : the secret war against Apartheid, Pontypool : Merlin Press, 2012.

Adonis, Gérard. Macroeconomic policy frameworks of small states : a case study of Malta, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.

Brown, Karen. Mad dogs and meerkats : a history of resurgent rabies in southern Africa, Cape Town : UCT Press, c2011.

Dalton, Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi : nonviolent power in action, New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.
Navaro-Yashin, Yael. The make-believe space : affective geography in a postwar polity, Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012. (On Cyprus)

Narayan, Badri. The making of the dalit public in North India : Uttar Pradesh, 1950-present, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Macrory, Patrick and Sherry Stephenson. Making trade in services supportive of development in Commonwealth small and low-income countries, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.

Wain, Barry. Malaysian maverick : Mahathir Mohamad in turbulent times, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Forrest, Kally. Metal that will not bend : National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa 1980-1995, Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011

Chaudron, Gerald. New Zealand in the League of Nations : the beginnings of an independent foreign policy, 1919-1939, Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2012.

Ghate , Chetan (ed). The Oxford handbook of the Indian economy, New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Butt, Usama and Julian Schofield (eds). Pakistan: The US, geopolitics and grand strategies, London ; New York : Pluto Press, 2012

Cordesman, Anthony H. and Varun Vira. Pakistan, violence versus stability : a national net assessment : a report of the CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy, Washington, DC : CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2011.

Springer, Cletus I. and John L. Roberts. Partnerships for sustainable development in small states, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.

Leeson, Howard A. The Patriation minutes, Edmonton : Centre for Constitutional Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, c2011.

McCandless, Erin. Polarization and transformation in Zimbabwe : social movements, strategy dilemmas and change, Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2012.

Marland, Alex, Thierry Giasson, and Jennifer Lees-Marshment (eds). Political marketing in Canada, Vancouver : UBC Press, c2012.

Marshall, Ruth. Political spiritualities : the Pentecostal revolution in Nigeria, Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Turner, Simon. Politics of innocence : Hutu identity, conflict, and camp life, New York, N.Y. ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Commonwealth Secretariat. Potential supply chains in the textiles and clothing sector in South Asia : an exploratory study. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.

Crais, Clifton C. Poverty, war, and violence in South Africa, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Adeniyi, Olusegun. Power, politics and death : a front-row account of Nigeria under the late President Yar'Adua, Lagos : Kachifo, 2011.

Gervais, Stéphan, Christopher Kirkey and Jarrett Rudy (eds). Quebec questions : Quebec studies for the twenty-first century, Don Mills, Ontario : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Liundi, Christopher C. Quotable quotes of Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere : collected from speeches and writings, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2012.

Report of the inaugural Commonwealth conference : citizenship and the Commonwealth : the active Commonwealth citizen. London : University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2010.

Menon, Meena. Riots and after in Mumbai : chronicles of truth and reconciliation, New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.

Bornkamm, Paul Christoph. Rwanda's Gacaca courts : between retribution and reparation, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Epstein, James. Scandal of colonial rule : power and subversion in the British Atlantic during the age of revolution, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Bennett, Brett M. and Joseph M. Hodge (eds). Science and empire : knowledge and networks of science across the British Empire, 1800-1970, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Nyagah, Leslie (ed). Seeds for growth : financing smallholder farming in southern Africa, Cape Town, South Africa : IDASA, 2011

Mafela, Lily and Herman Musahara. Setting of new social science research agendas for Africa in the 21st century, Addis Ababa : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), c2011.

O’Neal, Michael E. Slavery, smallholding and tourism : social transformations in the British Virgin Islands, New Orleans : Quid Pro, 2012.

Aggarwal, Aradhna. Social and economic impact of SEZs in India, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Azzopardi, Rose Marie. Social policies in Malta, London : Commonwealth Secretariat/UNRISD, c2011.

Campling, Liam, Hansel Confiance and Marie-Therese Purvis. Social Policies in Seychelles, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.

Vubo, Emmanuel Yenshu, State of a Union : the half century of Cameroon's bicultural experience, Mankon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, cop. 2012.

Weiss, Meredith L. Student activism in Malaysia : crucible, mirror, sideshow, Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University ; Singapore : NUS Press, c2011.

Ongwamuhana, Kibuta. Tax compliance in Tanzania : analysis of law and policy affecting voluntary taxpayer compliance, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki Na Nyoka Publishers, c2011.

Hoerder, Dirk. To know our many selves : from the study of Canada to Canadian studies, Edmonton : AU Press, 2010.

Vigilance, Constance and John L. Roberts (eds). Tools for mainstreaming sustainable development in small states, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2011.


Chandrashekhar, Lalita. Undermining local democracy : parallel governance in contemporary South India, New Delhi : Routledge, 2011.

Cross, Michael. An unfulfilled promise : transforming schools in Mozambique, Addis Adaba, Ethiopia : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, c2011.

Desai, Renu and Romola Sanyal (eds). Urbanizing citizenship : contested spaces in Indian cities, Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.

Parsons, Elizabeth. What price for privatization? : cultural encounter with development policy on the Zambian copperbelt, Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.

Luongo, Katherine, Witchcraft and colonial rule in Kenya, 1900-1955, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Kihiu, Faith. Women as agents of democratisation : the role of women's organisations in Kenya (1990-2007), Berlin : Lit, 2010.

Murithi, Tim and Aquilina Mawadza. Zimbabwe in transition : a view from within, Auckland Park, South Africa : Fanele, 2011.