New books - October 2012 (Part 2)

The second part of our list of selected new books added to the catalogue and collection in October. New books include reports on household incomes and poverty in the Pacific, works on young people in South Africa and the Solomons, and a number of books on war and conflicts and their aftermaths.


Wasserman, Herman (ed). Press freedom in Africa : comparative perspectives. London ; New York : Routledge, 2013

Gupta, Akhil. Red tape : bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India. Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

Bradley, Tamsin. Religion and gender in the developing world : faith-based organizations and feminism in India. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, 2011

Afram, Gabi G. The remittance market in India : opportunities, challenges, and policy options. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2012.

Narsey, Wadan. Report on the 2008-09 household income and expenditure survey for Fiji. Suva, Fiji : Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics, 2011.

Campioni, Maddalena and Patrick Noack (eds). Rwanda fast forward : social, economic, military and reconciliation prospects. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Samoa. Bureau of Statistics. Samoa : a report on the estimation of basic needs poverty lines, and the incidence and characteristics of hardship & poverty : analysis of the 2008 household income and expenditure survey. Apia, Samoa : Samoa Bureau of Statistics and UNDP Pacific Centre, [2010]

Anderson, Mark Cronlund and Carmen L. Robertson. Seeing red : a history of Natives in Canadian newspapers. Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2011.

Perold, Helene, Nico Cloete and Joy Papier (eds). Shaping the future of South Africa's youth : rethinking post-school education and skills training. Somerset West, South Africa : African Minds ; Wynberg : Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) : Further Education and Training Institute (FETI) ; Rondebosch : Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), 2012.

Allina-Pisano, Eric. Slavery by any other name : African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.

Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs. Solomon Islands national policy on gender equality and women's development. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010

Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs. Solomon Islands national youth policy : 2010-2015 Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010

Hofmeyr, Isabel and Michelle Williams (eds). South Africa & India : shaping the global South. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011.

Binney, Judith. Stories without end : essays 1975-2010. Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2010.

Tanzania General Elections, 31 October 2010 : report of the Commonwealth Observer Group / [Commonwealth Observer Group]. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2010.
India. Finance Commission. Thirteenth finance commission 2010-2015. Vol I : report. India: Finance Commission, 2009.

Gopakumar, Govind. Transforming urban water supplies in India : the role of reform and partnerships in globalization. New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

Pham, Phuong N. and Patick Vinck. Transitioning to peace : a population-based survey on attitudes about social reconstruction and justice in Northern Uganda. Berkeley, CA : Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley : Berkeley Law, 2010.

Nyamnjoh, Frances B., Walter Gam Nkwi and Piet Konings. University crisis and student protests in Africa : the 2005-2006 university students' strike in Cameroon. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa groupe d’intiative commune en recherche et publication, 2012.

India. Planning Commission. Uttarakhand development report. New Delhi : Academic Foundation, 2009.

Dinstein, Yoram. War, aggression, and self-defence. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Lui, Andrew. Why Canada cares : human rights and foreign policy in theory and practice. Montreal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.

Chidester, David. Wild religion : tracking the sacred in South Africa. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

Saikia, Yasmin. Women, war, and the making of Bangladesh : remembering 1971. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

Canada at War: A Guide to Library and Archives Canada's Websites Recalling the Canadian War Experience

Canada at War: A Guide to Library and Archives Canada's Websites Recalling the Canadian War Experience provides a guide to the many resources available on the Library and Archives Canada website, exploring Canada's contribution to military and peacekeeping operations at home and around the world. Each of the links contained in the website will lead to a virtual exhibition or a database of primary documents.

Canada at War: A Guide to Library and Archives Canada Websites Recalling the Canadian War Experience commemorates Canadian sacrifice in all wars and military actions, but particularly those lost in the First World War. Sections of the guide include the Beginnings of Canadian Defence, the Northwest Rebellion, the South African War, the First World War, the Second World War, and the Korean War.

Conference: War and the Caribbean, 20 April 2012

War has been an important engine of economic, social, and cultural change in the Caribbean since the first arrival of Europeans. Violence has shaped, and re-shaped, imperial boundaries to change the rules of the region’s economic game and its notions of citizenship, gender, and race. This conference will consider the causes and consequences of general, and internal, wars in the region during the colonial period and how they highlight the changing nature of its economic and strategic importance in the world order.



The University of Edinburgh hosts a one-day conference on 20 April 2012 on War and the Caribbean, speakers include:

Camillia Cowling (University of Edinburgh) Philip Morgan (Johns Hopkins) Anya Zilberstein (Concordia University)

For registration and further information, please contract mailto:g.rannard@sms.ed.ac.uk

Service and Sacrifice: Colonial Troops and the First World War

Service and Sacrifice: Colonial Troops and the First World War


Speaker: Sonya O. Rose (BIH Visiting Fellow)

Wednesday 14th March 12.30 - 2.30 Room G16 Birkbeck Main Building

This event is free - register here

This seminar will explore what historical scholarship suggests about how the meanings of the key wartime concepts of service and sacrifice resonated across Britain’s colonial empire. It will consider what it meant under different circumstances to ‘volunteer’ and will assess how colonial participation in the war effort was secured and with what consequences. The issues of gender, race and national consciousness will be central to the discussion.

If interested in this event do check out the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library catalogue for books published on African, Asian, Caribbean, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand contributions to both world wars, as well as archive collections which include Australian and New Zealand, Caribbean and African contributions.

Fighting for Britain : African soldiers in the Second World War

Recently I attended a seminar hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, where David Killingray discussed his recent book Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War.

David Killingray's book has been reviewed favourably and presents a history of African's at war and the African contribution to the war effort, between 1939 and 1947, looking at questions including recruitment, experiences of war, discipline and indiscipline, the retuirn home and demobilisation, and the social impact of service. The book is concerned with presenting 'history from below' and sources include oral evidence, written accounts, soliders letter, newlspapers and official sources.

I was pleased to note that one source used were letters included in the Commonwealth Studies Archives, including in the Michael Crowder papers (ICS123), and collated as part of Michael Crowder's research on the Bechuanaland Protectorate the Second World War, carried out as part of his study for the biography of Tshekedi Khama.

Podcasts available from Canadian Military History Conference

Colleagues in the School of Advanced Study, the Institute of Historical Research have been podcasting a selection of seminars and conferences this year. Now available are podcasts from the following conference:

Podcasts of Military History conference - Military History in Canada 
22 June 2010

A one day conference hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, in collaboration with the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies and the Department of History, University of Calgary and the History of Warfare Research Group, King’s College London

Panel 1: Military Intellectuals and British Strategy

Chair: Dr. William Philpott, King’s College, London
Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
A Meeting of Minds? Sir Julian Corbett and the Naval War Course, 1902-1914
Paul Ramsey, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Analysing Defence and Thinking Strategically: The Works of Henry Spenser Wilkinson
Daniel Whittingham, Doctoral Student, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
Charles Callwell and British Strategy

Keynote Speech

Professor David Bercuson, Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, Canada
Canadian Military History

Panel 2: First World War

Chair: Professor Brian Bond, King’s College, London
Nikolas Gardner, Associate Professor of Strategy, Department of Strategy and Leadership, Air War College, Alabama, USA
Charles Townshend's Advance on Baghdad: The British Offensive in Mesopotamia, September-November 1915
Meighen McCrae, Doctoral Student, University of Oxford
The Supreme War Council’s Inter-allied War Planning for 1919
Peter Jackson, Reader in International History, Aberystwyth University
Contending Conceptions of Security in French Policy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919

Panel 3: Economic Warfare

Chair: Professor David French, University College, London
John Ferris, Professor of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Reading the World’s Mail: British Blockade Intelligence and Economic Warfare, 1914-1918
Keith Neilson, Professor of History, Royal Military College, Canada
R.H. Brand, Imperial Unity and Munitions from Canada, 1914-1917

Panel 4: Second World War

Chair: Professor David Bercuson, University of Calgary, Canada
Christine Leppard, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Canada and Coalition Warfare: The Italian Campaign, 1943-44
Russ Benneweis, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Well-Balanced and Hard-Hitting or Uneconomical and Hypertrophied: Manpower Allocation in the Canadian Army during the Second World War
Abraham Roof, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Not What is Desirable But What is Possible: The Soviet Union and British Strategy, 1941-1942

For full details, please see here.

http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/military-history/conference/2010-06-22