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Each issue of The Round Table includes a 'Commonwealth Bookshelf' - a listing of newly published books on the Commonwealth and its member countries.

Commonwealth Bookshelf Archive:

•  Commonwealth Bookshelf 2010
•  Commonwealth Bookshelf 2009
•  Commonwealth Bookshelf 2008

Many of these are later reviews as each issue also includes a substantial Book Reviews section. The Bookshelf is compiled and the reviews coordinated by The Round Table's Assistant Editor, Terry Barringer.

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Commonwealth Bookshelf 2010

Compiled by Terry A. Barringer

General

• Jim Davidson, A Three-cornered Life: The Historian W. K. Hancock.
  Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2010, 624 pp., ISBN 978-1-742-23126-6.
• David Twiston Davies, editor, The Daily Telegraph Book of Imperial and Commonwealth Obituaries.
  London, Frontline Books, 2009, vi + 298 pp., ISBN 978-1-84832-534-1.
• Jack P. Greene, editor, Exclusionary Empire: English liberty overseas, 1600–1900.
  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, xiii + 305 pp., ISBN 978-0-521-11498-1.
• Ronald Hyam, Understanding the British Empire.
  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, xxiþ552 pp., ISBN (hbk) 978-0-521-11522-3, (pbk) 976-0-521-13290-9.
• James Mayall, editor, The Contemporary Commonwealth: An assessment 1965-2009.
  London and New York, Routledge, 2009, x + 230 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-48277-6.
  To mark the centenary of The Round Table. Part I takes a thematic approach dealing with the structure and functioning of the Commonwealth and its major activities. Part II adopts a regional perspective.
• Amrita Narlikar, New Powers: How to Become One and How to Manage Them.
  London, Hurst, 2010, xþ199 pp., ISBN 978-1-849-04077-2.
• Priscilla Roberts, editor, Lord Lothian and Anglo-American Relations, 1900-1940.
  Dordrecht, Republic of Letters Publishing, 2010, x + 267 pp., ISBN (hardback) 078-90-8979-034-7, (paperback) 978-908979-033-0.
• Adele Smith, The Royal Over-Seas League: From Empire into Commonwealth: a history of the first 100 years.
  London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2010, xv + 184 pp., ISBN (hardback) 978-1-84885-010-1, (paperback) 978-184885-011-8.

Africa

• Olayiwola Abegunrin, Africa in Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century: A Pan-African Perspective.
  Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, xxii + 265 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-61890-9.
  With special attention to the role of Nigeria and South Africa.
• Kate Allan, editor, Paper Wars: Access to information in South Africa.
  Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2009, xix + 283 pp., ISBN 978-1-86814-491-4.
  Essays and case studies on South African archives and Freedom of Information legislation.
• Guy Arnold, The New Scramble for Africa.
  London, North-South Books, 2009, 260 pp., £14.99. ISBN 978-0-9563070-0-2.
• M.J. Balogun, The Route to Power in Nigeria: A dynamic engagement option for current and aspiring leaders.
  Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, xiv + 263 pp., ISBN 978-0-23061934-0.
• Daniel Branch, Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, civil war and decolonization.
  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxvi + 250 pp., ISBN 978-0-52111382-3.
• Anthony Butler, Contemporary South Africa.
  Basingstoke, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edn 2009, xiii + 244 pp., ISBN (hardback) 978-0-230-21766-9, (paperback) 978-0-230-21766-4.
• Fantu Cheru and Cyril Obi, editors, The Rise of China and India in Africa.
  Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikainstitute and London: Szed Books, 2010, xii + 276 pp., ISBN (hardbk) 978-1-84813-436-2, (paperbk) 978-1-84813-437-9.
• Catherine Cole, Performing South Africa's Truth Commission: Stages of Transition.
  Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2010, xxviiþ227 pp., ISBN 978-0-253-35390-0
• Andrew M. Dorman, Blair's Successful War: British military intervention in Sierra Leone.
  Farnham, Ashgate, 2009, x +159 pp., ISBN 978-07546-7299-9.
• Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga and Robert Ross, editors, The Cambridge History of South Africa Vol.1: From early times to 1885.
  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2010, xx + 467 pp., ISBN 978-0521-51794-2.
• David Killingray with Martin Plaut, Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War.
  Woodbridge, James Currey, 2010, xi + 289 pp., £45. ISBN 978-184701-015-5.
• Ben Knighton, editor, Religion and Politics in Kenya: essays in honour of a meddlesome priest.
  New York, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, xxii + 294 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-61487-1.
  The "meddlesome priest" is Archbishop David Gitari and the book teases out various strands of the relationship between religion (Muslim as well as Christian) and the state and politics in Kenya.
• Kwandiwe Kondlo, In the Twilight of the Revolution: the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa) 1959–1994.
  Basel, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2009, xiv + 340 pp., ISBN 978-3-905758-12-2.
• Jonathan Lawley, Beyond the Malachite Hills: a life of colonial service and business in the new Africa.
  London, I.B. Tauris, 2010, xi + 304 pp., ISBN 978-184885-049-1.
  Lawley grew up in Southern Rhodesia, joined the Colonial Service and worked in Northern Rhodesia and independent Zambia and then as a business consultant in many countries of Africa.
• Rebekah Lee, African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa.
  London, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2009, xiv + 282 pp., ISBN 978-1-84511819-8.
• Joey Power, Political Culture and Nationalism in Malawi: Building Kwacha.
  Rochester, NY, University of Rochester Press, 2010, xiii + 332 pp., ISBN 978-1-58046-310-2.
• Ranka Primorac, editor, African City Textualities.
  London and New York, Routledge, 2010, viiiþ122 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-48155-7.
  Based on a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, this volume merges urban, cultural and literary studies. Commonwealth countries covered: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
• Jeggan C. Senghor and others, Going Public: How Africa's integration can work for the poor.
  London, Africa Research Institute, 2009, 99 pp., ISBN 978-1-906329-07-5.
• Chengetai J.M. Zvogbo, A History of Zimbabwe, 1899-2000 and Postscript: Zimbabwe, 2001-2008.
  Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, xvii + 385 pp., ISBN 978-1-4438-1360-0.

Asia

• Alyssa Ayres, Speaking like a State: language and nationalism in Pakistan.
  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, xii + 217 pp., ISBN 978-0521-51931-1.
• Pranab Bardhan, Awakening Giants: feet of clay: assessing the economic rise of China and India.
  Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2010, vii + 171 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-12994-5.
• Svea Closeer, Chasing Polio in Pakistan: Why the World's Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail. New
  Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University Press, 2010, 232 pp., ISBN (hbk) 9780826517081, ISBN (pbk) 9780826517098.
• Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India.
  Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009, xviþ384 pp., ISBN 978-9-814-27904-8.
• Mario Esteban Carranza, South Asian Security and International Nuclear Order: Creating a robust Indo-Pakistani Nuclear Arms Control Regime.
  Farnham, Burlington VT, Ashgate, 2009, xv + 198 pp., ISBN 978-07546-7541.
• Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot, editors, Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists and separatists.
  London, Hurst, 2009, xv + 276 pp., ISBN (hardback) 978-1-85965-976-1, (paperback) 978-1-85065-977-8.
• Shalendra D. Sharma, China and India in the Age of Globalization.
  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, xiii + 321 pp., ISBN (hardback) 978-0-522-51571-9, (paperback) 978-0-521-73136-2
• Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah and Jiangyu Wang, China, India and the International Order. New
  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, xvi + 643 pp., ISBN 9780521110570.
• Barry Wain, Malaysian Maverick: Mathahir Mohammed in turbulent times.
  London, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, x + 363 pp., ISBN 978-0230-23873-2.

Australasia

• Carl Bridge, Frank Bongiorno and David Lee, editors, The High Commissioners: Australia's representatives in the United Kingdon, 1910–2010.
  Australia, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2010, viii + 342 pp., ISBN (hardback) 978-1-921612-11-4, (paperback) 978-1-921612-10-7.
  This book, marking the centenary of the posting of the first Australian High Commissioner to London, traces the history of the office in the context of the larger story of Australian –British relations in the twentieth century.
• Giselle Byrnes, The New Oxford History of New Zealand.
  South Melbourne, Vic., Oxford University Press, 2009, xvii + 737 pp., ISBN 978-0-1955-847-14.
• Danielle Celermajer, The Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies.
  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, x + 283 pp., ISBN 978-0521-51669-3.
  Political and religious perspectives on new ideas and rituals of national apologies. Two central chapters on the Australian experience.
• James Curran and Stuart Ward, The Unknown Nation: Australia after empire.
  Carlton, Vic, Melbourne University Press, 2010, x + 326 pp., ISBN 978-0522-85645-3.
• Blance d'Alpuget, Hawke: The Prime Minister. New
  Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne University Press, 2010, xiv + 401 pp., ISBN 9780522856705.
• Joy Damousi, Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840–1940.
  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ixþ315 pp., ISBN 978-5-215-1631-0.
• Malcom Fraser and Margaret Simons, Malcolm Fraser: the political memoirs.
  Carlton, Vic., Miegunyah Press, 2010. x + 851 pp., ISBN 978-0-5228-5579-1.
• Paul Kelly, The March of Patriots: the struggle for modern Australia.
  Carlton, Vic, Melbourne University Press, 2009, 720 pp., ISBN 978-0-522-85619-4.
  The inside story of how Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australia.
• Harshan Kumarasingham, Onward with Executive Power: Lessons from New Zealand 1947–57.
  Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington, Institute of Policy Studies, 2010, xþ193 pp., ISBN 978-1-877-34737-5.
• Neville Meaney, Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923: a history of Australian defence and foreign policy 1901-23, Vol. 2.
  Sydney, Sydney University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-19208-99172.
• Lenore Taylor and David Uren, Shitstorm: Inside Labor's Darkest Days. New
  Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne University Press, 2010, 278 pp., ISBN 9780522857290.
  The inside story of the Rudd government, Australia and the world financial crisis.

Canada

• Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Maria Kröller, Eva-Marie, editors, The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature.
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp.,xlvii + 753, ISBN 978-521-86876-1.
• Janet Muller, Language and Conflict in Northern Ireland and Canada: A Silent War. New
  Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, xiii + 281 pp., ISBN 9780230230651.

Caribbean

• Peter Clegg and Emilio Pantojas-García, editors, Governance in the Non-Independent Caribbean: Challenges and opportunities in the twenty-first century.
  Kingston, Ian Randle, 2009, xlvi + 284 pp., ISBN 978-976-637-388-7.
• Emily Greenwood, Afro-Greeks: Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean and the Classics in the Twentieth Century. New
  Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, xii + 298 pp., ISBN 9780199575244.
• Edward Phillip George Seaga, The Grenada Intervention: The Inside Story.
  Jamaica, CreateSpace, 2010, ivþ89 pp., ISBN 978-1-448-62968-8.
• Assad Shoman, Belize's Independence and Decolonization in Latin America: Guatemala, Britain, and the UN.
  New York and Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, xxii + 250 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-62066-7.
• Amanda Sives, Elections, Violence and the Democratic Process in Jamaica 1944-2007.
  Kingston, Ian Randle, 2010, xxvii + 231 pp., ISBN 978-976-637-331-3.

Europe

• Stephen Constantine, Community and Identity: the making of modern Gibraltar since 1704.
  Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2010, xiv + 446 pp., ISBN (hardback) 978-0-7190-7635-0, (paperbackk) 978-0-7190-8054-8.
• Clement Dodd, The History and Politics of the Cyprus Conflict.
  Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, ix + 317 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-24211-1.
• Tabitha Morgan, Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus.
  London, I.B. Tauris, 2010, xviiþ302 pp., ISBN 978-1-848-85329-4.
• Michális Stavrou Michael, Resolving the Cyprus Conflict: Negotiating History.
  New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, xii + 292 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-62002-5.

Journal Articles

• David W. McIntyre, CHOGM 2009 and the 'wider Commonwealth summit': an outward looking 'Commonwealth@60'.
  New Zealand International Review, 35:2 (2010), pp.2-6.
• Timothy M. Shaw, Commonwealth and global development: contributions to private transnational governance.
  Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 48:1 (2010), pp.48-71.