Compiled by Terry A. Barringer
Africa
The Political Economy of Mobile Telephony in South Africa: MTN, Vodacom and the state, by Odilele Ayodele, London, Zed Pooks, 2024, 216 pp.
Understanding Colonial Nigeria: British rule and its impact, by Toyin Falola, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, xx + 694 pp.
Historical Dictionary of the Gambia, by David Perfect, Lanham, MD, Rowman and Littlefield, 6th edn, 2024, 770 pp
Comrades beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the liberation of Southern Africa, by Tycho Van Der Hoog, London, Hurst, 2025, 368 pp.
The African Revolution: a history of the long nineteenth century, by Richard Reid, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 432 pp.
Asia
Towards Peoples’ Histories in Pakistan: (in)audible voices, forgotten pasts, edited by Asada Ali and Kamran Asdar Ali, London, Bloomsbury, 2023, 292 pp.
State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka, by Sunil Bastian, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 200 pp.
Gunpoint Capitalism: enforcing industrial order in Karachi, by Laurent Gayer, London, Hurst 2025, 384 pp.
The Technopolitics of communication in modern India, by Pragya Dhital, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 192 pp.
Through the India-China Border: Kalimpomg in the Himalayas, by Prem Poddar and Lisa Lindkvist Zhang, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, (pdf download and/or read online)
Intelligence Services in South Asia: colonial past and post-colonial realities, by Ryan Shaffer and ASM Ali Shaffer, London, Routledge, 2025, 244 pp.
Australasia
Capital Punishment, Clemency and Colonialism in Papua New Guinea 1954–65, by Murray Chisholm, Canberra, ACT, ANU Press, 2024, xi + 269 pp. Free download
The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: past, present and future, edited by Anna Hayes, Rosita Henry and Michael Wood, Canberra, ACT, ANU Press, 2024, xvi + 242 pp. Free download.
Canada
Canada’s Air Force: the Royal Canadian Air Force at 100, by David T. Bercuson, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 2024, 352 pp.
Canadian Parties in Transition, edited by Alain G. Gagnon and A. Brian Tanguay, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 5th edition, 2024, 516 pp.
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