Compiled by Terry A. Barringer
General
Nostalgic virility as a cause of war: how leaders of great powers cope with status decline, by Matthieu Grandpierron, Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press, 2024, 276 pp. (hardback), ISBN 9780228020165; (paperback), ISBN 9780228020363.
Case studies of Indochina War, Falklands 1982 and US invasion of Grenada 1983.
Playing with fire: parties and political violence in Kenya and India, by Aditi Malik, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 300 pp., (paperback), ISBN 9781009444248.
Africa
Untold histories of Nigerian women: emerging from the margins, by Tayo Agunbiade, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2023, 764 pp., (hardback), ISBN 97815275134; (paperback), ISBN 9781036413071.
British royal visits and Black loyalism in twentieth-century South Africa, by Hilary Sapire, New York, Springer, 372 pp., ISBN 9783031632914.
Party politics and populism in Zambia: Michael Sata and political change 1955–2014, by Sishuwa Sishuwa, Woodbridge, James Curry, 2024, 246 pp., (hardback), ISBN 9781847913927.
In the shadow of the global north: journalism in postcolonial Africa, by J. Siguru Wahutu, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 220 pp., ISBN 9781009431958.
Asia
Towards peoples’ histories in Pakistan: (in)audible voices, forgotten pasts, by Asad Ali and Kamran Asdar Ali, London, Bloomsbury, 2023, 292 pp., ISBN 9781350261198.
Children affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of Myanmar 2021 and beyond, by Kai Chen, New York, Springer, 2024, 101 pp., ISBN 9789819727391.
Kerala, 1965 to the present: India’s miracle state, by Tirthankur Roy and K. Ravi Raman, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 180 pp., (hardback), ISBN 9781009521635; (paperback), ISBN 781009521659.
Australasia
A team of five million: the 2020 ‘Covid-19’ New Zealand General Election, edited by Jennifer Curtin, Lara Greaves and Jack Vowles, Canberra, ANU Press, 2024, xix + 300 pp., (print), ISBN 9781760466473; (online), ISBN 9781760466480, free download from https://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n12424/pdf/book.pdf.
Back on track: the New Zealand General Election of 2023, edited by Stephen Levine, Wellington, Te Herenga Waka Press, 2024, 480 pp., ISBN 9781776922178.
Caribbean
Politics in an island state: Will O. Isaacs and Jamaica’s struggle for development, by Diane Austin-Broos, Kingston, University of the West Indies Press, 2024, 474 pp., (hardback),ISBN 0789766409586; (paperback), ISBN 9789769593.
