Round Table Books Editor Terry A. Barringer compiles a selection of books reflecting the modern Commonwealth. picture shows book covers

Compiled by Terry A. Barringer

General

Playing with Fire: parties and political violence in Kenya and India, by Aditi Malik, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 285 pp.

Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation: youth and the practice of transitional justice [South Africa, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Solomon Islands] by Caitlin Mollica, New York, SUNY Press, 2024, 298 pp.

Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: at the margins of empire, 1800-1950, edited by Bernhard C. Schär and Mikko Toivanen , London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 248 pp.

Africa

Apartheid Remains, by Sharad Chari, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024, xxiv+460 pp.

Corruption, Class and Politics in Ghana, by Ernest Harsch, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2024, 380 pp.

Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: between local and global, by Julia Ross Cummiskey, Athens,OH, Ohio University Pres, 2024, 322 pp.

Election 2024, South Africa: countdown to coalition, edited by Collette Schulz-Herzenberg and Roger Southall, Auckland Park, South Africa, 2024, xvi+326 pp.

Asia

Gunpoint Capitalism: enforcing industrial order in Karachi, by Laurent Gayer, London, Hurst, 2025, 384 pp.

Vishwa Shastra: India and the World, by Dhruvu Jaishankur, Penguin Random House, India, 2024, 440 pp.

A New Documentary History of Hong Kong 1945-1997, by Florence Mok and Fung Chi Keung Charles, 2025, 428 pp.

Insecure Guardians: enforcement, encounters and everyday policing in postcolonial Karachi, London, Hurst, 2025, 404 pp.

Australasia

Politics, Pride and Perversion: the rise and fall of Frank Arkell, By Erik Arkell, Canberra, ANUP Press, 2025, 269 pp.

My Land, My Life: dispossession at the frontier of desire [Vanuatu], by Sioban McDonell, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 264 pp.

Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific, by David Oakeshott, Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2024, 236 pp.

Caribbean

Perspectives on Caribbean Law: a compendium of legal essays, by Shazeeda Ali and Stephen Vasciannie, Kingston, University of the West Indies Pr3ss, 388 pp.

Reimaginative Leadership: concepts and applications, by Canute S. Thompson, Kingston, University of the West Indies Press, 2024, 202 pp.

Commonwealth Bookshelf – January 2025

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