Compiled by Terry A. Barringer
General
The End of Empires and a World Remade: a global history of decolonization, by Martin Thomas, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2024, 672 pp. ISBN 9780691190921.
Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: narrating decolonization, postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s development, by Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2024, 270 pp. ISBN 9789462704343.
Africa
Quasi-Armies and State-Building in Africa: towards a global understanding of civil-military relations, by Olaf Bachmann, London, Zed Books, 2024, 240 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9781350413382.
Includes case studies of Rwanda and Cameroon
The Oxford Handbook of the Zambian Economy, edited by Horman Chitonge and others, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024 896 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9780192864222.
Environment, Knowledge and Injustice in Lesotho: the poverty of progress, by Christopher Conz, Woodbridge, James Currey, 2024, 282 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9781840713309.
A People Betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda’s genocide, by Linda Melvern, London, Zed Books, revised and expanded edn, 2024, 424 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9781350409644, (paperback) 9781350409637.
Digital Disinformation in Africa: hashtag politics, power and propaganda, edited by Tony Roberts and George Hamandishe Karckwaivanane, London, Zed Books, 2024, 256 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9781350319219, (paperback) 9781350319202.
Race and diplomacy in Zimbabwe: the Cold War and decolonization, 1960–1984, by Timothy Lewis Scarnecchia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 368 pp. ISBN (paperback) 9781009281706
Asia
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics, edited by Sumit Ganguly and Eswaran Sridharan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 672 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9780198894261.
India’s Near East: a new history, by Avinash Paliwal, London, Hurst, 2024, 480 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9781805260615.
Australasia
After Neoliberalism, by John Quiggin, Canberra, ACT, ANU Press, 2024, xiv + 191 pp. ISBN (print) 9781760466510, ISBN (online) 9781760466527 (free download).
Caribbean
Oil and Climate Change in the Guyana-Suriname Basin, by Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, London, Routledge, 2024, 344 pp. ISBN 9781032598932.
Europe
Island Identities in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas [includes Malta]; by Deborah Paci, London, Bloomsbury, 2023, 256 pp. ISBN (hardback) 9781838606190, (paperback) 9781350360396.
