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Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:30
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Subject: Books for review
Hello
BASA has received a number of books for review in
the BASA Newsletter. If you would like to review any of the following
books, please contact me. Remember, you get to keep the book, so it's a good
way to get your hands on an interesting book for free!
Eric Williams
(2003 [1970]), From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean,
Andre Deutsch, 576pp.
(note that this is a reprint of the 1970
classic!)
Bernard Headley (2002), A Spade is Still a Spade: Essays
on Crime and The Politics of Jamaica, LMH Publishing, 112pp.
Carol
Polsgrove (2001), Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights
Movement, W.W. Norton, 296pp.
David Blair (2002), Degrees in
Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power in Zimbabwe, Continuum,
258pp.
John Martin and Gurharpal Singh (2002), Asian Leicester,
Sutton Publishing, 127pp.
M.C. Lall (2001), India's Missed
Opportunity: India's relationship with the Non-resident Indians, Ashgate,
249pp.
Claudia Bernard (2001), Constructing Lived Experiences:
Representations of Black Mothers in Child Sexual Abuse Discourses,
Ashgate, 126pp.
Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand (2001 [1980]),
Queen Victoria's Maharajah: Duleep Singh 1838-93, Phoenix Press,
326pp.
John Doling and Roziah Omar (2000), Social Welfare East and
West: Britain and Malaysia, Ashgate, 198pp.
Audrey Osler and
Marlene Morrison (2000), Inspecting Schools for Race Equality: Ofsted's
Strenghs and Weaknesses, Trentham Books for the CRE, 185pp.
Elanor
Wilson Orr (1997), Twice as Less: Black English and the Performance of
Black Students in Mathematics and Science, W.W. Norton,
242pp.
Veronique Tadjo (2002), The Shadow of Imana: Travels in the
heart of Rwanda, Heinemann, 118pp.
Ama Ata Aidoo (2002), The
Girl Who Can, and Other Stories, Heinemann, 151pp.
(n.b. fiction from
African Writers Series)
Daniel Mengara (2003), Mema, Heinemann,
122pp.
(n.b. fiction from African Writers Series)
Book reviews
for the BASA Newsletter should be between 500 and 800 words in length,
with the reviewers name and institutional affiliation included at the end of
the review. Reviews should be written for a general audience. Please contact
me if you would like to review any of these books.
Jason Lim
BASA
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Dr. Jason Lim
Department of Geography
University College London
26 Bedford Way
London WC1H OAP
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 1100
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7679 7565
