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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Regents of the University of Wisconsin Systemare collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to African Economic History.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Boston University African Studies Center and Board of Trustees, Boston University are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The International Journal of African Historical Studies. Sante et Population en Senegambie is an annotated bibliography of nearly 3,000items on the medical and demographic history of the Senegambian region. Its authors aim to present a general bibliography on demography and public health, and to use this bibliography to trace the development of health and population studies on the Senegambia. From a European, biomedical perspective, the authors reach their first goal admirably; this bibliography should be a valuable source for scholars interested in historical data on particular diseases, especially in Senegal. Lacking a substantive introductory or concluding essay, the book provides only scanty materials and no guidance for its second goal of intellectual history. While the authors have compiled an inventory of case studies of epidemic and endemic disease and demographic data, neither the introduction nor the annotations connect the two issues to explore the demographic and social impacts of disease and its treatment in the Senegambia.The geographic area included in this bibliography covers the territories of the former colonies of Senegal and Gambia, and at times includes the bordering areas of Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Mauritania. It emphasizes the Francophone experience, both in the brief historical overview (one page) in the introduction and in the institutions, libraries, and document centers searched. While the bibliography includes published work on Senegambian populations from prehistory until Senegal's independence in 1960, it concentrates on the periods of European conquest and colonization (the nineteenth and twentieth centuries).After a useful but largely unannotated section on sources, the bibliographic entries are primarily classified by biomedical disease etiology. The secHistorical Works (on health, historical demography, and the slave trade). The bibliography is technically skillful and complete, with a list of journals checked and their abbreviations, and both author and subject indexes (including entries by ethnic group). The annotations are nonevaluative, summarizing the contents in entries of one to ten lines. before his untimely death. With his usual thoroughness Huggins would have plumbed these contradictions. Now we must wait for another scholar to pick up this fallen torch and finish the project of informing us about this complex and important African-American. Sante et Population en Senegambie is an annotated bibliography of nearly 3,000items on the medical and demographic history of the Senegam...