Back to the Future, Again: Reagan, Bush, and Nader

Books reviewed in this article:
Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson and Martin Anderson, (eds.) Reagan, in his own hand: The writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America
Elizabeth Mitchell, W: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty
Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
Nicholas Lemann, Sons: George W. Bush and Al Gore
Ralph Nader, Cutting Corporate Welfare     

America,capitalism, and the interstate system

Peter Gowan responds to published criticisms of his article “Triumphing toward International Disaster: The Impasse in American Grand Strategy” (Critical Asian Studies 36, no. 1 [March 2004]: 3-36) by Kristen Nordhaug, Ravi Arvind Palat, Vijay Prashad, Marika Vicziany, Mark T. Berger, and Heloise Weber (see Critical Asian Studies 37, no. 1 [March 2005]: 75-140).     

Sudan,Global Security Watch

Shi'ite Islam: Polity, Ideology and Creed by Yann Richard, trans. Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Pp.xiii + 241, glossary, bibliography, index.

A Journey to Persia: Jean Chardin's Portrait of a Seventeenth‐century Empire translated and edited by Ronald W. Ferrier. London: I.B. Tauris, 1996. Pp.xiv + 193. £25.00.

British Imperialism: Innovation and Expansion, 1688–1914 by P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. London: Longman, 1993. Pp.xv + 504. £38 (hardback); £16.99 (paperback).

British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914–1990 by P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. London: Longman, 1993. Pp.xiv + 337. £30 (hardback); £11.99 (paperback).

My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the early Zionist imagination by Laura Zitrain Eizenberg. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994. Pp.219, index. $29 (hardback).

Quest for Conception: Gender Infertility and Egyptian Medical Traditions by Marcia Inhorn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Pp.xxvii + 441, index (paperback).

Dictionary of Iraqi Judeo‐Arabic Dialect by G. Yona‐Swery and R. Rajwan, Jerusalem, Association for Jewish Academics from Iraq, 1995, pp.xvi + 348, no bibliography, 5 indexes.

On the Margins: The Arab Population in the Israeli Economy by Aziz Haidar. London: Hurst &; Company, 1995. Pp.192, bibliography, index. £32.50 (hardback).

The Arabs in Israel by Ori Stendel. Brighton and Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 1996. Pp.viii + 296.     

Yigal Allon,Native Son: A Biography

T. S. Sadibayev's Islam i obshchyestvo: opit istoriko‐sotsiologichyeskogo isslyedovaniya, Islam and Society: an Essay of Historical‐Sociological Research (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1984: 304 pp.).

Islam v SSSR: osobyennosti protsyessa syekulyarizatsii v Ryespublikakh Sovyetskogo Vostoka, Islam in the Soviet Union: Characteristics of the Process of Secularization in the Republics of the Soviet East (Moscow: Misl’ Press for the Institute of Scientific Atheism in the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1983: 176 pp.).

L. I. Klimovich's Kniga o Koranye: Ego proiskhodzhdyenii i mifologii, The Book about the Koran: Its Origins and Myths (Moscow: Political Literature Press, 1986; 272 pp.).

Islam v sovryemyennoy politikye stran Vostoka (Konyets 70‐kh nachalo 80‐kh godov XX v.). Islam in the Contemporary Politics of the Countries in the East: Late 1970s to Early 1980s (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1986; 280 pp.)

Sotsialno‐politichyeskiye pryedstavleniya v Islamye: Istoriya i sovryemyenost’, Socio‐political Notions in Islam: History and Present (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1987: 120 pp.).

A. A. Ignatyenko's Khalifi byez Khalifata, Caliphs Without a Caliphate (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1988; 208 pp.).

N. V. Dzhdanov and A. A. Ignatyenko, is entitled Islam na porogye XXI vyeka, Islam on the Threshold of the 21st Century (Moscow: Political Literature Press, 1989; 352 pp.).

M. I. Philippova has written Obshchyestvyenniye funktsii Islama v sovryemyennom Amyerikanskom Islamovyedyenii, The Social Functions of Islam in Contemporary American Islamology (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1989; 149 pp.).

Islam: Kratkiy spravochik, Islam: A Short Guide (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1983; 160 pp.)

Islam: Entsyklopyedichyeskiy slovar’, Islam: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1991; 316 pp.).     

Latvian CDI: methodology,developmental trends,and cross-linguistic comparison

ABSTRACT

In this article, we report the results of a large-scale population study based on the Latvian adaptation of Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) – a parental report tool aimed at mapping the lexical and grammatical development of children under the age of three. Two CDI forms are discussed: CDI I: ‘Words and Gestures’ (8–16 months), and CDI II: ‘Words and Sentences’ (17–36 months). This article discusses the Internet-based methodology used for the data collection, reports the main developmental trends of the lexical development of Latvian children, and compares these trends to analogous data from American English, Norwegian, and Russian.     

'New Scottish politics, new texts required'

Books reviewed in this article:
D. Denver, J. Mitchell, C. Pattie, and H. Bochel, Scotland Decides: The Devolution Issue and the Scottish Referendum
G. Hassan, and C. Warhurst, (eds) A Different Future: A Moderniser's Guide to Scotland
G. Hassan, and C. Warhurst, (eds) The New Scottish Politics: TheFirst Year of the Scottish Parliament
P. Lynch, Scottish Government and Politics: An Introduction
J. McFadden, and M. Lazarowicz, The Scottish Parliament: An Introduction
B. Tylor, The Scottish Parliament
A. Wright, (ed.) Scotland: The Challenge of Devolution     

Drugs,Violence, and Corruption: Perspectives from Mexico and Central America

Robert J. Bunker, ed., Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: The Gangs and Cartels Wage War. New York: Routledge, 2013. Tables, figures, index, 210 pp.; hardcover $160, paperback $56.95. Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan, Studies in Gangs and Cartels. New York: Routledge, 2014. Tables, figures, index, 232 pp.; hardcover $168, paperback $54.95. Michael Deibert, In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico. Guilford: Lyons Press, 2014. Map, bibliography, index, 336 pp.; hardcover $24.95, paperback $16.95. Alfredo Nateras Domínguez, Vivo por mi madre y muero por mi barrio. Significados de la violencia y la muerte en el Barrio 18 y la Mara Salvatrucha. Mexico City: Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud (IMJUVE)/Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL), 2014. Figures, bibliography, 493 pp.; paperback. Sala Negra de El Faro, eds., Crónicas negras desde una región que no cuenta. Mexico City: Aguilar, 2014. 350 pp.; paperback $17. Héctor Silva Ávalos, Infiltrados: crónica de la corrupción en la PNC (1992–2013). San Salvador: UCA Ediciones, 2014. 312 pp.; paperback $10.     

Settler Colonialism and (re)Conciliation: Frontier Violence,Affective Performances,and Imaginative Refoundings

Settler Colonialism and (re)Conciliation: Frontier Violence, Affective Performances, and Imaginative Refoundings . By Penelope Edmunds (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp.xvi + 253, US$95.00.     

Politics,Livelihoods, and Identities Across Borders

Jean‐Michel Lafleur, Transnational Politics and the State: The External Voting Rights of Diasporas. New York: Routledge, 2013. Tables, bibliography, index, 200 pp.; hardcover $145, paperback $54.95. Karsten Paerregaard, Return to Sender: The Moral Economy of Peru's Migrant Remittances. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 336 pp.; hardcover $65, paperback $34.95, ebook $34.95. Tiffany Joseph, Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. Maps, figures, tables, photos, bibliography, index, 240 pp.; hardcover $85, paperback $24.95, ebook $24.95. Roger Waldinger, The Cross‐Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. Figures, bibliography, index, 240 pp.; hardcover $29.95.     

Political Culture, Konrad Adenauer, and the Reunification of Germany: an Attempt at Sorting Out a Number of Problems in a Current Debate.

Alfred Heuss, Versagen und Verhaengnis, Vom Ruin deutscher Geschichte und ihres Verstaendnisses (Failure and Disaster, On the Ruin of German History and its Comprehension), Berlin: Siedler, 1984, 213 pp.; Herbert Ammon and Theodor Schweisfurth, Friedensvertrag, Deutsche Konfoederation, Europaeisches Sicherheitssystem (Peace Treaty, German Confederacy, European Security System), Starnberg: IBF Verlag, 1985, 95 pp.;
Hans-Peter Schwarz, Die gezaehmten Deutschen, von der Machtbesessenheit zur Machtvergessenheit (The Tamed Germans, From the Obsession with Power to the Oblivion of Power), Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1985, 191 pp.;
Hans-Peter Schwarz, Adenauer, Der Aufstieg: 1876–1952 (Adenauer, The Rise: 1876–1952). Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1986, 1021 pp.;
Dieter Blumenwitz and Boris Meissner (eds.), Die Uebenvindung der europaeischen Teilung und die deutsche Frage (The Surmounting of the Division of Europe and the German Question), Cologne: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 1986, 143 pp.;
Wolfgang Seiffert, Das ganze Deutschland, Perspektiven der Wiedervereinigung (The Whole Germany, Perspectives of Re-Unification), Munich-Zurich: Piper, 1986, 377 pp.     

State,Society, and Economic Development in Sports Life Cycles: The Case of Boxing in Korea

This study documents the rise and fall of boxing in Korea since its introduction in 1912. The participation of amateur athletes in boxing has decreased sharply since the 1980s. Also, the popularity of professional boxing among sports fans has diminished in recent decades. I consider boxing as a “product” that is “consumed” by individuals as participants and fans. I apply product life-cycle theory in analyzing the changing popularity of boxing. I argue that changes in the tastes of sports fans are closely linked to economic development, industrialization and standard of living. I present the rise in the popularity of soccer, baseball, and golf as illustrations of the changing tastes of consumers of sports that have accompanied economic development and social changes as well as the changing government policies on sports.

Transnationalism,Nationalism and Australian History

Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History . Edited by Anna Clark, Anne Rees and Alecia Simmonds (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp.199, £67.99 (hb).     

Britain,Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento

Britain, Ireland and the Italian Risorgimento. Edited by Nick Carter (London: Palgrave, 2015), £60.00 (cloth).     

A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal,Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice: Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack

A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice. By Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (New York: HarperCollins, 2016), pp. xvi + 521. US$35.00. Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack. By Steve Twomey (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), pp. xvi + 368. US$30.00.     

The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney,Karl Polanyi,E. P. Thompson,and the Critique of Capitalism

The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism . By Tim Rogan (Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2017), pp.263 + viii. AU$48.82 (hb). Available in Australia through Footprint Books.     

New Perceptions of the Vietnam War: Essays on the War,the South Vietnamese Experience,the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact

New Perceptions of the Vietnam War: Essays on the War, the South Vietnamese Experience, the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact. Edited by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2015), pp.vi + 262. £27.69 (pb).     

Father,son, and holy ghost: Pye,Solomon, and the ‘spirit of Chinese politics’

Abstract

Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture structurally is two books. The first (parts I and II pp. 1-159) is a discussion of Chinese psychological characteristics based on the author's 1966 dissertation for MIT, The Chinese Revolution and the Politics of Dependency: The Struggle for Change in a Traditional Political Culture. The second (parts III and IV pp. 160-526) is a competent if somewhat narrow think-tank piece written in 1969 on the Hundred Flowers, the Great Leap, and the early phase of the Cultural Revolution.     

The Demography of Genocide in Southeast Asia: The Death Tolls in Cambodia, 1975-79, and East Timor, 1975-80

In this research note Ben Kiernan, director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University (www.yale.edu/gsp), scrutinizes estimates of the number of people killed in the two most recent cases of genocidal mass murder in Southeast Asia: Cambodia and East Timor. He concludes that the two cases were proportionately comparable, though many more people died in Cambodia. Each tragedy took the lives of over one-fifth of the population.     

Armenia,Australia and the Great War

Armenia, Australia and the Great War. By Vicken Babkenian and Peter Stanley (Sydney: New South Publishing, 2016), pp. xii + 323. Two maps. AU$34.99 (pb).