Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Serulnikov, Sergio (2003)Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth‐Century Southern Andes Connaughton, Brian (2003)Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age. The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation (1788–1853) Palmer, Steven (2003)From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940 Papiernik, Charles (2004)Unbroken: From Auschwitz to Buenos Aires MacLachlan, Colin M. (2003)A History of Modern Brazil: The Past Against the Future. Bulmer‐Thomas, Victor (2003)The Economic History of Latin America since Independence Silverman, Helaine and Proulx, Donald (2002)The Nasca Castro‐Klarén, Sara and Chasteen, John Charles (eds)(2003)Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth‐Century Latin America Lewis, Laura A. (2003)Hall of Mirrors: Power, Witchcraft, and Caste in Colonial Mexico Hirsch, Jennifer S. (2003)A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families Myers, Kathleen Ann (2003)Neither Saints nor Sinners: Writing the Lives of Women in Spanish America Sanford, Victoria (2003)Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala Warren, Kay B. and Jackson, Jean E. (eds)(2002)Indigenous Movements, Self‐Representation, and the State in Latin America Burgess, Katrina (2004)Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy Dudley, Steven (2004)Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia Jaguaribe Helio and Álvaro de Vasconcelos (eds)(2003)The European Union, Mercosul and the New World Order Saldaña‐Portillo, María Josefina (2003)The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas in the Age of Development Trigo, Benigno (ed.)(2002)Foucault and Latin America: Appropriations and Deployments of Discursive Analysis Egan, Linda (2001)Carlos Monsiváis: Culture and Chronicle in Contemporary Mexico Weiss, Jason (2003)The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Gauderman, Kimberly (2003) Women's Lives in Colonial Quito. Gender, Law and Economy in Spanish America Bauer, Brian (2004) Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca Chassen‐López, Francie R. (2004) From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca. The View from the South, Mexico 1867–1911 Saney Isaac (2004) Cuba: A Revolution in Motion Chomsky, Aviva, Carr, Barry and Smorkaloff, Pamela María (2004) The Cuba Reader. History, Culture, Politics Diacon, Todd A. (2004) Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930 Racine, Karen (2003) Francisco De Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution Joseph, Gilbert M. and Henderson, Timothy J. (eds) (2002) The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics Guenther, Louise H. (2004) British Merchants in Nineteenth‐Century Brazil: Business, Culture, and Identity in Bahia, 1808–50 Deborah Pacini Hernandez; Fernández L'Hoeste, Héctor and Zolov, Eric (eds) (2004) Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America Warren, Jonathan W. (2001)Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indigenous Resurgence in Brazil Diego, Armus (ed.) (2003) Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS Chasteen, John Charles (2004) National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance Brass, Tom (ed.) (2003) Latin American Peasants Thoumi, Francisco (2003) Illegal Drugs, Economy, and Society in the Andes Ariel de Vidas, Anath (2004) Thunder Doesn't Live Here Any More. The Culture of Marginality Among the Teeneks of Tantoyuca Vellinga, Menno (ed.) (2004) The Political Economy of the Drug Industry Manz, Beatriz (2004) Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror and Hope Lauria‐Santiago, Aldo and Binford, Leigh (eds) (2004) Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador Tussie, Diana and Botto, Mercedes (eds) (2003) El alca y las Cumbres de las Américas: ¿una nueva relación público‐privada?     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Stokes, Doug (2005) America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia. Helmke, Gretchen (2005) Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina. Wood, Andrew Grant (ed.) (2004) On the Border: Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico. Ochoa, Gilda L. (2004) Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict and Solidarity. Yashar, Deborah J. (2005) Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge. Herrera, Robinson A. (2003). Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth‐Century Santiago de Guatemala. Butler, Matthew (2004) Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927–1929. Whitehead, Neil L. and Wright, Robin (eds) (2004) In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia. Richard, Nelly (2004) The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation and Poetics of the Crisis Richard, Nelly (2004) Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference Steven Palmer and Ivan Molina (eds) (2004). The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Grandin, Greg (2004) The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Domínguez, Francisco and Guedes de Oliveira, Marcos (eds) (2004) Mercosur: Between Integration and Democracy Shadlen, Kenneth (2004) Democratization without Representation. The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico. Garreton, Manuel Antonio (2003) Incomplete Democracy. Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America. Bennett, Vivienne, Dávila‐Poblete, Sonia and Nieves Rico, María (eds) (2005) Opposing Currents: The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America. Schneider, Ben Ross (2004) Business Politics and the State in Twentieth‐Century Latin America. de Ferranti, David, Perry, Guillermo E., Ferreira, Francisco H.G. and Walton, Michael (2004) Inequality in Latin America: Breaking with History? Van Oss, A.C. (2003) Church and Society in Spanish America. Florescano, Enrique and García Acosta, Virginia (eds) (2004) Mestizajes tecnológicos y cambios culturales en México. Weiner, Richard (2004) Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico. Dawson, Alexander S. (2004) Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico. Newcomer, Daniel (2004) Reconciling Modernity: Urban State Formation in 1940s León, Mexico. Olsen, Margaret (2004) Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias. Larson, Brooke (2004) Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes. Christiansen, Tanja (2004) Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault: Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862–1900. Watanabe, John M. and Fischer, Edward F. (eds) (2004) Pluralizing Ethnography: Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities. Knab, Timothy (2004) The Dialogue of Earth and Sky: Dreams, Souls, Curing, and the Modern Aztec Underworld. Kuss, Malena (ed) (2004) Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America and Mexico. Burgos, Raúl (2004) Los gramscianos argentinos: cultura y política en la experiencia de Pasado y Presente. Dorfman, Ariel (2004) Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations 1980–2004.     

The Eye of the beholder: Background notes on the US-Japan military relationship

Abstract

In the last half century, the pivotal steps in American-Japanese relations have been paced off at roughly ten-year intervals. At the Washington Conference of 1921-1922, American and other Western pressure brought about cancellation of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance and forced Japan to rely upon uncertain international guarantees for its security. The Manchurian Incident of 1931 dispelled the professed hopes of the twenties, and a full decade later Pearl Harbor marked the total bankruptcy of Japan's relationship with the West. At the San Francisco peace conference in 1951, America led forty-eight other nations in restoring Japan's sovereignty, and five hours after the signing of the peace treaty the U.S. summoned forth shades of the old Anglo-Japanese Alliance by signing its own bilateral military pact with Japan. Nine years later, nationalistic resentment against this security arrangement of 1951 erupted in Japan, forcing cancellation of President Eisenhower's proposed visit. Now another decade has passed, and 1970 is clearly destined to mark yet another watershed in the American-Japanese relationship.     

Power-sharing and its discontents: Dysfunctional constitutional arrangements and the failure of the Annan plan for a reunified Cyprus

B.A. Litvinskiy and N.M. Akramov's Alyeksandr Alyeksandrovich Syemyonov (nauchno‐biografichyeskiy ochyerk) (Alexander Alexandrovich Syemyonov: a scholarly‐biographical essay) (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1971; 180 pp.)

I.K. Yenikolopov's Griboyedov i Vostok (Griboyedov and the East) (2nd edition, Erivan: Ayastan Press, 1974; 160 pp.)

Sofya Gvyelyesiani's Vostokovyed Gyeorgiy Tsyeryetyeli (The Orientalist Gyeorgiy Tsyeryetyeli) (Tiflis: Myerani Press, 1976; 100 pp.)

A.V. Sagadyeyev's Ibn Rushd (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1973; 208 pp.)

I. Braginskiy's 12 miniatur: ot Rudaki do Dzhami (12 miniatures: from Rudaki to Jami) (2nd edition, Moscow: Khudodzhyestvyennaya Lityeratura, 1976; 304 pp.)

Tawfik al‐Hakim: Biobibliografichyeskiy ukazatyel’ (Tawfiq al‐Hakim: a bio‐bibliographical guide) (Moscow: Kniga Press, 1968; 72 pp.)

Dzhamal'‐Zadye: Biobibliografichyeskiy ukazatyel’ (Jamal‐Zade: a biobibliographical guide) (Moscow: Kniga Press, 1972; 94pp.)

Yu. Orzms'yan's Abd‐al‐Kadir (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1968; 176 pp.).

A. Agarishyev's Gamal’ Abdel’ Nasyer (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1975; 192pp.).

Problyemi Yegipyetskoy ryevolyutsii (The problems of the Egyptian revolution) (Moscow: Myedzhdunarodniye Otnoshyeniya, 1979; 256 pp.).

I. Nurullin's Tukay (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1977; 240 pp.).

A.K. Rzayev entitled Akhundov (Moscow: Yuridichyeskaya Lityeratura, 1980; 72 pp.)

I. Ye. Fadyeyeva's Midkhat Pasha: dzhizn i dyeyatyel'nost’ (Midhat Pasha: life and activity) (Moscow: Nauka Press for the Institute of Oriental Studies in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1977; 168 pp.)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Applebaum, Nancy P. (2003) Muddied Waters: Race, Region and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948 Collier, Simon (2003) Chile, The Making of a Republic, 1830–1865: Politics and Ideas Díaz, Arlene J. (2004) Female Citizens, Patriarchs, and the Law in Venezuela, 1786–1904 Haber, Stephen, Razo, Armando and Maurer, Noel (2003) The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876–1929 Pasztor, Suzanne B. (2002) The Spirit of Hidalgo: The Mexican Revolution in Coahuila Juárez, José Roberto (2004) Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860–1911 Agostoni, Claudia (2003) Monuments of Progress: Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876–1910 Mattiace, Shannan L. (2003) To See With Two Eyes: Peasant Activism and Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico Souza, Laura de Mello e (2003) The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil Sansone, Livio (2003) Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil Peter S. Cahn (2003) All Religions are Good in Tzintzuntzan: Evangelicals in Catholic Mexico Napolitano, Valentina (2002) Migration, Mujercitas, and Medicine Men Haagh, Louise (2002) Citizenship, Labour Markets and Democratization: Chile and the Modern Sequence Burt, Jo‐Marie and Mauceri, Philip (eds) (2004) Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform Philip, George (2003) Democracy in Latin America: Surviving Conflict and Crisis? Roman, Peter (2003) People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government Weyland, Kurt (ed.) (2004) Learning from Foreign Models in Latin American Policy Reform Kinzo, Maria D'Alva and Dunkerley, James (eds) (2003) Brazil Since 1985: Politics, Economy, and Society González, José Antonio, Corbo, Vittorio, Krueger, Anne, and Tornell, Aaron (eds) (2003) Latin American Macroeconomic Reform. The Second Stage Palma, Ricardo (2004) Peruvian Traditions Hendon, Julia A. and Joyce, Rosemary A. (2004) Mesoamerican Archaeology: Theory and Practice     

The outsider in the novels of Naguib Mahfouz

The novels of Najib Mahfūz, or — to use the more familiar Western spelling of his name, Naguib Mahfouz — offer a progressive study of the outsider in relation to Egyptian middle‐class society. In the early novels it was poverty which set the character outside the gale of a normally functioning community. The poverty of Mahjub in Modern Cairo (al‐Qahira al‐jadida) (1945) and of Hasanayn in A Beginning and an End (Bidaya wa‐nihaya) (1949) is the cause of their isolation in those novels.

The Trilogy (i: Bayn al‐Qasrayn; ii: Qasr al‐shawq: iii: al‐Sukkariyya) (1956–7) offers a large‐scale study of an alienated personality. It is Kamal, who, with the house in Bayn al‐Qasrayn, provides the link between the three generations depicted in the Trilogy. Alienation here is rooted in disappointment and frustration brought about by the mere process of growing up and disillusionment, religious, social and emotional.

The post‐realistic novels after the Trilogy offer bold sketches of a series of outsiders and exiles: the outlaw in The Thief and the Dogs (al‐Liss wa‐1‐kilab) (1961), the disgraced politician in Autumn Quail (al‐Summan wa‐1‐kharif) (1962) , and a group of social and political exiles in a small pension called ‘Miramar’ in Miramar (1967).

In the late seventies Mahfouz was still writing short novels on outsiders, but the wheel has come full circle. They are the young men who have obtained their degree, got the standard government or public sector jobs, been accepted by the sweetheart and her family and are formally engaged, but still cannot find themselves a place in a society highly inflated with petrol dollars and mushrooming wealth, where it is near impossible for a young couple to afford the huge sums necessary for any new accommodation.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Sally, Graham, (ed.) A Man about Town: The Letters of James Graham, Victorian Entrepreneur 1854‐1864 Pamela, Jeanne Fulton, (ed.) The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798‐1800 Susan, Lawrence, Dolly's Creek: An Archaeology of a Victorian Goldfields Community Don, Garden, Theodore Fink. A Talent for Ubiquity John, Ritchie, (ed.) Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 15. 1940‐1980. Kem‐Pie Kay, Saunders and Roger, Daniels, (eds) Alien Justice. Wartime Internment in Australia and North America Mark, Johnston, Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II Frank, Bongiorno, The People's Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition Brian, Costar and Nicholas, Economou, (eds) The Kennett Revolution. Victorian Politics in the 1990s Michael, Thompson, Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the Labor Party Ian, Hancock, National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia 1944‐1965 Ian, Cook, Liberalism in Australia John, Chesterman and Brian, Galligan, (eds) Defining Australian Citizenship: Selected Documents Sue, Richardson, (ed.) Reshaping the Labour Market: Regulation, Efficiency and Equality in Australia S., Bell, (ed.) The Unemployment Crisis in Australia: Which Way Out? Bain, Attwood and Andrew, Markus, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History Tony, Coady (ed.) Why Universities Matter John, Wiseman, Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation Donald, Denoon, (ed.) with Stewart, Firth; Jocelyn, Linnekin; Malama, Meleisea and Karen, Nero, The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders Richard, Price British Society, 1680‐1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change Kathleen, Wilson, The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715‐1785 John, Brewer and Eckhart, Hellmuth, (eds) Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth‐Century State in Britain and Germany Jörn, Rüsen, (ed.) Westliches Geschichtsdenken. Eine interkulturelle Debatte John B., Hattendorf, (ed.), with a foreword by Paul Kennedy Naval Strategy and Policy in the Mediterranean. Past, Present and Future Jean‐Claude, Favez,, (eds and trans by John and Beryl Fletcher) The Red Cross and the Holocaust István, Deák; Jan T., Gross and Tony, Judt, (eds) The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and its Aftermath Peter, Grose, Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain Hira, Sing, (foreword by André Béteille) Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance. Princes, Peasants and Paramount Power Martin, Doornbos and Sudipta, Kaviraj, Dynamics of State Formation, India and Europe Compared. Indo‐Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, 19 Marie‐Claire, Bergère, (Janet Lloyd trans) Sun Yat‐Sen Sherman, Cochran, (ed.) Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900‐1945 Frederick C., Teiwes with Warren, Sun, China's Road to Disaster, Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955‐1959 Richard J., Aldrich, Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service Dr Maung, Maung, The 1988 Uprising in Burma. Monograph 49 Manoranjan, Mohanty and Partha, Math Mukherji with Olle, Törnquist, (eds) People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World Diane B., Paul, The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine and the Nature‐Nurture Debate Joseph, Hamburger, John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control April, Carter and Geoffrey, Stokes, (eds) Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Perspectives in Contemporary Political Thought Judith N., Shklar, (ed. by Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson) Redeeming American Political Thought Jennifer, Platt, A History of Sociological Research Methods in America: 1920‐1960     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Baud, Michiel. Intelectuales y sus Utopías LaFrance, David G. Revolution in Mexico's Heartland. Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla 1913–1920 Meighoo, Kirk. Politics in a Half‐Made Society: Trinidad and Tobago 1925–2001 Striffler, Steve and Moberg, Mark (eds.)Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas Eckstein, Susan and Wickham‐Crowley, Timothy (eds.)What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America Haagh, Louise and Helgo, Camilla (eds)Social Policy Reform and Market Governance in Latin America Devoto, Fernando. Nacionalismo, fascismo y tradicionalismo en la Argentina: una histora McCaughan, Michael. The Battle of Venezuela Irwin, Robert McKee, McCaughan, Edward and Nasser, Michelle Rocío (eds)The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901 Lesser, Jeffrey (ed.)Searching for Home Abroad. Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism Dávila, Jerry. Diploma of Whiteness. Race and Social Policy in Brazil Reis, João José. Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth‐Century Brazil Naro, Nancy Priscilla (ed.)Blacks, Coloureds and National Identity in Nineteenth‐Century Latin America Salman, Ton and Zoomers, Annelies (eds)Imaging the Andes: Shifting Margins of a Marginal World Guttman, Matthew C. (ed.)Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America Waxer, Lise (ed.)Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meaning in Latin Popular Music     

Soviet studies on workers’ movements in the Middle East

Rabochiy klass Afriki (The working class of Africa), edited by I. P. Yastrebova, Moscow, Africa Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Nauka Press: 1966.

K. A. Guseynov's Rabochiy klass i Profsoyuzi Afriki {The working class and the trade unions of Africa), Moscow, Profizdat: 1969.

B. A. Shabayev's Rabochiy klass strait Magriba (The working class of the Maghrib lands), Moscow, Asia Institute¹ of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Nauka Press: 1968.

Willard A. Beling's important Modernization and African Labor: a Tunisian Case Study, N.Y., Praeger: 1965).

F. M. Atsamba and L. A. Fridman and titled Rabochiy klass stran Azii i Afriki (The working class in the countries of Asia and Africa), Moscow, Moscow University Press: 1966.

F. M. Atsamba's ‘The workers’ movement in Egypt on the eve of the Second World War, 1929–1939’ (pp. 266–94)

Selskohozyaystvenniye rabochiye v stranah Azii i Afriki (The agricultural workers in the countries of Asia and Africa), edited by G. G. Kotovskiy and I. A. Svanidze, Moscow, Oriental Institute and Africa Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Nauka Press: 1969.

Rabocheye dvizheniye v Azerbayzhane v godi novogo revolyutsiyonogo podyoma, 1910–1914 (The workers’ movement in Azerbaijan during the revolutionary progress, 1910–1914), Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences: 1967.

A. I. Shamide, Rabocheye i profsoyuznoye dvizheniye v Irane posle vtoroy mirovoy voyni, 1946–1953 (The workers’ and trade‐union movement in Iran after the Second World War, 1946–1953), Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences: 1965

Z. Z. Abdullayev, Formirovaniye rabochego klassa Irana (The formation of Iran's workers’ class), Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences: 1968.

Sh. M. Badi, Rabochiy klass Irana (Iran's workers’ class), Moscow, the Asia Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Nauka Press: 1965, is a smaller book (130 pages).

M. S. Ivanov, Rabochiy klass sowemennogo Irana (The workers’ class of contemporary Iran), Moscow, Ethnography Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Nauka Press: 1969.     

Book reviews

Thorp, Rosemary (1998), Progress, Proverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century, Inter‐American Development Bank (Washington). Katz, Friedrich (1998), The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Jones, Grant D. (1998), The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom. Bell, Stephen (1998), Campanha Gaúcha. A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850‐1920. Adelman, Jeremy (ed) (1999), Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History. Bulmer‐Thomas, Victor and Dunkerley, James (eds.) (1999), The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda. Leogrande, W.M. (1998), Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America 1977‐1992. Arnson, Cynthia (ed.) (1999), Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America. Biekart, Kees (1999), The Politics of Civil Society Building. European Private Aid Agencies and Democratic Transitions in Central America. Belnap, Jeffrey and Fernandez, Raúl (eds.) (1998) José Martí's “Our America”: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies. Chomsky, Aviva and Lauria‐Santiago, Aldo (eds.) (1998), Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation‐State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Míguez, Daniel (1998), Spiritual Bonfire in Argentina: Confronting Current Theories with an Ethnographic Account of Pentecostal Growth in a Buenos Aires Suburb. Kamsteeg, Frans H (1998), Prophetic Pentecostalism in Chile: A Case Study on Religion and Development Policy. Rodríguez, Victoria (ed.) (1998), Women’Participation in Mexican Political Life. Arias, Patricia and Fiona Wilson (1997), La Aguja y el Surco: Cambio Regional, Consumey Relaciones de Génera en la Industria de la Ropa en México. Laguerre, E.S. (1998), Diasporic Citizenship: Haitian Americans in Transnational America. Johnson, H. and Watson, K. (ed) (1998), The White Minority in the Caribbean. Bueno, Eva P. and Terry Caesar (eds.) (1998), Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture. Parker, Richard (1999), Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil. Kulick, Don (1998), Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Davies, Matt (1999), International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile: National Intellectuals and Transnational Hegemony. Roberts, Kenneth (1999), Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru. Petras, James (1999), The Left Strikes Back, Class Conflict in Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism.     

The Struggle over Turkish Village Coffeehouses (1923–45)

D.I. Soyfyer, in his Krakh Sionistskikh tyeoriy, The Bankruptcy of the Zionist Theories (Dniyepropyetrovsk: Promin's Press, 1980; 192 pp.)

A.B. Doyev's Sovryemyenniy Iudaizm i Sionizm, Contemporary Judaism and Zionism (Frunze: Kirgizstan Press, 1983; 68 pp.)

Myedzhdunarodniy Sionizm: istoriya i politika (sbornik statyey), International Zionism – History and Politics: A Collection of Articles (Moscow: Nauka Press for the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1977; 176 pp.)

Zionism: Enemy of Peace and Social Progress. Volume 2 of this work (1983)

I. Zvyagelskaya (authoress of a book in Russian on the Israeli military élite in politics), entitled ‘Who Is Obstructing the Settlement of the Middle East Conflict’ (pp. 137–68).

Ye. Dmitriyev (a prolific writer on the Arab‐Israel conflict), entitled ‘Zionist Ideas as Reflected in Israeli Government Policy on A Middle East Settlement in the Early 1980s’ (pp. 205–19).

Felitsia Langer is an Israeli Jewish lawyer, close to the leaders of the Israel Communist Party, who specializes in defending Arabs suspected of terrorism before the Israeli Courts. Her Oni moi brat'ya, They Are My Brethren (Moscow: Progress Press, 1979; 192 pp.)

Gorst’ rodnoy zyemli: Sovryemyennaya Palyestinskaya novyella, A Handful of the Fatherland Earth: Contemporary Palestinian Stories (Moscow: Progress Press, 1981; 312 pp.),

This Leitmotif is set by the title of the first story, ‘Return to Haifa’ (pp. 21–64) by Ghassan Kanafani (1936–73),

Ghassan Kanafani and entitled Lyudi pod solntsyem, People under the Sun (Moscow: Raduga Press, 1984; 343 pp.)

Put’ k miru na Blidzhnyem Vostokye, The Road to Peace in the Near East (Moscow: Myedzhdunarodniye Otnoshyeniya Press, 1974; 248 pp.)

Ye. Dmitriyev and V. Ladyeykin includes a chapter on ‘The Arab People of Palestine’ (pp. 55–74).

A.P. Barishyev, entitled Blidzhniy Vostok: problemi mira na rubyedzhye 80‐kh godov, The Near East: Problems of Peace at the Threshold of the 80s (Moscow: Znaniye Press, 1979; 64 pp.).

L.L. Vol'nov, Livanskiy dnyevnik, Lebanese Diary (Moscow: Political Literature Press, 1980; 96 pp.).

U vrat Vostoka: Ochyerki o Livanye, At the Gate of the East: Essays on Lebanon (Moscow: Misl’ Press, 1982; 112 pp.),

Liban: ekho agressii, Lebanon: Echo of the Aggression (Moscow: Political Literature Press, 1984; 112 pp.).

M. Ye. Hazanov's OON i Blidzniyevostochniy krizis, The United Nations Organisation and the Near‐Eastern Crisis (Moscow: Myedzhdunarodniye Otnoshyeniya Press, 1983; 176 pp.),

Hazanov's book is Palyestinskaya problyema: Dokumyenti OON, myedzhdunarodnikh organizatsiy i konfyeryentsiy, The Palestinian Problem: Documents of the UN, International Organisations and Conferences (Moscow: Progryess Press, 1984; 240 pp.).

D. Sokolov, entitled ‘Palyestinskaya tragyediya i istoki Palyestinskogo dvidzyeniya soprotivlyeniya (1917–1949 gg.)’,

‘The Palestinian Tragedy and the Origins of the Palestinian Resistance Movement, 1917–1949’ (Palyestinskiy Sbornik, Vol. 26 (89), 1978, pp. 3–21).

(Palyestinskiy Sbornik, Vol. 27 (90), 1981, pp. 3–22.)

Ye. Dmitriyev, is entitled Palyestinskiy uzyel: k voprosu ob uryegulirovanii Palyestinskoy problyemi, The Palestinian Knot: Towards the Question of Settlement of the Palestinian Problem (Moscow: Myedzhdunarodniye Otnoshyeniya Press, 1978; 304 pp.).

al‐Qadiyya al‐Filastiniyya: al‐'Udwan wa‐'l‐muqawama wa‐subul al‐taswiya, The Palestinian Problem: Aggression, Resistance, Means of Resolution (Moscow: 1983; 230 pp. Oriental Studies in the USSR, 3).

The Palestine Problem: Aggression, Resistance, Ways of Settlement (Moscow: ‘Social Sciences Today’ Editorial Board, 1984; 277 pp. Oriental Studies in the USSR, 9).     

Recent books on colonial Algerian history

Land Policy in Colonial Algeria: The Origins of the Rural Public Domain (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1967).

Histoire de l'Algérie contemporaine: la conquête et les débuts de la colonization (1827–1871) (Paris, 1964).

Les Algériens musulmans et la France, 1871–1919 (Paris, 1968).

France and Algeria: The Problem of Civil and Political Reform, 1870–1920 (Syracuse 1966)

Le réformisme musulman en Algérie de 1925 a 1940. Essai d'histoire religieuse et sociale (Paris and The Hague, 1967)     

Kalevipoeg: Aspects of Genre and Authorship

F. R. Kreutzwald introduced the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg (1861) as genuine folklore, overshadowing his own prevalent role in its creation: the problems of genre and authorship persist in the text. Firstly, Kalevipoeg was shaped by the poetics of romantic balladry. This can be proved by its author’s devotion to the ballad; in addition, many a lyro-epic folk song has been integrated into Kalevipoeg. Thus, a ballad-like lyro-dramatical-epical structure bears upon the work which gave rise to a new form: the lyro-epic epic. Secondly, a complex cluster of authorship can be extracted from Kalevipoeg: personal, fictional, intertextual, and discursive authorships.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Ritter, Archibald R. M. (ed.) The Cuban Economy. Nun, José. Democracy: Government of the People or Government of the Politicians? Forment, Carlos. Democracy in Latin America 1760–1900: Volume I, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. Sandoval‐García, Carlos. Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica. Appelbaum, Nancy P., Macpherson, Anne S. and Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. Race and Nation in Modern Latin America. Thurner, Mark and Guerrero, Andrés (eds) After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas. Galinier, Jacques. The World Below: Body and Cosmos in Otomí Indian Ritual. Sacks DaSilva, Zenia (ed.) The Hispanic Connection. Spanish and Spanish‐American Literature in the Arts of the World. Morgenstern, Scott. Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll‐call Voting in Latin America and the United States.     

Thinking about China

From the editors: The July-August 2004 issue of Monthly Review (vol. 56, no. 3) was given entirely to a book-length article entitled China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle, written by Martin Hart-Landsberg (a coeditor of Critical Asian Studies) and Paul Burkett. We invited the editors of Critical Asian Studies to participate in a roundtable discussion of the issues that Hart-Landsberg and Burkett have raised. Responses from CAS editors Victor Lippit, Gene Cooper, Alvin So, Mobo C.F. Gao, and Tai-lok Lui appear in this issue. A rejoinder by Hart-Landsberg and Burkett will be published in our December 2005 issue. The article below is a synopsis of the arguments that Hart-Landsberg and Burkett advance in Monthly Review and in the book of the same title (see http://www.monthlyreview.org/chinaand socialism. htm for details). This article appeared originally in New Socialist 51, May- June 2005 (http://www.newsocialist.org). We are grateful for permission to reproduce the article as an introduction to this Roundtable.

Page references in all of the articles in this Roundtable are understood to be to the July-August 2004 edition of Monthly Review.     

Commission Newsletter: Winter 1981

I.A.A. Thompson: Crown and Cortes. Government, Institutions and Representation in Early‐Modern Castile (Variorum, Collected Studies Series CS 427, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 1993, pp. 352; ISBN 0–86078–393–6; £49.50)

Janusz Mallek: Preußen und Polen: Politik, Stände, Kirche und Kultur vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992. Schriften der Mainzer Philosophischen Fakultätsgesellschaft Nr. 12, pp. 207; ISBN 3–515–05943–1; DM 58)

Cristiana Senigaglia: Il gioco delle assonanze: a proposito degli influssi hobbesiani sul pensiero filosofico‐politico di Hegel (Florence, La Nuova Italia, 1992, pp. 235)     

Engaging the issues

From the editors: In 2005 Monthly Review Press (New York) published a book entitled China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle, written by Martin Hart-Landsberg (a coeditor of Critical Asian Studies) and Paul Burkett. (The content of the book had appeared earlier, in the July-August 2004 issue of Monthly Review [vol. 56, no. 3].) We invited the editors of Critical Asian Studies to participate in a roundtable discussion of the issues that Hart-Landsberg and Burkett have raised. Responses from CAS editors Victor Lippit, Gene Cooper, Alvin So, Mobo C.F. Gao, and Tai-lok Lui appear in the September 2005 issue of the journal (vol. 37, no. 3). A rejoinder by Hart-Landsberg and Burkett is presented here.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Martin Mulligan and Stuart Hill, Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action Edited by Bruce Kaye, Tom Frame, Colin Holden and Geoff Treloar, Anglicanism in Australia: A History Colin Holden, Church in a Landscape: A History of the Diocese of Wangaratta Mary Anne Jebb., Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers David Philips, William Augustus Miles (1796–1851): Crime, Policing, and Moral Entrepreneurship in England and Australia Compiled by Alison Hoyle for State Records of South Australia, Ancestors In Archives: A Guide for Family Historians to South Australia's Government Archives Julie Carr, The Captive White Woman of Gippsland: In Pursuit of the Legend Keith Pescod, Good Food, Bright Fires & Civility: British Emigrant Depots of the 19th Century B.W. Higman, Domestic Service in Australia Joanne Scott, Ross Laurie, Bronwyn Stevens and Patrick Weller, The Engine Room of Government: The Queensland Premier's Department, 1859–2001 Edited by Ann Millar, The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Vol. 1 1901–1929 M.D. Johnson, Australia, New Zealand and Federation 1883–1901. By Ged Martin. Ian Ward, Edited by John M. Moses and Christopher Pugsley, The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions, 1871–1919: Essays on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism Edited by Martyn Lyons and John Arnold, A History of the Book in Australia 1891–1945 Anna Green, British Capital, Antipodean Labour. Working the New Zealand Waterfront, 1915–1951 George Davies, The Occupation of Japan: The Rhetoric and the Reality of Anglo–Australasian Relations 1939–1952 Tim Rowse, Obliged to be Difficult. Nugget Coombs’ Legacy in Indigenous Affairs Ian Hancock, John Gorton: He Did It His Way Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Mark Finnane, When Police Unionise: the Politics of Law and Order in Australia Bob Carr, Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man Edited by Paul Nursey–Bray and Carol Lee Bachi, Left Directions: Is There a Third Way? Sinclair Dinnen, Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea Ann Turner, Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea, Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries No. 37 Kerry Howe, Nature, Culture and History: the “Knowing” of Oceania W.J. Mander, Alan P.F. Sell, et al., The Dictionary of Nineteenth–Century British Philosophers Manning Clark (Edited by Dymphna Clark, David Headon and John Williams), The Ideal of Alexis de Tocqueville R.B. Rose, Tribunes and Amazons: Men and Women of Revolutionary France, 1789–1871 Ian Hunter, Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany Maiken Umbach (Ed.), German Federalism: Past, Present, Future Judith Keene, Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 R.J.B. Bosworth, Mussolini Edited by John P. McCormick, Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas Agnes Heller, A Theory of Modernity Douglas R. Holmes, Integral Europe: Fast–Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism Rogan Kersh, Dreams of a More Perfect Union