On Sugar,Capitalism, and Socialism

Elinor G. K. Melville: A Plague of Sheep: Environmental Consequences of the Conquest of Mexico . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Douglas Murray: Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America ,Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994

Wes Jackson: Becoming Native to this Place . Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1994.

Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello: Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction From Ground Up .Boston: South End Press, 1994.

Wolfgang Sachs, editor: Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict . London and New Jersey: Zed Books and Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 1993.

John Walton: Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

Brendan Prendiville: Environmental Politics in France . Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1994.     

The Permeability of Urban Cultures

Stephen Dovers (ed.): Australian Environmental History: Essays and Cases . Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Tim Flannery: The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of Australasian Lands and People . Chatswood, NSW: Reed Books, 1994. Distributed in the USA by George Braziller Inc., New York.

Stephen J. Pyne: Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia , New York: Henry Holt, 1991.     

Book notes

Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar: Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood . Boston: South End Press, 1994.

Mary Richardson, Joan Sherman and Michael Gismondi: Winning Back the Words: Confronting Experts in an Environmental Public Hearing . Toronto: Garamond Press, 1993.

Joan Nordquist: Multinational Corporations and the Environment: A Bibliography. Santa Cruz, CA: Reference and Research Services, 1994, 68p.     

Keep Them in the Dark: Australian Government Strategy to Weaken Activism against Australia's new Nuclear Reactor

Martin O'Connor, editor: Is Capitalism Sustainable? Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology. New York: Guilford Publications, 1994.

Kate Soper: What is Nature? Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.

Jim Schwab: Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue‐Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1994.

Michael E. Zimmerman: Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Michael Hough: Cities and Natural Process. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Wayne Roberts and Susan Brandum: GET A LIFE! How to make a good buck, Dance around the dinosaurs, and Save the world while you're at it. Get A Life Publishing, Toronto, 1995.

Sara Berry: No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.     

May day at Kut and Kienthal

Martin W. Lewis: Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism. Durham: Duke University Press. 1992.

Charles T. Rubin: The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism. New York: The Free Press. 1994.

Wallace Kaufman: No Turning Back: Dismantling the Fantasies of Environmental Thinking. New York: Basic Books. 1994.     

The Land of Henry George

Andrew McLaughlin: Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology .Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1993

Raymond A. Rogers: Nature and the Crisis of Modernity: A Critique of Contemporary Discourse on Managing the Earth .Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1994.

Mark Dowie: Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century .Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.

Luke Martell: Ecology and Society: An Introduction .London: Polity Press, 1995.     

Resistance,compliance, adulation: Life in the third Reich and afterwards

Michael Geyer and John W. Boyer (eds.), Resistance against the Third Reich, 1933–1990. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. viii+357pp. Notes. Ind. £12.75 (pbk.).

Martin Kitchen, Nazi Germany at War. London: Longman, 1994. 329pp. Bibl. Ind. £13.99 (pbk).

Tim Mason, Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class, ed. Jane Caplan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x+361 pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £13.95 (pbk).     

Merit,measurement, medical murder and modernity

Michael Burleigh, Death and Deliverance. ‘Euthanasia’ in Germany c. 1900–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xviii+382pp. Notes. Bibl. Mus. £14.95 pbk.

Götz Aly, Peter Chroust and Christian Pross, Cleansing the Fatherland. Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene, trans, from the German by Belinda Cooper. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. xvi+296pp. Notes. Illus. £14.00 pbk.

Stefan Kühl, The Nazi Connection. Eugenics, American Racism and German National Socialism. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii+166pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £14.95.

N. J. Mackintosh (ed.), Cyril Burt. Fraud or Framed?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii+156pp. Notes. Ind. £19.99. Adrian Wooldridge, Measuring the Mind. Education and Psychology in England, c. 1860–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. x+448pp. £45.00.     

Reviews

Uncivil society: ‘race’ and murder in Nazi Germany Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich: The Working Class and the ‘National Community’, ed. Jane Caplan, introd. Ursula Vogel, trans. John Broadwin. Oxford and Providence, Rl: Berg, 1993. xxviii+434pp. Notes. Append. Bibl. Ind. £50.00.

David F. Crew (ed.), Nazism and German Society, 1933–1945. London and New York: Routledge, 1994 (Rewriting Histories series). xi+316pp. Notes. £11.99.

It's the real thing Steven T. Katz, The Holocaust in Historical Context. Volume 1: The Holocaust and Mass Death in the Modern Age. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii+702pp. Bibl. Ind. Notes. £40.00.

True adventures of court Jews Eli M. Rosenbaum with William Hoffer, Betrayal. The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation and Cover‐Up. New York: St Martin's Press, 1993. xx+522pp. Ind. $25.95.

Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace. Jews and the State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x+266pp. Ind. $22.00.

Columbus and the legacy of 1492 Zia Sardar, Ashis Nandy and Merryl Wyn Davies, Barbaric Others. A Manifesto on Western Racism, London: Pluto Press, 1993. 95pp. Bibl. £7.95.

Dutch ambivalence Allison Blakely, Blacks in the Dutch World. The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993. xx+327pp. Notes. Ind. Maps. Illus. £32.50.

Agile Italian evasions Daniel Carpi, Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 1994 (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series, 17). x+341 pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £35.00/$59.95.

What colour are Jews? Milton Shain, The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa. Charlottes‐ville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1994. xii+203pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. $45.00.

Surveying European racism John Wrench and John Solomos (eds.), Racism and Migration in Western Europe, Oxford and Providence, RI: Berg, 1993. x+293pp. Bibl. Ind. £34.95.     

Book Reviews

The Way the Modern World Works: World Hegemony to World Impasse. Peter J. Taylor, 1996. Chichester and London: John Wiley. 276 pp.; £18.99 paperback. ISBN 0 471 96586 3

Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams. C. Rutheiser, 1996. London: Verso. 324 pp.; £14.00 paperback. ISBN 1 85984 800 1

Represénter la ville, coll.. A. Bailly, C. Baumont, J. Huriot and A. Sallez, 1995. Paris: Economica. 112 pp.; £7.00 paperback. ISBN 2 7178 2956 3

Continental Trading Blocs: The Growth of Regionalism in the World Economy. R. Gibb and W. Michalak (Eds), 1994. Chichester: John Wiley. 302 pp.; £45.00 hardback. ISBN: 4719 49 094

Mapping Desire. D. Bell and G C. Valentine (Eds), 1995. London: Routledge. 370 pp.; £15.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 1164 1     

Four poems

S. Lewis, B. Keating, D. Russel: Inconclusive by Design: Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Federal Environmental Research, Environmental Health Network: Harvey, LA and National Toxics Campaign Fund: Boston, MA, May 1992.

Darrow Schecter: Radical Theories: Paths Beyond Marxism and Social Democracy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994.

Peter Freund and George Martin: The Ecology of the Automobile. New York: Black Rose Books, 1993.     

Book notes

Jeffrey Mourssaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy: When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Val Plumwood: Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London: Routledge, 1993.

Karen J. Warren, ed.: Ecological Feminism. London: Routledge, 1994.

John Brinckerhoff Jackson: A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Wendy Harcourt, editor: Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development. New Jersey: Zed Books Limited and the Society for International Development, 1994.     

Short notices

E. J. Feuchtwanger, From Weimar to Hitler. Germany 1918–1933. London: Macmillan, 1993. x+376pp. Appends. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £45.00.

David Welch, The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda. London: Routledge, 1993. xvi+203pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. Illus. £30.00.

Walter L. Adamson, Avant‐Garde Florence. From Modernism to Fascism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. xiv+338pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. Illus. £31.95.

Melvin M. Leiman, The Political Economy of Racism: A History. London: Pluto Press, 1993. x+272pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £13.95.

Gilles Bresson and Christian Lionet, Le Pen. Biographie. Paris: Editions du Seuil (Les Épreuves des faites), 1994. 480pp. Ind. Illus.     

Notes on contributors

Robyn Eckersley: Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Arne Naess: Ecology, Community and Lifestyle. Translated and revised by David Rothenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

M. Annette Jaimes, ed.: The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. Race and Resistance Series, Boston, South End Press, 1992.

Alexander Wilson: The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1992.     

Ways of seeing killing

Eric Markusen and David Kopf, The Holocaust and Strategic Bombing. Genocide and Total War in the Twentieth Century. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. xvi+354pp. Notes. Ind. Illus. £25.95.

Yves Ternon, L'État criminel: les génocides au XXe siècle. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1995. 449pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. FF 140.     

Short notices

Jacques Frémeaux, Le monde arabe et la sécurité de la France depuis 1958. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1995. 328pp. Ind. Bibl. FF198.00.

Gérard Chaliand and Jean‐Pierre Rageau, The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas, trans. from the French by A. M. Berrett. London: Viking, 1995. xxii+183pp. Maps. Illus. £20.00.

Franco Ferraroti, The Temptation to Forget: Racism, Anti‐Semitism, Neo‐Nazism. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1994 (Contributions in Sociology, 110). 190pp. Notes. Bibl. £44.95.

Les Back, New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives. London: UCL Press, 1996 (Race and Representation, 2). xii+288pp. Appends. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £12.95 (pbk).     

Book Reviews

Small Firms and Local Economic Networks: The Death of the Local Economy?. James Curran and Robert Blackburn, 1994. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. 210 pp.; £29.95 hardback. ISBN: 1 85396 209 0

Tourism and Politics: Policy, Power and Place. Colin Michael Hall, 1994 (reprinted. March 1996). Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. 239 pp.; £14.99 paperback. ISBN: 0 471 9647 2

European Union Spatial Policy and Planning. R. WILLIAMS, 1996. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. 304 pp. £16.95 paperback. ISBN: 1 8539 6 305 4

Disability and the City: International Perspectives. Rob Imrie, 1996. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. 200 pp.; £15.95 paperback. ISBN: 185396 273 2 (paperback)     

Reviews

Austrians right and further right Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (ed.), Handbuch des österreichischen Rechtsextremismus. Vienna: Deuticke Verlag, 1993. 654pp. Illus. Ind.

Resistance or indifference? Asher Cohen, Persécutions et sauvetages: Juifs et François sous l'Occupation et sous Vichy. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1993. 524pp. Inds. FF245.00.

Claude Singer, Vichy, l'université et les Juifs: les silences de la mémoire. Paris: Les Belles‐Lettres, 1992. 437pp. Append. Notes. Bibl. Ind. FFl 160.00.

The art and craft of homesickness Jack Kugelmass (ed.), Going Home (YIVO Annual, vol. 21). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press and The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1993. xvi+463 pp. Gloss. Illus.

The march of illiberalism Geoffrey Harris, The Dark Side of Europe. The Extreme Right Today. 2nd edn. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994. xi+265pp. Notes. App. Ind. £12.95 (pbk.).

Paul Hockenos, Free to Hate. The Rise of the Right in Post‐Communist Europe. New York and London: Routledge, 1993. xii+332pp. Notes. Ind. £17.99.

An array of ethnic conflicts John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary (eds.), The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation. Case Studies of Protracted Ethnic Conflicts. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. xi+321pp. Tables. Figs. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £12.99 (pbk.).

Becoming (or not becoming) German or French Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationality in France and Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. xii+225pp. Index.

The Arendt revival Phillip Hansen, Hannah Arendt: Politics, History and Citizenship. London: Polity Press, 1993. viii+266pp. Notes. Ind. £12.95 (pbk.).

Calling murder ‘murder‘ Christopher Browning, The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv+191pp. Ind. £27.95 (£7.95 pbk.).

Helen Fein, Genocide: A Sociological Perspective. New edn. London: Sage Publications, 1993. x+120pp. Bibl. Ind. £25.00 (£9.95 pbk.). Panikos Panayi (ed.), Minorities in Wartime: National and Racial Groupings in North America and Australia during the Two World Wars. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1993. viii+328pp. Ind. £25.00.

The mean streets of Stepney Geoffrey Alderman and Colin Holmes (eds.), Outsiders and Outcasts: Essays in Honour of William J. Fishman. London: Duckworth, 1993. 214pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £35.00.

Neither French nor English Alan Davies (ed.), Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretation. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992. viii+304pp. Notes. Ind. $34.95.

Waldheim without wrath Richard Mitten, The Politics of Antisemitic Prejudice: The Waldheim Phenomenon in Austria. Boulder, CO and Oxford: Westview Press, 1992. ix+260pp. Notes. £30.

Towards a Fourth Reich? Uwe Backes and Patrick Moreau, Die extreme Rechte in Deutschland: Geschichte—gegenwärfige Gefahren—Ursachen—Gegenmassnahmen. Munich: Akademischer Verlag in co‐operation with the B'nai B'rith, Munich, 1993. 152pp. Tables.

The concise Hitler Dick Geary, Hitler and Nazism. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. ix+82pp. Notes. Bibl. £4.99 (pbk.).     

Investigations into Types of Wastefulness

Rosi Braidotti, Ewa Charkiewicz, Sabine Hausler, and Saskia Wieringa: Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development. London: Zed Press, 1994.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva: Ecofeminism. London: Zed Books, 1993.

Val Plumwood: Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. London: Routledge, 1993.

Joni Seager: Earth Follies: Feminism, Politics and the Environment London: Earthscan, 1993.

Vandana Shiva, ed.: Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1994.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble: The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1994.

Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz, eds.: Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice. Lanham, Md.: Rowman &; Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1995.

John Gray: Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment. London: Routledge, 1993

Darrow Schecter: Radical Theories: Paths Beyond Marxism and Social Democracy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994