Book reviews

Muslim Resistance to the Tsar—Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan Moshe Gammer London: Frank Cass, 1994, 475 pp, £45 hardback

The Resurgence of Central Asia. Islam or Nationalism? Ahmed Rashid London: Zed Books and Karachi, Oxford University Press: 278 pp, appendix, index, £14.95 paperback, £37.95 hardback

An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples. Ethnogenesis and State‐Formation in Medieval and Early Eurasia and the Middle East Peter B. Golden Wiesbaden, Germany: Otto Harrassowitz, 1992, 483 pp, index bibliography, DM198 hardback

Everyday Islam: Religion and Tradition in Rural Central Asia Sergei P. Poliakov Introduction by Martha Brill Olcott, Anthony Olcott (editors) New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1992, xxvi + 156 pp, $39.95 hardback, $14.95 paperback

The end of the Soviet Empire. The Triumph of the Nations Hélène Carrère d'Encausse New York/London: Harper Collins, 1993, 292 pp, $15 paperback

Russia's Muslim Frontiers. New Directions in Cross‐Cultural Analysis Dale F. Eickelman (editor) Bloomington: Indiana University Press/Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1993, 206 pp, £25 hardback, £11.99 paperback

Central Asia. The Practical Handbook Giles Whittell London: Cadogan Books, 1993, 330 pp, maps, index, £10.99

The Crimean Tatars Andrew Wilson London: International Alert, 1994, 38 pp, free on request

The Warriors of Islam. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Kenneth Katzman Colorado, USA/Oxford: UK: Westview Press, 1993, 192 pp, bibliography, index, £35, softcover

Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539–1542) Michele Membre (Translated by A. H. Morton) London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1993, glossary notes bibliography, index, xxviii + 109 pp, £8

The Lost Country. Mongolia Revealed Jasper Becker London: Hodder & Stoughton (and Sceptre paperback), 1993, 325 pp, bibliography £16.99 hardback

Fundamentalisms and the State. Remaking Policies, Economies, and Militance Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby (editors) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, index, 665 pp     

Book reviews

Language Planning and National Development: The Uzbek Case William Fierman Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1991, Contributions to the Sociology of Language No 60, XIII, 375 pp, $110.00

Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and Autonomy in Twentieth‐Century Iran Touraj Atabaki London, England: British Academic Press, 1993, pp 238

Central Asia: New Arc of Crisis Shirin Akiner London, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 1993, 79 pp,appendices, £4.95

Without right and left Nursultan Nazarbaev Class Publishing, London, 1992, 171 pp, photos, pb NP

The Islamization of Central Asia. A Case Study of Uzbekistan Diloram Ibrahim Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1993, 32 pp, £1.50

Survival Among the Kurds. A History of the Yezidis John S. Guest London: Kegan Paul International, 1993, 324 pp, Illus., bibliography, index, £45

Samarkand compiled by Andrei Nedvetsky, 159 pp, illustrated, Bukhara compiled by Andrei Nedvetsky, 159 pp, illustrated, Khiva compiled by Andrei Nedvetsky, 127 pp, illustrated, Reading, England: Garnet Publishing, 1993, £16.95 each

My Golden Road from Samarkand Jascha Golowanjuk London: Quartet Books, £14.95, 244 pp

Turkey's New Geopolitics From the Balkans to Western China Graham E. Fuller, Ian O. Lesser, Paul D. Henze & J. F. Brown Boulder, Oxford, UK: Westview Press, A RAND Book, 1993, 197 pp, £10.50

Turkish Foreign Policy. New Prospects Clement H. Dodd (editor) Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire: The Eothen Press, 1992, 117 pp, £12.50 pb

Derwische. Gelebter Sufismus Jurgen Frembgen Koln, Germany: DuMont Buchverlag, 1993, 283 pp, illustrations

Die Gärten des Islam Hermann Forkl, Johannes Kalter, Thomas Leisten & Margaret Pavaloi (editors) Stuttgart/London: Hansjorg Mayer, 1993, 388 pp, illustrations, £30

Birth of a Tragedy. Kashmir 1947 Alastair Lamb Hertingfordbury: Roxford Books, 1994, 177 pp, £9 pb

The Afghan Syndrome. The Soviet Union's Vietnam Major‐General Oleg Sarin & Colonel Lev Dvoretsky London: Greenhill Books, Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1993, £22.50, 195 pp, appendices, index     

Book reviews

In a Collapsing Empire: Underdevelopment, Ethnic Conflicts and Nationalisms in the Soviet Union. Marco Buttino (editor). Milano: Fondazione Giangiacomo Fentrinelli, 1993, 375 pp, Lire80,000.

The Turkic Peoples of the World. Margaret Bainbridge (editor). London: Kegan Paul International, 1993, 403 pp, £65.

Where Two Worlds Met. The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771. Michael Khodarkovsky. Cornell University Press, 1992, 278 pp, illus, index.

Please Don't Call it Soviet Georgia. Mary Russell. London: Serpent's Tail, 1991, viii, 268 pp, £9.99.

Georgia: a Rebel in the Caucasus. Peter Nasmyth. London, Cassell, 1992, 222 pp, £16.99.

Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History. Ronald Grigor Suny. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993, xiii, 289 pp, $17.95.

Muslim‐Christian Encounters. William Montgomery Watt. Routledge, 1991, 164 pp, index.

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia. Peter Hopkirk. London: John Murray, 1990, xiv, 562 pp, illus, £19.95.

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. Peter Hopkirk. New York: Kodansha, 1992, xxiv, 564 pp, illus, $30.00.

Francis Younghusband and the Great Game. Anthony Verrier. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991, xviii, 238 pp, illus, £18.00.     

Book reviews

National Movements and National Identity Among the Crimean Tatars (1905–16) Hakan Kirimli Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1996, 242 pp, illus., bibliog., index

Crimean Tatars: Repatriation and Conflict Prevention New York: Open Society Institute, 1996, 95 pp

Between the Slogans of Communism and the Laws of Islam Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva Lahore: Shirkat Gah, 1995, x, 268 pp, paperback

Household Welfare in Central Asia Jane Falkingham, Jeni Klugman, Sheila Marnie and John Micklewright (editors) Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997, xii, 253 pp, hardcover

The Wars of Eduard Shevarnadze Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl and Melvin A. Goodman University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State Press, 1997

Dictionary of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies Ludwig W. Adamec Lanham, MD, USA and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1996, 384 pp, maps, illus, chronology, bibliog. $48, hardback

Domestic Culture in the Middle East Jennifer Scarce National Museums of Scotland: Edinburgh and Curzon Press, Richmond, UK 1996, £12.99

Imageries Populaires en Islam Pierre Centlivres and Micheline Centlivres‐Demont Geneva, Switzerland: Georg Editeur, 1997, 106 pp, illus. FfS39

Colour and Symbolism in Islamic Architecture: Eight Centuries of the Tile‐Maker's Art Photographs by Roland and Sabrina Michaud. Text by Michael Barry London: Thames & Hudson, 1996, 315 pp, illus, map, indices, glossary, £48 hardback

Traditional Textiles of Central Asia Janet Harvey London: Thames & Hudson, 1996, 160 pp, biblio, £35

The Carpets of Afghanistan R. D. Parsons Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Antique Collectors Club, 1994, 192 pp, £29.95

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906–1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy and the Origins of Feminism Janet Afary New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, xxi + 448 pp., bibliography, glossary, index

Kochevaia tsivilizatsiia kazakhov: osnovy zhiznedeiatel'nosti nomadnogo obshchestva Nurbulat Masanov Almaty: Sotsivest, 1995     

Book reviews

Graham E. Fuller, The Center of the Universe. The Geopolitics of Iran, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991, xv + 301pp., $35.00 hardback, $18.50 paperback.

Tim McDaniel, Autocracy, Modernization and Revolution in Russia and Iran, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991, x + 235pp., $29.95.

Steven G. Marks, Road to Power: the Trans‐Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850–1917, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991, xxiii + 235pp., $31.95.

Cyril E. Black, Louis Dupree, Elizabeth Endicott‐West, Daniel C. Matuszewski, Eden Naby and Arthur N. Waldron, The Modernization of Inner Asia, Sharpe, Armonk, 1991, xviii + 405 pp., $49.95.

Audrey L. Altstadt, The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity Under Russian Rule. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1992, xxiv + 331 pp., $18.95

G. A. Khidoiatov, Moia rodnaia istoriia. Oqituwchi, Tashkent, 1990, 304 pp. + colour plates.

Robert L. Canfield (ed.), Turko‐Persia in Historical Perspective. A School of American Research Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, xiv + 256 pp., $54.00.     

Book reviews

Svetlana Alexievich, Zinky Boys. Soviet Voices from a Forgotten War. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992, 197 pp., £9.99 paperback.

Artyom Borovik, The Hidden War : a Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. London: Faber and Faber, £14.99. 288 pp.

Gennady Bocharov. Russian Roulette. The Afghanistan War through Russian Eyes. London, Hamish Hamilton, £13.99, 187 pp.

William Fierman (Editor), Soviet Central Asia. The Failed Transformation. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991, xx + 328 pp.

James Critchlow. Nationalism in Uzbekistan: a Soviet Republic's Road to Sovereignty. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1991. xviii + 231 pp., $32.95.     

Book reviews

Nancy Tapper, Bartered Brides. Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society. Cambridge University Press, 1991, 309 pp., Illus. Index.

Derek Waller, The Pundits. British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia. University Press of Kentucky, $30/£18.50. Distributed in the UK by John Randall, 47 Moreton St. London SW1V 2NY.     

Book reviews

’Basmatschi’, Nationaler Kampf Turkestans in den Jahren 1917 bis 1934, Baymirza Hayit, Koln: Dreisam Verlag, 1992, 464 pp

The Green Crescent Under the Red Star. Enver Pasha in Soviet Russia 1919–1922, Masayuki Yamauchi, Tokyo: Institute for Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 1992, 395 pp, documents, biblio

Policing Soviet Society. The evolution of state control, Louise I. Shelley, London: Routledge, 1996, 269 pp, biblio, index, £15.99 paperback

Muslim Eurasia: Conflicting legacies, Yaacov Ro'i (editor), London: Frank Cass, 330 pp, index, 1995, £37.50

After Empire: The emerging geopolitics of Central Asia, Jed C. Snyder (editor), Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 1995, 233 pp

Central Asia. Emerging New Order by K. Warikoo (editor), New Delhi: Har‐Anand Publications, 1995, 352 pp, Rs395

The Transcaucasus in Transition: Nation‐Building and Conflict, Shireen T. Hunter, Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1994, Significant Issues Series, XVI, No. 7, xiv, 223 pp, $12.95

Islam and Politics in Central Asia, Mehrdad Haghayeghi, London: Macmillan Press, 1995, 264 pp, biblio, index, £30 hardback

The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, Armonk, Michael Bourdeaux (editor), New York: M.E. Sharpe & Co., Inc., 1995, xvi, 336 pp, $49.95 hardback, $19.95 paperback

Onlar Germaniyada Okugan Ediler [They Studied in Germany] Shirali Turdiev, Tashkent: Ozbekistan Respublikasi Fanlar Akademiyasi [Ozbek Republic Academy of Sciences], 1992) Fan Neshriyati, 70 p

Turkey: The Challenge of a New Role, Andrew Mango, Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Washington Papers, No. 163, Washington DC; and Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1994, 152 pp, $45.00 hardback, $12.95 paperback

Islam in Modern Turkey, Religion, Politics and Literature in a Secular State, Richard Tapper (editor), London: I. B. Tauris, 1994, 314 pp, £12.95

Islamic Desk Reference. Compiled from The Encyclopaedia of Islam, E. van Donzel (editor), Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994, 492 pp, illus, £35     

Book reviews

Adelman, Jeremy (1999), Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World .
Walker, Charles F. (1999), Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780–1840 .
Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher (1999), Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833+1874 .
Lauria-Santiago, Aldo (1999), An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823–1914 .
Austin-Broos Diane J. (1997), Jamaica Genesis: Religion and The Politics of Moral Orders .
V. Montecinos (Ed.) (1998), Economists, Politics and the State: Chile 1958–1994, vol. viii .
A. Hira (ed.) (1998); Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National and Organizational Case Studies .
Cullather, Nick (1999), Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account Of Its Operations in Guatemala 1952+1954 .
Wilson Samuel (ed.) (1999), The Indigenous People of the Caribbean .
Gary H. Gossen (1999), Telling Maya Tales. Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico .
Lievesley, Geraldine, Democracy in Latin America: Mobilisation, Power and the search for a New Politics .
Gould Jeffrey (1998), To Die in This Way. Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880–1965 .
Torres, Carlos Alberto and Puiggrós, Adriana (1998), Latin American Education. Comparative Perspectives .
Archetti, Edwardo (1999), Masculinities, Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina .
Outtes Joel (ed.) (1997), O Recife: gênese do urbanismo, 1927+1943 .     

Book reviews

The Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis edited by Martin Kramer. Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1999. Pp.viii + 311. $24.95. ISBN 965–224–040–0.

Kordofan Invaded, Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa edited by Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane. Leiden‐Boston‐Koln: Brill, 1998. Pp.x + 303, bibliography, index and illustrations. $94.00. ISBN 9004110496.

War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I by Donald M. McKale. Kent, Ohio and London: The Kent State University Press 1998. Pp.xxii + 332, bibliography, index. $39.00. ISBN 87338–602–7.

Sudan in Crisis: The Failure of Democracy by G. Norman Anderson. Gainesville: University of Florida, 1999. Pp. xvii + 277, bibliography, index. £39.95. ISBN 0–8130–1671–1.

Iranian Intellectuals in the 20th Century by Ali Gheissari. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Pp.xvi + 199, bibliography, index. $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–72760–7.

An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari'ati by Ali Rahnema. London: IB. Tauris, 1998. Pp.xiii + 402, bibliography, index. £39.50 (cloth). ISBN 1–86064–118–0.     

Book reviews

Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus 1954–1959 by Robert Holland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 347, bibliography, index, illustrations. £48.00 (cloth).

The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 372, bibliography for volumes I and II, notes on the contributors, index. $49.95 (cloth).

The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. Volume II: Foreign Domination to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, edited by Richard G. Hovannisian. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 493, bibliography for volumes I and II, notes on the contributors, index. $49.95 (cloth).

A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century by Roger Owen and Sevket Pamuk. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. xviii + 310, bibliography, index. £35.00 (cloth); £12.95 (paper).

Managing the Oil Wealth: OPEC's Windfalls and Pitfalls by Jahangir Amuzegar. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999. Pp.282, bibliography, index. £35.00 (cloth).

Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East 1916–19 by John Fisher. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999. Pp.xvi + 342, bibliography, index. £42.50/$59.50 (cloth); £18.50/$26.50 (paper).

Iran and the Rise of Reza Shah: From Qajar Collapse to Pahlavi Power by Cyrus Ghani. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. xiv + 434. £29.50.

Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq by Kanan Makiya. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989 (updated edition 1998). Pp. xxxxv + 323, a new introduction, tables, index, chronology. £14.95 (paper).

Najib Mahfuz – The Novelist‐Philosopher of Cairo by Menahem Milson. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1998. Pp. 304.     

Book reviews

Tajikistan

Muriel Atkin, The Subtlest Battle: Islam in Soviet Tajikistan. Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1989, viii + 66 pp., $6.50.

Edward Allworth, Editor, Central Asia: 120 Years of Russian Rule, Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 1989, xviii + 608 pp., $57.50, HB, $22.95 PB.     

Book reviews

Datenhandbuch zur Geschichte des Deutschen Bundestages 1949 bis 1999. Edited by Peter Schindler. 3 Volumes. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1999. DM 98.

Finanzverfassung und Föderalismus in Deutschland und Europa. Edited by Thiess Buttner. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 2000. DM 48 pb.

Krise und Reform des Föderalismus. Edited by Reinhard C. Meier‐Walser and Gerhard Hirscher. Munich: Olzog, 1999. DM 24.80.

Hinter den Kulissen von Regierungsbündnissen. Koalitionspolilik in Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden. Edited by Roland Sturm and Sabine Kropp. Baden‐Baden: Nomos, 1999. DM 74.

Austria — Out of the Shadow of the Past. By Anton Pelinka. Oxford: Westview Press, 1998.

Austria. World Bibliographical Series. Revised edition. Volume 66. By Michael Mitchell. Oxford: Clio Press, 1999.

The Official Concept of the Nation in the Former GDR. By Joanna McKay. Hants/Vermont: Ashgate, 1998.

NATO and the Future of European Security. By Sean Kay. Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.

Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother‐Tongue Fascism and the Science of Language. By Christopher M. Hutton. Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

The Language of the Third Reich. LTI ‐ Lingua Tertii Imperii. A Philologist's Notebook. By Victor Klemperer. Translated by Martin Brady. London and New Brunswick: The Athlone Press, 2000.

German Studies. Old and New Challenges. Undergraduate Programmes in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Edited by Peter Rolf Lutzeier. Berne: Peter Lang, 1998 (German Linguistic and Cultural Studies, vol. 1).

EU Enlargement and its Macroeconomic Effects in Eastern Europe. Currencies, Prices, Investment and Competitiveness. By Hubert Gabrisch and Rüdiger Pohl. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.

Welfare States in Transition. East and West. By Irwin Collier, Herwig Roggemann, Oliver Scholz and Horst Tomann. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.

Economic Transition in Hungary and East Germany. Gradualism and Shock Therapy in Catch‐up Development. By Johannes Stephan. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999.

Doing Business with Germany. Edited by Jonathan Reuvid and Roderick Millar (consultant eds.). In association with German‐British Chamber of Industry and Commerce, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Eversheds. Business Lawyers in Europe. London: Kogan Page, 2nd edn. 1999. Reprinted 2000.

The German Skills Machine: Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy. Edited by Pepper D. Culpepper and David Finegold. Berghahn Books, 1999.

Reconstructing Education. By Rosalind M.O. Pritchard. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999.

In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945–1948. By Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Translated by Kelly Barry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

The Longman Companion to Germany Since 1945. By Adrian Webb. London: Longman, 1998.

Ausgewcihlte Aspekte des Transformationsprozesses im Cesundheitswesen der neuen Bundeslander. Edited by Viola Schubert‐Lehnhardt, Christel Gibas and Birgit Möbest. Berlin: Trafo Verlag, 1998.

Lebensbedingungen, Lebensgestaltung und Lebensinn von älteren Frauen in Deutschland und Europa. Edited by Viola Schubert‐Lehnhardt. Berlin: Trafo Verlag, 2000.