Book reviews

Radical Transitions. The Survival and Revival of Entrepreneurship in the GDR. By Andreas Pickel. Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1992. £25.95 pb.

Europe and German Unification. By Renate Fritsch‐Bournazel. Oxford: Berg, 1992. £30 hb, £8.95 pb.

The Oder‐Neisse Line ‐ A Reappraisal under International Law. By Philip A. Bühler. Boulder: Eastern European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, 1990. $32.50 hb.

Recasting the Ruhr, 1945–1958. Manpower, Economic Recovery and Labour Relations. By Mark Roseman. Oxford: Berg, 1992. £42 hb.

The US Congress and the German Bundestag: Comparisons of Democratic Processes. Edited by Uwe Thaysen, Roger H. Davidson and Robert Gerald Livingston. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, 1990. £31.50 pb.

Der verkappte Einheitsstaat. By Heidrun Abromeit. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1992.

Wir Kollaborateure. Der Westen und die deutschen Vergangenheiten. Edited by Cora Stephan. Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1992. DM9.90 pb.

Die CDU. Organisationsstrukturen, Politiken und Funktionsweisen einer Partei im Föderalismus. By josefschmid. Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 1990. DM48.

Moscow, Germany and the West from Khruschchev to Gorbachev. By Michael J. Sodaro. London: I.B. Tauris, 1991. £29.95 hb, £12.95 pb.

Deutsche Irrtümer. Schönfärberei und Helfershelfer der SED‐Diktatur im Westen. By Jens Hacker. Berlin: Ullstein, 1992. DM68 hb.

Föderalismus in der Bewährung: die deutschen Länder vor der Herausforderung fortschreitender EG‐Integration. Edited by Bernhard Vogel and Günther H. Oettinger. Köln: Deutscher Gemeindeverlag/Kohlhammer, 1992.

The Territorial Imperative: Pluralism, Corporatism, and Economic Crisis. By Jeffrey J. Anderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. £35 hb.

The Federal Republic of Germany and NATO: 40 Years After. Edited by E.J. Kirchner and J. Sperling. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992. £45 hb.

The Economy of United Germany: Colossus at the Crossroads. By W.R. Smyser. London: Hurst &; Co., 1992. £25 hb.     

The Return of ‘Social Europe’: Ideas and Positions of German Parties towards the Future of European Integration

Politics in Eastern Europe. By George Schöpflin. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. £12.99 pb.

Eastern Europe since 1945. By Geoffrey Swain and Nigel Swain. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1993. £10 pb.

Revolution in East‐Central Europe. The Rise and Fall of Communism and the Cold War. By David S. Mason. Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1992. £9.50 pb.

Surge to Freedom: The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europe. By J.F. Brown. Twickenham: Adamantine Press, 1991. £18.40 pb.

The New Democracies in Eastern Europe. Party Systems and Political Cleavages. Edited by Sten Berglund and Jan Åke Dellenbrant. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. £39.95 hb.

Developments in Eastern European Politics. Edited by Stephen White, Judy Batt and Paul G. Lewis. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1993. £11.99 pb.     

Revisiting the resistance to Nazism

The von Hassell Diaries. The Story of the Forces Against Hitler Inside Germany, 1938–1944. By ULRICH VON HASSELL. Boulder/Oxford: Wcstview Press, 1994. £16.95 pb.

Conscience in Revolt. Sixty‐Four Stories of Resistance in Germany, 1933–45. By ANNEDORE LEBER. Boulder/Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. £16.95 pb.

The Secret War Against Hitler. By FABIAN VON SCHLABRENDORFF. Boulder/Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. £16.95 pb.

The Flame of Freedom. The German Struggle Against Hitler. By EBERHARD ZELLER. Boulder/Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. £16.95 pb.

Nazism and German Society, 1933–1945. Edited by DAVID F. CREW. London: Routledge, 1994. £11.99 pb.     

A. Reviews: general

THE CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST BEFORE THE EUROPEAN CHALLENGE. By JAROSLAV KREJCI. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1990. 348 pp. .£37.50 (hb).

THE ORIGINS OF ARAB NATIONALISM. Edited by RASHID KHALIDI, LISA ANDERSON, MUHAMMAD MUSLIH, and REEVA S. SIMON. 288 pp. + glossary, bibliography, index. New York, Columbia University Press, 1991.

THE ARAB STATE. Edited by GIACOMO LUCIANI. London, Routledge, 1990. 454 pp., bibliography, index, tables.

STATE, POWER, AND POLITICS IN THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. By ROGER OWEN. London, Routledge, 1992. xiv, 302 pp. £40.00 (hb), £12.99 (pb).

L'ÉCHEC DE L'ISLAM POLITIQUE. By OLIVIER ROY. Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1992. 247pp.

MOSCOW AND THE MIDDLE EAST. By ROBERT O. FREEDMAN. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. xii, 426 pp. $59.50 (hb), $16.95 (pb).

EURO‐ARAB RELATIONS: A STUDY IN COLLECTIVE DIPLOMACY. By HAIFAA A. JAWAD. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1992. viii, 302 pp. £25.00

OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS: GULF WARS 1980–91. By JOHN CREIGHTON. London, Echoes, 1992. viii, 156 pp. £35.00.

ALL THAT REMAINS: THE PALESTINIAN VILLAGES OCCUPIED AND DEPOPULATED BY ISRAEL IN 1948. Edited by WALID KHALIDI. Washington, D.C., The Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992. li, 636 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $59.00 (hb).

PALESTINE REBORN. By WALID KHALIDI. London, I.B. Tauris, 1992. xxi, 234pp. £35.00(hb), £14.95 (pb).

WILDFIRE: GRASSROOTS REVOLT IN ISRAEL IN THE POST‐SOCIALIST ERA. By SAM N. LEHMAN‐WILZIG. New York, State University of New York Press, 1992. x, 198 pp. $12.95 (pb).

MODERN ALGERIA. By CHARLES‐ROBERT AGERON. London, Hurst, 1991. x, 166 pp. £16.50 (hb).

L'ALGERIE PAR SES ISLAMISTES. By M. AL‐AHNAF, BERNARD BOTIVEAU and FRANCK FREGOSI. Paris, Karthala, 1991. 328 pp.

TUNISIA: RURAL LABOUR AND STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION. By SAMIR RADWAN, JAMAL VALI and AJIT GHOSE. London, Routledge, 1991. xii, 122 pp, £30.00 (hb).

SUDAN AFTER NIMEIRI. Edited by PETER WOODWARD. (Routledge/ SOAS Contemporary Politics and Culture in the Middle East series.) London, Routledge, 1991, xii, 223pp. £35(hb).

TRADE AND EMPIRE IN MUSCAT AND ZANZIBAR: ROOTS OF BRITISH DOMINATION. By M[OHMED] REDA BHACKER. (Exeter Arabic & Islamic series.) London & New York, Routledge, 1992. 278pp. £40.00

THE KURDS: A CONTEMPORARY OVERVIEW. Edited by PHILIP K. KREYENBROEK AND STEFAN SPERL. London, Routledge, 1991. xii, 250 pp. £35.00 (hb).

ARABIC ADENI TEXTBOOK. By HABAKA J. FEGHALI. Edited by ALAN S. KAYE. (Arabic dialect series (Yemen).) Wheaton, MD, Dunwoody, 1991. xx, 233 pp.

MOROCCAN ARABIC READER. By HABAKA J. FEGHALI. Notes by Alan S. Kaye. Wheaton, MD, Dunwoody, 1989. xi, 143 pp.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue The Luck of the Irish: How a Shipload of Convicts Survived the Wreck of the Hive to Make a New Life in Australia. By Babette Smith (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2014), pp. xi + 292. Illustrations, notes, index. AU$32.99 (pb). Sir Charles Lilley: Premier and Chief Justice of Queensland. By J.M. Bennett (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2014), xvii + 365 pp, AU$64.95 (hb). Visions of Colonial Grandeur: John Twycross at Melbourne's International Exhibitions, Melbourne. By Charlotte Smith and Benjamin Thomas (Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2014), AU$39.95 (pb). The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation. By Alan Atkinson (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2014), pp.xxii + 505. AU$49.95 (pb). Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War. By Joan Beaumont (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2013), 656 pp. AU$55.00 (hb). ISBN 9781741751383. Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography. By Carolyn Holbrook (Sydney: UNSWPress, 2014), AU$34.99 (pb). The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO 1949–1963, Vol. 1. By David Horner (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2014), pp.710. AU$59.99 (hb). Taking God to School: The End of Australia's Egalitarian Education. By Marion Maddox (Crow's Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2014), pp. xxiii + 248. A$29.99 (pb). Murray Gleeson: The Smiler. By Michael Pelly (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2014), pp. v + 280. Sixteen photographs. AU$59.95 (hb). Lessons in Governing: A Profile of Prime Ministers' Chiefs of Staff. By R.A.W. Rhodes and Anne Tiernan (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2014), pp. vii + 263. $59.99 (pb). He Who Must Be Obeid: the Untold Story. By Kate McClymont and Linton Besser (North Sydney: Vintage Books, 2014), pp.425, $34.99 (pb). Tony Windsor: The Biography. By Ruth Rae (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2014), ISBN 9781743319253. AU$35.00 (pb). Australian History in 7 Questions. By John Hirst (Collingwood, Vic., Black Inc., 2014), 218 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐86395‐670‐3. AU$24.99 (pb). Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia. By Agnieszka Sobocinska (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2014), AU$34.99 (pb). Changing Times: New Zealand Since 1945. By Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2013), NZ$45.00 (pb), available in Australia through InBooks. Making Micronesia: A Political Biography of Tosiwo Nakayma. By David Hanlon (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2014), pp. xiv + 313. Four Maps. US$55.00 (hb). Malthus: The Life and Legacy of an Untimely Prophet. By Robert J. Mayhew (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap, 2014), pp. 284. AU$46.95 (hb), available in Australia through Footprint Books. The Life of R. H. Tawney: Socialism and History. By Lawrence Goldman (London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. xiv + 411. £65.00 (hb). Ten Cities that Made an Empire. By Tristram Hunt (London: Allen Lane, 2014). £25.00 (hb). Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939–1945. By James Crossland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp.xiv + 269. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐39955‐7. £60.00 (hb). The Tories: from Winston Churchill to David Cameron. By Timothy Heppell (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), AU$39.99 (pb); and Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain. By Robert Ford and Matthew Goodwin (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014), $29.99 (pb). The French Revolution and the Birth of Electoral Democracy. By Melvin Edelstein (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), pp. XV + 365. Five maps. £80. Vodka Politics. Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State. By Mark Lawrence Schrad (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp.xvii + 492. US$35.00. Iran and the United States: An Insider's View of the Failed Past and the Road to Peace. By Seyed Hossein Mousavian (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) $45 (hb). Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. By Bryan McCann (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014), pp.ix + 249. Eight Maps. Nineteen Photographs. Paper AU$24.95. Library Cloth Edition AU$89.95. Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750: Cavalry, Guns, Government and Ships. By Kaushik Roy (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), AU$130.00 (hb). The Company and the Shogun: the Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan. By Adam Clulow (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), xi, 262 pp. + notes, bibliography, index; maps, figures. ISBN: 978‐0‐231‐1648‐3. AU$79.00 (hb), available in Australia through Footprint Books. Gender and Global Justice. Edited by Alison M. Jaggar (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014), pp.223. £16.99 (pb). Historians Debate the Rise of the West. By Jonathan Daly (London and New York: Routledge, 2015) 978‐1‐138‐77480‐3. AU$63.99 (pb). Transnationalizing the Public Sphere. Edited by Kate Nash (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014), pp. 168 9PB £12.99.     

Kommunale Repräsentation auf den Landtagen Schwäbisch-Österreichs. Eine Prosopograhie der Abgeordneten aus der Grafschaft Hohenberg und der Landvogtei Schwaben,Schriften zur Südwestdeutschen Landeskunde

Anthony Fletcher: Reform in the Provinces: The Government of Stuart England. (Yale University Press, 1986; pp.xiv, 386; ISBN 0521 330637; £22.00.)

J.C.D. Clark: Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. (Cambridge University Press, 1986; pp.x, 182; ISBN 0521 33710 0; pb, £6.95 ($9.95.))

J.M. McEwen (ed.): The Riddell Diaries, 1908–1923. (The Athlone Press, London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1986; pp. xviii, 430; ISBN 0 485 11300 7; £25.00.)     

The Baghdad railway: Its new rôle in the Middle East

General

Gardens of Paradise: The History and Design of the Great Islamic Gardens. By John Brookes. London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1987. Pp. 240. Maps. Bibliog. Index. Chronology. Illus. £20.00.

The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. By E. L. Jones. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 279. Bibliog. Index. £27.50 Hb, £9.95 Pb.

Expansion of Third World Navies. By Michael A. Morris. London. Macmillan, 1987. Pp. 293: Index £35.00.

Central Asia

Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom ‐ the Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John. By Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev. Translated from the Russian by R. E. F. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. 403. Bibliog. Index. Maps. (First published in Russian, under the title: Poiski vymyshlennogo Tsarstva: legenda o Gosudarstve presvitera Ioanna, Moscow, 1970). £37.50.

Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan. By Albert von Le Coq. Hong Kong. Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 180. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £8.50 Pb.

The Tragedy of Afghanistan: the Social, Cultural and Political Impact of the Soviet Invasion. Edited by Bo Huldt and Erland Jansson. London, Croom Helm, 1988. Pp. 270. Index. £27.50.

South Asia

The New Cambridge History of India. Vol. II 1. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. By Dr. C. A. Bayly. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 206. Gloss. Bibliographical Essay. Index. £17.50.

The New Cambridge History of India, II, 2: Bengal: the British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740–1828. By P. J. Marshall. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. 195. Index. Maps. £17.50.

India and Tibet. By Francis Younghusband. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 455. Illus. Maps. Index. £21.00.

Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj. By Marian Fowler. New York, Viking, 1987. Pp. 337. Illus. Notes. Bibliog. $19.95.

Mediaevalism to Modernism: Socio‐economic and Cultural History of Hyderabad 1869–1911. By Sheela Raj. London, Sangam Books, 1987. Pp. 340. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £19.95.

The Days of the Beloved. By Harriet Ronken Lynton and Mohini Rajan. London, Sangam Books, 1988. Pp. 279. Illus. £11.95.

South Asia: The Narrowing Options. Economist Intelligence Unit Special Report No. 110. By Brian Slocock. London. Economist Intelligence Unit. 1988. Pp. 119. Map. £115.00 Pb.

The Cat and the Lion. Robert W. Stern. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1988. Pp. 331. Bibliog. Index. $56.00.

Tribal Guerrillas: The Santals of West Bengal and the Naxalite Movement. By Edward Duyker. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 201. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £11.95.

The Political Economy of Pakistan, 1947–85. By Omar Noman. London, KPI, 1988. Pp. 218. Bibliog. Index. £25.00.

Banditry in Islam: Case Studies from Morocco, Algeria and the Pakistan North West Frontier. By David M. Hart. London Middle East and North African Studies Press, 1987. Pp. 86. Maps.

Sri Lanka: A History. By Chandra Richard de Silva. London, Sangam books, 1987. Pp. 316. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £14.95.

Crime, Justice and Society in Colonial Sri Lanka. By John D. Rogers. Curzon Riverdale, 1987. Pp. 270. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. No price stated.

South‐East Asia

ASEAN at the Crossroads. Ed. by Noordin Sopiee, Chewhay See and Lim Siang Jin. Kuala Lumpur. ISIS, Malaysia, 1987. Pp. 577. $25.00.

Financing East Asia's Success. By Michael Skully and George Viksnis, London, Macmillan, 1987. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £29.50.

The Commerce in Rubber ‐ The First 250 Years. By Austin Coates. Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1987. Pp. 380. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.

Government and Politics in Singapore. Ed. Jon S. T. Quah, Chan Heng Chee and Seah Chee Meow. Southeast Asian Studies Program, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1987. Tables, Bibliog. Index. Pp. 338. £11.50.

On the Road to Tribal Extinction: Depopulation, Deculturation, and Adaptive Well‐Being Among the Batak of the Philippines. By James F. Eder. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987. Pp. 276. Maps. Notes. Index. $38.00.

Land, Poverty and Politics in the Philippines. By Mamerto Canlas, Mariano Miranda Jr., and James Putzel. London, Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1988. Pp. 87. Map. Index. £4.95.

Punishing the Poor: The International Isolation of Kampuchea. By Eva Mysliwiec. Oxford, Oxfam Publications, 1988. Pp. 172. £3.95. Pb. £14.95 Hb.

Middle East

Israel and the American National Interest ‐ A Critical Examination. By Cheryl A. Rubenberg. Urbana and Chicago. University of Illinois Press, 1986. Pp. 446. Index. $24.95.

The Zealous Intruders: The Western Rediscovery of Palestine. By Naomi Shepherd. London, Collins, 1987. Pp. 282. Illus. Map. Bibliog. Index. Price not stated.

Far East

The Cambridge History of China. Volume 13. Republican China 1912–1949, Part 2. Edited by John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 1111. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £60.00.

The Cambridge History of China. General Editors, Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank. Volume 14, The People's Republic, Part 1: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1949–1965. Edited by R. L. MacFarquhar and J. K. Fairbank. Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. 722. Bibliographical Essays. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £50.00.

The Archaeology of Ancient China. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. By Kwang‐Chih Chang. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. 475. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £45.00 Hb. £14.95. Pb.

A Dream of Red Mansions. By Ts'ao Hsüeh‐ch'in and Kao Ngo, (tr. Yang Hsien‐yi and Gladys Yang). London, Unwin Paperbacks, 1986. Pp. 499. £7.95 Pb.

Outlaws of the Marsh. By Shih Nai‐an and Lo Kuan‐chung (tr. Sidney Shapiro). London, Unwin Paperbacks, 1986, Pp. 458. £7.95 Pb.

Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century. By Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1987. Pp. 288. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £22.50 US $35.00.

The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. By Joseph W. Esherick. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1987. Pp. 451. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. $45.00.

The Communist Party of China and Marxism 1921–1985: A Self‐Portrait. By Laszlo Ladany. London, C Hurst &; Co 1988. Pp. 588. Bibliog. Index. £32.50.

The Sino‐Soviet Confrontation since Mao Zedong. Dispute, Detente, or Conflict? By Alfred D. Low. Social Science Monographs, Boulder, 1987. Distributed by Columbia University Press. Pp. 332. Notes. Bibliog. $40.

Education and Socialist Modernization ‐ A Documentary History of Education in the People's Republic of China, 1977–1988. Edited by Shi Ming Hu and Eli Seifman. New York, AMS Press, 1987. Pp. 229. $62.50.

East Asian Conflict Zones. Ed. Lawrence E. Grinter and Young Whan Khil. Basingstoke, Macmillan Press, 1988. Pp. 239. Map. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £29.50.

Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudō Merchant Academy of Osaka. By Tetsuo Najita. Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press. 1987. Pp. 344. Index. £29.95. Hb. £11.95 Pb.

Japan in the Victorian Mind: A Study of Stereotyped Images of a Nation, 1850–1880. By Toshio Yokoyama. London, St Antony's/Macmillan, 1987. Pp. 233. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £27.50.

Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965–1975. Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. 329. Illus. Notes. Index. £25.00. Hb. £11.70. Pb.

The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual. By Emiko Ohnuki‐Tierney. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. 269. Illus. Index. Bibliog. £18.75.

Dōgen Kigen: Mystical Realist. By Hee‐Jin Kim. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1987. Pp. 324. Bibliog. Index. $18.95 Pb.

Hong Kong in Transition. Ed. Joseph Y. S. Cheng. Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 457. £8.95. Pb.

Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong. By Carl Smith. Oxford University Press, 1985, 1988. Pp. 252. Chronology. Plates. Notes. Index. £15.00.

Siberia and the Soviet Far East: Strategic Dimensions in Multinational Perspective. Ed. Rodger Swearingen. Stanford, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1987. Pp. 298. Index. $32.95.

Shorter notes

Soviet Economic Assistance to the Less Developed Countries. By Quintin V. S. Bach. Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. 175. Bibliog. £27.50.

The Tibet Guide. By Stephen Batchelor. London, Wisdom Publications, 1987. Pp. 466. Illus. Index. £13.95 Pb.

The Second Afghan War 1878–1880 Casualty Roll. Compiled by Anthony Far‐rington. The London Stamp Exchange Limited, 1987. Pp. 189. (A4) £14.95.

Indian General Service Medal 1895 Casualty Roll. Compiled by Anthony Far‐rington. The London stamp Exchange limited, 1987. Pp. 166. (A4) £14.95.

The Makers of Indian Colonial Silver 1760–1860. Wynyard R. T. Wilkinson. London, W. R. T. Wilkinson, 1987. Pp. 229. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £97.50.

Kashmir. By Raghubir Singh. London, Thames and Hudson, 1987. Pp. 32. Illus. Map. £9.95 Pb.

Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Society. Ed. Chowdhury E. Haque. Winnipeg, Bangladesh Studies Assemblage, University of Manitoba, 1987. Pp. 139. Price not stated.

Course for Disaster: From Scapa to the River Kwai. By Richard Pool. London, Leo Cooper, 1987. Pp. 196. £13.95.

Medieval Persia 1040–1797. By David Morgan. Longman, London and New York, 1988. Pp. 197. Bibliog. Index. £15.95 Hb. £7.95 Pb.

Iron in the Fire: the Chinese Potters’ Exploration of Iron‐oxide Glazes. London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1988. Intro. Plates. £16 (incl. postage).     

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.     

B. Reviews: general

A HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLES. By ALBERT HOURANI. London, Faber and Faber, 1991. xviii, 551pp. £25 (hb).

STUDIES IN ARAB HISTORY. Edited by DEREK HOPWOOD. (St.Antony's/Macmillan series.) London, Macmillan, 1990. 189pp. 5 plates and 3 figures.

A HISTORY OF THE SELJUKS: ?BRAHIM KAFESOGLU'S INTERPRETATION AND THE RESULTING CONTROVERSY. Translated and edited By GARY LEISER. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1988. 208pp. Genealogical charts, maps in end covers. $29.95.

THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN THE LATIN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. By JOSHUA PRAWER. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988. xv, 310pp. 5 maps.

ARAB HISTORY AND THE NATION STATE: A STUDY IN MODERN ARAB HISTORIOGRAPHY 1820–1980. By YOUSSEF M. CHOUEIRI. (Exeter Arabic and Islamic Series.) London & New York, Routledge, 1989. xix, 238pp. £35.00

THE END OF EMPIRE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: BRITAIN'S RELINQUISHMENT OF POWER IN HER LAST THREE ARAB DEPENDENCIES. By GLEN BALFOUR‐PAUL. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxiv, 278pp. £30.00.

THE LETTERS OF T.E. LAWRENCE. Edited by MALCOLM BROWN. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991. xi, 564pp. £8.95 (pb).

A PRINCE OF OUR DISORDER: THE LIFE OF T.E. LAWRENCE. By JOHN H. MACK. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990. xxvi, 561pp. £9.95 (pb).

UN GRAND RABBIN SEPHARADE EN POLITIQUE 1892–1923. Presented and edited by ESTHER BENBASSA. Mesnil‐sur‐l'Estrée, CNRS, 1990. 263pp.

THE SUPREME MUSLIM COUNCIL: ISLAM UNDER THE BRITISH MANDATE FOR PALESTINE. By URI M. KUPFERSCHMIDT. Leiden, Brill, 1987.

AFTER THE EAGLES LANDED: THE YEMENITES OF ISRAEL. By HERBERT S. LEWIS. Boulder, Westview Press, 1989. xix, 277pp., photographs, glossary.

LAND BEFORE HONOUR: PALESTINIAN WOMEN IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. By KITTY WARNOCK. (Women in Society: A Feminist List.) London, Macmillan Educational Press, 1990. 199pp.

PEASANT POLITICS IN MODERN EGYPT: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE STATE. By NATHAN BROWN. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1990. 280pp. 2 maps. £25.00.

SOCIETY AND STATE IN THE GULF AND ARAB PENINSULA. By KHALDOUN HASAN AL‐NAQEEB. London and New York, Routledge, 1990. xvii, 206 pp. £35

THE TURBULENT GULF. By LIESL GRAZ. London, I.B. Tauris, 1990. xi, 312pp. £17.95.

IRAN: THE KHOMEINI REVOLUTION (COUNTRIES IN CRISIS). Edited by MARTIN WRIGHT. Contributors: Nick Danziger, Martin Howe, Baqer Moin, Reza Navabpour, Sir Anthony Parsons, Vahe Petrossian, Amit Roy and Martin Wright. London, Longman, 1989. 128pp. Maps, ills. £6.95.

ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS (COUNTRIES IN CRISIS). Edited by MARTIN WRIGHT. Contributors: Paul Cossali, Roger Hardy, Lawrence Joffe, Noah Lucas, David McDowall, Elfi Pallis, Martin Wright. London, Longman, 1989. 131pp. Maps, ills. £6.95.

MAJOR POLITICAL EVENTS IN IRAN, IRAQ AND THE ARABIAN PENINSULA 1945–1990. By TREVOR MOSTYN. New York & London, Facts on File, 1991. xii, 308pp. £14.95.

WOMEN AT WORK IN THE GULF: A CASE STUDY OF BAHRAIN. By MUNIRA A. FAKHRO. London, Kegan Paul International. 184pp. £45.00

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TURKEY: DEBT, ADJUSTMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY. Edited by TOSUN ARICANLI and DANI RODRIK. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1990. 275pp. £40 (hb).

AFGHANISTAN: A COUNTRY LAW STUDY. By GHOLAM H. VAFAI. Washington, Library of Congress, 1988. 63pp.

RESISTANCE AND CONTROL IN PAKISTAN. By AKBAR S. AHMED. London & New York, Routledge, 1991. xxiii, 207pp. £12.99 (pb).

MASTERING ARABIC: By JANE WIGHTWICK and MAHMOUD GAAFAR. (Macmillan Master Series.) London, Macmillan, 1990. 370pp.

FROM CODE‐SWITCHING TO BORROWING: A CASE STUDY OF MOROCCAN ARABIC. By JEFFREY HEATH. (Library of Arabic Linguistics, monograph 9.) London, Kegan Paul International, 1990. 328pp.

ARISTOTELIAN LOGIC AND THE ARABIC LANGUAGE IN ALFARABI. By SHUKRI B. ABED. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1991. xxv, 201pp.

OGHUSICA AUS IRAN. By GERHARD DOERFER, WOLFRAM HESCHE, JAMSHID RAVANYAR. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1990. ix, 146pp. DM 56.‐

ABBASID BELLES LETTRES. Edited by Julia Ashtiany, T.M. Johnstone, J.D. Latham, R.B. Serjeant and G. Rex Smith. (The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature, Vol.II, 1.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiii, 517pp.

PENSEE MYTHIQUE, IDEOLOGIE ET ASPIRATIONS SOCIALES DANS UN CONTE DES MILLE ET UNE NUITS. By PATRICE COUSSONNET. (Supplément aux Annales Islamologiques—Cahier no. 13). Cairo, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1989. 67 pp. 6 plates.

THE MEADOWS OF GOLD: THE ABBASIDS. By MAS'UDI. Tr. and ed. by PAUL LUNDE and CAROLINE STONE. London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1989. x, 469pp. £30.00

POESlA ESTRÓFICA (CEJELES Y/O MUWA??AHAT) ATRIBUIDA AL MlSTICO GRANADINO A?‐?u?TARI (SIGLO XIII d.C.).(Preedición, traducción, estudio e índices.) By F. CORRIENTE. Madrid, CSIC, Instituto de Filología, Departamento de Estudios Árabes, 1988. [6], 379pp.

ISLAM, THE STRAIGHT PATH. By JOHN L. ESPOSITO. Oxford University Press, 1988. viii, 230pp. £6.95.

TRADITIONAL ISLAM IN THE MODERN WORLD. By SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR. London, KPI, 1987. x, 335pp.

IN A CALIPH'S KITCHEN: MEDIAEVAL ARABIC COOKING FOR THE MODERN GOURMET. By DAVID WAINES. London, Riad el‐Rayyes Books, 1989. 119pp. 44 colour plates. £14.00.     

Members of the international commission for the history of representative and parliamentary institutions as at 31 march 1984

F.L. Carsten: The First Austrian Republic 1918–1938: A Study Based on British and Austrian Documents. (Gower Publishing 1986, pp. 309; ISBN 0 566 05162 1; £22.50.)

A.R. Peters: Anthony Eden at the Foreign Office 1931–1938. (Aldershot: Gower Publishing and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986; pp. viii, 402; ISBN 0 5660 5117 6; £25.00.)

Brian Girvin and Roland Sturm (eds.): Politics and Society in Contemporary Ireland. (Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1986; pp. ix, 199; ISBN 0 566 05135 4; £18.50.)

Klaus von Beyme: Political Parties in Western Democracies (Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1985; pp. xiii, 444; ISBN 0 566 00570 0 £25.00.)

Gordon Smith: Democracy in Western Germany: Parties and Politics in the Federal Republic (3rd edition, Gower, 1986; pp. xi, 243: ISBN 0 566 05267 9 (pb); £6.95.)

George C. Malcher: Poland's Politicized Army: Communists in Uniform (New York, Praeger Publishers, 1984: pp. xvi, 287; ISBN 0 275 91221 3; £34.95.)

I. Crewe and M. Harrop (eds): Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1983 (Cambridge University Press, 1986; pp. vii, 335; ISBN 0 521 30425 3; £25.00.)     

The assassins in Quhistan

China Under Deng. By John Gardner, London. The Centre for Security and Conflict Studies, 1987, Pp. 26, Notes. £5.50. Pb.

The China Challenge: Adjustment and Reform. By David Goodman, Martin Lockett and Gerald Segal. London. Royal Institute of International Affairs, Published by Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1986, Pp. 86. Map. £5.95 Pb.

Towards Capitalist Restoration?: Chinese Socialism after Mao. By Michel Chossudovsky, Basingstoke. Macmillan, 1986, Pp. 252, Map. Bibliog. Index. £20.00 Hb.

Investing in China: Where, How and Why? By Lynette Kemp. London. The Economist Intelligence Unit, Report No. 1071, 1987. Pp. 196, Maps. Bibliog. £85.00 Pb.     

Inflation and the Making of Australian Macroeconomic Policy, 1945–85

Inflation and the Making of Australian Macroeconomic Policy, 1945–85. By Michael Beggs (Basingstoke: Macmillan Palgrave, 2015), pp.xii + 325, £75.00 (hb).     

B. Reviews: general

THE FATIMID VIZIERATE 969–1172. By LEILA AL‐IMAD. Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1990. viii, 229pp.

SEMINAR FÜR ARABISTIK UND ISLAM WISSENSCHAFT, WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS UNIV. MÜNSTER

MAPAS, PLANOS Y FORTIFICACIONES HISPANICOS DE TUNEZ (S. XVI‐XIX)/ CARTES, PLANS ET FORTIFICATIONS HISPANIQUES DE LA TUNISIE (XVIe‐XIXe S.). By JUAN Bta. VILAR. 488pp. Text in Spanish; Table of Contents, Preface and Introduction in Spanish and French. Madrid, Instituto de Cooperacion con el Mundo Arabe, 1991. Ca. ptas. 7.000.‐.

SEPHARDI ENTREPRENEURS IN ERETZ ISRAEL: THE AMZALAK FAMILY 1816–1918. By JOSEPH B. GLASS and RUTH KARK. Jerusalem, Magnes Press, 1991. 202pp. $20 (hb).

JEWISH LIFE IN MUSLIM LIBYA: RIVALS AND RELATIVES. By HARVEY E. GOLDBERG. Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press, 1990. 181pp.

FRENCH JEWS, TURKISH JEWS: THE ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE AND THE POLITICS OF JEWISH SCHOOLING IN TURKEY, 1860–1925. By ARON RODRIGUE. Bloomingtom, Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1990. 235pp.

KLÉBER EN ÉGYPTE: 1798–1800. Edited by HENRY LAURENS. (Voyageurs occidentaux en Egypte, 25.) Le Caire, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1988. 2 vols. Vol. 1, Kléber et Bonaparte: 1798–1799, viii, 342pp., map. Vol. 2, Kléber et Bonaparte: 1798–99 [sic]. 234pp., map, illustrations.

SADAT AND AFTER: STRUGGLES FOR EGYPT'S POLITICAL SOUL. By RAYMOND WILLIAM BAKER. London, Taurus, 1990. 365pp. £26.50.

EGYPT: MOULIDS, SAINTS, SUFIS. By NICOLAAS H. BIEGMAN. The Hague/London, Gary Schwartz/SDU, Kegan Paul International, 1990. 175pp.

SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES FOR ISRAEL'S ARAB POPULATION. By AZIZ HAIDAR. (Westview Special Studies on the Middle East.) Boulder & Oxford, Westview Press, 1991.

THE SYRIAN INVOLVEMENT IN LEBANON SINCE 1975. By REUVEN AVI‐RAN. Boulder and Oxford, Westview Press. 241pp. £19.95 (pb).

THE IRAQI REVOLUTION OF 1958: THE OLD SOCIAL CLASSES REVISITED. Ed. by ROBERT A. FERNEA AND WM. ROGER LOUIS. London/New York, I.B. Tauris, 1991. xxiv, 232pp.

LETTERS FROM TEHRAN: A BRITISH AMBASSADOR IN WORLD WAR II PERSIA. By READER BULLARD, edited by E.C. HODGKIN. London, I.B. Taurus, 1991. xiii, 301pp. £29.95.

AGRICULTURE, POVERTY AND LAND REFORM IN IRAN. By MOHAMMAD JAVAD AMID. London, Routledge, 1990. xii, 177pp. £30 (hb).

REVOLUTION AND ECONOMIC TRANSITION: THE IRANIAN EXPERIENCE. By HOOSHANG AMIRAHMADI. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1990. 420pp.

TURKEY AND THE MIDDLE EAST. By PHILIP ROBINS. London, Pinter for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 134pp.

THE US‐TURKISH‐NATO MIDDLE EAST CONNECTION: HOW THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE AND TURKEY'S NATO ENTRY CONTAINED THE SOVIETS. By GEORGE McGHEE. Foreword by Lord Carrington. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1990. xvii, 224pp. £40 (hb).

LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN TURKEY: GOVERNING GREATER ISTANBUL. Edited by METIN HEPER. London, Routledge, 1989. 92 pp.

CENTRE DE WULF‐MANSION, INSTITUT SUPÉRIEUR DE PHILOSOPHIE, UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN

MUSLIM‐CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS. By W. MONTGOMERY WATT. London & New York, Routledge, 1991. 164 pp.

ISLAM: THE FEAR AND THE HOPE. By HABIB BOULARÈS. London & New Jersey, Zed Books, 1990. xii, 144pp. £26.95 (hb); £8.95 (pb).

ISLAMIC LAW: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS. Edited by AZIZ AL‐AZMEH. London, Routledge, 1988. 277pp. £27.50.

MODERN LITERATURE IN THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST 1850–1970. Edited by ROBIN OSTLE. London, Routledge, 1991. ix, 248 pp.

A PERSIAN REQUIEM. By SIMIN DANESHVAR, translated by ROXANE ZAND. Peter Halban Publishers. 279pp. £13.95.

MINARET: SYMBOL OF ISLAM. By JONATHAN BLOOM. (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, VII.) Oxford, OUP, 1989. 216 pp. £25.00.     

Tribes,states and anthropologists

Nomads and the Outside World by A.M. Khazanov, translated by Julia Crookenden with a foreword by Ernest Gellner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xxvii + 369. £37.50.

The Conflict of Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan edited by Richard Tapper. London: Croom Helm, 1983, Pp. 463. £19.95.

Khans and Shahs. A Documentary Analysis of the Bakhtiyari in Iran by Gene R. Garthwaite. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii + 213,, plus microfiche. £25.00.     

“Through the inner deserts to Medina.”

General

The Oil Markets of the Pacific Rim into the 1990s. By Paul McDonald. London, Financial Times Business Information, 1990. Pp. 101. £198.00 (£208/US$333 ‐overseas)

The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive. By Jack Goody. Cambridge University Press. 1990. Pp. 532. Index. £13.95 Pb.

Albuquerque: Caesar of the East. Selected texts by Albuquerque and his son. Edited with a translation and notes by T. F. Earle &; John Villiers. Warminster, Aris &; Phillips, 1990. Pp. 308. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £12.95.

The Trial of Benazir: An Insight into the Status of Woman in Islam. By Rafiq Zakaria. London. Sangam Books. 1990. Pp. 151. Bibliog. Index. £12.95.

The Babi and Baha'i Religions: From messianic Shi'ism to a world religion. By Peter Smith. Cambridge University Press, 1987, Pp. 243. Illus. Maps. Index. £25.00 Hb.

Central Asia

My Tibet. By H. H. The Dalai Lama. Photographs and introduction by Galen Powell. University of California Press. Pp. 162. Maps. Illus. Index. $35.00.

Japanese Agent in Tibet: My Ten Years of Travel in Disguise. By Hisae Kimura. London, Serindia Publications. 1990. Pp. 224. Index. £14.95

Nomads of Western Tibet: The Survival of a Way of Life. By Melvyn C. Goldstein and Cynthia M. Beall. London, Serindia Publications, 1990. Pp. 192. Illus. Index. £19.95.

Lost World: Tibet By Amaury de Riencourt. London. Honeyglen Publishing. 1990. Pp. 335. Epilogue. Gloss. Index. £13.95.

Tibet, China and India 1914–1950: A History of Imperial Diplomacy. By Alastair Lamb. London, Roxford Books. 1989. Pp. 523. Bibliog. Index. £40.00.

Reflections on Tibetan Culture. By Ed. Lawrence Epstein and Richard F. Sher‐burne. New York, The Edward Mellen Press. 1990. Pp. 350. References. $69.95.

Apples in the Snow. A Journey to Samarkand. By Geoffrey Moorhouse. London, Hodder &; Stoughton, 1990. Pp. 189. £12.95.

South Asia

The Shah Jahan Nama of Inayat Khan. Trans. A. R. Fuller Edited and completed W. E. Bagley and Z. A. Desai. Delhi. OUP. 1990. Pp. 624. Illus. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. £35.00.

The Formation of the Mughal Empire. By Douglas E. Streisand. Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 206. Bibliog. Index. £11.95.

Pastoral Deities in Western India. By Gunther‐Dietz Sontheimer. Trans: Anne Feldhaus. O.U.P., 1989. Pp. 278. Bibliog. Index. Maps. £34.00.

Keynes and India. By Anand Chandavarkar. London. Macrhillan. 1989. Pp. 209. Index. Bibliog. £35.00.

Subhas Chandra Bose and Middle Class Radicalism: a Study in Indian Nationalism, 1928–1940. By Bidyut Chakrabarty. London, I.B. Tauris. 1990. Pp. 240. Bibliog. Index. £34.95.

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography. By Sarvepalli Gopal. O.U.P. 1990. Pp. 500. Biog. Notes. Glos. Index. £19.50.

India Wins Errors. By Rajmohan Gandhi. Delhi, Sangam Books, 1989. Bibliog. Notes. Index. £10.95.

Politics of Communalism: A Politico‐Historical Analysis of Communal Riots in Post‐Independence India with Special Reference to the Gujarat and Rajasthan Riots. By Zenab Banu, London, Sangham Books, 1989. Pp. 226. Bibliog. Index. £19.95.

Cabinet Government in India. By Madhu Limaye. London, Sangam Books, 1989. Pp. 346. Index. £15.95.

The State of Martial Rule: the origins of Pakistan's political economy of defence. By Ayesha Jalal, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 328. Map. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £30.00.

Nor Iron Bars a Cage. By Penelope Tremayne. London: Fontana Paperbacks, 1990. Pp. 195. £2.50.

South‐East Asia

Growth and Ethnic Inequality: Malaysia's New Economic Policy. By J. Faaland, J. R. Parkinson and Rais Saniman. London, Hurst and Company. 1990. Pp. 347, Map. Bibliog. Index. £35.00.

Margins and Minorities: The Peripheral Areas and Peoples of Malaysia. Edited by V. T. King and M. J. G. Parnwell. Hull University Press. 1990. Pp. 290, Tables. Maps. Figures. Bibliog. Index. £8.90.

A Journey among the peoples of Borneo in word and picture. By H. F. Tillema. Edited and with an introduction by Victor T. King. Oxford University Press. 1989. Pp. 251. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £40.00.

Thailand and the United States: Development, Security and Foreign Aid. By Robert J. Muscat. New York: Columbia University Press. 1990. Pp. 361. Tables. Bibliog. Index: $46.00.

Middle East

Power and Stability in the Middle East. Edited by Berch Berberoglu. London, Zed Books, 1989. Pp. 206. Index. £32.95 Hb, £9.95 Pb.

The Rural Middle East: Peasant Lives and Modes of Production. Edited by Kathy and Pandeli Glavanis. London, Zed Books, 1990. Pp. 215. Index. £29.95 Hb, £9.95 Pb.

Early Islamic Architecture of the Desert: A Bedouin Station in Eastern Jordan. By Svend Helms et al. Edinburgh University Press. 1990. Pp. 188. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £25.00.

Burton: Snow upon the Desert By Frank McLynn. London: John Murray, 1990. Pp. 374. Notes. Index. Plates. £19.95.

Iran ‐ The Crisis of Democracy 1941–53. By Fakhreddin Azimi. London. I. B. Tauris. 1989. Pp. 433. Bibliog. Index. £29.50.

Planning and Power in Iran ‐ Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah. By Frances Bostock and Geoffrey Jones. London. Frank Cass. 1989. Pp. 238. Bibliog. Index. £22.50.

Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran. By Homa Katouzian. I. B. Tauris. 1990. Pp. 288. Notes. Index. £24.95.

In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade. By Robin Wright. London, Blooms‐bury, 1990. Pp. 284. Illus. Bibliog. Map. Index. £16.99.

The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine 1921–1951. By Avi Shlaim. Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 465. Maps. Index. £7.95 Pb.

Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation. Edited by Zachary Lockman and Joel Beinin. London, I. B. Tauris, 1990. Pp. 423. Appendices. Illus. Notes. £5.95 Pb.

Far East

The Search for Modern China. By Jonathan D. Spence. London, Hutchinson, 1990. Pp. 876. Tables. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £19.95.

The Soul of China. By Amaury de Riencourt. London, Honeyglen Publishing, 1989. 2nd rev. edition. Pp. 326. Index. £13.95.

The Invention of Li Yu. By Patrick Hanan. Cambridge, Mass, and London, Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. 272. Mus., Bibliog., Index. £21.95.

Understanding Peasant China: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Social Science. By Daniel Little. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. 322. Bibliog. Maps. Index. £25.00.

China's Peasants. The Anthropology of a Revolution. By Sulamith Heins Potter and Jack M. Potter. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 358. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £30.00 Hb.

Agents and Victims in South China: Accomplices in Rural Revolution. By Helen F. Siu, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. 378. Bibliog. Index. Maps. Photographs. £30.00.

The Geography of Contemporary China. The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade. Ed. Terry Canon and Alan Jenkins. London and New York, Routledge, 1990. Pp. 316. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £35.00 Hb. £14.99 Pb.

Golden Inches. The China Memoir of Grace Service. Ed. by John S. Service. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989. Pp. 346. Illus. $19.95.

Hong Kong: The Challenge of Transformation. Ed. Kathleen Cheek‐Milby and Miron Mushkat. University of Hong Kong Press, 1989. Pp. 314. HK$150.00.

Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong. By Michael C. Davis. Basingstoke, Macmillan Press, 1990. Pp. 219. Index. £35.00.

The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 3 Medieval Japan. Ed. Kozo Yama‐mura. 1990. Pp. 707. Maps. Tables. Works cited. Gloss. Index. £65.00.

Old Friends New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Pacific War 1942–1945. By Arthur J. Marder, Mark Jacobsen and John Horsfield. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990. Pp. 621. Plates. Maps. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. £40.00.

The Emergence of Japan's Foreign Aid Power. By Robert M. Orr, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. 178. Bibliog. Index.

Nakae Ushikichi: The Mourning of Spirit. By Joshua A. Fogel. London, Harvard University Press, 1989. Pp. 313. Appendix. Notes. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £18.50.

The British Part in the Korean War Volume I: A Distant Obligation. By General Sir Anthony Farrar‐Hockley. London, HMSO 1990. Pp. 544, Maps. £35.00 Hb.

South Korea and the Socialist Countries: The Politics of Trade. By Dan C. Sanford. London, Macmillan., 1990. Pp. 138. Bibliog. Index. £35.00.

Shorter notices

Animals in four worlds: sculptures from India. By Stella Snead. University Press, Chicago, 1989. Pp. 199. Illus. £31.95.

The Soul of India. By Amaury de Riencourt. Honeyglen Publishing, London. 1990. Pp. 416. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £13.95.

Dance Dialects of India. By Ragini Devi. Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass, 1990. Pp. 234. Illus. Appendices. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 6.50.

Curries and Bugles: A cookbook of the British Raj. By Jennifer Brennan. London. Viking. 1990. Pp. 324. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £16.99.

Lahore: the City Within. By Samina Qureshi. Singapore: Concept Media Pte. Ltd. 1988. Pp. 292. Maps. Illus. £40.00.

Travels in Kashmir: A Popular History of its People, Places and Crafts. By Brigid Keenan. Oxford University Press. 1990. Pp. 226. Index. Bibliog. Maps. Illus. £5.99.

Borobudur: Prayer in Stone. By Soekmono, J. G. de Casparis and J. Dumarcay. London. Thames and Hudson. 1990. Pp. 176. Illus. Bibliog. Gloss. £35.00.

Yemen: Invitation to a Voyage in Arabia Felix. By Jacques Hébert. Photographs by Marc Hébert. Montreal, Heritage Publishing, 1989, Pp. 140. Illus. Map. Appendices. C$30.

The Seven Shaikhdoms: Life in the Trucial States before the federation of the United Arab Emirates. By Ronald Codrai. London, Stacey International, 1990. Pp. 174. 170 illustrations. Map. £25.00.     

B. Reviews: general

EARLY ISLAM: COLLECTED ARTICLES. By W. MONTGOMERY WATT. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1990. xi, 207pp.

THE KINGDOM OF CYPRUS AND THE CRUSADES 1191–1374. By PETER W. EDBURY. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvi, 241 pp. £27.50 (hb).

MAMLOUKS, OTTOMANS ET PORTUGAIS EN MER ROUGE: L'AFFAIRE DE DJEDDA EN 1517. By JEAN‐LOUIS BACQUE‐GRAMMONT & ANNE KR(ELL. (Supplément aux Annales islamologiques, Cahier no.12). Le Caire, Publication de l'Institut français d'Archéologie orientale, 1988. 113 pp. 2 sketches, 4 pages of maps, 1 pull‐out table.

A SHI'ITE PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA 1885–1886: THE SAFARNAMEH OF MIRZA MOHAMMAD HOSAYN FARAHANI. By MIRZA MOHAMMAD HOSAYN FARAHANI, ed., translated and annotated by HAFEZ FARMAYAN and ELTON L. DANIEL. London, Saqi Books, 1991. xxii, 380pp. £29.95 (hb).

ISLAMIC REFORM: POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATE OTTOMAN SYRIA. By DAVID DEAN COMMINS. Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 1990. 199pp.

RIYADH: THE OLD CITY. By WILLIAM FACEY. London, Immel, 1992. 370 + 14pp., 17 maps and plans, 94 illustrations. £29.95.

THE STUDY OF ARABIC IN MALTA, 1632 TO 1915. By DIONISIUS AGIUS. Translated from the Maltese by Vincenz P. Borg. Revised and edited by Francine Geraci. Louvain, Peeters, 1990. xii, 52pp. 3 illustrations.

ARAB VOICES: THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. By KEVIN DWYER. London, Routledge, 1991. 245 pp. $12.95.

SUPERPOWERS AND CLIENT STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE IMBALANCE OF INFLUENCE. Edited by MOSHE EFRAT and JACOB BERCOVITCH. London, Routledge, 1991. 272 pp.

STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE. Edited by ERIC DAVIS and NICOLAS GAVRIELIDES. Miami, Florida International University Press, 1991. 274 pp. $30.76 (hb), $13.82 (pb).

TRIBE AND STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Edited by PHILIP S. KHOURY and JOSEPH KOSTINER. London, Taurus, 1991. 352pp. £35.

HONOR AND GRACE IN ANTHROPOLOGY. Edited by J.G. PERISTIANY and JULIAN PITT‐RIVERS. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii, 260pp., 11 pp. illustrations. £35.00 (hb).

THE MODERN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST IN ITS WORLD CONTEXT. Edited by GEORGES SABAGH. (Tenth Giorgio Levi Delia Vida Biennial Conference.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. 161pp.

ISLAMIC FINANCIAL MARKETS. Edited by RODNEY WILSON. London, Routledge, 1990. 242 pp.

BATISSEURS ET BUREAUCRATES: INGENIEURS ET SOCIETE AU MAGHREB ET AU MOYEN ORIENT. Edited by ELIZABETH LONGUENESSE. (Collection Etudes sur le Monde Arabe, 4.) Lyon, Maison de l'Orient Mediterranéen, 1991. 437pp.

POLITICS AND ECONOMY IN JORDAN. By RODNEY WILSON. London, Routledge, 1991. xiv, 243pp. £35.00.

TRIBES WITH FLAGS: A DANGEROUS PASSAGE THROUGH THE CHAOS OF THE MIDDLE EAST. By CHARLES GLASS. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. US$22.95 (cloth).

PITY THE NATION: LEBANON AT WAR. By ROBERT FISK. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991. xix, 662pp. Maps. £6.99 (pb).

WHO'S AT THE HELM? LESSONS OF LEBANON. By RAYMOND TANTER. Boulder, Westview Press, 1990. x, 262pp. Maps.

RELIGION AND CUSTOM IN A MUSLIM SOCIETY: THE BERTI OF SUDAN. By LADISLAV HOLY. (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 78.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. xi, 243pp. 12 figs. Map. £30.00.

THE TRAGEDY OF THE TURKISH CAPITAL TAX. By FAIK OKTE. London, Croom Helm, 1987. 95 pp.

BARTERED BRIDES. By NANCY TAPPER. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. xx, 309pp. £32.50 ($54.50).

MUSLIM FAMILIES IN NORTH AMERICA. Edited by EARLE H. WAUGH, SHARON McIRVIN ABU‐LABAN and REGULA BURCKHARDT QURESHI. Canada, University of Alberta Press, 1991. xiv, 370 pp. $39.95.

AFRICANISMO Y ORIENTALISMO ESPANOL, in AWRAQ: ESTUDIOS SOBRE EL MUNDO ARABE E ISLAMICO CONTEMPORANEO. Edited by VICTOR MORALES LEZCANO. (Anejo al Volumen XI.) Madrid, Agencia Espanola de Cooperation Internacional, Universidad Nacional de Education a Distancia, 1990. 217pp.

VEILED HALF‐TRUTHS. WESTERN TRAVELLERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN. By JUDY MABRO. London, Tauris, 1991. x, 275pp.     

The situation in Iraq

General

The Global Politics of Arms Sales. By Andrew J. Pierre. Princeton University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 352. Figs. Tables. Notes. Index. £14.10 (hardback); £4.20 (paperback).

Estimating Foreign Military Power. Edited by Philip Towle. London (Croom Helm), 1982. Pp. 276. Index. £13.95.

Eurasia

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union. General Editors Archie Brown, John Fennell, Michael Kaser and H. T. Willetts. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 482. Bibliog. Index. Illus. £18.50 (hardback).

Central Asia

Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Race for Lhasa. By Peter Hopkirk. London, John Murray, 1982. Pp. x + 274. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £9.75.

South Asia

India's Preferential Policies: Migrants, the Middle Classes, and Ethnic Equality. By Myron Weiner and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein. The University of Chicago Press, 1981. Pp. vii + 184. Tables. Maps. Notes. Index. £9.95.

Pakistan: Energy Planning in a Strategic Vortex. By Charles K. Ebinger. Indiana University Press, 1981. Pp. x + 155. Notes. Bibliog. £13.50.

The British Raj and the Indian Princes: Paramountcy in Western India, 1857–1930. By Ian Copland. London, Sangam Books, 1982. Pp. xvi + 345. Map. Bibliog. Index. £6.95.

British Policy Towards the Indian States 1905–1939. By S. R. Ashton. London, Curzon Press (London Studies on South Asia No. 2) 1982. Pp. xii + 231. Appendix. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £6.75.

Goa. By J. M. Richards. London, Hurst &; Co., 1982. Pp. xii + 143. Map. Illus. Plates. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

The India Museum 1801–1879 (India Office Library and Records). By Ray Desmond. London, H.M.S.O., 1982. Pp. xv + 215. Plates. Index. £25.00

The Arts of India. Edited by Basil Gray. Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1981. Pp. 224. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £25.00

Views of Medieval Bhutan: The Diary and Drawings of Samuel Davis, 1783. Michael Aris. London, Serinda Publications; Washington,\Smithsonian Institute, 1982. Pp. 124. Maps. Plates. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £18.00

Middle East

Yemen: the Search for a Modern State. By J.E. Peterson. London, Croom Helm Ltd., 1982. Pp. 221. Map. Appendixes. Bibliog. Index. £11.95

Atatürk: Founder of a Modern State. Ali Kazancigil and Ergun Özbudun, eds. London, C. Hurst &; Co., 1981. Pp. vi + 243. Notes. Index. £8.50

South East Asia

Years of Upheaval. By Henry Kissinger. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Michael Joseph, 1982. Pp. 1152. £15.95

? Sideshow. Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia. 1979.

Political Conflict in Thailand: Reform, Reaction, Revolution. By David Morell and Chai‐anan Samudavanija. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, Publishers, Inc. 1981. Pp. xviii + 362. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. Figures. Tables. £18.75

The Sociology of Secret Societies. A study of Chinese secret societies in Singapore and peninsular Malaysia. By Mak Lau Fong. Kuala Lumpur (OUP ‐ East Asian Social Science Monographs), 1981. Pp. 178. £17.

Far East

China: Politics and Government. By Tony Saich. London, Macmillan, 1981. Pp. xiv + 265. Map. Index. £4.95.

China's New Development Strategy. Jack Gray and Gordon White, eds. London, Academic Press Inc., 1982. Pp. x + 341. Index. £12.20.

Dissent in Early Modern China. By Paul S. Ropp. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 356. Notes. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. $24.00.

MITI and the Japanese Miracle: the Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925–75. By Chalmers Johnson. California, Stanford University Press, 1982. PP. xvi + 393. Bibliog. Index. $28.50.

Japan: Divided Politics in a Growth Economy (2nd edn.). By J. A. A. Stockwin. London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1982. PP. xiv + 333. Maps. Index. £8.50.

The Roots of Modern Japan. By Jean‐Paul Lehmann. London, Macmillan, 1982. Pp. xviii + 352. Bibliog. Index. £6.95.

Utilitarian Confucianism: Ch'en Liang's Challenge to Chu Hsi. By Hoyt Cleveland Tillman. Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 304. Foreword by Benjamin Schwartz. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. $20.00.

Japan's Renaissance: The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu. By Kenneth Alan Grossberg. Cambridge (Mass.) and London, Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. xii + 207. Pref. Figures. Appendices. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £10.50.

Shorter Notices

Guide to Thailand. By Achille Clarac. Edited and translated by Michael Smithies. Kuala Lumpur. Oxford University Press/Duang Kamol Book House, 1981. Pp. ix + 219 (Index 1–35). Notes. Maps. Plans. Illus. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £12.00 (paperback).

Tales of Burma. By Alister McCrae and friends. Paisley, James Paton Ltd., 1981. Pp. 168. Illus. Maps. Glossary. £2.95.

Academies in Ming China: A Historical Survey. By John Meskill. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1982. Pp. 203. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $12.95.

The Interlingual Critic: Interpreting Chinese Poetry. By James J. Y. Liu. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1981. Pp. 152. Notes. Chinese Name List. Bibliog. Index. £10.77.

The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness. By Dorothy Britton (Lady Bouchier) and Tsuneo Hayashida. Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, Kodansha International, 1981. Pp. 64. Bibliog. Illus. Index. £9.30.

Russian Studies of Japan: An Exploratory Survey. By E. Stuart Kirby. London, Macmillan, 1981. Pp. xi + 276.Notes. Bibliog. Index. £20.00.     

Turkey's entrance into the League of Nations

The Making of the Modern Near East, 1792–1923 by M.E. Yapp. London, 1987. Pp. xii + 404. £14.99. The Near East since the First World War by M.E. Yapp. London: Longman, 1991. Pp. xvii + 526. £15.99.

Historical Discord in the Nile Valley by Gabriel R. Warburg. London: Hurst &; Co., 1992. Pp. xv + 210 pages, maps and photographs. £27.50.

British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire by Nigel Leask. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. £35.00.

The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity; Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century by Abraham Marcus. New York, Columbia University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi + 418. Maps, appendix, glossary, bibliography and index. US$ 17.

The Making of the Arab‐Israeli Conflict, 1947–1951 by Ilan Pappé. London: I.B. Taurus, 1992. Pp.324.

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp.viii + 296. $30.00.     

A: Reviews: general

PALESTINIAN PEASANTS AND OTTOMAN OFFICIALS: RURAL ADMINISTRATION AROUND SIXTEENTH‐CENTURY JERUSALEM. By Amy Singer. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

THE PASHA'S PEASANTS: LAND, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMY IN LOWER EGYPT, 1740–1858. By Kenneth M. Cuno. (Cambridge Middle East Library, 27.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 295 pp., tables, appendices, index. £35.00 (hb).

SOCIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Edited by Mete Tunçay and Erik Jan Zürcher. London & New York, British Academic Press, in association with the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. 222 pp. £39.50.

INSIDE THE ARAB WORLD. By Michael Field. London, John Murray, 1994. 439 pp., maps. £25.

STRUGGLE AND SURVIVAL IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. Edited by Edmund Burke III. London & New York, I. B. Taurís, 1993. xi, 393 pp. £14.95 (pb).

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SYRIA UNDER ASAD. By Volker Perthes. London & New York, I. B. Tauris, 1995. 298 pp. £39.50.

THE ARAB MINORITY IN ISRAEL 1967–1991: POLITICAL ASPECTS. By Jacob M. Landau. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993.

THE ARAB MINORITY IN ISRAEL'S ECONOMY: PATTERNS OF ETHNIC INEQUALITY. By Noah Lewin‐Epstein and Moshe Semyonov. (Social Inequality Series.) Oxford, Westview Press, 1993.

THE HEALTH CARE OF THE ARABS IN ISRAEL. By Nira Reiss. (Westview Special Studies on the Middle East.) Oxford, Westview Press, 1991.

THE GULF: ENERGY AND GLOBAL SECURITY. By Charles F. Doran and Stephen W. Buck. London, Lynne Rienner, 1991. 228 pp. £27.50.

IRAN AND THE COLD WAR: THE AZERBAIJAN CRISIS OF 1946. By Louise Fawcett. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 181 pp. £32.50.

THE GULF CONFLICT, 1990–1991: DIPLOMACY AND WAR IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER. By Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh. London, Faber & Faber, 1994. xlv, 504 pp.

IRAN AND IRAQ: THE THREAT FROM THE NORTHERN GULF. By Anthony H. Cordesman. Oxford, Westview Press, 1994. x, 378 pp. £45.50 (hb), £16.95 (pb).

THE UNITED NATIONS, IRAN, AND IRAQ: HOW PEACEMAKING CHANGED. By Cameron R. Hume. Buckingham, Open University Press, 1994. xi, 269 pp. £27.50.

THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH PETROLEUM COMPANY. Volume 2: THE ANGLO‐IRANIAN YEARS 1928–1954. By J. H. Bamberg. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994. 639 pp. 55 tables, 5 maps, 20 graphs and diagrams, 88 illustrations, 3 appendices, index. £55.00 (hb).

POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRENDS IN CENTRAL ASIA. Edited by Shirin Akiner. London, British Academic Press, 1994. ix, 205 pp.

FAITH AND FREEDOM: WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD. Edited by Mahnaz Afkhami. London, I. B. Tauris, 1995. xi, 244 pp: £12.95 (pb).

DECIPHERING THE SIGNS OF GOD: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ISLAM. By Annemarie Schimmel. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1994. 317 pp. £39.50.

BEYOND FAITH AND INFIDELITY: THE SUFI POETRY AND TEACHINGS OF MAHMUD SHABISTARI. By Leonard Lewisohn. (Curzon Sufi Series.) Richmond, Curzon Press, 1995. 344 pp. £14.99.

GIVING VOICE TO STONES: PLACE AND IDENTITY IN PALESTINIAN LITERATURE. By Barbara McKean Parmenter. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1994. ix, 117 pp. One map.

GENIZAH RESEARCH AFTER 90 YEARS: THE CASE OF JUDAEO‐ARABIC: PAPERS READ AT THE THIRD CONGRESS OF THE SOCIETY FOR JUDAEO‐ARABIC STUDIES. Edited by Joshua Blau and Stefan C. Reif. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 47.) Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 1 illustration, 3 indexes, xiv, 176 pp. $54.95.

ARABIC SOCIOLINGUISTICS: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES. Edited by Yasir Suleiman. Richmond, Curzon Press, 1994. xv, 273 pp.

DIE MAMLUKISCHE ARCHITEKTUR IN ÄGYPTEN UND SYRIEN. By Michael Meinecke. (Abhandlung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairos, Islamische Reihe, Band 5.) Gluckstadt, Verlag J. J. Augustin GmbH, 1994. 2 vols., 819 pp. 142 pis., 153 plans.