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.     

Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth Century Iran

Turkish Historical Society's four‐volume Tarih (History) published in 1932–33     

Long-distance nationalism and belonging in the Libyan diaspora (1969–2011)

ABSTRACT

The article explores the significance of the Libyan diaspora for the politics of the homeland and for nation-building in Libya before the 2011 revolution. The focus is on the migratory flows of Libyan nationals from Libya that resulted in the formation of the Libyan diaspora between 1969 and 2011. The historical analysis of the migratory flows, with a focus on long-distance nationalism projects enacted by opposition groups in exile, is combined with the empirical analysis of the micro-interactional social mechanisms at work in the diaspora that suffuse the everyday lives of individuals. The historical and empirical analysis of the case of the Libyan diaspora provides an opportunity to unpack the mutually constitutive relationship between concepts of nation, nation-state, nationalism and belonging in the context of transnational processes in the twenty-first century.     

Revolution and the Rand Corporation

Abstract

H.A. Averch, F.H. Denton, and J.E. Koeler, A Crisis of Ambiguity: Political and Economic Development in the Philippines, Rand Corporation for the Agency for International Development, R-473-AID, January 1970, 314 pp.     

90年代美国城市发展的四大趋势--《城市状况年度报告:2000》述评

<城市状况年度报告>(The State of the Cities)是美国住房与城市发展部于每年中期呈交美国总统的官方文件,是由一批专家学者在广泛调查研究的基础上,经过反复推敲才形成的,具有很高的权威性.藉此不仅可把握美国城市发展的现状和趋势,了解美国政府对城市问题的思路与对策,而且对我国拟定城市发展战略也不乏借鉴意义.作为20世纪最后一次的年度报告,不仅论及年度的城市状况,而且用较大篇幅对整个90年代城市发展的四大趋势及其影响进行了总结(年度报告的副标题就是<塑造我们城市未来的几大趋势>),洋洋洒洒百页有余,附有大量翔实的统计数据和图表,就使这份年度报告意义更不同寻常.