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

The forgotten antisemites, Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Destruction. A History of Austrian Anti‐Semitism. Chapel Hill/London: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxx+426pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. Illus. $49.95.

Equating Bolshevism and Jews, Sharman Kadish, Bolsheviks and British Jews. The Anglo‐Jewish Community, Britain and the Russian Revolution. London: Frank Cass, 1992. xiv+298pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £35.00.

A case of Jewish integration?, Michael Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair 1789–1945. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992 c1991. xvi+576pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. Illus. £20.00.

Anti‐Judaism vs. antisemitism, Gavin I. Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990. x+417pp. Notes. Ind. £45.00.

Evaluating contemporary fascism, Luciano Cheles, Ronnie Ferguson and Michalina Vaughan (eds.), Neo‐Fasdsm in Europe. London: Longman, 1991. xii+299pp. Bibl. Ind. £11.99.

A portrait of Hitler, Ian Kershaw, Hitler. London: Longman, 1991. x+230pp. Notes. Bibl. Chronology. Ind. (Profiles in Power). £7.50.

Israeli society divided, Eliezer Ben‐Rafael and Stephen Sharot, Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. x+287pp. Appends. Notes. Ind. Tables. £32.50.

Swiss Jewish history idealized, Aaron Kamis‐Müller, Antisemitismus in der Schweiz, 1900–1930. Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 1990. 547+24pp. Ind.     

Reviews

A philosophical approach to racism Thomas W. Heilke, Voegelin on the Idea of Race. An Analysis of Modern European Racism. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xii + 161pp. Bibl. Ind. £21.50.

British antisemitism under the microscope Tony Kushner, The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society during the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. ix + 257pp. Notes. Ind. £29.95.

The Jew as scapegoat Yves Chevalier, L'Antisémitisme. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1988. 464pp. Bibl. Ind. 125 FF.

Austrians for Nazism F. Parkinson (ed.), Conquering the Past. Austrian Nazism Yesterday and Today. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989. 345pp. Ind. $34.95, $14.90.

The rise of Germany's extreme right Gerhard Paul (ed.), Hitlers Schatten verblaßt—die Normalisierung des Rechtsextremismus (Hitler's Faded Shadow—The Normalization of Rightwing Extremism). Bonn: Dietz, 1989. 231pp. Notes. Tables. Bibl. DM 16.80.

The Nazi affiliations of a great philosopher Victor Farias, Heidegger and Nazism. Trans. from German and French by Paul Burrell and Gabriel R. Ricci. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989. xxii + 349pp. Notes. Ind. £29.95.

Ebensee: death through forced labour Florian Freund, Arbeitslager Zement: Das Konzentrationslager Ebensee und die Raketenrüstung (Industrie, Zwangsarbeit und Konzentrationslager in Österreich vol. 2) Vienna: Verlag für Gesell‐schaftskritik, 1989. 486pp. DM 57.00.

The variety of Latin American Jewry AMILAT (ed.), Judaica Latinoamericana. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1988. 266pp. $27.     

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).     

Tyndall's elite

The hidden language of race in British politics Frank Reeves, British Racial Discourse: A Study of British Political Discourse about Race and Race‐Related Matters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. viii +287pp. Appends. Bibl. Inds. £22.50.

Fascism on the periphery: ineffectual and insignificant John D. Brewer, Mosley's Men: The British Union of Fascists in the West Midlands. London: Gower, 1984. xii+159pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £13.50.

Intellectual ‘angst’ of the powerless Stanley Diamond (ed.), ‘The Jewish Question’. A special issue of Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 8, nos. 1 &; 2, October 1983.     

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.).     

The German question: Anglo‐American,French and west German perspectives

Geteiltes Land ‐ halbes Land? Essays über Deutschland, eingeleitet von Richard Löwenthal. By David P. Calleo, Roger Morgan, Raymond Poidevin and Michael Voslensky. Frankfurt/Berlin: Ullstein, 1986. Pp.240. DM 38.00.

Die deutsche Frage aus der heutigen Sicht des Auslandes. Edited by Han‐nelore Horn and Siegfried Mampel. Berlin: Duncker &; Humblot, 1987. Pp.135. DM 28.00.

Germany between East and West. Edited by Edwina Moreton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.185. DM 22.50.

Deutsche Frage und Westbindung. Edited by Klaus Weigelt. Melle: Knoth Verlag, 1986. Pp.151. DM 14.80.

Die offene deutsche Frage. Gesprdche mit unseren Nachbarn. Edited by Jean‐Paul Picaper and Günter Oeltze von Lobenthal. Berlin: Colloquium, 1987. Pp.199. DM22.00.

Le vertige allemand. By Brigitte Sauzay. Paris: Editions Olivier Orban, 1986. Pp.280.

Welches Deutschland soll es sein? Frankreich und die deutsche Einheit seit 1945. By Ernst Weisenfeld. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1986. Pp.203. DM 29.80.

Confronting the German Question. Germans on the East‐West Divide. By Renata Fritsch‐Bournatzel. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1988. Pp.150. £16.50.

Das ganze Deutschland. Perspektiven der Wiedervereinigung. By Wolfgang Seiffert. Munich: Piper, 1986. Pp.377. DM 19.80.

Einheit statt Raketen. Thesen zur Wiedervereinigung als Sicherheitskonzept. By Bernhard Friedmann. Herford: Busse/Seewald, 1987. Pp.180. DM 38.00

Deutsche Fragen oder die Suche nach der Staatsräson. Historisch‐politische Kolumnen. By Micheal Stürmer. Munich: Piper, 1988. Pp.211. DM16.80.     

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.     

China's road to modernization

One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong under Reform, by Ezra E. Vogel. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, and London, 1989. x+510 pp. £23.95. ISBN 0–674–63910–3.

The Long March to the Fourth of June, by Li Xiao Jun, translated by E. J. Griffiths. Duckworth, London, 1989. xx+185 pp. £14.95. ISBN 0–7156–2332‐X.

China's Foreign Trade Reforms: Impact on Growth and Stability, by John C. Hsu. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. xii+221 pp. £30.00 ($49.50). ISBN 0–521–37197‐X.

The Political Economy of China's Special Economic Zones, by George T. Crane. An East Gate Book. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, and London, 1990. x+205 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–514–1.

Chinese Intellectual Life Post‐Mao: Education, Ideology, Literature and the Arts, edited by Birthe Arendrup. Copenhagen papers in East and Southeast Asian Studies, 1:88. Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 1988. 106 pp. ISBN 87–7289–063–0.

China: The Land and the People (revised edition), by D. C. Money. Evans Brothers Ltd, London, 1990. xii+179 pp., colour illus., maps. £14.50 hardback, £7.95 paperback. ISBN 0–237–51164–9 and 0–237–51118–5.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Poverty, by Ruth Lister. Polity Press. 238pp. £50.00 and £14.99. An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate, by Gareth Stedman Jones. Profile Books. 278pp. £9.99. Key Issues in Women's Work: Female Diversity and the Polarisation of Women's Employment, by Catherine Hakim. Glasshouse Press. 258pp. £25.00. A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair, by Dick Leonard. Palgrave. 383pp. £18.99 and £60.00. The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever, by Christian Wolmar. Atlantic Books. 351pp. £17.99. Reshaping the British Constitution: Essays in Political Interpretation, by Nevil Johnson. Palgrave, 336pp. £18.99 and £55.00. The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements, by John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary. Oxford University Press. 434pp. £50. The Politics of Prostitution: Women's Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce, edited by Joyce Outshoorn. Cambridge University Press. 329pp. £18.99 and £50.00. Relocating England: Englishness in the New Europe, by Paul W. Preston. Manchester University Press. 223pp. £11.99 (pb). The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations, by Sebastian Mallaby. Yale University Press. 452pp. £19.95. Post‐Democracy, by Colin Crouch. Polity. pp. xi+135. £12.95 and £40.00.     

Reviews

Joseph Fewsmith Dilemmas of Reform in China. Political Conflict and Economic Debate Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. 289 pp. £44.00. ISBN 1–56324–327‐X.

Tani E. Barlow Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993. 307 pp. £15.95. ISBN 0–8223–1389–8.

William A. Joseph (ed.) China Briefing, 1994 Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1994. 234pp. £10.50. ISBN 0–8133–2057–7.

Y.Y. Kueh and Robert F. Ash (eds) Economic Trends in Chinese Agriculture. The Impact of the Post‐Mao Reforms Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. xii + 405 pp. £45.00. ISBN 019–828753–4.

X.L. Ding (Ding Xueliang) The Decline of Communism in China: Legitimacy Crisis, 1977–1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 230 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0–521–45138–8.

Minxin Pei From Reform to Revolution. The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1994. 253pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–674–32563‐X.

Julia F. Andrews Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China 1949–1979 Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1994. xv + 568 pp. $75.00. ISBN 0–520–07981–7.

E. Wayne Nafziger, Learning From the Japanese: Japan's Pre‐war Development and the Third World, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. xv + 221pp. ISBN 1–56324–485–3, paperback 1–56324–486–1.

Richard J. Samuels ’Rich Nation Strong Army'; National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. 455 pp. £38.50. ISBN 0–8014–2705–3.

Alan Burnett The Western Pacific: Challenge of Sustainable Growth London: Earthscan, 1993. 276 pp. £15.95. ISBN 1–85383–1581

Tom Wells The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. 706 pp. £27.50. ISBN 0–5200–8367–9.

Ross Garnaut, Peter Drysdale and John Kunkel (eds) Asia Pacific Regionalism: Readings in International Relations Sydney: Harper Educational, 1994. 433 pp. ISBN 0–06–312140–9.

Atu Emberson‐Bain Labour and Gold in Fiji Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 270 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–521–36372–1.     

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.     

Reviews

Opening Rounds: Lessons of Military History, 1918–1988, by Anthony Farrar‐Hockley. Andre Deutsch, London, 1988. xiii+188 pp. £12.95. ISBN 0–233–98009–1.

The Blunted Sword: The Erosion of Military Power in Modern World Politics, by Evan Luard. I. B. Tauris, London, 1988. v+196 pp. £16.95. ISBN 1–85043–068–3.

Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World War (Revised second edition), edited by Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint and John Pritchard. Viking, London, 1989. xxviii+1,315 pp., illus., maps. £25. ISBN 0–670–80311–1.

Codebreaker in the Far East, by Alan Stripp. Frank Cass, London, 1989. xiv+204 pp., illus. £18. ISBN 0–7146–3363–1.

The Pacific: Peace, Security and the Nuclear Issue, edited by Ranginui Walker and William Sutherland. Zed Books, New Jersey; UN University, Tokyo; 1988. xiii+243 pp. £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–86232–815–2.

China eyes Japan, by Allen S. Whiting. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1989. xi+228 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–520–06511–5.

Single Sparks: China's Rural Revolutions, edited by Kathleen Hartford and Steven M. Goldstein. M. E. Sharpe, New York, 1989. xi+216 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–87332–427–7.

China's Regional Development, edited by David S. G. Goodman, (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) Routledge, London and New York, 1989. xvi+204 pp. £32.50 hardback. ISBN 0–415–03510–4.

China's Science Policy in the 80s, (Studies on East Asia), by Tony Saich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1988. iv+188 pp. £29.95. ISBN 0–7190–2986–4.

The Chinese Communist Party's Nomenklatura System, edited by John P. Burns. M. E. Sharpe Inc., New York and London, 1989. xlii+166 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–543–5.

The Thought of Mao Tse‐tung, by Stuart Schram. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. x+242 pp. £27.50 hardback, £8.95 paperback. ISBN 0–521–32549–8 and 0–521–31062–8.

The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward (Harvard Contemporary China Series: 6), edited by Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek and Eugene Wu. The Council on East Asian Studies/Harvard University, Harvard, 1989. xxiii+561 pp. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–67 4–7967 3‐X.

Marxism and the Chinese Experience: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism, edited by Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk NY and London, 1989. xii+384 pp. $45.00. hardback, $17.95 paperback. ISBN 0–87332–515‐X and 0–87332–546‐X.

The Asiatic Mode of Production in China, edited by Timothy Brook. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk NY and London, 1989. xi+204 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–87332–542–7.

The New China: Comparative Economic Development in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hongkong, by Alvin Rabushka. Westview Press, Boulder and London, 1987. xii+254 pp. £28. ISBN 0–8133–0519–5.

Golden Inches: The China Memoir of Grace Service, edited by John S. Service. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979. xxvi+346 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0–520–06656–1.

Information China: The Comprehensive and Authoritative Reference Source of New China, (3 volumes), organized by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, compiled and translated by the China Social Sciences Publishing House. Edited for Pergamon Press by C. V. James. (Oxford, New York, Beijing, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto: Pergamon Press, 1989). 1,621 pp., 1,250 photographs, line drawings and tables; 52 full colour plates; 23 maps. £450. ($795.00). ISBN 0–08–034764–9.

New China's Population, by China's Financial and Economic Publishing House. (New York and London: Macmillan, 1988). xxiv+232pp., tables, charts. £64. ISBN 0–02–905471–0.

China: Facts and Figures Annual, Volume 12, 1989, edited by Charles E. Greer (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1989). xxiii+510 pp. $91.00. ISBN0–87569–112–9.

The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century, edited by Marius B. Jansen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1989. xiv+828 pp. £60, $89.50. ISBN 0–521–22356–3.

The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 6: The Twentieth Century, edited by Peter Duus. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1988. xx+866 pp. £60, $89.50. ISBN 0–521–22357–1.

Children of the Sun: The Japanese and the Outside World, by Michio Kitahara. Paul Norbury Publications, Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent, 1989. 160 pp. £12.95. ISBN 0–904404–68–4.

The Sun also Sets: Why Japan will not be Number One, by Bill Emmott. Simon and Schuster, London, 1989. xii+275 pp. £14.95. ISBN 0–671–69696–3.

Japan: The Blighted Blossom, by Roy Thomas. I. B. Tauris, London, 1989. xii+299 pp. £16.95. ISBN 1–85043–125–6.

A History of Japanese Economic Thought, by Tessa Morris‐Suzuki. Routledge, London and New York; with the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford, 1989. vii+213 pp. £30. ISBN 0–415–01264–3.

The Japanese Business Community and the National Trade Policy, 1920–1942, by William Miles Fletcher III. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 1989. x+226 pp. £34.95 ($37.45). ISBN 0–8078–1847‐X.

Management and Higher Education Since 1940: The influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain, and France, by Robert R. Locke. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. xiii+328 pp. £30. ISBN 0–521–34102–7.

Democracy in Japan (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies), edited by Takeshi Ishida and Ellis S. Krauss. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1989. x+354 pp. $39.95 hardback, $14.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8229–3608–9 and 0–8229–5414–1.

A History of Singapore, 1819–1988 (Second Edition), by C. M. Turnbull. Oxford University Press, Singapore, Oxford and New York, 1989. xiv+388 pp. 16 plates, 8 maps. £30. ISBN 0–19–588911–8.

Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization, by Alice H. Amsden. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1989. xvi+379 pp. £25. ISBN 0–19–505852–6.

Korea: A Religious History, by James Huntley Grayson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989. xii+319 pp. £37.50. ISBN 0–19–826186–1.

Authoritarianism and Opposition in South Korea, by Hak‐Kyu Sohn. Routledge, London and New York, 1989. xii+287 pp. £35. ISBN 0–415–03550–3.

Australian Public Policy and Economic Vulnerability: A Comparative and Historical Perspective, by Francis Castles. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988. xii+184 pp. £12.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–324021–6.

The Politics of Development in Australia, edited by Brian Head. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1989. xv+274 pp. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–861880–2.

The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War 1939–42, by David Day. Angus and Robertson, Sydney and London, 1988. x+388 pp. Illus. £14.95, AS39.95. ISBN 0–207–15328–0.

India and South East Asia: Indian Perceptions and Policies, by Mohammed Ayoob. Routledge, London, 1989. xi+105 pp. £25. ISBN 0–415–03894–4.

Southeast Asia: An Illustrated Introductory History (Expanded Edition) by Milton Osborne. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, Wellington, London and Boston, 1989. viii+263 pp., illus., maps. £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0–04–352238–6.

Crisis and Response: The Challenge to South‐South Economic Cooperation, edited by Noordin Sopiee, B. A. Hamzah and Leong Choon Heng. Kegan Paul International, London, 1989. xxvii+450 pp. £45. ISBN 0–7103–0370‐X.

Women's Asia, by Yayori Matsui. Zed Books Ltd., London and New Jersey, 1989. viii+172 pp. £26.95 ($49.95) hardback, £7.95 ($12.50) paperback. ISBN 0–86232–826–8 and 0–86232–827–6.

Urbanization in Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues, edited by Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J. C. Ma, and Allen Noble. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1989. ix+412 pp. $44.00. ISBN 0–8248–1151–8.

The Far East and Australasia 1990 (updated and revised edition), (London: Europa Publications, 1990), xxi+1,054 pp., maps. £105.00. ISBN 0–946653–53–4.     

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.     

The problems of economic adjustment

Unkept Promises, Unclear Consequences: US Economic Policy and the Japanese Response, edited by Ryuzo Sato and John A. Rizzo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988. viii+200 pp. £25, ISBN 0-521-35201-0.Beyond Trade Friction; Japan-US Economic Relations, edited by Ryuzo Sato and Julianne Nelson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. xiii+201 pp. £25. ISBN 0-521-36467-1.Global Adjustment and the Future of Asian-Pacific Economy, edited by Miyohei Shinohara and Fu-chen Lo. Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, and Asian and Pacific Development Centre, Kuala Lumpur, 1989. xxi+585 pp. $80. ISBN 4-258-54009-9.Asia-Pacific Economies: Promises and Challenges (part B), edited by M. Dutta. JAI Press, London, 1987. xxi+308 pp. £95 (for two volume set). ISBN 0-89232-647-6.Politics and Productivity: How Japan's development strategy works, edited by Chalmers Johnson, Laura D'Andrea Tyson and John Zysman. Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Ma., 1989. xxi+332 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-88730-350-1.Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology, by Daniel Okimoto. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1989. xv + 267 pp. $26.50. ISBN 0-8047-1298-0.     

Hong Kong as a financial centre in the twenty‐first century

The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories, edited by Murray Bail. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. xii + 413 pp. £12.95 hardback, £5.95 paperback. ISBN 0–571–14763–1 and 0–571–15083–7.

The Book of Sei, by David Brooks. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. xi + 142 pp. £9.95. ISBN 0–571–15145–0.

Oscar and Luanda, by Peter Carey. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. xi + 512 pp. £10.95. ISBN 0–571–14812–3.

Captivity Captive, by Rodney Hall. Faber and Faber, London and Boston, 1988. vii + 214 pp. £10.95. ISBN 0–571–15093–4.

The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia, edited by Peter Pierce. Oxford University Press, Melbourne and Oxford, 1988. xvi + 344 pp., illus., maps. £25. ISBN 0–19–554592–3.

Pacific Prelude. A Journey to Samoa and Australasia, 1929. Margery Perham. Edited and with an Introduction by A. H. M. Kirk‐Greene. Peter Owen, London, 1988. 272 pp. 4 pp. plates. £18.95. ISBN 0–7206–0683–7.

Prehistory in the Pacific Islands: A study of variation in language, customs, and human biology, by John Terrell. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986. xvi + 299 pp. £12.50. ISBN 0–521–36956–8.

Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific, by Lynne Withey. Hutchinson, London, Melbourne, Auckland and Johannesburg, 1987. 512 pp., illus. £16.95. ISBN 0–09–173602–1.

Research, Realpolitik, and Development in Korea. The State and the Green Revolution, by Larry L. Burmeister. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. xiii + 200 pp. $29.50. ISBN 0–8133–7400–6.

U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas, by Edward A. Olsen. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. xvii + 115 pp. £9.95. ISBN 0–8133–0593–4.

The Foreign Relations of North Korea. New Perspectives, edited by Jae Kyu Park, Byung Chul Koh and Tae‐Hwan Kwak. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. xvi + 491 pp. $39.50. ISBN 0–8133–0569–1.

Korea: The Unknown War, by Jon Halliday and Bruce Cumings. Viking, London, 1988. 224 pp. Photographs. £14.95. ISBN 0–670–81903–4.

Korea: Enduring Division? (A Keesing's Special Report), edited by D. S. Lewis. Longman, Harlow, Essex, 1988. x + 173 pp. £9.95. ISBN 0–582–02627‐X.

A Short History of Modern Korea, by David Rees. Ham Publishing, Isle of Man, 1988. ix + 196 pp. £10.95 hardback, £5.95 paperback. ISBN 1–871235–05–7 and 1–871235–00–6.

The Koreans: Contemporary Politics and Society, by Donald Stone Macdonald. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado and London, 1988. xv + 309 pp., 25 figures and tables, 3 appendices (including glossary), bibliography and index. £25.50. ISBN 0–8133–0515–2.

The Kwangju Uprising, edited by Donald Clark. Westview, Boulder and London, 1988. vi + 101 pp. £11.75. ISBN 0–8133–7523–1.

Financing East Asia's Success: Comparative Financial Development in Eight Asian Countries, by Michael T. Skully and George J. Viksnins. Macmillan, Basingstoke and London, 1987. xiii + 242 pp. £29.50. ISBN 0–333–42655‐X.

The Financial Samurai: The Emerging Power of Japanese Money, by Aaron Viner. Kogan Page, London, 1988. 233 pp. £12.95. ISBN 1–85091–614–4.

The Political Economy of Japan, Volume 2: The Changing International Context, edited by Takashi Inoguchi and Daniel I. Okimoto. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 1988. xxii + 568 pp. $37.50 hardback, $12.95 paperback. ISBN 0–8047–1380–4 and 0–8047–1381–2.

The Japanese through American Eyes, by Sheila K. Johnson. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca., 1988. xiv + 192 pp. $22.50. ISBN 0–8047–1449–5.

China Under Deng Xiaoping: Political and Economic Reform, by David Wen‐Wei Chang. Macmillan, London, 1988. xxiii + 304 pp. £33. ISBN 0–333–45129–5.

A Critical Biography of Deng Xiaoping: Vol. 1. 1904–1959; Vol. 2. 1960–1977, by Han Shanbi. East West and Culture Publishing Co., Hong Kong, 1988. Vol. 1, 362 pp., illus.; Vol. 2, 368 pp. Chronology. HK$40 each volume.

Hu Yaobang: A Chinese biography, by Yang Zhongmei. Translated by William A. Wycoff, edited by Timothy Cheek. With a foreword by Rudolf G. Wagner. M. E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, New York, 1988. $29.95 pp. xxvi + 208. ISBN 0–87332–457–9.

Family, Fields and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China's Social and Economic History, 1550–1949, by Lloyd E. Eastman. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988. 267 pp. Notes, maps, tables, photographs. £22.50. ISBN 0–19–505269–2.

The House of Confucius, by Kong Demao and Ke Lan. Translated by Rosemary Roberts. Edited and with an introduction by Frances Wood. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1988. ix + 180 pp., 12 pp. photos. £14.95. ISBN 0–340–41279–8.

The Far East and Australasia 1989 (updated and revised edition). Europa Publications, London. xxi + 1,048 pp., maps. £85. ISBN 0–946653–45–3.     

Short notices

Gertjan Dijkink, National Identify and Geopolitical Visions. Maps of Pride and Pain. London: Routledge, 1996. x+188pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. Illus. £12.99 pbk.

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana. The Development of Afro‐Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. xxii+434pp. Appends. Notes. Ind. Tables. £15.95 pbk.

Philip Jenkins, Hoods and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania 1925–1950. Chapel Hill, NC and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xiv+343pp. Notes. Ind. $29.95.

Jill Rutter, Refugees. We Left Because We Had To. An Educational Book for 14–18 Year Olds, 2nd edn. London: Refugee Council, 1996. 248pp. Illus. Appends. £6.00 pbk.

Juan F. Perea (ed.), Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti‐Immigrant Impulse in the United States. New York and London: New York University Press, 1997 (Critical America). xvi+342pp. Notes. Ind. $19.95 pbk.

Uwe Puschner, Walter Schmitz and Justus H. Ulbricht (eds), Handbuch zur ‘Völkischen Bewegung’ 1871–1918. Munich, New Providence, London, Paris: K. G. Saur, 1996. xvii+978pp. Bibls. Appends. Inds.

Lyman Tower Sargent (ed.), Extremism in America: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1995. xvi+385pp. Bibl. $17.95 pbk.     

The pressures for protection

Japan's Unequal Trade, by Edward J. Lincoln. The Brookings Institution, Washington, 1990. xiii+223 pp. $26.95. ISBN 0–8157–5262–8.

Japan's Quest for a Role in the World: Roles ascribed to Japan Nationally and Internationally, by Bert Edström. Institute of Oriental Languages, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, 1988. xiii+325 pp. ISBN 91–7146–585–5.

Japan at the Summit: Its Role in the Western Alliance and Asian‐Pacific Cooperation, by Shiro Saito. Routledge for RIIA, London, 1990. xii + 220 pp. £30. ISBN 0–415–04271–2.

Made in Japan And Other Japanese ‘Business Novels’, translated and edited by Tamae K. Prindle. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY and London, 1990. xviii+203 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0–87332–529‐X.

Trade and Investment Relations Among the United States, Canada and Japan, edited by Robert M. Stern. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1989. viii+448 pp. £47.25 ($43.95). ISBN 0–226–77317–5.

International Economic Pluralism: Economic Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, by Peter Drysdale. Allen and Unwin Australia, Sydney and London, 1988. 294 pp. £20 paperback. ISBN 0–04–350075–7.

Japanese Business Down Under: Patterns of Japanese Investment in Australia, by David W. Edgington. Routledge, London and New York, 1990. xiv + 294 pp. £40. ISBN. 0–415–03499‐X.

Japan's Foreign Policy, by Reinhard Drifte. Routledge and the RIIA, London, 1990. x + 112 pp. £7.95. ISBN 0–415–03234–2.

Japan's Trade Policies: 1945 to the Present Day, by Takashi Shiraishi. Athlone Press, London, 1989. viii + 228 pp. £37.50. ISBN 0–485–11363–5.

Resisting Protectionism: Global Industries and the Politics of International Trade, by Helen V. Milner. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1988. xiii+329 pp. $29.50. ISBN 0–691–05670–6.     

Haranguing Hong Kong

The Economic Future of Hong Kong, by Mir on Mushkat. Lynne Rienner, Publishers, Boulder and London/Hong Kong University Press, 1990. xii+171 pp. £16.50. ISBN 1–555–87197–6.

City on the Rocks: Hong Kong's Uncertain Future, by Kevin Rqfferty. Viking, London, 1989. x + 518 pp., 16 pp. plates. £15.95. ISBN0–670–80205–0.

Political Change and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Hong Kong, by Ian Scott. C. Hurst, London, 1990. xv + 480 pp. £27.50. ISBN 1–850650–527.

Kowtow! After Tiananmen Square: A Plea on Behalf of Hong Kong, by William Shawcross. Chatto CounterBlasts No. 6. Chatto and Windus, London, 1989. 57 pp. £2.99. ISBN 0–7011–3628–6.

Democracy Shelved: Great Britain, China, and Attempts at Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong, 1945–1952, by Steve Yui‐Sang Tsang. Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1988. xxxiv + 254 pp. £18.50. ISBN 0–19–584175–1.

Hong Kong! Hong Kong!, by Dick Wilson. Unwin Hyman, London, 1990. 284 pp. £15.99. ISBN 0–04–440622.     

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).