Book reviews

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

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

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

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

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

The society's tour in Syria and Jordan

Black Box: KAL 007 and the Superpowers. By Alexander Dallin. Berkeley and London. University of California Press. $14.95.

KAL 007: The Hidden Story. By Oliver Clubb. Sag Harbour, NY. The Permanent Press. $16.95.

Shootdown. The Verdict on 007. By R. W. Johnson. London. Chatto &; Windus. £10.95.

"The Target is Destroyed.” What really happened to Flight 007. By Seymour Hersh. London. Faber and Faber. £9.95     

Annual general meeting, 1967

General

Imperial Sunset. Volume 1: Britain's Liberal Empire 1897–1921. By Max Beloff. London, Methuen, 1969. Pp. 387. Maps. Chronology. Index. £3.25.

United Nations Peacekeeping, 1946–1967. Documents and Commentary. Part 2: Asia. By Rosalyn Higgins. London, Oxford University Press for Chatham House, 1970. Pp. xviii+486. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

Colonialism in East‐West Relations: A Study of Soviet Policy towards India and Anglo‐Soviet Relations 1:0.17–1047. By Zafar Imam. New Delhi, Eastman Publications, 1969. Pp. xii+531. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 40.

India and the Soviet Union: The Nehru Era. By Arthur Stein. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1969. Pp. xiv+320. Bibliog. Index. £4.30.

Studies in Asian History: Proceedings of the Asian History Congress, 1961. Edited by K. S. Lal. London, Asia Publishing House, 1969. Pp. 530. Appendices. £4.25.

That Untravelled World. An autobiography. By Eric Shipton. London, Hodder &; Stoughton, 1969. Pp. 286. Illus. Maps. Index. £2.25.

Religion

The Bhagavad‐Gita (first six chapters). Translated by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. London, Penguin Books, 1970.

Eastern Religion and Western Thought. By S. Radakrishnan. London, Oxford Paperback 1970 (first pubd. 1939).

Dimensions of Islam. By Frithjof Schuon, translated by P. N. Townsend. London, Allen and Unwin, 1970. Pp. 167. Index. £1.75.

Buddhism, a Non‐Theistic Religion. By Helmuth von Glasenapp, translated by Irmgard Schloegl. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1970. Pp. 208. Glossary. Index. £2.

Christian and Hindu Ethics. By Shivesh Chandra Thakur. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1969. Pp. 216. Bibliog. Index. £2.40.

The Indian Theogony. By Sukumari Bhattacharji. London, Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. 397. Bibliog. Index. £7.

The Buddhist Revival in China. By Holmes Welch; photographs by Henri Cartier‐Bresson. London, OUP for Harvard University Press. 1970. Pp. 385. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi. By Henry Corbin, translated by Robert Manheim. London, Routledge, 1970. Pp. 406. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.75.

The Field of Zen. By Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, edited by Christmas Humphreys. London, The Buddhist Society, 1969. Pp. xvii+105. Illus. Index. £1.05.

South Asian Politics and Religion. Edited by Donald Eugene Smith. London, OUP for Princeton University Press, 1970 (first issued 1966). Pp. 563. Index. £1.75.

The Politics of Untouchability: Social Mobility and Social Change in a City of India. By Owen M. Lynch. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. 251. Maps. Illus. Glossary. Bibliog. Index.

Religion, Law, and the State in India. By J. Duncan M. Derrett. London, Faber and Faber, 1968. Pp. 615. Bibliog. Indexes. £4.50.

Middle East

The Middle East in Revolution. By Humphrey Trevelyan. London, Macmillan, 1970. Pp. 266. Index. £3.25.

The Game of Nations. The Amorality of Power Politics. By Miles Copeland. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Pp. 272. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Army Officers in Arab Politics and Society. By Eliezer Be'eri. London, Praeger, Pall Mall Press. 1970. Pp. 514. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.

The Chatham House Version and other Middle Eastern Studies. By Elie Kedourie. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. Pp. 488. Bibliog. Index. £3.75.

The Struggle for the Middle East, 1958–68. By Walter Laqueur. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1969. Pp. 351. Index. £2.50.

East and West of Suez: the Suez Canal in History 1854–1956. By D. A. Farnie. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1969. Pp. 860. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £8.40.

An Arab Common Market. A Study in Inter‐Arab Trade Relations, 1920–67. By Alfred G. Musrey. New York, Frederick A. Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1969. Pp. 274. Bibliog. £6.25.

The Life and Works of Jahiz. Edited by Charles Pellat; translated from French by D. M. Hawke. London, Routledge, 1969. Pp. xiv+286. Glossary. £3.15.

A Time in Arabia. By Doreen Ingrams. London, John Murray, 1970. Pp. 160. Map. Index. £2.25.

Middle Eastern Cities: a symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Urbanism. Edited by Ira M. Lapidus. Los Angeles &; London, University of California Press, 1969. Pp. 206. Index. £2.85.

The Islamic City: a colloquium. Edited by A. H. Hourani and S. M. Stern. London, Faber for Bruno Cassirer and University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970. Pp. 222. Maps. Illus. £2.10.

Palmyra: text by Kazimierz Michalowski, photographs by Andrzej Dziewanowski. London, Pall Mall Press, 1970. Pp. 129. Illus. £2.40.

Current British Research in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Compiled by Dr. Peter Beaumont. University of Durham, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 1969. Pp. 89. Indices. £0.40 or $1.

A History of Persia. By Sir Percy Sykes. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1969 (3rd edn.) 2 vols: Pp. xxxix+563; xvii+616. Maps. Illus. Index. £7.50.

Persia. Introduction by James Morris. Photographs by Roger Wood. Notes on the Plates by Denis Wright. London, Thames &; Hudson, 1969. Pp. 216. Illus. Map. Index. £3.15.

Indian Sub Continent

Curzon in India. Volume Two: Frustration. By David Dilks. London, Rupert Hart‐Davis, 1970. Pp. 307. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.

Sardar Patel. By D. V. Tahmankar. Foreword by Lord Mountbatten. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1970. Pp. 299. Index. £3.

A View from New Delhi. By Chester Bowles. New Haven &; London, Yale University Press, 1970. Pp. 268. £1.40 (paper 90 np.)

The Partition of India ‐ Policies and Perspectives, 1935–1947. Edited by C. H. Philips and Mary Doreen Wainwright. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1970. Pp. 607. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £5.50.

National Communication and Language Policy in India. By Baldev Raj Nayer. NY, Praeger; London, Pall Mall, 1969. Pp. 310. Index. Bibliog. £5.25.

Opposition in a Dominant Party System. A study of the JanaSangh, Praja Socialist, and Socialist Parties in Uttar Pradesh, India. By Angela S. Burger. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969. Pp. 325. £4.05.

Jana Sangh. A Biography of an Indian Political Party. By Craig Baxter. London, OUP for University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970. Pp. 352. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £6.

Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History. Edited by Robert E. Frykenberg. Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. Pp. x+256. Index. $10; £4.75.

Trade and Empire in Western India 1784–1806. By Pamela Nightingale. London, CUP, 1970. Pp. 264. Bibliog. Index. Maps. £3.5.

The Nagas in the Nineteenth Century. By Verrier Elwin. London, Oxford University Press (printed in India), 1969. Pp. xii+650. Illus. Map. £4.80.

The Nadars of Tamilnad: The Political Culture of a Community in Change. By Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1969. Pp. xiv+314. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.20.

A Garland for E. M. Forster. Edited by H. H. Anniah Gowda. Mysore, The Literary Half‐Yearly, 1969. Pp. 132 + viii.

Southeast Asia

Sukarno and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence. By Bernard Dahm. Translated from the German by Mary F. Somers Heidhues. Ithaca &; London, Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. 374. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £7.15.

The Broken Triangle: Peking, Djakarta and the PKI. By Sheldon W. Simon. Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 1969. Pp. 210. Glossary. Index. £3.30.

The United States and Malaysia. By James W. Gould. London, OUP for Harvard University Press, 1969. Pp. xi+267. Index. £3.30.

The French Presence in Cochin‐China and Cambodia ‐ Rule and Response (1895–1905). By Milton E. Osborne. Ithaca and London. Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. 379. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.55.

Vietnam and China 1938–1954. By King C. Chen. London, OUP for Princeton University Press, 1969. Pp. 436. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £6.

Burma. By F. S. V. Donnison. Pp. 263. Illus. Bibliog. London, Ernest Benn, 1970. £2.50.

China

The Transformation of the Chinese Earth: Perspectives on Modern China. By Keith Buchanan. London, G. Bell &; Sons, 1970. Pp. xviii+321. Tables. Plates. Maps. Cartograms. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

A Study of Chinese Communes 1965. By Shahid Javed Burki. Harvard East Asian Monographs no. 29. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1969. Pp. xvi+97. Tables. Index. $3.50.

Communist China's Agriculture. Its Development and Future Potential. By Owen L. Dawson. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1970. Pp. xvii+317. £6.25.

Domestic Animals of China. By H. Epstein. Farnham Royal, Bucks., Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1969. Pp. 164. Bibliog. Plates. Index. £4.

Family and Kinship in Chinese Society. Edited by Maurice Freedman. London, OUP for Stanford University Press, 1970. Pp. 269. Index. £3.75.

Records of the Historian: Chapters from the Shih Chi of Ssu‐Ma Ch'ien, translated by Burton Watson. New York &; London, Columbia University Press, 1970. Pp. 356. £2.

Chinese Communist Politics in Action: edited by A. Doak Barnett. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1969. Pp. 620. Illus. Index. £5.95 (cloth), £1.80 (paper).

Studies in the Social History of China and Southeast Asia. Essays in memory of Victor Purcell. Edited by Jerome Ch'en and Nicholas Tarling. Memoir by Sybille Van der Sprenkel. Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. 424. £4.50.

Sun Yat Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution. By Harold Z. Schiffrin. Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1968. Pp. 412. Maps. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £4.55.

The Cave Temples of Maichishan. By Michael Sullivan and Dominique Dubois. With an account of the 1958 expedition to Maichishan by Anil de Silva. London, Faber &; Faber, 1969. Pp. 77 + 104 of plates. £8.50.

Muscovite and Mandarin: Russia's Trade with China and its Setting, 1727–1805. By Clifford M. Foust. London, OUP for North Carolina Press, 1970. Pp. 424. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.75.

Far East

The Foreign Policy of North Korea. By Byung Chul Koh. NY, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press 1969. Pp. xxi + 237. Charts. Bibliog. £5.20.

Book Pirating in Taiwan. By David Kasser. London. OUP for University of Philadelphia Press, 1969. Pp. 149. Index. £3.15.

Footprints in the Snow. By Kenjiro Tokutomi, translated and with biographical introduction by Kenneth Strong. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1970. Pp. xlvi+326. £3.25.

How the Conservatives Rule Japan. By Nathaniel B. Thayer. London, OUP for Princeton University Press, 1969. Pp. 349. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £4.75.

The Izumi Shikibu Diary. Translated by Edwin A. Cranston. London, OUP for Harvard University Press 1970. Pp. 332. Bibliog. Indexes. £6.     

A. Reviews: general

i. The Arab Economy: Past Performance and Future Prospects. by Yusif A.Sayigh. Oxford University Press, 1982. pp. 175.

ii. The Arab Predicament: Arab Politics and Practice since 1967. By Fouad Ajami. Cambridge University Press, 1982. pp. 220. £4.95 (paperback of hardback edn., 1981).

iii. The Arabic Documents in the Archives of the British Political Agency Kuwait, 1904–1949 (IOR: R/15/5) ([ British Academy]Oriental Documents V). By Julia Ashtiany. London, India Office Library and Records (published under the auspices of the British Academy Oriental Documents Committee), 1982. pp.xxxi, 373, P1.4.

iv. Traditional Crafts of Saudi Arabia. By John Topham and others. London, Stacey International Publishers, 1982. pp.192, 275 illustrations (colour), 6 (black and white), 2 maps. £22.50.

v. Yemen: Political History, Social Structure and Legal System. By Isam Ghanem. London, Arthur Probsthain, pp.26. £4.00.

vi. Sidi Ameur: a Tunisian Village. By Nadia Abu Zahra. London, Ithaca Press, 1982. pp.238, 2 tables, 3 maps, 4 diagrams, 7 appendices. £11.50.

vii. Tchad/Lybie: La querelle des frontières. By Bernard Lanne. Paris, Editions Karthala, 1982. pp.251, 2 maps. FF 68.

viii. Women in Islam: Tradition and Transition in the Middle East. By Naila Minai. London, John Murray, 1981. pp.283. £8.95.

ix. Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam. By Edward Mortimer. London, Faber and Faber, 1982. pp.431. £10.50 (paperback £5.95).

xi. Pan‐Turkism in Turkey: A Study of Irredentism. By Jacob M.Landau. London, C.Hurst & Co., 1981. pp.219. £11.50.

xii. The Modernization of Turkey: From Atatürk to the Present Day. By Walter F. Weiker. New York & London, Holmes and Meier, 1981. pp.303.     

Landmine clearance and land resettlement in Cambodia: Agents of rural development

Max Boot, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. New York: Gotham Books, 2006. Paperback, ISBN: 9781592403158, 640 pages.

Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. UK, US: Macmillan, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 9780230016545, 871 pages.

Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer. London: Faber and Faber, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 0571221025, 496 pages.

Alex Thomson, An Introduction to African Politics (second edition). London: Routledge, 2004. Paperback, ISBN: 9780415282611, 284 pages.

Lorna Lloyd, Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880–2006. Leiden and Boston: Marinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 9789004154971, 353 pages.

Ali A Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 9780300136142, 518 pages.

Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope. New York: Threshold Editions, 2006. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781416540588, 419 pages.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Toronto: Alfred A Knopf, 2006. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781400044870, 320 page's.

Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. New York: Owl Books, 2006. Hardcover, ISBN: 0805080082, 384 pages.

George Packer, The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Hardcover, ISBN: 0374299633, 481 pages.     

Film and lantern lectures

The Dutch East Indies. By Amry Vandenbosch. University of California Press. 1941. (Second Edition.)

Wanderer Between Two Worlds: An Autobiography. By Norman Bent‐wich. 8/1/2>” x 5/3/4>”. Pp. vii+358. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd. 12s. 6d.

Gertrude Bell. By M. R. Ridley. Blackie. 206 pp. Map. Four illustrations. 3s. 6d.

Modern Iran. By L. P. Elwell‐Sutton. Pp. xii+234. Illustrations, maps and plans. Routledge. 1941. 12s. 6d.

Ruz‐gar i Nau. A quarterly illustrated magazine in Persian. No. 2, Autumn, 1941. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Ltd.; London: Hodder and Stoughton. is. net or 20 cents.

Turkey and Britain, is.

This Impertinence. By Peter Arnott. Jenkins. 12s. 6d

Soviet Asia : Its Records and its Problems. By E. S. Bates. Pp. 191 and a map. Jonathan Cape. 8s. 6d.

Green Prison. Twenty Years in Thailand. By W. Leigh Williams. 8/1/2>” x 6”. Pp. 352. Illustrations. London. Herbert Jenkins. 12s. 6d.

The Earth is the Lord's. A novel by Taylor Caldwell. Pp. 400. Collins. 19.41. 9s. 6d.

Genius of Friendship:T. E. Lawrence. By Henry Williamson. 10/1/4>” x 6/3/4>”. Pp. 78. Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.     

Evacuation of Kurdistan: An ill‐fated expedition

Far East

China: A World so Changed. By C. P. Fitzgerald and Myra Roper. London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1973. Pp. 243. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.00.

Wage Patterns and Wage Policy in Modern China, 1919–72. By Christopher Howe. London, Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 171. Bibliog. Index. £3.95.

Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915–1949. By Lucien Bianco, translated from the French by Muriel Bell. Stanford University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xiii + 223. Map. Bibliog. Index. £3.50.

The Consolidation of the South China Frontier. By George V. H. Moseley, III. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. x+192. Appendix. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.75.

The Long March to Power: The History of the Chinese Communist Party 1921–1972. By James Pinckney Harrison. London, Macmillan, 1973. Pp. 647. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.95.

Famine in China and the Missionary. Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform 1876–1884. By Paul Richard Bohr. London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. 283. Appendix. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £2.25.

An Introduction to Chinese Civilisation. Edited by John Meskill. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1973. Pp. 699. Maps. Illus. Index.

China: A Handbook. Edited by Yuan‐li Wu. Newton Abbot, David &; Charles, 1973. Pp. 915. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £13.75.

Secret Societies in China in the 19th and 20th Centuries. By Jean Chesneaux, translated by Gillian Nettle. London and Hong Kong, Heinemann Educational Books, 1971. Pp. 210. Illus. Index. £2.75.

Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China 1840–1960. Edited by Jean Chesneaux. Stanford University Press, 1972. Pp. 328. Glossaries. Bibliog. Index.

Kūkai: Major Works. Translated, with an Account of his Life and a Study of his Thought, by Yoshito S. Hakeda. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1972. Pp. 303. Chronology. Bibliog. Index. £5.85.

The Meiji Restoration. By W. G. Beasley. Stanford University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. 513. Map. Bibliog. Index. £7.00.

Communism in Korea. Vol. I The Movement. Vol. II The Society. By Robert A. Scalapino and Chang‐sik Lee. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 685 and 847. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $25.00 and $30.00.

South‐East Asia

The Modernist Muslim Movement in Indonesia 1900–1942. By Deliar Noer. Singapore/Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press (East Asian Historical Monographs), 1973, Pp. 390. £9.50.

My War with the C.I.A. By Norodom Sihanouk and Wilfred Burchett. London, The Penguin Press, 1973. Pp. 272. £0.50.

Cambodia in the Southeast Asian War. By Malcolm Caldwell and Lek Hor Tan. New York and London, Monthly Review Press, 1973. Pp. xiv + 450. Maps. Appendices. £6.45.

USSR Central Asia

The Soviet Union in Asia. By Geoffrey Jukes. Sydney, Angus and Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1973. Pp. 314. Bibliog. Index. £2.95.

The Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia. Edited by Edward Allworth. New York and London, Praeger, 1973. Pp. 217. Maps. Bibliog. Tables. £7.00.

The Golden Road to Samarkand. By Wilfrid Blunt. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1973. Pp. 280. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.00.

The Land beyond the Mountains: Siberia and its People Today. By Leonid Shin‐karev. London, Hart‐Davis, MacGibbon, 1973. Pp. 233. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

South Asia

Locality, Province and Nation. Essays on Indian Politics 1870–1940. By John Gallagher, Gordon Johnson and Anil Seal. London, Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. 325. Map. £3.50.

Studies in Modern Indian History. Number 1. Edited by B. R. Nanda and V. C. Joshi. New Delhi, Orient Longmans, 1972. Pp. 214. Index. Rs. 30.

A Memoir of Central India, including Malwa and the Adjoining Provinces. By Sir J. Malcolm. 2 vols. Irish University Press, 1973. Pp. 580 and 547. Appendices. Index. £8.00 per vol.

History of the Political and Military Transactions in India during the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1813–1823. By Henry T. Prinsep. 2 vols. Irish University Press, 1973. Pp. 520 and 500. £7.00 per vol.

A History of the English Settlements in India: as told in the Government records, the works of old travellers, and other contemporary documents, from the earliest period to the rise of British power in India. By J. Talboys Wheeler. First published London 1878. A new impression published by the Curzon Press, London, and Barnes &; Noble, New York, 1972. Pp.xxxi + 391.

Palaces of the Raj. By Mark Bence‐Jones. London, George Allen &; Unwin, 1973. Pp. 225. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.00.

India‐Pakistan: The History of Unsolved Conflicts. By Lars Blinkenberg. Copenhagen, Dansk Udenrigspolitisk Instituts Shrifter, 1972. Pp. 440. Maps. Index. Dan. Kr. 75.00.

Pakistan's Crisis in Leadership. By Fazal Muqeem Khan. Islamabad, National Book Foundation, 1973. Pp. 280. Maps. Appendices. Index. Rs. 25.

The Middle East

Power Play: The Tumultuous World of Middle East Oil 1890–1973. By Leonard Mosley. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973. Pp. 374. Maps. Index. £3.75.

Arab Contemporaries: The Role of Personalities in Politics. By Majid Khadduri. Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press, 1973. Pp. 255. Index. £4.25.

The Third Arab‐Israeli War. By Edgar O'Ballance. London, Faber &; Faber, 1972. Pp. 285. Sketch‐map. Index. £3.50.

Baffy: The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale, 1936–1947. Edited by N. A. Rose. Foreword by Meyer Weisgal. London, Valentine, Mitchell, 1973. Pp. 262. Illus. Index. £3.75.

The Kurdish Revolt 1961–1970. By Edgar O'Ballance. London, Faber &; Faber, 1973. Pp. 196. Maps. Chronological Summary. Index. £2.95.

Capital Cities of Arab Islam. By Philip K. Hitti. Minnesota University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. 176. Maps. Illus. Index. £4. E.

Mirza Malkum Khan. A Study in the History of Iranian Modernism. By Hamid Algar. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 327. Bibliog. Index. £6.10.

The Metaphysics of Avicenna (Ibn Siina). A critical translation‐commentary and analysis of the fundamental arguments of Avicenna's Metaphysica. By Parviz Morewedge. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1973. Pp. 336. Glossary. Index. £5.00.

Through Persia in Disguise. By Sarah Hobson. London, John Murray, 1973. Pp. 175. Map. Illus. Index. £2.95.

Afro‐Asia, Islam

The Afro‐Asian Movement. Ideology and Foreign Policy of the Third World. By David Kimche. Jerusalem, Israel University Press, 1973. Pp. 296. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £6.50.

The Islamic World. Edited by William H. McNeill and Marilyn Robinson Wald‐man. London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xvii + 468. Maps. £1.80.     

Arabia in perspective

British and Soviet Colonial Systems. By Kathleen Stahl. Faber and Faber. Pp. 114. 1951. 12s. 6d.

Mountains of Tartary. By Eric Shipton. Hodder and Stoughton. Pp. 222, 29 photographs. 20s.

Soviets in Central Asia. By W. P. and Zelda Coates. Lawrence and Wishart. 1951. 288 pp., illustrated. 25s.

Reminiscences of a Japanese Diplomat. Vol. I.—Plots, Assassinations, the Sword. Vol. 2.—Pearl Harbour, Lisbon, Tokyo. By M. Morishima. (Japanese text.)

India and the Indian Ocean. An essay on the influence of sea‐power on Indian History. By K. M. Panikkar. George Allen and Unwin. 1951 (first published 1945). 8s. 6d.

The Middle East: A Political and Economic Survey—1950. Royal Institute of International Affairs. Pp. xvi+496. Index. 3 maps. 8/3/4>” × 5/3/4>”. 35s.

Beyond Euphrates. By Freya Stark. London: John Murray. 1951. 8/3/4>×5/1/2>”. Pp. 341. Illustrations and sketch‐map. 25s.

From Town and Tribe. By C. G. Campbell. Ernest Benn. Pp. 217. 10s. 6d.

Arabian Adventurer. The story of Hajji Williamson. By Stanton Hope. London: Robert Hale. 1951. 333 pp., 23 illustrations. 16s.

Éléments de Bio‐bibliographie de la Litterature Arabe. By Joseph Assad Dagher. Imprimerie Saint‐Sauveur, Saida. Pp. 354. No date. 22s.

Middle Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt. 56 pp., 83 photos. 1950. 6s.

New Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt. 98 pp., 174 photos. 1951. 15s. By Cyril Aldred. Alec Tiranti, Ltd.

A Sword for Hire. By Peter Lington. 248 pp. W. H. Allen. 9s. 6d.     

Book reviews

The Nationalities Question in the Post‐Soviet States Graham Smith (editor) New York and London: Longman Group, 1996, xiv + 524 pp. $21.00 pb (second edition)

Regional Power Rivalries in the New Eurasia: Russia, Turkey and Iran Alvin Z. Rubinstein and Oles M. Smolansky (editors) New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1995, xii 4‐ 290 pp, pb

Kochevaia tsivilizatsiia kazakhov: osnovy zhiznedeiatel'nosti nomadnogo obshchestva (Nomad civilisation of the Kazaks: bases of the life activity of a nomad society) Nurbulat Masanov Almaty: Sotsivest. 1995

Atlas Geopolitique Informatique du Caucase Nicolas Beroutchachvili and Jean Radvanyi (editors) Paris: Observatoire des Etats Post‐Sovietiques (INALCO) 1996

Aurel Stein. Pioneer of the Silk Road Annabel Walker London: John Murray, 1995, 393 pp, illus., £25

Empire's Edge. Travels in South‐Eastern Europe, Turkey and Central Asia Scott Malcomson London: Faber and Faber, 256 pp, £8.99, pb

Frontiers of Heaven. A Journey Beyond the Great Wall Stanley Stewart London: John Murray, 1995, 223 pp, illus, £16.99

Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850–1922, Occidental Orientations Partha Mitter Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 475 pp, illus, index, £60     

THE POLITICS OF CRIME IN TAIWAN,HONG KONG AND MACAO

British Routes to India. By Halford Lancester Hoskins. 6½ × 9½. Pp. xii + 494. Illustrations. Longmans, Green and Co. 1928. 30s.

Christianity and the Government of India. By Arthur Mayhew, C.I.E. Pp. 260. Faber and Gwyer, Ltd. 12s. 6d.

The Cambridge History of India: Volume III.: Turks and Afghans. Edited by Sir Wolseley Haig, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.M.G., C.B.E. Pp. xxxii + 752. Maps and plates. Cambridge University Press. 1928. 42s.

Arabia of the Wahhabis. By H. St. J. B. Philby. 5¼×9. Pp. ix+422. Illustrations and plans. Constable. 1929.

Sir Edward Hornby: An Autobiography. Pp. x+396. 6×9. Constable. 18s. 1928.

Foreign Diplomacy in China, 1894–1900. A Study in Political and Economic Ralations with China. By Philip Joseph, LL.B. (McGill), Ph.D. (London). With an Introduction by Sir A. Frederick Whyte, K.C.S.I., LL.D. 8¾×6. 458 pp. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 16s.

Modern Chinese Civilization. By Dr. A. F. Legendre. Translated from the French by Elsie Martin Jones. (London: Jonathan Cape, 30, Bedford Street, W.C. 2.)

The Foundations of Modern China. By T'ang Leang‐li. With a Preface by Wang Ching‐Wei. 5¾×8”. Pp. x+290. (Published by Noel Douglas.) Price 12s. 6d.

The Campaign in Gallipoli. By Hans Kannengiesser. With 28 Illustrations and 3 Maps. Hutchinson. Price 21s.

Siberian Days. By Algernon Noble. 5¾×9. Pp. 223. Photographs. Witherby. 1928. 12s. 6d.

Desert Blades. By Estore. 5¼ × 7½. Pp. 254. Matthews and Marrots. 1928. 7s. 6d.

Leipzig to Cabul. By G. Stratil‐Sauer; translated by Frederic Whyte. With fifty illustrations. (Hutchinson.) Price 18s.

The Soul of China. By Richard Wilhelm. The text translated by John Holroyd Reece; the poems by Arthur Waley. 5¾×8¾. 382 pp. Jonathan Cape. 15s.

A History of Persian Navigation. By Hadi Hasan. Methuen and Co. 1928. £5 net.     

Other publications received

Raw Materials and International Control. By H. R. G. Greaves. Pp. vi. +166. London: Methuen. 5s.

Soviet Money and Finance. By L.E.Hubbard. 8? × /3/4>”. Pp. xx+339. Macmillan. 1936. 12s. 6d.

Big Horse's Flight. By Sven Hedin. Translated by F. H. Lyon. Pp. 248. Illustrations and map. London: Macmillan and Co. 1936. 21s.

South to Samarkand. By Ethel Mannin. Pp. 355, 20 illustrations and sketch maps. London: Jarrolds. 1936. Price 12s. 6d.

Sven Hedin's Archæological Collections from Khotan. By Gösta Montell. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, No. 7. Stockholm. 1936.

The Quest for Cathay. By Brigadier‐General Sir Percy Sykes, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G. Pp. xii+280. A. and C. Black. 15s.

Tamerlane or Timur the Great Amir. Translated by J. H. Sanders, from the Arabic Life by Ahmed ibn Arabshah. 8vo. Pp. xvii + 341. With a map and a frontispiece. Luzac and Co. 1936. 12s. 6d. net.

Cronica de Dom João de Castro. By Leonardo Nunes. Edited with an Introduction by Professor J. D. M. Ford. Demi‐oct. Pp. xxviii+241. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1936. 10s. 6d.

The Making of Modern Turkey. By Sir Harry Luke, C.M.G. 8/1/2>” × 6”. Pp. viii + 248. Frontispiece. Macmillan. 1936. 10s. 6d.

Quinze Ans de Mandat; I'?uvre Francaise en Syrie et au Liban. Anonymous. Pp. 69.

Euphrates Exile. By A. D. Macdonald. 7/3/4>" × 5/1/4>”. Pp. 301. Illustrated. G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 7s. 6d.

Richard Burton, Explorer. By Hugh J. Schonfield. 8/3/4>” × 5/3/4>”. Pp. 303. Frontispiece. London: H. Joseph. 1936. 15s.

Hebrew Origins. By Th. J. Meek. The Haskell Lectures for 1933–1934. Pp. viii+219. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1936. $2.

Thy Neighbour. By Lord Melchett. 7/3/4> × 5. Pp.284. 2 illustrations and 2 maps. London: Muller. 1936. 7s. 6d.

A Plan for Lasting Peace in Palestine. By Nevill Barbour. Jerusalem. 1936. Equivalent 1s.

A Palestinian Kaleidoscope, “ Palestine on the Eve.” By Ladislas Farago. Two maps. Sixty‐three illustrations. Putnam. 10s. 6d.

New Zionist Publications—No. 2. New Zionist Press, 47, Finchley Road, London, N.W. 8. 1s.

From Alexander Burnes to Frederick Roberts. A Survey of Imperial Frontier Policy. By J. L. Morison.

The 1st Battalion Duchess of Connaught's Own (late 124th D.C.O. Baluchistan Infantry) and the 10th Battalion (late 2/124th Baluchistan Infantry), the 10th Baluchistan Regiment. By O. A. Chaldecott. 8/3/4>” × 5?”. Pp. xiv+250. Eleven maps, two portraits. (Lieut.‐Col. J. N. Soden, Baluchistan Regiment, Karachi.)

Diamonds and Dust; India through French Eyes. By Baron Jean Pellenc. 9” × 6”. Pp. 306. Illustrations and map. London: Murray. 1936. 10s. 6d.

The Tiger Hunters. By Brigadier‐General R. G. Burton. 8¾> × 5¾>. Pp. xvi+225+xxxii. 16 illustrations. Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.

Honoria Lawrence : A Fragment of Indian History. By Maud Diver. Pp. 524. John Murray. 16s.

Scott of the Shan Hills: Orders and Impressions. Edited by G. E. Mitton (Lady Scott). 9 × 6. Pp. 333. Illustrations and maps. London: John Murray. 15s.

Return to Malaya. By R. H. Bruce Lockhart. Pp. i+426. Putnam. 10s. 6d.

Far East in Ferment. By Guenther Stein. Methuen. 10s. 6d.

Key Economic Areas in Chinese History. By Ch'ao‐ting Chi, Ph.D. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.

China's Red Army Marches. By Agnes Smedley. 8? × 5/1/2>? Pp. xxii+311. London: Lawrence and Wishart, Ltd. 5s.

"Living China”: Modern Chinese Short Stories. Compiled and edited by Edgar Snow. With an Introduction by the Editor and an Essay on Modern Chinese Literature by Nym Wales. 8? × 5”. Pp. 355. Frontispiece. London: Harrap. 1936. 8s.

River of Golden Sand. By Thomas Woodroofe. 8/3/4>” × 5/1/2>”. Pp.325. Faber and Faber, Ltd. 8s. 6d. net.

Manchoukuo: Jewel of Asia. By D. M. B. Collier and Lieut.‐Colonel C. L. E. Malone. 8/3/4> × 5/3/4>”. Pp. iv+267. Sixteen photographs. Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 12s. 6d. net.

When Japan Goes to War. By O. Tanin and E. Yohan. 8/1/4>” × 5/1/2>”. Pp. 271. London: Lawrence and Wishart. 1936. 5s.

Japan : Recollections and Impressions. By Grace James. Pp. 285. Illustrated. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 1936.

Militarism and Foreign Policy in Japan. By E. E. N. Causton. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. 7s. 6d.

Stalking in the Himalayas and Northern India. By Lieut.‐Colonel C. E. Stockley, D.S.O. Pp. 250. Illustrated. Herbert Jenkins. 15s.     

Boris Annenkoff: A central Asian bayard

Far East

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. 1: Contradictions among the People, 1956–1957. By Roderick MacFarquhar. London, Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1974. Pp. 439. Illus. Index. £5.50.

Capital Formation in Mainland China, 1952–1965. By Kang Chao. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974. Pp. 178. Statistics. Bibliog. Index. £6.00.

Land Reform in the People's Republic of China. By John Wong. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1974. Pp. 319. £9.50.

The Nine Sacred Mountains of China: An Illustrated Record of Pilgrimages made in the years 1935–1936. By Mary A. Mullikin and Anna M. Hotchkis. Hong Kong, Vetch and Lee, 1973. Pp. 156. Map. Illus. Index. HK $75.00.

Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan: Osaka and the Kinai Cotton Trade. By William B. Hauser. Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. 239. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £6.00.

South‐East Asia

Twenty Years Indonesian Foreign Policy 1945–65. By Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung. The Hague, Mouton, 1974. Pp. 640. Bibliog. Index. 69 guilders.

Indonesia After the 1971 Elections. Edited by Oey Hong Lee. London, Oxford University Press for the University of Hull (Hull Monographs on South‐East Asia No. 5), 1974. Pp. 116. Index. £2.00.

A Nation in the Making: The Philippines and the United States, 1899–1921. By Peter W. Stanley. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1974. Pp. 340. Bibliog. Index. £7.00.

Central Asia

Travels into Bokhara, together with a Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus. By Sir Alexander Burnes, FRS, with a new introduction by Major‐General James Lunt, CBE. Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1973. 3 vols. Map. Illus. Index. £14.95 the set (Vol. 3 £4.25).

Central Asian Review 1953–1971: Complete Contents. Subject Index to accompany the 35 mm. microfilm edition of Central Asian Review. London, Central Asian Research Centre, 1973. Pp. 49.

Afghanistan. By Louis Dupree. Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. 760. Maps. Illus. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. $22.50.

South Asia

Radical Politics in South Asia. Edited by Paul R. Brass and Marcus F. Franda. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1973. Pp. 449. Index. £6.75.

Population, Politics and the Future of Southern Asia. Edited by W. Howard Wriggins and James F. Guyot. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1974. Pp. 402. Index. £4.25.

The Transfer of Power 1942–7. Vol. IV: The Bengal Famine and the New Viceroyalty, 15 June 1943–31 August 1944. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh and E. W. R. Lumby. London, HMSO, 1973. Pp. 1,295. Appendix. Glossary. Index. £13.00.

India's Revolution: Gandhi and the Quit India Movement. By Francis G. Hutchins. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. ix+326. Bibliog. Index. £8.00.

A New System of Slavery. The Export of Indian Labour Overseas. 1830–1920. By Hugh Tinker. London, Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations, 1974. Pp. 432. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

A Matter of Honour: an account of the Indian Army, its officers and men. By Philip Mason. London, Jonathan Cape, 1974. Pp. 580. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

Sind: Before the Muslim Conquest (History of Sind Series, Volume II). By H. T. Lambrick. Hyderabad, Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. 217. Maps. Notes. Indices. £3.90.

Politics in Sri Lanka 1947–1973. By A. Jeyaratnam Wilson. London, Macmillan, 1974. Pp. 347. Index. £7.50.

Middle East

Information and the Arab Cause. By M. Abdel‐Kadir Hatem. London, Longman, 1974. Pp. 320. Index. £4.75.

Survival or Hegemony? The Foundations of Israeli Foreign Policy. By Samuel J. Roberts. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. Pp. 162. Bibliog. Index. £1.40.

The United Arab Emirates. An Economic and Social Survey. By K. G. Fenelon. London, Longman, 1973. Pp. 145. Appendices Bibliog. Index. £3.00.

Muscat and Oman: the End of an Era. By Ian Skeet. London, Faber &; Faber, 1974. Pp. 224. Illus. Bibliog. Appendices. Index. £3.95.

Modernization Without Revolution: Lebanon's Experience. By Elie Adib Salem. Bloomington and London, Indiana University Press, 1973. Pp. 174. Index. £4.20.

The Economic Development of Iran. A Recent Survey with Projections to 1981. By Robert E. Looney. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall Press, 1974. Pp. 199. Bibliog. £6.50.

Among the Dervishes. By O. M. Burke. London, Octagon Press, 1973. Pp. 203. Bibliog. £1.75.

Philosophy

Teachings of Rumi: the Masnavi. Abridged and translated by E. H. Whinfield. London, Octagon Press, 1973. Pp. 330. £4.00.

The Spirit of the East. By the Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. London, Octagon Press, 1973. Pp. 277. £3.50.

Memoirs

With Great Truth and Respect. By Paul Gore‐Booth. London, Constable, 1974. Pp. 440. Illus. Index. £5.00.     

Some economic problems of Persia

The Home Letters of T. E. Lawrence and His Brothers. Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 1954. Pp. xvi + 731. Photos. 63s.

Oil in the Middle East. By Stephen Hemsley Longrigg. Published under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs by Oxford University Press. Demy 8vo. Pp. 320 + 4 text maps and index. 25s.

The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times. By Rene Guenon. Translated by Lord Northbourne. Luzac. 1953. Pp. 359, including index and notes. 8½” × 5½”. 25s.

The Transfer of Power in India. By E. W. R. Lumby. George Allen and Unwin. 1954. Pp. 274; 2 maps (of the Indian Empire and of India and Pakistan before and after August 15, 1947). 18s.

The Culture of South‐east Asia. The Heritage of India. By Reginald Le May, Ph.D.(Cantab.). Allen and Unwin. 1954. Pp. 218, ill. 216 and map. 42s.

India and Pakistan. A general and Regional Geography. By O. H. K. Spate. With a chapter on Ceylon by B. H. Farmer. Methuen. 1954. Pp. 827. Maps and illustrations. 65s.

The English Factories in India. Volume III (New Series). Bombay, Surat, and Malabar Coast. By Sir Charles Fawcett, I.C.S. (Retd.). Oxford. Pp. xiii + 436. 50s. (U.K. only).

The Turkic Languages of Central Asia. Translation of an article by Professor N. A. Baskakov in Voprosy Yazykoznaniya (June, 1952), with commentary by Dr. Stefan Wurm. 6s.

Turkic Peoples of the U.S.S.R. By Dr. Stefan Wurm. 10s.

Russia's Educational Heritage. By William E. Johnson. Pittsburg, Pa., Carnegie Institute of Technology. 1953. Pp. 352, including index, reference notes, bibliography, 42 tables. 8½” × 5½”.

Tadzhikistan. By P. Luknitzki. Moscow. 1951. Pp. 367; 7 col. pictures, 115 drawings, 1 col. map, 11 maps, 62 photographs. (In Russian.)

Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. XLVIII—No 1: Contributions to the Anthropology of the Caucasus, By Henry Field, Cambridge, Mass. Published by the Museum. Pp. x + 154, figs. 24 and map.

Nationalism and Language Reform in China. By John de Francis. Princeton University Press. Pp. 306 + xi. Price $4.

Introduction to the Economic History of China. By E. Stuart Kirby, Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of Hong Kong. George Allen and Unwin. 1954. Pp. 202. 18s.

A Guide to Iranian Area Study. By L. P. Elwell‐Sutton. Compiled under the auspices of the Committee on Near Eastern Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies. J. W. Edwards, Ann Arbor. Michigan. 1952. Pp. 235.

Burma under the Japanese. By Thakin Nu, Prime Minister of Burma. Edited and translated by J. S. Furnivall. Macmillan. 1954. Pp. 132 + 4 plates. 8¾” × 5¾”. 12s. 6d.

“ Mot Lop‐nor. En flodresa på Tarim.” By Sven Hedin. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers Förlag.

The Yangtze and the Yak. By Marion H. Duncan. Pub. U.S.A. 1952. Price with maps $4.25, without maps $3.75.

Tibetan Journey. By G. N. Patterson. Faber and Faber. Pp.231. Illustrated. 15s.

From an Antique Land. By Julian Huxley. Max Parrish. Pp. 310. Illustrated. 25s.

Pietro's Pilgrimage. By Wilfrid Blunt. James Barrie. Pp. 320, illustrated. 21s.

Jerusalem Journey. By H. F. M. Prescott. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1954. Pp. 242, with index, plates, notes and illustrations. 8½” × 5½”. 18s.

“The One Remains.” A report from Palestine. By Stewart Perowne. Hodder and Stoughton. 1954. Pp. 192. Map and illustrations. 20s.

Far Eastern Agent The Diary of an Eastern Nobody. By Donald Moore. Hodder and Stoughton. Pp. 224. 15s.

Tigerland and South Sea. By Olle Strandberg. Michael Joseph. Pp. 235, illustrated. 18s.

Told in the Market Place. Forty tales translated and set down by C. G. Campbell. Ernest Benn. Pp. 207. 10s. 6d.

Our Everest Adventure. By Brig. Sir John Hunt, C.B.E., D.S.O. Pictorial record of the great ascent. The Brockhampton Press Ltd. Pp. 128; over 150 photographs and maps. 12s. 6d.

India and the Awakening East. By Eleanor Roosevelt. Hutchinson. Pp. 168, illustrated. 15s.

Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure. By E. R. Leach. Published by London School of Economics and Political Science, 1954. Pp. viii + 324. Bibliograph. Index. 35s.

Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century B.C. By G. R. Driver, M.A., F.B.A., Fellow of Magdalen College and Professor of Semitic Philology, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 1954. Pp. xi + 59. Plates I‐XXIV B. 10½” × 16¼”. 84s. net.     

The Development of leisure in Iran: The experience of the twentieth century

Workers’ Self‐Management in Algeria by Ian Clegg. London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1971. Pp. 249; £3·25.

The Revival of Greek Thought by G. P. Henderson. London: Chatto &; Windus, 1971. Pp. vx + 216; £3·50.

Ha‐Pe'iluth Has‐Siyyonith Be'iraq (Zionist Activity in Iraq) by Hayyim Y. Cohen. Jerusalem: Has‐Sifriyyah Has‐Siyyonith, 1969 Pp.274.

Coup d‐Etat: A Practical Handbook by Edward Luttwak. London: Penguin

Books Ltd., 1971. Pp. 205, appendices, index; £0·30.

Politics and Government in Turkey by C. H. Dodd. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1969. Pp. xvi + 335; £3·25.

Lyautey in Morocco by Alan Scham. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970. Pp. xi + 272; £4.20, $8.75.

The Second Arab Awakening by Jon Kimche. London: Thames and Hudson, 1970. Pp. 288; £2·10.     

The office of Seyh ül‐Islâm and the Tanzimat— a prosopographic enquiry

Imperialism and Nationalism in the Sudan, a study in constitutional and political development 1899–1956 by Muddathir ‘Abd al‐Rahim. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 275 + xv, Appendixes: i‐ix, Index, Bibliography; £3·15.

The Politics of Stratification: a study of political change in a South Arabian town by Abdalla S. Bujra. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 201; 5 plates; £2·75.

Economic Development in Iran, 1900–1970 by Julian Bharier. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xviii + 314; £3·75.

The Ways of the Desert by General E. Daumas, with commentaries by The Emir Abd‐el‐Kader; translated by Sheila M. Ohlendorf; foreword by Robert A. Fernea. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1971. Pp. 193; $6·75.

The Children of Israel: The Bene Israel of Bombay by Schifra Strizower. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1971. Pp. xiv + 176; £1·25.

Tajribati fi‐th‐thawra (My Experience in Revolution), Vol. I by General Muhammad Umran. Beirut, 1970.

Sayyid Jamal ad‐Din ‘al‐Afghani’: A Political Biography by Nikki R. Keddie, University of California Press. Pp. xvii + 479, frontispiece, bibliography, index; £9 ·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.     

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.     

Noucentisme's “arbitrary” nature in the Mont-roig landscapes of Joan Miró (1918–1922)

The purpose of this article is to discuss the development of Joan Miró's aesthetics between 1915 and the early 1920s, and to offer an interpretation of a series of landscapes that he painted between 1918 and 1922, by highlighting their similarities with some of the landscapes described by Catalan writer Josep Pla in his Obra completa. Both Miró's and Pla's landscapes are situated within the context of Noucentisme and, more particularly, of Noucentisme's classicist aesthetics as defined by Eugeni d'Ors in his Glosari.