The Ottoman Ceremony of the Royal Purse

Churchill's Secret War: Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey by Robin Denniston. Stroud: Sutton Publishing; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp.xv + 208, bibliography, index, illustrations. £25.00 (hardback).

The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans‐state Ethnic Conflict by Kemal Kiri?ci and Gareth Winrow. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xvi + 237, bibliography, index. £32.50 (hardback); £17.50 (paperback).

The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran, 1910–1926 by Stephanie Cronin. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1997. Pp.vii + 296, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. £39.50.

Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East edited by Bruce Maddy‐Weitzman and Efraim Inbar. No.4 in the Cass Series on Political Violence. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp viii + 264, index. £29.50 (hardback); £12.99 (paperback).

Indigo in the Arab World by Jenny Balfour‐Paul. London: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp.xx + 283, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. £45.00.

Languages of Dress in the Middle East edited by Nancy Lindisfarne‐Tapper and Bruce Ingham. London: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp.196. £12.99.     

From trade to empire in the near East — II: the repercussions of the incident at Nakhilu in 1803

Jews among Muslims. Communities in the Precolonial Middle East edited by Shlomo Deshen and Walter P. Zenner. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.ix + 292. £16.99 (paperback).

War in the Gulf, 1990–91: The Iraq‐Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications by Majid Khadduri and Edmund Ghareeb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.299. £22.50.

Britons in the Ottoman Empire 1642–1660 by Daniel Goffman. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1998. Pp.xxv + 310, maps, notes, bibliography, index.

Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban edited by William Maley. London: Hurst &; Co., 1998. Pp.xiii + 253, index. £14.95.

The History of Saudi Arabia by Alexei Vassiliev. London: Al‐Saqi, 1998. Pp.576. £45.00.

The Remaking of Saudi Arabia: The Struggle between King Saud and Crown Prince Faysal, 1953–1962 by Sarah Yizraeli. Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Pp.219. £14.95 (paperback).

Saudi Arabia Outside Global Law and Order by Anders Jerichow. Surrey: Curzon, 1997. Pp.xiv + 171. £12.99.

The Saudi File People, Power, Politics by Anders Jerichow. Surrey: Curzon, 1998. Pp.340, index. £40.00.

Ottoman and Persian Odysseys: James Morier, Creator of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and his Brothers by Henry McKenzie Johnston. London: I.B. Tauris British Academic Press, 1998. Pp.xv + 258, notes, chronology, bibliography, index. £29.50.

Central Asia Meets the Middle East edited by David Menashri. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp.xiii + 240, notes, index. £37.50/$49.50 (hardback); £18.50/$24.00 (paperback).     

Book reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ‘Revolution’ of 27 May 1960 in Turkey: British Policy towards Turkey

Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World by Alexandre A. Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. xxii + 265, illustrations, index, bibliography. $20.00.

Islam, Nationalism and Communism in a Traditional Society: The Case of the Sudan by Gabriel Warburg. London: Frank Cass, 1978. Pp. 253 + xi.

A Textbook on Muslim Law by David Pearl. London: Croom Helm, 1979. Pp. 317, bibliography, legislation, index and glossary. £14.95 (hardback), £6.95 (paperback).     

Problems of Northern Iraq

General

Public and Private. By Humphrey Trevelyan. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1980. Pp. viii + 199. Intro. Index. £8.95.

Tents. Architecture of the Nomads. By Torvald Faegre. London, John Murray, 1979. Pp. vi+167. Sources. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. £3.95 (paperback).

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Translated from the Greek and edited by G. W. B. Huntingford. London, Hakluyt Society (Second Series No. 151), 1980 for 1976. Pp. xiv+225. Illus. Maps. Pref. Intro. Notes. Appendices. Bibliog. Indexes. £12.00 (hardback).

Middle East

Democracy and Development in Turkey. By C. H. Dodd. Beverley, N. Humber‐side, The Eothen Press, 1979. Pp. 231. Pref. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £4.95 (paperback).

Russia and Iran, 1780–1820. By Muriel Atkin. University of Minnesota Press, 1980. pp. xii+216. Pref. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. $20.00 (hardback).

Pasture and Politics: Economics, conflict and ritual among Shahsevan nomads of northwestern Iran. By Richard Tapper. London, Academic Press, 1979. Pp. xvi+312. Illus. Index. Appendixes. Gloss. £17.00 (hardback).

South Asia

India's Rural Development; An Assessment of Alternatives. By Marcus Franda. Bloomingdale, Indiana University Press, 1980. Pp. xi+366. Pref. Notes. Index. £10.50 (hardback).

Land, Landlords, and the British Raj; Northern India in the Nineteenth Century. By Thomas R. Metcalf. Berkeley &; Los Angeles, California, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xiv+436. Pref. Illus. Charts. Tables. Maps. Appendices. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £13.50.

The Scope of Happiness; a Personal Memoir. By Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1979. Pp. xvii+333. Foreword. Gloss. Index. £8.95 (hardback).

Planning for Industrialization: industrialization and trade policies since 1951. By Jagdish Bhagwati and Padma Desai. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xx+537. Pref. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £3.95 (paperback).

Race, Sex and Class under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and their Critics, 1793–1905. By Kenneth Ballhatchet. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980. Pp. viii + 199. Pref. Intro. Illus. Notes. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £9.50 (hardback).

USSR

The Russian Empire; A Portrait in Photographs. By Chloe Obolensky with an introduction by Max Hayward. London, Jonathan Cape, 1980. Pp. xvii+346. Pref. Intro. Illus. Note. £9.95 (hardback).

Shamanism in Siberia. Edited by V. Diószegi &; M. Hoppál. Translated from the Russian and Hungarian by S. Simon. Budapest, Akademiai Kiadó, 1978. Distributed by Collets in U.K. Pp. 532. Illus. Intro. Index. £26.60. (hardback).

Central Asia

Grosser Pamir (Osterreichisches Forschungsunternehmen 1975 in den Wakhan‐Pamir/Afghanistan). Herausgegeben von Roger Senarclens de Grancy und Robert Koska. Graz, Austria, Akademische Druck ‐ und Verlagsanstalt, 1978. Pp. 400. Index. Colour Illus. Line‐drawings. Maps. Bibliog.

South‐East Asia

ASEAN Economies in Perspective; A Comparative Study of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. By John Wong. London, The Macmillan Press, 1979. Pp. xii+217. Pref. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. £8.95 (hardback) £3.95 (paperback).

Burmese Sit‐Tans 1764–1826: Records of Rural Life and Administration. By Frank N. Trager and William J. Koenig, with the assistance of Yi Yi. Translations by William J. Koenig. (The Association for Asian Studies: Monograph No. XXXVI.) Tucson, Arizona, the University Press of Arizona, 1979. Pp. xvii+440. Index. Appendix. Bibliog. $5.95.

Three Malay Villages; a Sociology of Paddy Growers in West Malaysia. Edited by Masuo Kuchiba, Yoshihiro Tsubouchi and Narifumi Maeda. Translated by Peter and Stephanie Hawkes. (Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, English Language Series No. 14.) Honolulu, The University Press of Hawaii, 1980. Pp. xxii + 356. Maps, diagrams. Pref. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. $13.00 (paperback).

Perak, the Abode of Grace; A Study of an Eighteenth‐Century Malay State. By Barbara Watson Andaya. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xviii+444. Intro. Maps. Tables. Appendices. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £14.95.

A Stroll Through Borneo. By James Barclay. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. Pp. 224. Intro. Gloss. £6.95.

Far East

Politics and Purges in China. By Frederick C. Teiwes. Folkestone, Kent, Dawson Publishing, 1979. Pp. xiii+730. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £15.00. (hardback).

Value Change in Chinese Society. Edited by R. W. Wilson, Amy Auerbacher and S. L. Greenblatt. New York and Eastbourne UK, Praeger Publishers, 1979. Pp. xiii+309. Pref. Tables. Figs. Gloss. Index. Bibliog. Refs. £14.00 (hardback).

The Medieval Japanese Daimyo; The Ouchi Family's Rule of Suo &; Nagato. By Peter Judd Arnesen. New Haven &; London, Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. 246. Bibliog. Index. Map. £11.00.

Old Madam Yin. A Memoir of Peking Life; 1926–1938. By Ida Pruitt. Stanford California, Stanford University Press. 1979. Pp. ix+129. Intro. Illus. $8.95 (hardback).

Japan; The Past in the Present. By R. S. Milward with an introduction by G. C. Allen. Tenterden, Kent, Paul Norbury Publications, 1980. Pp. xi + 132. Intro. Foreword. Index. £4.95 (hardback).

Medical Ethics in Imperial China. A Study in Historical Anthropology. By Paul U. Unschuld. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. vii+141. Pref. Illus. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £8.50.

Shorter Notices

Feminism and Socialism in China. By Elizabeth Croll. London, Boston and Henley‐on‐Thames, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. Pp. xi+363. Acks. Intro. Notes. Index. £3.95 (paperback).

Scholars' Guide to Washington, D.D. for East Asian Students. By Hong M. Kim. Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Pp. xiv + 413. Intro. Bibliog. Indexes. $ 19.95 (cloth) $ 8.95 (paper).     

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.     

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.     

Japan's rights in Manchuria

The Chinese ‐ a Study of a Hong Kong Community. By Cornelius Osgood. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1976 (3 vols.). Pp. 1264. Preface. Appendix. Illus‐. Index. $45.00.

The Government and Politics of Hong Kong. By N. J. Miners. Oxford University Press (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Hong Kong 1975; New York, Melbourne, London, 1976. Pp. xiv+288. Appendices, Bibliog. Index. £8.50 (£5.95 paperback).

Chinese Labour under British Rule. By Joe England and John Rear. Oxford University Press (East Asian Social Science Monographs) Hong Kong, 1975; New York, Melbourne, London, 1976. Pp. xvi+368. Appendices. Index. £10.00 (£7.50 paperback).     

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.     

The South in Sudanese politics, 1946–1956

Islam and Democracy by John L. Esposito and John O. Voll. New York Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.232, index and bibliography. £16.99 (paper).

The Merchant Republic of Lebanon: Rise of an Open Economy by Carolyn L. Gates. London: I.B. Tauris, 1998. Pp. xvi + 248, bibliography, index. £39.50.

The Political Economy of Market Reform in Jordan by Timothy J. Piro. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. xvi + 131, bibliography, index. $54.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries. History and Culture in the Modern Era by Harvey E. Goldberg (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xv + 346. £31.50 (cloth); £14.99 (paper).

Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan and Turkish Arabia, 1857: Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government, No.XLIII. — New Series by Cdr. James Felix Jones, I.N. Slough: Archive Editions, 1998. Pp.xlvii + 504. £595.

Secularization of Iran: a Doomed Failure? by Azadi Kian‐Thiébaut. Paris: Peeters, 1998. Pp. 296, bibliography, index.

Partner to Partition: The Jewish Agency's Partition Plan in the Mandate Era by Yossi Katz. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1998. Pp. xii + 209, bibliography, index. £35.00 (cloth); £17.50 (paper).

Between Jerusalem and Hebron: Jewish Settlement in the Pre‐State Period by Yossi Katz. Ramat‐Gan: Bar‐Ilan University Press, 1998. Pp. 295, bibliography, index.

Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus by R. Hirschon. Oxford: Berghan, 1998 (first published 1989). £14.95 (paper).     

Book reviews

Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace edited by Hussein A. Amery and Aaron T. Wolf. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2000. Pp.xv + 282, glossary, notes on the contributors, index. $45.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–70494–1; 0–292–70495–X.

The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success by Geoffrey Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp.x + 168, bibliography, indices. £35.00/$60.00 (cloth). ISBN 0–19–823856–8.

Women and War in Lebanon edited by Lamia Rustum Shehadeh. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. Pp.xvi + 334, bibliography, contributors, index. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0–8130–1707–6.

French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences by Moshe Gershovich. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp.xvii + 238, maps, bibliography, index. £35.00/$57.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–7146–4949–X.

Women in Islam and the Middle East:A Reader edited by Ruth Roded. London: I.B. Tauris, 1999. Pp.288. $59.50. ISBN 1 8606 4308 6.

Women, Work and Islamism: Ideology and Resistance in Iran by Maryam Poya. London: Zed Books, 1999. Pp.208. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 1 8564 9681 3; 18564 9682 1.

Fabricating Israeli History: The ‘New Historians’ (Second Revised Edition) by Efraim Karsh. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp.xliv + 280, index. £39.50/$54.50 (cloth); £16.50/524.50 (paper). ISBN 0–7146–5011–0; 0–7146–8063–X.

Islam and Society in Turkey by David Shankland. Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire: The Eothen Press, 1999. Pp.x + 240, bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). ISBN 0–906719–27–5; 0–906719–26–7.

Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study edited by Miura Toru and John Edward Philips. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 2000. Pp.xii + 243, index. £65.00/$100.00 (cloth). ISBN 071306601.     

The Assyrians

Middle East

Palestine in the Arab Dilemma. By Walid W. Kazziha. New York, Barnes and Noble, London, Croom Helm, 1979. Pp. 111. Foreword. Intro. Index. £6.95.

The Spirit of the East: An anthology of prose and verse inspired by the people, places and legends of the East. Edited by Gerald de Gaury and H. V. F. Winstone. London, Quarter Books, 1979. Intro. £8.95.

The Archaeology of Mesopotamia. From the Old Stone Age to the Persian Conquest. By Seton Lloyd. London, Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1978. Pp. 252. Maps. Illus. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £10.50.

South Asia

Political Identity in South Asia. Edited by David Taylor and Malcolm Yapp. Collected Papers on South Asia No. 2 Curzon Press, London, 1979. Pp. xii+266. Pref. Notes. £4.50.

Mizh. A Monograph on Government Relations with the Mahsud Tribe. By Evelyn Howell, with Foreword by Dr Akbar Ahmed. Oxford University Press, Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints from Pakistan, 1980. (Reprint from original 1931 edition). Pp. 120. Notes. Appendixes. Map.

Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab and Kalat. Vol. IV. By Charles Masson. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints, Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. xxix+463. Intro. Notes. Map. £10.50.

Business Men and Politics: Rising Nationalism and a Modernising Economy in Bombay 1918–1933. By A. D. D. Gordon. Manohar Book Service, New Delhi, 1977. Pp. xiv+323. Gloss. Intro. Tables. Appendix. Biog. Notes. Bibliog. Graph. Maps. Diagrams. Index. Rs. 50.

They Called Me an “Impeccable Imperialist”: Experiences of British India 1914–47. By Lionel Jardine, CIE, ICS (Retd). Foreword by Rajmohan Gandhi. Bombay, Nimmat Publications, 1979. Pp. 78. Rs. 25.

Indian and British English. A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation. By Paroo Nihalani, R. K. Tongue, and Priya Hosali. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. viii+260. Rs. 40.

Educational Policies and Progress during British Rule in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1796–1948. By J. E. Jayasuriya. Colombo, Associated Educational Publishers, 1977. Pp. 558. Notes. Ref. Tables. Index. £6.00.

Modern Sri Lanka: A Society in Transition. Edited by Tissa Fernando and Robert Kearney. Syracuse, New York, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Press, 1979. Pp. viii+297. Illus. Tables. Pref. Maps. Index. Bibliog. Notes. US $7.50 (paper).

Caste and Family in the Politics of the Sinhalese 1947–1976. By Janice Jiggins. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xiii+189. Tables. Maps. Pref. Gloss. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £9.50.

USSR

The Soviet Theory of Development: India and the Third World in Marxist‐Leninist Scholarship. By Stephen Clarkson. London, Macmillan, 1978. Pp. 322. Pref. Intro. Tables. Notes. Index. £12.00.

Holy Russia: An Historical Companion to European Russia. By Fitzroy Maclean. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979. Pp. 365. Maps. Illus. Pref. Bibliog. Index. £8.95.

Central Asia

The Dervish of Windsor Castle: the Life of Armenius Vambery. By Lory Alder and Richard Dalby. London, Bachman and Turner, 1979. Pp. 512. Illus. Map. Index. Bibliog. £7.50.

Central Asian Paintings. By Mario Bussagli. Macmillan London Ltd, London, 1978. Pp. 135. Illus. Map. Bibliog. Index. £10.00.

South‐East Asia

Marcos and Martial Law in the Philippines. Edited by David A. Rosenberg. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1979. Pp. 315. Preface. Introd. Appendices. Index. £12.25.

The Anthropological Romance of Bali 1597–1972. By James A. Boon. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. 259. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £10.50 (hardback). £3.95 (paperback).

Far East

The Japanese Company. By Rodney Clark. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. 282. Notes. Tables. Figs. Bibliog. Index. £12.00.

Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia, 1894–1943. By Richard Storry. London, Macmillan, The Making of the Twentieth Century series, 1979. Pp. 186. Bibliog. Index. £3.95.

The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansho, an Interpretative History of Japan Written in 1219. Translated and edited by Delmer M. Brown and Ichiro Ishida. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xiv+479. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £15.00.

The Last Confucian: Liang Shu‐ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity. By Guy S. Alitto. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. xvii+396. Illus. Maps. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £12.25.

Japan's Role in Soviet Economic Growth: Transfer of Technology since 1965. By Raymond S. Mathieson. Praeger, New York and London, 1979. Pp. xxi+278. Pref. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £12.00.

Hong Kong: a Study in Economic Freedom. By Alvin Rabushka. London, University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. x+129. Pref. Tables. Notes. £6.50.

Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China. By Evelyn Sakakida. Michigan, University of Michigan Press, 1979. Pp. 294. Map. Tables. Figs. Notes. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. $16.50.

The People's Republic of China: a Handbook. Edited by Harold C. Hinton. Boulder, Colorado, USA, and Folkestone, England. Published in the United States by Westview Press Inc. and in England by Wm. Dawson and Sons Ltd., 1979. Pp. xvii+443. Illus. Map. Tables. Pref. Bibliog. Appendix. Index. £16.00.     

Man on the Spot: Captain George Gracey and British Policy towards the Assyrians, 1917–45

Oman Since 1856: Disruptive Modernization in a Traditional Arab Society. By Robert Geran Landen. Pp. xvi+488. Tables, maps, bibliography, index. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 100s.

Oman: A History. By Wendell Phillips. Pp. xiv+246. Illustrations, maps, appendices, index. London: Longmans, 63s.

British Interests in the Persian Gulf. By Abdul Amir Amin. Pp. vi+164. Map, appendices, bibliography. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 36 guilders.

Lords of the Atlas. The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893–1956. By Gavin Maxwell. Pp. 318. Longmans. 1966. 50s.

Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894–1914. By Briton Cooper Busch. Pp. x+388. Appendices. Index. University of California Press London: Cambridge University Press. 83s.

Islamic Reform, The Political and Legal Theories of Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida. By Malcolm H. Kerr. Pp. 223, bibliog., index. University of California Press. London: Cambridge University Press. 42s.

Political and Social Change in Modern Egypt. (Historical Studies from the Ottoman Conquest to the United Arab Republic). Edited by P. M. Holt, Pp. xx+400, index. Oxford University Press. 70s.

The Surest Path: The Political Treatise of a Nineteenth‐Century Muslim Statesman. By Leon Carl Brown. Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard Middle Eastern Monograph Series XVI. Pp. 188. Harvard University Press. London: Oxford University Press. 34s.     

Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multiparty Period

The Palestinian Arab National Movement: volume II From Riots to Rebellion 1929–1939 by Y. Porath. London: Frank Cass, 1977. Pp. 414, index. £16.00.

The Origins of Zionism by David Vital. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. xvi+396, bibl., index. £4.95 (paperback) 1980.     

Book reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

An extempore government in Syria

Radical Politics in West Bengal. By Marcus F. Franda. Cambridge, Mass, and London, The M. I. T. Press, 1971. Pp. xiv+287. Index. £5.85.

The Urbanization Process in the Third World: Explorations in search of a Theory. By T. G. McGee. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1971. Pp. 179. £2.25.

Economic Theory and the Underdeveloped Countries. By H. Myint. New York, London, Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xii+353. Index.

Tropical Development 1880–1913: Studies in Economic Progress. Edited by W. Arthur Lewis. London, George Allen &; Unwin, 1970. Pp. 346. Index. £3.25.

Modernization without Development: Thailand as an Asian Case Study. By Norman Jacobs. New York, Washington, London, Praeger Publishers (Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development), 1971. Pp. ix+420. Bibliog. £7.75.

Russian Agriculture: A Geographic Survey. By Leslie Symons. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1972. Pp. xii+348. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.00.

Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China. By Evelyn Sakakida Rawski. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972. Pp. xi+282. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £5.25.     

Some impressions of modern Turkey

General

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660–1760. By K. N. Chaudhuri. Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii+629. Tables. Figs. Maps. Appendices. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £37.50.

Dictionary of Asian Philosophies. By St Elmo Nauman (Jr). New York, Philosophical Library, Inc., 1978. Pp. 372. Chron. Tables. Pref. $20.00.

Middle East

Middle East Contemporary Surrey Vol. I: 1976–77. Edited by Colin Legum and Haim Shaked. New York and London, Holmes and Meier Publishers Inc., 1978. (For The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University) 1978. Pp. 684. Maps. Tables. Notes. Graphs. Index. £32.50.

Pasargadae. A Report on the Excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. By David Stronach. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. xii+326. Figs. Fold‐outs. Plates. Maps. Preface. Appendices. Index. £25.00.

The Islamic Pious Foundations in Jerusalem: Origins, History and Usurpation by Israel. By A. L. Tibawi. London, The Islamic Cultural Centre, 1978. Pp. 72. Maps. Illus. Notes. Appendices. £3.00.

Western Civilisation through Muslim Eyes. By Sayid Mujtaba Rukni Musawi Lari of Iran. Trans, by F. J. Goulding. Tehran, Sadr Publishing House, 1977. Optimus Books, Worthing, Sussex. Pp. xii+146. Foreword. Note. Gloss. £1.00.

Gertrude Bell. By H. V. F. Winstone. London, Jonathan Cape, 1978. Pp. 332. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

South Asia

Politics Mainly Indian. By W. H. Morris‐Jones. Orient Longman, Bombay, 1978. Pp. 392. Intro. Index. Rs. 60.

The Making of the Indian Princes. By Edward Thompson. London and Dublin, Curzon Press, 1978. First published Oxford University Press, 1943. Pp. 304. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

Khyber. By Charles Miller. Macmillan, New York, 1977. Macdonald and Janes, London, 1977. Pp. xix+393. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

Family Web. A Story of India. By Sarah Hobson. London, John Murray, 1978. Pp. 284. Illus. Gloss. £5.95.

The Ganges in Myth and History. By Steven G. Darian. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1978. Pp. 219. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. $9.95.

USSR

Soviet Political Elites. By Ronald J. Hill. London, Martin Robertson, 1977. Pp. 226. Map. Figs. Tables. Graphs. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £8.25.

The Circumpolar North: A Political and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Sub‐Arctic. By Terence Armstrong, George Rogers and Graham Rowley. Methuen and Co., Ltd., London, 1978. Pp. 303. Maps. Tables. Gloss. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £5.95 (paper).

Central Asia

The Gilgit Game. The Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1865–95. By John Keay. John Murray, London, 1979. Pp. 277. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Illus. Gloss. £7.95.

South‐East Asia

The Army and Politics in Indonesia. By Harold Crouch. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1978. Pp. 356. Appendix. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £13.00.

The Indonesian Tragedy. By Brian May. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, Henley &; Boston, 1978. Pp. xvii+413. Illus. Maps. Notes. Gloss. Index. £8.95.

The Politics of Administration. The Malaysian Experience. By Mavis Puthucheary. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford, New York and Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xii+170. Notes. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £15.25.

Many Reasons Why. The American Involvement in Vietnam. By Michael Charlton and Anthony Moncrief. Scolar Press, London, 1978. Pp. 250. Maps. Notes. Indices. £10.00 (cloth), £4.50 (paper).

A Concise Legal History of South‐East Asia. By M. B. Hooker. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. 289. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £12.50.

Far East

Revolution and History ‐ Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919–37. By Arif Dirlik. Berkeley, San Francisco and London, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. ix+299. Bibliog. Index. £12.25.

Chang Tso‐lin in Northeast China, 1911–1928: China, Japan and the Manchurian Idea. By Gavan McCormack. Folkestone, Dawson, 1977. Pp. 334. Illus. Maps. Index. £12.50.

Militarism in Modern China: The Career of Wu P'ei‐fu 1916–39. By Odoric Y. K. Wou. (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) Folkestone, Dawson; Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1978. Pp. 346. Index. £12.50.

Sociology and Socialism in Contemporary China. By Siu‐lun Wong. London, Boston and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. xvi+147. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

The China Station. War and Diplomacy 1830–1860. By Gerald S. Graham. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978. Pp. 444. Maps. Notes. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £15.00.

Ancient China. The Making of the Past. By Patrick FitzGerald. Oxford, Phaidon Press Ltd., 1978. Pp. 151. Illus. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £4.95.

Rural Development: Learning from China. By Sartaj Aziz. London, The Macmillan Press, 1978. Pp. 201. Ulus. Intro. Appendices. Notes. References. Bibliog. Index. £8.95 (hardback) £5.50 (paperback).

Pacing the Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars. By Edward H. Schafer. Berkeley, Los Angeles. London, California University Press, 1978. Pp. xi+352. Illus. Appendices. Notes. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £18.75.

Confucianism and Christianity; a comparative study. By Julia Cheng. Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, Kodansha International in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Religions of Sophia University, Tokyo 1977. (Distributed by Phaidon Press, Oxford, in the United Kingdom). Pp. 234. Notes. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £8.25.

Economic Development of South Korea. The Political Economy of Success. By L. L. Wade and B. S. Kim. Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1978. Pp. 270. Figs. Index. Notes. £12.50.     

Transport routes in Persia

General

The End of the War in Asia. By Louis Allen. London, Hart‐Davis, MacGibbon, 1976. Pp. 306. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £12–50.

Plagues and Peoples. By William H. McNeill. Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1976. Pp. viii +369. Map. Appendix. Index. $10.00.

Asian Medical Systems. A Comparative Study. Edited by Charles Leslie. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1976. Pp. 404. Tables. Illus. £13.20.

The Paradox of Poverty. Edited by S. Epstein and D. Jackson. Macmillan, India. Pp. 127. Rs. 40.

The Sociology of Developing Societies. By Ankie M. M. Hoogvelt. London, The Macmillan Press, 1976. Pp. 202. Preface. Introduction. Notes. Index. £7.95 (hardback) £3.95 (paperback).

Middle East

Mudros to Lausanne: Britain's Frontier in West Asia 1918.1923. By Briton Cooper Busch. State University of New York Press, New York, 1976. Pp. 430. Maps. Bibliog. Index. {3000.

From the Wings: Amman Memoirs 1947.1951. By Sir Alex Kirkbride. London, Frank Cass, 1976. Pp. 159. Index. £6.95.

South Asia

The Hidden History of the Sino·Indian Frontier. By Karunakar Gupta. Minerva Associates (Publications) Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta, 1974. Pp. xiii + 173. Index. Rs.30.

The Government of India and Reform: Policies towards Politics and the Constitution, 1916.1921. By P. G. Robb. (London Oriental Series: Vol. 32) Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. 370. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £10.50.

Party Politics in Pakistan 1947.1958. By K. K. Aziz. National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, Islamabad 1976. Pp. 302. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Rs. 6500. U.S.$10.00.

Political Parties in Pakistan 1947.1958. By M. Rafique Afzal. National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, Islamabad 1976. Pp. 270. Appendices. Bibliog.Index. Rs. 60.00. U.S. $9.00.

East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. By P. J. Marshall. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. 274. Maps. Tables. Index. £7.75.

Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600.1800. By Holden Furber. Minnesota University Press, Oxford University Press, 1976. Pp. xix+389. Ulus. Maps. Glossary. Index. £12.25.

Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture. By Abdul Halim Sharar. Translated and edited by E. S. Harcourt and Fakhir Hussain. London, Elek Books Ltd., 1975. Pp. 295. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Notes. Index. £12.50.

The Decline of Nayar Dominance. By Dr. Robin Jeffrey. Sussex University Press, 1976. Pp. xxi+376. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. Maps. £9.00.

The Ritual of Battle: Krishna in the Mahabharata. By A. Hiltebeitel. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1976. Pp. 378. Appendix. Index. £13.65.

Two Monsoons. By Theon Wilkinson, with drawings by Bill Smith: Duckworth, London, 1976. Pp. 230. Illus. Map. Appendixes. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £5.95.

Unmade Journey. By Ian Stephens. Stacey International, London, 1977. Pp. xv + 439. Illus. Index. £7.50.

USSR

Soviet·Asian Relations in the 1970s and Beyond: an Interperceptional Study. By Bhabani Sen Gupta. (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Government.) New York, Praeger, 1976. Pp. 358. Index. £17.50.

To Caucasus, the End of all the Earth. An illustrated companion to the Caucasus and Transcaucasia. By Fitzroy Maclean. Jonathan Cape, 1976. Pp. 203. Illus. Map. Index. £6.50.

Larger than Life. A biography of the remarkable Dr Armand Hammer. By Bob Considine. W. H. Allen, Londoh, 1976. Pp, 287. lllus. Appendixes. Index. £5.50.

Central Asia

Mongolian Heroes of the 20th Century. Translated and edited by Urgunge Onon, with an Introduction by Owen Lattimore. AMS Press Inc., New York. Asian Studies No. 1. Pp. xx+217. Map. Illus. 117.95.

South·east Asia

Louis and the Kings of Siam. By W. S. Bristowe. Chatto and Windus, Ltd., London, 1976. Pp. 156. Illus. Appendix. Sources and Notes. £4.50.

Far East

Political Culture and Group Conflict in Communist China. By Alan P. L. Liu. Clio Books, California and England, 1976. Pp. xvii+202. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £8.45 (cloth), £4.10 (paper).

The Last Emperor. By Arnold C. Brackman. Charles Scribner and Sons, New York, 1976. Pp. 352. Bibliog. $12.50.

Japan Faces China: Political and Economic Relations in the Postwar Era. By Chae·Jin Lee. London and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Pp. 236. Illus. Appendixes. Notes. Tables. Index. £9.35.

Japan in Southeast Asia: Collision Course. By Raul S. Manglapus. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York/Washington D.C., 1976. Pp. 151. Bibliog. Index. $3.75 (paper).

The Two Koreas in East Asian Affairs. Edited by William J. Barnds. New York: New York University Press, 1976. Pp. vii+216. Index. $15.00.

Youth and Politics in Japan. By Joseph A. Massey. Farnborough, Hants, Lexington Books, D.C. Heath Ltd., 1976. Pp. xix+226. Figs. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliog. Index. £10.25. “

Lu Hsiin's Vision of Reality. By William M. Lyell Jnr. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London 1976. Pp. i·x+355. Appendix. Bibliog. Index. £12.50.

Folk Buddhist Religion: Dissenting Sects in Late Traditional China. By Daniel L. Overmyer. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1976. Pp. xi+295. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £10.50.

Dogen Kigen ‐ Mystical Realist. By Hee·jin Kim. The University of Arizona Press, 1976. Pp; 370, Appendixes. Bibliog. Index. $8.95 (cloth). $4.95 (paperback).

Thought Control in Prewar Japan. By Richard H. Mitchell. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1976. Pp. 226. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. £8.75.

Women in Changing Japan. By Joyce Lebra, Joy Paulson and Elizabeth Powers. Westview Press, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, 1976. Pp. 322. Preface. Bibliog. $23.7.

The Pathans 550 B.C.·AJX 1957. By Sir Olaf Caroe. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints, Oxford University Press, Karachi, London, New York, Delhi, 1976. Pp. 485. Illus. Maps. Appendixes. Glossary, Index. £16.50.

Journey to the Source of the Oxus. By John Wood. Karachi, New York, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1976, London, 1977. Pp. cv+280. Maps. £11.00.

Area Handbook for North Korea. Edited by Nena Freeland and Rinn·Sup Shinn. DA Pam 550.81, Second Edition, 1976. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402. Pp. xvi + 394. Bibliog.

A History of South India. By Milakate Sastri. Oxford University Press, Fourth Edition, 1976. Pp. 493. Illus. Maps. Index. £5.25 (paper).

Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia. By John Duke Anthony, with contributions and assistance from John Peterson and Donald Sean Abelson. (Historical and Cultural Dictionaries of Asia, No. 9), Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1976. Pp. viii+139. J6.00.

Soviet Asia: Bibliographies: A compilation of Social Science and Humanities Sources on the Iranian, Mongolian, and Turkic Nationalities. With an Essay on the Soviet·Asian Controversy. By Edward Allworth. Praeger Publishers, New York, Washington, London, 1976. Pp. lxiii+687. Map. Illus. £21.35.     

BOOK REVIEWS

General

Modernizing Peasant Societies. A Comparative Study in Asia and Africa. By Guy Hunter. London, Oxford University Press (for the Institute of Race Relations), 1969. Pp. xi + 298. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £2.

The Politics of Foreign Aid in India. By P. J. Eldridge. London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1969. Pp. xx + 187. Appendices. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £3.

The Role of Land Reform in Economic Development. A Case Study of Taiwan. By Anthony Y. C. Koo. New York, Praeger; London, Pall Mall, 1968. Pp. xvii + 125. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £5.20.

The Persian Land Reform 1962–1966. By Ann K. S. Lambton. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969. Pp. xiii+366. Tables. Glossary. Index. £4.20.

Language &; literature

A Grammar of Spoken Chinese. By Yuen Ren Chao. University of California Press, 1968; London, IBEG, 1969. Pp. xxxi + 847. Bibliog. Index. £7.15.

A First Course in Literary Chinese. By Harold Shadick, with the collaboration of Ch'iao Chien. Cornell University Press, 1968; London, IBEG, 1969. 3 vols. Pp. 888. Maps. Indexes. £5.25.

The Etymologies of 3,000 Chinese Characters in Common Usage. By Chang Hsuan. University of Hong Kong Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 960. Indexes. £7.00.

Beginning Korean. By Samuel E. Martin and Young‐Sook C. Lee. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1969. Pp. xxix + 575. Vocabularies. $8.75 or £3.95 (paperback; also available in cloth).

Three Mughal Poets. Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan. By Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1969. Pp. xxii + 290. Map. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £2.40.

Ghalib, 1797–1869. Vol. 1: Life and letters. Translated and edited by Ralph Russell and Khurshidul Islam. London, Allen &; Unwin, 1969. Pp. 404. Frontispiece. Bibliog. Index. £3.50.

The World of Premchand. Selected stories of Premchand, translated by David Rubin. London, Allen and Unwin, 1969 (for UNESCO). Pp. 215. Glossary. £1.75.

War

History of the Second World War: The War Against Japan. Volume V. The Surrender of Japan. By Major‐General S. Woodburn Kirby. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1969. Pp. 599. Maps. Illus. Index. £6.30.

Korea: 1950–1953. By Edgar O'Ballance. London, Faber &; Faber, 1969. Pp. 171. Maps. Index. £1.80.

The Suez Expedition 1956. By Général d'Armée André Beaufre, translated by Major‐General Richard Barry. London, Faber and Faber, 1969. (Editions Bernard Grasset, 1967.) Pp. 161. Maps. Illus. Index. £2.

The Siege. By Russell Braddon. London, Jonathan Cape, 1969. Pp. 353. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. £1.9.

Kut: The Death of an Army. By Ronald Millar. London, Secker &; Warburg, 1969. Pp. 323. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.75.

Six Battles for India. The Anglo‐Sikh Wars: 1845–6, 1848–9. By George Bruce. London, Arthur Barker, 1969. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £2.25.

The Coming War between Russia and China. By Harrison E. Salisbury. London, Secker and Warburg, 1969. Pp. 200. Maps. £2.50

The First Afghan War. By Lady Sale. Edited by Patrick Macrory. London, Longmans, 1969. Pp. xix + 186. Maps. Frontispiece. Appendices. Index. £2.10.

Last Post at Mhow. By Arthur Hawkey. London, Jarrolds, 1969. Pp. xii + 196. Illus. Index. £1.75.

Plassey: The Founding of an Empire. By Michael Edwardes. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1969. Pp. x + 209. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £2.10.

Islam, Turkey, middle east

Early Muslim Architecture. I. Umayyads: A.D. 622–750. By K. A. C. Creswell, with a contribution on the Mosaics of the Dome of the Rock and of the Great Mosque at Damascus, by Marguerite Gautier‐van Berchem. 2nd edition, in 2 parts. Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1969. Pp. xlv + 684. 141 plates + 690 text illustrations. £36.

Paintings from. Islamic Lands. Essays by D. Barrett and others. Edited by R. Pinder‐Wilson. (Oriental Studies, 4). Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1969. Pp. 204. 131 illus. £2.75.

Arabs, Islam and the Arab Caliphate in the early Middle Ages. By E. A. Belyaev. Translated from the Russian by Adolphe Gourevitch. New York and London, Praeger: Pall Mall, 1969, £3.75.

The Young Turks. The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908–1914. By Feroz Ahmad. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969. Pp. 205. Bibliog. £2.50.

Politics and Government in Turkey. By C. H. Dodd. Manchester University Press, 1969. Pp. xvi + 335. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

Anatolia I: From the beginnings to the end of the 2nd millennium B.C. By U. Bahadir Alkim. London, Barrie and Rockliff: the Cresset Press, 1969. Pp. 279. Map. Illus. Index, Bibliog. £3.

A Modern History of Syria including Lebanon and Palestine. By Dr. A. L. Tibawi. London, Macmillan, 1969. Pp. 433. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.

The Russian Presence in Syria and the Holy Land 1843–1914: Church and Politics in the Near East. By Derek Hopwood. Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. viii + 232. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Republican ‘Iraq: A Study in ‘Iraq Politics Since the Revolution of 1958. By Majid Khadduri. Oxford University Press for the RIIA, 1969. Pp. xii + 318. Map. Index. £3.

Arab Historians of the Crusades. Translated from Arabic by Francesco Gabrieli and from Italian by E. J. Costello. London, Routledge, with University of California and Artemis of Zurich, 1969, Pp. xxxvi + 362. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Makers of Arab History. By Philip K. Hitti. London, Macmillan, 1969. Pp. 268. Maps. Index. £2.75.

The British in the Middle East. By Sarah Searight. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Pp. xvi + 215. £3.50.

Central Asia

Central Asia. By Gavin Hambly with Alexandre Benningson, David Bivar, Hélène d'Encausse, Mahin Hajianpur, Alastair Lamb, Chantal Lemercier‐Quelquejay and Richard Pierce. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Pp. 388. Illus. Bibliog. Maps. Index. £4.20.

Afghanistan: Some New Approaches. George Grassmurk, Ludwig W. Adamec, and Frances H. Irwin, editors. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, 1969. Pp. 405. Chronology. Bibliog. No price.

Tibet. By Thupten Jigme Norbu and Colin Turnbull. London, Chatto and Windus, 1969. Pp. 362. Illus. £2.50.

From the Land of Lost Content. The Dalai Lama's Fight for Tibet. by Noel Barber. London, Collins, 1969, Pp. 224. Map. Bibliog. £1.50.

Prolegomena to Lamaist Polity. By Nirmal Chandra Sinha. Foreword by Hugh Richardson. Calcutta, Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay, 1969. Pp. xi + 92. R.20.

Indian sub‐continent

Himalayan Frontiers. By Dorothy Woodman. London, Barry and Rockliff, The Cresset Press, 1969. Pp. 423. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

History of Firuz Shah Tughluq. By J. M. Banerjee. Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1967. Pp. x + 228. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 20.

Classical India. Edited by William H. McNeill and Jean W. Sedlar. (Readings in World History, Volume 4). Oxford University Press, New York, 1969. Pp. 201. £0.65.

Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India. By R. S. Sharma. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass. 2nd Edition, 1968. Pp. 337. Biblio. Index. Rs. 20.00.

Kingship in Northern India. (circ. 600 A.D.‐1200 A.D.). By Ram Charita Prasad Singh. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1968. Pp. 151. Bibliog. Index. Rs. 15.00.

The Transition in Bengal, 1756–1775. A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan. By Abdul Majed Khan. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. xv + 376. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.25.

British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance. By David Kopf. University of California Press (London, IBEG), 1969. Pp. 324. Bibliog. Index. £4.05.

Lord Northbrook's Indian Administration, 1872–1876. By Edward C. Moulton. London, Asia Publishing House, 1969. Pp. 313. Map. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

Superior Person: A Portrait of Curzon and his circle in late Victorian England. By Kenneth Rose. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Pp. 475. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.75.

The Viceroy's Wife. Letters of Alice, Countess of Reading, from India, 1921–35. By Iris Butler. London, Hodder &; Stoughton, 1969. Pp. 110. Illus. Index. £2.25.

John Morley at the India Office, 1905–1910. By Stephen E. Koss. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1969. Pp. 231. Bibliog. Index. £3.80.

Politics and Administration in the Local Councils. A study of Union and District Councils in East Pakistan. By M. Rashiduzzaman. London and Karachi: Oxford University Press 1969. Pp. 124. Tables. Index. Bibliog. 90 np.

Judicial Control of Administrative Action in India and Pakistan. By M. A. Fazal. London, OUP, 1969. Pp. xxxv + 345. Bibliog. Index. £4.

India and the League of Nations. By D. N. Verma. Patna, Bharati Bhawan, 1968. Pp. 350. Index. Bibliog. Rs. 30.00.

From Zamindar to Ballot Box: Community Change in a North Indian Market Town. By Richard G. Fox. Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. 302. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £1.90.

Bureaucrats under Stress. Administrators and Administration in an Indian State. By Richard P. Taub. University of California Press; London, CUP, 1969. Pp. 235. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

Shri Ram. A Biography. By Khushwant Singh and Arun Joshi. London, Asia Publishing House, 1968. Pp. 240. £1.50.

Student Unrest in India. By Aileen D. Ross. Montreal &; London, McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1969. Pp. 301. Bibliog. Indexes. $12.50. £5.62.

Government Archives in South Asia. A Guide to the National and State Archives in Ceylon, India and Pakistan. Edited by D. A. Low, J. C. Iltis and M. D. Wainwright. London, Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. xiii + 355. £4.25.

Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon. A Documentary History of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, 1935–1942. By G. J. Lerski. Stanford, Cal.: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, 1968. 288 pp. Index, Paperback, $2.85.

Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, with Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Ceylon. Vol. 2: Megapodes to Crab Plover. By Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. London, OUP, 1969. Pp. xiv + 345. Illus. Maps. Index. £4.40.

Birds of Kerala. Second edition of The Birds of Travancore and Cochin. By Salim Ali. London, OUP, 1969. Pp. xxii + 444. Illus. Maps. Index. £4.00.

Southeast Asia

War, Peace, and the Viet Cong. By Douglas Pike. Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT Press, 1969. Pp. 186. Figures. Tables. Index. £2.80.

The Peasants of North Vietnam. By Gérard Chaliand. Preface by Philippe Devillers. Translated by Peter Wiles. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1969. Pp. 244. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. 35p.

Selected Articles and Speeches. By Ho Chi Minh. Edited by Jack Woddis London, Lawrence &; Wishart, 1969. Pp. 172. 52p.

Loosely Structured Social Systems: Thailand in Comparative Perspective. By John F. Embree and others. Edited by Hans‐Dieter Evers. Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies, 1969. Pp. 148. Tables. Bibliog. $6.50.

Burma and General Ne Win. By Maung Maung. London, Asia Publishing House, 1969. Pp. 332. Ilus. Bibliog. Index. £3.25.

Indians in Malaya. Some Aspects of their Immigration and Settlement (1786–1957). By Kernial Singh Sandhu. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. xxiv + 346. Illus. Maps. Tables. Glossary. Index. £6.

Indians in Malaysia and Singapore. By Sinnappah Arasaratnam. Oxford University Press, 1970. Pp. xiii + 169. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £1.25.

China, Manchuria, Korea

What Mao Really Said. By Philippe Devillers. Translated by Tony White. London, Macdonald, 1969. Pp. 317. Bibliog. Index. £1.50.

Great Britain and the Taipings. By J. S. Gregory. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. Pp. xvi + 271. Bibliog. Index. £2.50.

While China Faced West. American Reformers in Nationalist China 1928–1937. By James C. Thomson, Jr. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1969. Pp. 310. Bibliog. Index. $7.95.

Kidnapped in London. By Sun Yat Sen. Reprinted, with a Foreword by Kenneth Cantlie. London, China Society, 1969. Pp. xii 134. Illus. £1.25.

The Economic Development of Manchuria in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. By Kungtu G. Sun &; Ralph W. Huenemann. Harvard and OUP, 1969. Pp. 124. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £1.70.

Korea: Democracy on Trial. By John Kie‐chiang Oh. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1968. Pp. xiv + 240. Map. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £3.80.

Japan, Philippines

A Diplomat in Japan. By Sir Ernest Satow. Oxford University Press, 1968. Pp. xii + 427. Illus. Glossary. Index. £4.50.

Britain and Japan, 1858–1883. By Grace Fox. Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. 627. Maps. Illus. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £5.50.

The New Generation in Meiji Japan. By Kenneth B. Pyle. Stanford University Press; London, OUP, 1970. Pp. 240. Bibliog. Index. £3.75.

Japan Unmasked. By Ichiro Kawasaki. Rutland, Vermont, and Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle, 1969. Pp. 231. £1.90.

The Philippines. By Raymond Nelson. London, Thames &; Hudson, 1968. Pp. 192. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £1.75. The Philippines. By John Cockcroft. London &; Sydney, Angus &; Robertson. 1969. Pp. 128. Illus. £2.62.