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Veronica Doubleday, Three Women of Herat. London: Jonathan Cape, 1988, ix + 222 pp., glossary, illustrative chapter headings, colour photographs; L12.95. ISBN 0–224–02440‐X.     

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Ronald Wixman, Language Aspects of Ethnic Patterns and Processes in the North Caucasus (University of Chicago Department of Geography. Research Paper No. 191). Chicago, 1980, 243 pp.     

Book Reviews

David Collins: A Colonial Life. By John Currey Brisbane: Squatters, Selectors and Surveyors. (Brisbane History Group Papers No 16) Edited by Rod Fisher and Jennifer Harrison Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans. By Clare Wright Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture, Nation. Edited by Laksiri Jayasuriya, David Walker and Jan Gothard This War Never Ends: The Pain of Separation and Return. By Michael McKernan Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangio Platypus and Parliament: The Australian Senate in Theory and Practice. By Stanley Bach Unfolding History, Evolving Identity: The Chinese in New Zealand. Edited by Manying Ip New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c.1920–2000. By Bruce Mansfield Eighteenth‐Century British Erotica. Edited by Chris Mounsey and Rictor Norton London Corresponding Society, 1792–1799. Edited by Michael Davis. Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798. By Ruán O'Donnell Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803. By Ruán O'Donnell Wilhelminism and its Legacies. German Modernities and the Meanings of Reform, 1890–1930. Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann. Edited by Geoff Eley and James Retallack Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish‐Christian Women in Nazi Germany. By Cynthia A. Crane. Conqueror's Road: An Eyewitness Report of Germany 1945. By Osmar White Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971–1989: A Precarious Stability. By Jeannette Z. Madarász The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World. By Fredric S. Zuckerman “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. By Samantha Power A History of Modern India, 1480–1959. Edited by Claude Markovitz; translated by Nisha George and Maggy Hendry Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order. By Charles A. Kupchan, Emanuel Adler, Jean‐Marc Coicaud and Yuen Foong Khong Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law. By Anne Orford Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration: Together Forever? By John Hart The Dynamics of Political Crime. By Jeffrey Ian Ross The Battle for Hearts and Minds: Using Soft Power to Undermine Terrorist Networks. Edited by Alexander T. J. Lennon The Media and Neo‐Populism: A Contemporary Comparative Analysis. Edited by Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Julianne Stewart and Bruce Horsfield     

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Book reviewed in this article: HOLZER, Thomas und Gerald SCHNEIDER (2002). Asylpolitik auf Abwegen. LAVENEX, Sandra (2001). The Europeanisation of Refugee Policies. HUG, Simon et Pascal SCIARINI (dirs.). Changement des valeurs et nouveaux clivages politiques en Suisse. KUHN, Raymond et Erik NEVEU (eds.)(2002) NEIDHART, Leonhard (2002). Die politische Schweiz. PINELL, Patrice (dir.)(2002). Une épidémie politique. La lutte contre le sida en France STEINER, Jürg and Thomas ERTMANN (eds.)(2002). Consociationalism and Corporatism in Western Europe—Still the politics of Accomodation?     

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Brading, D. A. (1994), Church and State in Bourbon Mexico, the Diocese of Michoách 1749–181O)
Andrien, Kenneth J. and Johnson, Lyman L. (eds) (1994), The Political Economy of Spanish America in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1850
Wolfe, Joel (1993), Working Women, Working Men: São Paul0 and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955
Florescano, Enrique (trans. Albert G. Bork with the assistance of Kathryn R. Bork) (1994), Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: from the Aztecs to Independence
Brumfiel, Elizabeth M; and Fox, John W. (eds) (1994), Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World
Arnold, Dean E. (1993), Ecology and Ceramic Production in an Andean Community
Weber, David J. and Rausch, Jane M. (eds) (1994), Where Cultures Meet: the Frontier in Latin American History
Anderson, Leslie E. (1994), The Political Ecology of the Modem Peasant
Rakowski, Cathy A. (ed.) (1994), Contrapunto: the Informal Sector Debate in Latin America
Linz, Juan J. and Valenzuela, Arturo (eds) (1994), The Failure of Presidential Democracy
Geddes, Barbara (1994), Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America
Guzman Bouvard, Marguerite 1994), Revolutionizing Motherhood: the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Rodriguez, Jeanette (1994), Our Lady of Guadalupe. Faith and Empowerment Among Mexican-American Women
Menton, S. (1993), Latin America's New Historical Novel
Jörgensen, Beth (1994), Engaging Dialogues: the Writing of Elena Poniatowska
Taylor, kathy 1994), The New Narrative of Mexico: Subversions of History in Mexican Fiction     

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Book reviewed in this article: 1975 CRISIS — An Historical Review. By H.O. Browning. THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY: A VIEW FROM THE NORTH. Edited by Richard Caves and Lawrence Krause. AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. By Graham Maddox REVOLUTIONARIES AND REFORMISTS: Communism and the Australian Labor Movement 1920–1955. By Robin Gollan ASCENT TO POWER: WRAN AND THE MEDIA. By Brian Dale. A FEDERAL LEGISLATURE: The Australian Commonwealth Parliament 1901–1980. By Joan Rydon. WHO OWNS THE PAST? PAPERS FROM THE ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF THE HUMANITIES. Edited by Isabel McBryde. DIVORCE IN 19TH CENTURY NEW SOUTH WALES. By Hilary Golder. ESSAYS ON VICTORIAN POLITICS. Edited by P.R. Hay, J. Halligan, J. Warhurst and B. Costar. PROGRAM FOR CHANGE. Edited by Marian Sawyer. TO LIVE IN PEACE: AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE POLICY. By Michael O'Connor. Carlton THE JEWS IN VICTORIA, 1835–1985. By Hilary L. Rubinstein. Appendix by W.D. Rubinstein. RUPERT MURDOCH. A PAPER PRINCE. By George Munster. DANIEL MANNIX. THE QUALITY OF LEADERSHIP. By B.A. Santamaria. WHY CHINA? RECOLLECTIONS OF CHINA 1923–1950. By C.P. Fitzgerald. TRADE UNIONS IN CHINA 1949 TO THE PRESENT. The Organisation and Leadership of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. By Lee Lai To. JAPAN TODAY. By Roger Buckley. SUPER POWERS IN COLLISION. THE NEW COLD WAR OF THE 1980s. By Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Steele and John Gittings. NUCLEAR WINTER. By Owen Greene ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN: The False Promise of the Modern American Presidency. By Godfrey Hodgson. THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF NORMAN WARD. Edited by John C. Courtney. TOWARDS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. By George Irvin and Xabier Gorostiaga. MONKS, HERMITS AND THE ASCETIC TRADITION. Ed. by W.V. Sheils. THE BARBARIAN WEST 400–1000. By J.M. Wallace-Hadrill. POWERS AND LIBERTIES: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West. By John A. Hall. A FINANCIAL HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE. By Charles P. Kindleberger. EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE IN TRANSITION: From the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Ed. by A. Maczak, H. Samsonowicz, and P. Burke. THE SCAREMONGERS. The Advocacy of War and Rearmament 1896–1914. By A.J.A. Morris. THE DECISION TO DISARM GERMANY: BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS POSTWAR GERMAN DISARMAMENT, 1914–1919. By Lorna S. Jaffe. HISTORY AND HERITAGE: The Social Origins of the British Industrial Relations System. By Alan Fox. FACTION AND PARLIAMENT. Essays on Early Stuart History. Edited by Kevin Sharpe. POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY IN ENGLAND 1603–1640. By J.P. Sommerville. THE ECONOMY AND THE 1984 BUDGET. Edited by Michael Keen. FROM MUNICH TO THE LIBERATION, 1938–1944. By Jean-Pierre Azema. THE NAZI DICTATORSHIP: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF INTERPRETATION. By Ian Kershaw. ÖSTERREICH-LAND DER BEGRENZTEN UNMÖGLICHKEITEN. (Austria-the Land of Limited Impossibilities). By Karl Pisa. ZION BEFORE ZIONISM, 1838–1880. By Arnold Blumberg. COUNTER—INSURGENCY IN RHODESIA. By J.K. Cilliers. DARWINISM AND DIVINITY: Essays on Evolution and Religious Belief. Edited by John Durant. SEX, IDEOLOGY AND RELIGION: THE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN THE BIBLE. By Kevin Harris. THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC POLICYMAKING. By Wyn Grant and Shiv Nath. THE ECONOMICS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. Edited by Joel Mokyr. THE PHOSPHATEERS: A History of the British Phosphate Commissioners and the Christmas Island Phosphate Commission. By Maslyn Williams and Barrie Macdonald. THE FOODMAKERS. By Sarah Sargent. BEYOND DEPENDENCE. By Kosmas Tsokhas. PAYING AND CHOOSING: The Intelligent Person's Guide to the Mixed Economy. By Leo Pliatzky. MARX'S LOST AESTHETIC. Karl Marx and the visual arts. By Margaret A. Rose. THE RISE AND DECLINE OF WESTERN LIBERALISM. By Anthony Arblaster. LIBERALISM AND ITS CRITICS. Edited by Michael J. Sandel. BURKE'S REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. By F.P. Lock. THE DIVIDING DISCIPLINE: HEGEMONY AND DIVERSITY IN INTERNATIONAL THEORY. By K.J. Holsti. THE STATE. By Anthony de Jasay. A COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO WORLD PEACE. By Benjamin B. Ferencz.     

Book reviews

Muslim Resistance to the Tsar—Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan Moshe Gammer London: Frank Cass, 1994, 475 pp, £45 hardback

The Resurgence of Central Asia. Islam or Nationalism? Ahmed Rashid London: Zed Books and Karachi, Oxford University Press: 278 pp, appendix, index, £14.95 paperback, £37.95 hardback

An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples. Ethnogenesis and State‐Formation in Medieval and Early Eurasia and the Middle East Peter B. Golden Wiesbaden, Germany: Otto Harrassowitz, 1992, 483 pp, index bibliography, DM198 hardback

Everyday Islam: Religion and Tradition in Rural Central Asia Sergei P. Poliakov Introduction by Martha Brill Olcott, Anthony Olcott (editors) New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1992, xxvi + 156 pp, $39.95 hardback, $14.95 paperback

The end of the Soviet Empire. The Triumph of the Nations Hélène Carrère d'Encausse New York/London: Harper Collins, 1993, 292 pp, $15 paperback

Russia's Muslim Frontiers. New Directions in Cross‐Cultural Analysis Dale F. Eickelman (editor) Bloomington: Indiana University Press/Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1993, 206 pp, £25 hardback, £11.99 paperback

Central Asia. The Practical Handbook Giles Whittell London: Cadogan Books, 1993, 330 pp, maps, index, £10.99

The Crimean Tatars Andrew Wilson London: International Alert, 1994, 38 pp, free on request

The Warriors of Islam. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Kenneth Katzman Colorado, USA/Oxford: UK: Westview Press, 1993, 192 pp, bibliography, index, £35, softcover

Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539–1542) Michele Membre (Translated by A. H. Morton) London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1993, glossary notes bibliography, index, xxviii + 109 pp, £8

The Lost Country. Mongolia Revealed Jasper Becker London: Hodder & Stoughton (and Sceptre paperback), 1993, 325 pp, bibliography £16.99 hardback

Fundamentalisms and the State. Remaking Policies, Economies, and Militance Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby (editors) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, index, 665 pp     

Book reviews

Language Planning and National Development: The Uzbek Case William Fierman Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1991, Contributions to the Sociology of Language No 60, XIII, 375 pp, $110.00

Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and Autonomy in Twentieth‐Century Iran Touraj Atabaki London, England: British Academic Press, 1993, pp 238

Central Asia: New Arc of Crisis Shirin Akiner London, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 1993, 79 pp,appendices, £4.95

Without right and left Nursultan Nazarbaev Class Publishing, London, 1992, 171 pp, photos, pb NP

The Islamization of Central Asia. A Case Study of Uzbekistan Diloram Ibrahim Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1993, 32 pp, £1.50

Survival Among the Kurds. A History of the Yezidis John S. Guest London: Kegan Paul International, 1993, 324 pp, Illus., bibliography, index, £45

Samarkand compiled by Andrei Nedvetsky, 159 pp, illustrated, Bukhara compiled by Andrei Nedvetsky, 159 pp, illustrated, Khiva compiled by Andrei Nedvetsky, 127 pp, illustrated, Reading, England: Garnet Publishing, 1993, £16.95 each

My Golden Road from Samarkand Jascha Golowanjuk London: Quartet Books, £14.95, 244 pp

Turkey's New Geopolitics From the Balkans to Western China Graham E. Fuller, Ian O. Lesser, Paul D. Henze & J. F. Brown Boulder, Oxford, UK: Westview Press, A RAND Book, 1993, 197 pp, £10.50

Turkish Foreign Policy. New Prospects Clement H. Dodd (editor) Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire: The Eothen Press, 1992, 117 pp, £12.50 pb

Derwische. Gelebter Sufismus Jurgen Frembgen Koln, Germany: DuMont Buchverlag, 1993, 283 pp, illustrations

Die Gärten des Islam Hermann Forkl, Johannes Kalter, Thomas Leisten & Margaret Pavaloi (editors) Stuttgart/London: Hansjorg Mayer, 1993, 388 pp, illustrations, £30

Birth of a Tragedy. Kashmir 1947 Alastair Lamb Hertingfordbury: Roxford Books, 1994, 177 pp, £9 pb

The Afghan Syndrome. The Soviet Union's Vietnam Major‐General Oleg Sarin & Colonel Lev Dvoretsky London: Greenhill Books, Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1993, £22.50, 195 pp, appendices, index     

Book reviews

In a Collapsing Empire: Underdevelopment, Ethnic Conflicts and Nationalisms in the Soviet Union. Marco Buttino (editor). Milano: Fondazione Giangiacomo Fentrinelli, 1993, 375 pp, Lire80,000.

The Turkic Peoples of the World. Margaret Bainbridge (editor). London: Kegan Paul International, 1993, 403 pp, £65.

Where Two Worlds Met. The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771. Michael Khodarkovsky. Cornell University Press, 1992, 278 pp, illus, index.

Please Don't Call it Soviet Georgia. Mary Russell. London: Serpent's Tail, 1991, viii, 268 pp, £9.99.

Georgia: a Rebel in the Caucasus. Peter Nasmyth. London, Cassell, 1992, 222 pp, £16.99.

Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History. Ronald Grigor Suny. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993, xiii, 289 pp, $17.95.

Muslim‐Christian Encounters. William Montgomery Watt. Routledge, 1991, 164 pp, index.

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia. Peter Hopkirk. London: John Murray, 1990, xiv, 562 pp, illus, £19.95.

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. Peter Hopkirk. New York: Kodansha, 1992, xxiv, 564 pp, illus, $30.00.

Francis Younghusband and the Great Game. Anthony Verrier. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991, xviii, 238 pp, illus, £18.00.     

Book reviews

National Movements and National Identity Among the Crimean Tatars (1905–16) Hakan Kirimli Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1996, 242 pp, illus., bibliog., index

Crimean Tatars: Repatriation and Conflict Prevention New York: Open Society Institute, 1996, 95 pp

Between the Slogans of Communism and the Laws of Islam Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva Lahore: Shirkat Gah, 1995, x, 268 pp, paperback

Household Welfare in Central Asia Jane Falkingham, Jeni Klugman, Sheila Marnie and John Micklewright (editors) Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997, xii, 253 pp, hardcover

The Wars of Eduard Shevarnadze Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl and Melvin A. Goodman University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State Press, 1997

Dictionary of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies Ludwig W. Adamec Lanham, MD, USA and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1996, 384 pp, maps, illus, chronology, bibliog. $48, hardback

Domestic Culture in the Middle East Jennifer Scarce National Museums of Scotland: Edinburgh and Curzon Press, Richmond, UK 1996, £12.99

Imageries Populaires en Islam Pierre Centlivres and Micheline Centlivres‐Demont Geneva, Switzerland: Georg Editeur, 1997, 106 pp, illus. FfS39

Colour and Symbolism in Islamic Architecture: Eight Centuries of the Tile‐Maker's Art Photographs by Roland and Sabrina Michaud. Text by Michael Barry London: Thames & Hudson, 1996, 315 pp, illus, map, indices, glossary, £48 hardback

Traditional Textiles of Central Asia Janet Harvey London: Thames & Hudson, 1996, 160 pp, biblio, £35

The Carpets of Afghanistan R. D. Parsons Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Antique Collectors Club, 1994, 192 pp, £29.95

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906–1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy and the Origins of Feminism Janet Afary New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, xxi + 448 pp., bibliography, glossary, index

Kochevaia tsivilizatsiia kazakhov: osnovy zhiznedeiatel'nosti nomadnogo obshchestva Nurbulat Masanov Almaty: Sotsivest, 1995