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).