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.