New ways of organizing complex data: Multidimensional scaling

A. Kimball Romney, Roger N. Shepard and Sara Beth Nerlove, eds. Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications in the Behavioral Sciences. New York: Seminar Press, 1972. Volume One: xvi + 261 pp. Figures and index. $12.95. Volume Two: xvi + 323 pp. Tables, figures and index. $14.75.     

On Bernstein's class,codes and control

Basil Bernstein, ed. Class, Codes and Control Volume 1: Theoretical Studies towards a Sociology of Language. Primary Socialization, Language and Education Series. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971. xiv + 239 pp. Tables, figures, notes, references, and index. $10.00.

Basil Bernstein, ed. Class, Codes and Control Volume 2: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language. Primary Socialization, Language and Education Series. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. xvi + 377 pp. Tables, figures, notes, references, appendix, and index. $16.95.     

Design for rural development

Elliot R. Morss, John K. Hatch, Donald R. Mickelwait, and Charles F. Sweet. Strategies for Small Farmer Development. Volume I: 347 pp., tables, maps, no index. $20.00. Volume II: Case Studies. 444 pp., maps, no index. $20.00. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, Westview Special Studies in Social, Political, and Economic Development, 1976.     

Asia in the history of cartography

The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book One: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. Edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1992. ISBN 0 226 31635 1. Pp xxiv, 579, 355 illus., 40 coloured plates. US$143.75 (cloth).

The History of Cartography, Volume Two, Book Two: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies. Edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1995. ISBN 0226 31637 8. Pp xxviii, 1,040, 503 illus., 40 coloured plates. US$195.00 (cloth).     

Transfer of power in Burma

Burma: The Struggle for Independence 1944–1948. Volume I: From Military Occupation to Civil Government, 1 January 1944 to 31 August 1946 edited by Hugh Tinker, assisted by Andrew Griffin. HMSO, 1983. Pp. cxxxv + 1,078, index, two maps. £95.     

The dynamics of anthropologizing‐some excursions in villages and towns

A. L. Ruffa, Ruth S. Freed, Lucie Wood Saunders, Edward C. Hansen, and Sula Benet, eds. City and Peasant: A Study in Sociocultural Dynamics. New York: New York Academy of Science, 1974. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, Volume 220, Article 6. 221 pp. Tables and references. $17.00 (cloth).     

Time and water: Two major variables in ancient Mesoamerica

Fredrick Johnson, ed. Chronology and Irrigation. Volume Four of The Prehistory of the Tehuacan Valley. Richard S, MacNeish, series editor. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972. xi + 290 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography and index. $15.00.     

Recent Canadian ethnographies

Richard W. Brislin, Walter J. Lonner and Robert M. Thorndike. Cross‐Cultural Research Methods. New York John Wiley & Sons, 1973. v + 351 pp. Tables, charts, bibliography, and index. $16.95.

Harry C. Triandis, in association with Vasso Vassiliou Yasumasa Tanaka and A. V. Shanmugam. The Analysis of Subjective Culture. A Volume in Comparative Studies in Behavioral Science: A Wiley Series, edited by Robert T. Holt and John E. Turner. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1972. v + 382 pp. Tables, charts, and index. $16.95.     

Review Article: The Ways of the World

S. E. FINER. The History of Government from the Earliest Times: Volume I: Ancient Monarchies and Empires. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 610; Volume II: The Intermediate Ages. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 613–1,061; Volume III: Empires, Monarchies, and the Modern State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. vii, 1,065–1,701. $270.00 (CDN), for the three volumes. Reviewed by A. P. Thornton     

Our Most Dangerous Enemy: Great Britain Pre-eminent in the 1930s

OTTO PFLANZE. Bismarck and the Development of Germany: Volume I: The Period of Unification, 1815–1871; Volume II: The Period of Consolidation, 1871–1880; Volume III: The Period of Fortification, 1880–1898. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. xxx, 518; xvii, 554; ix, 474.

STIG FÖRSTER, WOLFGANG J. MOMMSEN, and RONALD ROBINSON, eds. Bismarck, Europe, and Africa: The Berlin Africa Conference 1884–1885 and the Onset of Partition. New York: German Historical Institute; Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 569.     

Do social scientists and historians write the same minority histories?

This paper is a comparison between two books, each dealing with the history of a different rural community in Northern Norway. These are Fjordfolket i Kvænangen and Balsfjorden og Malangens historie (Volume 1) written by the social anthropologist Ivar Bjørklund and the historian Anders Ole Hauglid respectively. In this comparison, two main points are emphasized: (1) To what extent can knowledge about ethnic processes of categorization, which has been acquired through contemporary research in the social sciences, be of use in the writing of the history of minorities? (2) Should the history of a minority only be a history of ethnic relations'?     

Rowley on the aboriginal condition

C. D. Rowley, Aboriginal Policy and Practice, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1970–71: Volume I, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, pp. xii + 430; Volume II, Outcasts in White Australia, pp. xiv + 472; Volume III, The Remote Aborigines, pp. vii + 379. $6.50 per volume. All three also in Penguin, Melbourne, 1972, at $2.50 per volume.     

Fourierism's Feminine Defender and Colonial Pioneer: Clarisse Vigoureux

Abstract

Rosemary Geisdorfer Feal and Carlos Feal. Painting on the Page: Interartistic Approaches to Modern Hispanic Texts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xxii + 341 pp. $19.95 pb.

Michael Lucey. Gide's Bent: Sexuality Politics Writing. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 238 pp.

Larry J. Simon ed. Iberia and the Mediterranean World of the Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of Robert I. Burns, S.J. (Volume I: Proceedings from Kalamazoo). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. xxvi + 373 pp.

Martha T. Halsey. From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Recent Plays of Buero Vallejo (from La Fundación to Música Cercana). (Ottawa Hispanic Studies, 17) Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1994. 312 pp.

Pier Massimo Forni. Adventures in Speech: Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xiv + 155 pp. $29.95.     

Interpreting muddled middens

Francis P. McManamon, ed. Chapters in the Archeology of Cape Cod, I. Results of the Cape Cod National Seashore Archeological Survey, 1979–1981. Volumes 1 and 2. Boston: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1984. Volume 1: xviii + 313 pp.; Volume 2: xv + 417 pp. including chapter references, maps, figures. Volume 1, $7.50 paper, Volume 2, $9.00 paper; both $15.00.     

Social control,structure and practice

Black, Donald, ed. Toward A General Theory of Social Control. Volume 1: Fundamentals. New York: Academic Press, 1984. xvi + 363 pp. including author and subject indexes, bibliographies, list of contributors. $45.00 cloth.

Black, Donald, ed. Toward A General Theory of Social Control. Volume 2: Selected Problems. New York: Academic Press, 1984. x + 310 pp. including author and subject indexes, bibliographies, list of contributors. S39.50 cloth.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: James VI and I. Ideas, Authority, and Government. Edited by Ralph A. Houl‐brooke John Wilkes. The Lives of a Libertine. By John Sainsbury Edmund Burke. Volume II: 1784–1797. By F. P. Lock Loulou. Selected Extracts from the Journal of Lewis Harcourt (1880–1895). Edited by Patrick Jackson Killerton, Camborne and Westminster. The Political Correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland, 1910–29. Edited by Garry Tregidga The Palgrave Review of British Politics 2005. Edited by Michael Rush and Philip Giddings Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament. The House of commons. Volume 5: 7 June‐17 July 1641. Edited by Maija Jansson     

Leonardo Bruni and humanist historiography

Leonardo Bruni: History of the Florentine People. Edited by James Hankins, Volume 1 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001 and 2004), v–xxiv?+?520 pp. $29.95/£19.95/€27.70 cloth.

Leonardo Bruni: History of the Florentine People. Edited by James Hankins, Volume 2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), xiii?+?584 pp. $29.95/£19.95/€27.70 cloth.     

Reviews

Shi^cite Islam: Polity, Ideology, and Creed , Yann Richard, trans. Antonia Nevill, Oxford, U.K. and Cambridge, U.S.A.: Blackwell, 1995, pp. 217, chronology, glossary, bibliography, index.

Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk‐Ilkhanid War, 1260–1281 , Reuven Amitai‐Preiss, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, xv + 272 pp.

The Bukharans: A Dynastic, Diplomatic and Commercial History 1550–1702 , Audrey Burton, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997, 664 pp.

Cahiers d'Asie Centrale, No. 1/2 (1996): Inde‐Asie centrale. Routes du commerce et des idées , Tashkent: l'Institut Français d'études sur l'Asie centrale/Aix‐en‐Provence: Editions Edisud, 1996, 366 pp.

The Diary of H.M. Shah of Persia during his tour through Europe in A.D. 1873 , trans. from the Persian by J.W. Redhouse, London, 1874, reprinted 1995, with a new introduction by Carole Hillenbrand, Bibliotheca Iranica. Reprint Series No. 2, Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, Calif., [xvi] + xi + 427 pp.

Presse und Öffentlichkeit im Nahen Osten , Christoph Herzog, Raoul Motika, and Anja Pistor‐Hatam, eds., Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1995, viii + 183 pp.

The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran, 1910–1956 , Stephanie Cronin, London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1997, 296 pp., 3 appendices.

The Republic of Armenia, Volume III: From London to Sèvres, February‐August, 1920; Volume IV: Between Crescent and Sickle: Partition and Sovietization , Richard Hovannisian, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, xx + 534 pp., xii + 496 pp.

Majlis va Intikhabat: az Mashrūtah ta Payan‐i Qajar , Mansoureh Ettehadieh (Nezam‐Mafi), Tehran: Nashr‐i Tarikh‐i Iran, 1375/1996–97, 368 pp.

L'Iran au XXe siècle , Jean‐Pierre Digard, Bernard Hourcade, Yann Richard, Paris: Fayard, 1996, 459 pp.

The Shi^cis of Iraq , Yitzhak Nakash, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, xiv + 312 pp., cloth and paperback.

Debating Religion and Politics in Iran: The Political Thought of Abdolkarim Sorush , Valla Vakili, New York, N.Y.: Studies Department, Occasional Paper Series, no. 2, The Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., 1996, 56 pp.

Tanker Wars: The Assault on Merchant Shipping during the Iran‐Iraq Conflict, 1980–1988 , Martin S. Navias and E. R. Horton, London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1996, ix + 244 pp., including appendix, notes, index of ships, and general index. Cloth.

The Turbulent Gulf: People, Politics and Power , 2nd ed., Liesl Graz, London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1992. 311 pp., including notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. Paperback.

The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture , Gülru Necipo?lu, with an essay on the geometry of the muqarnas by Mohammad al‐Asad, Santa Monica: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1995, xiii + 395, plates, plan, bibliography, index, $160.00.

Techniques et ressources en Iran du 7e au 19e siècle , Parviz Mohebbi, Tehran: Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 1996.

Suppressed Persian: An Anthology of Forbidden Literature , Paul Sprachman, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, lviii + 111 pp., $29.95.     

The Grammar of Imperial History

FREDERICK MADDEN and DAVID FIELDHOUSE, eds. ‘The Empire of the Bretaignes’, 1175–1688: The Foundation of a Colonial System of Government: Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth, Volume I. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xxix, 669; $55.00 (us); The Classical Period of the First British Empire, 1680–1783, Volume II. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985. Pp. xxxiii, 628. –65.00 (US).