Reviews

Geography, Technology, and War—Studies in the Maritime History of the Mediterranean 649–1571, JOHN H. PRYOR
The Seventy-four Gun Ship Vol. 4 JEAN BOUDRIOT (translated by David Roberts)
Ships and shipwrecks of the Americas. A history based on underwater archaeology G. F. BASS (Ed.)
Seesturm und Schiftbruch. Eine motivgeschichtliche Studie. SABINE MERTENS
Marine Archaeology of Indian Ocean Countries, S. R. RAO, Ed.
Le Cerf(cutter of 1779) J. BOUDRIOT and H. BERTI (English translation by H. Bartlett Wells)
Le Coureur (lugger of 1776) J. BOUDRIOT and H. BERTI
Innovation in Shipping and Trade STEPHEN FISHER, Ed.
Florida Archaeology no 4,1988: Gold Coins of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet-a numismatic study of the State of Florida Collection ALAN K. GRAIG with Appendix by FRANCIS KEITH
Historique de la Corvette 1650–1850: Monographie La Criole 1827 JEAN BOUDRIOT
The 32-Guo Frigate Essex PORTIA TAKAKJIAN
Ceramic Excavation Sites in Southeast Asia-a Preliminary Gazeteer JOHN S. GUY
Upchurch and Thameside Roman pottery: a ceramic typology for northern Kent, fist to third centuries A.D. JASON MONAGHAN
A Naval Expositor T. R. BLANCKLEY
Sternstunden der Schiffsarchiiologie PETER BAUMANN     

Economic despondency and social division: A political review of the year, 1996

Verschave, F. X., La Françafrique. Le plus long scandale de la république (Stock 1998). 379 pp. 130F ISBN 2 234 04948 2

Gourévitch, J.‐P., L'Afrique, le fric la France. L'aide, la dette, l'immigration, l'avenir: vérités et mensonges (Le pré aux Clercs, 1997) 372 pp., 110F. ISBN 2 84228 022 9     

Reviews

Das Schiff der hansischen frühzeit, 2nd edition P. HEINSIUS
Frégate de 18, La Vénus de I'ingénieur Sané, JEAN BOUDRIOT, HUBERT BERTI
Ancient boats in north west Europe—the archaeology of water transport to AD 1500, SEAN McGRAIL
The Porticello shipwreck a Mediterranean merchant vessel of 415–385 BC
John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard JEAN BOUDRIOT, translated by DAVID ROBERTS
Shipwrecks of the Isle of Wight KEN PHILLIPS with a foreword by D. TOMALIN
Thracia Pontica II: Le Littoral Thrace et son role dans le monde ancien M. LASAROV, V. POPOV, C. ARGELOVA (Eds)
Nouveau 'Glossaire Nautique' d'Augustin Jal Revision of the 1848 edition
F. H. Chapman-the first naval architect and his work DANIEL G. HARRIS
El pecio romano de Palamos. ExcavaciC arqueolhgica submarina F. FOERSTER, R. PASCUAL and J. BARBERA     

Perspectives on Pompidou

Abadie, F., and Corcelette, J.‐P., Georges Pompidou 1911–1974: Le désir et le destin (Balland, 1994), 460pp., 110F.

Esambert, B., Pompidou, capitaine d'industries (Odile Jacob, 1994), 277pp., 140F.

Jullian, M., La France à voix haute: Le Soldat et le Normalien (Fayard, 1994), 272pp., 120F.

Roussel, E., Georges Pompidou 1911–1974, 2nd edition (Jean‐Claude Lattès, 1994), 686pp., 195F.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Wetland Revolution in Prehistory. BRYONY COLES
Le Navire Marchand sous l'ncien Régime: Vol I, etude historique; Vol 11, Monographie du Mercure . JEAN BOUDRIOT
Tropis II: Proceedings, 2nd International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity. HARRY TZALAS (Ed.)
The Art of Medieval Technology—Images of Noah the Shipbuilder. RICHARD W. UNGER
The Victorian Sailor (Shire Album 131). DAVID MARCOMBE
Toy Boats (Shire Album 193). BASIL HARLEY
Bateaux des côtes de France. FRANCOIS BEAUDOUIN     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Paul James, Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community. Joep Leerssen, Remembrance and Imagination. Patterns in the Historical and Literary Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Susan Paul Pattie, Faith in History: Armenians Rebuilding Community. C. C. Barfoot (ed.), Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary Practice. Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber (eds.), State Sovereignty as Social Construct Michel Wieviorka (ed.), Une société fragmentée? Le multiculturalisme en débat. Gérard Noiriel, The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity. David Westerlund (ed.), Questioning the Secular State: The Worldwide Resurgence of Religion in Politics. Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country. Paul R. Brass, Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence. K. E. Schulze, M. Stokes and C. Campbell (eds.), Nationalism, Nationalities and Diasporas: Identities and Rights in the Middle East. Dusan Kecmanovic, The Mass Psychology of Ethnonationalism.     

Le châtiment de Babel

Umberto Eco, La recherche de la langue parfaite dans la culture européenne, Paris, Le Seuil, collection “Faire l'Europe”, 1994, 436 p. (traduction de La ricerca della lingue perfetta nella cultura europa, Roma‐Bari, Laterza) ; ouvrage paru simultanément en italien, français, anglais (Basil Blackwell, Oxford), allemand (C.H. Beck, München) et espagnol (Critica, Barcelona).

Maurice Olender, Les langues du Paradis. Aryens et Sémites : un couple providentiel, Paris, Gallimard/Le Seuil, 1989 ; rééd. Paris, Le Seuil, Points‐Essais, 1994.     

L'histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire

Barrès, M., Les Diverses Familles spirituelles de la France (Imprimerie nationale, 1997), 215 pp., 170F., ISBN 2 7433 0120 1

Bodin, L., Les Intellectuels existent‐ils? (Bayard Editions, 1997), 202 pp., 130F., ISBN 2 227 13702 9

Gide, A. and Paulhan, J., Correspondance 1918–1951. Cahiers Jean Paulhan IX (Gallimard, 1998), 356 pp., 160F., ISBN 2 07 075119 8

Hanna, M., The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers during the Great War (Harvard University Press, 1996), 292 pp., £25.50, ISBN 0 674 57755 8

Malaquais, J., Journal de guerre, suivi de Journal du métèque (Phébus, 1997), 333 pp., 135F., ISBN 2 85940 463 5

Pagès, A., 13 janvier 1898. J'accuse...! (Perrin, 1998), 293 pp, 119F., ISBN 2 262 012873

Verdès‐Leroux, J., Refus et violences. Politique et littérature à l'extrême droite des années trente aux retombées de la Libération (Gallimard, 1996), 514 pp., 190F., ISBN 2 07 073224 X

Winock, M., Le Siècle des intellectuels (Seuil, 1997), 695 pp., 149F., ISBN 2 02 030063 X     

Book reviews

Aldeghi, I., et al., Vécu et devenir des chômeurs de longue durée (La Documentation Française, 1992), 123pp., 100F., ISBN 2 11 002644 8

Baker, K.M., Inventing the French Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1990), 372pp., £32.50 hbk., £11.95 pbk., ISBN 0 521 34618 5 and 0 521 38578 4

Blancquart, M.‐C., and Cahne, P., Littérature française du XX^e (PUF, 1992), 564pp., ISBN 2 130 44810 0

Brunet, P., ed., France et Grande‐Bretagne rurales. Rural France and Great Britain (Centre de Recherches sur l'Evolution de la Vie Rurale, Université de Caen, 1991), 510pp., 180F., ISBN 2 905 46162 4

Caune, J., La Culture en action. De Vilar à Lang: le sens perdu (Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1992), 368pp., 130F.

Coleman, J., and Parker, G., French and the Enterprise Path (AFLS‐CILT, 1992), 200pp., £8.95

Collot, S., Les Lieux de désir: topologie amoureuse de Zola (Hachette Université, 1992), 192pp., 150F., ‘Recherches Littéraires’ Collection, ISBN 2 010 18816 0

Coutel, C., ed., La République et l'école; une anthologie (Presses‐Pocket, 1992), 288pp., ISBN 2 266 04474 5

Crosland, M., Science under control: the French Academy of Sciences, 1795–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1992), 454pp., £60.00, ISBN 0 521 41373 7

David, M., Le Printemps de la Fraternité: genèse et vicissitudes, 1830–1851 (Aubier, 1992), 396pp., 180F., ISBN 2 700 72237 X

Debray, R., Vie et mort de l'image (Gallimard, 1992), 140F., 412pp., ISBN 2 070 72816 1

Drieu la Rochelle, P., Journal 1939–1945 (Gallimard, 1992), 521pp., 140F., ISBN 2 070 72307 0

Durand, J.‐D. et al., Cent ans de catholicisme social à Lyon et en Rhône‐Alpes. Actes du Colloque de Lyon, 18–19 janvier 1991 (Les Editions Ouvrières, 1992), 566pp., 170F., ISBN 2 708 22954 0

Estienne, P., Les régions françaises (Masson, 1991), 2 vols, 264pp., 272pp., 180F., 190F., ISBN 2 225 82509 2, 2 225 82590 4 respectively

Fougeyrollas, P., L'Attraction du futur: un essai sur la signification du présent (Méridiens Klincksieck), 274pp., 140F., ISBN 2 865 63299 7

Gaillac, H., Les Maisons de correction 1830–1945 (Editions Cujas, 1991), 464pp., 120F., ISBN 2 254 92404 X

Genet‐Delacroix, M.‐C., Art et Etat sous la III^e République. Le Système des Beaux‐Arts 1870 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1992), lviii+433pp., 190F., ISBN 2 859 44219 7

Hagège, C., Le Souffle de la Langue (Odile Jacob, 1992), 286pp.+9pp. of maps, 130F., ISBN 2 738 10182 8

Hancock, M.D. et al., Politics in Western Europe (Macmillan, 1993), 526pp., £14.99, ISBN 0 000 00000 0

Hardman, J., Louis XVI (Yale University Press, 1993), 264pp., £25.00, ISBN 0 300 05719 9

Hargreaves, A.G., Voices from the North African immigrant community in France. Immigration and identity in Bear fiction (Berg, 1991), 175pp., £29.50, ISBN 0 854 96649 8

Harpaz, E., Benjamin Constant et Madame Récamier (lettres 1807–1830) (Honoré Champion, 1992), 362pp., 140F., ISBN 2 852 03706 8

Hudson, J., and Tosser, N., Business French (Made Simple, 1992), 426pp., £8.95, ISBN 0 730 60299 6

Jones, H.S., The French State in Question. Public Law and Political Argument in the Third Republic (CUP, 1993), 231pp., £30., ISBN 2 521 43149 2

Kolebka, G., Dépressions sur une partie de la France (Seghers, 1991), 164pp., 100F., ISBN 2 232 10341 2

Lagrée, M., and Roche, J., Tombes de mémoire: le dévotion populaire aux victimes de la Révolution dans l'Ouest (Rennes Apogée, 1993), 148pp., 125F., ISBN 2 909 27512 4

Lefebvre, D., Guy Mollet: Le mal aimé (Plon, 1992), 545pp., 149F., ISBN Z 259 02465 3

Lemalet, M., Lettres d'Algérie, 1954–1962: La guerre des appelés, la mémoire d'une génération (Jean‐Claude Lattès, 1992), 360pp., 139F., ISBN 2 709 61145 7

Lyotard, J.‐F., The inhuman (Polity Press, 1991), 216pp., £35, ISBN 0 745 69772 1

Michel, P., and Nivet, J.‐F., Octave Mirbeau; l'imprécateur au c?ur fidèle (Librarie Séguier, 1990), 1019pp., ISBN 2 877 36162 4

Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Formation Professionnelle, Le Tourisme Social et Familial (La Documentation Française, 1992), 333pp., 180F., ISBN 9 782 11002757 3

Oriol, P., Les immigrés devant les urnes: le droit de vote des étrangers (CIEMI/L'Harmattan, 1992), 223pp., 120F., ISBN 2 738 41246 7

Remond, R., et al., Paul Touvier et l'Eglise. Rapport de la Commission historique instituée par le cardinal Decourtray (Fayard, 1992), 418pp., 130F., ISBN 2 213 02880 X

Richardot, J.‐P., Le peuple protestant français aujourd'hui (Laffont, 1992), 388pp., ISBN 2 221 07364 9

Sainteny, G., Les Verts (PUF, 1991), 127pp., ISBN 2 130 44491 1

Sainte‐Beuve, C.‐A., La Vie des lettres (Hermann, 1992), 4 vols. I: Moyen‐#afAge et Renaissance, 184pp., ISBN 2 705 66176 X; II: Le Siècle de Versailles, 240pp., ISBN 2 705 66177 8; III: Les Lumières et les salons, 192pp., ISBN 2 705 66178 6; IV: Le Siècle du progrès, 212pp., ISBN 2 705 66179 4, 60F. each.

Scientrier, P., Tester et enrichir ses connaissances en littérature (Marabout, 1992), 287pp., ISBN 2 501 01757 9

Scriven, M., and Wagstaff, P., eds., War and society in twentieth‐century France (Berg, 1991), xii+304pp., ISBN 0 854 96292 1

Servent, P., Le Mythe Pétain. Verdun ou les tranchées de la mémoire (Editions Payot, 1992), 283pp., 120F., ISBN 2 228 88500 2

Sowerwine, C., and Magnien, C., Madeleine Pelletier, une féministe dans l'arène politique (Editions Ouvrières, 1992), 250pp., 125F., ISBN 2 708 22960 5

Stanley, J.L., ed., From Georges Sorel, vol. 2: Hermeneutics and the Sciences, translated by John and Charlotte Stanley. (New Brunswick and London, Transaction Books, 1990), 219pp., ISBN 0 887 38304 1     

Book reviews

Advielle, V., Histoire de Gracchus Babeuf et du babouvisme (2 vols) (Editions de CTHS, 1990) 322, 264pp., 100F. per volume, ISBN 2 7355 0205 8 and 2 7355 0206 6

Ageron, C.‐R. and Michel, M., eds., L'Afrique noire française: l'heure des Indépendances (CNRS Editions, 1992), 729pp., 360F., ISBN 2 222 04712 9

Aldridge, M. and Hewitt, N., eds., Controlling broadcasting. Access policy and practice in North America and Europe (Manchester University Press, 1994), xvi+264pp., £41

Ben Jelloun, T., L'Homme rompu (Seuil, 1994), 223pp., 95F.

Buller, H. and Hoggart, K., International counterurbanization. British migrants in rural France (Aldershot, Avebury, 1994), 144pp., ISBN 1 85628 508 1

Buton, P., Les Lendemains qui déchantent. Le Parti Communiste Français a la Liberation (Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1993), 345pp., 180F., ISBN 2 7246 0636 1

Cayrol, R., Le Grand malentendu (Seuil, 1994), 186pp., 110F., ISBN 2 02 021064 9

Chateaubriand, Grands écrits politiques, ed. J.‐P. Clement, Imprimerie Nationale, 1993, 2 vols, 796pp., (170F. each), ISBN 2 081264 8

Coffineau, M., Les lois Auroux, dix ans après (La Documentation Française, 1993), 181pp., 95F., ISBN 2 11 002980 3

Conte, A., L'Epopée coloniale de la France (Pion, 1992), 545pp., 145F., ISBN 2 259 02536 6

Coward, D., ed., Pagnol: La gloire de mon père; Le château de ma mère (Grant and Cutler, 1992), 96pp., £4.50, ISBN 0 7293 0347 0

Deligeorges, S. and Deschamps, J., Lyon (Hazan, 1993), 200pp., 245F., ISBN 2 8025 339 1

Dobson, A., Jean‐Paul Sartre and the Politics of Reason: A Theory of History (CUP, 1993), xii+199pp., £30.00

Fallaize, E., French Women's Writing: Recent Fiction (Macmillan, 1993), 182pp., £35 hbk, ISBN 0 333 49004 5 and £11.99 pbk, ISBN 0 333 49005 3

Gervereau, L. and Prochasson, C., L'Affaire Dreyfus et le tournant du siècle (1894–1910) (BDIC, 1994), 287pp., 600 illustrations, 285F., ISBN 2 901658 26 1

Gratton, J., and Le Juez, B., Modern French short fiction (Manchester University Press, 1994), 204pp., £29.99 hbk, ISBN 0 7190 4210 0 and £7.99 pbk, ISBN 0 7190 4211 9

Groux, G., and Lévy, C., La possession ouvrière: du taudis à la propriété (XIXe‐XXe siècle) (Editions Ouvrières, 1993), 247pp., 140F., ISBN 2 7082 3019 0

Günther, R., Duras: ‘Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein’ and ‘L'Amant’ (Grant &; Cutler, 1993), 87pp., £4.50, Critical Guides to French Texts, 99, ISBN 84 599 3330 X

Haegel, F., Un Maire à Paris: Mise en seine d'un nouveau rôle politique (Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1994), 261pp., 200F.

Harvey, R., Search for a Father: Sartre, Paternity and the Question of Ethics (University of Michigan Press, 1991), 217pp., $36.50 hbk

Hirschhorn, M., L'ère des enseignants (PUF, 1993), 301pp., 168F., ISBN 2 13 045336 8

Kettle, M., De Gaulle and Algeria, 1940–1960 (Quartet, 1993), 666pp., £45, ISBN 0 7043 7023 9

Le Pors, A., Pendent la mue, le serpent est aveugle (Albin Michel, 1993), 264pp., 98F., ISBN 2 226 06735 3

Lewis, G., The French Revolution. Rethinking the Debate (Routledge, 1993), 131pp., £5.99

Michel, M., L'aménagement régional en France. Du territoire aux territoires (Masson, 1994), 236pp., 125F., ISBN 2 225 84417 8

Nicault, C., La France et le sionisme 1897–1948 (Calmann‐Lévy, 1992), 319pp., 160F., ISBN 2 7021 1962 X

The Oxford‐Hachette French Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1994), 2016pp., £19.95, ISBN 0 19 864195 8

Rebérioux, M., and Candar, G., eds., Jaurès et les intellectuels (Editions de l'Atelier/Editions Ouvrières, 1994), 326pp., 150F.

Richardson, M., Georges Bataille (Routledge, 1994), 148pp., £11.99., ISBN 0 415 09842 4. Georges Bataille. The Absence of Myth. Writings on Surrealism, translated and introduced by Michael Richardson (Verso, 1994), 211pp., £18.95, ISBN 0 86091 419 4

Rigoulet, P., Les Enfants de l'épuration (Plon, 1993), 533pp., 145F., ISBN 2 259 02467 X

Schmidt, N., Victor Schoelcher et l'abolition de l'esclavage (Fayard, 1994), 440pp., 150F.

Schneidermann, D., Arrêts sur images (Fayard, 1994), 240pp., 89F.

Stone, A., The Birth of Judicial Politics in France: the Constitutional Council in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1992), 312pp., £35, ISBN 0 19 507034 8

Trochet, J.‐R., Aux origines de la France rurale: outils, pays et paysages (CNRS, 1993), 168pp., 220F, ISBN 2 271 05097 9

Varda, A., Varda par Agnès (Cahiers du Cinéma, 1994), 286pp., 250F., ISBN 286642 145 0

Villa, P., Une analyse macro‐économique de la France au XXe siècle (CNRS Editions, 1994), 409pp., 380F.

Windebank, J., The Informal Economy in France (Avebury, 1991), 244pp., £32.50, ISBN 1 85628 191 4     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Skuldelev Ships I: Topography, Archaeology, History, Conservation and Display (Ships and Boats of the North: 4.1), OLE CRUMLIN‐PEDERSEN, OLAF OLSEN (Eds) III‐starred Captains—Flinders and Baudin, ANTHONY J. BROWN Facing the Ocean. The Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC‐AD 1500, BARRY CUNLIFFE Archaeology and Seafaring: the Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period (ICHR Monograph 1), HAMINSHU PRABHA RAY The Sea in Antiquity (BAR International Series 899), G. J. OLIVER, R. BROCK, T. J. CORNELL, S. HODKINSON (Eds) Lost Warships: an archaeological tour of war at sea, JAMES P. DELGADO ‘A ship cast away about Alderney’—Investigation of an Elizabethan shipwreck, JASON MONAGHAN and, MENSUN BOUND (Eds) Archeologisch onderzoek in het tracé van Willemsspoortunnel te Rotterdam. Sluizen en schepen in de dam van de Rotte (BOO Rbalans 4, 2 vols), M. van TRIERUM, A. CARMIGGELT, A. J. GUIRAN (Eds) Schutz des Kulturerbes unter Wasser (IKUWA conference 1999 proceedings), CHRISTOPHER BÖRKER et al. (Eds) Construzione navale antica, PIER0 DELL'AMICO The Voyages of the Discovery: the illustrated history of Scott's ship, ANN SAVOURS Chicago Maritime: An Illustrated History, DAVID M. YOUNG Deux siècles de constructions et chantiers navals (milieu XVIIe‐milieu XIXe) Proceedings of 124th Congrès des societés historiques et scientifiques, Nantes 1999), CHRISTIANE VILLAIN‐GANDOSSI (Ed.) Submarine Researches by C. A. Deane (1836), MICHAEL FARDELL & NIGEL PHILLIPS (Eds.), JOHN BEVAN Naval Guns: 500 years of Ship and Coastal Artillery, HANS MEHL Lords of the East—the East India Company and its ships 1600–1874, JEAN SUTTON CSS Alabama: Anatomy of a Confederate raider, ANDREW BOWCOCK The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek, BARRY CUNLIFFE Trincomalee— the last of Nelson's frigates, ANDREW LAMBERT Galleons and Galleys (Cassel's History of Warfare Series), JOHN F. GUIIMARTIN Jr.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Iran Between Two Revolutions , By Ervand Abrahamian Mollā Sadrā Sh?rāz?: Le Livre des pénétrations métaphysiques (Kitāb al-Mashāir). Translated from the Arabic, with an Introduction and Notes, by Henry Corbin Le livre du licite et de l'illicite (Kitāb al-halāl wa-l-harām , Book XIV of Al-Gazāl?'s Ihyā Ulūm ad-D?n). Introduction, translation and notes by Régis Morelon Society, State, and Urbanism: Ibn Khaldun's Sociological Thought. By Fuad Baali Shari'at and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam. Edited by Katherine P. Ewing The Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad. By Gordon Darnell Newby Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change. by Barbara J. Callaway Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society. By Hisham Sharabi The Islamic Impulse. Edited by Barbara Freyer Stowasser Christians and Muslims Together: An Exploration by Presbyterians. Edited by Byron L Ägypten unter Mubarak: Identität und nationales Interesse. by Gudrun Krämer Towards Understanding the Qur⁾ān. Vol. 1, Sura 1–3. English version of Sayyid Abul A⁽la Mawdudi's Tafhim al-Qur⁽ān, translated and edited by Zafar Ishaq Ansari Middle East Contemporary Survey. Vol. IX. Edited by Itamar Rabinovich and Haim Shaked. The Sufi Path of Knowledge : Ibn al-⁽Arab?'s Metaphysics of Imagination. By William C. Chittick Colonising Egypt. By Timothy Mitchell Past-Revolutionary Iran. Edited by Hooshang Amirahmadi and Manouchehr Parvin Sacred Performances: Islam, Sexuality, and Sacrifice. By M. E. Combs-Schilling Islam: The Straight Path. By John L. Esposito Islam, Politics, and Social Movements. Edited by Edmund Burke, III, and Ira M. Lapidus Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. By Lila Abu-Lughod     

Reviews

Books reviewed: J.E. Hobbs, J.A. Lindesay and H.A. Bridgman (eds) Climates of the Southern Continents: Present, Past and Future K. Dodds Geopolitics in Antarctica: Views from the Southern Oceanic Rim H.D. Foster, D.C. Lai and N. Zhou (eds) The Dragon’s Head: Shanghai, China’s Emerging Megacity R. Hall and J.D. Holloway (eds) Biogeography and Geological Evolution of SE Asia A.J. Conacher and M. Sala (eds) Land Degradation in Mediterranean Environments of the World: Nature and Extent, Causes and Solutions G. Tansey and J. D’Silva (eds), The Meat Business Devouring a Hungry Planet J.B. Kirkpatrick A Continent Transformed: Human Impact on the Natural Vegetation of Australia J.S. Duncan and D.J. Gregory (eds) Writes of Passage: Reading Travel Writing R. Le Heron, L. Murphy, P. Forer and M. Goldstone (eds) Explorations in Human Geography: Encountering Place J. Overton and R. Scheyvens (eds) Strategies for Sustainable Development: Experiences from the Pacific R. Harding and E. Fisher (eds) Perspectives on the Precautionary Principle E. Darier (ed.) Discourses of the Environment S. Body‐Gendrot The Social Control of Cities? A Comparative Perspective M.J. Dear The Postmodern Urban Condition     

Index for Volume VII (1960)

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Martine Debaisieux, ed. Le Labryinthe de Versailles: Parcours critiques de Molière à La Fontaine. A la Mémoire d'Alvin Eustis. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998. 215 pp.

Albert W. Halsall. Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xxvii + 251 pp. $60.00.

K. M. Sibbald, ed. Guill én at McGill: Essays for a Centenary Celebration (Ottawa Hispanic Studies 19). Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1996.

Maria Teresa de Feitas and Claude Leroy, eds. Brésil L'Utopialand de Blaise Cendrars. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. 392 pp.

Adrianna M. Paliyenko. Mis-reading the Creative Impulse: The Poetic Subject in Rimbaud and Claudel, Restaged. Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. xvi + 205 pp.

Danièle de Ruyter-Tognotti and M. van Strien Chardonneau, eds. Le roman francophone actuel en Algérie et aux Antilles. (Cahiers de recherches des instituts néerlandais de langue et de littérature françaises 34). Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998. 161 pp. $26.00.

Patricia E. Grieve. Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 32). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii + 240 pp.

Donald E. Schurlknight. Spanish Romanticism in Context. Of Subversion, Contradiction and Politics: Espronceda, Larra, Rivas, Zorrilla. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998. 178 pp.

Joyce Tolliver. Cigar Smoke and Violet Water: Gendered Discourse in Emilia Pardo Bazán. Lewisburg, Penn., and London: Bucknell University Press and Associated University Press, 1998. 219 pp.

John C. Wilcox. Women Poets of Spain, 1860–1990: Toward a Gynocentric Vision. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xix + 366 pp.

Pedro Guerrero Ruiz and Veronica Dean-Thacker. Federico García Lorca: El color de la poesía. Murcia: Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 1998. 212 pp.

Gerardo Diego. Obras completas: Prosa. Tomos IV, V. (Memoria de un poeta, vol. 1, 2.) Edited by Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga. Madrid: Alfaguara, 1997. 816 pp., 802 pp.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: R.G., Golledge, H. Couclelis, P. Gould (editors) A Ground for Common Search, Santa Barbara E.W. Soja Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory Bill McGibben The End of Nature G.J.R. Linge, and G.A. van der Knaap, (editors) Labour, Environment and Industrial Change Sophie Watson Accommodating Inequality D.I. Smith and J.W. Handmer (editors) Flood Insurance and Relief in Australia G.J. Symen, B.J. Shaw, D.M. Fenton and W.S. Mueller (editors) The Planning and Evaluation of Hallmark Events M. Hordern Mariners are Warned! John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. O.H.K. Spate The Pacific since Magellan Allen J. and White J.P., 1988: “The Lapita homeland: some new data and an interpretation” Campbell I.C., 1990; A History of the Pacific Islands Pacific Islands, Journal of the Polynesian Society Spate, O.H.K., 1978: The Pacific as an Artefact, In N. Gunson, (ed.), The Changing Pacific: Essays in Honour of HE Maude Spate, O.H.K., 1983: The Pacific since Magellan: Il. Monopolists and Freebooters J.A. Kesby and K.J. Frawley The Forest Record in Australian Local and Regional History: An Annotated Bibliography Panbiogeography Special Issue New Zealand Journal of Zoology Jim Falk and Andrew Brownlow The Greenhouse Challenge: What's to be done?     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems, edited by John, Pickles / STEPHEN DIDUNYK L'eau de neige: le tiède et le frais, by Xavier de Planhol /j.h. galloway Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, par A.M. Galperin, V.S. Zaytsev et Y.A. Norvatov; Biogéographie des milieux aquatiques, par Gabriel Rougerie / jean-marie M. dubois Visualization in Modern Cartography, edited by Alan MacEachren and D.R. Fraser Taylor/BARRY BRADLEY Development, Geography, and Economic Theory, by Paul Krugman / trevor barnes Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems edited by john pickles L'eau de neige:le tiéde et le frais by xavier de planhol, Editions Fayard Par A.M. Galperin, V.S. Zaytsev et Y.A. Norvatov Balkema Biogéographie des milieux aquatiques par Gabriel rougerie, Armand Colin Visualization in Modern Cartography edited by alan maceachren and d.r. fraser taylor Cartographer to the New Zealand Historical Atlas Project Development, Geography, and Economic Theory by paul krugman The Canadian Geographer On Line /Le Géographe canadien « en ligne » The Canadian Geographer home page is shown below:/La page d'accueil du Géographe Canadien apparaît ci-dessous: THE CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER LE GÉOGRAPHE CANADIEN Journal of the Canadian Association of Geographers Revue de l'Association canadienne des géographes Editors / Rédacteurs: Barry Boots and/et Houston Saunderson Department of Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Choose one of the following hyperlinks (highlighted) / Choisissez l'un des hyperliens qui suivent: 1. Abstracts of articles recently published / Résumé's de publications récentes 2. Abstracts of current issue [41 (1), 19971 / Résumés de publications courantes [41 (1), 1997] 3. Abstracts of next issue / Résumés de publications prochaines 4. Abstracts of articles forthcoming/ Résumés d'articles à paraître 5. Editorial Advisory Board / Le comité de rédaction 6. List of officers 1996–1997 / Liste des administrateurs 1996–1997