Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: C. George Kahama, T.L. Maliyamkono and Stuart Wells, The Challenge for Tanzania's Economy John Sender and Sheila Smith, The Development of Capitalism in Africa Ted J. Davis (ed.) Development of Rainfed Agriculture under Arid and Semi-arid Conditions. Proceedings of the Sixth Agricultural Sector Symposium Jan Hesselberg, The Third World in Transition: The Case of the Peasantry in Botswana Samir Radwan and Eddy Lee, Agrarian Change in Egypt: An Anatomy of Rural Poverty. A study prepared by the International Labour Office within the framework of the World Employment Programme. Martin Fransman, Technology and Economic Development. Sudha V. Rao, Education and Rural Development. J.P. Lewis and V. Kallab (eds), Development Strategies Reconsidered. The World Bank, Antigua and Barbuda: Economic Report. The World Bank, Dominica: Priorities and Prospects for Development, The World Bank, Grenada: Economic Report The World Bank, St. Christopher and Nevis: Economic Report The World Bank, St. Lucia: Economic Performance and Prospects. The World Bank, St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Economic Situation and Selected Development Issues     

Review Article: The General History of the Second World War

MARTIN KITCHEN. A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939–1945. London and New York: Longman, 1990. Pp. xii, 377. $24.95 (CAN);

R.A.C. PARKER. Struggle for Survival: The History of the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xii, 328. £5.95;

H.P. WiLLMOTT. The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War. New York: Free Press (Macmillan), 1989. Pp. xii, 500. $24.95 (us);

JOHN KEEGAN. The Second World War. Sydney: Hutchinson, 1989. Pp. vii, 608. Aus $39.95;

JOHN ELLIS. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. London: André Deutsch, 1990. Pp. xxii, 643. £19.95;

ALAN F. WILT. War from the Top: German and British Military Decision Making during World War II. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990. Pp. x, 390. $35.00 (us).     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Peter N Stearns, Cultures in Motion: Mapping Key Contacts and Their Imprints in World History
Ward Kaiser and Denis Wood, Seeing through Maps: The Power of Images to Shape Our World View     

Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Atlas of American Women
The Women's Atlas of the United States
Women in the World: An International Atlas
Canada and the World: An Atlas Resource
Gillman of Tanganyika 1882–1946: The life and Work of a Pioneer Geographer
Crime, Space and Society
River Channels: Environment and Process
The Uncertainty Business: Risks and Opportunities in Weather and Climate
International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring: A Critical Analysis     

Edward Gibbon and the Roman Empire

MARTIN GILBERT. Second World War. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. Pp. xix, 846.

BARRIE and FRANCIS PITT. The Chronological Atlas of World War II. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp. xi, 178.

CORRELLI BARNETT, ed. Hitler's Generals. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. Pp. xix, 497.

GEOFFREY ROBERTS. The Unholy Alliance: Stalin's Pact with Hitler. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989. Pp. xviii, 296.

VICTOR SUVOROV. Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?, trans. Thomas B. Beattie. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990. Pp. xvii, 364.

ROY DOUGLAS. The World War 1939–1943: The Cartoonists' Vision. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. Pp. xii, 300.

PAUL FUSSELL. Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 330.     

Women and War in Comparative Perspective

Books reviewed in this article: Harriet Hyman Alonso, The Women's Peace Union and the Outlawry of War 1921–1942 Joy Damousi, The Labour of Loss: Mourning: Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia Belinda J. Davis, Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin Jean Gallagher, The World Wars Through the Female Gaze Susan R. Grayzel, Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Michael Fleet, The Rise and Fall of Chilean Christian Democracy. Richard E. Feinberg and Contributors, Between Two Worlds, The World Bank's Next Decade. US-Third World Policy Perspectives No. 7. World Bank, Recovery in the Developing World. The London Symposium on the World Bank's Role. OECD, Financing and External Debt of Developing Countries Stanley Please, The Hobbled Giant. Essays on the World Bank. Robert Cassen and Associates, Does Aid Work? Report to an Intergovernmental Task Force. W. Arthur Lewis, Racial Conflict and Economic Development. Gunnar M. Serbe, Tenants and Nomads in Eastern Sudan. A Study of Economic Adaptations in the New Haifa Scheme. Victor S. D'Souza, Economic Development, Social Structure and Population Growth. Mark Hnlmström, Industry and Inequality. The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour. S. M. Ghanem, OPEC. The Rise and Fall of an Exclusive Club. Shelagh Weir, Qat in Yemen: Consumption and Social Change. Ray Bromley (ed.), Planning for Small Scale Enterprises in Third World Cities. Ian Smillie, No Condition Permanent: Pump-Priming Ghana's Industrial Revolution. The ‘Geneva Group’, How to Run Small Development Projects. Val Curtis, Women and the Transport of Water. Marcia M. Gowen, with the assistance of Herbert A. Wade, Renewable Energy Assessments: An Energy Planner's Manual. Deepak Lai and Martin Wolf (eds), Stagnation, Savings and the State. T. G. Weiss, Multilateral Development Diplomacy in UNCTAD. Rune Skarstein and Samuel W. Wangwe, Industrial Development in Tanzania: Some Critical Issues. Ian Livingstone, Rural Development, Employment and Incomes in Kenya. Franceses Bray, The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies. Saadet Deger, Military Expenditure in Third World Countries: The Economic Effects. K. J. Davey, Financing Regional Government: International Practices and their Relevance to the Third World. Stella Lowder, Inside Third World Cities. H. A. Reitsma and J. M. G. Kleinpenning, The Third World in Perspective.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in This Article:
Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948.
State, Power, and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise.
Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by Charles Butterworth.
The Encyclopædia of Islam.
The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca.
Islamic Spirituality: Manifestations.
Comparing Muslim Societies: Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization.
Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571–1640.
Domains of Fear and Desire.
Islam, Democracy, the State and the West: A Round Table with Dr.     asan Turābī.
The Arab World: Society, Culture and State.
Islamic Resurgence: Challenges, Directions and Future Perspectives. A Round Table with Kurshid Ahmad.     

Sticky stories,fluid narratives,or vanishing tales: The fate of ‘nations’ in a globalised world

In the scientific methodology of Karl Popper the following deductive sequence is stressed: initial problems, tentative solutions, error elimination, resultant problems. This sequence produces two difficulties, concerning the source of the initial problems and the criteria for testing the proposed solutions. Discussion of these problems is relevant to geography, where they have arisen as in any other science. Particularly relevant to geography is Popper's scheme of the “three worlds”: World 1, objective reality; World 2, subjective consciousness and appraisal; World 3, objective knowledge. Geographers study not merely World 1 but rather its logical articulation in World 3. Acceptance of such a scheme helps to reduce not only any supposed dichotomy between physical and human geography but also any supposed division between field workers and so‐called “armchair” geographers. The open‐ended approach of Poppsr's deductive sequence leads naturally to the problems of prediction and planning. The Popperian philosophy of science is finally briefly contrasted with that of T. S. Kuhn when the paradigm concept is called in question.     

America's Europe, Europe's America: Image, Influence, and Interaction, 1933–1958

John Lamberton Harper. American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson .
Reinhold Wagnleitner. Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War .
Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann. The Rebirth of the West: The Americanization of the Democratic World, 1945–1958 .
Michael Ermarth, ed. America and the Shaping of German Society, 1945–1955 .     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Urban Problems and Planning in the Developed World , edited by M ichael P acione
Problems and Planning in Third World Cities, edited by MICHAEL PACIONE     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Qur'anic Concept of History, by Mazheruddin Siddiqi. Counsels in Contemporary Islam. Islamic Surveys 3. By Kenneth Cragg. Die Welt des Islam und die Gegenwart. (The World of Islam and the Present Time.) Edited by Rudi Paret. A History of Medieval Islam, by J. J. Saunders. The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate, by Guy LeStrange. The Modern History of Lebanon, by Kamal S. Salibi. Documents from Islamic Chanceries. First Series (Oriental Studies III). Edited by S. M. Stern. The University Looks Abroad: Approaches to World Affairs at Six American Universities, a report from Education and World Affairs. Bread From Stones: Fifty Years of Technical Assistance. Edited by John S. Badeau and Georgians G. Stevens.     

Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator,SJ, ed., Reconciliation,Justice, and Peace: The Second African Synod

Abstract

The World Social Forum (WSF) emerged in Brazil from a network of grassroots anti-globalization activists and campaigners as an alternative to the World Economic Forum. The WSF focuses on human development in the holistic sense of "social capital" and provides a forum for Southern perspectives to be heard. From its birth, faith-based organizations have been prominent in the WSF. The seventh World Social Forum (WSF) took place in Africa in January 2007. Just before that event, theologians attending the WSF held a pre-meeting of the World Forum of Theology and Liberation (WFTL). This paper offers a brief outline of the World Forum of Theology and Liberation: the event, the programme, an assessment, recommendations for future Forums and transcending moments of the event. In so doing it attempts to express the suffocated cry of an Africa, in large measure, ignored and forgotten.     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America.
The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937.
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II.
Peter Lombard.
Merchant Capital and Economic Decolonization: The United Africa Company 1929–1987.
A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present.
Carthage, A History.
From Civilization to Segregation: Social ldeals and Social Control in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1934
The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee.
Better in Darkness: A Biography of Henry Adams, His Second Lqe, 1862–1891.     

Thinking about the World Bank’s “accordion” geography of financial globalization

Two “flagship” World Bank reports, entitled The Long March—A Reform Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean In The Next Decade (1997) and the World Development Report, 1999–2000 (2000), are the subject of this paper. Both publications attempt to come to terms with the policy and practice of structural adjustment in the context of a new geography of global finance. This paper argues that the geographical imagination employed in both World Bank reports is the product of a dominant statist geographical imagination that struggles to explain contemporary developments in the geography of money. The paper starts with a brief discussion of the Mexican peso and debt crisis, and the World Bank’s practice of structural adjustment. Through an interrogation of both World Bank papers, thought is then given to the purchase of territorialized state-based mappings of the global economy. The paper wraps up with a brief conclusion concerning the explanatory salience of scale.

Internationally mobile capital is here to stay. Growing trade links, new communication technologies, and increasingly sophisticated financial products are making national borders more porous to financial flows. The challenge facing policymakers in developing countries is how to navigate through this financially integrating world (World Development Report 1999-2000, 2000: 85).

[W]hereas the horizons of the world of money and finance are global and deterritorialized, the political imagination seems wedded to territorialism and the borders of the nation state (Leyshon &Thrift, 1997: 290).

     

Review Article: ‘Managing’ Women in War and Peace

UTE DANIEL.The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War, trans. Margaret Ries. Oxford and New York: Berg, 1997. Pp. xii, 343. $18.50 (us), paper; DEBORAH THOM. Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War I. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. xvi, 224. $59.50 (us); FRANCES H. EARLY. A World without War: How US Feminists and Pacifists Resisted World War I. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 265. $22.95 (us), paper, LUCY NOAKES. War and the British: Gender, Memory, and National Identity. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998; dist. New York: St Martin's Press. Pp. vi, 218. $59.50 (us); JANE SLAUGHTER. Women and the Italian Resistance, 1943–1945. Denver: Arden Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 171. $22.50 (us), paper; DALIA OFER and LENORE J. WEITZMAN, eds., Women in the Holocaust. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 402. $30.00 (us).     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Alexander Wilson The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez.
S. Fainstein, I. Gordon & M. Harloe (Eds.) Divided Cities: New York and London in the Contemporary World.
K. Hoggart and D. Green (Eds.) London: A New Metropolitan Geography.
B. Jacobs, Fractured Cities: Capitalism, Community and Empowerment in Britain and America.
A. Thornley (Ed.) The Crisis of London.
Samir Amin, Giovanni Arrighi, Andre Gunder Frank, Immanuel Wallerstein Transforming the Revolution: Social Movements and the World System.
John Friedmann, Empowerment: The Politics of Alternative Development.
Human Rights Commission, The Two South Africas; a people's geography.     

Soviet Espionage and the Cold War

Book reviewed in this article:
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov. The Secret World of American Communism
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson, The Soviet World of American Communism
John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
Robert Louis Benson and Michael Warner, eds., Venona: Soviet Espionage and the American Response
Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America – The Stalin Era
James G. Ryan. Earl Browder: The Failure of American Communism
Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel, Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy
Ted Morgan, A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone, Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster
Ellen Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America
Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism
Daniel P. Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience     

Review

Book reviewed in this article: America and the Persian Gulf: The Third Party Dimension in World Politics, Steve A. Yetiv The Sultanate of Oman: A Twentieth Century History, Miriam Joyce     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
From Alexander to Cleopatra: The Hellenistic World. By Michael Grant.
Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire, A.D. 312–460. By E.D. Hunt.
Sporfs in the Western World. By William J. Baker.
The Dutch Republic and the Hispanic World, 1606–1661. By Jonathan I. Israel.
War and Society zn Rmolutionay Europe, 1770–1870. By Geoffrey Best.
English Zionists and British Jews: The Communal Politics of Anglo-Jewry, 1895–1920. By Stuart A. Cohen.
The Republic in the Village: The People of the French Revolution to the Second Republic. By Maurice Agulhon.
The Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. By Warren B. Morris, Jr.
From Italy to San Francisco: The Immigrant Experience. By Dino Cinel.
Long Memory: The Black Experience in America. By Mary Frances Beny and John W. Blassingame
The Northern Frontier of New Spain. By Peter Gerhard.
Government and Society in Central America, 1680–1840. By Miles L. Wortman.
The Black Man in Slazgeiy and Freedom in Colonial Brazil. By A. J. R. Russell-Wood.
A Functional Past: The Uses of History in Nineteenth Century Chile. By Allen Woll.