The New Commonwealth

THE COMMONWEALTH IN THE WORLD. J. D. B. Miller. Duckworth, 1958, 25/‐ stg.

THE CABINET IN THE COMMONWEALTH: POST‐WAR DEVELOPMENTS IN AFRICA, THE WEST INDIES AND SOUTHEAST ASIA. H. V. Wiseman. Stevens, 1958, 50/‐ stg.     

The Serbian Exception

Books reviewed in this article:
Robert Thomas, Serbia under Milosevic: Politics in the 1990s
Branimir Anzulovic, Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide
homas Benedikter, Il dramma del Kosovo. Dall' origine del conflitto fra Serbi i Albanesi agli scontri di oggi     

The Reagan Doctrine in Perspective

Abstract

Garrow, David J. Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade New York: Macmillan 981 pp., $28.00. ISBN 0-02-542755-5 Publication Date: January 1994

Rieselbach, Leroy N. Congressional Reform: The Changing Modern Congress Washington, DC: CQ Press 232 pp., $18.95 paper, ISBN 0-87187-838-0 paper Publication Date: December 1993

Rauch, Jonathan Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government New York: Times Books 260 pp., $22.00, ISBN 0-8129-2257-3 Publication Date: 1994

Etzioni, Amitai Public Policy in a New Key New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 150 pp., $29.95, ISBN 1-56000-075-9 Publication Date: 1992

Kovler, Peter B., ed. Democrats and the American Idea: A Bicentennial Appraisal Lanham, MD: Center for National Policy 383 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-944237-36-3 Publication Date: November 1992

Dodd, Lawrence C. and Calvin Jillson New Perspectives on American Politics Washington, DC: CQ Press 360 pp., ISBN 087187-882-8 cloth ISBN 087187-877-1 paper Publication Date: November 1993

Grofman, Bernard and Chandler Davidson, eds. Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights Act in Perspective Washington, DC: Brookings Institution 376 pp., $36.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-1750-4 cloth ISBN 0-8157-1751-2 paper Publication Date: June 1992

Lively, Donald E. Foreshadows of the Law: Supreme Court Dissents and Constitutional Developments Westport, CT: Praeger 168 pp., $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-275-94382-8 cloth ISBN 0-275-94383-6 paper Publication Date: November 1992

Bond, James E. I Dissent: The Legacy of Chief Justice James Clark McReynolds Lanham, MD: University Publishing Associates 185 pp., $38.50, ISBN 0-913969-46-X Publication Date: July 1992

Smith, Christopher E. Critical Judicial Nominations and Political Change: The Impact of Clarence Thomas Westport, CT: Praeger 172 pp., $47.95, ISBN 0-275-94567-7 Publication Date: September 1993

Cohen, Robert When the Old Left was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement: 1929-1941 New York: Oxford University Press 432 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-19-506099-7 Publication Date: April 1993

Hughes, Jonathan R. T. The Governmental Habit Redux: Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 265 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-691-04272-1 Publication Date: 1991

Deese, David A. The New Politics of American Foreign Policy New York: St. Martin's Press 285 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-312-10267-4 Publication Date: December 1993

Cronin, Patrick M., ed. From Globalism to Regionalism: New Perspectives on U.S. Foreign and Defense Policies Washington, DC: National Defense University Press 259 pp., CIP 93-19950 Publication Date: May 1993

Johnston, Richard, André Blaise, Henry E. Brady, and Jean Crěte Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 316 pp., $37.50 cloth, $12.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-2077-0 cloth ISBN 0-8047-2078-9 paper Publication Date: November 1992

Charlton, Michael Footsteps from the Finland Station: Five Landmarks in the Collapse of Communism New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 230 pp., $32.95, ISBN 1-56000-019-8 Publication Date: November 1992

Yakovlev, Alexander; trans. Catherine A. Fitzpatrick The Fate of Marxism in Russia New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 250 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-300-05365-7 Publication Date: October 1993

Fuller, William C., Jr. Strategy and Power in Russia, 1600-1914 New York: Free Press 557 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-02-910977-9 Publication Date: March 1992

Rothschild, Joseph Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II. Second Ed. New York: Oxford University Press 299 pp., $38.00 cloth, $14.95 paper ISBN 0-19-507381-9 cloth ISBN 0-19-507382-7 paper Publication Date: October 1933

Hoffmann-Lange, Ursula, ed. Social and Political Structures in West Germany: From Authoritarianism to Postindustrial Democracy Boulder, CO: Westview 252 pp., $38.50, ISBN 0-8133-8029-4 Publication Date: June 1991

Gordon, Philip H. A Certain Idea of France: French Security Policy and the Gaullist Legacy Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 255 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-691-08647-8 Publication Date: May 1993

Winner, Lawrence S. One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement through 1953 Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 456 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8047-2141-6 Publication Date: July 1993

Schechterman, Bernard and Martin Slann, eds. The Ethnic Dimension in International Relations Westport, CT: Praeger 182 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-275-94282-1 Publication Date: June 1993

Brzezinski, Zbigniew Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st Century New York: Collier 239 pp., $21.00 cloth, $10.00 paper ISBN 0-684-19630-1 cloth ISBN 0-02-008115-4 paper Publication Date: April 1993

Sheffer, Gabriel, ed. Innovative Leaders in International Politics Albany, NY: SUNY Press 294 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-1519-8 Publication Date: October 1993

McCleary, Rachel M., ed. Seeking Justice: Ethics and International Affairs Boulder, CO: Westview 163 pp., $39.95 cloth, $12.95 paper ISBN 0-8133-8050-8 cloth ISBN 0-8133-8059-6 paper Publication Date: October 1992

Pierce, John C, Mary Ann E. Steger, Brent S. Steel, and Nicholas P. Lovrich Citizens, Political Communication, and Interest Groups: Environmental Organizations in Canada and the United States Westport, CT: Greenwood 225 pp., $47.95, ISBN 0-275-93579-5 Publication Date: November 1992

Jacobsohn, Gary Jeffrey Apple of Gold: Constitutionalism in Israel and the United States Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 284 pp., $39.50. ISBN 0-691-08622-2 Publication Date: February 1993

Barr, Nicholas The Economics of the Welfare State Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 495 pp., $59.50 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-2206-4 cloth ISBN 0-8047-2205-6 paper Publication Date: September 1993

Rist, Ray C., ed. Program Evaluation and the Management of Government: Patterns and Prospects across Eight Nations New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 184 pp., $39.95, ISBN 088738-297-25 Publication Date: 1990

Rozman, Gilbert, ed. Dismantling Communism: Common Causes and Regional Variations Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 405 pp., $38.00, ISBN 0-94-3875-35-8 Publication Date: 1992

Downing, Brian M. The Military Revolution and Political Change Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 308 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-691-07886-6 Publication Date: February 1992

Brawley, Mark R. Liberal Leadership: Great Powers and their Challengers in Peace and War Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 203 pp. $34.50, ISBN 0-8014-2808-4 Publication Date: January 1993

Nagel, Stuart S. and Miriam K. Mills Professional Developments in Policy Studies Westport, CT: Greenwood 264 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-313-28429-6 Publication Date: February 1993

Nagel, Thomas Equality and Partiality New York: Oxford University Press 186 pp., $17.95. ISBN 0-19-506967-6 Publication Date: August 1991

Golembiewski, Robert T., ed. Handbook of Organizational Consultation New York: Marcel Dekker 801 pp., $185.00, ISBN 0-8247-8690-4 Publication Date: 1993

Mason, Andrew Explaining Political Disagreement New York: Cambridge University Press 170 pp., $44.95, ISBN 0-521-43322-3 Publication Date: December 1993

Gobetti, Daniela Private and Public: Individuals, Households, and Body Politic in Locke and Hutcheson New York: Routledge 211 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-415-03174-5 Publication Date: 1992

Brams, Steven J. Theory of Moves New York: Cambridge University Press 248 pp., $54.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-521-45226-0 cloth ISBN 0-521-45867-6 paper Publication Date: December 1993

Billett, Bret L. Modernization Theory and Economic Development: Discontent in the Developing World Westport, CT: Greenwood 143 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-275-94446-8 Publication Date: September 1993

Gordley, James The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press 263 pp., ISBN 0-19-825830-5 Publication Date: 1991

Perlmutter, Amos FDR and Stalin: A Not So Grand Alliance, 1943-1945 Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press 331 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-0910-6 Publication Date: October 1993

Freedman, Lawrence, Paul Hayes, and Robert O'Neill, eds. War, Strategy and International Politics: Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard New York: Oxford University Press 322 pp., $69.00, ISBN 0-19-822292-0 Publication Date: September 1992

Mizruchi, Mark S. The Structure of Corporate Political Action: Interfirm Relations and their Consequences Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 299 pp., $37.50, ISBN 0-674-84377-0 Publication Date: March 1992

Mazlish, Bruce The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 272 pp., $30.00, ISBN 0-300-05411-4 Publication Date: September 1993     

The Founding Remembered

Book reviewed:
David C. Hendrickson. Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding . (American Political Thought, eds. Wilson Carey McWilliams and Lance Banning.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xiv + 402 pp. Appendix, figures, bibliographic essay, notes, index. $29.95.     

The travails of British labour

Neil Kinnock, Making our Way, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp.200. $ 13.95 (paper)

Roy Hattersley, Choose Freedom: The Future for Democratic Socialism, London, Michael Joseph, 1987, pp. 265. $39.95 (cloth)

John Callaghan, The Far Left in British Politics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 249. $29.95 (paper)

Maureen Mackintosh and Hillary Wainwright (eds), A Taste of Power: The Politics of Local Economics, London, Verso, 1987, pp. 441. $29.95 (paper)

Peter Hain, Political Strikes: the State and Trade Unionism in Britain, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1986, pp. 357. $14.95 (paper)

Roger Geary, Policing Industrial Disputes: 1893 to 1985, London, Methuen, 1986, pp. 171. $19.95 (paper)

Derek Fatchett, Trade Unions and Politics in the 1980s: the 1984 Act and Political Funds, London, Croom Helm, 1987, pp. 135. $78.95 (cloth)

Michael P. Jackson, Strikes: Industrial Conflict in Britain, USA and Australia, Brighton, Wheatsheaf Books, 1987. pp. 232. $34.95 (paper)

Ken Coates and Tony Topham, Trade Unions and Politics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, pp. 268. $17.95 (paper)

Andrew J. Taylor, The Trade Unions and the Labour Party, London, Croom Helm, 1987, pp. 320. £27.50 (cloth)     

The Irish rebellion of 1798

The Rebellion in Wicklow 1798 Ruan O'donnell, 1998 Dublin, Irish Academic Press pp.441, ISBN 0.7165.2659.X, £39.50 (hb)

On the Road to Rebellion: The United Irishmen and Hamburg 1796–1803 Paul Weber, 1997 Dublin, Four Courts Press pp.205, ISBN 9.781851.82311.6, £30.00 (hb)

The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down A. T. Q. Stewart, 1995 Belfast, The Blackstaff Press pp. 294, ISBN 0.85640.558.2, £12.99 (pb)

1798: Rebellion in County Down Myrtle Hill, Brian Turner & Kenneth Dawson (eds), 1998 Gortrush, Colourpoint pp.286, ISBN 1.898392.44.7, £8.99 (pb)

The Sites of the 1798 Rising in Antrim and Down Bill Wilsdon, 1997 Belfast, The Blackstaff Press pp. 191, ISBN 85640.615.5, £7.99 (pb)     

The calendar

EUROPE

Land Potential. By T. W. Evans, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Foreword by Sir R. George Stapledon. 8×5 1/4. Pp.144. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1951. 12s 6d.

Portraits of Islands. Edited by Eileen Molony. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.147. 10 illustrations. London : Dennis Dobson Ltd, 1951. 9s 6d.

Orkney. By Hugh Marwick. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. viii+287. 49 illustrations. Sketch map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1951. 15s.

The Scottish Scene. Photographs by Alfred Furness. Text by John L. Weir. 11×8 1/2. Frontispiece. 105 plates. Pp. lvi. [Immortal Britain, No. 2.] London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1951. 30s.

Undiscovered Scotland. By W. H. Murray. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. vii+232. 24 illustrations. 13 maps and diagrams. End‐paper maps. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1951. 18s.

Highland Welcome. By A. A. Thomson. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.318. 15 photographs. Index. London : Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1951. 16s.

The Goat‐Wife : Portrait of a Village. By Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 319. 45 illustrations. Decorative end‐paper map. London: Museum Press Ltd. Revised and enlarged edition, 1951. 16s.

The Skye Scene. By Eric G. Meadows. 9 1/2 × 7 1/2. Pp. 96. 67 photographs. Sketch map. Edinburgh and London : Oliver and Boyd Ltd, 1951. 18s.

The Island of Staffa. By Donald B. MacCulloch. 7 1/2×5. Pp.60. 9 illustrations. Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1951. 3s 6d.

Arran with Camera and Sketchbook. By V. A. Firsoff. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.230. 49 photographs and 23 line illustrations by the author. London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1951. 18s.

Scientific Survey of South‐Eastern Scotland. Edited by C. J. Robertson. Prepared for the Meeting held in Edinburgh 8th to 15th August 1951. 9 3/4×7 1/4. Pp. 207. 39 figs. 3 photographs. Coloured topographical map. Edinburgh : Published for the British Association by the Local Executive Committee, 1951. 15s.

The Kingdom of Fife and Kinross‐shire. Edited by Theo Lang. 7 3/4×5 1/2. Pp.xiii+238. 108 photogravures. Sketch map. [The King's Scotland.] London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1951. 15s.

The Gareloch as Military Port No. 1. By Arnold Fleming. 9 1/2×6. Pp.28. 6 photographs. 2 sketch maps. Helensburgh : Macneur and Bryden Ltd, 1948. 3s.

Lancashire. By Walter Greenwood. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. viii+303. 49 illustrations. Map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1951. 15s.

Buckinghamshire. By Alison Uttley. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xxvi+410. 49 illustrations. Map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1950. 15s.

Cornwall. By Arthur L. Salmon. Revised by H. Ronald Hicks. 6×3 3/4. Pp. xii+183. 60 illustrations. Map. [The Little Guides.] London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, and B. T. Batsford Ltd. Ninth edition, revised, 1950. 7s 6d.

Isle of Man. By Canon E. H. Stenning. 8 1/2 × 5 1/2. Pp. xiii+448. 49 illustrations. Map. [The County Books.] London : Robert Hale Ltd, 1950. 15s.

A History of the Isle of Man. By R. H. Kinvig, M.A. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.180. 50 figs. Map. [Published under the Auspices of Tynwald by the Manx Museum and Ancient Monuments Trustees.] Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool. Second edition, 1950. 7s 6d.

Ireland: Its Physical, Historical, Social and Economic Geography. By T. W. Freeman. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xvi+536. 96 figs. 8 plates. 2 folders. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1950. 32s 6d.

The Belgian Kempenland. By F. J. Monkhouse, M.A. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xiv+252. Frontispiece. 71 figs. [Liverpool Studies in Geography.] Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, 1949. 17s 6d.

Switzerland. By John Russell. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. viii+152. 96 illustrations. Endpaper sketch maps. London : B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1950. 15s.

Calabria. 8 3/4×5 3/4. Firenze : Il Ponte (Rivista mensile di Politica e Letteratura. Edited by Piero Calamandrei), 1950, 6 (9–10) : 969–1352.

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

The Soviet Union : The Land and its People. By Georges Jorré. Introduction by A. Perpillou. Translated by E. D. Laborde. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xviii+353. 44 figs. 24 photographs. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1950. 21s.

Beyond the Caspian. By Douglas Carruthers, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xx+290. 6 colour plates. 18 black‐and‐white plates. Map. Edinburgh and London : Oliver and Boyd Ltd, 1949. 22s 6d.

ASIA

Village Development in Palestine during the British Mandate. By Henry Kendall, O.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., M.T.P.I, and K. H. Baruth, A.M.T.P.I. Information on Soil Conditions by S. H. Shaw, N. A. Pharaon, and A. Y. Goor. 10×8. Pp. 84. 16 plans. 42 photographs. Map. London : The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1949. 10s 6d.

The Antique Land. By Diana Shipton. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp.219. 23 plates. End‐paper sketch maps. Decorations by Jill Davis. London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1950. 20s.

AFRICA

Algérie. By Marcel Larnaude. 7 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 230. 10 figs. 20 photographs. [L'Union Française.] Paris : Editions Berger‐Levrault, 1950. 300 fr.

O Distrito de Moçâmedes nas Fases da Origem e da Primeira Organização (1485–1859). By Manuel Júlio de Mendonça Torres. 9×6 1/4. Pp. 535. 29 plates. Lisboa : Agência Geral das Colónias, 1950.

African Journey. By André Siegfried. Translated from the French by Edward Fitzgerald. 8×5 1/4. Pp. 159. 5 maps. London : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1950. 10s 6d.

AMERICA

The St Lawrence. By Henry Beston. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 272. Illustrated. End‐paper maps. [Rivers of America.] Edinburgh and London : William Hodge and Co. Ltd, 1951. 10s 6d.

Pleasure Island: The Book of Jamaica. Edited by Esther Chapman. Historical Section by H. P. Jacobs, B.A. Geographical Section by Mary M. Carley, B.Sc.(ECON.). 8 1/4×5 1/2. Pp. xvi+316. Illustrated. Kingston, Jamaica : The Arawak Press, 1951. $1.50, or 10s 6d.

OCEANIA

Myths and Legends of Maoriland. By A. W. Reed. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.230. Illustrated by George Woods and W. Dittmar. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1951. 15s.

POLAR REGIONS

North of the Circle. By Frank Illingworth. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 254. 32 illustrations. Edinburgh, Glasgow and London : William Hodge and Co. Ltd, 1951. 15s.

The White Continent: The Story of Antarctica. By Thomas R. Henry. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xii+211. 8 illustrations. Map. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, 1951. 16s.

CARTOGRAPHY

Imago Mundi, VI. 1949. Edited by Leo Bagrow. 11 1/2×8 1/2. Pp.110. Text figures. 15 plates. Stockholm : Kartografiska Sällskapet, 1950. London and New York : Henry Stevens, Son and Stiles (Sole Agents for Great Britain and North America).

OCEANOGRAPHY

The Sea Around Us. By Rachel L. Carson. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. vii+230. Drawings by Katherine L. Howe. 1 plate. End‐paper charts. Bibliography. London : Staples Press Ltd, 1951. 12s 6d.

BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Sea Shore. By C. M. Yonge, D.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.R.S. 8 1/2×5 3/4. Pp. xvi+311. 88 figs. 61 colour photographs. 62 black‐and‐white photographs. [The New Naturalist, No. 12.] London: William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd, 1949. 21s.

BIOGRAPHY

Hugh Robert Mill. An Autobiography. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. xii+224. 6 illustrations. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1951. 18s.

Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928–1933. By Freya Stark. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. xvi+341. 52 illustrations. Sketch map by H. W. Hawes. Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. London : John Murray, 1951. 25s.

EDUCATIONAL

A Food and People Geography. By Amabel Williams‐Ellis. 8×5 1/2. Pp. 63. 4 figs. 21 photographs. London : University of London Press Ltd, 1951. 2s 9d.

Our Food and Our Clothes and Some Other Things. By S. Alnwick. 10×7 1/2. Pp.96. Drawings. Graphs and sketch maps. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1951. 7s 6d.

Europe. By A. R. Barbour Simpson, M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S.E. 7 1/2×5. Pp. xii+257. 108 figs. London : G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1950. 5s 6d.

Roads and Streets. By Patrick Thornhill. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. 49. Diagrams and sketches. [The ‘Get to Know’ Series.] London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1951. 2s.

GENERAL

Nelson's Encyclopaedia. Compiled and edited by H. L. Gee. 8 3/4×5 5/8. Pp. vii+743. 300 line drawings and diagrams. 80 half‐tone plates. 16 plates in colour. Edinburgh and London : Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1951. 25s.

Geography in the Twentieth Century : A Study of Growth, Fields, Techniques, Aims and Trends. Edited by Griffith Taylor. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp. x+630. 56 figs. New York : Philosophical Library Inc. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1951. 30s.

The Scope and Methods of Geography and The Geographical Pivot of History. By Sir H. J. Mackinder. Reprinted with an Introduction by E. W. Gilbert. 9 1/2×6. Pp.44. London: Royal Geographical Society, 1951. 2s 6d.

L'Homme et le Sol. By Henri Prat. 9×5 1/2. Pp.293. 16 figs. 16 plates. [Géographie humaine, 22.] Paris : Librairie Gallimard, 1949. 670 fr.

Men against the Desert. By Ritchie Calder, C.B.E. 8 1/2×5 1/2. Pp.186. 15 plates. 13 sketch maps. End‐paper maps. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1951. 12s 6d.

Insects as Human Food: A Chapter of the Ecology of Man. By F. S. Bodenheimer. 8 1/4×6. Pp.352. 47 figs. The Hague: Dr W. Junk, Publishers, 1951. fl 10.

Les Bretons à l'Aventure: Explorateurs et Colons. By Jean Choleau. 8×5 1/1. Pp. 221. 15 figs. Vitre : Unvaniez Arvor, 1950.

ATLASES AND MAPS

Maly Atlas Geograficzny. By Eugeniusz Romer. 11 1/2×7 3/4. 12 map sheets. Wroclaw : Ksiaznica‐Atlas. Fifteenth edition, 1951. Zlotys 4.00.

Maly Atlas Historyczny. By Cz. Nanke, L. Piotrowicz, and Wl. Semkowicz. 11 1/2×7 3/4. Pp. 12. Wroclaw: Ksiaznica‐Atlas, 1951. Zlotys 7.20.

Atlas Polski Wspólczesnej. By E. Romer and J. Wasowicz. 8 3/4×7 1/2. Pp. 16. Wroclaw : Ksiaznica‐Atlas. Fifth edition, 1951. Zlotys 3.60.

The West End of London. 30×16. 1:3600. Revised third edition. Edinburgh: C. J. Cousland and Sons Ltd, 1951. 2s 6d.

Map of Israel—Including Plans of Jaffa‐Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, the Middle East. Scale 1 : 285,120. Produced under the direction of Alexander Gross, f.r.g.s. 40×30. Index of place‐names. London: Prepared for The Jewish Chronicle by Geographers’ Map Co. Ltd. Third edition, 1951. 2s 6d.     

Desmond's Huxley: The Biopic

Huxley: The Devil's Disciple, vol. 1. By Adrian Desmond (London: Michael Joseph, 1994) xvii + 475 pp. £20.00 cloth.

Huxley: Evolution's High Priest, vol. 2. By Adrian Desmond (London: Michael Joseph, 1997) xiv + 370 pp. £27.00 cloth.     

The Uterus in History

Books reviewed in this article: Rickie Solinger (ed.), Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000 Nicola Beisel, Imperilled Innocents: Anthony Cornstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America Helen Hardacre, marketing the menacing Fetus in Japan Karen Newman, Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality     

The Cultural Cold War

Book reviewed:
Hugh Wilford. The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune? London, Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. xvi + 328 pp. Illustrations, index. $115.00 (cloth).     

The Concept of Community

G. Reichel‐Dolmatoff. Beyond the Milky Way: Hallucinatory Imagery of the Tukano Indians. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978. x + 159 pp. Index, illustrations. $25.00, cloth.

Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hofmann. Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1979.192 pp. Index, illustrations. $34.95, cloth.

R. Gordon Wasson. The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1980. xxvi + 248 pp. Index, illustrations. $12.95, paper.     

The Boundaries of Oxford's Empire

ANDREW PORTER, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire. III: The Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxii, 774. $72.00 (CDN); JUDITH M. BROWN and WM. ROGER LOUIS, eds. The Oxford History of the British Empire: IV: The Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 773. $72.00 (CDN); ROBIN W. WINKS, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire: V: Historiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxiv, 731. $79.95 (CDN).     

The varieties of urban ethnicity

Almirol, Edwin B. Ethnic Identity and Social Negotiation: A Study of a Filipino Community in California. New York: AMS Press, 1985. vii + 296 pp. including appendices, references, and index. $47.50 cloth.

Baskauskas, Liucija. An Urban Enclave: Lithuanian Refugees in Los Angeles. New York: AMS Press, 1985. vii 4–173 pp. including references, appendix, and index. $35.00 cloth.

Gerber, Stanford Neil. Russkoya Celo: The Ethnography of a Russian‐American Community. New York: AMS Press, 1985. vii + 131 pp. including appendices, references, and index. $29.50 cloth.

Laguerre, Michel S. American Odyssey: Haitians in New York City. London: Cornell University Press, 1984. 198 pp. including references and index. $29.95 cloth, $9.95 paper.

Wheeler, Wayne. An Analysis of Social Change in a Swedish‐Immigrant Community: The Case of Lindsborg, Kansas. New York: AMS Press, 1986. 386 pp. including appendix, references, and index.     

空间地理规律对区域(中国)发展过程的影响

运用空间地理规律探讨历史区域的空间发展过程,在古代中国具有十分良好有利的客观条件。本文基于较大空间尺度和较长历史时限,针对区域地理诸多分异现象的发生和变化,系统阐述了这一规律的三个方面(纬度地带性规律、经度省性和垂直地带性规律),在不同区域或地带空间发展过程中突出的表现特点和影响形式。     

The Hawaiian case

Ross H. Cordy. A Study of Prehistoric Social Change: The Development of Complex Societies in the Hawaiian Islands. New York: Academic Press, 1981. xii + 274 pp. $29.00     

The Muse Of History

Book reviewed in this article:
Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit Of Capitalism: Nationalism And Economic Growth     

The Use and Abuse of Ideology: The Struggle for Africa

WILLIAM FREUND. The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. Pp. 357. $19.50 (US); MAI FALMBERO, ed. The Struggle for Africa, trans. E.M.K. Andree, Mai Palmberg, and Howard Simson. London: Zed Press, 1983. Pp. iii, 286. $31.95 (Can.).Reviewed by John Flint     

The Siberian Railway

History of the New World called America. By Edward John Payne, Fellow of University College. Volume I. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892. Pp. xxviii + 546.

Travels in Africa during the Years 1882–1886. By Dr. Wilhelm Junker, Translated from the German by A. H. Keane, F.R.G.S. Illustrated. London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. Pp. viii + 586. Price 21s.

Up the Niger. Narrative of Major Claude Macdonald's Mission, to the Niger and Benué Rivers, West Africa. By Captain Mockler‐Ferryman, F.R.G.S. F.Z.S. With Maps and Illustrations. London : George Philip and Son, 1892. Pp. 326. Price 16s.

Cinq Années de Séjour aux Iles Canaries. Par le Dr. R. Verneau, Chargé de Missions Scientifiques. Ouvrage illustré de 42 gravures, 4 planches, et 1 carte. Couronné par l'Académie des Sciences. Pp. xvi + 412. Paris : A. Hennuyer, 1891.

Studies in Mohammedanism, Historical and Doctrinal, with a chapter on Islam in England. By John B. Pool. London: A. Constable and Co., 1892. Pp. xvi + 420. Price 6s.

Sicily (Story of the Nations): Phænician, Cheek, and Roman. By Edward A. Freeman, M.A., Hon. D.C.L., LL.D. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Pp. xvi + 378. Price 5s.

Afrihanische Petrefahten. Ein Versuch die grammatischen Bildungen und Formwurzeln der afrikanischen Sprachen durch Sprachvergleichung festzustellen. By A. W. Schleicher. Berlin : Theodor Fröhlich, 1891. Pp. 93.

Die Triangulation von Java, ausgeführt vow, Personal des geographischen Dienstes in Niederländisch Ost‐Indien. Dritte Abtheilung. Von Dr. J. A. C. Oudemaks. Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1891. Pp. 180.

Das Verebnen der Kugeloberflache fur Qradnetzentiviirfe. Von Dr. A. Bretjsing. Leipzig : Verlag von H. Wagner und E. Debes, 1892. Pp. 69. Price 3 m.

Appleton's General Guide to the United States and Canada. Illustrated. With Railway Maps, Plans of Cities, and Table of Railway and Steamboat Fares. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1892.     

The renaissance of a renaissance man

Machiavelli's Virtue. By Harvey C. Mansfield (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998) xvi + 372 pp. $15.00, £11.95 paper.

From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance. By Peter Godman (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998) xviii + 366. $49.50, £33.50 cloth.