Book reviews

Gender and the Built Environment: Emancipation in Planning, Housing and Mobility in Europe. L. Ottes, E. Poventud, M. van Schendelen and G. Segond von Banchet (Eds), Assen, Van Gorcum, 1995, 298 pp, pb, ISBN 9 0232 3027 2 (no stated price)

Baltic Europe in the Perspective of Global Change. Antoni Kuklinski (Ed.), Warsaw, Oficyna Naukowa, 1995, 517 pp, pb, ISBN 83 85505 27 X (no stated price)

Trading Industries—Trading Regions. H. Noponen, J. Graham and A. R. Markusen (Eds), London/New York, The Guildford Press, 1993, x + 310 pp, £16.99 pb, ISBM 0 89862 753 2

Competitive Cities: Succeeding in the Global Economy. H. Duffy, London, Spon, 1995, 190 pp, £24.99 hb, ISBN 0 419 19840 7

De l'atelier au territoire: Le travail en quête d'espace (From workshop to territory: labour looking for new spaces). Thérèse Evette and François Lautier (Eds), Paris, L'Harmattan, 1994, 248 pp, £15.00 pb, ISBN 2 7384 3159 3     

About Pakistan and Bangladesh

Book reviewed in this article: A Family in Pakistan: Ailsa Scarsbrook and Alan Scarsbrook Focus on Pakistan: Mano Rumalshah Pakistan and Bangladesh: Nicholas Nugent     

With Cutlass and Compress: Women's Relations with the Sea

Books reviewed in this article: Margaret S. Creighton and Lisa Norling (eds), Iron Men, Wooden Women:Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic Worlds 1700‐1920 Elaine Forman Crane, Ebb Tide in New England: Women, Seaportsand Social Change 1630‐1800 Hans Turley, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity Violet Jessop, Titanic Survivor: the Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess