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1987; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 18; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

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M. E. Yapp, Brian Bridges, Maurice Zinkin, Stuart Kirby, Algernon Rumbold, Antony Hyman, Anthony A. Hyman, William Crawley, Taya Zinkin, Lionel Carter, Douglas Hyde, Mario D. Zamora, Ronald B. Smith, J. M. Gullick, Willis Combs, Michael Rice, Derek Riches, Denis J. Wright, Desmond Harney, Eric Macro, Dennis Duncanson, W. J. F. Jenner, Kathleen Draycott, Susan B. Rifkin, Enid Saunders Candlin, M. Alice Matthews, Richard Rigby, Hugh Cortazzi, Rachel A. Hall, Judith Cherry, Rosemary Foot,

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

General Muslim Minorities in the World Today. By M. Ali Kettani. London: Mansell Publishing Limited 1986. Pp. 267. Index. £26.50. Energy, Security and Economic Development in East Asia. Ed. Ronald Keith, London, Croom Helm, 1986. Pp. 303. Bibliog. Index. £25.00. Rice Societies. Ed. Irene Norlund et al. London, Curzon Press, 1986. Pp. 321. Illus. £6.75 Pb. Third World Affairs 1947. Ed. Altaf Gauhar. London, Third World Foundation For Social and Economic Studies, 1986. Pp. 534. £20.00 Pb. The Economic Development of the Pacific Basin: Growth Dynamics, Trade Relations and Emerging Cooperation. By Willy Kraus and Wilfried Lütkenhorst. New York. St. Martin's Press and London, Hurst. 1987. Pp. 180. Tables. Index. £17.50. Central Asia The Status of Tibet: History, Rights and Prospects in International Law. By Michael C. van Walt van Praag. Boulder, USA, Westview Press and London, Wisdom Press. 1987. Pp. 204. Notes, Bibliog. Index. £19.95. The Making of Modern Tibet. By A. Tom Grunfeld. New York, Zen Books, 1987. Pp. 231. Notes. Maps. Index. $27.50. Under a Sickle Moon. A Journey through Afghanistan. By Peregrine Hodson. London, Hutchinson, 1986. Pp. 226. Illus. Maps. Index. £12.95. Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan. By Olivier Roy. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 253. Bibliog. Index. £27.50 Hb. £9.95 Pb. South Asia The Indian Ocean and the Superpowers: Economic, Political and Strategic Perspectives. By Rasul B. Rais. Croom Helm, London and Sydney, 1986. Pp. 193. Bibliog. Index. £25.00. Paradox of Power: The United States in South West Asia 1973–84. By Maya Chadda. Oxford, ABC‐CLio. 1986. Pp. 278. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £16.15 Pb. What's Happening to India? By Robin Jeffrey. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1986. Pp. 249. Maps. Index. £25.00 Hb. £8.95 Pb. Violation of Democratic Rights in India. Ed. A. R. Desai. London, Sangam Books, 1986. Pp. 624. £34.95. Wives of the God‐King: The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri. By Frederique A. Marglin. Delhi, OUP, 1985. Pp. 388. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £18.50. Agrarian Bengal. By Sugata Bose, Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. 306. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £27.50. The State and Poverty in India: The Politics of Reform. By Atul Kohli. Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. 262. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.00. South Asian Religion and Society. Asko Parpola, Bent Smidt Hansen (Eds). Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Studies on Asian topics No. II. London, Curzon Press Ltd. 1986. Pp. 262. Illus. £6.00 Pb. At Home in India. A Restatement of Indian Muslims. By Salman Khurshid. London, Sangam Books, 1987. Pp. 226. Index. £12.50. The Liberation of Goa: A Participant's View of History. By P. D. Gaitonde. London, C. Hurst, 1987. Pp. 192. Bibliog. Index. £16.50. The Seventh Nizam: The Fallen Empire. By Zubaida Yazdani with Mary Chrystal. Printed for the author by Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. 291. Notes. £20.00. (Available from B. C. Bloomfield, 14 Store Street, London, WC1E 7DG. Postage & Packing £1.50). The Peasant Armed: The Indian Rebellion of 1857. By Eric Stokes. Ed. C. A. Bayly. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. 261. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £27.50. A Glimpse of the Burning Plain: Leaves from the Indian Journals of Charlotte Canning. By Charles Allen. London, Michael Joseph, 1986. Pp. 170. Illus. £14.95. Indian Cavalry Officer, 1914–15. By Captain Roly Grimshaw. Edited by Col. J. Wakefield and Lt. Col. J. M. Weippert. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Costello, 1986. Pp. 224. Index. £13.95. Sunset of the Raj. John de Chazel. The Wincanton Press, 1987. Pp. 261. Illus. Maps. Index. £12.95. From Merchants to Emperors. British Artists and India, 1757–1930. By Pratapaditya Pal and Vidya Dehejia. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press. 1987. Pp. 231. Bibliog. Index. $32.95 Pb. The Origins of War in South Asia. Indo‐Pakistani Conflicts since 1947. By Sumit Ganguly. Boulder and London, Westview Press, 1986. Pp. 182. Bibliog. Index. £21.50 Pb. Early Prints of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1800–1900. By R. K. de Silva. London, Serendib Publications, 1986 (distributed by Books of Asia, 47 Moreton Street, London, SW1.) Pp. ix + 362. Illus. Notes. Index. £45.00. South‐East Asia Crisis in the Philippines: The Marcos Era and Beyond. Ed. John Bresnan. Princeton University Press. 1986. Pp. 257. Index. £20.10 Hb. £7.35 Pb. Waltzing With A Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy. By Raymond Bonner. New York: Times Books (a division of Random House Inc.) and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada, Toronto. 1987. Pp. 534. Photos. Index. $19.95. Foreign Aid, War and Economic Development: South Vietnam 1955–1975. By Douglas C. Dacy. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 300. Bibliog. Index. £27.50. The Japanese File ‐ Pre‐war Japanese Penetration in Southeast Asia. By Eric Robertson. Singapore, Heinemann Asia. 1986. Pp. 179. Index. S$12.00. Swan‐Song of the Heaven‐Born. (Vol. 3 of Heaven‐Born in Burma). By Maurice Maybury. Castle Cary. Folio Hadspen. 1986. Pp. 244. Illus. Maps. Index. £7.50 Pb. Middle East Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study. By Michael Hamilton Burgoyne. (Additional historical research by D. S. Richards). London. Published on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem by the World of Islam Festival Trust. 1987. Pp. 623. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £115.00. From Aden to the Gulf: Personal Diaries 1956–1966. By Margaret Luce. With a Foreword by Lord Home. Salisbury. Michael Russell. 1987. Pp. 199. Illus. Maps. £9.95. The Economic Development of the Yemen Arab Republic. By Ragaei El Mallakh. London. Croom Helm. 1986. Pp. 196. Bibliog. Index. Map. £22.50. Curzon's Persia. Ed. Peter King. London. Sidgwick & Jackson. 1986. Pp. 192. Illus. Maps. £13.95. Iran and the West: A Critical Bibliography. By Cyrus Ghani. London, Kegan Paul International, 1987. Pp. 967. Index. £65.00. The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon. By Fouad Ajami. London, IB Tauris & Co. Ltd, 1986. Pp. 228. Map. Index. £15.95. The Interval ‐ A Life in Near Eastern Archaeology. By Seton Lloyd. Oxford, The Alden Press, 1986. Pp. 186. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £8.50 Pb. Arabian Travellers. By Richard Trench. Foreword by Wilfred Thesiger. London, Macmillan, 1986. Pp. 224. Illus. Bibliog. Index. Maps. £12.95. Far East The Government and Politics of the PRC: A Time of Transition. By Jürgen Domes. Boulder and London, Westview Press, 1985. Pp. 316. £47.00 Hb. £19.00 Pb. Chinese Democracy. By Andrew J. Nathan. London, I.B. Tauris, 1986. Pp. 313. Tables. Notes. Index. £16.50. The Survival of Empire ‐ Portuguese Trade & Society in China & the South China Sea (1630–1754). By George Bryan Souza. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 282. Figs. Tables. Maps. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. £27.50. Medicine in China: A History of Pharmaceutics. By Paul U. Unschuld. Berkeley, California. University of California Press, 1986. Pp. 367. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £40.50. Iron and Silk. By Mark Salzman. New York: Random House, Inc., and Toronto: Random House of Canada, Ltd. 1986. Pp. 211. $16.95. Achievement of Education in China: Statistics 1949–1983. Beijing. Department of Planning, Ministry of Education, 1984. Pp. 492. Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 5 Part VII: Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic. By Joseph Needham with the collaboration of Ho Ping‐yu, Lu Gwei‐djen and Wang Ling. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 736. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £50.00. Buddhism Under the T'ang. By Stanley Weinstein. Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. 236. Bibliog. Index. £25.00. A Life to Treasure: The Authorised Biography of Han Lih‐wu. By P. Van de Meersche. London, The Sherwood Press, 1987. Pp. 153. Illus. Index. £8.95. The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. By Akira Iriye. London and New York, Longman, 1987. Pp. 202. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £6.95 Pb. The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi & Pre‐War Japanese Politics. By Lesley Connors: London, Sydney, Wolfeboro (NH): Croom Helm. 1987. Pp. 260. Bibliog. Index. £29.95. Yakuza: The Explosive Account of Japan's Criminal Underworld. By David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro. Bristol, Macdonald (Queen Anne Press), 1987. Pp. 336. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £10.95. The Japan Diaries of Richard Gordon Smith. Ed. Victoria Manthorpe. London & New York, Viking/Rainbird‐Penguin Books, 1986. Pp. 223. Illus. Maps. Index. Notes. £14.95. Second Country: The Story of Richard Storry and Japan 1913–1982. By Dorothie Storry. Ashford, Kent. Norbury Publications Ltd. 1986. Pp. 176. Illus. Index. £10.95. Korea and the West. By Brian Bridges. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Pp. 100. £5.95. Korea and Britain Today: A Developing Relationship. Korea and Britain Tomorrow: Towards a Broader Relationship. Eds. Chong‐wha Chung and Boyd McCleary. Korean‐British Society: Anglo‐American Studies Institute. University of Korea. 1986. Price not stated. America's Commitment to South Korea: The First Decade of the Nixon Doctrine. By Joo‐Hong Nam. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 218. Index. £22.50. Shorter notices After The Raj, British Novels of India Since 1947. By David Rubin. Hanover, U.S.A. University Press of New England. 1987. Pp. 197. Bibliog. Index. Price not stated. Vietnamese Communism 1925–1945. By Huynh Kim Khanh. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1986 (1982). Pp. 379. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. $14.30 Pb. A Cultural History of Postwar Japan 1945–1980. By Shunsuke Tsurumi. London and New York, KPI, 1987. Pp. 174. Illus. Index. £20.00. Japan: A Short Cultural History. By G. B. Sansom. London, The Cresset Library, 1987. Pp. 531. Index. Illus. Maps. (Edition of 1952). £7.95 Pb.