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1987; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

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Maurice Zinkin, A. R. H. Kellas, William L. Guttman, Violet Conolly, R. A. Longmire, Stuart Kirby, Marie Broxup, M. Alice Matthews, Anthony A. Hyman, John Biggs‐Davison, Algernon Rumbold, Taya Zinkin, J. W. P. Chidell, Nicholas Nugent, Victor Funnell, Hugh Tinker, Michael Leifer, Peter Carey, Mario D. Zamora, Desmond Harney, H. F. Duckworth, Justin McCarthy, Michael Rice, J. B. da S., Dennis Duncanson, J. D. Chinnery, Simon Scott Plummer, Peter Löwe, Ian Nish, Enid Saunders Candlin, J. E. Hoare, W. J. F. Jenner,

General Asian Power and Politics. By Lucian Pye. Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. 414. Notes. Index. £21.25. Regional Security in the Third World. Edited by Mohammed Ayoob. London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1986. Pp. 284. Index. £19.95. The United States and the Regional Organization of Asia and the Pacific, 1965–1985. By W. W. Rostow. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1986. Pp. 265. Index. $30.00. Soviet‐American Horizons on the Pacific. Edited by John J. Stephan and V. P. Chichkanov. University of Hawaii Press, 1986. Pp. 181. Notes. Maps. $18.00. Soviet Power and the Third World. By Rajan Menon. London, Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. 261. Index. £18.50. The Soviet Far East Military Buildup: Nuclear Dilemmas and Asian Security. Edited by Richard H. Solomon and Masataka Kosaka. London, Croom Helm Ltd, 1986. Pp. 301. Gloss. Index. £25.00. Industrialization and Economic Development: an Appropriate Strategy for the Underdeveloped Countries. By Shrinivas Thakur. London, Sangam Books Ltd, 1986. Pp. 284. Bibliog. Index. £15.95. The Emerging Pacific Community: a Regional Perspective. Edited by Robert L. Downen and Bruce J. Dickson. Boulder, USA and London, Westview Press, 1984. Pp. 245. £20.75. The Pacific Century: Economic and Political Consequences of Asian‐Pacific Dynamism. By Steffan Burenstam Linder. Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. 154. Index. $18.95 cloth, $7.95 Pb. Central Asia Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Soviet National Languages. Their Past, Present and Future. Edited by Isabelle T. Kreindler. Berlin, New York, Amsterdam, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985. Pp. 381. Index. Dm 142. Mystics and Commissars ‐ Sufism in the Soviet Union. By Alexandra Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush. London, Hurst & Co., 1985. Pp. 195. Maps. Index. £16.50. The Religion of the Kafirs. Vol. 1 of The Religions of the Hindukush. By Karl Jettmar. Warminster, Wiltshire, Aris and Phillips, 1986. Pp. 172. Illus. Maps. £18.00 Pb. South Asia The Indian Ocean: Perspectives on a Strategic Arena. Edited by William L. Dowdy & Russell B. Trood. Durham, Duke University Press, 1985. Pp. 613. Tables. Index. Maps. £40.00 Hb, £19.95 Pb. The India Office 1880–1910. By Arnold P. Kaminsky. London, Mansell Publishing Ltd, 1986. Pp. 204. Bibliog. Appendices. Index. £40.00. The Viceroy's Fall: How Kitchener Destroyed Curzon. By Peter King. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986. Pp. 284. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £12.95. Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker and Imperial Delhi. By Robert Grant Irving. Yale University Press, 1983. Pp. 406. Index. £10.50 Pb. The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Vol. 1. Civilisation, Politics and Religion. Edited by Raghavan Iyer. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. 625. Chronology. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. £35.00. The Myth of the Mahatma. By Michael Edwardes. London, Constable, 1986. Pp. 270. Illus. Index. £12.95. Ayahs, Lascars and Princes: The Story of Indians in Britain 1700–1947. By Rozina Visram. London, Pluto Press, 1986. Pp. 304. Illus. Index. £15.95. Relative Merits: A Personal Memoir of the Bandaranaike Family of Sri Lanka. By Yasmine Gooneratne. London, Hurst & Co., 1986. Pp. 269. Illus. Index. £12.95. South‐East Asia South‐East Asia: Essays in the Political Economy of Structural Change. Edited by R. Higgot and R. Robison. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Pp. 340. £9.95 Pb, £18.00 Hb. A Hell of a Licking: the Retreat from Burma, 1941–42. By James Lunt. London, Collins, 1986. Pp. 318. Illus. Maps. Index. £15.00. Apprentice Revolutionaries: The Communist Movement in Laos, 1930–1985. By MacAlister Brown and Joseph J. Zasloff. Stanford, California, Hoover Institution Press, 1986. Pp. 463. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. $13.95 Paperbound. The Kenpeitai in Java and Sumatra (Selections from the Nihon Kenpei Seishi). Translated from the Japanese by Barbara G. Shimer and Guy Hobbs, with an Introduction by Theodore Friend. Ithaca: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project (Translation Series) Publication no. 65,1986. Pp. 80. Bibliog. US $8.00. Prisoners of Kota Cane. By Leon Salim. Translated by Audrey Kahin. Ithaca: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project (Translation Series) Publication no. 66, 1986. Pp. 112. Photos. Maps. US $9.00. The Philippine Independence Missions to the United States 1919–1934. By Bernardita Reyes Churchill. Manila, National Historical Institute, 1983. Pp. 442. Bibliog. Index. No price indicated. Middle East The End of the Palestine Mandate. Edited by Wm Roger Louis and Robert W. Stookey. London, IB Tauris & Co Ltd, 1986. Pp. 181. Maps. Index. £22.50. The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism. By Conor Cruise O'Brien. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. Pp. 798. Illus. Index. £20.00. The Armenian File. By Kamuran Gürün. London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1985. Pp. 323. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £17.95. Al‐Rabadah: A Portrait of Early Islamic Civilisation in Saodi Arabia. Dr. Sa'ad bin ‘Abd al‐'Aziz al‐Rashid. Harlow, Longman Group Ltd, 1986. Pp. 158. Illus. Maps. £40.00. Qat in Yemen: Consumption and Social Change. By Shelagh Weir. London, British Museum Publications Ltd, 1985. Pp. 191. Illus. Index. £15.00 Pb. Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul. By Regina Krahl, Ed. John Ayers. 3 vols. (cased). London, Sotheby's Publications, 1986. £485.00. Far East Life and Death in Shanghai. By Nien Cheng. London, Grafton Books (Collins), 1986. Pp. 496. £12.95 Hb. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. V1.1: Botany. By Joseph Needham. Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 718. Illus. Index. £50.00. Deng Xiaoping: Speeches and Writings. Leaders of the World Series. General Editor: Robert Maxwell. Pergamon Press, 1985. Pp. 100. Intro. Foreword. Photos. Index. £5.00. British Mandarins and Chinese Reformers — the British administration of Weihaiwei (1898–1930) and the territory's return to Chinese rule. By Pamela Atwell. OUP (Hong Kong etc.), East Asian Historical Monographs, 1985. Pp. 302. £21.00 Hb. Nomonhan: Japan against Russia, 1939. 2 Volumes. By Alvin D. Coox. Stanford University Press, 1985. Pp. 1, 253. Bibliog. Appendices. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. $95.00. Russia against Japan, 1904–1905: A new look at the Russo‐Japanese war. By J. N. Westwood. London, Macmillan, 1986. Pp. 183. Illus. Map. Index. £27.50. Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage. By Haru Matsukata Reischauer. Cambridge, Mass. & London, England, The Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. 371. Illus. Index. $20.00. The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. By Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri & Robert E. Morrell. Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. 570. Illus. Maps. Diagrams. Index. £36.90. The Sun at Noon: An Anatomy of Modern Japan. By Dick Wilson. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1986. Pp. 265. £12.95. The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950–53. By Rosemary Foot. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1985. Pp. 290. Index. $32.95. Shorter Notices The Asian Political Dictionary. By Eugene C. I. Kim and Lawrence Ziring. Santa Barbara, California; Oxford, Clio Press Ltd, 1985. Pp. 438. Maps. Tables. Index. £32.95 Hb, £13.25 Pb. Indira Gandhi: Letters to a Friend 1950–1984. Correspondence with Dorothy Norman. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. Pp. 179. £10.95 Hb. Glimpses into Life in Malayan Lands. By John Turnbull Thomson. Singapore, Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. 332. £14.50 Pb. Islam Assembled: The Advent of the Muslim Congresses. By Martin Kramer. New York, Columbia University Press, 1986. Pp. 250. Index. $30.00. The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 3. An abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text by Colin A. Ronan. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. 309. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £30.00 Hb, £12.50 Pb.