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1987; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Africâner

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Violet Conolly, William Drew, Anthony A. Hyman, M. E. Yapp, Premen Addy, Algernon Rumbold, Kenneth Ballhatchet, Maurice Zinkin, Robert H. Taylor, Willis Combs, Victor T. King, Dene Wright, R. W. Ferrier, Martin Fuller, H. F. Duckworth, Julian Paxton, Taya Zinkin, W. F. J. Jenner, J. E. Hoare, K. M. Draycott, Hugh Cortazzi, J. A. A. Stockwin, Enid Saunders Candlin, J. E. Hoare, S. Pares, Rosemary Foot, F. C. Brown, Eric Macro, Julian Paxton, Dennis Duncanson, R. A. Longmire,

Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography

Muslims of the Soviet Empire: A Guide. By Alexandre Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush. London, Hurst. 1986. Pp. 294. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £18.50. The Mongols. By Dr. David Morgan. Oxford and New York, Basil Blackwell. 1986. Pp. 238. Illus. Index. £14.95. Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949. By Andrew D. W. Forbes. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1986. Pp. 376. Bibliog. Maps. Index. £32.50. Charles Masson of Afghanistan, Explorer, Archaeologist, Numismatist, and Intelligence Agent. By Sir Gordon Whitteridge. Warminster, Aris and Phillips. 1986. Pp. 181. £15.00 (Pb.). South Asia Zia's Pakistan: Politics and Stability in a Frontline State. Ed. Craig Baxter. Boulder and London, Westview Press. Obtainable from Wildwood Distribution Services, Unit 3, Lower Farnham Rd., Aldershot, Hants GU12 4DY. 1986. Pp. 122. £19.00. Pakistan Society: Islam, Ethnicity and Leadership in South Asia. By Akbar S. Ahmed. Karachi: Oxford University Press. 1986. Pp. 264. Index. Price not stated. The Yogi and the Bear: A Study of Indo‐Soviet Relations. By S. Nihal Singh. London, Mansell Publishing Ltd. 1986. Pp. 249. Notes. Index. £18.95. Sikh Separatism: The Politics of Faith. By Rajiv A. Kapur. London, Allen & Unwin. 1986, Pp. 272. Index. £20.00. A History of Christianity in India: the Beginnings to A.D. 1707. By Stephen Neill. Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. 583. Maps. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £45.00. A History of Christianity in India: 1707–1858. By Stephen Neill. Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. 578. Maps. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £45.00. An Englishwoman in India: the Memoirs of Harriet Tytler 1828–1858. Ed. Anthony Sattin. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press. 1986. Pp. 229. Map. Index. £12.50. Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy. By S. J. Tambiah. London, I. B. Tauris. 1986. Pp. 198. Index. £15.95. The Changing Division of Labour in South Asia. Ed. J. W. Bjorkman. Riverdale, USA, The Riverdale Co. Inc. 1986. Pp. 152. Bibliog. Index. Price not stated. South‐East Asia Soviet Foreign Policy and Southeast Asia. By Leszek Buszynski. London and Sydney, Croom Helm. 1986. Pp. 303. Bibliog. Index. £25.00. Peacock Dreams. By Bill Tydd. London, BACSA. 1986. Pp. 193. Illus. Map. £7.50. The Moon Man. A Biography of Nikolai Miklouho‐Maclay. By E. M. Webster. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press. 1986. Pp. 421. Maps. Plates. Bibliog. Index. £29.00. Middle East Mossadegh: A Political Biography. By Farhad Diba. London, Croom Helm. 1986. Pp. 228. £25.00. The Iranian Revolution: Thanatos on a National Scale. By Gholam R. Afkhami. Washington DC, The Middle East Institute. 1985. Pp. 276. Bibliog. Index. $24.95. Iran Since the Revolution: Internal Dynamics, Regional Conflicts and the Superpowers. By Barry M. Rosen. New York, Columbia University Press. 1985. Pp. 187. Maps. Index. $20.00. Venice, Durer and the Oriental Mode. By Julian Raby. London, Islamic Art Publications, distributed by Sotheby Publications. 1984. Pp. 100. Illus. Bibliog. £20.00. East Bank/West Bank: Jordan and the Prospects for Peace. By Arthur R. Day. New York, Council on Foreign Relations. 1986. Pp. 166. Maps. Index. $17.50. The Islamic Impulse. Ed. Barbara F. Stowasser. London, Croom Helm. 1986. Pp. 329. Index. £25.00. Search for the Paradise Land: An Introduction to the Archaeology of Bahrain and the Arabian Gulf. By Michael Rice. London, Longmans. 1985. Pp. 298. Illus. Index. Notes. Bibliog. £27.00. The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century. Ross E. Dunn. London, Croom Helm. 1986. Pp. 357. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £22.50. Far East Popular Culture in Late Imperial China. Edited by David Johnson, Andrew Nathan and Evelyn S. Rawski. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press. 1985. Pp. 467. Tables. Notes. Index. £33.95. The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. By Vera Schwarcz. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press. 1986. Pp. 393. £31.95. The Puppet Emperor: The Life of Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China. By Brian Power. London, Peter Owen. 1986. Pp. 230. Illus. Glossary. Calendar of Events. Sources. Index. £13.95. The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness. By Peter Dale. London, Croom Helm. 1986. Index. Notes. £25.00. The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum: Suicide and Economic Success in Modern Japan. By Mamoru Iga. London, University of California Press. 1986. Pp. 231. Index. £16.95. Shôwa: An Inside History of Hirohito's Japan. By Tessa Morris‐Suzuki. London, The Athlone Press, 1984. Pp. 330. Index. £14.50. An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan 1931–1945. By Shunsuki Tsurumi. London, New York, Sydney & Henley KPI Limited. 1986. Pp. 136. References. Index. £20.00. Japan und die Mittelmaechte im Ersten Weltkrieg und in den zwanziger Jahren. Ed. Josef Kreiner. Bonn, Bouvier Verlag. Pp. 253. Bibliog. DM 48. Models of Development: A Comparative Study of Economic Growth in South Korea and Taiwan. Ed. Lawrence J. Lau. San Francisco, Institute for Contemporary Studies. 1986. Pp. 217. Index. £29.95. The Korean Road to Modernization and Development. By Norman Jacobs. Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press. 1986. Pp. 357. Index. £22.50. Memoirs of a Korean Queen. By Lady Hong. Edited, Introduced and Translated by Yang‐hi Choe‐Wall. London, Boston, Sydney and Henley, KPI. 1985. Pp. 127. Appendices. Notes. £15.00. Korea and her Neighbours. By Isabella Bird. London, Boston, Sydney and Henley, KPI. 1985 (reprint). Pp. 488. Illustrated. Introduction. Author's Prefatory Note. Appendices. Index. £7.95. The Origins of the Korean War. By Peter Lowe. London and New York, Longman. 1986. Pp. 237. Maps. Index. £6.95. Pb. Korea: The War before Vietnam. By Callum A. MacDonald. Basingstoke, Macmil‐lan Press. 1986. Pp. 330. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £25.00. Shorter Notices The Green Berets at War: U.S. Army Special Forces in Southeast Asia. By Shelby L. Stanton. Novato, California, Presidio Press. 1986. Pp. 360. Illus. Notes. Maps. Bibliog. Append. Index. $18.95. Defending Arabia. By J. E. Peterson. London, Croom Helm Ltd. 1986. Pp. 275. Bibliog. Index. £25.00. The Devil Drives: a Life of Sir Richard Burton. By Fawn M. Brodie. London, Eland. 1986. Pp. 390. Illus. Map. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £6.95. Pb. China ‐ The Long March. Text by Anthony Lawrence, photographs by Brian Brake and others. London, Merehurst Press. 1986. Pp. 320. £19.95. Shimoda Story. By Olive Statler. Honolulu, University of Hawaii. 1986. Pp. 267. Chronology. Postscript. Notes. Sources. Index. Illus. £16.95. Pb. Japan Today. By Roger Buckley. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. 139. Map. Index. £5.95. Pb. Mao's China and After, A History of the People's Republic. By Maurice Meisner. New York and London, Macmillan. 1986. Pp. 534. Preface. Bibliog. Pinyin Romanisation. Index. $24.95. Hb. $12.95. Pb. Asian Security. London. Brassey's Defence Publishers. 1986. Pp. 204. Maps. £14.95 Pb.