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1974; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 5; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03068377408729700

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Dennis Duncanson, Stuart Kirby, J. F. Ford, W. J. Drew, Alwyne Ogden, Daniel Macfarlane, Roger Kershaw, Violet Conolly, Ann M. Sheehy, John M. Stewart, Maurice Zinkin, A. Madhavan, R. Goddard‐Wilson, Geoffrey Wheeler, Olaf Caroe, L. F. Rushbrook Williams, S. H. Longrigg, E. H. Paxton, Jon Kimche, C. J. Edmonds, H. Paxton, R. W. Ferrier, Taya Zinkin, Klaus Lüders, MOHAMED ASLAM,

Chinese history and philosophy

Far East China: A World so Changed. By C. P. Fitzgerald and Myra Roper. London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1973. Pp. 243. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £4.00. Wage Patterns and Wage Policy in Modern China, 1919–72. By Christopher Howe. London, Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xvi + 171. Bibliog. Index. £3.95. Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915–1949. By Lucien Bianco, translated from the French by Muriel Bell. Stanford University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xiii + 223. Map. Bibliog. Index. £3.50. The Consolidation of the South China Frontier. By George V. H. Moseley, III. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. x+192. Appendix. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.75. The Long March to Power: The History of the Chinese Communist Party 1921–1972. By James Pinckney Harrison. London, Macmillan, 1973. Pp. 647. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.95. Famine in China and the Missionary. Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform 1876–1884. By Paul Richard Bohr. London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. 283. Appendix. Bibliog. Glossary. Index. £2.25. An Introduction to Chinese Civilisation. Edited by John Meskill. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1973. Pp. 699. Maps. Illus. Index. China: A Handbook. Edited by Yuan‐li Wu. Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1973. Pp. 915. Maps. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £13.75. Secret Societies in China in the 19th and 20th Centuries. By Jean Chesneaux, translated by Gillian Nettle. London and Hong Kong, Heinemann Educational Books, 1971. Pp. 210. Illus. Index. £2.75. Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China 1840–1960. Edited by Jean Chesneaux. Stanford University Press, 1972. Pp. 328. Glossaries. Bibliog. Index. Kūkai: Major Works. Translated, with an Account of his Life and a Study of his Thought, by Yoshito S. Hakeda. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1972. Pp. 303. Chronology. Bibliog. Index. £5.85. The Meiji Restoration. By W. G. Beasley. Stanford University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. 513. Map. Bibliog. Index. £7.00. Communism in Korea. Vol. I The Movement. Vol. II The Society. By Robert A. Scalapino and Chang‐sik Lee. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 685 and 847. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. $25.00 and $30.00. South‐East Asia The Modernist Muslim Movement in Indonesia 1900–1942. By Deliar Noer. Singapore/Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press (East Asian Historical Monographs), 1973, Pp. 390. £9.50. My War with the C.I.A. By Norodom Sihanouk and Wilfred Burchett. London, The Penguin Press, 1973. Pp. 272. £0.50. Cambodia in the Southeast Asian War. By Malcolm Caldwell and Lek Hor Tan. New York and London, Monthly Review Press, 1973. Pp. xiv + 450. Maps. Appendices. £6.45. USSR Central Asia The Soviet Union in Asia. By Geoffrey Jukes. Sydney, Angus and Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1973. Pp. 314. Bibliog. Index. £2.95. The Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia. Edited by Edward Allworth. New York and London, Praeger, 1973. Pp. 217. Maps. Bibliog. Tables. £7.00. The Golden Road to Samarkand. By Wilfrid Blunt. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1973. Pp. 280. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.00. The Land beyond the Mountains: Siberia and its People Today. By Leonid Shin‐karev. London, Hart‐Davis, MacGibbon, 1973. Pp. 233. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £3.25. South Asia Locality, Province and Nation. Essays on Indian Politics 1870–1940. By John Gallagher, Gordon Johnson and Anil Seal. London, Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. 325. Map. £3.50. Studies in Modern Indian History. Number 1. Edited by B. R. Nanda and V. C. Joshi. New Delhi, Orient Longmans, 1972. Pp. 214. Index. Rs. 30. A Memoir of Central India, including Malwa and the Adjoining Provinces. By Sir J. Malcolm. 2 vols. Irish University Press, 1973. Pp. 580 and 547. Appendices. Index. £8.00 per vol. History of the Political and Military Transactions in India during the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1813–1823. By Henry T. Prinsep. 2 vols. Irish University Press, 1973. Pp. 520 and 500. £7.00 per vol. A History of the English Settlements in India: as told in the Government records, the works of old travellers, and other contemporary documents, from the earliest period to the rise of British power in India. By J. Talboys Wheeler. First published London 1878. A new impression published by the Curzon Press, London, and Barnes & Noble, New York, 1972. Pp.xxxi + 391. Palaces of the Raj. By Mark Bence‐Jones. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1973. Pp. 225. Illus. Bibliog. Index. £5.00. India‐Pakistan: The History of Unsolved Conflicts. By Lars Blinkenberg. Copenhagen, Dansk Udenrigspolitisk Instituts Shrifter, 1972. Pp. 440. Maps. Index. Dan. Kr. 75.00. Pakistan's Crisis in Leadership. By Fazal Muqeem Khan. Islamabad, National Book Foundation, 1973. Pp. 280. Maps. Appendices. Index. Rs. 25. The Middle East Power Play: The Tumultuous World of Middle East Oil 1890–1973. By Leonard Mosley. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973. Pp. 374. Maps. Index. £3.75. Arab Contemporaries: The Role of Personalities in Politics. By Majid Khadduri. Baltimore and London, The John Hopkins University Press, 1973. Pp. 255. Index. £4.25. The Third Arab‐Israeli War. By Edgar O'Ballance. London, Faber & Faber, 1972. Pp. 285. Sketch‐map. Index. £3.50. Baffy: The Diaries of Blanche Dugdale, 1936–1947. Edited by N. A. Rose. Foreword by Meyer Weisgal. London, Valentine, Mitchell, 1973. Pp. 262. Illus. Index. £3.75. The Kurdish Revolt 1961–1970. By Edgar O'Ballance. London, Faber & Faber, 1973. Pp. 196. Maps. Chronological Summary. Index. £2.95. Capital Cities of Arab Islam. By Philip K. Hitti. Minnesota University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. 176. Maps. Illus. Index. £4. E. Mirza Malkum Khan. A Study in the History of Iranian Modernism. By Hamid Algar. Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 327. Bibliog. Index. £6.10. The Metaphysics of Avicenna (Ibn Siina). A critical translation‐commentary and analysis of the fundamental arguments of Avicenna's Metaphysica. By Parviz Morewedge. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. Pp. 336. Glossary. Index. £5.00. Through Persia in Disguise. By Sarah Hobson. London, John Murray, 1973. Pp. 175. Map. Illus. Index. £2.95. Afro‐Asia, Islam The Afro‐Asian Movement. Ideology and Foreign Policy of the Third World. By David Kimche. Jerusalem, Israel University Press, 1973. Pp. 296. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £6.50. The Islamic World. Edited by William H. McNeill and Marilyn Robinson Wald‐man. London, Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xvii + 468. Maps. £1.80.