Book reviews (1981)

Middle east Les Arabes: histoire et civilisation des Arabes et du monde musulman, des origines à la chute du royaume de Grenade, racontée par les témoins. By Marc Bergé. Paris, Editions Lidis, 1978. Pp. 702. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. Gloss. Arab Politics in Palestine, 1917–1939. The Frustration of a Nationalist Movement. By Ann Mosely Lesch. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1979. Pp. 257. Pref. Bibliog. Map. Chart. Notes. Index. £10.50 (hardback). The History of Aden 1839–72. By Z. H. Kour. London, Frank Cass, 1981. Pp. ix+240. Intro. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £15.00 (hardback). Towards a Modern Iran: Studies in Thought, Politics and Society. Edited by Elie Kedourie and Sylvia G. Haim. London, Frank Cass, 1980. Pp. x+262. Notes. Pref. £14.50 (hardback). Oriental Proverbs: selected, interpreted and rendered into English Verse. By J. C. E. Bowen. London, Luzac & Co. Ltd, 1980. Pp. xv+80. Intro. £4.95 (hardback). The Hijaz Railroad. By William Ochsenwald. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1980. Pp. xvi+169. Bibliog. Maps. Illus. Index. $14.95. South Asia Aid and Influence: the Case for Bangladesh. Edited by J. Faaland. London, Macmillan Press, 1980. Pp. xii+202. Pref. Tables. Abbrevs. Index. £15.00 (hardback). Iron Bars of Freedom. By Matiur Rahman and Naeem Hasan. London, News and Media Ltd, 1980. Pp. xii+202. Pref. Foreword. Appendices, Bibliog. Index. £10.00 (hardback). Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab; in Ladakh and Kashmir; in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz and Bokhara, from 1819 to 1825. By William Moorcroft and George Trebeck. Edited by Horace Hayman Wilson with an introduction by G. J. Alder. 2 vols. (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints). Karachi, Oxford University Press, 1979. Pp. lxxiv+495 and xii+508. Intro. Pref. Frontis. £9.50 per set (hardback). The Play of the Gods: Locality, Ideology, Structure, and Time in the Festivals of a Bengali Town. By Akos Östör. Chicago, the University of Chicago Press, 1980. Pp. x+241. Notes. Gloss. Refs. Index. Appendixes. £16.20 (hardback). The Child and the Serpent: Reflections on popular Indian Symbols. By Jyoti Sahi. London, Boston and Henley, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Pp. xiv+218. Foreword. Intro. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £6.95 (paperback). Nepal in Crisis: Growth and Stagnation at the Periphery. By Piers Blaikie, John Cameron and David Seddon. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980. Pp. xvi+311. Tables. Figs. Bibliog. Index. £17.50 (hardback). USSR Nomads of South Siberia: The Pastoral Economies of Tuva. By Sevyan Vainshtein. Edited and with an introduction by Caroline Humphrey. Translated by Michael Colenso. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. x+289. Illus. Figs. Notes. Map. Bibliog. Index. £20.00 (hardback). Central Asia The Road to Kabul. Edited by Gerald de Gaury and H. F. V. Winstone. London, Quartet Books, 1981. Pp. 233. Illus. Maps. £9.95 (hardback). Far east China's Global Role: An Analysis of Peking's National Power Capabilities in the Context of an Evolving International Situation. By John Franklin Copper. Stanford, Hoover Institution Press, 1980. Pp. xv + 181. Tables. Pref. Map. Notes. Bibliog. Index. $7.95 (paperback). Chinese Revolutionary: Memoirs 1919–1949. By Wang Fan‐hsi. Translated and with an Introduction by Gregor Benton. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. xxi+282. Foreword. Intro. Bibliog. Index. £15.00(hardback). The May 30 Movement ‐ Events and Themes. By Richard W. Rigby. (Australian National University Press), Folkestone, Dawson Publishing, 1980. Pp. xi+271. Intro. Notes. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £11.00 (hardback). Mao: a Biography. By Ross Terrill. London, Harper & Row Ltd., 1980. Pp. xi+481. Bibliog. Ref. Notes. Index. £8.95 (hardback). Bitter Gourd: Fang I‐chih and the Impetus for Intellectual Change. By Willard J. Peterson. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. xv+228. Pref. Map. Chart. Bibliog. Index. £16.20 (hardback). Land and Lineage in China: A Study of T'ung‐ch'eng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties. By Hilary J. Beattie. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. x+208. Maps. Appendices. Notes. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. Tables. £12.50 (hardback). Chinese Foreign Policy: The Maoist Era and its Aftermath. By Joseph Camilleri. Oxford, Martin Robertson & Co. Ltd, 1980. Pp. xiv+311. Pref. Map. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Gloss. £25.00 (hardback). Darkness at Dawn. A North Korean diary. By Peter Hyun. Seoul, Hanjin Publishing Company, 1981. Pp. 210. $7. China Briefing, 1980. Edited by Robert B. Oxnam and Richard C. Bush. Foreword by Charles W. Bailey. Published in cooperation with the China Council of the Asia Society, Inc. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1980. Pp. xvii + 126. Foreword. Note. Map. Appendices. Index. Biog. $14.50 (hardback), $6.50 (paperback). The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China. By Elizabeth Croll. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv+210. Pref. Note. Gloss. Tables. Figs. Abbrevs. Bibliog. Index. £16.00 (hardback). Japan's Economic Aid: Policy‐making and Politics. By Alan Rix. London, Croom Helm, 1980. Pp. 286. Pref. Intro. Tables. Figs. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £14.95 (hardback). Kaneko Mitsuharu. By James R. Morita. Boston, USA, Twayne Publishers (G. K. Hall), 1980. Pp. 158. Pref. Frontis. Notes. Refs. Bibliog. Index. $12.95 (hardback). Shorter notices Next Time you go to Russia. A Guide to Historical Landmarks and Art Museums. By Charles A. Ward. London, John Murray, 1980. Pp. 142. Maps. Illus. Foreword. Appendices. Bibliog. Gloss. £5.75 (paperback).