Non‐fiction reviews

The Government They Deserve: the role of the elite in Sudan's political evolution. by Mansour Khalid, London: Keegan Paul International. 1990. 480pp. £25.00hb The Rainy Season: Haiti since Duvalier. by Amy Wilentz, London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. 427pp. £14.95hb Mau Mau: an African crucible. by Robert B Edgerton, London: IB Tauris. 1990. 310pp. £14.94hb A Modern History of Kenya 1895–1980. by William R Ochieng (ed), London: Evans Brothers. 1989. 259pp. £9.95pb The New Cambridge History of India. edited by Gordon Johnson, C A Bayly and John F Richards Vol I, No 2, Vijayanagara. by Burton Stein,, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989. 156pp Vol III, No 1, Socio‐religious Reform Movements in Modern India. by Kenneth W Jones, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989. 243pp Vol IV, No 1, The Politics of India Since Independence. by Paul R. Brass, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. 357pp The Future of Hong Kong: toward 1997 and beyond. edited by Hungdah Chiu, Y C Jao and Yuan‐Li Wu, New York: Quorum Books. 1987. 262pp City on the Rocks, Hong Kong's Uncertain Future. by Kevin Rafferty, London: Viking. 1989. 518pp. £15.95hb Kowtow! After Tiananmen Square: A Plea on Behalf of Hong Kong. by William Shawcross, London: Chatto & Windus (Counter Blasts No 6). 57pp. £2.99pb Islamic Fundamentalism: Royal Asiatic Society Seminar Papers. (1) edited by R M Burrell, London: Royal Asiatic Society. 1989. 86pp. £7.95pb Islamic Fundamentalism: a debate on the role of Islam today. by Nawal el Sa'daawi, Safia Safwat, Sherif Hetata and Mahmoud Hussein, London: Institute for African Alternatives. 1989. 36pp. £2.50pb Islamic Fundamentalism. by Youssef M Choueiri, London: Pinter Publishers. 1990. 178pp. £27.50hb Islam, the People and the State: essays on political ideas and movements in the Middle East. by Sami Zubaida, London: Routledge. 1989. 192pp. £30.00hb Tribes, Government and History in Yemen. by Paul Dresch, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1989. Revolution and Foreign Policy: the case of South Yemen 1967–1987. by Fred Halliday, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. Peace, Development and Security in the Caribbean: perspectives to the year 2000. edited by Anthony T Bryan, J Edward Greene and Timothy M Shaw, London: Macmillan. 1990. 332pp. £40.00hb Explorers of the Amazon. by Anthony Smith, London: Viking. 1990. 344pp. £15.99hb Anatomy of the Amazon Gold Rush. by David Cleary, London: Macmillan. 1990. 245pp. £35.00hb State, Class and Ethnicity in Nicaragua: capitalist modernization and revolutionary change on the Atlantic Coast. by Carlos M Vilas Translated by Susan Norwood, Boulder, CO and, London: Lynne Riener Publishers. 1989. 221pp. £27.95hb Military Rule in Latin America. by Karen L Remmer, Boston, MA: Unwin Hyman. 1989. Latin America: the transition to democracy. by Ronaldo Munck, London: Zed Press. 1989. Latin America: peace, democratization and economic crisis. edited by Jose Silva‐Michelena, London: Zed Press. 1988. Blood on their Banner: nationalist struggles in the South Pacific. by David Robie, London: Zed. 1990. 313pp. £29.95hb. £8.95pb

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