Book reviews

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Sizing up central America. El Salvador: the face of revolution. Robert Armstrong and Janet Shenk. London: Pluto Press. 1982. 283pp. £3.95.

The War of the Dispossessed: Honduras and El Salvador, 1969. Thomas P Anderson. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 1981. 203pp. £8.95.

Archbishop Romero: martyr of El Salvador. Placido Erdozain. Guildford, England: Lutterworth Press. 1981. 98pp. £2.95.

Triumph of the People: the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. George Black. London: Zed Press. 1981. 368pp. £18.95. £3.95pb.

Nicaragua: the Sandinist revolution. Henri Weber. London: Verso. 1981. 154pp. £2.95.

Arms and Politics in the Dominican Republic. G Pope Atkins. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1981. 158pp. £13.00.

Transnational Corporations in World Development—Third Survey. UN Centre on Transnational Corporations. New York: United Nations. 1983. 380pp. np.

Inequalising Trade? A Study of Traditional North‐South Specialisation in the Context of Terms of Trade Concepts. John Spraos. Oxford: OUP (with UNCTAD). 1983. 169pp. f 15.00.

Islam in the Political Process. Edited by James P Piscatori. Cambridge: CUP. 1983. 240pp. £19.50. £7.95pb.

South‐South Relations in a Changing World Order. Edited by Jerker Carlsson. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. 1982. 166pp. np.

Economic Development: theory, policy and international relations. Ian M D Little. New York: Twentieth Century Fund. 452pp. np.

The Struggle for Development: national strategies in an international context. Edited by Manfred Bienefeld and Martin Godfrey. Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1982. 378pp. £24.95.

The Evolution of the Modern Commonwealth, 1902–80. Denis Judd and Peter Slinn. London: Macmillan. 1982. 171pp. £15.00. £5.95pb.

Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth. Edited by Frederick Madden and D K Fieldhouse. London: Croom Helm. 1982. 167pp. £11.95.

Due South: socialists and world development. Jeremy Hill and Hilary Scannell. London: Pluto Press. 1983. 106pp. £2.50pb.

Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics: an introductory text. S Cairncross and R G Feachem. Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1983. 283pp. £17.95. £6.95pb.

The Management of Headquarters‐Subsidiary Relationships in Multinational Corporations. Edited by Lars Otterbeck. Aldershot, England: Gower. 1981. 343pp. £15.00.

Ecological Aspects of Development in the Humid Tropics. Committee on Selected Biological Problems in the Humid Tropics. Washington DC: National Academy Press. 1982. 297pp. £13.25.

Women and Poverty in the Third World. Edited by Mayra Buvinic, Margaret Lycette and William Paul McGreevey. London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1983. 329pp. £25.00.

The Challenge of Development in the Eighties: our response. Edited by Anthony Jennings and Thomas G Weiss. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1982. 123pp. £7.95.

Third Cinema in the Third World: the aesthetics of liberation. Teshome H Gabriel. Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press. 1982. 147pp. £27.75.

Modernisation and Revolution. Bill Brugger and Kate Hannan. London: Croom Helm. 1983. 60pp. £5.95pb.

Materials for Learning: how to teach adults at a distance. Janet Jenkins. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1981. 209pp. £7.95.

The Egypt of Nasser and Sadat. John Waterbury. London: Princeton University Press. 1983. 475pp. £38.70. £10.90pb.

Foreign Trade and Economic Controls in Development: the case of united Pakistan. Nurul Islam. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 1982. 271pp. £22.75.

Who Shall Succeed? Agricultural Development and Social Inequality on a Philippine Frontier. James F Eder. Cambridge: CUP. 1982. 264pp. £20.00.

Development Débâcle: the World Bank in the Philippines. Walden Bello, David Kinley and Elaine Elinson. San Francisco: Institute for Food Development Policy and Philippine Solidarity. Network. 1982. 256pp. $6.95pb.

Israel in Lebanon: the report of the international commission to enquire into reported violations of international law by Israel during its invasion of Lebanon. The International Commission. London: Ithaca Press. 1983. 282pp. £4.50pb.

Islam and the Politics of Meaning in Palestinian Nationalism. Nels Johnson. London: Kegan Paul International. 1982.111pp. £9.95.

Long‐distance Water Transfer: a Chinese case study and international experiences. Edited by Asit K Biswas, Zuo Dakang, James E Nickum and Liu Changming. Dublin: Tycooly International. 1983. 417pp. £42.00. £24.50pb.

Project Evaluation in Regional Perspective: a study of an irrigation process in northwest Malaysia. C Bell, P Hazell and R Slade. London: Johns Hopkins University Press (for the World Bank). 1982. 326pp. £24.00.

117 Days. Ruth First. London: Penguin. 1982. 144pp. £1.95pb.

Black Gold: the Mozambican miner, proletarian and peasant. Ruth First. Brighton, England: Harvester Press. 1983. 256pp. £30.00.

Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda. Mahmood Mamdani. London: Heinemann. 1983. 115pp. £2.85.

The Angolan War: a study in Soviet policy in the Third World. Arthur Jay Klinghoffer. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1980. 229pp. £18.00.

Imperialism in East Africa (vol 2: Imperialism and Integration). Dan Nabudere. London: Zed Press. 1982. 188pp. £16.95.

Female and Male in West Africa. Edited by Christine Oppong. London: George Allen and Unwin. 1983. 402pp. £18.95. £8.95pb.

US interests in Africa. Helen Kitchen. New York: Praeger (with Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies). 1983. 106pp. $6.95.

Soldiers of Perón: Argentina's Montoneros. Richard Gillespie. Oxford: OUP. 310pp. £19.50.

The Demographic Structure and Evolution of a Peasant System: the Guatemalan population. John D Early. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. 1982. 207pp. $20.00.

Human Cargoes: the British slave trade to Spanish America, 1700–1739. Colin A Palmer. London: University of Illinois Press. 183pp. £11.95.

Technology and Competition in the Brazilian Computer Industry. Paulo Bastos Tigre. London: Frances Pinter. 1983. 186pp. £16.50.