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Pages 401-430 | Published online: 05 Feb 2008
 

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Peasants, Class and Capitalism: The Rural Research of L.N. Kritsman and His School, by Terry Cox. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp.xii + 271; £22.50.

Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany, by David Warren Sabean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp.x + 250; £22.50.

Social Relations and Spatial Structures, edited by Derek Gregory and John Urry. London: Macmillan, 1985. Pp.x + 440; £30.

Sweetness and Power, by Sidney W. Mintz. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986. Pp.xxx + 274; £3.95 (paperback).

Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650–1740, by Sinnappah Arasaratnam. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp.xi + 407; notes, glossary, bibliography, index; Rs 190.

The Making of the Modern World, by R.T. Robertson. London: Zed Books, 1986. Pp.256; maps, bibliography, index; £21.95 (hardback); £6.95 (paperback).

The Difficult Dialogue: Marxism and Nationalism, by Ronaldo Munck. London: Zed Books, 1986. Pp. 192; bibliography, index; £18.95 (hardback); £6.95 (paperback).

Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? by Partha Chatterjee. London: Zed Books, 1986. Pp.208; bibliography, index; £16.95 (hardback); £6.95 (paperback).

Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920–1945, by Philip S. Khoury. London: I.B. Tauris and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp.630; glossary, bibliography, index; £37.50 (hardback).

State, Oil and Agriculture in Nigeria, edited by Michael Watts. Berkeley, CA: Institute of International Studies, 1987. Pp. xiv + 327; $16.95 (paperback).

The Middle Eastern Village: Changing Economic and Social Relations, edited by Richard Lawless. London: Croom Helm, 1987. Pp. ix + 304; £25 (hardback).

Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, by John Mack Faragher. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. Pp. xvii + 280; maps and illustrations. £25.

The Development of Capitalism in Africa, by John Sender and Sheila Smith. London and New York: Methuen, 1986. Pp.xi + 177; £7.95 (paperback).

African Economic History: Internal Development and External Dependency, by Ralph A. Austen. London: James Curry; Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1987. Pp.ix + 294; £25 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).

Agricultural Prices, Production and Marketing, with Special Reference to the Hop Industry: North‐East Kent, 1680–1760, by Dennis Baker. London and New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. Pp.779; US$88.

The Agricultural Economy of Northumberland and Durham in the Period 1640–1750, by Paul Brassley. London and New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. Pp.230; US$28.

The Haitian Economy: Man, Land and Markets, by Mats Lundahl. London and Canberra: Croom Helm, 1983. Pp.290. £25

Capitalism, Socialism and Technology: A Comparative Study of Cuba and Jamaica, by Charles Edquist. London: Zed Books, 1985. Pp.iv + 192. £19.95 (hardback); £6.95 (paperback).

The Theory of Peasant Economy, by A. V. Chayanov (edited by Daniel Thorner, Basile Kerblay and R.E.F. Smith with a New Introduction by Teodor Shanin) (Madison, WI: Wisconsin University Press and Manchester: Manchester University Press), 1986 and 1987. Pp.24 + lxxv + 316. £36 (hardback); US$14.95 (paperback).

Notes

Senior Lecturer in Historical Studies, School of Social and Historical Studies, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Kings Rooms, Bellevue Terrace, Southsea PO5 3AT.

Graduate School of Arts, University of Sussex, Fainter Brighton BN1 9QN.

University of Liverpool, Department of Geography, Roxby Building, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX.

Institute of Social Studies. PO Box 90733, 2509 LS The Hague, The Netherlands.

Department of History, School of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104–6379, USA.

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, Old Library, Princeof Wales Road, Exeter EX4 4JZ.

Professor of Economic History, University of Natal, King George V Avenue, Durban 4001, South Africa.

Department of Economic and Political Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, Malet Street, London WCIE 7HP.

Department of History, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD

Department of Humanities, Brighton Polytechnic, Fainter, Brighton, Sussex.

Goldsmith's College, Lewisham Way, London SE14.

Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.

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