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Pages 145-164 | Published online: 05 Feb 2008
 

Abstract

Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution (1917–1921), by Orlando Figes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp.xix + 401; (hardback).

People and Production in Late Precolonial Tanzania: History and Structures, by Juhani Koponen. Helsinki: Finnish Society for Development Studies, 1988. Pp.434; SEK 180 (paperback).

Pilgrims of the Andes. Regional Cults in Cusco, by Michael J. Sallnow. Washington, DC and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. Pp.xiii + 351; $29.95 (hardback).

Developing Amazonia: Deforestation and Social Conflict in Brazil's Carajás Programme, by Anthony L. Hall. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp.xxi + 295; £25 (hardback).

Taming the Coolie Beast: Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in Southeast Asia, by Jan Breman. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp.xviii + 321; £11.95 (hardback).

’We Were Making History’: Women and the Telangana Uprising, by Stree Shakti Sanghatana. London: Zed Books, 1989. Pp.vii + 290; £29.95 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).

Agrarian Transformations: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia, edited by Gillian Hart, Andrew Turton and Benjamin White, with Brian Fegan and Lim Teck Ghee. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989. Pp.xv + 341; £35 (hardback).

The Politics of India Since Independence, by Paul R. Brass (The New History of India, Vol. IV.1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp.xvi + 357; £22.50 (hardback).

The Indian Nation in 1942, edited by Gyanendra Pandey. Calcutta: Published for Centre for Studies in Social Sciences by K.P. Bagchi, 1988. Pp.vi + 268; Rs 130 (hardback).

The Gene Hunters: Biotechnology and the Scramble for Seeds, by Calestous Juma. London: Zed Books; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp.xiv + 288; £29.95 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).

Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico, by James B. Greenberg. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1989. Pp.xv + 282; $35 (hardback).

Notes

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

Professor of History, University of Dar es Salaam, PO Box 35050, Dar es Salaam.

Département de Sociologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada G1K 7P4.

Institute for Development Anthropology, 99 Collier Street, PO Box 2207, Binghamton, New York 13902, USA.

Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.

Department of Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 USA.

Ph.D. candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.

Environmental Studies. Lab I, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 98505, USA.

Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Apartado 10265, San José, Costa Rica, Central America.

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