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Pages 140-160 | Published online: 05 Feb 2008
 

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Taming the Waters: The Political Economy of Large Dams in India, by Satyajit Singh. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 270. £18 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 5640519

The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley, edited by Jean Drèze, Meera Samson and Satyajit Singh. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 339. £25 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 564004 7

Oatmeal and the Catechism: Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec, by Margaret Bennett. Edinburgh: John Donald. Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1998. Pp.xxvi + 326. £25 (hardback). ISBN 0 85976 461 3 and 0 7734 1810 X

Migration and Ethnicity in Chinese HistoryHakkas, Pengmin, and Their Neighbors, by Sow‐Theng Leong; edited by Tim Wright. Introduction and Maps by G. William Skinner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. Pp.xix + 234. £30/$45 (hardback). ISBN 0 8047 2857 7

The Migrant Cocoa‐Farmers of Southern Ghana: A Study in Rural Capitalism, by Polly Hill. Hamburg: LIT Verlag; Oxford: James Currey, 1997 (reprint of 1963 edition). Pp.xxviii + xi + 265. £40 (hardback); £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 3 8258 3481 1 and 3085 3; 0 85255 298 X and 299 8

The Rural Economy of Guangdong, 1870–1937: A Study of the Agrarian Crisis and Its Origins in Southernmost China, by Alfred H.Y. Lin (Studies on the Chinese Economy). Basingstoke and London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp.xiii + 226. £45 (hardback). ISBN 0 333 69999 8 (UK); 0 312 17594 9

Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China, by Robert B. Marks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp.xix + 383. £40/$64.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 59177 5

Population Dynamics of a Philippine Rain Forest People: The San Idelfonso Agta, by John Early and Thomas Headland. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 1998. Pp.xv + 208. $39.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 8130 1555 3

Directions of Change in Rural Egypt, by Nicholas S. Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1998. Pp.x + 398. £22 (hardback). ISBN 977 424 483 4

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