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Power in Africa: An Essay in Political Interpretation by Patrick Chabal (London, Macmillan, 1992, pp.311, £40).

Ghana. The Political Economy of Recovery edited by Donald Rothchild (London, Reinner, 1991, pp. xvi + 285, £13.50 pb)

Ghana: The Struggle for Popular Power. Rawlings: Saviour or Demagogue by Zaya Yeebo (London, New Beacon, 1991, 00. 314, £25 hb, £11.95 pb).

The Nigerian Press, Hegemony, and the Social Construction of Legitimacy, 1960–1983 by Adigun A.B. Agbaje (Edwin Mellen, 1992, pp. xii + 333, £39.95).

Sudan after Nimeiri edited by Peter Woodward (London, Routledge 1991, pp. 223, £35).

The Way the World Is: Cultural Processes and Social Relations Among the Mombasa Swahili by Marc Schwarz (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991, pp. 350).

Public Enterprises in Kenya: What Works, What Doesn't and Why by Barbara Grosh (Boulder, Colorado, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1991, £24.95)

The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa: The Asian Contribution by Robert G. Gregory (New Brunswick, USA, and London, UK, Transaction Publishers, 1992, pp. x + 251 $32.95, £24.95).

Learning from Robben Island: The Prison Writings of Govan Mbeki by Govan Mbeki (James Currey, London; Ohio University Press, Athens; David Philip, Cape Town, 1991, pp. 202, £9.95).

Third World Regional Development: A Reappraisal edited by David Simon (London, Paul Chapman Publishers Ltd, 1990, pp. 268, £15.95).

South Africa in Southern Africa: Domestic Change and International Conflict edited by Edmond J. Keller and Louis A. Picard (Boulder and London, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989, pp. 263, £31.50).

The Suffering GrassSuperpowers and Regional Conflict in Southern Africa and the Caribbean edited by Thomas G. Weiss and James G. Blight (Boulder and London, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992, pp. 182, $28.00).

Environment, Development and Politics in India by Renu Khator (London, University Press or America, 1991, pp. 247).

Nationalism and Communal Politics in India by Mushirul Hasan (New Delhi, Manohar, 1991, pp. 338, Rs 250).

Women in India and Nepal edited by Michael Allen and S.N. Mukherjee (New Delhi: Sterling, 1990, pp. 327. Paperback: Australian Dollars 25, Hardback: Australian Dollars 40).

Politics, Women and Well‐Being: How Kerala became a ‘Model’ by Robin Jeffrey (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1992, pp. 285, £45).

Sufi Saints and State Power. The Pirs of Sind, 1843–1947 by Sarah F.D. Ansari (Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xix + 178, £30).

Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison by Paul R. Brass (New Delhi, Sage, 1991, pp. 358).

Parliamentary Privilege in India by Prititosh Roy (Calcutta, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. IV + 244).

Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia edited by Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash (Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1992 [first published by OUP in 1991], pp. x + 305).

The Post‐Colonial State in Asia: Dialectics of Politics and Culture edited by Subrata K. Mitra (Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990, £40).

Shades of Right: Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada 1920–1940 by Martin Robin (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1992, £10.95 pb, £39 hb).

A Sovereign Idea: Essays on Canada as a Democratic Community by Reg Whitaker (Montreal and Kingston, McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1992, pp. xiii + 337, £38 hb; £16.95 pb).

Red Tory Blues: A Political Memoir by Heath Macquarrie (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1992, pp. xxii + 378, illus, $25).

Markets, Money and Empire: The Political Economy of the Australian Wool Industry by Kosmas Tsokhas (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, 1990, pp. vii + 235, $A29.95 pb).

The Economic Dynamics of Australian Industry edited by Clive Hamilton (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1991, pp. xxii + 224, $12.95 pb).

A Herd of White Elephants: Some Big Technology Projects in Australia edited by Pam Scott (Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1992, pp. 159, $A19.95 pb).

Perfidious Albion, The Abandonment of Hong Kong 1997 by William McGurn (Washington DC Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991, pp. xxiii + 165, $16.95).

The Political Economy of Small Tropical Islands: The Importance of Being Small edited by Helen M. Hintjens and Malyn D.D. Newitt (University of Exeter Press, 1992, pp. 247 plus maps and index, £29.50).

Imperialism, the State and the Third World edited by Michael Twaddle (London, British Academic Press, 1992, £39.50 hb).

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