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The Political Economy of Agrarian Change: Nanchilnadu, 1880–1939, by M.S.S. Pandian. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1990. Pp.192. Rs 175 (hardback). ISBN 0 8039 9642X (US); 81 7036 183 4 (India)

Agrarian Relations and Accumulation: The ‘Mode of Production’ Debate in India, edited by Utsa Patnaik. Bombay: Oxford University Press for the Sameeksha Trust, 1990. Pp.viii + 272. Rs 225 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 562565

The State and Village Society: The Political Economy of Agricultural Development in Bangladesh, by Shakeeb Adnan Khan. Dhaka: University Press, 1989. Pp.xi + 189. Tk.300 (hardback). No ISBN

Mao Zedong: Report from Xunwu, translated, with an introduction and notes, by Roger R. Thompson. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp.ix + 278; $27.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 8047 1678 1

Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture, by Peter Zarrow. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp.xi + 343; $45 (hardback). ISBN 0 231 07138 8

To the People: James Yen and Village China, by Charles W. Hayford. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp.xviii + 304; $42 (hardback). ISBN 0 231 07204 X

Remaking Peasant China: Problems of Rural Development and Institutions at the Start of the 1990s, edited by J⊘rgen Delman, Clemens Stubbe Ostergaard and Flemming Christiansen. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1990. Pp.240; map. DKK 162 (hardback). ISBN 87 7288 294 8

From Plots to Plantations: Land Transactions in Jamaica, 1866–1900, by Veront M. Satchell. Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1990. Pp.xv + 197; tables and figures; £10.50 (paperback). ISBN 976 40 0015 0

Tea and the Domestication of the Turkish State, by CM. Hann. Huntingdon: Eothen Press, 1990. Pp.xvi + 106. NP (paperback). ISBN 0 906719 15 1

The Transformation of Rural Society in the Third World, edited by Magnus Morner and Thommy Svensson. London: Routledge, 1991. Pp.xii + 320. £35. ISBN 0 415 03632 1

Hunger and Public Action, by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. Oxford: Clarendon, 1989. Pp.xviii + 373; £27.50 (hardback). ISBN 019 8286341

The Indian Community of Colonial Mexico: Fifteen Essays on Land Tenure, Corporate Organizations, Ideology and Village Politics, edited by Arij Ouweneel and Simon Miller. Amsterdam: Center for Latin American Research and Documentation, 1990. Pp.xv + 321. DFL. 47.50/$38.50 (paperback).

SUAN Exploratory Workshop on Lao Agroecosystems edited by SUAN Secretariat. Khon Khaen (Thailand): SUAN Secretariat and Khon Khaen University, 1989, Pp.154. Baht 200 (paperback). ISBN974 555 1 and 565 7

Lao Peasants under Socialism, by Grant Evans. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1990. Pp.xv + 268. $35/£25 (hardback). ISBN 0 300 04598 0

Lao: Beyond the Revolution, edited by Joseph J. Zasloff and Leonard Unger. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp.xix + 348. £45 (hardback). ISBN 0 333 51330 4

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830–1848, by Dale W. Tomich. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Pp.xiv + 287. $46.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 8018 3418 1

Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise, by Sarah What‐more. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1990. Pp.xiii + 189. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 333 52546 9

Class, Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside 1700–1880, edited by Mick Reed and Roger Wells. London: Frank Cass, 1990. Pp.236. £19.50/$29.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 7146 3343 7

Reshaping Rural England: A Social History 1850–1925, by Alun Howkins. London: Harper Collins Academic, 1991. Pp.xiii + 305. £35 (hardback); $11.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 04 445706 5 and 445705 7

Migrants to Amazonia: Spontaneous Colonization in the Brazilian Frontier, by Judith Lisansky. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990. Pp.xix + 176. £9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8133 7495 2

The Future of Amazonia: Destruction or Sustainable Development? edited by David Goodman and Anthony Hall. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1990. Pp.xxi + 419. $47.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 333 46490 7

Family, Political Economy, and Demographic Change: The Transformation of Life in Casalecchio, Italy, 1861–1921, by David I. Kertzer and Dennis P. Hogan. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Pp.xvii + 270; $42.50 (hardback); $19.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 299 12194 1 and 12190 9

Rural Reforms and Peasant Income in China: The Impact of China's Post‐Mao Rural Reforms in Selected Regions, by Zhu Ling. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp.xiv + 204. £35 (hardback); £14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 49743 0 and 49744 9

War of Another Kind: A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion, by Wayne K. Durrill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp.viii + 288. £25 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 506007 5

Social Action and the Labouring Poor: An Experience, by Primila Lewis. Delhi: Vistaar/Sage Publications, 1991. Pp.267; Rs 95 (paperback). ISBN 81 7036 215 6

Spalpeens and Tattle Hokers: History and Folklore of the Irish Migratory Agricultural Worker in Ireland and Britain, by Anne O'Dowd. Black‐rock: Irish Academy Press, 1991. Pp.xi + 441. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 7146 2450 3

From Slavery to Feudalism in South‐Western Europe, by Pierre Bonnassie. Translated by Jean Birrell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1991. Pp.xii + 350. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 36324 1

Ethnicity and Class Conflict in Rural Mexico, by Frans J. Schryer. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp.xviii + 363. £45 (hardback).

Peasants and Governments: An Economic Analysis, by David Bevan, Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning, with Arne Bigsten and Paul Horsnell, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp.xiii + 349. £42.50. ISBN 0 19 828621 X

Rural Communities Under Stress Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa, by Jonathan Barker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp.ix + 228 BN 25 (hardback); 8.95 (paperback). ISBN 0521 30867 4 and 31358 9

Small Town Africa: Studies in Rural‐Urban Interaction, edited by Jonathan Baker. Uppsala: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies 1990. 170,‐. ISBN 91 7106 305 6

State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government, by Jean C. Oi. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1989. Pp.xx + 287. $35 (hardback). ISBN 0 520 06105 5

History of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France, by Yves‐Marie Bercé. Oxford: Polity Press, 1990. Pp.x + 359. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 8014 9775 2

The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth‐Century England, by Barry Reay. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp.xvii + 226. £30 (hardhack). ISBN 019 820 1877

Peasants on the Edge: Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes, by William P. Mitchell. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1991. Pp.xii + 264. $30 (hardback). ISBN O 292 77637 3

Oppressed but Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles among the Aymara and Qhechwa in Bolivia, 1900–1980, by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (UNRISD Report No.85.1). Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1987. Pp.xiii + 219. NP (paperback). No ISBN

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