Muslims in Prison: Challenge and Change in Britain and France

Hans Entzinger and Jack Carter (eds.), International Review of Comparative Public Policy, Volume 1, Immigration in Western Democracies: The United States and Western Europe (Greenwich, CT and London: JAI Press, 1989). Pp.ix + 258. £43 (hardback). ISBN 1 55 938 109 4

Josef Hayim Yerushalmi, Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1991). Pp.159. £16.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 300 04 92 18

Ronald Dotterer, Deborah Dash Moore and Steven M. Cohen (eds.), Jewish Settlement and Community in the Modern Western World (Cranbury, NJ and London: Associated University Presses, 1991). Pp.218. £22.95. ISBN 0 945636 3 X

Minority Rights Group, Minorities and Autonomy in Western Europe. Minority Rights Group, 379 Brixton Road, London. Pp.32. £3.75 (including postage). ISBN 0 946690 93

L. Eve Armentrout Ma, Revolutionaries, Monarchists, and Chinatowns: Chinese Politics in the Americas and the 1911 Revolution (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1990). Pp.xii + 227. $28. ISBN 0 8248 1239 5

David Leviatin, Followers of the Trail: Jewish Working‐Class Radicals in America (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1989). Pp.ix + 298. £25. ISBN 0 300 04354 6

Richard Williams, Hierarchical Structures and Social Value: The Creation of Black and Irish Identities in the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). Pp.190. £27.95 ISBN 0 521 35147 2

Michael Tadman, Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990). Pp.xviii + 317. $27.9. ISBN 0299 11850 9

Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany 1933–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Pp.xiv + 386. ISBN 0521 39114 8     

Global sports and patriot games: Rugby union and national identity in a united sporting kingdom since 1945

Richard Caplan and John Perrer (eds.), Europe's New Nationalism: States and Minorities in Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). Pp.xi + 241. £30 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 19 509148 5 and 509149 3

Tom Nairn, Faces of Nationalism: Janus Revisited (London: Verso, 1997). Pp.x + 246. £35 (hardback); £12 (paperback). ISBN 1 85984 823 0 and 194 5

Camille Guerin‐Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda (eds.), The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy since 1830 (New York: Holmes &; Meier, 1998). Pp.xi + 366. $20. ISBN 0 8419 1298 X

Karen Fog Olwig (ed.), Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post‐Emancipation Caribbean (London: Frank Cass, 1995). Pp.191. £30 (hardback); £17.50 (paperback). IBSN 0 7146 5476 and 4225 8

Mary Chamberlain (ed.), Caribbean Migration: Globalised Identities (London and New York: Routledge, 1998). Pp.xii + 267. ISBN 0 415 16580 6

Frank Füredi, The Silent War: Imperialism and the Changing Perception of Race. Pp.282. £45 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7453 1303 5 and 1308 6

Paul J. Smith (ed.), Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and the Challenge to America's Immigration Tradition (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997). Pp.xv +207. $21.95. ISBN 0 89206 291 6

Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid (eds.), Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 1997). Pp.vii + 335. US$25 (paperback). ISBN 0 295 97613 6

Mordechai Rozin, The Rich and the Poor: Jewish Philanthropy and Social Control in Nineteenth‐Century London (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999). Pp.xii + 268. £45 (hardback). ISBN 1 898723 79 6

Judith Laikin Elkin, The Jews of Latin America (New York/London: Holmes &; Meier, 1998). Pp.xv + 339. £12. 95 (paperback). ISBN 0 84191369 2

Ignacio Klich and Jeffrey Lesser (eds.), Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America: Images and Realities (London: Frank Cass, 1998). Pp.xiv + 264. £32.50/$47.50 (hardback); £16.60/$22.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 7146 4873 6 and 4412 9

Robin Gwynn, The Huguenots of London (Brighton and Portland, OR: Alpha Press, 1998). Pp.viii + 67. £7.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 898595 24 0

Alec G. Hargreaves and Mark McKinney (eds.), Post‐Colonial Cultures in France (London and New York: Routledge, 1997). Pp.xv + 299. £45 (hardback); £15.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 415 14487 6 and 14488 4

Roger Bartlett and Karen Schönwälder (eds.), The German lands and Eastern Europe. Essays on the History of Their Social, Cultural and Political Relations (Studies in Russia and East Europe) (London: Macmillan/SSEES, 1999). Pp.x + 288. £47.50. (hardback). ISBN 0 333 72086 5

Donald M. MacRaild, Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750–1922 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999). Pp.x + 230 £40 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 67761 7 and 67762 5

Thomas Kenneally, The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New (London: Chatto &; Windus, 1999). Pp.xiii + 732. £25 (hardback). ISBN 1 85619 788 3

R.J. Scally, The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). Pp.266. £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 19 510659 8

Jill Blee, The Pines Hold Their Secrets (Victoria, Australia: Indra, 1998). Pp.283. NP (paperback). ISBN 0 9587718 8 X

Jan Critchett, Untold Stories: Memories and Lives of Victorian Kooris (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998). Pp.xxi + 283. NP. ISBN 0 522 84818 4

James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War (Baton Rouge, LA and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997). Pp.140 + xiv. £23.95/$24.95. ISBN 0 8071 1939 3

Geoffrey Self, The Hiawatha Man: The Life and Work of Samuel Coleridge‐Taylor (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995: USA contact Ashgate, Brookfield, VT). Pp.326. £39.50. ISBN 0 085967 983 7

Brian Dyde, The Empty Sleeve: The Story of the West India Regiments of the British Army (London and Antigua: Hansib Caribbean, 1997). Pp.283. £11.95 (paperback). ISBN 976 8163 09 7

Philip Towle, Enforced Disarmament: From the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997). Pp.x + 268. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 820636 4     

The unredeemed past: Academics and Indians on America's intellectual frontier

Susan B. Andrews and John Creed (eds.), Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xxvii + 177. $35 (hardback); $15 (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 1041 8 and 5933 6

Joy A. Bilharz, The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam: Forced Relocation Through Two Generations (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xxvi + 194. $40/£38 (hardback). ISBN 0 8032 1282 8

Devon A. Mihesuah (ed.), Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xi + 212. $15/£14 (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 8243 5

Roger Nichols, Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History (Lincoln, NE and London: The University of Nebraska Press, 1988). Pp.xvii + 383. $60/£57 (hardback). ISBN 0 8032 3341 8

Eli Paul (ed.), The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865–1877 (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.xii + 245. $15/£14 (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 8749 6

Gerald Vizenor, Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998). Pp.238. NP (paperback). ISBN 0 8032 4664 1     

The historiography of the American Irish

Ann Laura Staler, Race and the Education of Desire. Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995). Pp.xiv + 237. £43.50 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8223 1678 1 and 1690 0

Brian W. Beltman, Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley: The Life and Letters of Ulbe Eringa, 1866–1950 (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, 1996). Pp.xv + 284. $27.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 252 02195 9

Irene Grünbaum, Escape through the Balkans: The Autobiography of Irene Grünbaum (Translated and with an introduction by Katherine Morris). (Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.) £24.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 8032 21614

A.J. Sherman, Island Refuge: Britain and Refugees from the Third Reich, 1933–1939 (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1994). Second Edition. Pp.293. £17.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 7146 4573 7

Michael Roe, Australia, Britain, and Migration, 1915–1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Pp.x + 310. £40 (hardback). ISBN 0 521 46507 9

V.Y. Mudimbe (ed.), Nations, Identities, Cultures (Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (4), Fall 1995, Vol. 94). £11. ISSN 1 85898 069 0

Alisdair Rogers and Steven Vertovec (eds.), The Urban Context: Ethnicity, Social Networks and Situational Analysis (Oxford: Berg, 1995). Pp.354. £39.95 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 85496 317 0 and 1 85973 072 8

Anthony D. King (ed.), Re‐Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st‐century Metropolis (London: Macmillan, 1996). Pp.282. £42.50 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 60191 2 and 60192 0

Bill Freund, Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban 1910–1990. (London: James Currey Publishers, 1995). Pp.xv + 133. £30 (cloth); £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 85255 666 7 and 616 0

Anne Karpf, The War After: Living with the Holocaust (London: Heinemann, 1996); Pp.351. £16.99. ISBN 0 434 00239 9

W.D. Rubinstein, A History of the Jews in the English‐Speaking World: Great Britain (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1996) Pp.viii + 540. £65. ISBN 0 333 55833 2     

The race for equality?: Slavery,freedom and the African‐American community from the colonial period to the present

William Cheek and Aimee Lee Cheek, John Mercer Längsten and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829–65 (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997). Pp 478. $21.95. ISBN 0 252 06591 3

Kimberly S. Hanger, Bounded Lives. Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans. 1769–1803 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997). Pp.xiii + 248. £47.50 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8223 1906 3 and 1898 9

Darlene Clark Hine, Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re‐Construction of American History (1994; Reprint, Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997). Pp.xxxv + 290. £12.50. ISBN 0253 211247     

Black British history and the issue of race

Andy R. Brown, Political Languages of Race and the Politics of Exclusion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999). Pp.xxix + 341. £42.50 (hardback). ISBN 1 84014 516 1

Diane Frost, Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999). Pp.v + 278. £32 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 85323 523 6 and 533 3

Michael Rowe, The Racialisation of Disorder in Twentieth Century Britain (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). Pp.x + 211. £37.50 (hardback). ISBN 1 84014 528 5     

Book reviews

Steven E. Aschheim, Brothers and Strangers. The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800–1923 (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1982). Pp.xiv + 331. $25.00.

Ezra Mendelsohn, The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Wars (Bloomington and London, Indiana University Press, 1983). Pp. 300. £19.25.

Hans van Amersfoort, Immigration and the Formation of Minority Groups: The Dutch Experience 1945–1975 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982). Pp.vi + 243. £19.50. (Translated from the Dutch by Robert Lyng).

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in ‘70s Britain (London, Hutchinson University Library, 1982). Pp.324. £5.95.

Susan Benson, Ambiguous Ethnicity: Interracial Families in London (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982). Pp.xi + 172. £16.50 (hardback); £5.50 (paperback).

Ashok Ohri, Basil Manning and Paul Curno (eds.), Community Work and Racism: Community Work Seven (London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1982). Pp.xv+188. £5.95.

Harold Pollins, Economic History of the Jews in England (London, Associated University Presses, 1983). Pp.339. £20.

Australian Council on Population and Ethnic Affairs, Multiculturalism for All Australians (Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1982). Pp.54. NP.

Peter D. Osborne, The Other Australia: The Crisis in Aboriginal Health (Occasional Monograph 2, Department of Political Science, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1982). Pp.144. NP.

J.W. Blassingame (ed.), The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series One, Volume 2: 1847–54, Speeches, Debates and Interviews (New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1983). Pp.616. £38.

Robert Ross, Cape of Torments: Slavery and Resistance in South Africa (London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1983). Pp.xi + 160. £9.50.     

Settlers: New Zealand Immigrants from England,Ireland and Scotland 1800–1945

Shamit Saggar, Race and Politics in Britain (London: Harvester Wheat‐sheaf, 1992). Pp.xxi + 236. ISBN 0 7450 1206 X

Virginia Yans‐McLaughlin (ed.), Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology and Politics (New York, Oxford University Press [USA], 1990). Pp.viii + 342. £11.95. ISBN 0 19 505511 X

Gary P. Freeman and James Jupp (eds.), Nations of Immigrants: Australia, the United States and Migration (Melbourne, Oxford University Press [Australia], 1992). Pp.xi + 250. £15.95. ISBN 0 19 553483 2     

The Movement Of People And The Adoption Of Other Cultures: the neodiffusionism of Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza

ROXANA WATERSON The living house: an anthropology of architecture in South-East Asia. Singapore: Oxford University Press. 1990. xix, 263pp., bibliography, colour plates, figures, index, maps. $49.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 19 588941 X.

BARRETT L. McCORMICK Political reform in post-Mao China: democracy and bureaucracy in a Leninist state. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1990. xiii, 222pp., select bibliography, index. US$34.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 520 06765 7.

UNNI WIKAN Behind the veil in Arabia: women in Oman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1991. xiii, 314 pp., illustrations, appendix, references, index. US$14.95 (paper) ISBN 0 226 89683 8.

JANA SAWTCKI Disciplining Foucault: feminism, power and the body. New York &; London: Routiedge. 1991. xiii, 130pp., notes, index. $25.95 (paper) ISBN 0 415 90188 X.

LAMONT LINDSTROM Knowledge and power in a South Pacific society (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry). Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1990. xvi, 224pp., references, index. US$29.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 87474 365 6; US$16.95 (paper) ISBN 0 87474 357 5.

MICHAEL J. LEAHY Explorations into highland New Guinea 1930-1935 (edited by Douglas E. Jones and with a foreword by Jane C. Goodale). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1991. xiii, 254pp., plates, index. US$19.95 (paper) ISBN 0 8173 0446 0.

EDWARD L. SCHIEFFLIN and ROBERT CRITTENDEN (with contributions by Bryant Allan et al.) Like people you see in a dream: first contact in six Papuan societies. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1991. xviii, 325pp., notes, maps, illustrations, appendixes, bibliography, index. $39.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 08047 1662 5; $12.95 (paper) ISBN 0 08047 1899 7.

MARION MELK-KOCH Auf der Suche nach der menschlichen Gesellschaft: Richard Thurnwald. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. 1989. 352pp., maps, plates, bibliography. DM68 (hardback) ISBN 3 496 003276 6.

JOHN CONNELL and RICHARD HOWITT (eds) Mining and indigenous peoples in Australasia. Sydney: Sydney University Press in association with Oxford University Press. 1991. x, 205pp., maps, figures, tables, references, index. $22.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 424 00177 2.

L.M. ALLEN, J.C. ALTMAN and E. OWEN (with assistance from W.S. Arthur) Aborigines in the economy: a select annotated bibliography of policy-relevant research 1985-90. Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (Research Monograph No. 1). xxii, pp.242, appendixes, indexes. $20.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 7315 1199 9.

EDWARD SAPIR The collected works of Edward Sapir, Vol. 5: American Indian languages, 1 (volume editor William Bright). Berlin &; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. 584pp., plate, map, appendix, references. DM220 or US$99 (bound) ISBN 3 11 012327 4.

DICK GEERAERTS (editor-in-chief) Cognitive Linguistics Volume 1(1). Berlin &; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1990. 174pp., DM42 (single issue, paper) DM154 (4 issues) ISSN 0936 5907.

WILLIAM F. HANKS Referential practice: language and lived space among the Maya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1990. xxiii, 580pp., tables, plates, references, indexes. US$27.50 (paper) ISBN 0 226 31546 0; US$65 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 31545 2.     

The politics of Agudas Yisroel in inter‐war Poland

Yitzhak Arad, Ghetto in Flames. The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews in Vilna in the Holocaust. New York: Holocaust Library, 1982. 500pp. Index. $8.95.

Lucjan Dobroszycki (ed.). The Chronicle of the Lódz Ghetto, 1941–1944. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984. lxviii +551pp. Index. £25.

Yisrael Gutman, The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943. Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Brighton (UK): Harvester Press, 1982. xviii + ‐487pp. Index. £28.

Shmuel Krakowski, The War of the Doomed. Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942–1944. New York and London: Holmes and Meier, 1984. xii +340pp. Index.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Who is Black? One Nation's Definition, by F. James Davis. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991, 204 pages, $25.00, hardback, $12.50, paperback. The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models, edited by Geoff Payne and Pamela Abbott. London: The Falmer Press, 1990, 193 pages, $49.00 hardback, $25.00 paperback. Group Work with Older Adults, by Ronald W. Toseland. New York: New York University Press, 1990, 221 pages, $35.00, hardcover. Social Studies of Science, by Bernard Barber. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 1990, 278 pages, $34.95, hardback. Kamikaze Biker: Parody and Anomy in Affluent Japan, by Ikuya Sato. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991, 277 pages, $34.95, hardback. Serial Murderers and Their Victim, by Eric W. Hickey. Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Kole, 1991, 265 pages, $14.50, paperback. Metatheorizing in Sociology, by George Ritzer. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1991, 362 pages, $49.95, hardback.     

Book reviews

The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790. Rhys Isaac>. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1982. xxxii, 451pp. $29.50 & $9.95.

After Africa. Extracts from British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries concerning the Slaves, their Manners, and Customs in the British West Indies. Introduced and edited by Roger D. Abrahams and John F. Szwed, assisted by Leslie Barker and Adrian Stackhouse. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 1983. ix, 444 pp. £10.95 (Pp); £40.00 (Cl).

Another Dimension‐to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease, and Racism. Kenneth F. Kiple and Virginia Himmelsteib King. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1981. xix, 295pp. $29.95.

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States. Joel Williamson. New York: The Free Press. 1980. xvi + 221pp. Notes and index. $16.95.     

The Oxford Handbook's Capacious Atlantic

Questioning Slavery. James Walvin. London and New York: Routledge. 1996. xi, 202pp. £45.00 (cloth); £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–415–15356–5; 0–415–15357–3.

A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. xiii, 262pp. £29.50; £00.00. ISBN 0–253–33247–8; 0–253–21086–0.

Portrait of an Abolitionist: A Biography of George Luther Stearns, 1809–1867. Charles E. Heller. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. 1996. xii, 248 pp. £47.95. ISBN 0–3132–9863–7.

Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian. Hans L. Trefousse. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiii, 312 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0–8078–2335‐X.

Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Michael A. Morrison. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. xii, 396pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8078–2319–8.

Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. 330pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2326–0.

Fifty Years Later: Antislavery, Capitalism and Modernity in the Dutch Orbit. Edited by Gert Oostindie. Leiden: Kitlv Press. 1995. viii, 272pp. £45.00. ISBN 90–6718–096–3.

’There Are No Slaves In France’: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime. Sue Peabody. New York: Oxford University Press. 1997. x, 210pp. £30.00. ISBN 0–19–510198–7.     

Slavery in eighteenth‐century Rhode Island: Evidence from the census of 1774

Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. Stephan Palmié (ed.). Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. 1995. xlvii, 283pp. $35.00. ISBN 087049–903–3.

Carnival. Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making. John Cowley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xv, 293pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–521–48138–4.

West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan. Roderick a. McDonald (ed.). Kingston, Jamaica: The Press, University of the West Indies. 1996. xvi, 388pp. £14.00 (paperback). ISBN 976–640–022–9.

L'Engrenage de la Liberté: Caraïbes ‐ XIXe siècle, Nelly Schmidt. Aix‐en‐Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence. 1995. 360pp. 250FF. ISBN 2–85399–359–0.

Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving in the Liverpool Slave Trade. Suzanne Schwarz (ed.). Wrexham: Bridge Books. 1995. 164pp. £8.95. ISBN 1–872424–42–2. The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth‐Century Lancaster. Melinda Elder. Halifax: Ryburn Publishing. 1992. 232pp. £25. ISBN 1–85331–030–1.

Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps. William Dusinberre. New York: Oxford University Press. 1996. xiv, 556pp. £40.00.

The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: The narrative of Peter and Vina Still after forty years of slavery, Kate E.R. Pickard. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 1995. xv, 103, 409 pp. £14.00. ISBN 0–8032–9233–3.

The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. van Horne (eds.). Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, in co‐operation with the Library Company of Philadelphia. 1994. xviii, 363pp.

’what nature suffers to groe’: Life, labor and landscape on the Georgia coast, 1680–1920. Mart A. Stewart. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix, 370pp. $45. ISBN 0–8203–1808–6.

Abolitionism in the United States and Brazil: A Comparative Perspective, Celia M. Azevedo. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.1995. xxvi, 200pp. ISBN 0–8153–2332–8.     

Readers’ Roundtable

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The Elements of Teaching. James Banner, Jr., and Harold C. Cannon. 1997. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN: 0-300-06929-4.

American Stories: Collected Scholarship on Minority History from the OAH Magazine of History. 1998. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.     

Slavery and liberty: The case of the Scottish Colliers

Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians. Peter Hunt. Cambridge: Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiv, 246pp. £37.50 (cloth). ISBN 0–521–58429–9.

The English in West Africa, 1681–1683: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Part 1. Edited by Robin Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy. 1997. xix, 363pp. £45.00. ISBN 0–19–726176–0.

Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. Anthony W. Marx. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xvi, 390pp. £22.50/US$29.95. ISBN 0–521–58455–8.

Liberating the Family. Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823–1853. Pamela Scully. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Oxford: James Currey. xiii, 210, index, map. £40 (cloth); £15.95 (paper). ISBN 0–85255–678–0; 0–85255–628–4.

The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion. Edited by Robert Paquette and Stanley L. Engerman. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1996. xii, 383pp. £39.95. ISBN 0–8130–1428‐X.

Dictionary of Afro‐American Slavery. Updated with a New Introduction and Bibliography. Edited by Randall M. Miller and John David Smith. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. xix, 892pp. £27.95 (paper). ISBN 0–275–95799–3.

Masters, Slaves, &; Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740–1790. Robert Olwell. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xvi, 294pp. £38.95 (cloth); £13.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8014–3488–3; 0–8014–8491‐X.

Slavery, Freedom and Culture among Early American Workers. Graham Russell Hodges. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998. xi, 185pp. $55.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0–7656–0112–5; 0–7656–0113–3.

Designs against Charleston: The Trial Records of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822. Edward A. Pearson. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xiii, 387pp. £31.50. ISBN: 0–8078–2446–1.

Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. Paul Goodman. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998. xxi, 303pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–20794–7.

Race, Place, and the Law, 1836–1948. David Delaney. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1998. x, 229pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–7–1596‐X; 0–292–71597–8.     

Book Reviews

William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Responses to Blacks, 1530–1880. (Bloomington and London, Indiana University Press, 1980). Pp.xix + 360, incl. notes and index. £13·50.

Study Commission on US Policy Toward Southern Africa, South Africa: Time Running Out. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1981). Pp. xxvii + 517. Illus. $8·95.

Henry A. Gemery and Jan S. Hogendorn (eds.), The Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. (London, Academic Press, 1979). Pp. xvi +448. $24·00.

Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. (London, The Athlone Press, 1980). Pp. xvi + 651. £14·50.

Paul D. Escott, Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth‐Century Slave Narratives. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1979), Pp. xv + 221. Illus. US $12·50.

Ronald T. Takaki, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in Nineteenth‐Century America. (London, The Athlone Press, 1980). Pp. xviii + 361. Ulus., tables, notes, bibliog., and index. $12·50.

Ronald H. Bayor, Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929–1941 (Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980). Pp. xiv + 232. £3·50.

Peter Kwong, Chinatown, N.Y.: Labor and Politics, 1930–1950. (New York and London, Monthly Review Press, 1979). Pp. 178. Illus. £7·60.

Jerry White, Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, 1887–1920. (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980). Pp. xviii + 301. £6·95.

The Runnymede Trust and The Radical Statistics Race Group, Britain's Black Population. (London, Heinemann Educational, 1980). Pp. xiii + 160. £4·95.

Anne Aresty Namon, The Jew in the Victorian Novel—Some Relationships Between Prejudice and Art. (New York, AMS Press Inc., 1980). Pp. 238. £6·50.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences. Graham Button (ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Text in Context: Contributions to Ethnomethodology. Graham Watson and Robert M. Seiler (eds.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. Shooting Dope: Career Patterns of Hard-Core Heroin Users, by Charles E. Faupel. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1991, 220 pages, $27.95, hardcover. Capitalist Development and Democracy, by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, 387 pages, $45.00, hardback, $19.95, paper. What Does the Lord Require? How American Christians Think about Economic Justice, by Stephen Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 251 pages, $24.95, hardback. Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory, by Philomena Essed. Newberry Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991, 322 pages, $44.00, cloth. The Search for Rational Drug Control, by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 219 pages, $24.95, hardback. Micropolitics of Knowledge: Communication and Indirect Control in Workgroups, by Emmanuel Lazega. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992, 149 pages, $37.95, hardback, $16.95, paperback. Studying Collective Action, Sage Modern Politics Series Volume 30, sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research/ECPR, edited by Mario Diani and Ron Eyerman. London: Sage, 1992, 263 pages, $60.00, hardback.     

Emancipation studies: The demise of slavery in Pennsylvania and New York

Freedom By Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. By GARY B. NASH and JEAN R. SODERLUND. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 249 pp. £20.

Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New YorkCity, 1770–1810. By SHANE WHITE. Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xviii, 278 pp. $35.