NANCY TAPPER,Bartered Brides: Politics,Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society

Book reviewed in this article: ALAN DUBEN and CEM BEHAR, Istanbul Households: Marriage, Family and Fertility, 1880–1940     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: MORTIMORE, Claudia Immigration and Adoption Trentham Books and School of Oriental and African Studies WYMAN, Mark Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880–1930. BRINK, M., and M. PASARIBOE (Editors) Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands Centre for Migration Research, Department of Human Geography, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1993 MARSELLA, A. J., T. BORNEMANN, S. EKBLAD and J. ORLEY (Editors) Amidst Peril and Pain: The Mental Health and Well-being of the World's Refugees REID, Euan, and Hans REICH (Editors) Breaking the Boundaries: Migrant Workers' Children in the EC     

Anxious urbanity: xenophobia,the native subject and the refugee camp

G. Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall; A history of South African ‘Coloured’ politics, (Cape Town, David Philip, 1987)

Ian Goldin, Making Race: The politics and economics of Coloured identity in South Africa (Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1987).

Gavin Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall: A History of South African ‘Coloured’ Politics (Cape Town: David Philip, 1987).

Women in African Literature Today, No. 15, James Curry Limited, London: 1987.

Left‐Radical Movements in South Africa and Namibia 1900–1981 A Bibliographical and Historical Study, compiled by Elizabeth W. Böhmer. 2 vols. Cape Town: South African Library, 1986 and 1987.

South African Review 4. Edited and compiled by Glenn Moss and Ingrid Obery for the Southern African Research Service (SARS). Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987, 599 pp., R24,95

The Rise and Decline of Apartheid: A study of political movements among the coloured people of South Africa, 1880–1985, R.E. van der Ross, (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1986)

Setiloane, Gabriel M. African Theology ‐An Introduction. Johannnesburg. Skotaville 1986.

Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat, by Doug Hindson, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1987.

Class, Community and Conflict: South African Perspectives, edited by Belinda Bozzoli (Ravan, Johannesburg, 1987).     

Race and economics in Nineteenth‐century Georgia

From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880. JOSEPH P. REIDY. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xiv+360pp. $45.00. ISBN 0–8078–2061‐X.

Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure. EDMOND L. DRAGO. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, c1982, 1992. xxii+211pp. $16.95. ISBN 0–8203–1438–2.     

ALTERNATIVE COLLECTIVE-GOODS MODELS OF MILITARY ALLIANCES: THEORY AND EMPIRICS

How should the defense activities of allies be aggregated to determine the alliance-wide level of defense? Two alternative models–best shot and weakest link–are contrasted with simple summation of defense spending or manpower for aggregating allies' defense efforts. We extend the joint product model to include these methods of aggregation, and devise an empirical procedure to test between best-shot and weakest -link models. We apply this test to four alliances: Triple Alliance (1880–1914), Triple Entente (1880–1914), Warsaw Pact (1963–1987), and NATO (1961–1987). The testing procedure can be applied to other collective choice situations.     

Book reviews

The New Racism: Conservatives and the Ideology of the Tribe, Martin Barker The Calling of Sociology and Other Essays on the Pursuit of Learning, Edward Shils Sociological Journeys, Essays 1960–1980, Daniel Bell Prosecution in the Public Interest, S.R. Moody and J. Tombs Courts, Prosecution and Conviction, M. McConville and J. Baldwin Reconstructing Reality in the Courtroom, W.L. Bennett and M. S. Feldman Conviction: Law, the state and the construction of Justice, D. J. McBarnet Is There a Future for Marxism?, Alex Callinicos Marxism and the Modern State, David Wells Last Managers: Supervisors in Industry and Society, John Child and Bruce Partridge The Foundations of Structuralism: A Critique of Levi-Strauss and the Structuralist Movement, Simon Clarke Leisure in the Industrial Revolution (c. 1780-c. 1880), Hugh Cunningham Popular Culture: Past and Present, B. Waites, T. Bennett and G. Martin (eds) Liturgies and Trials: The Secularization of Religious Language, Richard K. Fenn Urban Political Economy and Social Theory: Critical Essays in Urban Studies, Ray Forrest, Jeff Henderson and Peter Williams (eds) Positivism arid Sociology: Explaining Social Life, P. Halfpenny Family Time and Industrial Time, Tamara K. Hareven Beyond Welfare Capitalism, Ulf Himmelstrand, Goran Ahrne, Leif Lundberg and Lars Lundberg Middle Class African Marriage, Christine Oppong Tragic Drama and Modern Society, J. Orr The State; Industrialisation and Class Formations in India: A Neo-Marxist Perspective on Colonialism, Underdevelopment and Development, Anupam Sen     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Essays on the History of British Sociological Research, M. Bulmer (ed.) Three Sociological Traditions, Randall Collins Macro Sociological Theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory Vol. I, H.J. Helle and S.N. Eisenstadt (eds) Micro Sociological theory: Perspectives on Sociological Theory Vol. II, H.J. Helle and S.N. Eisenstadt (eds) Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West, John A. Hall Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State, William Buxton G.H. Mead. A Contemporary Re-Examination of his Thought, Hans Joas Language, Structure and Reproduction. An Introduction to the Sociology of Basil Bernstein, Paul Atkinson Measuring Culture: A Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Organisation, Jonathan L. Gross and Steve Rayner Food in the Social Order, Mary Douglas (ed.) Classes, Erik Olin Wright Annals of the Labouring Poor, K.D.M. Snell Beyond Employment: Household, Gender and Subsistence, Nanneke Redclift and Enzo Mingione (eds.) Women's Working Lives: Patterns and Strategies, Susan Yeandle On Women, Sexuality and Love, Georg Simmel, translated and with an introduction by Guy Oakes A Woman's Place, An Oral History of Working-Class Women 1890–1940, Elizabeth Roberts The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography. Volume 1: 1790–1900, John Burnett, David Vincent and David Mayall (eds) The Sociology of Law, Roman Tomasic Legal Systems and Social Systems, Adam Podgorecki, Christopher J. Whelan and Dinesh Khosla The Politics of the Police, Robert Reiner European Immigration Policy: A Comparative Study, Tomas Hammar (ed.) The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life, Roy Wallis The Need for Religious Certainty: A Sociological Study of Conventional Religion, Robert Towler No Pope of Rome: Militant Protestantism in Modern Scotland, Steve Bruce American Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 1, No 1, 1984, S.S. Nyang (ed.) The Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem, V. Azarya Islamic Sociology, I. Ba-Yunus and F. Ahmad Categories of Medieval Culture, A. J. Gurevich (translated by G.L. Campbell) Science for Social Scientists, John Law and Peter Lodge The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences, Richard Whitley Framing Science: The Making of a BBC Documentary, Roger Silverstone     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Sociology in America: Herbert J. Gans, (ed.) Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights: Keith Tester Social Forms/Human Capacities: Essays in Authority and Differences Philip Corrigan Labour Process Theory: David Knights and Hugh Willmott (eds) Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory: Martin Albrow Bureaucratisation in Northwestern Europe, 1880–1985: Domination and Governance: Rolf Torstendahl Organisational Rules: A Framework for Understanding Organisational Action: Albert J. Mills and Stephen J. Murgatroyd Organisations in Society: Glenn Morgan The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality: Valerie Walkerdine Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture and Social Criticism: S. Aronowitz and H. A. Giroux ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Education: Teaching and Learning in Multi-Ethnic Schools: David Gillborn, Unwin Hyman Japan's ‘International Youth’: The Emergence of a New Class of Schoolchildren: Roger Goodman The Sociology of the Health Service: Jonathan Gabe, Michael Calnan and Michael Bury (eds) Living in a Man-Made World: Gender Assumptions in Modern Housing Design: Marion Roberts Women and Industrialization: Gender at Work in Nineteenth Century England: J. Lown The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy: David Cannadine The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics and Culture: Emmanuel Todd, Basil Blackwell Culture and Politics in Northern Ireland 1960–1990: Eamonn Hughes, (ed.) Highland Games: The Making of the Myth: Grant Jarvie Before Novels: The Cultural Context of Eighteenth Century English Fiction: J. Paul Hunter, W. W. Norton Writing Sites: Jon Stratton, Harvester-Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality: Paul Atkinson Life and Work History Analyses: Qualitative and Quantitative Developments: Shirley Dex (ed.) A Sort of Clowning: Life and Times 1940–1959: Richard Hoggart     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article Social Problems: A Critical Analysis of Theories and Public Policy by R. P. Lowry Trade Unions and Society: The Struggle for Acceptance, 1850–1880 by W. Hamish Fraser The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting by Daniel Bell A Mythology of British Education by Robert Bell and Nigel Grant Trade Unionism by J. A. Banks Inside a Curriculum Project by M. D. Shipman, with D. Bolam and D. Jenkins The Prisonei's Release by Keith Soothill The Scope of Understanding in Sociology by Werner Pelz Sociology and the Demystification of the Modem World by John Rex Cultures, Vol. I. No. I: ‘Music and Society’ Citizens in Conflict: The Sociology of Town Planmng by J. M. Simmie Strikes and Industrial Conflict by G. K. Ingham Apprentices Out of Their Time: A Follow-Up Study by Ethel VenaMes Popular Recreations in English Society, 1700–1850 by Robert W. Atalccdmson Sociology and Development by E. de Kadt and G. Williams Concepts in Socud Administration: A Framework for Analysis by A. Forder Connections: Notes from the Heroin World by Leroy C. Gould, Andrew L. Walker, Lansing E. Crane and Charles W. Lidz Computers and the Social Sciences by Alan Brier and Ian Robinson Incest by Herbert Maish Stratification: An Essay on Class and Inequality by R. K. Kelsall and H. M. Relsall Personnel Pkmning and Occupational Choice by S. Timperley     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Judy Wajcman, Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management. Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar, Women and Work in Russia 1880–1930: A Study of Continuity through Change. Gail Hershatter, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth‐Century Shanghai. Yuko Ogasawara, Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender and Work in Japanese Companies. Alison Adam, Artificial Intelligence: Gender and the Thinking Machine. David Collins, Organizational Change: Sociological Perspectives.     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: FRANCIS A. BEER, Peace Against War: The Ecology of International Violence. GEERT P. BRAAM, Influence of Business Firms on the Government. MICHAEL LAMBEK, Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte. ROBERT J. BRYM, Intellectuals and Politics. FERNAND DUMONT, JEAN HAMELIN and JEAN-PAUL MONTMINY (eds.), Idéologies au Canada Francois: 1940–1976 Tomes I, II and III. VIVIAN DARROCH and RONALD J. SILVER (eds.), Interpretive Human Studies: an Introduction to Phenomenological Research. NIKLAS LUHMANN, The Differentiation of Society (trans. Stephen Holmes and Charles Larmore). KLAUS MÄKELÄ, et al., Alcohol, Society, and the State (vol. 1): A Comparative Study of Alcohol Control. ERIC SINGLE, et al. (eds.), Alcohol, Society, and the State (vol. 2): The Social History of Control Policy in Seven Countries. FRANK J. MIFFLEN and SYDNEY C. MIFFLEN, The Sociology of Education: Canada and Beyond. FERNAND OUELLET, Lower Canada, 1791–1840: Social Change and Nationalism. RON PARSLER (ed.), Capitalism, Class and Politics in Scotland. RON PARSLER and DAN SHAPIRO (eds.), The Social Impact of Oil in Scotland: A Contribution to the Sociology of Oil. R. COOPERSTOCK and J. HILL, The Effects of Tranquilization: Benzodiazepine Use in Canada. Papers, Revista de Sociologia     

Reviews

The Jewish Anti‐Fascist Committee Revisited. Alexander M. Borschtschagowski, Orden für einen Mord: Die Judenverfolgung unter Stalin. Berlin: Propyläen, 1997. Notes. Ind. Glossary. 472pp. ISBN 3–549–05605–2 (hbk)

Arno Lustiger, Rotbuch: Stalin und die Juden. Die tragische Geschichte des Jüdischen Antifaschistischen Komitees und der sowjetischen Juden. With a foreword by Efim Etkind. Berlin: Aufbau‐Verlag, 1998. Bibl. Notes. Ind. Photographs. 429pp. ISBN 3–351–02478–9 (hbk)

A Chicken‐and‐Egg Situation. Charles King and Neil J. Melvin (eds.), Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union. Boulder, CO/Oxford: Westview Press, 1998. 240 pp. Index. ISBN 0–8133–9015‐X

A Greek Tragedy. Gennady Estraikh, Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. x + 217pp. Bibliography. Index. £40. ISBN: 0–19818479–0

Freeze‐Frame Picture. Susanne Marten‐Finnis and Heather Valencia. Sprachinseln. Jiddische Publizistik in London, Wilna und Berlin 1880–1930. Cologne/Weimar/Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999. 144pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. ISBN: 3–412–02998‐X     

Book reviews

Ginevra Conti Odorisio (ed.) Salvatore Morelli (1824–1880): Emancipazionismo e Democrazia nell'Ottocento Europeo ESI, Napoli, pp. 476, £. 60.000.     

Book Reviews

Celia Briar, Working for Women? Gendered Work and Welfare Policies in Twentieth Century Britain Rosemary Crompton, Duncan Gallie and Kate Purcell, Changing Forms of Employment Organisations, Skills and Gender Barbara Harrison, ‘Not Only the Dangerous Trades’. Women's Work and Health in Britain, 1880–1914 Suzan Lewis and Jeremy Lewis, The Work — Family Challenge: Rethinking Employment     

Reshaping Southern history: Studies in the development of Agrarian capitalism in the nineteenth‐century South∗

The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880. Michael Wayne. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press. 1983. xiv, 226 pp. £22.95.

White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth‐Century Georgia. Charles L. Flynn, Jr. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press. 1983. xiv, 196 pp. £17.90.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Citizenship and Migration. Globalization and the Politics of Belonging. By Stephen Castles and Alastair Davidson Workers without Frontiers. By Peter Stalker Issues in the Economics of Immigration. Edited by George J. Borjas Regularisations of Illegal Immigrants in the European Union/Les régularisations des étrangers illégaux dans l'Union Européenne. Under the supervision of Philippe de Bruycker Immigrants and the Labour Force: Policy, Regulation and Impact. By Ravi Pendakur Border Games: Policing the U.S.‐Mexico Divide. By Peter Andreas Immigration as a Democratic Challenge: Citizenship and Inclusion in Germany and the United States. By Ruth Rubio‐Marin Multicultural Citizenship of the European Union. By Juan M. Delgado‐Moreira The Origins of Multiculturalism in Australian Politics 1945–1975. By Mark Lopez From Ellis Island to JFK. New York' Two Great Waves of Immigration. By Nancy Foner Immigrant Mind, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870–1930. By Orm Øverland Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890–1925. By Katrina Irving Transatlantic Tier in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain and Puebla, Mexico, 1560–1620. By Ida Altman Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France and Germany. By Joel S. Fetzer New York Befire Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776–1882. By John Kuo Wei Tchen New Chinese Migrants in Europe – The Case of the Chinese Community in Hungay. By Pál Nyíri In Search of an Identity: Essays and Ideas on Anglo‐Australians, German‐Australians and Others. By Johann Peter Weiss Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882–1943. By Madeline Yuan‐yin Hsu Indians in Britain. Anglo‐Indian Encounters, Ruce and Identity, 1880–1930. By Shompa Lahiri Women Migrant Workers in China's Economic Reform. By Feng Xu West Indians In West Afiica, 1808–1880. By Nemata Amelia Blyden     

Yizo Yizo: sowing debate,reaping controversy

René Pélissier, Naissance du Mozambique: Résistance et Révoltes Anticoloniales (1854–1918). (Orgeval, Pelissier, 1984) 2 vols, pp 393 + 490.

Jan van Butselaar, Africains, Missionaires et Colonialistes: Les Origines de l'Eglise Presbytérienne du Mozambique (Mission Suisse), 1880–1896. (Leiden, EJ. Brill, 1984) pp. ix + 230.

Christine Verschuur, Marluza Correa Lima, Philippe Lamy, German Velasquez, Mozambique, Dix Ans de Solitude... (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1986). pp. 179. 90FF.

Michel Cahen, Mozambique: La Révolution Implosée. Etudes sur 12 ans d'independance (1975–1987). (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1987). pp. 170. 90FF.

“Mozambique: Guerre et Nationalismes,” special issue of Politique Africaine, No 29, Mars 1988.

Charles Biber, Cent Ans au Mozambique: Le Parcours d'une minorité. (Lausanne, Editions du Soc, 1987) pp. 158.     

A neglected classic: Leonard Marsh's Canadians In and Out of Work*

Depuis sa parution en 1965, La mosaïque verticale de John Porter est considéré, presque à l'unanimité, comme la première étude vraiment complète de la structure des classes dans la société canadienne. Les auteurs de cette communication contestent cette idée et soutiennent que cette distinction revient de droit — à quelques nuances près — au livre peu connu de Leonard Marsh paru en 1940 sous le titre Canadians In and Out of Work: A Survey of Economic Classes and their Relation to the Labour Market. Les auteurs présentent également une brève explication de type «sociologie de la connaissance» de l'accueil différent qu'on a réservé aux deux études. John Porter's The Vertical Mosaic, published in 1965, is generally regarded as the first comprehensive study of Canada's national class structure. This paper makes the (qualified) argument that it is Leonard Marsh's little-known volume, Canadians In and Out of Work: A Survey of Economic Classes and their Relation to the Labour Market, published in 1940, that deserves this mark of distinction. The paper also provides a brief ‘sociology of sociology’ type of explanation for the difference in the receptions accorded the two volumes.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism as a Social Movement, Olive Banks Small Entrepreneurs in Changing Europe: Towards a Research Agenda, Jeremy Boissevan The Entrepreneurial Middle Class, Richard Scase and Robert Goffee The Logic of Social Action. An Introduction to Sociological Analysis, Raymond Boudon The Unintended Consequences of Social Action, Raymond Boudon Thinking Photography, Victor Burgin (ed.) The Politics of Pop Festivals, Michael Clarke One For the Money: Politics and Popular Song, Dave Harker Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, G. A. Cohen Cooking, Cuisine and Class, Jack Goody The German Social Democratic Party, W. L. Guttsman The Creation of World Poverty, An Alternative View to the Brandt Report, Teresa Hayter The Bureaucratic Leviathan–A Study in the Sociology of Communism, Maria Hirszowicz Culture and Society in Contemporary Europe: A Casebook, S. Hoffman and P. Kitromiledes (eds) Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Towards an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, Karin Knorr-Cetina and Aaron Cicourel, (eds) Johnsonville: Continuity and Change in a New Zealand Township, David Pearson An Island Polity: the archaeology of exploitation in Melos, Colin Renfrew and Malcolm Wagstaff (eds) On Becoming a Rock Musician, H. Stith Bennet The Population History of England 1541–1871: A Reconstruction E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield Policing the City, Rob Mawby Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science, H.M. Collins and T.J. Pinch Field Research: A Sourcebook and Field Manual, Ed. Robert G. Burgess The History of Marxism: vol I, Marxism in Marx's Day, Ed. E. J. Hobsbawm Modern Interpretations of Marx, Tom Bottomore Ed. Hooligans or Rebels? An Oral History of Working-Class Childhood and Youth 1889–1939, Stephen Humphries Housing and Identity – cross-cultural Perspectives Ed. James S. Duncan.     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Radical Earnestness, English Social Theory 1880–1980 Fred Inglis, Martin Robertson That Noble Science of Politics S. Collini, D. Winch, J. Burrow The Analysis of Power: A Realist Approach Geoffrey Debnam War in the Modern Great Power System 1495–1975 Jack S. Levy Social Control and the State Stanley Cohen and Andrew Scull (eds) The Protection of Children: State Intervention and Family Life R. Dingwall, J. Eekelaar, T. Murray Capitalism, the State and Industrial Relations Dominic Strinati Mexico: Class Formation, Capital Accumulation, and the State James D. Cockcroft The Management of Scottish Society, 1707–1764 John Stuart Shaw Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy: A tale of two cities J. Chubb Black Gold: The Mozambican Miner, Proletarian and Peasant Ruth First Crime, Justice and Underdevelopment Colin Sumner (ed.) Power, Crime and Mystification Steven Box Marxism Structuralism Education Madan Sarup Family and School Daphne Johnson and Elizabeth Ransom Experiencing Comprehensive Education Robert G. Burgess Images of Welfare: Press and Public Attitudes to Poverty Peter Golding and Sue Middleton Youth and Leisure Kenneth Roberts The Traveller Gypsies Judith Okely Haruko's World; A Japanese Farm Woman and her Community Gail Lee Bernstein Women and the Public Sphere J. Siltanen and M. Stanworth Forever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Femininity Marjorie Ferguson Writing and Sexual Difference Elizabeth Abel (ed.)