Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
JAY NARAYAN, The Political Economy of Fiji. Suva, Fiji: South Pacific Review Press, 1984, pp. 144
A. WIPPER (ed.), The Sociology of Work. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1984, NPG
A. ROMANIUC, Fertility in Canada: From Baby-boom to Baby-bust. Ottawa: Statistics Canada
L. WAI, S. SHIEL and T.R. BALAKRISHNAN, Annotated Bibliography of Canadian Demography, 1966–1982. London, Ont.: Centre for Canadian Population Studies, The University of Western Ontario
RONALD HAMOWY, Canadian Medicine: A Study in Restricted Entry. Toronto: The Fraser Institute, 1984, NPG
SHEPARD KRECH III (ed.), The Subarctic fur Trade: Native Social and Economic Adaptations. Vancouver: The University of British Columbia Press
JUDITH NAGATA, The Reflowering of Malaysian Islam: Modern Religious Radicals and Their Roots. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press
M. SEGUIN (ed.), The Tsimshian — Images of the Past: Views for the Present. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984, pp. 343, photos
RESPONSE TO BEN AGGER'S REVIEW OF THE COMMUNIST IDEAL IN HEGEL AND MARX ( CRSA )     

Book Reviews

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The Reign of Tiberius. By Frank Burr Marsh. Oxford University Press, New York, 1931. 344 pp. Reviewed by Sterling Tracy.

Schemes for the Federation of the British Empire. By Seymour Ching-Yuan Cheng. Columbia University Press (Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law, no. 335), New York, 1931. 313 pp. $5.25.

Land Problems and Policies in the African Mandates of the British Commonwealth. By Nick P. Mitchell. (University Studies, no. 2) Louisiana State University Press. Baton Rouge, 1931. 155 pp. $2.00. Reviewed by Charles F. Mullett.

French Mercantilist Doctrines before Colbert. By Charles Wolsey Cole. Richard R. Smith, Inc. New York, 1931. xiv, 243 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Summerfield Baldwin.

Story of Near East Relief. By James L. Barton. New York. Macmillan Co., 1930. Pp. xxii, 479. $2.50. Reviewed by A. O. Sarkissian.

The Diaries of John Bright, 1811-1889. Edited by R. A. J. Walling. William Morrow &; Co., New York, 1931. Reviewed by Sarah A. Wallace.

Latters of John III, King of Portugal, 1521-1557. The Portuguese Text edited with an introduction by J. D. M. Ford. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1931. xxx, 408 pp. Illus.

A History of Spanish Literature. By Ernest M$eArim$eAe. Translated, Revised, and Enlarged by S. Griswold Morley. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1930. xv, 635 pp. Illus. $4.

Meet the Spaniards. In which Spain is seen primarily through the Life of the Spanish People. By Henry Albert Phillips. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1931. 330 pp. Illus. $3.

Silver Seas and Golden Cities. A J oyons Journey through Latin Lands. By Frances Parkinson Keyes. Horace Live-right, New York, 1931. ix, 333 pp. Illus. $3.50. Reviewed by A. Curtis Wilgus.

The Cambridge History of the British Empire. Edited by J. Holland Rose, A. P. Newton, and A. Benians. Vol. vi, Canada and Newfoundland. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1930. Pp. xxi, 939. $9.50. Reviewed by A. Gordon Dewey.

Industrial Evolution. By N. S. B. Gras. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1930. 259 pp. Reviewed by Shepherd B. Clough.

The Children of Mu. By James Churchward. Ives Washburn, New York, 1931. 266 pp. Illus. $3. The History of the Maya from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By Thomas Gann and J. Eric Thompson. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1931. x, 264. pp. Illus. $2.50.

The Magic and Mysteries of Mexico, or the Arcane Secrets and Occult Lore of the Ancient Mexicans and Maya. By Lewis Spence. David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1931. 288 pp. Illus. $6. Reviewed by A. Curtis Wilgus.     

Cultural History Between Structure And Contingency: the Manus example

Carrier, James and Achsah Carrier. Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state. (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology, vol. 7, edited by G.H. Herdt, FJ. Porter Poole and D. Tuzin.) Berkeley: University of California Press. 1989. xvii, 257pp., tables, references, index. ISBN 0 520 06389 9.

Carrier, Achsah and James Carrier. Structure and process in a Melanesian society: Ponam's progress in the twentieth century. (Studies in Anthropology and History, vol. 1, edited by N. Thomas.) Chun Harwood Academic Publishers. 1991. xxii, 261pp., appendices, glossary, references, author and subject index. ISBN 3 7186 5149 1.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reivewed in this article:
The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate , by Jurgen Habermas. Ed. and trans. by Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990, 200 pages, $19.95, hardback.
Deceptive Distinctions: Sex, Gender and the Social Order , by Cynthia B. Fuchs Epstein. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988, 300 pages, $25.00, hardback.
Medical Work in America: Essays on Health Care , by Eliot Freidson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989, 274 pages, $30.00, cloth, $15.95, paper.
Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents , by Steve Fuller. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989, 188 pages, $32.95, hardcover.
Friendship: Developing a Sociological Perspective , by Graham Allan. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1989, 174 pages, $16.95, hardback.
The Urban Web: Politics, Policy, and Theory , by Lawrence J.R. Herson and John M. Bolland. Chicago, IL: Nelson Hall Publishers, 1990, 512 pages, $22.95, paper, $29.95, hardback.
The Real Disaster is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict , by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and Stephen Robert Couch. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1990, 200 pages, $24.00, hardback.
The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America , by G. William Domhoff. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990, 315 pages, $47.95, hardback, $19.95, paper.
Locality and Inequality: Farm and Industry Structure and Socioeconomic Conditions , by Linda M. Lobao. Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press, 1990, 291 pages, $49.50, hardback, $14.95, paper.     

Book reviews / Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: RICHARD F. TOMASSON, Iceland: The First New Society. KEN HESKIN, Northern Ireland: A Psychological Analysis. MICHALINA VAUGHAN, MARTIN KOLINSKY and PETA SHERIFF, Social Change in France. PAUL CRAVEN, ‘An Impartial Umpire’: Industrial Relations and the Canadian State, 1900–1911. JOHANNES M. PENNINGS, Interlocking Directorates. ALFRED A. HUNTER, Class Tells: On Social Inequality in Canada. JACK BATTEN, Lawyers. VICTOR W. MARSHALL. Last Chapters: A Sociology of Aging and Dying. BAHA ABU-LABAN, The Olive Branch on the family Tree: The Arabs in Canada STEPHEN E. HENBERG, The Analysis of Cross-classified Categorical Data (2nd ed.). DAVID K. FOOT., Canada's Population Outlook: Demographic Futures and Economic Challenges. DALLAS W. SMYTHE. Dependency Road: Communication, Capitalism, Consciousness, and Canada. MICHAEL RUSE, Is Science Sexist? Dordrecht JOHN C. KENNEDY. Holding the Line: Ethnic Boundaries in a Northern Labrador Community. Social and Economic Studies no. 27. St. BRUCE WINTERHOLDER and ERIC SMITH (eds), Hunter-gatherer foraging strategies.     

Book reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: DANIELGLENDAY, HUBERTGUINDON, and ALLAN TUROWETZ (eds.), Modernization and the Canadian State. GORDON BOWKER and JOHN CARRIER. Race and Ethnic Relations: Sociological Readings. JOSEPH F. KRAUTER and MORRIS DAVIS. Minority Canadians: Ethnic Group. PAT ARMSTRONG and HUGH ARMSTRONG. The Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work. LEROY O. STONE and CLAUDE MARCEAU. Canadian Population Trends and Public Policy Through the 1980's. KAROL KROTKI (ed.). Developments in Dual System Estimation of Population Size and Growth. MARTIN RULMER (ed.). Mining and Social Change. M. SILVERMAN and R.F. SALISBURY. A House Divided.? anthropological Studies of Factionalism: Social and Economic Papers No. 9. Institute of Social and Economic Research. RENEE G. KASINSKY. Refugees From Militarism: Draft-age Americans in Canada.     

Economic Conditions in Rome and Their Lessons for Us

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The Economic and Social History of an English Village (Crawley, Hampshire) A.D. 909-1928. By N. S. B. Gras and E. C. Gras. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1930, XV, 730 pp. $7.50.

The American Revolution and the British Empire. By R. Coupland. Longmans, Green and Co. London, New York, Toronto, 1930; vii, 331 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by Robert Livingston Schuyler.

The Genius of Mexico. Lectures Delivered before the Fifth Seminar in Mexico, 19.10. Edited by Hubert C. Herring and Katharine Terrill. The Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America, New York, 1931. 334 pp. Reviewed by Milton W. Hamilton.

A Guide to the Study of Medieval History. By Louis J. Paetow. Revised Edition under the Auspices of the Medieval Academy of America, Dana C. Munro, editor in chief. New York, 1931. (Crofts, $6.00). Reviewed by John L. La Monte.

International Government. By Edmund C. Mower. D. C. Heath &; Co., Boston, 1931. xix, 736 pp. $5.00.

International Law. A Restatement of Principles in Conformity with Actual Practise. By Ellery C. Stowell. Henry Holt &; Co., New York, 1931. xxvi, 829 pp. $4.75. Reviewed by Walden Moore.

A History of South America. By Charles Edmund Akers. E. P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1930. xxxii, 781 pp. Illus. Maps. $5.

A History of the Argentine Republic. By F. A. Kirkpatrick. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1931. xxvii, 255 pp. Illus. Maps.

Narratives of the Discovery of America. By A. W. Lawrence and Jean Young. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1931. viii, 300 pp. Maps. $3.

Select Documents Illustrating the four Voyages of Columbus. Vol. 1. By Cecil Jane. The Hakluyt Society, London, 1930. Illus. Maps. Reviewed by A. Curtis Wilgus.

The American Public Mind. By Peter Odegard. Columbia University Press, New York, 1930. 308 pp.

American Society. By Charles F. Thwing. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1931. 271 pp. Reviewed by R. Stanley McCordock.

The Cabinet Council of England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 1622-1784, vol. 1. By Edward Raymond Turner. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1930. xi, 469 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by Charles F. Mullett.

A History of the Hebrew People from the Earliest Times to the Year 70 A.D. Largely in the Language of Bible. Prepared by George A. Barton. The Century Co., New York, London, 1930, 464 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Salo Baron.

Nelson W. Aldrich: a Leader in American Politics. By Nathaniel Wright Stephenson. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1930. xii, 496 pp. Reviewed by Herbert B. Howe.     

Book reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
CANADIAN SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CANADIAN SOCIAL SCIENCE CRAIG HERON (ed.). Imperialism, Nationalism and Canada.
JOHN HUTCHESON. Dominance and Dependency.
POILIP RESNICK. The Land of Cain: Class and Nationalism in English Canada, 1945–1975.
LEO PANITCH (ed.). The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power.
HENRY MILNER. Politics in the New Quebec.
DANIEL GLENDAY. HUBERT GUINDON, and ALLAN TUROWETZ. Modernization and the Canadian State.
ROGER O'TOOLE. The Precipitous Path: Studies in Political Sects.
LEO DRIEDGER (ed.). The Canadian Ethnic Mosaic.
RICHARD A. CARLTON, LOUISE A. COLLEY, and NEIL J. MACKINNON (eds.). Education, Change, and Society: A Sociology of Canadian Education.
S. PARVEZ WAKIL, Marriage and Family in Canada. Journal of Comparative Family Studies Monograph, George Kurian (ed.).
LORNE TEPPERMAN. Crime Control: The Urge Toward Authority.
DAVID B. CHANDLER. Capital Punishment in Canada: A Sociological Study of Repressive Law.     

Searching for critical issues in philanthropy

Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide—Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters, by Arthur C. Brooks. New York: Basic Books, 2006. 256 pp., $26.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism, by Joan Roelofs. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 270 pp., $29.95 paper. The Foundation: A Great American Secret, by Joel Fleishman. New York: PublicAffairs, 2007. 384 pp., $27.95 cloth. The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune, by Conor O'Clery. New York: PublicAffairs, 2007. 352 pp., $26.95 cloth.     

Book reviews

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Building community: a history of the Port Adelaide Central Mission Brian Dickey and Elaine Martin (1999), Port Adelaide Central Mission Inc: Adelaide

Dogs, kids & homeswest: The story of Tkalka Boorda Aboriginal community John Scougall and Ricky Osborne (1998), Curtin Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Perth

Social work as community development: A management model for social change (2nd edition) Stephen Clarke (2000), Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 0 7546 1111 60

Multicultural queer: Australian narrativesPeter A. Jackson and Gerard Sullivan (eds) (1999), Haworth Press, New York 233 pp.

Towards poverty alleviation in Australia: A first step Manohar Pawar and John McClinton (2000), Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 70pp. $22.00 (paperback)

Working with involuntary clients: A guide to practice C. Trotter (1999), Allen & Unwin, Sydney ISBN 1 86448 498 5 162 pp. $29.95 (paperback)

Learning to Love Lorraine Rose (2000), Acer Press, Victoria, $24.95 (paperback)

The task planner: An intervention resource for human service professionals William J. Reid (2000), Columbia University Press, New York ISBN 0 231 10647 5 $22.50 (paperback)

Deeper dimensions: culture, youth and mental health Marie Bashir and David Bennett (eds) (2000), Transcultural Mental Health Centre, Parramatta 181pp. $20.00 (paperback)

The many-sided triangle: Adoption in Australia Audrey Marshall and Margaret McDonald (2001), Melbourne University Press ISBN 0 522 84943 1 300pp. $32.95 (paperback)

Working with men in the human services Bob Pearse and Peter Camilleri (eds), Allen & Unwin, Sydney ISBN 1 86508 480 8 248 pp. $29.95 (paperback)

Professional expertise: Practice theory and education for working in uncertainty Jan Fook, Martin Ryan and Linette Hawkins (2000), Whiting and Brich, London ISBN 1 86177 029 4 £35.00 (hardback)

Social policy in the post-welfare state: Australians on the threshold of the 21st century Adam Jamrozik (2001), Psarson Education, Sydney ISBN 0 7339 9905 0 $44.95 (paperback)

Promoting Resilience… A resource guide on working with children in the care system Robbie Gilligan (2001), British Agencies for Adoption & Fostering, London ISBN 1 873868 92 8 69pp. (paperback)     

What's new in nonprofit management?

Managing the Nonprofit Organization: Principles and Practices, by Peter F. Drucker. New York: HarperCollins, 1990. 235 pp., $22.95 cloth. Changing Hats: from Social Work Practice to Administration, by Felice Davidson Perlmutter. Silver Springs, Md.: National Association of social Workers Press, 1990. 160 pp., $12.95 paper. Managing Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations: Strategy and Structure, by Richard J. Butler and David C. Wilson. London: Routledge, 1990. 190 pp., $55.00 cloth.     

Review article: The archaeology of slavery

Cannon's Point Plantation, 1794–1860: Living Conditions and Status Patterns in the Old South. John Solomon Otto. Studies in Historical Archaeology. Orlando: Academic Press, 1984, xvii, 217 pp. $42.00.

The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life. Theresa A. Singleton, editor. Studies in Historical Archaeology. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985, xvii, 338 pp. $65.00/£56.50.     

Researching by Camera

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The History of Art and the History of Civilization: History of Art. By Elie Faure. Trans. by Walter Pach. Vols. II–IV. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1922–1924. 433, 401, 517 pp. $7.50 a vol.

The History of Art and the History of Civilization: History of Art. By H. B. Cotterill. F. A. Stokes Co., New York, 1923–24. 2 volumes. 442, 566 pp. $10.00.

The History of Art and the History of Civilization: The History of Art. By G. Carotti. E. P. Dutton &; Company, New York, 1923. 3 vols. 420, 375, 365 pp. $3.00 a vol.

The History of Art and the History of Civilization: Apollo. By S. Reinach. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1924. 350 pp. $2.00.

The History of Art and the History of Civilization: The Outline of Art. Edited by Sir William Orpen. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1923–1924. 2 volumes. 231, 491 pp. $4.50 a vol.

The History of Art and the History of Civilization: A Primer of Modern Art. By Sheldon Cheney. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1924. 383 pp. $6.00.

The History of Art and the History of Civilization: Masters of Modern Art. By Walter Pach. B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1924. 118 pp. $3.50.

The History of Art and the History of Civilization: A History of Ornament, Renaissance and Modern. By T. D. F. Hamlin. Century Co., New York, 1925. 521 pp. $5.00.

The History of Art and the History of Civilization: The Nature, Practice and History of Art. By H. Van Buren Magonigle. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1924. 319 pp. $2.50.

The History of Art and the History of Civilization: The Appreciation of Art. By Eugen Neuhaus. Ginn and Company, Boston, 1924. 250 pp. $3.00.

Government: The Political Parties of Today. By Arthur N. Holeonhe. Harper and Brothers, 1924. viii, 399 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by: J. P. Watson, A. Gordon Dewey, George A. Lundberg

The American Kevolution and the Making of the Constitution: the Convtilution of the United States; an Historical Survey of its Formation. By Robert Livingston Schuyler. The Macmillan Company, New Yorlr, 1993. 211 pp. $1.50. Reviewed by: E. P. Tanner

The Colonial Baclcground of tha Arnarican Revolution. By Charles M. Andrews. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1924. x, 218 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by: Harry J. Carxan

Imperialism and World Politics: Syllabus on Intamational Relations. By Parker Thomas Moon. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1995. xix, 276 pp. $2.00. Reviewed by: A. C. Flick

Imperialism and World Politics: The Open Door Doctrina in Relation to China. By Mingchien Joshua Bau, Ph. D. Macmillan CO., New York, 1993. xxviii, 245 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by: E. B. Hewes

Imperialism and World Politics: Manchuria, Land of Opportunities. By the South Manchurian Railway Company. Rev. Ed. (New York, 1924. ix, 98 pp.)

Imperialism and World Politics: White and Black in East Africa. By Hermann Norden. F. R. G. (Small Maynard &; Company, Boston, 1924. 304 pp. $5.00.)

Miscellaneous: History of Western Europe, VoZ. I. By James Harvey Robinson. Ginn and Co., Boston, 1924. 531 pp. Reviewed by: A. C. Krey, Eugene N. Curts

Miscellaneous: Great Peoples of tha Ancient World. By Dorothy M. Vaughan, M. A. (Longmans, Green &; Co., London, 1925. x, 178 pp. $1.90.) Reviewed by: Margaret Bancroft     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The People in the Playground . Iona Opie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 240 pages. Cloth, $60.00.
Gender Play . Barrie Thorne. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993, 237 pages. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $12.95.
Ideal Citizens: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement . James Max Fendrich. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1993, 202 pages. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95.
The Shadow of Dionysus: A Contribution to the Sociology of the Orgy . Michel Maffesoli. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, 167 pages. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.50.
Jones's Minimal: Low-Wage Labor in the United States . David Griffith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, xvii, 266 pages. Cloth, $44.50; paper, $14.95.
The Politics of Pensions: A Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1880–1940 . Ann Shola Orloff. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, 381 pages. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95.
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France . Robert A. Nye. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 316 pages.
Adolescence: An Anthropological Inquiry . Alice Schlegel and Herbert Barry III. New York: Free Press, 1991, 263 pages. Cloth, $29.95.     

II. The Conclusions and Recommendations of the Commission on the Social Studies of the American Historical Association

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Some Recent Geography Textbooks: Modern Business Geography. By Ellsworth Huntington and Sumner W. Cushing. World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York, 1925. viii, 352 pp. $2.00. Reviewed by: John E. Orchard

Some Recent Geography Textbooks: A Smaller Commercial Geography. By G. G. Chisholm and J. H. Birrell. Longmans, Green and Company, New York, 1924. xiv, 302 pp. $1.65. Reviewed by: John E. Orchard

Some Recent Geography Textbooks: High Lights of Geography: North America. By David Starr Jordan and Katherine Dunlop Cather. World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York, 1925. xv, 358 pp. $1.44. Reviewed by: John E. Orchard

Some Recent Geography Textbooks: Human Geography by Grades: Book Three. The World. By James Fairgrieve and Ernest Young. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1925. x, 304 pp. Reviewed by: John E. Orchard

Some Recent Geography Textbooks: First Lessons in Geography. By Philip A. Knowlton. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924. vi, 257 pp. Reviewed by: John E. Orchard

Some Recent Geography Textbooks: The Story Key to Geographic Names. By O. D. von Engeln and Jane McKelway Urquhart. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1924. xvi, 279 pp. Reviewed by: John E. Orchard

The War for Southern Independence, being vol. VI of The History of the United States. By Edward Channing. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1925. 645 pp. $4.75. Reviewed by: B. B. Kendrick

Ethics and Citizenship. By John W. Wayland, Head of the Department of History and Social Science, State Teachers College, Harrisonburg, Va. The McClure Co., Staunton, Va., 1924. 251 pp. $1.85. Reviewed by: H. W. Schneider

History of the 151st Field Artillery. (Minnesota in the World War, Volume I.) By Louis L. Collins. Edited by Wayne E. Stevens. Minnesota War Records Commission, St. Paul, 1924. xxv, 427 pp. Reviewed by: Elbridge Colby

History of the Philippines. By David P. Barrows. The World Book Company, Yonkers, New York, 1924. xiv, 406 pp. $1.60. Reviewed by: Paul V. Shaw     

Book reviews

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Ira Berlin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998. x, 497pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–674–81092–9.

More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas. Edited by David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. xi, 341 pp. £14.99 (paper). ISBN 0–253–21043–7.

From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery. Seymour drescher. Foreword by Stanley L. Engerman. London: Macmillan. 1999. xxv, 454pp. £55.00. ISBN 0–333–73748–2.

Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. Shane White and Graham White. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xv. 301pp. £23.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–80143179–4.

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop. W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 1998. 269pp. $25.95 (cloth). ISBN 0–674–74711–9.

Restless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan. John W. Quist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1998. xi, 562pp. £45.90. ISBN 0–8071–2133–9.

Frccdpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860–1900. Jeffrey R. Kerr‐Ritchie. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina press. 1999. xv, 345 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2460–7; 0–8078–4763–1.

The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans. Barry A. Crouch. Austin: University of Texas at Austin Press. 1999. xix, 187pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–292–71219–7.

Montpelier, Jamaica: A Plantation Community in Slavery and Freedom, 1739–1912. B.W. Higman. Kingston: The Press University of the West Indies. 1998. xv, 384pp. £20.00/$35.00. ISBN 976–640–039–3.

In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname. Rosemarijn Hoefte. Gainsville: University of Florida Press. 1998. xii, 275pp. $49.95. ISBN 0–8130–1625–8.

Writing West Indian Histories. B.W. Higman. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 1999. xiv, 289 pp. £15.50 (paper). ISBN 0–333–73296–0.

Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues. Edited by Tom Brass and Marcel Van Der Linden. Bern/Berlin/Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang. 1997 (International and Comparative Social History 5). 602 pp. £52.00. ISBN 3–906756–87–4.

Servicing the Master. Slavery and Society in Nineteenth Century Morocco. Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. London: Macmillan, 1999. xix, 166pp. £35.00. ISBN 0–333–75477–8.

Servants of Allah. Sylviane A. Diouf. New York: New York University Press. 1998. vii, 254 pp. $18.50. ISBN 0–8147–1905–8     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Social Psychology, Past and Present: An Integrative Orientation, by Jay M. Jackson. Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988, 173 pages, $24.95, cloth. Networks of Power: Organizational Actors at the National, Corporate, and Community Levels, edited by Robert Perrucci and Harry R. Potter. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, 136 pages. Charismatic Capitalism: Direct Selling Organizations in America, by Nicole Woolsey Biggart. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989, 223 pages, $24.95, hardback. Liberal Education and the Corporation: The Hiring and Advancement of College Graduates, by Michael Useem. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1989, xxvii + 216 pages, $39.95, hardback, $16.95, paper. Symbolic Communication: Signifying Calls and the Police Response, by Peter K. Manning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988, 309 pages, hardback. Assimilation, Colonialism and the Mexican American People, by Edward Murguia. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989, 124 pages, $9.75, paperback. Jewish Settler Violence: Deviance as Social Reaction, by David Weisburd. University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989, 164 pages, $22.50, hardback. Differentiation Theory and Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Paul Colomy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, 496 pages, $40.00, hardback. Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989, 246 pages, $35.00, cloth, $11.95, paper. Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse, by Fred Block. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990, 227 pages, $35.00, hardback, $12.95, paper. To The Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism, by Jerome L. Himmelstein. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990, 301 pages, $25.00, hardback. Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada, by Seymour Martin Lipset. New York: Routledge, 1990, 337 pages, $29.95/US; $35.00/Canada, hardback. Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociology, by Jeffrey C. Alexander. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, 258 pages, $35.00, hardback. Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology, by Stjepan G. Mestrovic. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1988, 156 pages, $28.50, cloth.     

Prisons,workhouses, and the control of slave labour in low country Georgia, 1763–1815

Engendering History. Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective. Edited by VERENE SHEPHERD, BRIDGET BRERETON, BARBARA BAILEY. London: James Currey, Kingston: Ian Randle. 1995. xxii, 406pp. £35.00 and £12.50.

Haiti, History and the Gods. JOAN DAYAN. Los Angeles; University of California Press. 1995. xxiii, 339pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–520–08900–6.

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by MARY TURNER. Kingston, Bloomington and Indianapolis, and London: Ian Randle Publishers, Indiana University Press, and James Currey. 1995. x, 309pp. £35.00 (cloth); £12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–253–32972–8; 0–253–21001–1.

The Black Loyalist Directory. African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution. Edited and with an Introduction by GRAHAM RUSSELL HODGES. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. li. 318pp. $37.00. ISBN 0–8153–2172–4.

The Abolitionists and the South, 1831–1861. STANLEY HARROLD. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press ofKentucky, 1995. x, 245 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0–8131–1906–5.

The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Volume 2: Correspondence, 1823–1857. Edited by JOHN NIVEN. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. xxv, 489 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0–87338–508‐X.

The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War. JAMES G. HOLLANDSWORTH, Jr. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. 1995. xiv, 140pp. £23.95. ISBN 0–8071–1939–3.

The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns. JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1995 (orig. pub. 1985). xvi, 318pp. £13.95. ISBN 0–80712028–6.

Caste &; Class: The Black Experience in Arkansas, 1880–1920. FON LOUISE GORDON. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995. xvi, 179pp. £31.50. ISBN 0–8203–1711‐X.

African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina. AMELIA WALLACE VERNON. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 1995. xiii, 309pp. $16.95.

Agentes de su propia libertad: Los esclavos de Lima y la desintegración de la esclavitud, 1821–1854. CARLOS AGU1RRE. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cató1ica del Perú, Fondo Editorial. 1993. 335pp. ISBN 84–89309–63–9.

Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800–1854. CHRISTINE HÜNEFELDT. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1994. xi, 269pp. ISBN 0–520–08235–4 (cloth); 0–520–08292–3 (paper).

Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel. 1600–1850. JAMES L.A. WEBB, Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xxvi, 227pp. £40.95 (cloth); £17.95 (paper). ISBN 0–299–14330–9.

From Slave Trade to ‘legitimate’ Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth‐Century West Africa. Edited by ROBIN LAW. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, African Studies Series 86. xi, 278pp. £35.00.

Slavery and Slaving in World History. A Bibliography. 1900–1991. JOSEPH C. MILLER. Millwood, NY. 1993. xvii, 556pp. $90.00. ISBN 0–527–63660–6.