Reviews

Tony (A.R.J.) Kushner, The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society During the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester’ University Press, 1989), Pp.ix + 257. £29.95.

Calvin W. Ruck, The Black Battalion, 1916–1920: Canada's Best Kept Military Secret. (Halifax NS: Nimbus Publishing, 1987). Pp.124. £6.95 pb.

Valerie Marett, Immigrants Settling in the City (London: Leicester University Press, 1989). Pp.vii + 207. £35 hb.

Keith Thompson, Under Siege: Racial Violence in Britain Today, (London: Penguin Books, 1988). Pp.xx + 204. £3.99p/b.

W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity (London: Routledge, 1988). Pp.ii + 158. £25.00.     

Review Essay

Robert Miles and Annie Phizacklea, White Man's Country: Racism in British Politics (London, Pluto Press, 1984). Pp. 184. £4.95.

Chris Mullard, Race, Power and Resistance (London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1985). Pp.x + 258. £19.95.

Marika Sherwood, Many Struggles: West Indian Workers and Service Personnel in Britain (1939–45) (London, Karia Press, 1985). Pp.138. £3.95.

Amos Ford, Telling the Truth: The Life and Times of the British Honduran Forestry Unit in Scotland (1941–45) (London, Karia Press, 1985). Pp.96. £2.95.

M. Ali Kettani, Muslim Minorities in the World Today (London and New York, Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs/Mansell Publishing, 1986). Pp.xx + 267. £26.50.     

Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition by Jeff Opland. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985. Pp. xii & 303. Bibliography,Index. (Price: pb R9.95).

Voices Made Night by Mia Couto. London: Heinemann, 1990.

Bones by Chenjerai Hove. London: Heinemann, 1990.

The Theory of African Literature by Chidi Amuta. London: Zed, 1989.

Spring is Rebellious. Edited by I. de Kok and K. Press. Cape Town: Buchu Books.

The Shaping of South African Society 1652–1840 edited by R. Elphick and H. Giliomee. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1989.

Creating Order: The Image of the Homestead in Mpondo Social Life by Heinz Kuckertz, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1989.

The Angry Divide: Social and Economic History of the Western Cape edited by Wilmot James and Mary Simons. Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1989.

Modernizing Super‐Exploitation. Restructuring South African Agriculture by Tessa Marcus. London: Zed Books, 1989.

Chains of Thought by Wally Morrow. Johannesburg: Southern Books: 1989.

SA Review 5 edited by Glen Moss and Ingrid Obery. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1989.

A People's Voice: Black South African Writing in the Twentieth Century by Piniel Viriri Shava. London: Zed Press, 1989.

SOUTH AFRICA: An Annotated Bibliography with Analytical Introductions by Newell M. Stultz. Ann Arbor: The Pierian Press, 1989.

Asking for trouble: the autobiography of a banned journalist (London: Penguin, 1987) and Biko (London: Penguin, 1987) by Donald Woods.     

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.     

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.     

Review essay: Slavery in Africa

The Ideology of Slavery in Africa. Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy. Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1981. 311pp.

Transformations in slavery: a history of slavery in Africa. By Paul E. Lovejoy. Cambridge University Press, 1983. xvi + 347pp. Bibl., Index.     

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     

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.     

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     

Review article: National and racial minorities in total war

Ansel Adams, Manzanar (London: Secker & Warburg, 1989). xx + 167pp. £15.

Joseph Kennedy, British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45 (London: Macmillan, 1987). xii + 167pp. £29.50.

Tony Kushner, The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society During the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989). ix + 257pp. £29.95.

François Lafitte, The Internment of Aliens (London: Libris, 1988, 1990). xxiv + 266pp. £24.95 hb; £8.95 pb.

Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 1990). vi + 310pp. £14.95 hb, £4.99 pb.

Frederick C. Luebke, Germans in Brazil: A Comparative History of Cultural Conflict During World War I (London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987). xii + 248pp. £30.90.

Graham A. Smith, When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain (London: I.B. Taurus, 1987). 265pp. £14.95.     

JOURNAL REVIEW

Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics and Popular Movements in the Transkei and Eastern Cape, 1890–1930 by W. Beinart and C. Bundy. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987.

The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry, 2nd edition, by C. Bundy. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa edited by Jacklyn Cock and Laurie Nathan. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots as Witnessed by Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Family by Marq de Villiers. New York: Viking Penguin, 1988.

Home Truths by Basil Du Toit and Spoils of War by John Eppel. Cape Town: Carrefour Press, 1988 and 1989.

Because They Chose the Plan of God: The story of the Bulhoek Massacre by Robert Edgar. History Workshop Topic Series I. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988.

Brewers, Beerhalls and Boycotts: A History of Liquor in South Africa by Paul la Hausse. History Workshop Topic Series 2. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988.

Detention and Torture in South Africa: Psychological, Legal and Historical Studies by Don Foster, with contributions by Dennis Davis and research assistance by Diane Sandier. Cape Town: David Philip, 1987.

State Resistance and Change in South Africa edited by Philip Frankel, Noam Pines and Mark Swilling. Johannesburg: Southern Book Publishers, 1988.

Building Tomorrow Today; African Workers in Trade Unions 1970–1984 by Steven Friedman. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987.

Facing The Storm: Portraits of Black Lives in Rural South Africa by Tim Keegan. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

History of Southern Africa by J.D. Omer‐Cooper. London: James Currey, 1987.

Journey Continued: An Autobiography by Alan Paton. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement of 1856–7 by J.B. Peires. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1989.

The Blood of Our Silence by Kelwyn Sole. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988.     

New Voices in Defence of Aid

Book reviewed in this article: Foreign Aid Reconsidered. By Roger C. Riddell. Overseas Aid: Its Defence and Reform. By Paul Mosley. Missed Opportunities: Britain and the Third World. By Charles Elliott et al.     

From Sex Roles to Patriarchy: Recent Developments in the Sociology of Women—A Review Essay*

Bernard, Jessie. 1981. The Female World. New York: Free Press. Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs. 1981. Women in Law. New York: Basic Books. Leghorn, Lisa, and Katherine Parker. 1981. Women's Worth: Sexual Economics and the World of Women. Boston: Routlodgo and Kcgan Paul. Lovenduski, Joni, and Jill Hills, eds. 1981. The Politics of the Second Electorate: Women and Public Participation. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Sokoloff, Natalie J. 1980. Between Money and Love: The Dialectics of Women's Home and Market Work. New York: Praeger Publishers. Weitzman, Lenore J. 1981. The Marriage Contract: Spouses, Lovers, and the Law. New York: Free Press.     

Review essay: Slavery now: Unfree labour and modern capitalism

Capitalism and Unfree Labour: Anomaly or Necessity? Robert Miles. London and New York: Tavistock Publications. 1987. 250pp. £10.95 pbk.

The New Helots: Migrants in the International Division of Labour. Robin Cohen. Aldershot: Gower Publishing Co. 1987. 290pp. £8.95 pbk; £27.50 hbk.

Sugar and Modern Slavery: A Tale of Two Countries. Roger Plant. London: Zed Press, 1987. 177pp. £7.95 pbk; £24.95 hbk.

Slavery in the Twentieth Century. Roger Sawyer. London and New York: Routledge &; Kegan Paul. 1986. 274pp. £15.95 hbk.     

The making of African‐American Protestantism

Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. SYLVIA R. FREY and BETTY WOOD. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 285pp. $37.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2375–9; 0–8078–4681–3.

A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro‐Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763–1840. JON SENSBACH. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xxiii, 342pp. $45.00. ISBN 0–8078–2394–5.     

Extended review: classical sociology and its legacy

Book reviewed in this article: Max Weber, a skeleton key Randall Collins, Sage, Beverly Hills Weberian Sociological Theory Randall Collins, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Society David Frisby and Derek Sayer, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, and Tavistock, London Reason and Freedom in Sociological Thought Frank Hearn, Allen & Unwin, Boston Weber and the Marxist World Johannes Weiss, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and New York     

Review Essay:Place,Social Structure,and Culture: A Review Essay on Community

Prairie City: The Story of an American Community, by Angie Debo. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press Rural Wales: Community and Marginalization, by Paul Cloke, Mark Goodwin, and Paul Milbourne. Cardiff: University of Wales Press Teaching the Commons: Place, Pride, and the Renewal of Community, by Paul Theobald. Boulder: Westview     

White ‘ladies’, coloured ‘favourites’ and black ‘wenches’; some considerations on sex,race and class factors in social relations in white Creole Society in the British Caribbean

The Formation of a Planter Elite: Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier. By Alan Gallay. Athens &; London: University of Georgia Press, 19S9, xx, 282 pp. $35.00.

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. By Rachel N. Klein. Chapel Hill &; London: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990. vii, 331 pp. $34.95.

Women and Sisters: Antislavery Feminists in American Culture. By Jean Fagan Yellin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. ix, 226 pp. £20.00/$29.95.

Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. By Lengougeon. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press. 1990. xiii, 408 pp. $45.00.

Race and Revolution. By Gary B. Nash. Madison: Madison House, 1990. 212pp. $27.95.

Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Edited by B.A. Botkin. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xl, 297 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Religion and the Radical Republican Movement 1860–1870. By Victor B. Howard. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. 297 pp. $32.00.

Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920. By Willard B. Gatewood. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1990. cii; 450 pp. $39.95.

Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830–1848. By Dale W. Tomich. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. xiv, 353pp.

Indenture and Exile: The Indo‐Caribbean Experience. Edited by Frank Birbal‐Singh. Tsar, Toronto, 1989. 264 pp. £10.00.     

Searching for the invisible woman

Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados. Hilary McD. Beckles. London: Zed Books Ltd. 1989. ix, 197pp.

Slave Women in Caribbean Society 1650–1838. Barbara bush. London: James Currey Ltd. 1990. xiii, 190pp.

Slave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification in the Caribbean. Marietta Morrissey. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. 1989. xiv, 202pp.