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Book reviewed in this article: M. PATRICIA MARCHAK, Ideological Perspectives on Canada. IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN, The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century ALAN F. BLUM, Theorizing. Sociologie et Sociétés J. HENRIPIN et E. LAPIERRE-ADAMCYK, La fin de la revanche des berceaux: qu'en pensent les Québécoises ? JANICE ACTON, PENNY GOLDSMITH, and BONNIE SHEPARD (eds.), Women at Work: Ontario 1850–1930. LUCE IRIGARAY, Spéculum de l'autre femme C. CARISSE et J. DUMAZEDIER, Les femmes innovatrices: problèmes post-industriels d'une Amérique francophone, le Québec. DAVID R. HUGHES and EVELYN KALLEN, The Anatomy of Racism: Canadian Dimensions. H.F. MCGEE, The Native Peoples of Atlantic Canada: A Reader in Regional Ethnic Relations. THOMAS ABLER, DOUGLAS SANDERS, SALLY WEAVER, et al., A Canadian Indian Bibliography: 1960–1970. BERNARD ASSINIWI, Histoire des Indiens du Hunt et du Bas Canada. PETER R. SINCLAIR and KENNETH WESTHUES, Village in Crisis. WILLIAM SHAFFIR, Life in a Religious Community: The Lubavitcher Chassidim in Montreal. ROBERT PRESTHUS, Elites in the Policy Process. MICHAEL BLISS, A Living Profit: Studies in the Social History of Canadian Business, 1883–1911. DANIEL KUBAT and DAVID THORNTON, A Statistical Profile of Canadian Society. JAMES and ROBERT SIMMONS, Urban Canada D.J. BAUM, The Final Plateau: The Betrayal of Our Older Citizens. BENJAMIN SCHLESINGER(ed.), Family Planning in Canada: A Source Book.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
WENDY DONIGER O'FLAHERTY, Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts.
N. Ross CRUMRINE, The Mayo Indians of Sonora: A People Who Refuse to Die.
JEAN COPANS, Les Marabouts de l'carArachide: La Confrerie Mouride et les Paysans du Senegal.
GILLIAN SANKOFF, The Social Life of Language.
HAROLD FINKLER, Les Inuit et l'caradministration de la justice.
JACK GOODY, Production and Reproduction.
JACK GOODY, The Domestication of the Savage Mind.
KARLA o. POEWE, Matrilitieal Ideology: Male-Female Dynamics in Luapula, Zambia
DAVID MACDONALD, Power Begins at the Cod End: The Newfoundland Trawler-men's Strike
RAOUL ANDERSEN (ed.), North Atlantic Maritime Cultures: Anthropological Essays on Changing Adaptations.     

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Book reviewed in this article: PAUL ANISEF and MICHAEL LANPHIER (eds.), The World in a City. REGINALD BYRON (ed.), Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland. ROBERT CASTEL, l'insécurité sociale. Qu'est‐ce qu'être protégé? HELEN GREMILLION, Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center. YVONNE M. HÉBERT (ed.), Citizenship in Transformation in Canada. STEVE HEWITT, Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities, 1917–1997. WINSTON JACKSON, Methods: Doing Social Research. KARIM H. KARIM, Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence. BERT KLANDERMANS and SUZANNE STAGGENBORG (eds.), Methods of Social Movement Research. MURRAY KNUTTILA, Introducing Sociology: A Critical Perspective. JULIA KRISTEVA and SYLVERE LOTRINGER (eds.), Revolt, She Said. JANE LEWIS, Should We Worry about Family Change? JEANNETTE MARIE MAGEO (ed.), Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion. ROD MICHALKO, The Difference That Disability Makes. OBIORA CHINEDU OKAFOR and OBIJIOFOR AGINAM (eds.), Humanizing Our Global Order: Essays in Honour of Ivan Head. CHARLES RAGIN, Fuzzy‐Set Social Science. ANA Y. RAMOS‐ZAYAS, National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago. RICHARD SANDELL (ed.), Museums, Society, Inequality. AYSAN SEVER, Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners. HEATHER STRANG and JOHN BRAITHWAITE (eds.), Restorative Justice and Family Violence. TANYA TITCHKOSKY, Disability, Self, and Society.     

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Book reviewed in this article: OLIVIER CARRÉ, ‘Notes sur l'Islam politique aujourd'hui’, Section 11, no 2: ‘L'influence religieuse sur la politique contemporaine’ MIKEL DE ELPAZA, ‘La Vie publique musulmane: entre le respect à la profession de foi, et l'acceptation des valeurs extra-islamiques’, Section III, no 2: ‘État, Conscience, Religion’ JEAN-MARC ÉLA, ‘Santé et Pouvoir en milieu africain’, Section IV, no 2: ‘Religion, Santé, État’ CAMILLE LACOSTE-DUJARDIN, ‘État, Religion, et Femmes au Maghreb’, Section I, no 2: ‘L’État et la régulation de la religion SUBHAS RAMCHARAN, Racism: Nonwhites in Canada. Toronto: Butterworths, 1982, pp. 138 HASSAN GARDEZI and SAMIL RASHID (eds.), Pakistan and the Roots of Dictatorship: The Political Economy of a Praetorian State. London: Zed Press, 1983, pp. 394 MICHAEL S. CROSS and GREGORY S. KEALEY (eds.), The Consolidation of Capitalism, 1896–1929. Readings in Canadian Social History, Volume 4. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983, pp. 211 HOWARD S. BECKER, Art Worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984 MICHAEL JACKSON, Prisoners of Isolation; Solitary Confinement in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press ARTHUR KROKER, Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis/McLuhan/Grant. Montreal: New World Perspectives KRISTIN LUKER, Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. Berkeley: University of California Press RALPH MATTHEWS, The Creation of Regional Dependency. Toronto: University of Toronto Press JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER, Theoretical Logic in Sociology: The Modern Construction of Classical Thought—Talcott Parsons (vol. 4). Berkeley: University of California Press GEORGE W. STOCKING, Jr. (ed.), Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork. History of Anthropology LESTER R. KURTZ, Evaluating Chicago Sociology: A Guide to the Literature, with an Annotated Bibliography. INSTITUT QUÉBÉCOIS DE RECHERCHE SUR LA CULTURE, La culture et l' âge DAVID MACGREGOR, The Communist Ideal in Hegel and Marx. Toronto: University of Toronto Press DAMIR MIRKOVI, Dialectic and Sociological Thought.     

Politics and linguistics in the standardization of soviet yiddish

Russian Conservatives and the Jews, 1890–1917

Heinz‐Dietrich Löwe, Antisemitismus und reaktionäre Utopie. Rus‐sischer Konservátismus im Kampf gegen den Wandel von Staat und Gesellschaft, 1890–1917. Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe, 1978. 303 pp. (Historische Perspektiven 13). DM 45.00.

Soviet Nationalities Problems Old and New

Jeremy R. Azrael (ed.), Soviet Nationality Policies and Practices. New York, Eastbourne: Praeger, 1978. 393pp., tables, £17.50

Romanian Antisemitism — Popular or Manipulated?

Carol Iancu, Les Juifs en Roumanie (1866–1919): de l'exclusion à l'émancipation. Aix‐en‐Provence: Editions de l'Université de Provence, 1978. 382pp. (Etudes historiques 4). F.120.00.

China and the Middle East

Yitzhak Shichor, The Middle East in China's Foreign Policy 1949–1977. London: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 268pp. £12.00.     

Book reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: RICHARD F. SALISBURY, A Homeland for the Cree: Regional Development in James Bay 1971–1981. ANTHONY JACKSON (ed.), Anthropology at Home FREDERIQUE APFFEL MARGLIN, Wives of the god-king: the rituals of the Devadasis of Puri. FERNAND DUMONT, sous la direction de, Une société des jeunes?. ROBERT A. STEBBINS, The Magician: Career, Culture, and Social Psychology in a Variety Art. PIERRE-ANDRÉ JULIEN et BERNARD MOREL, La belle entreprise: la revanche des PME en Trance et au Québec. WILLIAM PETERSON and RENEE PETERSON, Dictionary of Demography: Terms, Concepts and Institutions. PAULINE MARIE VAILLANCOURT, When Marxists Do Research. ANDREW J. WEIGERT, J. SMITH TEITGE and DENNIS w. TEITGE, Society and Identity: Towards a Sociological Psychology. BERNARD BARBER, The Logic and Limits of Trust. ANK KLOMP, Politics on Bonaire: An Anthropological Study. JOYCE ROTHSCHILD and J. ALLEN WHiTT, The Cooperative Workplace. MEIVYN DUBROFSKY (ed.), Technological Change and Workers' Movements. SONDRA FARGANIS, The Social Reconstruction of the Feminine Character. VOLKA MEJA, DIETER MISGELD, and NICO STEHR (eds.), Modern German Sociology. TIM INGOLD, Evolution and Social Life. CHAD GAFHELD, Language, Schooling, and Cultural Conflict: the Origins of the French-Language Controversy in Ontario.     

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Book reviewed in this article: MARGARET E. BEARE (ed.), Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Corruption. PATRICK BRANTLINGER, Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800–1930. NICOLE MERCIER (réd.), Variations autour de la régulation sociale. Hommage à Jean‐Daniel Reynaud. SHERRY B. ORTNER, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of 58.     

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.     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
VERED AMIT-TALAI and CAROLINE KNOWLES (eds.), Re-Situating Identities. The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, Culture.
RODNEYS. HADDOW, Poverty Reform in Canada
JOHN C. KENNEDY, People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador.
JOHN C. KENNEDY, Labrador Village.
WARREN MAGNUSSON, The Search for Political Space: Globalization, Social Movements, and Urban Political Experience.
ALICYA MUSZYNSKI, Cheap Wage Labour: Race and Gender in the Fisheries of British Columbia.
ROBERT W. PREUCEL and IAN HODDER (eds.), Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader.
L. SALTER and A. HEARN, Outside the Lines: Issues in Interdisciplinary Research.
PAUL M. SNIDERMAN, JOSEPH F. FLETCHER, PETER H. RUSSELL and PHILIP E. TETLOCK, The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy.
EVELYN K. SOMMERS, Voices from Within: Women Who Have Broken the Law.
PETER STERN, Prisoners of the Crystal Palace: Mapping and Understanding the Social and Cognitive Organization of Scientific Research Fields.
FRANÇOIS TRUDEL, PAUL CHAREST et YVAN BRETON (red.), La construction de I'anthropologie québécoise: mélanges offerts à. Marc-Adélard Tremblay     

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     

Diasporas à la française: recent francophone contributions to the literature

Books reviewed in this article S. Dufoix, Les Diasporas C. Chivallon, La diaspora noire des Amériques: expériences et théories à partir de la Caraïbe M. Bruneau, Diasporas et espaces transnationaux L. Anteby‐Yemini, W. Berthomière and G. Sheffer (eds) Les Diasporas: 2,000 ans d'histoire     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: JANET MORCHAIN, Sharing a Continent: An Introduction to Canadian-American Relations. MARYLEE STEPHENSON (ed.), Women in Canada. BRENDA E.F. BECK, Peasant Society in Kon?ku: A Study of Right and Left Subcastes in South India. PIERRE MARANDA and ELLI KÖNGÄS MARANDA, Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition. SHEILAGH HODGINS MILNER and HENRY MILNER, The Decolonization of Quebec. SALLY M. WEAVER, Medicine and Politics among the Grand River Iroquois. JOEL A. LOKEN, Student Alienation and Dissent. JOHN W. ADAMS, The Gitksan Potlatch: Population Flux, Resource Ownership and Reciprocity. E.A. FATTAH, A Study of the Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment with Special reference to the Canadian Situation RICHARD ALLEN (ed.), A Region of the Mind: Interpreting the Western Canadian Plains. RICHARD L. HENSHEL and ANNE-MARIE HENSHEL, Perspectives On Social Problems. GILLES LANE, L'urgence du présent. Essai sur la culture et la contre-culture.     

Book reviews

Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations. Gavriel Salomon (Ed.), Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 275 pages, $49.95.

The Computer as Medium. Peter Bøgh Andersen, Berit Holmqvist, & Jens F. Jensen (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 495 pages. $54.95.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Lucy M. Cohen and Mary Ann Grossnickle (eds.), Immigrants and Refugees in a Changing Nation: Research and Training. BERROCAL, L. Marché du travail et mouvements migratoires; l'Euromigration Espagnole. MEHRLÄNDER, U., HOFMANN, R., KÖNIG, P. and KRAUSE, H.J. Situation der ausländischen Arbeitnehmer und ihrer Familienangehörigen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Repräsentativuntersuchung′80-. Bonn. Forschungsinstitut der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. SEN, F. Türkische Arbeitnehmergesellschaften; Reintegrations- und Integrationsproblematik der Türken in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. SCHRAGE, B. (ed.), Arbeiterwanderungen, Ausländerbeschäftigung und Auslandspolitik in den kapitalistischen Ländern Europas im 20.     

Strengthening Financial Markets for the Poor

Books reviewed in this article: Martin Brownbridge and Charles Harvey, Banking in Africa: the Impact of Financial Sector Reform since Independence Machiko Nissanke and Ernest Aryeetey, Financial Integration and Development: Liberalisation and Reform in sub-Saharan Africa Geoffrey D. Wood and Iffath A. Sharif (eds.), Who Needs Credit? Poverty and Finance in Bangladesh     

Book Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article: Helen c. Abell, Rural Families and Their Homes. Carle C. Zimmerman and Garry W. Moneo, The Prairie Community System Anthony H. Richmond, Research Report: Ethnic Residential Segregation in Metropolitan Toronto. Carle C. Zimmerman and Richard E. Duwors (eds.), Sociology of Underdevelopment. D. I. Davies and Kathleen Herman (eds.), Social Space: Canadian Perspectives. Thomas A. Hockin (ed.), Apex of Power: The Prime Minister and Political Leadership in Canada Harold Kalant and Oriana Josseau Kalant, Drugs, Society and Personal Choice. C. F. Grindstaff, C. L. Boydell, and P. C. Whitehead (eds.), Population Issues in Canada. W. E. Mann (ed.), Social Deviance in Canada. Jean Leonard Elliott (ed.), Minority Canadians, volume 1. Native Peoples. Jean Leonard elliott (ed.), Minority Canadians, volume 2. Immigrant Groups. John R. Hofley and Paul N. Geisel, Men on Relief. A Study of 440 Unemployed Men Receiving Social Assistance in Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Ottawa. Michael Bliss, ed., The Wretched of Canada. Letters to R. B. Bennett 1930–1935.     

Book review

Book review in this article Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory Steven Seidman, Basil Blackwell. Not in our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature S. Rose, L.J. Kamin and R.C. Lewontin, Pelican, Harmondsworh. Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukcés to Habermas Martin Jay. Adorno Martin Jay, Fontana, London. Humanist Marxism and Wittgensteinian Social Philosophy Susan M. Easton. Daia Construction in Social Surveys Nicholas Bateson, George Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead. The Three Worlds Peter Worsley, Weidenfeld and Nieolson. Lenin and the End of Politics A.J. Polan, Methuen. Great Revolutions Compared: The Search for a Theory Jarosalv Krej?í assisted by Anna Krej?ová. The Nature of Work: An Introduction to Debates on the Labour Process Paul Thompson, Macmillan. Ethnic Communities in Business Robin Ward and Richard Jenkins (eds). Industrial Relations in the Future: Trends and Possibilities in Britain over the Next Decade M. Poole, W. Brown, J. Rubery, K. Sisson, R. Tarling and F. Wilkinson, Routledge & Kegan Paul. Education Versus Qualifications? A Study of Relationships Between Education, Selection for Employment and the Productivity of Labour John Oxenham (ed.), George Allen and Unwin. The End of Law? Timothy O'Hagan, Basil Blackwell Contradictions of the Welfare State Claus Offe, edited by John Keane, Hutchinson Scotland: The Real Divide, Poverty and Deprivation in Scotland Gordon Brown and Robin Cook (eds). Against Equality: Readings on Economic and Social Policy William Letwin (ed.), Macmillan. The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays André Béteille. Divisions of Labour R. E. Pahl, Basil Blaekwell. Households Richard McC. Netting, Robert R Wilk and Erie J. Arnould (eds). Identity and Stability in Marriage Janet Askham. Berger, P. and Kellner, H, (1964)‘Marriage and the construction of reality’, Diogenes. Dominian, J. (1968), Marital Breakdown, Penguin, Harmondsworth The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture Anthony D. King, Routledge & Kegan Paul. Opening Pandora's Box G. Nigel Gilbert and Michael Mulkay Our Masters’Voices Max Atkinson, Methuen Life is like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore Alan Dundes.     

Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus

Book reviewed in this article: SARAH M. CORSE, Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States. LELAND DONALD, Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America. PAUL DU GAY, Consumption and Identity at Work. MICHAELE. HARKIN, The Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest Coast. DAVID HOWES, Cross-cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities. ALLAN G. JOHNSON, The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice and Promise. BARBARA LAWSON, Collected Curios: Missionary Tales from the South Seas. MARYANN NEELY AYIM, The Moral Parameters of Good Talk: A Feminist Analysis. DOUG OWRAM. Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation. SUSAN PALMER, AIDS as an Apocalyptic Metaphor in North America. JAMES RINEHART, CHRISTOPHER HUXLEY and DAVID ROBERSTON, Just Another Car Factory? Lean Production and Its Discontents. ERIC SHRAGGE(ed.), Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-Class. LAURIER TURGEON, DENYS DELAGE and RÉAL OUELLET (eds.), Transferts culturels et métissages Amérique / Europe, XVI^c-XX^e siècle /Cultural Transfer, America and Europe: 500 Years of Interculturation. WILL C. VAN DEN HOONAARD, The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898–1948.     

Book Reviews

W.A. Czumer, Recollections about the Life of the First Ukrainian Settlers in Canada (1981). Pp. 176.

M. R. Lupul (ed.), Ukrainian Canadians, Multiculturalism and Separatism ‐ An Assessment (1978). Pp. 177.

W. R. Petryshyn (ed.), Changing Realities ‐ Social Trends Among Ukrainian Canadians (1980). Pp. 249.

F. Swyripa, Ukrainian Canadians — A Survey of Their Portrayal in English Language Works (1978). Pp. 169.

David Eltis and James Walvin (eds.), The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa and the Americas (Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1981). Pp.xiii + 314. £12.70.

Michael H. Tepper (ed.), Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Baltimore, 1820–1834, From Customs Passenger Lists (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982). Pp. xxiii + 768. $38.50.

David L. Brye (ed.), European Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States and Canada: A Historical Bibliography (Santa Barbara, California and Oxford, ABC/Clio Press, 1983). Pp. viii + 458. £42.50.

Ruth First, 117 Days (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1982). Pp. 144. £1.95.

Hugh Beach and Lars Ragvald, A New Wave on a Northern Shore: The Indochinese Refugees in Sweden (Norrkoping, Statens Invandrarverk, 1982). Pp. v + 163. NP.

Stuart A. Cohen, English Zionists and British Jews: The Communal Politics of Anglo‐Jewry, 1895–1920 (Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1982). Pp. xv + 349. £28.20.

Sandra Wallman and Associates, Living in South London: Perspectives on Battersea 1871–1981 (Aldershot, Gower, 1982). Pp. ix + 229. £13.50.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: John F. Sawyer and J. M. Y. Simpson (eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion Nikolas Coupland, Srikant Sarangi and Christopher N. Candlin (eds.), Sociolinguistics and Social Theory Ron Scollon, Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice Richard Gwyn, Communicating Health and Illness Guus Extra and Durk Gorter, The Other Languages of Europe: Demographic, Sociolinguistic and Educational Perspectives Council of Europe, Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment Abdul Karim Bangura and Martin C. Muo, United States Congress and Bilingual Education Shelley Angelil–Carter, Stolen Language? Plagiarism in Writing Michael Toolan, Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction Jacob L. Mey, Pragmatics: An Introduction