Book reviews

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Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation by John Wiseman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.viii + 202, £40 hb, £14.95 pb). Collaborative Federalism: Economic Reform in Australia in the 1990s by Martin Painter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.ix + 207, £40 hb). Lionel Murphy: A Political Biography by Jenny Hocking (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.359, £40 hb). The French‐Canadian Idea of Confederation by A.I. Silver (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2nd edn, 1997, pp.xv + 283, £14 pb). Divide and Quit: An Eyewitness Account of the Partition of India by Penderel Moon (Delhi: Oxford India Paperbacks, 1998, pp.xxiii + 324, Rs. 345 pb). India: Fifty Years of Democracy and Development edited by Yogendra K. Malik and Ashok Kapur (New Delhi: APH Publishing, 1998, pp.xli + 489, Rs. 1,000 hb). Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy by Ronald J. Terchek (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998, pp.x + 265, $58 hb, $19.95 pb). Irrigation Agriculture and the Raj: Punjab, 1887–1947 by M. Mufakkharul Islam (New Delhi: Manohar, 1997, pp.180, 400rs hb). South Africa Reborn: Building a New Democracy by Heather Deegan (London: UCL Press, 1999, pp.xxi + 225, £12.95 pb). South Africa, Limits to Change: The Political Economy of Transition by Hein Marais (London: Zed/Cape Town: UCT Press, 1998, pp.xii + 290, 79.95 SA Rand). Beyond Control: Immigration and Human Rights in a Democratic South Africa edited by Jonathan Crush (Cape Town, IDASA, 1998, pp.v + 189, 54.95 SA Rand). Labour and Democracy in Namiba, 1971–1996 by Gretchen Bauer (Athens, OH, and London: Ohio University Press and James Currey Publishers, 1998, pp.229, £14.95 pb; £40 hb). Developing Uganda edited by Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (Oxford, Kampala, Athens, Nairobi: James Currey, Fountain Publishers, Ohio University Press, E.A.E.P, 1998, pp.ix + 293, £14.95 pb; £40 hb). Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa by Richard C. Crook and James Manor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.xvi + 335, £15.95pb; £45 hb). Elections and Conflict Management in Africa edited by Timothy D. Sisk and Andrew Reynolds (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998, pp.viii + 224, $14.95/£11.75pb). Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument by Patrick Chabal and Jean‐Pascal Daloz (Oxford and Bloomington, IN: James Currey and Indiana University Press, 1999 pp.xxi + 170; £9.95 pb). The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience by Ali A. Mazrui and Alamin M. Mazrui (Oxford: James Currey, 1998, pp.228, £40 hb, £12.95 pb). African Foreign Policies edited by Stephen Wright (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999, pp.xi + 260, no price given). Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction by R. Hague, M. Harrop and S. Breslin (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 4th edn. 1998, pp.xv + 317, £47.50 hb, £15.50 pb). Comparative Politics: Theory and Methods by B. Guy Peters (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998, pp.x + 262, £45 hb, £14.50 pb). Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1950 by Nicholas Tarling (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.xii + 488, £45 hb). Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision Making edited by Donald Sylvan and James Voss (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.347, £37.50 hb).