Book reviews

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Roosevelt‐Gandhi—Churchill: America and the Last Phase of India's Freedom Struggle by M.S. Venkataramani and B.K. Shrivastava (London: Sangam, 1997, pp.xiv + 412, £17.95 pb). The Politics of Preference: Democratic Institutions and Affirmative Action in the United States and India by Sunita Parikh (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997, pp.xii + 230, no price given). The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace by Sumit Ganguly (New York and Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.xv + 182, £32.50 hb). Hong Kong: An Appointment with China by Steve Tsang (London: I.B. Tauris, 1997, pp.xiii + 274, £10.95 pb). Hong Kong's New Constitutional Order: The Resumption of Chinese Sovereignty and the Basic Law by Yash Ghai (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1997, pp.xiv + 593, $46.20 hb; $40 pb). The Politics of Elections in Southeast Asia edited by R.H. Taylor (New York and Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp.250, £37.50 hb, £13.95 pb). Gender: A Caribbean Multi‐Disciplinary Perspective by Eisa Leo‐Rhynie, Barbara Bailey and Christine Barrow (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 1997, pp.358, no price given). The Haunting Past: Politics, Economics and Race in Caribbean Life by Alvin O. Thompson (Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, and Oxford: James Currey Publishers, 1997, pp.xvi + 283, £40 hb; £14.95 pb). State Building and Democracy in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa by Pierre du Toit (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1995, pp.359, $37.50 hb; $14.95 pb). Bargaining for Peace: South Africa and the National Peace Accord by Peter Gastrow (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1995, pp.163, $19.95 hb; $10.95 pb). Namibia, Revised Edition in the World Bibliographical Series, vol.53, compiled by Stanley Schoeman and Elna Schoeman (Oxford, Santa Barbara, CA, and Denver, CO: ABC‐CLIO Press, 1997, pp.295, £57). Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective by Michael Bratton and Nicholas van de Walle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.307, £45 hb; £15.95 pb). Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism: Britain and University Education for Africans, 1860–1960 by Appolos O. Nwauwa (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1996, pp.272, £36.50 hb). One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886–1994 by Mark Hewn and Harry Knowles (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp.377, £40 pb). Revolutionary Industrial Unionism. The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia by Verity Bergmann (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp.346, £35 pb). Electoral Systems in Divided Societies: The Fiji Constitution Review edited by Brij V. Lal and Peter Larmour (Canberra: National Center for Development Studies, Australian National University, 1997, pp.159 + viii, no price given). Democracy's Victory and Crisis edited by Axel Hadenius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.431, £55 hb; £19.95 pb). Democratization edited by David Potter, David Goldblatt, Margaret Kiloh and Paul Lewis (Oxford: Polity Press in association with the Open University, 1997, pp.xii + 550, £49.50 hb; £15.95 pb). Democracy and Dictatorship in Ghana and Tanzania by Robert Pinkney (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997, pp.x + 230, £40 hb). Bicameralism by George Tsebelis and Jeanette Money (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.250, £40 hb; £14.95 pb).