Book reviews

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The Politics of Identity in Australia edited by Geoffrey Stokes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.222, £14.95 (US$24.95) pb; £35 (US$64.95) hb). From Campaign to Coalition: The 1996 MMP Election edited by J. Boston, S. Levine, E. McLeay and N.S. Roberts (Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1997, pp.279, $29.95 pb). Charting the Consequences: The Impact of Charter Rights on Canadian Law and Politics edited by David Schneiderman and Kate Sutherland (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, pp.355, £15 pb; £38 hb). Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia by Syed Farid Alatas (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997, pp.xii + 233, £42.50 hb). Malaysia's Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and Profits by Edmund Terence Gomez and K. S. Jomo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.xix + 207, £14.95 pb; £40 hb). The Politics of Open Economies: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand by Alasdair Bowie and Danny Unger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.xi + 245, £14.95 pb; £40 hb). Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural North India by Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.xvi + 278, £16.95 pb; £50 hb). The Challenge in Kashmir: Democracy, Self‐Determination and a Just Peace by Sumantra Bose (New Delhi: Sage, 1997, pp.210, £20 hb). India and the United Kingdom: Change and Continuity in the 1980s by K.N. Malik (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997, pp.320, £25 hb). Gandhi and the Contemporary World: Essays to Mark the 125th Anniversary of his Birth edited by Antony Copley and George Paxton (Chennai, Madras: Indo‐British Historical Society, 1997, pp.421, £15 pb). V.K. Krishna Menon. A Personal Memoir by Janaki Ram (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp.xv + 149, £7.99 hb). The Making of Arthur Wellesley by Anthony S. Bennell (London: Sangam Books, 1997, pp.235, £17.95 pb). Riots and Pogroms edited by Paul R. Brass (London: Macmillan, 1996, pp.xi + 262, £15.99 pb, £42.50 hb). Making a Market: The Institutional Transformation of an African Society by Jean Ensminger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.xv + 212, £14.95 (US$18.95) pb, £35 (US$54.95) hb). The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia by Kate Crehan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, pp.ix + 258, £15.95 pb; £40 hb). Democracy in Malawi: A Stocktaking edited by Kings M. Phiri and Kenneth R. Ross (Blantyre, Malawi: Christian Literature Association in Malawi, Kachere Series Book 4, 1998, pp.400, Malawi Kwacha 150 pb). Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius by William Kelleher Storey (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, pp.ix + 238, £40 hb). Subsaharan Africa in the 1990s: Challenges to Democracy and Development edited by Rukhsana Siddiqui (Westport and London: Praeger Publishers, 1997, pp.221, £47.95 hb). Jamaica by K.E. Ingram (Oxford: ABC‐Clio Ltd, 1997, pp.363, £67 hb). Globalization and Neoliberalism: The Caribbean Context edited by Thomas Klak (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, pp.xxiv + 319, £17.95 pb; £51 hb). Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers edited by T.M. Wilson and H. Donnan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.xii + 300, £15.95 pb; £45 hb). Comparing State Polities: A Framework For Analyzing 100 Governments by Michael J. Sullivan III (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997, pp.211, £55.50 hb) Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure edited by Mark Irving Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.321, £14.95 pb; £40 hb). Prospects of Democracy: A Study of 172 Countries by Tatu Vanhanen (London: Routledge, 1997, pp.374, £15.99 pb; £50 hb). Prospects for Democracy in Asia by Tatu Vanhanen (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 1998, pp.vii + 140, no price given). Civil‐Military Relations and Democracy edited by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, pp.270, £11.50 pb; £32 hb). Out from Underdevelopment Revisited by James H. Mittelman and Mustapha Kamal Pasha (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1997, pp.289, £16.99 pb).