Book reviews

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Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Africa edited by Harvey Glickman (Atlanta, GA: The African Studies Association Press, 1995, pp.484, $29). Citizen and Subject. Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism by Mahmood Mamdani. (Kampala/Cape Town/London: Fountain Publishers/David Philip/James Currey, pp.xii + 353, £14.95). Big Men, Small Boys and Politics in Ghana. Power, Ideology and the Burden of History, 1982–94 by Paul Nugent (London: Pinter, pp.xiv + 306, £55). Tributors, Supports and Merchant Capital: Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone by Alfred Zack‐Williams (Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, pp.239, £42.50). Limits of Adjustments in Africa edited by Poul Engberg‐Pedersen, Peter Gibbon, Phil Raikes and Lars Udsholt (Oxford: Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, in association with James Currey, 1996, pp.xi + 430, £45 hb, £16.95 pb). Structurally Adjusted Africa: Poverty, Debt and Basic Needs edited by David Simon, Wim Van Spengen, Chris Dixon and Anders Narman (London: Pluto Press, 1995, pp.ix + 245, £45). The Tanzanian Peasantry: Further Studies edited by Peter Foster and Sam Maghimbi (Aldershot: Avebury, 1995, pp.xxxiv + 329, £42.50). Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War edited by Ngwabi Bhebe and Terence Ranger (Heinemann, New Hampshire, James Currey, London, and University of Zimbabwe Publications, 1995, Volume 1, pp.203, £12.95 pb). Apartheid's Last Stand: The Rise and Fall of the South African Security State by Chris Alden (London: Macmillan, 1996, pp.333, £45). South Africa's Defence and Security into the 21st Century edited by William Gutteridge (Aldershot, Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1996, pp.185, £37.50). In Search of Cool Ground: War, Flight and Homecoming in Northeast Africa edited by Tim Allen (Geneva: with London: James Currey and Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), pp.xv + 336, £14.95 pb, £35 hb). Africa in the Contemporary International Disorder: Crises and Possibilities edited by Mulugeta Agonafer (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996, pp.xvi + 405, $58). Kampala Women Getting By: Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS by Sandra Wallman (London: James Currey, 1996, $35 hb, $14.95 pb). Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter‐Insurgency 1994–1960 by Susan L. Carruthers (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1995, pp.xi + 307, £45 hb, £6,99 pb). Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa by Merilee S. Grindle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp.243, £14.95). Democracy Development, and the Countryside: Urban‐Rural Struggles in India by Ashutosh Varshney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp.214. £35). The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925 to the 1990s. Strategies of Identity‐Building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with special reference to Central india) by Christophe Jaffrelot (London: Hurst & Co., 1996, pp.xxiii + 592, £45 hb, £19.50 pb). Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia edited by Garry Rodan (London and New York; Routledge, 1996, pp.xvii + 338, £45 hb; £14.99 pb). The 1992 PNG Election. Change anal Continuity in Electoral Politics edited by Yaw Saffu (Canberra: Australian National University; Political and Social Change Monograph 23, 1996, pp.xii + 409, pb). Ethnic Conflict and Development The Case of Fiji by Ralph R. Premdas (Aldershot: Avebury, pp.xi + 198, £45 hb). The Reality of Aid: An Independent Review of International Aid by Judith Randel and Tony German (London: Earthscan, 1996, pp.iii + 244, £14.95). Gender in Third World Politics by Georgina Waylen (Boulder, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996, pp.xii + 163, £18.95 pb, £45 hb).