Book reviews Howard, Peter; Mandeville, D. C.; Biggs-Davison, John ...
Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society,
10/1/1966, Letnik:
53, Številka:
3
Book Review
General
The Struggle for the Third World. By Brian Crozier. London, The Bodley Head, 1966. Pp. 156. 15s.
International Aid. By I. M. D. Little and J M. Clifford. London, Allen and Unwin, 1965. Pp. ...360. Bibliog. Index. Cloth-bound, 45s. Paper-backed, 25s.
The British and their Successors. A Study in the Development of the Government Services in the New States. By Richard Symonds. London, Faber, 1966. Pp. 287. Bibliog. 36s.
Central Asia
The Peoples of Soviet Central Asia. By Geoffrey Wheeler. London, The Bodley Head, 1966. Pp. 126. Maps. Index. 12s. 6d.John Biggs-Davison.
Turkistan. Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Kokand, Bukhara and Kuldja. Abridged by K. E. West and edited with an Introduction by Geoffrey Wheeler. London, Routledgc and Kegan Paul, 1966. Pp. xxxvi + 303. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 50s.
The Mongolian People's Republic. By Robert A. Rupen. Integration and Community Building Among the Fourteen Communist Party-States. Hoover Institution Studies 12. California, Stanford University Press, 1966. Pp. 74. Bibliog. $2.00.
South Asia
The Process of Planning. A Study of India's Five-Year Plans 1950-64. B. A. H. Hanson. London, Oxford University Press for Chatham House, 1966. Pp. 560. Index. £55s.
Pakistan. A Political Geography. By A. Tayyeb. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xvi + 250. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 55s.
The Civil Servant in India. By Ex-Indian Civil Servants. Edited by K. L. Panjabi, I.C.S. (Retd.). Bombay, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1965. Pp. xii + 356. Index. Rs. 15.
South-East Asia
Defeating Communist Insurgency. Experiences from Malaya and Vietnam. By Sir Robert Thompson. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. 171. Maps. 21s.
War Without Guns. American Civilians in Rural Vietnam. By George K. Tan-ham et al. New York and London, Frederick Praeger, 1966. Pp. 141. Sketch map. Illus. Index. $4.95. 36s.
Cambodia's Foreign Policy. By Roger M. Smith. Cornell University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. x + 273. Map. Bibliog. Index. $5.75. 46s.
Religion and Politics in Burma. By Donald Eugene Smith. Princeton University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. xiii + 350. Index. 60s.
Buddhism or Communism: Which Holds the Future of Asia? By Ernst Benz. Trans. from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 234. 30s.
Far East
East Asia: The Modern Transformation. By John K. Fairbank, Edwin O. Reischauer, Albert M. Craig. London, George Allen and Unwin, 1965. Pp. xvi + 955. Maps. Plates. Bibliog. Index. 84s.
The Frontiers of China. By Francis Watson. London, Chatto and Windus, 1966. Pp. 224. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 30s.
The Communist Conquest in China. A History of the Civil War 1945-49. By Lionel Max Chassin. Trans, from the French by Timothy Osato and Louis Gelas. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. xiii + 264. Maps. Index. 36s.
Chinese Communism. By Robert C. North. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Pp. 256. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 12s. 6d.
I Stayed in China. By William G. Sewell. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 221. 25s.
Imperial China. The Historical Background to the Modern Age. By Michael Loewe. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 325. Illus. Index. 45s.
The Chinese People and the Chinese Earth. By Keith Buchanan. London, Bell, 1966. Pp. 94. Maps. Diagrams. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 18s. 6d.
Confucian China and its Modern Fate. Joseph R. Levenson. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964-5. Three volumes, Pp. 223, 178 and 180 respectively. Indexes. Bibliog. 25s. each.
Culture and Civilization
Arabic and Islamic Studies in Honor of Hamilton A. R. Gibb. Edited by George Makdisi. Leiden, Brill, 1965. Pp. xvii + 688. 120 guilders.
Japanese Porcelain. By Soame Jenyns. London, Faber, 1965. Pp. xiii + 351. 4 plates in colour and 120 in monochrome. Map. Bibliog. Index. 5 guineas.
History
British Policy in India, 1858-1905. By S. Gopal. Cambridge South Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. xii + 423. Maps. Bibliog. Index. 70s.
The Mutiny Outbreak at Meerut in 1857. By J. A. B. Palmer. Cambridge University Press, 1966. Pp. xi + 175. Plan. Index. 40s.
Signal Catastrophe. The Story of the Disastrous Retreat from Kabul 1842. By Patrick Macrory. London, Hodder and Stoughton. Pp. 288. Maps. Illus. Index. 42s.
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings. By P. J. Marshall. London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 217. Bibliog. Index. 30s.
Bombay Presidency in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. By Holden Furber. London, Asia Publishing House, 1965. Pp. v + 76. Index. 21s.
Russo-Persian Commercial Relations, 1828-1914. By Marvin L. Entner. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, 1965. Pp. 80. $2.00.
Bukhara: The Medieval Achievement. By Richard N. Frye. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. Pp. xiii + 209. Bibliog. Index. $2.75.
British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1877. By C. Northcote Parkinson. Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp.xx+384. Maps. Index. 16s.
A History of Modern Sabah 1881-1963. By K. G. Tregonning. University of Malaya Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. 275. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 24s.
History of Eastern Arabia, 1750-1800. The Rise and Development of Bahrain and Kuwait. By Ahmad Abu Hakima. Beirut, Khayats, 1966. Pp. 213. Maps. Bibliog. Index. L.L. 18. $6.00.
Burma Through Alien Eyes. Missionary Views of the Burmese in the Nineteenth Century. By Helen G. Trager. London, Asia Publishing House, 1966. Pp. 239. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 35s.
The Silk Road. By Luce Boulnois. Translated from the French by Dennis Chamberlain. London, Allen and Unwin, 1966. Pp. 250. Maps. Illus. Bibliog. Index. 42s.
Religion and Philosophy
Islam in the Modern National State. By E. I. J. Rosenthal. Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. xxii + 416. Bibliog. Index. 55s.
Saviours of Mankind II. Panchen Lamas and Former Incarnations of Amitayus. Edited by Toni Schmid. The Sven Hedin Foundation, Statens Etnograpiska Museum, Stockholm, 1964. 30 plates, several in colour.
Travel
Afghanistan. Cockpit in High Asia. By Peter King. London, Geoffrey Bles, 1966. Pp. 224. Sketch map. Illus. Index. 25s.
A Journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin 1719-22. By John Bell. Edited with an Introduction by J. L. Stevenson. Edinburgh University Press, 1965. Pp. 248. 45s.
