Reviews Middleton, Chris; Beier, A. L.; Clark, Peter ...
Social History,
19/1/1/, Volume:
12, Issue:
1
Book Review
Peer reviewed
R.J. Holton, The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (1985), xii+234 (Macmillan, Basingstoke, £20, paperback £6.95).
Antoni Maczak, Henryk Samsonowicz and Peter Burke, East-Central Europe in ...Transition: from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century (1985), vii+207 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £22.50).
Paul Slack, The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England (1985), xvi+443 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, £25.00).
A. L. Beier, Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England (1985), xv+233 (Methuen, London, £19.95).
John L. McMullan, The Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld, 1550-1700 (1984) ix+226 (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., n.p.).
Maxine Berg, The Age of Manufactures 1700-1820 (1985), 378 (Fontana, London, paperback, £4.95).
Alan Greer, Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840 (1985), 304 (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo and London, n.p.).
Barbara Jeanne Fields, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1985), xv+268 (Yale University Press, New Haven, £27.50).
A. J. Kidd and K. W. Roberts (eds), City, Class and Culture: Studies of Cultural Production and Social Policy in Victorian Manchester (1985), vii + 280 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £25.00).
Gary S. Messinger, Manchester in the Victorian Age: The Half-Known City xii+211 (Manchester University Press, Manchester £11.95, paperback £4.95).
Donald Reid, The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization (1985), ix+333 (Harvard University Press, Boston, $25.00).
Moshe Lewin, The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia (1985), viii+354 (Methuen, London, paperback £8.95).
Derek J. Oddy and Derek S. Miller (eds), Diet and Health in Modern Britain (1985), 326 (Croom Helm, London, £22.50).
Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb (eds), Hunger and History (1985), 336 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, £25.00).
Book reviews Wang, Yiyan; Schak, David C.; Rule, Paul ...
Asian Studies Review,
20/6/1/, Volume:
27, Issue:
2
Book Review
Peer reviewed
CHINA
SUSAN BROWNELL and JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM (eds).
Chinese Femininities/ Chinese Masculinities: a Reader.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 460 pp. US$24.95, paper.
LEO T. S. CHING.
...Becoming "Japanese": colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation.
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. xii, 251 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, index. US$18.95, paper.
PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY.
A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 361 pp. US$45.00, hardcover.
STEPHANIE HEMELRYK DONALD, MICHAEL KEANE and YIN HONG (eds).
Media in China: consumption, Content and Crisis.
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. 240 pp. Tables, figures, notes on contributors, bibliography, index. £55.00, hardcover.
EDMUND S. K. FUNG.
In Search of Chinese Democracy: civil Opposition in Nationalist China, 1929-1949.
Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 352 pp. A$125.00, hardcover.
FEI FEI LI, ROBERT SABELLA and DAVID LIU (eds).
Nanking 1937
:
memory and Healing.
New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Foreword by Perry Link, index. 278 pp. US$23.95, paper.
DAVID SHAMBAUGH (ed).
Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors.
Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. £35.37, hardcover; £18.95, paper.
YANG LIAN.
Yi.
Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee. Copenhagen, Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2002. 361 pp. US$14.95, paper.
YANG LIAN.
Notes of a Blissful Ghost.
Translated from the Chinese by Brian Holton. Shatin, Hong Kong: Renditions Paperbacks, 2002. 160 pp. US$14.95, paper.
XUEPING ZHONG, WANG ZHEN and BAI DI (eds).
Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 208 pp. US$58.00, hardcover; US$22.00, paper.
JAPAN AND KOREA
NOREEN JONES.
Number 2 Home: story of Japanese Pioneers in Australia.
Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002. 224 pp. A$24.95, paper.
MARK McLELLAND.
Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: cultural Myths and Social Realities.
Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. 268 pp. £17.99, paper.
LINDA S. LEWIS.
Laying Claim to the Memory of May: a Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising.
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. US$19.95, paper.
HENRY SCOTT-STOKES and LEE JAI-EUI (eds).
The Kwangju Uprising: eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen.
Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. US$37.50, hardcover; US$18.95, paper.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
MARC ASKEW.
Bangkok: place, Practice and Representation.
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. US$90.00, hardcover; US$26.95, paper.
ANTHONY MILNER.
The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii, 328 pp. Map, index and select bibliography. A$49.95, paper.
SHIGEHARU TANABE and CHARLES F. KEYES (eds).
Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos.
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. xii, 312 pp. Index. £55.00, hardcover.
C. J. W-L. WEE (ed).
Local Cultures and the "New Asia": the State, Culture and Capitalism in Southeast Asia.
Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 2002. x, 245 pp. US$ 49.90/S$ 73.90, hardcover; US$ 25.90/S$ 39.90, paper.
GENERAL ASIA
TANI BARLOW (ed).
New Asian Marxisms.
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 422 pp. US$27.95, paper; US$79.95, hardcover.
T. FUJITANI, GEOFFREY M. WHITE and LISA YONEYAMA (eds).
Perilous Memories: the Asia-Pacific War(s).
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. 462 pp. US$59.95, hardcover; US$19.95, paper.
MARGARET JOLLY and KALPANA RAM (eds).
Borders of Being: citizenship, Fertility and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 326 pp. US$59.50, cloth; US$24.95, paper.
RAJINI SRIKANTH and ESTHER Y. IWANAGA (eds).
Bold Words: a Century of Asian-American Writing.
New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 442 pp. US$59.00, hardcover; US$25.00, paper.
OUYANG YU.
Two Hearts, Two Tongues, and Rain-Coloured Eyes.
Broadway, NSW: Wild Peony Press, 2002. 119 pp. No price given, paper.
ZIJIE PAN.
Vostok/This Could Have Happened to You.
Broadway, NSW: Wild Peony Press, 2002. 94 pp. No price given, paper.
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