Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:

Catherine Boone, Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal,

E. V. K. Fitz Gerald, The Macroeconomics of Development Finance. A Kaleckian Analysis of the Semi-Industrial Economy.

Ester Boserup, The Condition of Agricultural Growth.

Thomas J. Bassett and Donald E. Crummey (eds),Land in African Agrarian Systems.

M. Riad El-Ghonemy, Land, Food and Rural Development in North Africa.

Gillian Hart, Andrew Turton and Ben White (eds), Agrarian Transformation: Local Processes and the State in Southeast Asia.

Vali Jamal and John Weeks, Africa Misunderstood or Whatever happened to the Rural-Urban Gap?

Henry Bernstein, Ben Crow and Hazel Johnson (eds), Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses.

Redman Sobhan, Agrarian Reform and Social Transformation: Preconditions for Development.

Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Liberalizing Tanzania's Food Trade. Geneva:

Robert McC. Netting, Smallholders, Householders. Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture.

Leela Gulati, In the Absence of their Men: The Impact of Male Migration on Women.

K. R. Venugopal, Deliverance from Hunger. The Public Distribution System in india.

Kamala Ganesh, Boundary Walls: Caste and Women in a Tamil Community.

Brian Turner, Community Politics and Peasant-State Relations in Paraguay.

Jan M. G. Kleinpenning, Rural Paraguay, 1870–1932.

Kenneth G. Lieberthal and David M. Lampton (eds), Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China.