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Volume 33 - Issue 2 - June 1970

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James C. Jackson: Planters and speculators: Chinese and European agricultural enterprise in Malaya, 1786–1921. xxi, 312 pp. Kuala Lumpur, Singapore: University of Malaya Press, 1968. (Distributed by Oxford University Press. £6 5s.)

Cheng Siok-hwa: The rice industry of Burma, 1852–1940.xxvi, 307 pp. Kuala Lumpur, Singapore: University of Malaya Press, 1968. (Distributed by Oxford University Press. £6 13s. 6d.)

Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson (ed.): The Oxford history of South Africa, I. South Africa to 1870. xxiii, 502 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 75s.

Wm. Eoger Louis and Jean Stengers: E. D. Morel's History of the Congo reform movement, xiv, 289 pp., front., 2 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. 48s.

Victor Turner: The forest of symbols: aspects of Ndembu ritual, xiv, 405 pp., front., 10 plates. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1967. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £7 2s. 6d.)

Eugene Cotran: Kenya. Vol. I. The law of marriage and divorce.—[Vol.] II. The law of succession. (Restatement of African Law, [1]–2.) xxxiv, 213 pp.; xxxi, 191 pp. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1968–1969. 78s. per vol.

Marvin Harris: The rise of anthropological theory: a history of theories of culture, [x], 806 pp. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1969]. £6 6s.

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Wolfram von Soden: Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik (Analecta Orientalia, 33; 2. unveränderte Auflage) samt Ergänzungsheft zum Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik (Analecta Orientalia, 47). xxiv, 274, 51*, viii, 35 pp. Roma: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1969. L 8,400.

M. Civil (ed.): Materials for the Sumerian lexicon. The series lú = ša and related texts. (MSL, XII.) xiii, 251 pp. Roma: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1969. L 8,400.

Armas Salonen: Die Fussbekleidung der alten Mesopotamier nach sumerischakkadischen Quellen: eine lexikalische und kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchung. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Ser. B, Tom. 157.) 136 pp., 46 plates. Helsinki: [Academia Scientiarum Fennica], 1969. Fmk. 30.

Muhsin Mahdi (ed.): Alfarabi's Ullerances employed in logic (Kitāb al-alfāẓ al-musta'malah fī al-manṭiq). ix, 124 pp. Beirut: Dar el-Mashreq Publishers (Imprimerie Catholique), [1968].

Christopher Toll (ed. and tr.): Die beiden Edelmetalle Gold und Silber von al-Hamdânî. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Semitica Upsaliensia, 1.) 394 pp. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri AB, 1968. Sw. kr. 75.

Gabriel Baer: Studies in the social history of modern Egypt. (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, No. 4.) xx, 259 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969. $6.75, 61s.

Mohamed Omee Beshir: Educational development in the Sudan, 1898–1956. (Oxford Studies in African Affairs.) xi, 276 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 55s.

William R. Polk and Richard L. Chambers (ed.): Beginnings of modernization in the Middle East: the nineteenth century. (Publications of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, No. 1.) x, 427 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1968. $9.75, 88s.

Barbara Von Palombini: Bündniswerben abendländischer Mächte um Persien 1453–1600. (Freiburger Islamstudien, Bd. I.) viii, 138 pp. Wies-baden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1968. DM 30..

George Grassmuck and others (ed.): Afghanistan: some new approaches. [Editors:] George Grassmuck and Ludwig W. Adamec with Frances H. Lrwin. ix, 405 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan, [1969].

Joseph Wolff: A mission to Bokhara. Edited and abridged with an introduction by Guy Wint. (Travellers and Explorers.) xii, 254 pp., front., 8 plates. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 40s.

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