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JAMES FERGUSON: Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt. (Perspectives on Southern Africa 57.) xvii, 326 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1999. $45, $17.95 (paper).
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TARIQ RAHMAN: Language, education, and culture. xvi, 318 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press (and Sustainable Policy Development Institute, Islamabad), 1999. £10.00.
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MOLLY GREENE: Christians and Muslims in the early modern Mediterranean. 228 pp. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. $32.50, £20.50.
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TEUKU ISKANDAR: Catalogue of Malay, Minangkabau, and South Sumatran manuscripts in the Netherlands. 2 vols., xiv, 1095 pp. Leiden: Documentatiebureau Islam-Christendom, 1999.
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JAMES DICKINS and JANET C. E. WATSON: Standard Arabic: an advanced course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xxix, 592 pp. 1999.
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JACKIE ASSAYAG (ed.): The resources of history: tradition, narration and nation in South Asia. (Études thématiques 8.) xvii, 374 pp. Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, Institut français de Pondichéry, 1999.
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BOšKO I. BOJOVIĆ: Raguse et l'empire ottoman (1430-1520). Les actes impériaux en vieux-Serbe de Murad II à Selim Ier. (Textes, Documents, Études sur le Monde Byzantin, Hélénique et Balkanique, 3.) lii, 420 pp. Paris: Éditions de l'Association Pierre Belon, 1998.
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East Asia
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VIRGINIA YIP and STEPHEN MATTHEWS: Basic Cantonese. xii, 171 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. £12.99.
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ABRAHAM OF EREVAN: History of the Wars (1721–1738) (Abraham Erewants'i‘s, Patmut'iwn Paterazmats'n). Annotated translation from the original eighteenth-century texts, with introductory notes by George A. Bournoutian. (Armenian Studies Series, 3.) 111 pp. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 1999.
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RICHARD SALOMON: Indian epigraphy: a guide to the study of inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan languages. xxi, 378 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. £45.
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JOHN RENARD (ed.): Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life. xxii, 431 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1998. $55, $22 (paper); £40, £15.95 (paper).
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TIM POTIER: Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. A legal appraisal. xvi, 314 pp. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2001. Euro 102.
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Central Asia
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DOUGLAS Q. ADAMS: A dictionary of Tocharian B. (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 10.) xxxiv, 830 pp. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. Hfl. 350, US$190.
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ELIZABETH SIRRIYEH: Sufis and anti-Sufis: the defence, rethinking and rejection of Sufism in the modern world. (Curzon Sufi Series.) xiii, 188 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1998. £14.99. IAN RICHARD NETTON: Sūfī ritual: the parallel universe. (Curzon Sufi Series.) xi, 219 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000. £30.00, £14.99 (paper).
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TAPAN RAYCHAUDHURI: Perceptions, emotions, sensibilities: essays on India's colonial and post-colonial sensibilities. xiv, 245 pp. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. £20.
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SUSHIL CHAUDHURY: The prelude to empire: Plassey revolution of 1757. 192 pp. New Delhi: Manohar, 2000. Rs. 375.
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MYKHAILO HRUSHEVSKY: History of Ukraine-Rus'. Volume 7. The Cossack age to 1625. Translated by Bohdan Struminski. Edited by Serhii Plokhy, Consulting Editor, and Frank E. Sysyn, Editor-in-Chief, with the assistance of Uliana M. Pasiczynk. lvi, 548 pp., 2 maps. Edmonton and Toronto: Candian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1999. $119.95.
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WILLIAM W. FITZHUGH and CHISATO O. DUBREUIL (ed.): Ainu, spirit of a northern people. 415 pp. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1999. HONDA KATSUICHI (translated by KYOKO SELDEN HARAKUR): An Ainu woman's tale. (Voices from Asia, 11.) 350 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. £31.50, £12.50 (paper).
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The Ancient World
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LEE I. LEVINE: The ancient synagogue, the first thousand years. xvi, 748 pp. 98 fig. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1999. £45.
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JOHN DREW: India and the romantic imagination (Oxford India Paperbacks.) xvi, 305 pp. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. Rs 360.
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