Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Les Back and John Solomos (eds.), Theories of Race and Racism: a Reader. Erik J. Zuercher, Turkey: a Modern History (2nd edn). Charles van der Leeuw, Storm over the Caucasus: In the Wake of Independence. George Hewitt (ed.), The Abkhazians. A Handbook. Leokadia Drobizheva et al. (eds.), Ethnic Conflict in the Post‐Soviet World. Case Studies and Analysis. George W. White, Nationalism and Territory: Constructing Group Identity in Southeastern Europe. Sikata Banerjee, Warriors in Politics: Hindu Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India. Joanna McKay, The Official Concept of the Nation in the Former GDR: Theory, Pragmatism and the Search for Legitimacy. Walter A. Kemp, Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. A Basic Contradiction? J. A. Mangan (ed.), Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon – Aryan Fascism. Iftikhar Malik, Islam, Nationalism and the West: Issues of Identity in Pakistan. Kjell Blückert, The Church as Nation: A Study in Ecclesiology and Nationhood. Senia Paseta, Before the Revolution: Nationalism, Social Change and Ireland's Catholic Elite, 1879–1922. Zlatko Skrbis, Long‐distance Nationalism, Diasporas, Homelands and Identities. A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism: Its Origins and Development in the 19th and 20th Centuries.