Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT. By Jean Blondel. London, Widenfeld and Nicolson, 1969 MODERN FEDERALISM. By G. Sawer. London, C. A. Watts and Co. Ltd., The New Thinker's Library, 1969 THE FOREIGN OFFICE AND FOREIGN POLICY 1898–1914. By Zara S. Steiner. Cambridge at the University Press, 1969 EAST AND WEST OF SUEZ: The Suez Canal in History 1854–1956. By D. A. Farnie. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969 BRITISH COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE MID‐NINETEENTH CENTURY: The Policy‐Making Process. By John W. Cell. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1970 THE ADMINISTRATION OF NIGERIA 1900–1960: Men, Methods and Myths. By I. F. Nicolson. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969 TRADE AND EMPIRE IN WESTERN INDIA. By Pamela Nightingale. Cambridge at the University Press. 1970 THE TRANSITION IN BENGAL 1756–1775. A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan. By Abdul Majed Khan. Cambridge at the University Press, 1969. One illustration and two maps. Pp. xv+367. 85/‐ Stg. STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF CHINA AND SOUTH‐EAST ASIA: Èssays in Memory of Victor Purcell (26 January 1896‐2 January 1965). Edited by Jerome Ch'en and Nicholas Tarling. Cambridge at the University Press, 1969 THE POLITICS OF REFORM IN THAILAND: Education in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn. By David K. Wyatt. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1969 THE MALAY STATES 1877–1895: Political and Social Policy. By Philip Loh Fook Seng. East Asian Historical Monographs. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1969 THE ESTRANGEMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN AND JAPAN 1917‐35. By Captain Malcolm D. Kennedy. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1969 INDONESIAN POLITICAL THINKING 1945–1965. Edited by Herbert Feith and Lance Castles. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1970 SAMOA 1830–1900: The Politics of a Multi‐Cultural Community. By R. P. Gilson. With an introduction and conclusion by J. W. Davidson. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1970. AUSTRALIA AND THE COLONIAL QUESTION AT THE UNITED NATIONS. By W. J. Hudson. Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1970 POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY IN AUSTRALIA: The Impact of Vietnam and Conscription. By Henry S. Albinski. Durham, North Carolina, 1970 HOUSE OF REVIEW? The New South Wales Legislative Council, 1934‐68. By Ken Turner. Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1969 PRELUDE TO POWER: The Rise of the Labour Party in Queensland 1885–1915. Edited by D. J. Murphy, R. B. Joyce and Colin A. Hughes. Milton, Queensland, The Jacaranda Press, 1970 THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AUSTRALIA: A Short History. By Alastair Davidson. Stanford, California, Stanford University, Hoover Institution Press, 1969