Search

Reviews several books on national identities. 'Encyclopedia of Nationalism,' edited by Athena S. Leoussi; 'Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean,' edited by Patrick Taylor; 'The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities,' edited by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies and Ali A. Mazrui; 'Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York City,' edited by Nancy Foner.

Reviews the book "Postmodernity USA: The Crisis of Social Modernism in Postwar America," by Anthony Woodiwiss.

Reviews the book `China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry,' by Richard Madsen.

Reviews the book `Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought,' Martin Jay.

Reviews two books about computers. "Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age," by J. David Bolter; "The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit," by Sherry Turkle.

Reviews the book "The City and the Grassroots," by Manuel Castells.

Reviews the book "Guests and Aliens," by Saskia Sassen.

The article reviews the book "The Idea of Civil Society," by Adam Seligman.

Reviews the book `From Provinces into Nations: Demographic Integration in Western Europe, 1870-1960,' by Susan Cotts Watkins. Fertility transitions based on broad social and cultural factors; Extent and variation of fertility rates in nineteenth-century Europe; Two parts of Watkins's argument; Lack of empirical arguments; Books' contribution to historical demography.

Reviews the book "The Constitution of Society," by Anthony Giddens.

Reviews the book `The Ordinary and the Extraordinary: An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's Movement in Beijing,' by Frank N. Pieke.

Reviews the book `Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society, 1750-1850,' by Theodore Koditschek.

Reviews the book 'Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982,' by Gareth Stedman Jones.

Reviews the book "Between Culture and Politics: Intellectuals in Modern Society," by Ron Eyerman.

Reviews the book `Performances,' by Greg Dening.

Reviews the book "The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England," by Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J.H. Plumb.