Book reviews.

Adam, B. 1998: Timescapes of modernity. The environment and invisible hazards. London: Routledge. viii + 247 pp. £45.50 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 16274 2 cloth, 0 415 16275 0 paper. Buechler, S.M. 2000: Social movements in advanced capitalism: the political economy and cultural construction of social activism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xiii + 240 pp. £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 19 512604 1. Burch, D., Goss, J. and Lawrence, G., editors, 1999: Restructuring global and regional agricultures: transformation in Australasian agri-food economies and spaces. Aldershot: Ashgate. xix + 320 pp. £42.50 cloth. ISBN: 1 84014 975 2. Dasgupta, B. 1998: Structural adjustment, global trends and the new political economy of development. London and New York: Zed Books. 434 pp. £69.95 cloth, £14.95 paper. ISBN: 1 85649 595 7 cloth, 1 85649 596 5 paper. Doel, M. 1999: Poststructuralist geographies: the diabolical art of spatial science. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 229 pp. £47.95 cloth, £16.00 paper. ISBN: 0 7486 1242 4 cloth, 0 7486 1243 2 paper. Evans, G., editor, 1999: The end of class politics? Class voting in comparative context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xvi + 364 pp. £17.99 paper. ISBN: 0 19 829634 7. Gardiner, V. and Matthews, H., editors, 2000: The changing geography of the United Kingdom. London: Routledge. xxiii + 503 pp. £19.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 17901 7. Mohan, J. 1999: A United Kingdom? Economic, social and political geographies. London: Arnold. xi + 258 pp. £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 340 67752 X. Gupta, A. 1998: Postcolonial developments: agriculture in the making of modern India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. xv + 409 pp. $21.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8223 2213 7. Hall, C.M. and Page, S.J. 1999: The geography of tourism and recreation – environment, place and space. London and New York: Routledge. xvii + 309 pp. £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 16004 9. Harvey, D. 2000: Spaces of hope. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. x + 293 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.95 paper. ISBN: 0 7486 1269 6 cloth, 0 7486 1268 8 paper. Hetherington, K. 1997: Badlands of modernity. London: Routledge. x + 164 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 11469 1 cloth, 0 415 11470 5 paper. Laurie, N., Dwyer, C., Holloway, S. and Smith, F. 1999: Geographies of new femininities. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education. xiii + 225 pp. £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 582 32024 0. Lee, C.K. 1998: Gender and the economic miracle in south China: two worlds of factory women. Berkeley, CA, and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. xiv + 210 pp. £35.00 cloth, £12.95 paper. ISBN: 0 520 21125 1 cloth, 0 520 21127 8 paper. Lo, F.C. and Yeung, Y.M., editors, 1998: Globalization and the world of large cities. New York: United Nations University Press. xvi + 530 pp. US$34.95 paper. ISBN: 9 28080 999 7. MacCannell, D. 1999: The tourist: a new theory of the leisure class. Berkeley, CA, and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. 231 pp. £10.95 paper. ISBN: 0 52021 892 2 (originally published New York: Schocken Books, 1976). McNeill, D. 1999: Urban change and the European left: tales from the new Barcelona. London: Routledge. xi + 198 pp. £50.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 415 17062 1. Monti, D.J. Jr 1999: The American city: a social and cultural history. Oxford: Blackwell. viii + 391 pp. £55.00 (US$62.95) cloth, £16.99 (US$27.99) paper. ISBN: 1 55786 917 0 cloth, 1 55786 918 9 paper. Njoh, A.J. 1999: Urban planning, housing and spatial structures in sub-Saharan Africa. Aldershot: Ashgate. xvi + 270 pp. £39.95 cloth. ISBN: 0 7546 1094 2. Peet, R. 1998: Modern geographic thought. Oxford: Blackwell. ix + 345 pp. £60.00 cloth, £16.99 paper. ISBN: 1 55786 206 0 cloth, 1 55786 378 4 paper. Pitte, J.R. and Sanguin, A.L., editors, 1999: Géographie et liberté. Mélanges en hommage à Paul Claval. Paris: L’Harmattan. 758 pp. Ffr39.00 paper. ISBN: 2 7384 8575 8. Sittirak, S. 1998: The daughters of development: women in a changing environment. London: Zed Books. xix + 153 pp. £36.95 cloth, £12.95 paper. ISBN: 1 85649 587 6 cloth, 1 85649 588 4 paper. Turnock, D. 1998: An historical geography of railways in Great Britain and Ireland. Aldershot: Ashgate. xiv + 379 pp. £65.00 cloth. ISBN: 1 85928 450 7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]