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...: A Socio-Economic Study of Upland Agriculture and Subsistence Under Population Pressure . By Jan G. L. Palte . Nederlandse Geografische Studies 97. Utrecht and Amsterdam : Geografisch Instituut Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht . 1989 . 250 Dfl 34.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Frederick Bunnell Indonesian Politics Under Suharto: Order, Development and Pressure for Change . By Michael R. J. Vatikiotis . London : Routledge , 1993 . xix, 220 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1338 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Much of Diamond...

...Carl Mosk Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700–1900 . By Tommy Bengtsson , Cameron Campbell , James Z. Lee , et al. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press , 2004 . xiv , 531 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005...

.... Radcliffe's award was altered at the very last moment, being reversed under pressure—direct or indirect—from the Viceroy (pp. 218–19). 3 The Indus Rivers: A Study of the Effects of Partition ( New Haven : Yale Univ. Press , 1967 ), pp. 162 –94 . 4 Master Tara Singh, the leader...

...Eliot G. Mears Asia on the move. Population pressure, migration, and resettlement in Eastern Asia under the influence of war and want . By Bruno Lasker . New York : Henry Holt and Company , 1945 . Issued under the auspices of the American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, xiii...

...Marshall M. Bouton India Under Pressure: Prospects for Political Stability . By Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. , Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1984 . xiii, 214 pp. $18.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 425 Much of the prior...

...Chong-Sik Lee Nihon no atsuryoku dantai [Pressure Groups in Japan.] . The Annals of the Japanese Political Science Association . Tokyo : Iwanami , 1960 . 266 . Yen 440. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 379 and possibilities afforded...

...Manoranjan Dutta The Politics of Scarcity. Public Pressure and Political Response in India . By Myron Weiner . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1962 . xix, 251 . Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 346 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Geoffrey Missen Child Mortality and Population Pressure in the D. I. Jogjakarta, Java, Indonesia. A Social-Medical Study . By Maarten Timmer . The University of Amsterdam . “Bronder-Offset” Rotterdam, 1961 . 504 . Illustrated, Map, Tables, (paper) Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Reginold Bell Pressures on Congress: A Study of the Repeal of Chinese Exclusion . By Fred W. Riggs . New York : King's Crown Press , 1950 . xii, 260 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 471 tions unanswered such as the reality...

...Irene B. Taeuber Abstract Decades of propaganda have made students in the Western world so familiar with the Japanese interpretation of the population problem of Japan that even international commissions considered population pressure as an extenuating factor in the successive acts of military...

... the churches in action. Looking at how churches and activists interact in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Umbrella Movement, we explore how grassroots activists approach religious hierarchies and how, in these circumstances, the clergy of the churches might be pressured into maneuvering between...

... Kongers in the face of political upheaval. Attempting to pressure the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government into meeting their demands, protestors adopted a wide range of tactics that brought protest activities to previously unaffected residential districts. Although no less hectic than other...

... population pressure on the land is accompanied by minute farm size and, despite lower land concentration than in many other parts of the world, both Java and Bangladesh display substantial disparities in control over land and high levels of landlessness or near-landlessness. Agrarian Structure and the State...

... a vision of a future that resists the pressures of historical impasse. Works Cited Allen , Graham . 2011 . Intertextuality . 2nd ed. London : Routledge . Anderson , Marston . 1990 . The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period . Berkeley : University...

... of accountability by the state to the Indian people. Meanwhile, discourses of corruption became increasingly politically potent as India's imperial subjects became voting citizens. These discourses created pressure for a reform of the anticorruption machinery. But the mechanisms resisted full democratization...

... in the face of external pressures. It does imply, however, that sources of conflict and channels for its expression will be sufficiently balanced to insure perpetuation of culturally standardized social arrangements and beliefs over many generations. 39 The dependence-independence ambivalence has been...

... works, and population pressure and poverty all helped the spread of disease, and how public health measures failed to prevent a high mortality. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 Ira Klein is Associate Professor of History at The American University, Washington, D.C...

... primarily with Burma, evidence is provided to suggest that similar economic pressures may have been responsible for sasana reform in India, Ceylon, and Thailand. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 1 See, for example, Bechert Heinz , “ Theravāda Buddhist...