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...Frederick L. Wernstedt; Paul D. Simkins Abstract One of the more serious obstacles to economic progress and human betterment in many of the less developed countries is the dense settlement of the present cultivated land, coupled with a rapidly increasing population. In much of southern and eastern...

...George Alexander Lensen Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Russian Settlement in the North . By Terence Armstrong . Cambridge University Press , 1965 . xii, 224 , Maps, Illustrations, Appendices, Glossary of Russian Terms, References, Index. $9.50. BOOK...

...Paul M. A. Linebarger Shanghai and Beyond: China's Recent Violent Past as Viewed from Shanghai's Colorful International Settlement . By Percy Finch . New York : Charles Scribner's Sons , 1935 . 357. $4.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 BOOK REVIEWS 343...

...Jane C. Nahm International Conference on the Settlement of the Laotian Question 1961–62 . By George Modelski . Canberra : Department of International Relations. The Australian National University , 1963 , 156 . $2.50. (paper) The Colombo Plan; Some Political Aspects . By L. P...

...Robert M. Hartwell Settlement and Social Change in Asia . By Wolfram Eberhard . Volume I. Hong Kong : Cathay Press , 1967 . xiv, 492 pp. Indices, Appendix, Plates, Tables, Notes, Maps, References. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Allan E. Goodman Geneva, 1954: The Settlement of the Indochinese War . By Robert F. Randle . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1969 . xviii, 639 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 510 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Paul W. van der Veur West New Guinea: The Dispute and Its Settlement . By William Henderson . South Orange, N.J. : Seton Hall University Press , 1973 . x, 281 pp. Appendix, Bibliographical Note. Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK...

...William R. Roff The British Settlement of Penang . By James Low , with an Introduction by James Jackson. Singapore, Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1972 . (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints), xxiv, v, 321 pp. $15.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975...

...Richard F. Strand Men of Influence in Nuristan: A Study of Social Control and Dispute Settlement in Waigal Valley, Afghanistan . By Schuyler Jones . London and New York : Seminar Press , 1974 . Seminar Studies in Anthropology, 3. xiv, 299 pp. Illustrations, Photographs, Maps, Tables...

...Donald E. Voth Philippine Migration: The Settlement of the Digos-Padada Valley, Davao Province . By Paul D. Simkins and Frederick L. Wernstedt . Monograph Series No. 16. New Haven : Yale University Southeast Asia Studies , 1971 . x, 150 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Graphs, Tables. $5.75...

...John R. McLane The Permanent Settlement in Bengal: A Study of Its Operation, 1790–1819 . By Sirajul Islam . Dacca : Bangla Academy , 1979 . xv, 288 pp. Glossary, Appendixes, Select Bibliography, Index. Tk. 25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Judith L. Ecklund Cosmology and Social Behavior in a West Javanese Settlement . By Robert Wessing . Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies (Papers in International Studies Southeast Asia Series No. 47), 1978 . xv, 192 pp. Plates, Maps, Mathematical Appendix...

...Joyce White Prehistoric Thailand: From Early Settlement to Sukhothai . By Charles Higham and Rachanie Thorsarat . Bangkok : River Books , 1998 . 236 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1093 Prehistoric...

...Mark Philip Bradley Exiting Indochina: U.S. Leadership of the Cambodia Settlement and Normalization with Vietnam . By Richard H. Solomon . Foreword by Stanley Karnow. Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press , 2000 . xx, 113 pp. $12.50 (paper). Copyright ©...

... Scientifique et de 1'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris; Le Documentation Francaise, 1984. 264 pp. List of Contributors. N.p. The Long Journey: Vietnamese Migration and Settlement in Australia. By NANCY VIVIANI. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1984. xiv, 316 pp. List...

...Paul M. Taylor Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology: An Approach to the Environmental Relations of an Eastern Indonesian Community . By Roy F. Ellen . The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff (Verhandelingen Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, no. 83), 1978 . xi , 265 pp. Tables...

...Winston W. Lo The Country of Streams and Grottoes: Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times . By Richard von Glahn . Harvard East Asian Monographs 123. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1987 . xxii, 305 pp. $24.00. Copyright ©...

...Terry Plater Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 The Extended Metropolis: Settlement Transition in Asia . Edited by Norton Ginsburg , Bruce Koppel , and T. G. McGee . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1991 . xviii, 339 pp. $38.00. 866 THE JOURNAL...

... to manipulate the alert FRANK W. IKLE segment of the public and potential opponents Miami University, Ohio in the Senate. Professor Cohen is especially to be congratulated for his sophisticated and yet The Political Process and Foreign Policy: The Making of the Japanese Peace Settlement. By BERNARD C. COHEN...