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Handbook of political science research on Latin America: Trends from the 1960s to the 1990s
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D e l o r m e , Robert (1988) Latin America, 19831987. A Social Science Bibliography. Westport, CT: G r e e n w o o d (391 pp., cloth, $49.95). This interdisciplinary work is the third in an important and useful series of unannotated but comprehensive bibliographies by a US political scientist. As in previous efforts covering 1967 79 and 1979-83, D e l o r m e seeks to marshall books, book chapters, and articles. In this edition he expands coverage of UN and institutional publications. The nearly 4,000 sources are categorized as reference material, regional or multicountry studies, or country-specific works; books and articles are listed separately in each section. Substantial author and subject guides conclude. There are inevitable limits: 1987 listings are incomplete; there is important material in journals other than the 1111) surveyed: and dissertations should be covered. Yet most researchers will find this volume an efficient tool for research on Latin America.
Dent, David l e d . ) (1990) Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America: Trends )?om the 1960s to the 1990s. Westport, CT: G r e e n w o o d (448 pp., cloth, $67.50). North A m e r i c a n political scientists, a number of whom contributed to the Latin American Handbook, here collaborate on an intellectual guide to three decades of political writing on Latin America. There are 17 essays, a dozen country specific and the rest on comparative international relations. The average chapter covers too much and is only able to touch on key issues, point out a few topical or ideological shifts, and mention some basic works. Neither global nor local studies is given much focus: micropolitics is examined briefly under agrarian issues. The bibliographical leads, appendices on other bibliographies and on research centers, and the internal critique of methodological weakness and polemicism will all be of use to beginning students of the area. But these social scientists, whether optimists or pessimists about Latin A m e r i c a n democracy, have not linked academic debate to the practical needs of a more effective public policy.
Eriksen, Tore (1989, 2nd ed.) Hie Political Economy qf Namibia. An Annotated (?ritical Bibliography. Uppsala, Sweden: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (37(I pp., cloth, SEK180). The original edition was one of the best
country-specific reference tools done in the last decade and won the 1986 C o n o v e r - P o r t e r Award from the US African Studies Association. This edition has added 650 titles: the whole now contains about 2,100 sources with extensive annotations on about half. The new items arc added without annotation, as a separate chapter. A new introduction in the form of a bibliographical essay c o m m e n t s on the best reference works and new literature since 1985. The author index has been updated. Some inefficiency is introduced by listing new material by source type rather than subject. For Namibian studies, this remains an indispensable work, and for would-be country bibliographers it is one of the few that merit close study prior to the design of any new bibliography. Fowlie-Flores, Fay (1990) Annotated Bibliography of Puerto Rican Bibliographies. Westport, CT: G r e e n w o o d (167 pp., cloth, $39.95). A senior librarian at the University of Puerto Rico has provided that rura avis of reference works, a country-specific bibliography of bibliographies, f t e r effort appears to be exhaustive, presenting some 563 sources from the 1880s through 1988. These are organized in three sections: a general category, 17 subject categories; and one on Puerto Ricans in the United States. Author, title, and subject indexes facilitate searches that do not fit neatly into specified categories. The annotations try to suggest the focus and limits of a work; sometimes they add contextual or judgmental comments. The introduction provides both intellectual history and al~ accounting of many undersurvcyed areas: poetry, religion, social conditions, and political science to name a few. This fine work should stir remedial action in these areas and challenge other national librarians to try comparable surveys.
Goctzfridt, Nicholas and Wiliam Wuerch (1989) Micronesia 1975 M)SZ A Social Scienc< Bibliography. Westport, CT: G r e e n w o o d (194 pp., cloth, $39.95). Students of the Pacific, well served recently by Miles Jackson, lEd.) (1986) Pacific Island Studies, now have a new, comprehensive survey of social science literature on Micronesia. Following the classics by U t m o m i (material through 1944) and Marshall and Nason (1944-74), Goetzfridt and Wucrch pursue a highly interdisciplinary, anthropological focus: any source or subject with cultural dimensions is included. Geographi-
WORLD DEVELOPMENT
D e l o r m e , Robert (1988) Latin America, 19831987. A Social Science Bibliography. Westport, CT: G r e e n w o o d (391 pp., cloth, $49.95). This interdisciplinary work is the third in an important and useful series of unannotated but comprehensive bibliographies by a US political scientist. As in previous efforts covering 1967 79 and 1979-83, D e l o r m e seeks to marshall books, book chapters, and articles. In this edition he expands coverage of UN and institutional publications. The nearly 4,000 sources are categorized as reference material, regional or multicountry studies, or country-specific works; books and articles are listed separately in each section. Substantial author and subject guides conclude. There are inevitable limits: 1987 listings are incomplete; there is important material in journals other than the 1111) surveyed: and dissertations should be covered. Yet most researchers will find this volume an efficient tool for research on Latin America.
Dent, David l e d . ) (1990) Handbook of Political Science Research on Latin America: Trends )?om the 1960s to the 1990s. Westport, CT: G r e e n w o o d (448 pp., cloth, $67.50). North A m e r i c a n political scientists, a number of whom contributed to the Latin American Handbook, here collaborate on an intellectual guide to three decades of political writing on Latin America. There are 17 essays, a dozen country specific and the rest on comparative international relations. The average chapter covers too much and is only able to touch on key issues, point out a few topical or ideological shifts, and mention some basic works. Neither global nor local studies is given much focus: micropolitics is examined briefly under agrarian issues. The bibliographical leads, appendices on other bibliographies and on research centers, and the internal critique of methodological weakness and polemicism will all be of use to beginning students of the area. But these social scientists, whether optimists or pessimists about Latin A m e r i c a n democracy, have not linked academic debate to the practical needs of a more effective public policy.
Eriksen, Tore (1989, 2nd ed.) Hie Political Economy qf Namibia. An Annotated (?ritical Bibliography. Uppsala, Sweden: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (37(I pp., cloth, SEK180). The original edition was one of the best
country-specific reference tools done in the last decade and won the 1986 C o n o v e r - P o r t e r Award from the US African Studies Association. This edition has added 650 titles: the whole now contains about 2,100 sources with extensive annotations on about half. The new items arc added without annotation, as a separate chapter. A new introduction in the form of a bibliographical essay c o m m e n t s on the best reference works and new literature since 1985. The author index has been updated. Some inefficiency is introduced by listing new material by source type rather than subject. For Namibian studies, this remains an indispensable work, and for would-be country bibliographers it is one of the few that merit close study prior to the design of any new bibliography. Fowlie-Flores, Fay (1990) Annotated Bibliography of Puerto Rican Bibliographies. Westport, CT: G r e e n w o o d (167 pp., cloth, $39.95). A senior librarian at the University of Puerto Rico has provided that rura avis of reference works, a country-specific bibliography of bibliographies, f t e r effort appears to be exhaustive, presenting some 563 sources from the 1880s through 1988. These are organized in three sections: a general category, 17 subject categories; and one on Puerto Ricans in the United States. Author, title, and subject indexes facilitate searches that do not fit neatly into specified categories. The annotations try to suggest the focus and limits of a work; sometimes they add contextual or judgmental comments. The introduction provides both intellectual history and al~ accounting of many undersurvcyed areas: poetry, religion, social conditions, and political science to name a few. This fine work should stir remedial action in these areas and challenge other national librarians to try comparable surveys.
Goctzfridt, Nicholas and Wiliam Wuerch (1989) Micronesia 1975 M)SZ A Social Scienc< Bibliography. Westport, CT: G r e e n w o o d (194 pp., cloth, $39.95). Students of the Pacific, well served recently by Miles Jackson, lEd.) (1986) Pacific Island Studies, now have a new, comprehensive survey of social science literature on Micronesia. Following the classics by U t m o m i (material through 1944) and Marshall and Nason (1944-74), Goetzfridt and Wucrch pursue a highly interdisciplinary, anthropological focus: any source or subject with cultural dimensions is included. Geographi-