THE RISE AND FALL OF 
PHILANTHROPY IN EAST AFRICA 
Robert G. Gregory 
This volume challenges the assumption that non-Western 
peoples lack indigenous philanthropic culture, focusing on the 
South Asian community in East Africa. 
ISSN: 1-66000407-4 (doth) 224pp. $32J5 
POLITICAL HISTORY OF 
THE CIVIL WAR IN ANGOLA, 1974-1990 
New and 
Recent 
Books on 
Africa and 
the World W. Martin James 
This volume sees the Angolan civil war as the product of personal 
jealousies, contrasting ideologies, and ethnic animosities 
among rival liberation groups. 
ISBN: MWSM1M (doth) 296pp. $39.95 
EARLY STATE ECONOMICS 
POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, VOLUME 9 
Henri J.M. ClaessenandPietervande Velde, editors 
Explores Ihe political economy of early state societies and how 
the income of the central government of such systems was collected 
and spent Covers the Interiacustrine states of East Africa, 
Aztec Mexico, eighteenth-century Nepal, and others. 
ISBN: M173M02-1 (doth) 247pp $29.95 
BBN:MS73MI5-X(pip«) 247pp. $19.95 
DISENGAGEMENT FROM 
SOUTHWEST AFRICA 
PROSPECTS FOR PEACE IN ANGOLA AND NAMIBIA 
Owen Ellison Kahn, editor 
mt) a foreword by Jiri Valenta 
Explores the implications of Gorbachev's new thinking for 
regional conflicts, suggesting the accords on Southwest Africa 
show how the superpowers will settle conflicts and recast the 
roles of smaller powers. 
B8lfcM«73M61-0(cloth) 256pp. $39.95 
AFTER THE WARS 
RECONSTRUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN, 
CENTRAL AMERICA, INDOCHINA, 
THE HORN OF AFRICA, AND SOUTHERN AFRICA 
U.S.-TOrd World Policy Perspectives No. 16 
Anthony Lake and contributors 
This volume analyzes the prospects for postwar reconstruction 
and development in various regions, tackling the difficult quandaries 
they face, individually and collectively. 
ISBN:MS73»4S2-«(cMh) 240pp. $24JS 
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