New and 
Recent 
Books on 
Africa and 
the World 
transaction publishers 
Anthony Lake and contributors 
This volume analyzes the prospects for postwar reconstruction 
and development in various regions, tackling the difficult quandaries 
they face, individual and cotedrvely. 
B8N: Mani-MM) (cMh) 340pp. $24.tS 
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THE RISE AND FALL OF 
PHILANTHROPY IN EAST AFRICA 
Robert G.Gregory 
This volume chalenges the assumption that non- Western 
peoples lack indigenous phlanfhropic culture, focusing on the 
Sou* A n n community in East Africa. 
MM: 1-5aOOW»7-4(do<h) 2J4pp. tXLK 
POLITICAL HISTORY OF 
THE CIVIL WAR IN ANGOLA, 1974-1990 
W.U*r0nJtm*$ 
This volume sees tie Angolan civi war as he product of personal 
jealousies, contrasting ideologies, and ethnic animosities 
among rival deration groups. 
BSN:MinM1M(dotl) Mtpp. SM.K 
EARLY STATE ECONOMICS 
POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. VOLUME 9 
Henri J.U. ClaessenandPieter van de Velde, editors 
Explores the poKcai economy of early state societies and how 
the income of the central government of such systems was collected 
and spent Covers the Intertacustrine states of East Africa, 
Aztec Mexico, eighteenth-century Nepal, and others. 
ISBN: M i n H O - i (eMk) J47pp ttt.*S 
SB* MSnMeS-X (p^ar) 7*1 pp. SIMS 
DISENGAGEMENT FROM 
SOUTHWEST AFRICA 
PROSPECTS FOR PEACE IN ANGOLA AND NAMIBIA 
Oven EKson Kahn, edtor 
WihttonwoixibyJiriValant* 
Explores the implications of Gorbachev's new thinking for 
regional conffcte, suggesting the accords on Southwest Africa 
show how the superpowers wB settle conficts and recast the 
rotes of smaler powers. 
ISBN: 0-W7M-JS1-0(do<h) IStppL SM.*S 
AFTER THE WARS 
RECONSTRUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN, 
CENTRAL AMERICA. INDOCHINA. 
THE HORN OF AFRICA, AND SOUTHERN AFRICA 
U.S.Thirt Worid Policy Perspectives No. 16