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Journal of Political Ecology: 
Case Studies in History and Society

 
Towards Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy. Edited by Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft (1999). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 323 pp. Reviewed by  John Schelhas, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL.

Paradise for Sale: A Parable of Nature. By Carl N. McDaniel and John M. Gowdy. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2000, xiv, 225 pp. Reviewed by David Zurick, Department of Geography, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475.

The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India, by Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xviii, 289 pp. Reviewed by Lynn Vincentnathan, Department of Anthropology, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL

Gender, Law, and Resistance in India, by Erin P. Moore. Tucson: University of Arizona Press (1998), x, 205 pp. Reviewed by Helen Vallianatos, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies are Failing in West Africa, by John F. Oates, Berkeley: University of California Press (1999), xxviii, 310 pp. Reviewed by Jefferson S. Hall, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University.

Women and Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh. An Anthropological Study of Grameen Bank Lending, by Aminur Rahman. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999, xi, 188 pp. Reviewed by Geeta Chowdhry, Department of Political Science, Northern Arizona University.

Warmth of the Welcome: The Social and Economic Causes of Economic Success for Immigrants in Different Nations and Cities. By Jeffrey G. Reitz. Boulder: Westview Press (1998), xiii, 298 pp. Reviewed by Marilyn Fernandez, Department of Sociology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA.


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