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Reviews the book "Economic Restructuring and Political Response," edited by R. Beauregard.

Reviews the book "Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment," by Cristobal Kay.

Reviews the book "Kenya: The Role of Women in Economic Development: A World Bank Country Study."

Reviews the book "The Sociology of the Third World: Disparity and Development," 2nd ed., by J.E. Goldthorpe.

Reviews the book "Population and Economic Development in Brazil: 1800 to the Present," by Thomas W. Merrick and Douglas H. Graham.

Reviews the book "Three Decades in Shiwa: Economic Development and Social Change in a Japanese Farming Community," by Mitsuru Shimpo.

Reviews the book "New Directions in Development," by Donald Mickelwait, Charles F. Sweet, and Elliott R. Morss.

Reviews the book "Banking and Economic Development: Some Lessons of History," edited by R. Cameron.

Reviews the book "Development Policies. Sociological Perspectives," edited by A. Hall and J. Midgley.

Reviews the book "Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions," by M. Redclift.

Reviews the book 'The European Experience: A Historical Critique of Development Theory,' by Dieter Senghaas.

Reviews the book "The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions," edited by P. Bardhan.

Reviews the book "Talking About Development," edited by Altaf Gauhar.

Reviews the book 'Economic Growth Reassessed,' edited by O. J. Firestone.

Review the book "The Economic Development of Ireland in the Twentieth Century," by Kieran A. Kennedy, Thomas Giblin and Deirdre McHugh.

Reviews the book "Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914: Two Paths to the Twentieth Century," by Patrick O'Brien and Caglar Keyder.

The article reviews the book "Economic Development in East-Central Europe in the 19th & 20th Centuries," by Ivan T. Berend and György Ránki.

Reviews the book "Shipping, Maritime Trade and the Economic Development of Colonial North America," by James F. Shepherd and Gary M. Walton.

Reviews the book "International Social Development Review," vol. 3, "Unified Socio-Economic Development and Planning: Some New Horizons."

Reviews the book "Britain and America, 1850-1939: A Study of Economic Change," by P.S. Bagwell and G.E. Mingay.

Reviews the book 'Regional Economic Development in Italy,' by Lloyd Saville.

Reviews the book 'Assessing Economic Performance,' by Michael Lipton.

The article discusses the book "Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century," written by Eric R. Wolf analyzing the role of the peasantry in the major events of twentieth century. It defines peasants as "populations existentially involved in cultivation and making autonomous decisions regarding the processes of cultivation." It describes the events of liberation wars in Mexico, Russia, China, Vietnam, Algeria and Cuba. This book shows the changes imposed upon the peasantry in the processes of social change and economic development, how they are thrown mercilessly into a monetary economy for which they were culturally and financially unprepared. Demographic changes influenced and aggravated the developments. At the same time, the social role of peasants recedes. It elaborates on the special features limiting the active and independent role of peasants in revolutions and the particular difficulties of the exogenous leadership to gain the villager's trust. The book is very valuable for rural sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and social historians.

Reviews the book "Class Privilege and Economic Development. The Consulado de Comercio of Guatemala, 1793-1871," by Ralph Lee Woodward.

Reviews the book "Economic Growth in History: Survey and Analysis," by J.D. Gould.

Focuses on the contents of the book 'Growing Prosperity,' by Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone. Critique of the Wall Street model; Relationship between investment in technologies and productivity growth.

Reviews the book "Reversal of Development in Argentina: Post-War Counter Revolution Policies and Their Structural Consequences," by Carlo H. Waisman.

Reviews the book 'The Sources of Economic Growth,' by Richard R. Nelson.

Reviews the book "Vom Kleingewerbe zur Grossindustrie: Quantitativ-regionale und politisch-rechtliche Aspekte zur Erforschung der Wirtschafts- und Gessellschaftsstruktur im 19: Jahrhundert," edited by Harald Winkel.

Reviews the book "Kali in Deutschland: Vorindustrien, Produktions-techniken und Marktprozesse der Deutschen Kaliwirtschaft im 19: Jahrhundert," by Karl von Delhaes-Guenther.

Reviews the book "Social Leaders and Public Persons: A study of County Government in Cheshire Since 1888," by J.M. Lee.

Reviews the book "Developing the Third World: The Experiences of the Nineteen-Sixties," edited by R. Robinson.

Reviews the book "India's Export Trends and the Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth," by Manmohan Singh.

The article reviews the book "Motivating Economic Achievement," by David McClelland and David G. Winter .

The article reviews the book "Science and Economic Development: New Patterns of Living," by Richard L. Meier.

Reviews the book "British Economic Growth: 1688-1959: Trends and Structure," by Phyllis Deane and W.A. Cole.