This paper is a review of books published in 1986 and likely to be of interest to readers of Environment and Planning D. Once again, the usual mixture of the theoretical and the empirical, the transcendental and the whimsical, is discovered and described.
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• Important books not cited in the text.
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AbercrombieNHillsSTurnerB S, 1986Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism (Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, Herts)
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• AmbroseP, 1986Whatever Happened to Planning? (Methuen, Andover, Hants)
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AndersonJ, (Ed.), 1986The Rise of the Modern State (Wheatsheaf Books, Brighton, Sussex)
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AnwarM, 1986Race and Politics: Ethnic Minorities and the British Political System (Tavistock Publications, Andover, Hants)
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AppaduraiA, (Ed.), 1986The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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AracJ, (Ed.), 1986Postmodernism and Politics (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN)
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BaldassareM, 1986Trouble in Paradise: The Suburban Transformation in America (Columbia University Press, New York)
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BaynesKBohmanJMcCarthyT, (Eds), 1987After Philosophy: End or Transformation? (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA)
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• BenhabibS, 1986Critique, Norm and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory (Columbia University Press, New York)
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• BerryC J, 1986Human Nature (Macmillan, London)
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BhaskarR, 1986Human Emancipation and Scientific Realism (Verso, London)
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BoddyMLoveringJBassettK, 1986Sunbelt City? A Study of Economic Change in Britain's M4 Growth Corridor (Clarendon Press, Oxford)
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BoggsC, 1986Social Movements and Political Power (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA)
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BrattRHartmanCMeyersonA, (Eds), 1986Critical Perspectives on Housing (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA)
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BuckNGordonIYoungKErmischJMillsL, 1986The London Employment Problem (Clarendon Press, Oxford)
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• BurawoyM, 1986The Politics of Production (Verso, London)
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CarterT, 1986Shattering Illusions: West Indians in British Politics (Lawrence and Wishart, London)
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CawsonA, 1986Corporatism and Political Theory (Basil Blackwell, Oxford)
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ChampionAGreenAOwenDEllinDCoombesM, 1986Changing Places: Britain's Demographic, Economic and Social Complexion (Edward Arnold, London)
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ClarkG L, 1986Judges and the Cities (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL)
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ClarkG LGertlerM SWhitemanJ C M, 1986Regional Dynamics: Studies in Adjustment Theory (Allen and Unwin, Winchester, MA)
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CliffordJMarcusG E, (Eds), 1986Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA)
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CockburnC, 1987Two-track Training: Sex Inequalities and the YTS (Macmillan, London)
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CollinsR, 1986Weberian Social Theory (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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CromptonRMannM, (Eds), 1986Gender and Stratification (Polity Press, Cambridge)
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DanielsP W, 1986The Service Industries (Methuen, Andover, Hants)
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DavidoffL, 1986The Best Circles: Society, Etiquette and the Season first published 1973 (Cresset Press, London)
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DavisM, 1986Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Claims (Verso, London)
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de ManP, 1986The Resistance to Theory (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN)
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DewsP, (Ed.), 1986Habermas: Autonomy and Solidarity (Verso, London)
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• DixonC JDrakakis-SmithPWattsH D, (Eds), 1986Multinational Corporations and the Third World (Croom Helm, Beckenham, Kent)
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DoughtyM, (Ed.), 1986Building the Industrial City (Leicester University Press, Leicester)
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Drakakis-SmithD, (Ed.), 1986Urbanisation in the Developing World (Croom Helm, Beckenham, Kent)
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• DreyfusH CDreyfusS E, 1986Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer (Basil Blackwell, Oxford)
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DumontL, 1986Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective (Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL)
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DyerG, 1986Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger (Pluto Press, London)
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EagletonT, 1986Against the Grain: Selected Essays (Verso, London)
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ElazarO J, with RothmanRSchechterSSteinMZikmundJ, 1986Cities of the Prairie Revisited: The Closing of the Metropolitan Frontier (University Press of America, Lanham, MD)
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• ElsterJ, (Ed.), 1986The Multiple Self (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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EricksonJWilhelmC, (Eds), 1986Housing the Homeless (Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ)
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FitzgeraldF, 1986Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Culture (Pan Books, London)
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FoglesongR E, 1986Planning the Capitalist City: The Colonial Era to the 1920's (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ)
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FoxK, 1986Metropolitan America: Urban Life and Urban Policy in the United States, 1940–1980 (University of Mississippi Press, Jackson, MI)
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GaneM, (Ed.), 1986Towards a Critique of Foucault (Routledge and Kegan Paul, Andover, Hants)
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GappertG, (Ed.), 1986Urban Affairs Annual Review Volume 31. The Future of Winter Cities (Sage, Beverly Hills, CA)
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GiddensA, (Ed.), 1986Durkheim on Politics and the State (Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA)
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• GoldbergJ, 1986Voice Terminal Echo: Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts (Methuen, Andover, Hants)
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GoldbergMMercerJ, 1986The Myth of the North American City: Continentalism Challenged (University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver)
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GoldsmithMVilladsenS, (Eds), 1986Urban Political Theory and the Management of Fiscal Stress (Gower, Aldershot, Hants)
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GottdienerM, (Ed.), 1986Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, Volume 30. Cities in Stress: A New Look at the Urban Crisis (Sage, Beverly Hills, CA)
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GottdienerMLagopoulosA P, (Eds), 1986The City and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics (Columbia University Press, New York)
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Greater London Council, 1986A History of the Black Presence in LondonGreater London Council, London; copy obtainable from London Strategic Policy Unit, Room 708, Middlesex House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SB
MannM, 1986The Sources of Social Power, Volume 1: A History of Power from the Beginning to ad 1760 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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MaranhaoT, 1986Therapeutic Discourse and Socratic Dialogue (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI)
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MarcusG EFischerM M J, 1986Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences (Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL)
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MartinR LRowthornB, (Eds), 1986The Geography of Deindustrialisation (Macmillan, London)
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MegillA, 1986Prophets of Extremity: Nietzche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA)
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• MeinigD W, 1986The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective 500 years of History. Volume 1: Atlantic America 1495–1800 (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT)
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MelvilleS W, 1986Philosophy Beside Itself: On Deconstruction and Modernism (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN)
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MidgleyJ, 1986Community Participation, Social Development and the State (Methuen, Andover, Hants)
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MorleyD, 1986Family Television: Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure (Comedia, London)
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MorrisR, (Ed.), 1986Class Power and Social Structure in British Nineteenth Century Towns (Leicester University Press, Leicester)
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MortonHStuartR, (Eds), 1986The Contemporary Soviet City (Macmillan, London)
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• OlsenD J, 1986The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT)
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OwusuK, 1986The Struggle for Black Arts in Britain (Comedia, London)
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• PredA, 1986Place, Practice and Structure: Social and Spatial Transformation in Southern Sweden (Polity Press, Cambridge)
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• RadfordJ, 1986The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction (Routledge and Kegan Paul, Andover, Hants)
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RamdinR, 1986The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain (Gower, Aldershot, Hants)
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RavetzA, 1986The Government of Space: Town Planning in Modern Society (Faber and Faber, London)
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RexJ, 1986Race and Ethnicity (Open University Press, Milton Keynes)
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RobinsonV, 1986Transients, Settlers and Refugees: Asians in Britain (Clarendon Press, Oxford)
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• RobsonB, (Ed.) Managing the City: The Aims and Impacts of Urban Policy (Croom Helm, Beckenham, Kent)
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• RoemerJ, 1986Analytical Marxism (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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RosenC M, 1986The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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RubinD C, (Ed.), 1986Autobiographical Memory (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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RydinY, 1986Housing Land Policy (Gower, Aldershot, Hants)
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SackR D, 1986Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography 7. Human Territoriality: Its Theory and History (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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• SaleR, 1986Closer to Home: Writers and Places in England 1780–1930 (Yale University Press, New Haven, CT)
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• SamuelRBloomfieldBBoanasG, (Eds), 1986The Enemy Within: Pit Villages and the Miners' Strike of 1984–85 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, Andover, Hants)
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SchererK RWallbottH GSummerfieldA B, (Eds), 1986Expressing Emotion: A Cross-cultural Study (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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SchwammHMericiaiP, 1986Multinationals in the Service Sector (John Wiley, Chichester, Sussex)
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ScottA JStorperM, (Eds), 1986Production, Work, Territory: The Geographical Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism (Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, Herts)
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ShortJ RFlemingSWittS, 1986Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action (Routledge and Kegan Paul, Andover, Hants)
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SmithA D, 1986The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Basil Blackwell, Oxford)
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• SmithH C, (Ed.), 1986War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War (Manchester University Press, Manchester)
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SmithNWilliamsP, (Eds), 1986Gentriflcation of the City (Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, Herts)
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SmithS J, 1986Crime, Space and Society (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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SollorsW, 1986Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (Oxford University Press, Oxford)
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SoperK, 1986Humanism and Antihumanism (Hutchinson, London)
StreetJ, 1986Rebel Rock: The Politics of Popular Music (Basil Blackwell, Oxford)
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TaylorM JThriftN J, (Eds), 1986Multinationals and the Restructuring of the World Economy (Croom Helm, Beckenham, Kent)
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ThomasA D, 1986Housing and Urban Renewal: Residential Decay and Privatisation in the Private Sector (Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, Herts)
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ThomasD N, 1986White Bolts, Black Locks: Participation in the Inner City (Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, Herts)
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• ThriftN JForbesD K, 1986The Price of War. Urbanisation in Vietnam 1954–1985 (Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, Herts)
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ThriftN JLeyshonA, 1987, “The gambling propensity”Geoforum forthcoming
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UngerR M, 1986The Critical Legal Studies Movement (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA)
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VaradyD P, 1986Neighbourhood Upgrading: A Realistic Assessment (State University of New York Press, Albany, NY)
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WalbyS, 1986Patriarchy at Work: Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment (Polity Press, Cambridge)
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WalvinJ, 1986Football and the Decline of Britain (Macmillan, London)
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WatermanSKosminB A, 1986British Jewry in the 1980s: A Statistical and Geographical StudyBoard of Deputies of British Jews, Woburn House, Upper Woburn Place, London WC1
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WatsonSAusterberryH, 1986Homelessness: A Feminist Perspective (Routledge and Kegan Paul, Andover, Hants)
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WeigertA JTeitgeJ SmithTeitgeD W, 1986Society and Identity: Toward a Sociological Psychology (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)
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• WestonJ, 1986Red and Green: The New Politics of the Environment (Pluto Press, London)
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WhiteJ, 1986The Worst Street in London (Routledge and Kegan Paul, Andover, Hants)
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WhiteJ B, 1985Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of Law (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI)
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WidgeryD, 1986Beating Time: Riot ‘n’ Race ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll (Chatto and Windus, London)
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WilliamsonJ, 1986Consuming Passions: The Dynamics of Popular Culture (Marion Boyars, London)
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YodavS K, 1986Residential and Social Structure: A Study in Urban Social Geography (Inter-India Publications, New Delhi)
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YellingJ A, 1986Slums and Slum Clearance in Victorian London (Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead, Herts)