Book reviews: Feature review

Sizing up central America. El Salvador: the face of revolution. Robert Armstrong and Janet Shenk. London: Pluto Press. 1982. 283pp. £3.95. The War of the Dispossessed: Honduras and El Salvador, 1969. Thomas P Anderson. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 1981. 203pp. £8.95. Archbishop Romero: martyr of El Salvador. Placido Erdozain. Guildford, England: Lutterworth Press. 1981. 98pp. £2.95. Triumph of the People: the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. George Black. London: Zed Press. 1981. 368pp. £18.95. £3.95pb. Nicaragua: the Sandinist revolution. Henri Weber. London: Verso. 1981. 154pp. £2.95. Arms and Politics in the Dominican Republic. G Pope Atkins. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1981. 158pp. £13.00. Transnational Corporations in World Development-Third Survey. UN Centre on Transnational Corporations. New York: United Nations. 1983. 380pp. np. Inequalising Trade? A Study of Traditional North-South Specialisation in the Context of Terms of Trade Concepts. John Spraos. Oxford: OUP (with UNCTAD). 1983. 169pp. f 15.00. Islam in the Political Process. Edited by James P Piscatori. Cambridge: CUP. 1983. 240pp. £19.50. £7.95pb. South-South Relations in a Changing World Order. Edited by Jerker Carlsson. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. 1982. 166pp. np. Economic Development: theory, policy and international relations. Ian M D Little. New York: Twentieth Century Fund. 452pp. np. The Struggle for Development: national strategies in an international context. Edited by Manfred Bienefeld and Martin Godfrey. Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1982. 378pp. £24.95. The Evolution of the Modern Commonwealth, 1902-80. Denis Judd and Peter Slinn. London: Macmillan. 1982. 171pp. £15.00. £5.95pb. Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth. Edited by Frederick Madden and D K Fieldhouse. London: Croom Helm. 1982. 167pp. £11.95. Due South: socialists and world development. Jeremy Hill and Hilary Scannell. London: Pluto Press. 1983. 106pp. £2.50pb. Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics: an introductory text. S Cairncross and R G Feachem. Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1983. 283pp. £17.95. £6.95pb. The Management of Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships in Multinational Corporations. Edited by Lars Otterbeck. Aldershot, England: Gower. 1981. 343pp. £15.00. Ecological Aspects of Development in the Humid Tropics. Committee on Selected Biological Problems in the Humid Tropics. Washington DC: National Academy Press. 1982. 297pp. £13.25. Women a