B. Reviews: general

REGIERUNG UND VERWALTUNG DES VORDEREN ORIENTS IN ISLAMISCHER ZEIT. TEIL 2. Mit Beiträgen von D. SOURDEL und J. BOSCH VILÁ. (Handbuch der Orientalistik, Band VI: Geschichte der islamischen Länder, Abschnitt 5.) Leiden, Brill, 1988. vi, 152pp. Hfl.68.- (58.- to Series subscribers). BRITAIN AND THE MIDDLE EAST: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY 1945-87. By FRANK BRENCHLEY. (Middle East Studies.) London, Lester Crook, 1989. 391pp. AN IMPERIAL TWILIGHT. By SIR GAWAIN BELL. London, Lester Crook Academic Publishing, 1989. 266 pp. £15.95 JERUSALEM IN HISTORY. Edited by K.J. ASALI. London, Scorpion Publishing, 1989. KING ABDULLAH, BRITAIN AND THE MAKING OF JORDAN. By MARY C. WILSON. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987. 289pp. £25.00. A HOUSE OF MANY MANSIONS: THE HISTORY OF LEBANON RECONSIDERED. By KAMAL SALIBI. London, I.B. Tauris, 1988. 234pp. £17.95 THE UNMAKING OF PALESTINE. By W.F. ABBOUSHI. Wisbech, Menas Press, 1985. xi, 250pp. £21.50. CHILDREN OF BETHANY: THE STORY OF A PALESTINIAN FAMILY. By SAID K. ABURISH. London, Tauris, 1988. 243pp. £14.95. TOWARDS A PALESTINIAN ENTITY. By PAUL LALOR. London, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1989. 35pp. ISRAEL, PALESTINIANS AND THE INTIFADA: CREATING FACTS ON THE WEST BANK. By GEOFFREY ARONSON. Lonon, Kegan Paul International, 2nd ed., 1990. 376 pp. SUDAN 1898-1989: THE UNSTABLE STATE. By PETER WOODWARD. London, Lester Crook, 1990. 273pp. REVOLUTION AND FOREIGN POLICY: THE CASE OF SOUTH YEMEN 1967-1987. By FRED HALLIDAY. (Cambridge Middle East Library, 21.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990. 316 pp. THE MAKING OF CONTEMPORARY ALGERIA, 1830-1987: COLONIAL UPHEAVALS AND POST-INDEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENT. By MAHFOUD BENNOUNE. (Cambridge Middle East Library series.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988. THE GULF WAR: ITS ORIGINS, HISTORY AND CONSEQUENCES. By JOHN BULLOCH and HARVEY MORRIS. London, Methuen 1989. 309 pp. £14.99. THE GULF WAR. By EDGAR O'BALLANCE. London, Brasseys's Defence Publishers (Pergamon), 1988. 231pp. £17.95. THE GULF AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: THE 1980S AND BEYOND. Edited by M.E. AHRARI. London, Macmillan, 1989. 210pp. £35.00. THE GULF WAR. By MAJID KHADDURI. New York, Oxford University Press, 1988. 236pp. $24.95. THE GULF WAR. Edited by HANS MAULL and OTTO PICK. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1989. ix, 203pp. £30.00. THE FUTURE OF THE GULF. By PHILIP ROBINS. Aldershot, Royal Institute of International Affairs/Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1989. xvii, 145pp. THE ISLAMIC IMPULSE. Edited by