Book reviews: Feature review

On Misreading Development Economics The Poverty of 'Development Economics'. Deepak Lal. London: Institute of Economic Affairs (Hobart Paperback 16). 1983.127pp. £3.00. Libya: the experience of oil. J A Allan. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1981. 328pp. $35.00. Libya Since Independence. Edited by J A Allan. London: Croom Helm. 1982. 187pp. £14.95. The Herders of Cyrenaica: ecology, economy and kinship among the Bedouin of Eastern Libya. R H Behnke. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 1980.197pp. $14.50. Libyan Sandstorm: the complete account of Qaddafi's revolution. John K Cooley. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1982. 320pp. $16.50. Libya Since the Revolution: aspects of social and political development. Maris K Deeb and Mary Jane Deeb New York: Praeger. 1982. 156pp. $22.50. Political Development and Social Change in Libya. Omar I El-Fathaly and Monte Palmer. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books. 1980. 231pp. $24.95. Social and Economic Development of Libya. Edited by E G H Joffe and K S McLachlan. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1982. 369pp. $37.50. Libya: a modern history. John Wright. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1982. 306pp. $25.00. Aghil Barbar, The Tarabulus (Libyan) Resistance to the Italian Invasion: 1911-1920 (unpublished PhD dissertation), University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1980. 420pp. $15.00 (available from University Microfilms). Abdulmola EI-Horeir, Social and Economic Transformations in the Libyan Hinterland During the Second Half of the 19th Century: the role of Sayyid Ahmad al-Sharif al-Sanusi (unpublished PhD dissertation), University of California at Los Angeles. 1981. 308pp. $15.00 (available from University Microfilms). Ahmed Said Fituri, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Bilad as-Sudan: trade relations during the second half of the nineteenth century (unpublished PhD dissertation), University of Michigan. 1982. 350pp. $15.00 (available from University Microfilms). Land to the Tiller: the political economy of agrarian reforms in South Asia. Ronald J Herring. London: Yale University Press. 1983. 314pp. £25.00. Sharecropping and Sharecroppers. Edited by Terry Byres. London: Frank Cass. 1983. 283pp. £22.50. Talking about Development. Edited by Altaf Gauhar. London: Third World Foundation for Social and Economic Studies. 1983. 325pp. £4.95pb. Time and the Highland Maya. Barbara Tedlock. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. 1982. 254 pp. $27.50. Financing Development in Latin