Book reviews

Richard Gillespie (ed.), The Euro‐Mediterranean Partnership: Political and Economic Perspectives (Frank Cass, London, 1997), 184 pp., ISBN 0–7146–4370 (pb), £16.00 Thanos Veremis and Evangelos Kofos (eds), Kosovo. Avoiding Another Balkan War (Eliamep, Athens, 1998), 443 pp., ISBN 960–7061–403 (pb) Nicholas Doumanis, Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean. Remembering Fascism's Empire (Macmillan, London, 1997), 243 pp., ISBN 0–312–17243–5 (hb), £40.00 Donald Sassoon, Contemporary Italy. Economy, Society and Politics since 1945, Second Edition (First Edition, 1986) (Longman, London, 1997), 318 pp., ISBN 0–582–21428–9 (pb), £15.99 Martin Rhodes (ed.), Southern European Welfare States; Between Crisis and Reform (Frank Cass, London, 1997), 278 pp. (index), ISBN 0–7146–4788–8 (hb), £29.50 Daniele Conversi, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilization (C. Hurst & Co., London, 1997), xx + 312 pp., ISBN 1–85065–268–6 (pb), £16.50 Juan Díez Medrano (ed.), Divided Nations: Class, Politics, and Nationalism in the Basque Country and Catalonia (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1995), xvii + 236 pp., ISBN 0–8014–3092–5 (hb), £23.50 Russel King and Richard Black, Southern Europe and the New Immigrations (Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 1997), 210 pp., ISBN 1898723613 (pb), £14.95 Hugh Poulton, Top Hat, the Grey Wolf and Crescent: Turkish Nationalism and the Turkish Republic (Hurst & Co., London, 1997), 350 pp., ISBN 1–85605–326–7 (pb), £16.50 Vesna Goldsworthy, Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998), ix + 254pp., map, index, ISBN 0–300–07312–7 (hb), £19.95 Kenneth Maxwell, The Making of Portuguese Democracy (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995), 250 pp., ISBN 0 521 58596 1 (pb), £14.95 James Gow, Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War (Hurst & Co., London, 1997), xi + 343 pp., ISBN 1–85065–322–4 (pb), £14.95 Hugh Poulton and Suha Taji‐Farouki (eds), Muslim Identity and the Balkan State (Hurst & Co. in association with the Islamic Council, London, 1997), 250 pp., ISBN 1 85065 348 8 (pb), £16.50