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Roland Oliver, (Ed.), The Middle Age of African History, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 105, $ 2.10

Roland Oliver, (Ed.), The Middle Age of African History, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 105,... 156 State to visit Israel. Malan was never Head ot- State but Yrime Minister, the Queen at that time being Head of State. Malan's visit was in any event not a in his private capacity. On page 98 Professor Munger state visit but undertaken refers to "the savage and sometimes orgiastic assaults upon the enemy whether they be police or other innocent by-standers such as a white nun," and on page 109, to "Poqo members who had set out with sharp pangas." Such grotesque and often tautologous rhetoric is typical of the style pervading this book. and inBut the book suffers a more serious malaise than mere inaccuracies its confelicitous style. It contains page upon page of unsupported assertions; In dealing is feeble; it lacks an adequate theoretical foundation. ceptualization with such basic variables as socio-economic class and ethnic identification, data. In delineating Professor Munger has failed to make use of quantitative in the South African political tendencies trends and extrapolating arena, theoretical Professor Munger has not used the sophisticated concepts available in the literature. These handicaps have deprived his work of any sharp insight to a study or predictive potential. For those who come fresh and untrammelled http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) Brill

Roland Oliver, (Ed.), The Middle Age of African History, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 105, $ 2.10

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Brill
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Copyright 1968 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0021-9096
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1568-5217
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10.1163/156852168X00530
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156 State to visit Israel. Malan was never Head ot- State but Yrime Minister, the Queen at that time being Head of State. Malan's visit was in any event not a in his private capacity. On page 98 Professor Munger state visit but undertaken refers to "the savage and sometimes orgiastic assaults upon the enemy whether they be police or other innocent by-standers such as a white nun," and on page 109, to "Poqo members who had set out with sharp pangas." Such grotesque and often tautologous rhetoric is typical of the style pervading this book. and inBut the book suffers a more serious malaise than mere inaccuracies its confelicitous style. It contains page upon page of unsupported assertions; In dealing is feeble; it lacks an adequate theoretical foundation. ceptualization with such basic variables as socio-economic class and ethnic identification, data. In delineating Professor Munger has failed to make use of quantitative in the South African political tendencies trends and extrapolating arena, theoretical Professor Munger has not used the sophisticated concepts available in the literature. These handicaps have deprived his work of any sharp insight to a study or predictive potential. For those who come fresh and untrammelled

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Journal of Asian and African Studies (in 2002 continued as African and Asian Studies) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1968

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