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Volume 85, Issue 3, July 1995 Table of Contents Articles POLITICAL STABILITY AND MINORITY GROUPS IN BURMA By Curtis N. Thomson THE FERTILITY TRANSITION IN AFRICA By Ezekiel Kalipeni INDIGENOUS DEVELOPMENT OF MESOAMERICAN IRRIGATION By William E. Doolittle HOME AS A REGION By Theano S. Terkenli MEXICALI'S CHINATOWN By James R. Curtis POSTMODERN PHOENIX By Michael J. Schmandt URBAN COMMUNITY GARDENS AS CONTESTED SPACE By Karen Schmelzkopf Record Notes OIL AND GAS IN AUSTRIA..........Alexander Melamid NEW PIPELINES IN AUSTRALIA..........Alexander Melamid Reviews MAKING THE CORN BELT: A Geographical History of Middle-Western Agriculture By John C. Hudson..........Reviewed by Michael D. Sublett UTAH PEOPLE IN THE NEVADA DESERT: Homestead and Community on a Twentieth-Century Farmers' Frontier By Marshall E. Bowen..........Reviewed by Richard H. Jackson THE LOST FRONTIER: Water Diversion in the Growth and Destruction of Owens Valley Agriculture By Robert A. Sauder..........Reviewed by Kenneth A. Erickson TIME AND THE TUOLUMNE LANDSCAPE: Continuity and Change in the Yosemite High Country By Thomas R. Vale and Geraldine R. Vale..........Reviewed by Lary M. Dilsaver INDIAN POPULATION DECLINE: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840 By Robert H. Jackson..........Reviewed by Martha L. Henderson ANTIGUA CALIFORNIA: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768 By Harry W. Crosby..........Reviewed by Martha A. Works RETHINKING SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: Theory, Research and Practice Edited by David Booth..........Reviewed by David Kummer LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND NATIONAL UNITY: Language Ecology in Thailand By William A. Smalley..........Reviewed by Curtis N. Thomson RELUCTANT EXILES? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese Edited by Ronald Skeldon..........Reviewed by Laurence J. C. Ma GEOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE By David M. Smith..........Reviewed by Keith Harries COCA PROHIBITION IN PERU: The Historical Debates By Joseph Gagliono..........Reviewed by Robert B. Kent LANDSCAPE OF DESIRE: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World By Gillian R. Overing and Marijane Osborn..........Reviewed by Alan G. MacPherson AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF FRANCE By Xavier de Planhol, with Paul Claval..........Reviewed by Marvin W. Mikesell THE HUMAN GEOGRAPHY OF IRELAND By James H. Johnson..........Reviewed by D. Aidan McQuillan SACRED WORLDS: An Introduction to Geography and Religion By Chris C. Park..........Reviewed by James R. Shortridge EAT NOT THIS FLESH: Food Avoidances from Prehistory to the Present By Frederick J. Simoons..........Reviewed by Daniel W. Gade