Dartmouth Authors
Alan R. Booth '56, Swaziland: Tradition and Change in a Southern African Kingdom. Westview Press, 1983. 156 pp., cloth. Professor Booth, who teaches history at Ohio University, has written a vivid account of the past and present of a little-known country about the size of Connecticut, rich in natural resources, perched between South Africa and Mozambique, with most of its population in chronic poverty. Much of the book, the final section "The Pressures of Modernity" especially, benefits from Booth's first-hand experiences living in the country as a Fulbright lecturer at the University College of Swaziland and during other study visits.
Peter Klinge '59 and Sandra Klinge, Evolution of Film Styles. University Press of America, 1983. 277 pp., paperback. This is a densely-argued book which takes as its point of departure the fact that "film is a means of communication that has an order and syntax of its own, and which, if it is to succeed, must be based on the selective use of symbols that appeal first to the senses, and second to the intellect." Russian and German Expressionism and the developing film-making traditions of France and Italy receive special attention. Dr. Klinge teaches in the communications program at Ithaca College.
Robert D. Haslach '6B, NetherlandsWorld Broadcasting. Miller Publishing (Media, Pa.), 1983. 105 pp., paperback. Anyone who has ever enjoyed finding out what's to be heard on the international shortwave radio bands knows the word Hilversum, the town in Holland from which Radio Netherlands transmits its programs. And anyone who stops to listen at that wavelength knows that Radio Netherlands is one of the very best broadcasting organizations in the world. Robert Haslach worked for Radio Netherlands for five years, not long after he graduated from WDCR, and has written the best available history in English of an exemplary institution.
David G. Muller, Jr. '7, China as aMaritime Power. Westview Press, 1983. 277 pp., cloth. The author, a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander currently assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence, has written the first comprehensive study of the maritime aspects of China's place in the world, describing and documenting her rise to strategic and economic power at sea since 1945. The last sentences of the book suggests the importance of its subject matter: "In the past, sea power was indeed irrelevant to China's pursuit of its national objectives. In the future, seapower will be a primary means by which China will strive to achieve them."
