James McDougall. History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 266 pages, footnotes, bibliography, index, 18 B/W photographs. Hardcover US$85.00 ISBN: 0-521-84373-1

other property owned by them" (p. 131). The resolution in fact does not identify by name what it calls "the Governments or authorities responsible" for compensating refugees. Readers seeking to understand the legal arguments surrounding the right of Palestinian Arabs to return can profitably mine Masalha's bibliography for more detailed studies of the matter. The Politics of Denial provides one of the best summary statements of the historical basis for Palestinian grievances against Israel. The book is accessible to anyone with an elementary knowledge of the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and could be assigned in undergraduate and graduate-level classes, although the writing does not provide the best model for students to emulate. The book is repetitive, not only in its main points, but also in its phrasing. A number of proper names are misspelled or inaccurately transliterated. For example, Zangwill is spelled "Zagwill" (p. 15), Tzvai is represented as "Tzavi" (p. 26), and Maghrabi as "Magharbeh" (pp. 189-91). In addition, the style of documentation is inconsistent, employing primarily endnotes, but occasionally parenthetical or bracketed citations. All of this suggests that the editorial process was rushed. Nonetheless, anyone who approaches The Politics of Denial hoping that these flaws will salvage the long-established Zionist narratives that Masalha assails will be disappointed. The book is compelling in its argument that the Zionist movement from its beginning and until the present has refused to face the moral dilemmas and consequences of colonizing a land that was already populated, and that the act has and continues to require the willful expropriation of Palestinians' property and denial of their national and legal rights. Don Matthews Oakland University