Social Scientist ADVISORY EDITORS Monthly Journal of the Amaiendu Gui^ Indian School of Social Sciences AmTa'Ba^S VOLUME 12 NOVEMBER Kishore Thekedath NUMBER 11 1984 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ^ Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) San jay Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Simla) V K Ramachandran (Madras) EDITORIAL BOARD M J K Thavaraj Mad^p^ad CONTENTS MANAGING EDITOR Rajendra Prasad Editorial 1 EDITOR Prabhat Patnaik Early History ofUS Imperialism in Korea EDITORIAL OFFICE — R R Krishnan 3 New24^-^! Africa: Trends in u s ^^rn CIRCULATION AND - Ra•ien Harshe 19 ADVERTISEMENT ^^ -j-^t of Imperialism in South Asia 24/1212, Mettukkada, Trivandrum-695 014 — Zoya Hasan 34 SUBSCRIPTION RATES INLAND 2vearsiRs;20 The US and Us . AnTual Rs65 ~ G P Deshpande 49 (Students: Rs 50) United States and the Asia^Pacific Region in 1980s Half-yearly : Rs 35 J " Single copy ; Rs 6 — G V C Naidu 57 ^ ,n uT^ BOOK REVIEW Sea Mail : 18 Air Mail Worn n. Race and Class, by Angela Y Davis (USA and Canada) : 30 (Other countries) : 24 — Malini Bhattacharya 65 Articles^ notes and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.