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A review essay on books by (1) Kevin A. Yelvington, Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace (Philadelphia: Temple U Press, 1995); (2) Milagros Pena, Theologies and Liberation in Peru: The Role of Ideas in Social Movements (Philadelphia: Temple U Press, 1995); (3) Partha Chatterjee [Ed], Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal (Minneapolis: U Minnesota Press, 1995); & (4) Carol A. Breckenridge [Ed], Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in South Asia (Minneapolis: U Minnesota Press, 1995). These works address the historical, political, ethical, cultural, commercial, & technological elements of modernization & their relationship to & interaction with the production of power. Yelvington analyzes the culture of domination in a Trinidadian factory & Trinidadian society in general, focusing on the production process & implicated social identities, while Pena examines the role of theologians as articulators of ideas, eg, liberation theology, that are useful to different sides of social conflicts. By contrast, the essays in Chatterjee's book focus on politics, cartography, literature, art, childrearing, & historical memory to show how GB sought to produce power & was resisted by Bengali nationalists. The essays in Breckenridge's work are seen as providing the widest coverage; they use India to illustrate how public culture engages in the process of modernization. All are recommended for use in college seminars, as they provide a needed impetus for the study of cultural factors in political science. T. Arnold