Book Reviews

Book reviwed in this articles. The Seeds of Democracy: Early Elections in Colonial New South Wales. By M.M.H. Thompson “No Fit Place for Women”? Women in New South Wales Politics, 1856‐2006. Edited by Deborah Brennan and Louise Chappell The Hitler Club. By Gary Gumpl and Richard Kleinig Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901‐2006. By Patrick Weller Deported: A History of Forced Departures from Australia. By Glenn Nicholls Behind Closed Doors: Politics, Scandals and the Lobbying Industry. By John Warhurst Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand. By Georgina Murray Writing Party History: Papers from a Seminar held at Parliament House, Sydney, May 2006. Edited by David Clune and Ken Turner No, Prime Minister: Reclaiming Politics from Leaders. By James Walter and Paul Strangio Great Mistakes of Australian History. Edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian‐Pacific Indentured Labor Trade. By Tracey Banivanua‐Mar Redefining the Pacific? Regionalism, Past, Present and Future. Edited by Jenny Bryant‐Tolalau and Ian Frazer. Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717‐1927. By Jessica L. Harland‐Jacobs The Victorians: An Age in Retrospect. By John Gardiner Thomas Carlyle. By John Morrow Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life. By Mark Francis The Irish General Thomas Francis Meagher. By Paul R. Wylie Hitler's Bavarian Antagonist. Georg Moenius and the Allgemeine Rundschau of Munich, 1929‐1933. By Gregory Munro Legitimizing Military Rule: Indonesian Armed Forces Ideology, 1958‐2000. By Salim Said Soeharto's Armed Forces: Problems of Civil Military Relations in Indonesia. By Salim Said Democratic Accountability: Why Choice in Politics is Both Possible and Necessary. By Leif Lewin War in Human Civilization. By Azar Gat The Law of Armed Conflict: Constraints on the Contemporary Use of Military Force. Edited by Howard M. Hensel The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Edited by George Crowder and Henry Hardy     

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Book reviewed in this articles. Historical Records of Australia: Resumed Series III Despatches and Papers Relating to the History of Tasmania Volume IX Tasmania, January ‐ December 1830. General Editor Peter Chapman, Co‐editors Peter Chapman and Tim Jetson Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press 1800‐1900. Edited by Judith Johnston and Monica Anderson John Devoy's Catalpa Expedition. Edited by Philip Fennell and Marie King Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War. By Bruce Scates Jack Lang and the Great Depression. By Frank Cain Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and the Formation of Malaysia 1961‐1966. Edited by Moran Dee Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities. By Graeme Davison with Sheryl Yelland Fear and Politics By Carmen Lawrence Disputed Histories: Imagining New Zealand's Pasts. Edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, Edited by Melanie Nolan Facing Illness in Troubled Times: Health in Europe in the Interwar Years 1918‐1939. Edited by Iris Borowy and Wolf D. Gruner Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography. By Janet Browne The Dilemmas of De‐Stalinization. Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era. Edited by Polly Jones Anti‐Chinese Violence in Indonesia: 1996‐1999. By Jemma Purdey. Marx's Das Kapital. A Biography. By Francis Wheen     

Book Reviews

Barry Shaw, ed., Brisbane: Corridors of Power Michael Rose, For the Record: 160 Years of Aboriginal Print Journalism John Ramsland, With Just But Relentless Discipline: A Social History of Corrective Services in New South Wales Tony Austin, Never Trust a Government Man: Northern Territory Aboriginal Policy, 1911–1939 Margaret Glass, Charles Cameron Kingston: Federation Fathers John Murdoch, Sir Joe: A Political Biography of Sir Joseph Cook Peter Golding, Black Jack McEwen: Political Gladiator Judith Brett, Political Lives Nancy Viviani, The Indochinese in Australia: From Burnt Boats to Barbecues Edmund S. K. Fung and Chen Jie, Changing Perceptions: The Attitudes of the PRC Chinese Towards Australia and China, 1989–1996 Curtis Andressen and Keichi Kumagai, Escape From Affluence: Japanese Students in Australia John Uhr and Keith Mackay, eds, Evaluating Policy Advice: Learning From Commonwealth Experience Glyn Davis, A Government of Routines: Executive Coordination in an Australian State Peter Beilharz, Imagining the Antipodes: Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith Chris Healy, From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory John Rickard, Australia: A Cultural History Helen Irving, To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia’s Constitution Gerard J. DeGroot, Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War Walter Gratzer, ed., A Bedside Nature: Genius and Eccentricity 1869–1953 Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery, eds, A Military History of Ireland William G. Naphy, ed. and trans., Documents on the Continental Reformation Andrew Bonnell, Gregory Munro and Martin Travers, eds., Power, Conscience and Opposition: Essays in German History in Honour of John A. Moses Alex Saranin, Child of the Kulaks Don Peretz and Gideon Doron, The Government and Politics of Israel Paul White and William Logan, eds, Remaking the Middle East Ian Cowman, Dominion or Decline: Anglo-American Naval Relations in the Pacific 1937–1941 Robert Buzzanco, Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era James H. Lebovic, Forgone Conclusions: US Weapons Acquisition in the Post-Cold War Transition Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle Thayer, eds, A Crisis of Expectations: UN Peacekeeping in the 1990s Erik Cohen, Thai Tourism, Hill Tribes and Open-ended Prostitution Rolf Torstendahl and Irmline Veit-Brause, eds, History-Making: The Intellectual and Social Formation of a Discipline P. D. A. Harvey, Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map Sheila Tobias, Faces of Feminism: An Activist’s Reflections on the Women’s Movement     

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David Collins: A Colonial Life. By John Currey Brisbane: Squatters, Selectors and Surveyors. (Brisbane History Group Papers No 16) Edited by Rod Fisher and Jennifer Harrison Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans. By Clare Wright Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture, Nation. Edited by Laksiri Jayasuriya, David Walker and Jan Gothard This War Never Ends: The Pain of Separation and Return. By Michael McKernan Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangio Platypus and Parliament: The Australian Senate in Theory and Practice. By Stanley Bach Unfolding History, Evolving Identity: The Chinese in New Zealand. Edited by Manying Ip New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c.1920–2000. By Bruce Mansfield Eighteenth‐Century British Erotica. Edited by Chris Mounsey and Rictor Norton London Corresponding Society, 1792–1799. Edited by Michael Davis. Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798. By Ruán O'Donnell Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803. By Ruán O'Donnell Wilhelminism and its Legacies. German Modernities and the Meanings of Reform, 1890–1930. Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann. Edited by Geoff Eley and James Retallack Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish‐Christian Women in Nazi Germany. By Cynthia A. Crane. Conqueror's Road: An Eyewitness Report of Germany 1945. By Osmar White Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971–1989: A Precarious Stability. By Jeannette Z. Madarász The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World. By Fredric S. Zuckerman “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. By Samantha Power A History of Modern India, 1480–1959. Edited by Claude Markovitz; translated by Nisha George and Maggy Hendry Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order. By Charles A. Kupchan, Emanuel Adler, Jean‐Marc Coicaud and Yuen Foong Khong Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law. By Anne Orford Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration: Together Forever? By John Hart The Dynamics of Political Crime. By Jeffrey Ian Ross The Battle for Hearts and Minds: Using Soft Power to Undermine Terrorist Networks. Edited by Alexander T. J. Lennon The Media and Neo‐Populism: A Contemporary Comparative Analysis. Edited by Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Julianne Stewart and Bruce Horsfield     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: ARGUMENTS ABOUT ABORIGINES: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology By L. R. Watt. ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGNTY: Reflections on Race, State and Nation By Henry Reynolds. OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD Johann Reinhol Forster. PEOPLE, PLACES AND POLICES: Aspects of Queensland Administration 1859–1920 Edited by Kay Cohen and Kenneth Wiltshire. AN AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRAT: The Life, Work and Consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark Edited by Marcus Howard and James Warden. WITH LANE IN PARAGUAY: Harry Taylor of The Murray Pioneer 1873–1932 Edited, with a biographical sketch, by Don Gobbett and Malcolm Sounders. A VERITABLE DYNAMO: Lloyd Ross and Australian Labour 1901–1987 By Stephen Holt. ANZUS IN REVISION: Changing Defense Features of Australia and New Zealand in the Mid-1980s By Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Donnini. THE 1992 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ELECTION: Change and Continuity in Electoral Politics Edited by Yaw Saffu. THE RIGHT ROAD: A History of Right-Wing Politics in Australia By Andrew Moore. POLITICS ONE Randall G. Stewart and Ian Ward. THE STATE IN QUESTION: Transformations of the Australian State Edited by Paul James. WE THE PEOPLE Edited by George Winterton. PEOPLE POLICY: Australia's Population Choices By Doug Cocks. A CONCISE HISTORY OF WORLD POPULATION By Massimo Livi-Bacci. Translated by Carl Ipsen. THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND IDEOLOGICAL POLITICS: Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846–1922 By Corinne Comstock Weston ELIXIR OF EMPIRE: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry and Imperialism By P. J. Rich. NATIONALISM IN EUROPE, 1815 TO THE PRESENT: A Reader Edited by Stuart Woolf. IMPERIAL GERMANY 1867–1918: Politics, Culture, and Society in an Authoritarian State By Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Richard Devesnn. FROM A ONE-PARTY STATE TO DEMOCRACY: Transition in Eastern Europe Edited by Janina Frentzel-Zagórska. THE ORDINARY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY: An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's Movement in Beijing By Frank N. Pieke THE EGALITARIAN MOMENT: Asia and Africa 1950–1980 By Anthony Low. INDIGENOUS CAPITAL IN KENYA: The “Indian” Dimension of the Debate By Michael Cowen and Scott MacWilliam ETHICAL PRACTICE IN GOVERNMENT: Improving Organisational Management Edited by John Uhr. DEMOCRACY AND THE GLOBAL ORDER: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance By David Held. COMPARATIVE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Studies Under the Upas Tree Edited by Anthony J. Parel and Ronald C. Keith     

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Books reviewed: Peter Chapman, general editor, Historical Records of Australia: Resumed Series III, Despatches and Papers Relating to the History of Tasmania, Volume VII. Tasmania, January–December 1828 Various authors, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the Colonial Dream: A Reconsideration Ged Martin, Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Abductor and Mystagogue Rosamond Siemon, The Mayne Inheritance Stephen Garton, The Cost of War: Australians Return Bridget Goodwin, Keen As Mustard: Britain’s Horrific Chemical Warfare Experiments in Australia Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann, Green Bans, Red Union: Environmentalism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation Tim M. Berra, A Natural History of Australia Gregory Melleuish, The Packaging of Australia: Politics and Culture Wars Errol Cocks, Charlie Fox, Mark Brogan and Michael Lee, eds, Under the Blue Skies: The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability in Western Australia R.A. Markus, Gregory the Great and His World Caroline Litzenberger, The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540–1580 Peter Marshall, ed., The Impact of the English Reformation Tom Webster, Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement, c. 1620–1643 Adrian Wilson, ed., Rethinking Social History: English Society 1570–1920 and its Interpretation David Alexander, Richard Newton and English Caricature in the 1790s David Taylor, The New Police in Nineteenth-Century England: Crime, Conflict and Control Bernard Lightman, ed., Victorian Science in Context Geoffrey V. Sutton, Science for a Polite Society: Gender, Culture and the Demonstration of Enlightenment Edna Hindie Lemay and Alison Patrick, Revolutionaries at Work: The Constituent Assembly, 1789–1791 Martin Kitchen, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany Douglas Newton, British Policy and the Weimar Republic 1918–1919 Andrei Sinyavsky, The Russian Intelligentsia Bruce Russett, No Clear and Present Danger A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II Paul N. Goldstene, Revolution American Style: The Nineteen-Sixties and Beyond Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz and Andrew W. Dod, Richard Nixon: A Psychobiography Eric Jones, Lionel Frost and Colin White, Coming Full Circle: An Economic History of the Pacific Rim Stephen Alomes and Michael Provis, eds, French Worlds, Pacific Worlds: French Nuclear Testing in Australia’s Backyard Nicholas Tarling, Nations and States in Southeast Asia David Kelly and Anthony Reid, eds, Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia Edmund Terence Gomez and Jomo K.S., Malaysia’s Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and Profits Martin Stuart-Fox, History of Laos Christopher Kremmer, Stalking the Elephant Kings: In Search of Laos Grant Evans, The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975 K.L. Sharma, Social Stratification in India: Issues and Themes Vera Mackie, Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1990–1937 Ian Bellany, The Environment in World Politics: Exploring the Limits David Shearman with Gary Sauer-Thompson, Green or Gone: Health, Ecology, Plagues, Greed and Our Future Daniel S. Geller and J. David Singer, Nations at War: A Scientific Study of International Conflict Daniel Pick, War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age     

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Book reviewed in this article: LOOKING AT DARWIN'S PAST: Material Evidence of European Settlement in Tropical Australia By David Carment. THE EUROPEANS IN AUSTRALIA: A History, Volume One: The Beginning By Alan Atkinson. THE GREAT EXPERIMENT: Labour Parties and Public Policy Transformation in Australia and New Zealand Edited by Francis Castles, Rolf Gerritsen and Jack Vowles. THE WIRED NATION CONTINENT: The Communication Revolution and Federating Australia By K. T. Livingston. WRITING IN HOPE AND FEAR: Literature and Politics in Postwar Australia By John McLaren. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1953 By David Clune. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1927 By Kevin Cosgrove. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS, 1901–1917 By Joan Rydon, R. N. Spann and Helen Nelson. THE MIGHTY BEARS: A Social History of North Sydney Rugby League By Andrew Moore. Statistics by David Middleton. VOX RE/PUBLICAE: Feminism and the Republic Edited by Jeanette Hoorn and David Goodman. DIALOGUES ON AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE: In Honour of the Late Professor Ronald Henderson Edited by Peter Sheehan, Bhajan Grewal and Margarita Kumnick. APPRENTICESHIP IN ENGLAND, 1600–1914 By Joan Lane. THE PRISON DIARY (16 May-22 November 1794) of John Home Tooke Edited with introduction and notes by A. V. Beedell and A. D. Harvey. THE REPUBLICAN CROWN: Lawyers and the Making of the State in Twentieth Century Britain Joseph M. Jacob. GERMANY: A New Social and Economic History General Editors: Sheilagh Ogilvie and Bob Scribner. Vol. 11450–1630, edited by Bob Scribner; Vol. 2. 1630–1800, edited by Sheilagh Ogilvie. THE GHOSTS OF BERLIN: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape By Brian Ladd. A HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY: From the Revolutionary War to the Present Edited by Jerry K. Sweeney. THE PACIFIC BASIN SINCE 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim States and the Pacific Islands By Roger C. Thompson. REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC: The Quarter-century 1970–95 By Ken Ross. TRADITION VERSUS DEMOCRACY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa Stephanie Lawson. POWER BY DESIGN: Constitution-making in Nationalist China By Zhao Suisheng. VIETNAM 1945: The Quest for Power David G. Marr. TONKIN GULF AND THE ESCALATION OF THE VIETNAM WAR By Edwin E. Moïse. BUDDHIST KINGDOM, MARXIST STATE: The Making of Modern Laos By Martin Stuart-Fox. THE POL POT REGIME: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975–79 Ben Kieman. WAR AND TELEVISION By Bruce Cumings. CHRISTIANITY AND DEMOCRACY:. A Theology for a Just World Order By John W. De Gruchy. THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDICINE Edited by Roy Porter. CULTURES OF NATURAL HISTORY Edited by N. Sardine, J. A. Secord and E. C. Spary.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes: The Colonisation of the Australian Economic Landscape. By Dale Kerwin Australia: William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. Edited by Harry Allen Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes. By Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill The Frauenstein Letters: Aspects of Nineteenth Century Emigration from the Duchy of Nassau to Australia. By Kathrine M. Reynolds Not Quite White: Lebanese and the White Australia Policy 1880 to 1947. By Anne Monsour Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist. By David Lee The Australian Road to Singapore: The Myth of British Betrayal. By Augustine Meaher IV. Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan. By Christine De Matos A Three‐Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock. By Jim Davidson The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 3 1962–1983 with an introduction by Harry Evans. Edited by Anne Miller and Geoffrey Browne Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities. By Anne Tiernan and Patrick Weller Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class. By Tom Bramble and Rick Kuhn All That's Left: What Labor Should Stand For. Edited by Nick Dyrenfurth and Tim Soutphommasane The Quest for Justice. By Ken Crispin The Politics of Human Rights in Australia. By Louise Chappell John Chesterman and Lisa Hill Australia. The State of Democracy. By Marian Sawer, Norman Abjorensen and Phil Larkin. What Were They Thinking? The Politics of Ideas in Australia. By James Walter with Tod Moore Throwing off the Cloak: Reclaiming Self‐reliance in Torres Strait. By Elizabeth Osborne Pacific Ways: Government and Politics in the Pacific Islands. Edited by Stephen Levine The Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists. Edited by William Sweet Churchill's Secret War. The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War Two. By Madhusree Mukerjee Redefining British Politics: Culture, Consumerism and Participation, 1954–70. By Lawrence Black Confronting Hitler. German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929–1933. By William Smaldone Italy Today, the Sick Man of Europe. Edited by Andrea Mammone and Giuseppe Veltri Resentment in History. By Marc Ferro, trans. Steven Rendall Power and the Past: Collective Memory and International Relations. By Eric Langenbacher and Yossi Shain (editors) Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth‐Century Britain. By Peter J. Bowler     

The Red Flag Riots: A Study of Intolerance.

By Ramond Evans. St. Lucia. University of Queensland Press, 1988. pp, xv + 252. Illustrated. Seven maps. The Fight Goes On. A Picture of Australia and the World in Two Post-war Decades. By Ralph Gibson. Ascot Vale, Red Rooster Press, 1987. pp:280, illustrated. $23.00 paperback. The New Right's Australian Fantasy. Edited by Ken Coghill. The German Presence in Queensland Over the Last 150 Years Edited by Manfred Jurgensen and Alan Corkhill. Brisbane. Research Unit German Australian Relations, Dept. of German. University of Queensland, 1988. pp. 414. No price given. The Fenians In Australia 1865–1880. By Keith Amos. Policing In Australia: Historical Perspectives. Edited by Mark Finnane Law and Government in Colonial Australia. By Paul Finn. A Divided Working Class. By Constance Lever-Tracy and Michael Quinlan. Buongiorno Australia: Our Italian Heritage. By Robert Pascoe. Big-noting: The heroic theme in Australian war writing. By Robin Gerster. Rising Damp: Sydney 1870–90. By Shirley Fitzgerald. A Trunk Full of Books: History of the State Library of South Australia and its Forerunners By Carl Bridge. Delivering the Goods: A History of the NSW Transport Workers Union 1888–1986. By Mark Bray and Malcolm Rimmer. No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in Australia 1788–1914. By Ken Buckley and Ted Wheelwright. Labour Party in New South Wales 1880–1900. By Raymond Markey. The Scottish in Australia. By Malcolm D. Prentis. Bunyip Aristocracy: The New South Wales Constitution Debate of 1853 and Hereditary Institutions in the British Colonies. By Ged Martin. Ambivalent Allies: Myth and Reality in the Australian-American Relationship. By Dennis Phillips. Te Aso Fiafia: Te Tala o Te Kamupane Vaitupu 1877–1887 [The Joyous Day: the tale of the Vaitupu Company, 1877–18871. By T. Isala and D. Munro. Funafuti & Suva, Tuvalu Extension Services Centre and the Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacfic, 1987. Intermittent Diplomat. The Japan and Batavia Diaries of W. MacMahon Ball. Edited and introduced by Alan Rix. Equal or Different—Women's Politics 1800–1914. Edited by Jane Rendall. British Policy in Relation to Poland in the Second World War. By Stanislaw Zochowski. Foreign Policy Implementation. Edited by Steve Smith and Michael Clarke.     

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Books reviewed: Sally, Graham, (ed.) A Man about Town: The Letters of James Graham, Victorian Entrepreneur 1854‐1864 Pamela, Jeanne Fulton, (ed.) The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798‐1800 Susan, Lawrence, Dolly's Creek: An Archaeology of a Victorian Goldfields Community Don, Garden, Theodore Fink. A Talent for Ubiquity John, Ritchie, (ed.) Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 15. 1940‐1980. Kem‐Pie Kay, Saunders and Roger, Daniels, (eds) Alien Justice. Wartime Internment in Australia and North America Mark, Johnston, Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II Frank, Bongiorno, The People's Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition Brian, Costar and Nicholas, Economou, (eds) The Kennett Revolution. Victorian Politics in the 1990s Michael, Thompson, Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the Labor Party Ian, Hancock, National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia 1944‐1965 Ian, Cook, Liberalism in Australia John, Chesterman and Brian, Galligan, (eds) Defining Australian Citizenship: Selected Documents Sue, Richardson, (ed.) Reshaping the Labour Market: Regulation, Efficiency and Equality in Australia S., Bell, (ed.) The Unemployment Crisis in Australia: Which Way Out? Bain, Attwood and Andrew, Markus, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History Tony, Coady (ed.) Why Universities Matter John, Wiseman, Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation Donald, Denoon, (ed.) with Stewart, Firth; Jocelyn, Linnekin; Malama, Meleisea and Karen, Nero, The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders Richard, Price British Society, 1680‐1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change Kathleen, Wilson, The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715‐1785 John, Brewer and Eckhart, Hellmuth, (eds) Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth‐Century State in Britain and Germany Jörn, Rüsen, (ed.) Westliches Geschichtsdenken. Eine interkulturelle Debatte John B., Hattendorf, (ed.), with a foreword by Paul Kennedy Naval Strategy and Policy in the Mediterranean. Past, Present and Future Jean‐Claude, Favez,, (eds and trans by John and Beryl Fletcher) The Red Cross and the Holocaust István, Deák; Jan T., Gross and Tony, Judt, (eds) The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and its Aftermath Peter, Grose, Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain Hira, Sing, (foreword by André Béteille) Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance. Princes, Peasants and Paramount Power Martin, Doornbos and Sudipta, Kaviraj, Dynamics of State Formation, India and Europe Compared. Indo‐Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, 19 Marie‐Claire, Bergère, (Janet Lloyd trans) Sun Yat‐Sen Sherman, Cochran, (ed.) Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900‐1945 Frederick C., Teiwes with Warren, Sun, China's Road to Disaster, Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955‐1959 Richard J., Aldrich, Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of Secret Service Dr Maung, Maung, The 1988 Uprising in Burma. Monograph 49 Manoranjan, Mohanty and Partha, Math Mukherji with Olle, Törnquist, (eds) People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World Diane B., Paul, The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine and the Nature‐Nurture Debate Joseph, Hamburger, John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control April, Carter and Geoffrey, Stokes, (eds) Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Perspectives in Contemporary Political Thought Judith N., Shklar, (ed. by Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson) Redeeming American Political Thought Jennifer, Platt, A History of Sociological Research Methods in America: 1920‐1960     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Australia's Empire. Edited by Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward, The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series, Editor‐in‐Chief, Wm. Roger Louis Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era. By Babette Smith Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station. By Hamish Maxwell‐Stewart Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia Since 1826. By Geoffrey Bolton The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police. By Jonathan Richards Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a Nation. By Anne Henderson J.V. Barry: A Life. By Mark Finnane Roma the First: A Biography of Dame Roma Mitchell. By Susan Magarey and Kerrie Round The Godfather: The Life of Brian Burke. By Quentin Beresford Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004–2007. Edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall Indigenous Peoples: Self‐Determination, Knowledge, Indigeneity. Edited by Henry Minde The Queen's Other Realms: The Crown and Its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. By Peter Boyce Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice. By Julian Burnside Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia. By Linda Briskman, Susie Latham, and Chris Goddard Literary and Social Diasporas: An Italian Australian Perspective. Edited by Gaetano Rando and Gerry Turcotte Tell It As It Is: Autobiography of Rt Hon Sir Peter Kenilorea KBE PC Solomon Islands' First Prime Minister. By Peter Kenilorea. Edited by Clive Moore Brilliant Women: 18^th‐Century Bluestockings. By Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz The Victorians and Germany. By John R. Davis Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe. By Robert Gildea, Olivier Wieviorka and Anette Warring Burning Books. By Matthew Fishburn Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. By Marcy Norton The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. By Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier and Patrick Reedy Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality. By Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention. By John Cooper Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History. Edited by A. Dirk Moses A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present. By Bruce Haddock The Trouble with Theory: The Educational Costs of Postmodernism. By Gavin Kitching Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification. Edited by Ronald Cole‐Turner The Allure of Machinic Life — Cybernetics. Artificial Life, and the New AI. By Harvey Johnston     

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Books reviewed in this article: The Astronomer of Rousdon: Charles Grover 1842–1921. By Barbara Slater Decision and Deliberation: The Parliament of New South Wales 1856–2003. By David Clune and Gareth Griffth The Premiers of New South Wales 1856–2005. Edited by David Clune and Ken Turner The First New South Wales Labor Government 1910–1916. Two Memoirs: William Holman and John Osborne. Edited by Michael Hogan Heroes before Gallipoli: Bita Paka and that One Day in September. By Kevin Meade Francis De Groot: Irish Fascist, Australian Legend. By Andrew Moore Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming and Memory in World War II. Edited by Bob Moore and Barbara Hately‐Broad The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia. By Richard Waterhouse Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth‐Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. By Pat Jalland Treaty. By Sean Brennan, Larissa Behrendt, Lisa Strelein and George Williams Five Things to Know About The Australian Constitution. By Helen Irving Colonial Connections 1815–45: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government. By Zoë Laidlaw Elizabethan Hero: The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher. By K.A. Frobisher Pardons and Punishments: Judges' Reports on Criminals, 1783–1830: HO (Home Office) 47 [1: HO 47/1–12, 1783–1790] (List and Index Society, volumes 304–5). Edited by Paul Carter The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth‐Century England. By Cindy McCreery J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian. By Julia Markus Ulster and Scotland 1600–2000 History, Language and Identity. Edited by William Kelly and John R. Young Ulster–New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers. Edited by Brad Patterson Washington und Berlin zwischen den Kriegen. Die Mixed Claims Commission in den transatlantischen Beziehungen. By Burkhard Jähnicke Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood. By Idith Zertal, trans. Chaya Galai, originally published in Hebrew in 2002 Political Cultures in the Andes 1750–1950. Edited by Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada Virtual Thailand: The Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. By Glen Lewis The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific. By Michael K. Connors, Remy Davidson and Jörn Dosch Darwinian Conservatism. By Larry Arnhart The “Puritan” Democracy of Thomas Hill Green. By Alberto de Sanctis     

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Book reviewed in this article: AUSTRALASIA: MANAGING THE LAND: An Index to the Lands Department Papers in Queensland Votes and Proceedings, 1880–1899 By W. Ross Johnston, Helen Gregory and Jennifer Harrison. AUSTRALASIA:MABO: A JUDICIAL REVOLUTION: The Aboriginal Land Rights Decision and its Impact on Australian Law Edited by M. A. Stephenson and S. Ratnapala. AUSTRALASIA SECRETS OF THE FOREST: Discovering History in Melbourne's Ash Range By Tom Griffith AUSTRALASIA OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE DAYS OF SAIL By Ian Jones and Joyce Jones. AUSTRALASIA IET DISSENTER: The Life and Thought of an Australian Pacifist: Eleanor May Moore, 1875–1949 By Malcolm Saunders. AUSTRALASIA WAR, INTERMENT AND MASS MIGRATION: The Italio-Australian Experience 1940–1990 Edited by Richard Bosworth and Romano Ugolini. AUSTRALASIA AN AIRMAN FAR AWAY: The Story of an Australian Dambuster By Eric Fry. AUSTRALASIA A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON OVERSEAS STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA: Australia-Asia Papers No. 64 By Curtis A. Andressen. AUSTRALASIA EDUCATIONAL REFUGEES: Malaysian Students in Australia. Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 29. By Curtis A. Andressen. AUSTRALASIA POWER AND PROTEST: Movements for Change in Australian Society By Verity Burgmann. AUSTRALASIA PUBLIC POLICY IN AUSTRALIA By G. Davis, J. Wanna, J. Warhurst and P Weller. AUSTRALASIA THE WHITE TRIBE OF ASIA: An Indonesian View of Australia By Ratih Hardjono. SAS, PHANTOMS OF THE JUNGLE: A History of the Australian Special Air Service By D. M. Horner. AUSTRALASIA PUNISHMENT IN A PERFECT SOCIETY: The New Zealand Penal System 1840–1939 By John Pratt. EUROPE: FROM MEMORY TO WRITTEN RECORD: England 1066–1307 By M. T. Clancy. EUROPE:VENICE: A Documentary History, 1450–1630 Edited by David Chambers and Brian Pullam with Jennifer Fletcher. EUROPE: MARY TUDOR: A Life By David Loades. EUROPE: CUSTOMS IN COMMON By E. P. Thompson. EUROPE: THE VICTORIANS AND RENAISSANCE ITALY By Hilary Fraser. EUROPEL: ENGLISH QUESTIONS By Perry Anderson, EUROPE: THE THATCHER ERA AND ITS LEGACY By Peter Riddell. EUROPE: IRELAND 1828–1923: From Ascendancy to Democracy By D. George Boyce. EUROPE: THE VILLAGE OF CANNIBALS: Rage and Murder in France 1870 By Alain Corbin. EUROPE: MARXIST INTELLECTUALS AND THE WORKING-CLASS MENTALITY IN GERMANY, 1887–1912 By Stanley Pierson. EUROPE: THE FRENCH HOME FRONT 1914–1918 Edited by Patrick Fridenson. EUROPE: KAUKASIEN 1942/43: Das deutsche Heer und die Orientvölker der Sowjetunion. By Joachim Hoffmann. EXPLAINING AUSCHWITZ AND HIROSHIMA: History Writing and the Second World War 1945–1990 By Richard J. B. Bosworth. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THE END OF THE MODERN AGE By John Lukacs. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE CIVIL WAR: The Best of American Heritage Edited by Stephen W. Sears. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: WORLD WAR II: The Best of American Heritage Edited by Stephen W. Sears. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: EYEWITNESS TO WORLD WAR II: The Best of American Heritage Edited by Stephen W. Sears. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES By Paul Dibb. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: IMPLICATED: The United States in Australia By Philip Bell and Roger Bell. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: PACIFIC CENTURY: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia By Mark Borthwick with contributions by selected scholars. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: ENCOUNTERING THE MAJOR PLAYER: U. S. Extended Deterrence Strategy in the Asia-Pacific By William T. Tow. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: Reflections of the Origin and Spread of Nationalism By Benedict Anderson. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE END OF SOVEREIGNTY? The Politics of a Shrinking and Fragmenting World Joseph A. Camilleri and Jim Folk.     

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Book reviewed in this article: CONCISE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA By Russel Ward. NATIONS OF IMMIGRANTS: Australia, the United States and International Migration Edited by Gary P. Freeman and James Jupp. QUEENSLAND AND GERMANY: Ethnic, Socio-Cultural, Political and Trade Relations, 1838–1991 By Alan Corkhill. MILLERS POINT: The Urban Village By Shirley Fitzgerald and Christopher Keating. THE MYSTIC LIFE OF ALFRED DEAKIN By Al Gabay: THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF THE HIGH COURT By David Solomon. AN ARMY FOR A NATION: A History of Australian Military Developments 1880–1914 By John Mordike. AUSTRALIA AND THE KAISER'S WAR 1914–1918: On Understanding the ANZAC Tradition. Argument and Theses By John A. Moses with Gregory Munro. HIGH COMMAND: Australia's Struggle for an Independent War Strategy 1939–1945 David Horner. BARNACLES AND PARASITES: Independent Members of the South Australian Parliament 1927–1970 By Reece Jennings. FEDERALISM AND HEALTH POLICY: The Development of Health Systems in Canada and Australia By Gwendolyn Gray, Toronto: CHILDREN AND THE STATE: Social Control and the Formation of Australian Child Welfare By Robert Van Krieken. AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY: What Policy? Edited by Michael Costa and Michael Easson. THE END OF CERTAINTY: The Story of the 1980s By Paul Kelly. AUSTRALIAN LABOUR HISTORY By Greg Patmore. HAWKE: An Emotional Life By Stan Anson. TRIALS IN POWER: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982–1992 Edited by Mark Considine and Brian Costar. KEEPING THEM HONEST: Democratic Reform in Queensland Edited by Andrew Hede, Scott Prasser and Mark Neylan. MEDIEVAL HERESY: Popular Movements From the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation By Malcolm Lambert. THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN EUROPEAN WORLD By Edward Whiting Fox. FALLEN SOLDIERS: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars By George L Mosse. UNCERTAIN UNIONS: Marriage in England 1660–1753 By Lawrence Stone. SWEARING: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English By Geoffrey Hughes. WALTER LONG, IRELAND, AND THE UNION, 1905–1920 By John Kendle. COMMAND ON THE WESTERN FRONT: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson 1914-18 By Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson. BRITAIN IN THE 1930s: The Deceptive Decade By Andrew Thorpe. NORTHERN IRELAND: Politics and the Constitution Edited by Brigid Hadfield. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Hero and Anti-Hero of the French Revolution By Ian Germani, Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: FRENCH SOCIALISM AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE: Women and the New Society, 1803-44 By Susan K. ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE THIRD REICH By Hermann Graml, translated by Tim Kirk. MODERNITY AND THE HOLOCAUST By Zygmunt Bauman. FOREVER IN THE SHADOW OF HITLER: The Dispute about the Germans' Understanding of History. Original Documents of the Historikerstreit: The Controversy Concerning the Singularity of the Holocaust Translated from the German by James Knowlton and Truett Cates. CORRUPTION: Ethics and Power in Florence, 1600–1770 By Jean-Claude Waquet. PAUL I OF RUSSIA, 1754–1801 By Roderick E. McGrew. THE INVASIONS OF THE GULF: Radicalism, Ritualism and the Sheikhs By Paul Rich. POLITICAL LEADERS IN BLACK AFRICA: A Biographical Dictionary of the Major Politicians Since Independence By John A Wiseman. TRAPPED BY SUCCESS: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-61 By David L Anderson. SOLDIERS, STATESMEN, AND COLD WAR CRISES By Richard K. Betts. LAOGAI: The Chinese Gulag By Hongda Harry Wu. THE SOUTH PACIFIC FOREIGN AFFAIRS HANDBOOK By Steve Hoadley. POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN HAWAI'I Edited by Zachary A. Smith and Richard C. ANTARCTICA: An Economic History of the Last Continent By Martijn Wilder. POLITICAL MANAGEMENT IN THE 1990S By John Halligan and John Power. AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT By David Corbett. THE AUSTRALIAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT By Richard Lucy. VOTER'S CHOICE: Electoral Change in New Zealand? By Helena Catt, Paul Harris, and Nigel S. Roberts. COMPARATIVE URBAN POLITICS: Power and the City in the United States, Canada, Britain and France By Michael Keating ETHICS AND FOREIGN POLICY Edited by Paul Keal. GLOBAL POLITICS By Anthony G. McGrew and Paid G. Lewis et al. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SINCE 1945 Edited by Ronald Barston. CONTINUITIES IN POLITICAL ACTION: A Longitudinal Study of Political Orientations in Three Western Democracies By M. Kent Jennings et al. LABOR PARTIES IN POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES Edited by Frances Fox Piven. CLASS Richard Scase. Buckingham: ENVIRONMENTALISM AND POLITICAL THEORY: Toward an Ecocentric Approach Robyn Eckersley. ESSAYS ON POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Vol 6, Library of the History of Ideas. Edited by Patrick Riley HEINRICH HEINE ALS POLITISCHER DICHTER By Walter Grab.     

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Book reviewed in this article: ADVANCE AUSTRALIA—WHERE? Edited by B. D. Beddie. DIPLOMACY AND ENTERPRISE: British China Policy 1933–1937. By Stephen Lyon Endicott. INQUIRY AND DECISION. By John O'Shaughnessy. THE WARSAW PACT: Case Studies in Communist Conflict Resolution. By Robin Alison Remington. PAKISTAN UNDER CHALLENGE. By L. F. Rushbrook Williams. SOCIAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PRACTICE. By Brian Fay. THE EVOLUTION OF THE LABOUR PARTY 1910–1924. By Ross McKibbin. THE EMERGENCE OF PROBABILITY: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. By Ian Hacking. AUSTRALIA AND THE NON-WHITE MIGRANT. Edited by Kenneth Rivett. THE STATE, SOCIETY AND SELF-DESTRUCTION, Edited by Elizabeth Vallance. ITALIAN FOREIGN POLICY 1870–1940. By C. J. Lowe and F. Marzari. THE CARDINAL PROTECTORS OF ENGLAND: Rome and the Tudors before the Reformation. By William E. Wilkie. TUDOR DYNASTIC PROBLEMS 1460–1571. By Mortimer Levine. BOTSWANA: A Short Political History. By Anthony Sillery. ZAMBIA: Security and Conflict. By Jan Pettman. POLITICS AND HIGHER EDUCATION. By John D. Millett. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. BENTHAM AND LEGAL THEORY. Edited by M. H. James. WOMEN AND VOTING STUDIES: Mindless Matrons or Sexist Scientism? By Murray Goot and Elizabeth Reid. BRITISH IMMIGRANTS AND AUSTRALIA: A Psycho-Social Inquiry. By Alan Richardson. A HISTORY OF CONTRACT AT COMMON LAW. By S. J. Stoljar. CHINESE MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT IN AUSTRALIA. By C. Y. Choi. MINORITIES IN MADRAS STATE: Group Interests in Modern Politics. By S. Saraswati. THE KURIL ISLANDS: Russo-Japanese Frontier in the Pacific. By John J. Stephan. THE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE THREAT TO THE WEST: Four Studies in Global Strategy. Edited by Patrick Wall. AN AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE: Words from the Vietnam Years. By Allan Ashbolt. MODERN JAPAN: Aspects of History, Literature and Society. Edited by W. G. Beasley. CHARISMATIC BUREAUCRAT: A Political Biography of Matsudaira Sadanobu, 1758–1829. By Herman Ooms. THE ALLIED OCCUPATION OF JAPAN, 1945–1952: An Annotated Bibliography of Western-Language Materials. By Robert E. Ward and Frank Joseph Shulman. OUT OF THE WILDERNESS The Return of Labor. By C. J. Lloyd and G. S. Reid. RISE UP, WOMEN! The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union 1903–1914. By Andrew Rosen. GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONS. Volume 1. Compiled by C. A. Burmester. THE TIMES REPORTS THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: Extracts from The Times 1860–1865. Edited by Hugh Brogan. NATIONALISM: The Nature and Evolution of an Idea. Edited by Eugene Kamenka. THE BALTIC DILEMMA: The Case of the De Jure Recognition by Australia of the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. By Edgars Dunsdorfs. THE SECOND EMPIRE AND THE PRESS: A Study of Government-Inspired Brochures on French Foreign Policy in Their Propaganda Milieu. By Natalie Isser. CROMWELLIAN IRELAND: English Government and Reform in Ireland 1949–1660. By T. C. Barnard. SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE CITY. By D. Harvey. THE INTRUDERS: Refugee Doctors in Australia. By Egon F. Kunz. IRISH ISSUES IN NEWZEALAND POLITICS 1868–1922. By Richard P. Davis. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS: A Reader. Edited by Stephen Levine. DECISIONS IN ISRAEL'S FOREIGN POLICY. By Michael Brecher. KARL MARX. By Michael Evans. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THOUGHT: A Comparison of the Theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser. By Miriam Glucksmann. THE CONCEPT OF SOCIALISM. Edited by Bhikhu Parekh. ETHICAL CONDUCT: Guidelines for Government Employees. By Kenneth Kernaghan. KNOX: A History of Knox Grammar School 1924–1974. By Bruce Mansfield. RESPONSIBILITY SHARING IN A FEDERAL SYSTEM. Edited by R. L. Mathews. Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Australian National University, Research Monograph No. 8. TEACHERS, EDUCATION AND POLITICS: A History of Organizations of Public School Teachers in New South Wales. By Bruce Mitchell. THE PROBLEM OF PARTY GOVERNMENT. By Richard Rose. THE ORIGINS OF CROWD PSYCHOLOGY. Gustave LeBon and the Crisis of Mass Democracy in the Third Republic By Robert A. Nye. CONQUEST OF MIND: Phrenology and Victorian Social Thought. By David de Giustino. AUSTRALIA'S NEW GUINEA QUESTION. Edited by W. J. Hudson. A DANGEROUS PLACE: The United Nations as a Weapon in World Politics. By Abraham Yeselson and Anthony Gaglione. SOCIOLOGY AS SOCIAL CRITICISM. By T. B. Bottomore. J. S. MILL. By Alan Ryan. A DIVIDED SOCIETY: Tasmania during World War I. By Marilyn Lake. EDWARDIAN RADICALISM 1900–1914: Some Aspects of British Radicalism. Edited by A. J. A. Morris. WITHOUT SYMPATHY OR ENTHUSIASM: The Problem of Administrative Compassion. By Victor A. Thompson.     

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Book reviewed in this article: MAKING THE BICENTENAR: A Special Issue of Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 23, No. 91 (October 1988) Edited by S. Janson and S. Macintyre. GOOD MEN AND TRUE: The Aboriginal Police of the Port Phillip district 1937–1853 By Marie Hansen Fels. THE MAKING OF THE ABORIGINES By Bain Attwood. RACE RELATIONS INCOLONIAL QUEENSLAND: A History of Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination By Raymond Evans, Kay Saunders & Kathryn Cronin. THE PRESS IN COLONIAL QUEENSLAND: A Social and Political History 1845–75 By Denis Cryle. JAMES SMITH. The Making of a Colonial Culture By Lurline Stuart. COURAGE A GRACE: A Biography of Dame Mary Gilmore By W. H. Wilde. BREAKER MORANT AND THE BUSHVELDT CARBINEERS Edited by Arthur Davey. BLOCKADE: The Queensland Loans Affair 1920 to 1924 By Tom Cochrane. THE LABOUR EXPERIMENT By Stuart Macintyre. DISPLACED PERSONS: CALWELL'S NEW AUSTRALIANS By Egon Kunz. LOCATIN AUSTRALIA'S PAST: A Practical Guide to Writing Local History By The Local History Coordination Project. AUSTRALIA IN MIND: Thirteen Influential Australian Thinkers By Mark Thomas. AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL FACTS By I. McAllister. M. Mackerras, A. Ascui, and S. Moss. AUSTALIA'S POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS By D. Aitkin, B. Jinks and J. Warhurst. POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA Edited by Rodney Smith and Lex Watson. AUSTRALIAN STUDIES: A Survey Edited by James Walter. THE RISE OF COLONIAL NATIONALISM: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa First Assert Their nationalities Edited by John Eddy and Deryck Schreuder. THE IDEAL SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES. The Foundation of Modern New Zealand Society 1850–1900 By Miles Fairburn. ANTACTICA'S FUTURE: CONTINUITY OR CHANGE? Edited by R. A. Herr, H. R. Hall and M. G. Haward. PLES BLONG INUI: Solomon Islands: The Past Four Thousand Years Edited by Hugh Laracy NAMIBIA 1884–1984: Readings in Namibia's History and Society SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS TO US: A History of the African National Congress By Francis Meli. DEMOCRACY AND PARTICIPATION IN ANTHENS By R. K. Sinclair. THE POLITICS OF PROGRESS: The Origins and Development of the Commerical Republic 1600–1835 By Hiram Caton. MODERNIZATION FRUSTRATED. The Politics of Industrial Decline in Britain Since 1900 By Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter. SELLING THE STATE: Privatisation in Britain By Cento Veljanovski with Mark Bentley. PRIVATISATION: Theory, Practice and Choice By Madsen Pirie. BRITAIN AND THE FALKLANDS WAR By Lawrence Freedman. NORTHERN IRELAND SINCE 1968 Paul Arthur and Keith Jeffrey. VLASOV AND THE RUSSIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT: Soviet reality and Emigre Theories By Catherine Andreyev. UNDERSTANDING SOVIET SOCIETY Edited by Michael Paul Sacks and Jerry G. Pankhurst. THE JEWS IN POLAND Edited by Chimen Abramsky, Maciej Jachimczyk and Antony Polonsky. THE GERMAN STUDENT CORPS IN THE THIRD REICH By R. S. G. Weber. GERMANY, AMERICA, EUROPE: FORTY YEARS OF GERMAN FOREIGH POLICY By Wolfram F. Hanrieder. THE MAFIA OF A SICILIAN VILLAGE, 1860–1960. A Study of Violent Peasant Entrepreneurs By Anton Blok. CINA AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Participation in Non-governmental Organizations Since 1971 By Gerald Chun. THE ORIGINS OF THE VIETMAN WAR By Anthony Short. COLD WAR ON CAMPUS: A Study of the Politics of Organizational Control By Lionel S. Lewis. HISTORY OF THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE. Volume II. The Test of War 1950–1953. By Doris M. Condit. THE POSTMODERN PRESIDENT: The White House Meets the World By Richard Rose. RICH AND POOR COUNTRIES: Consequences of International Economic Disorder By Hans W. Singer and Javed A. Ansari. AGINS AND POLITICAL LEAERSHIP Edited by Angus McIntyre. IN THE AGE OF THE SMART MACHINE: The Future of Work and Power By Shoshana Zuboff. INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION Edited by Ramesh Thokur. ARMS CONTROL By Michael J. Sheehan MEN, MACHINES AND WAR Edited by Ronald Haycock and Keith Neilson. THE POLITICS OF SCANDAL: Power and Process in Liberal Democracies Andrei S. Markovits and Mark Silverstein. THE RULE OF LAW: Foundations of Constitutional Democracy By Geoffrey de Q. Walker. TRADITIONS OF LIBERALISM: Essays on John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill Edited by Knud Haakonssen. LIBERALISMS: Essays in Political Philosophy By John Gray. HUMAN RIGHTS Edited by Peter Davies. THE BITTERSWEET CENTURY: Speculations on Modern Science and American Democracy By Paul N. Goldstene. BIOLOGY AND FREEDOM: An Essay on the Implications of Human Ethology By S. A. Barnett. POWER, MODERNITY AND SOCIOLOGY: Selected Sociological Writings By Raymond Aron XPLANATION IN SOCIAL HISTORY By Christopher Lloyd.     

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Book reviewed in this article: NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE IN CANADA AND AUSTRALIA: A Comparative Political Economy Analysis. By Malcolm C. Brown. Canberra. WHY SO FEW? Women Academics in Australian Universities. By Bettina Cass. THE LONG FAREWELL: The Perilous Voyages of Settlers under Sail in the Great Migrations to Australia. By Don Charlwood. ARBITRATOR AT WORK: Sir William Raymond Kelly and the Regulation of Australian Industrial Relations. By Braham Dabscheck. NEW GUINEA UNDER THE GERMANS. By Stewart Firth. ALL THAT DIRT: Aborigines 1938. An Australian 1938 Monograph. Edited by Bill Gammage and Andrew Markus. FREDERICK WELD. By Jeanine Graham. THE REMARKABLE REVEREND CLARKE: The Life and Times of the Father of Australian Geology. By Elena Grainger. THE GLENNIE: A Work of Faith. By Christine Henderson. CONVICT SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES: A History of Early New South Wales. By J. B. Hirst. THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN NIGHTMARE: A Critique of Home-ownership Ideology. By Jim Kemeny. PUBLIC SECTOR ADMINISTRATION: New Perspectives. Edited by Alexander Kouzmin. A NATION APART: Essays in Honour of Andrew Fabinyi. Personal Views of Australia in the Eighties. Edited by John McLaren. FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia. By Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley. AUSTRALIA'S CONSTITUTION: Time for Change? By John McMillan, Gareth Evans and Haddon Storey. AUSTRALIAN FEDERALISM: Future Tense. Edited by Allan Patience and Jeffrey Scott. SUB ROSA: Memoirs of an Australian Intelligence Analyst. By R. H. Mathams. PUBLIC SECTOR BORROWING IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by R. L. Mathews. MICRONATIONALIST MOVEMENTS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Edited by R. J. May. THE FIRM AND THE FORMLESS: Religion and Identity in Aboriginal Australia. By Hans Mol. THE FIXED AND THE FICKLE: Religion and Identity in New Zealand. By Hans Mol. INTERNEE 1/5126. By Robert Paterson. Annerley, Queensland, Dr Robert Paterson, 1983. THE PHONE BOOK: The Future of Australia's Communications on the Line. By Ian Reinecke and Julianne Schultz. A HISTORY OF TASMANIA. Vol. I: Van Diemen's Land from the Earliest Times to 1855. By Lloyd. MINING AND AUSTRALIA. Edited by W. H. Richmond and P. C. Sharma. TRADE, TACTICS AND TERRITORY: Britain in the Pacific 1783–1823. By Margaret Steven. HEATHCOTE: A Study of Local Government and Resident Action in a Small Australian Town. By R. A. Wild. SOCIAL PROCESS AND THE CITY. Urban Studies Yearbook I. Edited by Peter Williams. SYDNEY'S TRANSPORT: Studies in Urban History. Edited by Garry Wotherspoon. ARMING THE CHINESE: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920–1928. By Anthony B. Chan. COLD WAR HOT WAR. An Australian Perspective on the Korean War. By Gavan McCormack. IMPERIALISMUS UND KOLONIALMISSION: Kaiserliches Deutschland und Koloniales Imperium. Edited by Klaus J. Bade, Weisbaden, Steiner Verlag, 1982. THE ISLAMIC THREAT TO THE SOVIET STATE: By Alexander Benningsen and Marie Broxup. ITALY AND THE APPROACH OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. By Richard Bosworth. THE CRISIS OF MEDIEVAL RUSSIA 1200–1304. By John Fennell. THE STATE, FRANCE AND THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By Howell A. Lloyd. SOCIALISM AND EUROPEAN UNITY: The Dilemma of the Left in Britain and France. By Michael Newman. SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIETY: Working-class Radicalism in Diisseldorf, 1890–1920. By Mary Nolan. POLICY STYLES IN WESTERN EUROPE. Edited by Jeremy Richardson. IMAGES OF IMPERIAL RULE. By Hugh Ridley. THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: Past, Present and Future. Edited by Loukas Tsoukalis. NAZI PROPAGANDA: The Power and the Limitations. Edited by David Welch. THE UNOFFICIAL COMMONWEALTH: The Story of the Commonwealth Foundation, 1965–1980. By John. COVENANTS WITHOUT THE SWORD: Public Opinion and British Defence Policy 1931–1935. By Patrick Kyba. THE GREAT MAP OF MANKIND: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment. By P. J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams. WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? Industrial Performance, Education and the Economy in Victorian Britain. Edited and introduced by Gordon Roderick and Michael Stephens. LOCAL GOVERNMENT: The Conditions of Local Choice. By John Stewart. THE ORIGINS OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. By Noel Tracy. CHINESE MINE LABOUR IN THE TRANSVAAL. By Peter Richardson. POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA: Principles and Perspectives. Edited by D. J. van Vuuren and D. J. Kriek. MAX WEBER ON CAPITALISM, BUREAUCRACY AND RELIGION: A Selection of Texts. Edited by Stanislav Andreski. MODERNISATION AND REVOLUTION. By Bill Brugger and Kate Hannan. A CRITIQUE OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY. By John Charvet. THE MODERN LIBERAL THEORY OF MAN. By Gerald F. Gaus. FROM RIGHT TO LEFT: An Autobiography. By Frederick Vanderbilt Field. MAKING HISTORIES: Studies in History-Writing and Politics. Edited by Richard Johnson, Gregor McLennan, Bill Schwarz and David. GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY 1895–1905: Great Power Pressure in Venezuela. By Miriam Hood. EDUCATED GUESSING: How to Cope in an Uncertain World. By Samuel Kotz and Donna F. Stroup. THE PURSUIT OF POWER: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000. By William H. McNeill. LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND ITS CRITICS. Edited by Norman Wintrop. ORGANIZING INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS. By Timothy B. Woolstencroft. PUBLIC MONEY IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR: Industrial Assistance Policy and Canadian Federalism. By Allan Tupper.     

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Books reviewed in this article: The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839. By Colin Dyer Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Capetown, 1820–1850. By Kirsten McKenzie Varieties of Vice‐Regal Life (Van Diemen's Land Section). By Sir William and Lady Denison. Edited by Richard Davis and Stefan Petrow A Nation's Imagination: Australia's Copyright Records, 1854–1968. By Merilyn Minell Australia In Focus: Photographs in the National Archives. By Peter Nagle The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe Explorer. Edited with an introduction by Peter Monteath After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860–1940. Edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War. By Tanja Luckins Bigger Than Gallipoli: War, History and Memory in Australia. By Liz Reed Reconsidering Gallipoli. By Jenny Macleod Pompey Elliott. By Ross McMullin John Wren: A Life Reconsidered. By James Griffin Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship. By Chanan Reich It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor. Edited by Jenny Hocking and Colleen Lewis Blackfellas Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race. By Gillian Cowlishaw The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration. Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel Australian Cinema after Mabo. By Felicity Collins and Therese Davies Journey into Darkness. By Winton Higgins Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Gerry Treuren God Under Howard: the Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics. By Marion Maddox The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History. Edited by Stuart Macintyre Imagining Australia: Ideas for Our Future. By Macgregor Duncan, Andrew Leigh, David Madden and Peter Tynan Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait. By Anna Shnukal, Guy Ramsey and Yuriko Nagata Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor. By Clinton Fernandes Abdurrahman Wahid. Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: a View From the Inside. By Greg Barton Pacific Journeys, Essays in Honour of John Dunmore. Edited by Glynnis M. Cropp et al. Pacific Places, Pacific Histories: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste. Edited by Brij V. Lal The Manipulation of Custom: From Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands. By Jon Fraenkel Perceptions of Race and Nation in English and American Travel Writers, 1833–1914. By Erik S. Schmeller Europe's Pasts and Presents: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History Diplomaten und Agenten. Nachrichtendienste in der Geschichte der deutsch‐amerikanischen Beziehungen. Edited by Reinhard R. Doerries Fascists. By Michael Mann The Anatomy of Fascism. By Robert O. Paxton City: Urbanism and its End. By Douglas W. Rae World‐Systems Analysis: An Introduction. By Immanuel Wallerstein Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood. By James Connelly Action as History: The Historical Thought of R. G. Collingwood. By Stein Helgeby “How Good an Historian Shall I be?” R. G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education. By Marnie Hughes‐Warrington     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: THE SUPREME COURT OF TASMANIA: Its First Century 1824–1924 By Carrel Inglis Clark. Edited by Richard Ely. CHILDE AND AUSTRALIA: ARCHEOLOGY, POLITICS AND IDEAS Edited by Peter Gathercole, T. THE GREAT SCOURGE: The Tasmanian Infantile Paralysis Epidemic 1937–38 By Anne Killalea Sandy Bay AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS SINCE FEDERATION: An Introduction By A. G. Kenwood. AUSTRALIA: Reflections on a Republic Multimedia Working Group ONE BIG UNION: A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886–1994 By Mark Hearn and Harry Knowles. GOVERNING PROSPERITY: Social Change and Social Analysis In the 1950s By Nicholas Brown ROYAL COMMISSIONS AND THE MAICING OF PUBLIC POLICY Edited by Patrick Weller. MASTERING RISK Environment, Markets and Politics in Australian Economic History By Colin White. BEYOND THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM: Political Representation, Economic Competitiveness and Australian Politics. By Ian Marsh THE ADMINISTRATIVE VOCATION By R. S. Parker. THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY By Peter Dennis, et al. 4000 BOWLS OF RICE: A Prisoner of War Comes Home By Linda Goetz Hohs. PRESUMPTIVE ENGAGEMENT: Australia's Asia-Pacific Security Policy in the 1990s By Desmond Ball and Pauline Kerr. THE PACIFIC ISLAND STATES: Security and Sovereignty in the Post-Cold War World By Stephen Henningham. BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND AUSTRALIAN NATIONALISM: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century By Luke Trainor. CRISES IN US FOREIGN POLICY: An International Reader By Michael H. Hunt. GOD'S CHINESE SON: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan By Jonathan D. Spence. MARXISM AND REFORM IN CHINA By Su Shaozhi THE FORGOTTEN QUEENS OF ISLAM By Fatima Mernissi Translated by Mary Jo Lakeland ST PETERSBURG DIALOGUES, or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence By Joseph de Maistre. Translated and Edited by Richard A. Lebrun. AN HERETICAL HEIR OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT: Politics, Policy, and Science in the Work of Charles E. Lindblom Edited by Harry Redner. DEMOCRACY IN THE THIRD WORLD By Robert Pinkney. CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY By D. Rueschemeyer, E. B. Stephem and J. D. Stephens. BEYOND POLITICS: Markets, Welfare and the Failure of Bureaucracy By William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons CONFRONTING TB[E EXPERTS Edited by Brian Martin. THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S REFUGEES 1993: The Challenge of Protection UNHCR United Notions Commissioner for Refugees. GEOGRAPHY AND EMPIRE Edited by Anne Godlewska and Neil Smith. Institute of British Geographers Special Publication No. 30.