Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation

Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation. By Paul Kelly (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2014), pp.560 + viii. AU$49.99 (cloth).     

Book Notes

CHALLENGES FACING ADVANCED EDUCATION: Report of the 1970 conference of the Federation of Staff Associations of Australian Colleges of Advanced Education. Edited by D. J. Golding, P. J. Killingsworth, A. L. Moore and I. Wynd. Melbourne THE ENGLISH POOR LAW 1780–1930. By Michael E. Rose ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MELBOURNE 1870–1970: A History. Melbourne, The Royal Children's Hospital, 1970 MEN WHO GOVERN: A biographical profile of federal political executives. By David T. Stanley, Dean E. Mann and Jameson W. Doig FROM ANARCHISM TO REFORMISM: A study of the political activities of Paul Brousse within the First International and the French Socialist movement, 1870–1890. By David Stafford ARCADY IN AUSTRALIA: The evocation of Australia in nineteenth-century English literature. By Coral Lansbury STATE AND STATECRAFT IN OLD JAVA: A study of the later Mataram Period, sixteenth to nineteenth century. By Soemarsaid Moertono THE ORIGINS OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. By Jacqueline Gurner     

Old Age in Australia: A History

Old Age in Australia: A History. By Pat Jalland (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2015), pp.vii + 296, AU$79.99(cloth), AU$59.99 (pb), AU$49.99 (eb).     

Sex Crimes in the Fifties

Sex Crimes in the Fifties. By Lisa Featherstone and Amanda Kaladelfos (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2016), pp.xii + 243, AU$59.99 (pb).     

No End of a Lesson: Australia's Unified National System of Higher Education

No End of a Lesson: Australia's Unified National System of Higher Education . By Stuart Macintyre, André Brett, Gwilym Croucher (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2017), pp.xii + 332. AU$49.99 (pb).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: THE STRUGGLE FOR ASIA 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism. By David Gillard (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1977) THE INCH OF TIME Memoirs of Politics and Diplomacy. By Howard Beale (Melbourne: Melbourne University) MUCKING ABOUT: An Autobiography. By Paul Hasluck INVESTIGATING SOCIAL MOBILITY. By Leonard Broom, P. Duncan-Jones, F. Lancaster Jones and Patrick McDonncll TAMING THE WILDERNESS: The First Decade of Pastoral Settlement in the Kennedy District. By Anne Allingham (Townsville: James Cook University, 1977) AUSTRALIA IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER: Foreign Policy in the 1970s. Edited by J A.C. Mackie (Melbourne: Nelson and the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1976) CRITICAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONS. Edited by Stewart Clegg and David Dunkerley (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977) THE ORIGINS OF BRITISH BOLSHEVISM. By Raymond Challinor (London: Croom Helm, 1977) EARLY VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT. By Oliver MacDonagh (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977) A SURVEY OF MEMBERS OF THE AMALGAMATED METAL WORKERS' UNION IN THE SYDNEY METROPOLITAN AREA. By the 1976 Field Studies Class, Department of Government, University of Sydney. AUSTRALIAN EXTERNAL POLICY UNDER LABOR: Content, Process and the National Debate. By Henry S. Albinski AUSTRALIA'S MILITARY ALLIANCES: A Study in Foreign and Defence Policies. By B. Chakravorty (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1977) FRANCE 1848–1945, vol. 2: intellect, Taste and Anxiety. By Theodore Zeldin PLANNING—BECOMING—DEVELOPMENT A Study of Public Participation in Localized Social Planning Leading Towards Community Development. An Australian Assistance Plan Experience. By Tom O'Brien COMRADE CHIANG CH'ING. By Roxane Witke (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977) NOBLES AND THE NOBLE LIFE 1295–1500. By Joel T. Rosenthal (London: Allen and Unwin, 1976) RURAL CATALONIA UNDER THE FRANCO REGIME: The Fate of Regional Culture Since the Spanish Civil War. By Edward C. Hansen ROBERT DELAVICNETTE ON THE FRENCH EMPIRE Selected Writings. Edited by William B. Cohen THE CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS: Procedure and Reform. By John B. Stewart SCOTLAND AND NATIONALISM: Scottish Society and Politics, 1707–1977. By Christopher Harvie (London: Allen and Unwin, 1977 THE TRANSFER OF POWER, 1942–7, vol. 7: The Cabinet Mission. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977) PARTIES AND PARLIAMENT IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1964–1975: Two Studies. By P. Loveday and E.P. Wolfers DOCUMENTS ON AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 1901–1918. Edited by Gordon Greenwood and Charles Grimshaw AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE MIDDLE EAST, 1784–1975: A Survey. By Thomas A. Bryson THE ORIGINS OF THE MOROCCO QUESTION 1880–1900. By F.V. Parsons (London: Duckworth, 1976) ALTERNATIVES OF ETHNICITY: Immigrants and Aborigines in Anglo-Saxon Australia. By William W. Bostock THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT, 1939–1949. By Dennls J. Dunn PEASANTS, POLITICS AND REVOLUTION: Pressures towards Political and Social Change in the Third World. By Joel S. Migdal THE MARXIST CONCEPTION OF IDEOLOGY: A Critical Essay. By Martin Seliger THE FIJI INDIANS: Challenge to European Dominance 1920–1946. By K.L. Gillion RACE AND POLITICS IN FIJI. By Robert Norton AUTHORITARIANISM AND CORPORATISM IN LATIN AMERICA. Edited by James M. Malloy HUMAN NEEDS AND POLITICS. Edited by Ross Fitzgerald STRUKTUREN DER UNTERENTWICKLUNC INDIEN 1757–1914: Eine Fallstudie über abhängige Reproduktion. By Werner Keller TOCSIN: Radical Arguments Against Federation 1897–1900. Edited by Hugh Anderson REVOLUTIONARY UNDERGROUND: The Story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood 1858–1924. By Leon O'Broin THE PORTUGUESE ARMED FORCES AND THE REVOLUTION. By Douglas Porch FRANCE 1870–1914 Politics and Society. By R.D. Anderson TITO AS A POLITICAL LEADER AND EXTERNAL FACTORS IN YUGOSLAV POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT. By R.F. Miller Compiled and edited by Kenneth W. Wiltshire. (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1977) THE DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF DAVID CARGILL, 1832–1843. Edited by Albert J. Schütz RESISTANCE IN THE DESERT Moroccan Responses to French Imperialism 1881–1912. By Ross E. Dunn Edited by R.J. Johnston (Armidale: Department of Geography, University of New England, 1977) THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION 1964–1976 Political Initiatives and Developments. Edited by I.K.F. Birch and D. Smart A CHURCH FOR ITS TIME The Story of St. Thomas' Church, Toowong, Brisbane. By Helen Gregory THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA—FUNDAMENTAL NEW ASPECTS The Proceedings of a Conference Organised by lhe Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. Edited by Robert O'Neill THE FUTURE OF TACTICAL AIRPOWER IN THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA: The Proceedings of a Conference Organised by The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. PUBLIC POLICY: Problems and Paradoxes. By Hugh V. Emy (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1976) WALTER MURDOCH: A Biographical Memoir. By John La Nauze THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL SYSTEM. By Jean Holmes and Campbell Sharman PEOPLE VERSUS POWER. By Kenneth M. McCaw (Sydney: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978) PARTIES OUT OF POWER IN JAPAN, 1931–1941. By Gordon Mark Berger RECOLLECTIONS OF AN INDONESIAN DIPLOMAT IN THE SUKARNO ERA. By Ganis Harsono, edited by C.L.M. Penders and B.B. Hering HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH DESIGN AND SOCIAL MEASUREMENT. Third Edition. By Delbert C. Miller (New York: Longman Inc., 1977) THE QUEENSLAND YEARS OF ROBERT HERBERT, PREMIER: Letters and Papers. Edited by Bruce Knox DEUTSCHE MILITÄRVERWALTUNGEN 1938/39 Die militärische Besetzung der Tschechoslowakei und Polens. By Hans Umbreit ANTARCTICA: Or Two Years Amongst the Ice of the South Pole. By Otto Nordenskjold and J.G. Anderson THE POLITICAL THEORY OF MONTESQUIEU. By Melvin Richter CHINA AND THE WORLD SINCE 1949: The Impact of Independence, Modernity and Revolution. By Wang Cungwu (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1977)     

Review Articles

EQUALITY AND AUTHORITY: A Study of Class, Status and Power in Australia. By S. Encel, Melbourne, Cheshire, 1970 AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY: A Sociological Introduction. Edited by A. F. Davies and S. Encel, Second Edition. Melbourne, Cheshire, 1970 KRIEG DER ILLUSIONEN: Die deutsche Politik von 1911 bis 1914. By Fritz Fischer. Düsseldorf, Droste verlag     

Arthur Fadden: A Political Silhouette

Arthur Fadden: A Political Silhouette. By Tracey M. Arklay (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014), pp. xiii + 240, AU$39.95 (pb).     

The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft

The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft. By Tom Griffiths (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2016), pp. xviii + 326. AU$34.99 (pb).     

Battleground: Why the Liberal Party Shirtfronted Tony Abbott

Battleground: Why the Liberal Party Shirtfronted Tony Abbott. By Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2015), pp.277. AU$29.99 (pb).     

The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung,the Settlers and the Protectors

The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors . By Bain Attwood (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2017), pp.xiv + 225. AU$29.95 (pb).     

Australian Religious Thought

Australian Religious Thought. By Wayne Hudson (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2016), pp. xxiv + 248. AU$39.95 (pb).     

The War with Germany

The War with Germany . By Robert Stevenson (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp.xvi + 303, AU$59.95 (cloth).     

Winning the Peace: Australia's Campaign to Change the Asia‐Pacific

Winning the Peace: Australia's Campaign to Change the Asia‐Pacific. By Andrew Carr (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2015), pp.viii + 336, AU$59.99 (pb).     

The Turnbull Gamble

The Turnbull Gamble. By Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2016), pp.vii + 200. AU$29.99 (pb).     

The War at Home

The War at Home. By John Connor, Peter Stanley and Peter Yule (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. xii+284, AU$59.95 (cloth).     

The War with the Ottoman Empire: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War Volume 2

The War with the Ottoman Empire: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War Volume 2. By Jeffrey Grey (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. x + 238. 16 Maps. AU$59.95 (cloth).     

The War with the Ottoman Empire: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War,Volume 2

The War with the Ottoman Empire: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War, Volume 2. By Jeffrey Grey (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp.x + 238. 16 Maps. AU$59.95 (cloth).     

Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War

Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War. By Joy Damousi (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp.274. AU$145.00 (cloth).     

The Conscientious Communist. Ernie Lane and the Rise of Australian Socialism

The Conscientious Communist. Ernie Lane and the Rise of Australian Socialism. By Jeff Rickertt (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016), pp.xii + 322, black and white illustrations. AU$39.95 (pb).