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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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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     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this issue. Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century. By James Howard‐Johnston Dampier's Monkey: The South Sea Voyages of William Dampier. By Adrian Mitchell 1835: the Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia. By James Boyce The Protectors: A Journey through Whitefella Past. By Stephen Gray A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate about Remote Aboriginal Australia. By Diane Austin‐Broos Joseph Lyons: The People's Prime Minister. By Anne Henderson Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence. By John Connor p. O.W: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler's Reich. By Peter Monteath Australia's Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth. By Tom O'Lincoln Embodying Migrants: Italians in Postwar Australia. By Francesco Ricatti Mr Big of Bankstown: The Scandalous Fitzpatrick and Browne Affair. By Andrew Moore Labour and the Politics of Empire. By Neville Kirk Half a Citizen: Life on Welfare in Australia. By John Murphy, Suellen Murray, Jenny Chalmers, Sonia Martin and Greg Marston Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles. By A.J. Brown A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends. By Michael Kirby A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster and How It Led to the Settlement of Australia. By Emma Christopher A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians. By Timothy Larsen God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c.1801–1908. By Hilary M. Carey After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies of a Victorian Prophet, 1870–1920. By Stuart Eagles Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain 1850–1950. By Leslie Howsam Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean. By Gillian Weiss All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898–1914. By John W. Steinberg Belarus. The Last European Dictatorship. By Andrew Wilson Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World: the Dynamics of Activism. By Francesco Cavatorta and Vincent Durac Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non‐Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present. Edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence. By Susie Linfield     

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Books reviewed in this issue Historical Records of Australia, Resumed Series III Despatches and papers relating to the history of Tasmania, Volume X, January‐December 1831. General Editor: Peter Chapman, Co‐editors Peter Chapman and Tim Jetson The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer. By Alison Alexander Where is Dr Leichhardt? The Greatest Mystery in Australian History. By Darrell Lewis Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland's Frontier Killing Times. By Timothy Bottoms Indigenous Crime and Settler Law: White Sovereignty after Empire. By Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane Forgotten War. By Henry Reynolds Dancing with Empty Pockets. Australia's Bohemians since 1860. By Tony Moore The Baby Farmers: A Chilling Tale of Missing Babies, Shameful Secrets and Murder in 19^th Century Australia. By Annie Cousins Eilean Giblin: A Feminist between the Wars. By Patricia Clarke Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraub Syncopators. By Kay Dreyfus Big Coal: Australia's Dirtiest Habit. By Guy Pearse, David McKnight and Bob Burton Employer Power and Weakness: How Local and Global Factors have shaped Australia's Meat Industry and its Industrial Relations. By Patrick O'Leary and Peter Sheldon Trust Me: Australians and their Politicians. By Jackie Dickenson Australian History Now. Edited by Anna Clark and Paul Ashton J.C. Beaglehole: Public Intellectual, Critical Conscience. By Doug Munro The Habsburgs: The History of a Dynasty. By Benjamin Curtis The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts. By Daniel Pick Before the Nation: Muslim‐Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late‐Ottoman Anatolia. By Nicholas Doumanis A Companion to Woodrow Wilson. Edited by Ross A. Kennedy Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon. By Mark White America's Right: Anti‐Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party. By Robert B. Horwitz Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam. By Lien‐Hang T. Nguyen. The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy. By Edward N. Luttwak Antarctica: a Biography. By David Day The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind. By Roger Chartier, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane     

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Book reviewed in this article: 1988 AND ALL THAT: New Views of Australia's Past Edited by George Shaw. AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF AUSTRALIA: Volume 11:1891–1939 Nes-Smi General Editor, Geoffrey Serle. GIPPS-LA TROBE CORRESPONDENCE 1839–1846 Edited by A. G. L. Shaw. CONSTRUCTING CAPITALISM: An Economic History of Eastern Australia 1788–1901 By Andrew Wells. SEX & SECRETS: Crimes Involving Australian Women Since 1800 By Judith A. Allen. FEDERATION FATHERS By L. F. Crisp, edited by John Hart, with a foreword by Professor Manning Clark. ENEMY ALIENS: Internment and the Homefront Experience in Australia 1914–1920 Gerhard Fischer. THE SECRET ARMY AND THE PREMIER: Conservative Paramilitary Organisations in New South Wales 1930–1932 By Andrew Moore. DEFENDING THE NATIONAL TUCKSHOP: Australia's Secret Army Intrigue of 1931 Michael Cathcart THE BLACK DIGGERS: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War By Robert A. Hall. THE SHADOW'S EDGE: Australia's Northern War Alan Powell. DIVISION OF LABOUR: Industrial Relations in the Chifley Years, 1945–1949 By Tom Sheridan. MANAGING GENDER: The State, The New Middle Class and Women Workers 1830–1930 By Desley Deacon. NATION: The Life of an Independent Journal of Opinion 1958–1972 Edited by K. S. Inglis. THE PREMIERS OF QUEENSLAND Edited by Denis Murphy, Roger Joyce and Margaret Cribb. LABOR IN QUEENSLAND FROM THE 1880s TO 1988 By Ross Fitzgerald and Harold Thornton. CORRUPTION AND REFORM: The Fitzgerald Vision Edited by Scott Prasser, Roe Wear and John Nethercote. THE HAWKE-KEATING HUACK: The ALP in Transition By Dean Jaensch. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE: State, Conflict and the Social Order in Europe 1598–1700 By Thomas Munck. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE 1700–1789 By Jeremy Black. NAVIES AND ARMIES: The Anglo-Dutch Relationship in War and Peace 1688–1988 Edited by G. J. A. Raven & N.A.M. Rodger. SOCIALISM, RADICALISM, AND NOSTALGIA: Social Criticism in Britain, 1775–1830 By William Stafford. GOOD GIRLS MAKE GOOD WIVES: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction By Judith Rowbotham. DEMOCRACY AND RELIGION: Gladstone and the Liberal Party 1867–1875 By J. P. Parry. RULING PERFORMANCE: British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher Edited by Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon. BRITISH GENERAL ELECTIONS SINCE 1945 By David Butler. CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCES: The Hidden System By Richard N. Kelly. THATCHERISM Edited by Robert Skidelsky. BRITISH DEFENCE SINCE 1945 By Michael Dockrill. THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURAL NATIONALISM: The Gaelic Revival and the Creation of the Irish Nation State By John Hutchinson. THE REVOLUTIONARY CAREER OF MAXIMILIAN ROBESPIERRE By David P. Jordan. GLASNOST IN ACTION: Cultural Renaissance in Russia By Alec Nove. Boston FEDERALISM AND EUROPEAN UNION: Political Ideas, Influences and Strategies in the European Community By Michael Burgess. THE FRENCH PRESENCE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, 1842–1940 By Robert Aldrich. NO LONGER AN AMERICAN LAKE? Edited by John Ravenhill. LAND, POWER AND PEOPLE: Rural Elite in Transition, 1801–1970 By Rajendra Singh. POLITICS OF TERRORISM: The Sri Lanka Experience By Sinha Ratnatunga. THAILAND AND THE UNITED STATES By Robert J. Muscat. THE ROAD TO MADIUN: THE INDONESIAN COMMUNIST UPRISING OF 1948 By Ann Swift. FROM CLASS TO CULTURE: Social Conscience in Malay Novels Since Independence By David J. Banks. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL LAW IN CHINA Edited by William C. Jones. HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: National and International Dimensions By Ann Kent. THE BLIGHTED BLOSSOM By Roy Thomas. THE DEFICIT AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST: The Search For Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s By Joseph White and Aaron Wildavsky. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: An International Review of Achievements and Prospects Edited by Adrian Leftwich. THE STATE By John A. Hall and G. John Ikenberry. MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY Edited by Geoffrey Marshall. FOREIGN POLICY AND LEGISLATURES: An Analysis of Seven Parliaments Edited by Manohar L. Sondhi INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS IN THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATIVE STATE: The Johnson Presidency By David M. Welborn and Jesse Burkhead. DEMOCRACY AND THE WELFARE STATE: Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role Edited by Amy Gutmann. POLITICAL THEORY AND THE MODERN STATE: Essays on State, Power and Democracy By David Held. GOVERNING FEDERATIONS: Constitution, Politics, Resources Edited by Michael Wood, Christopher Williams and Campbell Sharman. NETWORKS OF POWER: Organisational Actors at the National, Corporate, and Community Levels Robert Perrucci and Harry R. Potter, eds. HOW TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER By Barry Cohen. VICTORIAN LIBERALISM: Nineteenth-Century Political Thought and Practice Edited by Richard Bellamy. SIMONE WEIL: Utopian Pessimist By David McLellan. POLITICS FOR A RATIONAL LEFT: Political Writing 1977–1988 By Eric Hobsbawm. ARGUING FOR SOCIALISM: Theoretical Considerations By Andrew Levine. ARGUING FOR EQUALITY By John Baker. POLITICS, INNOCENCE AND THE LIMITS OF GOODNESS By Peter Johnson. COLONIALISM, TRADITION AND REFORM: An Analysis of Gandhi's Political Discourse By Bhikhu Parekh. THE ANALYSIS OF IDEOLOGY By Raymond Boudon. Translated by Malcolm Slater. THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY: Twelve Lectures By Jürgen Habermas. THE NATURE OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE By Michael Stanford. THE NATURE OF HISTORY By Arthur Marwick.     

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Book reviewed in this article: ACROSS THE BAR: The Story of “Simpson”, The Man with the Donkey: Australia and Tyneside's Great Military Hero By Tom Curran. PORTRAIT OF THE FAMILY WJTHIN THE TOTAL ECONOMY: A Study in Longrun Dynamics, Australis 1788–1900 By Graeme Donald Snooks “RED TED”: The Life of E. G. Theodore By R. Fitzgerald LAURIE SHORT A Political Biography By Susanna Short CHARLES S. PERKINS: A Biography By Peter Read AUSTRALIA: Republic or Monarchy: Legal and Constitutional Issues. Edited by M. A. Stephenson and Clive Turner THE EXECUTIVE STATE: WA Inc and the Constitution Edited by Patrick O'Brien and Martyn Webb WOMEN COME RALLY: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890–1955 By Joy Damousi BASKET, BAG AND TROLLEY: A History of Shopping in Australia By Beverley Kingston DIPLOMAST: Australia and Indonesia's Independence: Documents 1947 Edited by Philip Dorling FOLLOWING THE AMERICANS TO THE PERSIAN GULF: Canada, Australia, and the Development of the New World Order By Ronnie Miller TL CONFLTTTO ARABO-ISRAELIANO: Documentazione Essenziale (1987–1990) By Ministero degli Affari Esteri SOUTHEAST ASIA IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA: Trade, Power and Relief Edited by Anthony Reid MAWCHI: Mining, War and Insurgency in Burma By L. A. Crozier HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF MYANMAR Jan Becka, Metuchen THE JAJMANI SYSTEM: An Investigation By Bruce Caldwell STUDENT NATIONALISM IN CHINA 1924–1949 By Lincoln Li IMIN SHAKAI NIHON NO KOSO [Japan as a Multi-Ethnic Society] By Hiroshi Komai THE USEFUL COBBLER: Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress By James Conniff CONSTRUCTIONS OF RACE, PLACE AND NATION Edited by Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose THIS STRUCTURES OF HISTORY Christopher Lloyd THE KILLING OF HISTORY: How a Discipline is Being Murdered by Literary Critics and Social Theorists By Keith Windschuttle     

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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 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     

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Book Reviewed in this issues. Van Diemen's Land. By James Boyce Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Edited by Norman Etherington Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution. By Raelene Frances Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy . By Peter Cochrane Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia. By Judith Godden Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860‐1930. By Philip Jones and Anna Kenny Bishop of Magnetic Power: James Moorhouse in Melbourne, 1876‐1886. By Moma Sturrock Summer in the Hills: The Nineteenth‐Century Mountain Resort in Australia. By Andrea Inglis Anzacs and Ireland. By Jeff Kildea Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful 1900‐1930. By Robert Freestone From the Hustings to Harbour Views: Electoral Institutions in New South Wales, 1856‐2006. By Marian Simms Jean Beadle: A Life of Labor Activism. By Bobbie Oliver The Coalminers of Queensland: A Narrative History of the Queensland Colliery Employees Union. Volume Two: The Pete Thomas Essays. By Pete Thomas and Greg Mallory The Little History of Australian Unionism. By Sean Scalmer The Voice of the Thunderer: Journalism of H.G. Kippax. Selected and introduced by Harry Heseltine Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience. By Antonio Buti Power without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard. By Ann Tiernan John Winston Howard: The Biography. By Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen History's Children: History Wars in the Classroom. By Anna Clark John Grote, Cambridge University and the Development of Victorian Thought. By John R. Gibbins A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe. By Chris Wrigley Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord. Der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart. Edited by Jürgen Matthäus and Klaus‐Michael Mallmann Prague in Black. Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism. By Chad Bryant Prague in Danger. By Peter Demetz Why is there No Labor Party in the United States? By Robin Archer Anti‐Americanism: History, Causes, Themes, 4 volumes. Edited by Brendon O'Connor Equality. By Stuart White The Political Communication Reader. Edited by Ralph Negrine and James Stanyer The Right Road to Radical Freedom. By Tibor Machan Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People. By John Harris     

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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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: HISTORY AND LANDSCAPE IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA: A Study of the Material Evidence of European Culture and Settlement By David Carment. PUBS, PLOUGHS AND “PECULIAR PEOPLE”: Towns, Farms and Social Life By Maurice French. CREATIVE MEDDLER: The Life and Fantasies of Charles St Julian By Marion Diamond. YOU CAN'T MAKE IT RAIN: The Story of the North Australian Pastoral Company 1877–1991 By Margaret Kowald and W. Ross Johnston. THE WORLD OF ALBERT FACEY By J.B. Hirst. THE LIGHT ON THE HILL: The Australian Labor Party 1891–1991 By Ross McMidlin. A HISTORY OF THE LABOR PARTY IN NEW SOUTH WALES 1891–1991 By Jim Hagan and Ken Turner. AUSTRALIAN NATIONALISM: A Documentary History Edited by Stephen Alomes and Catherine Jones. LAND RIGHTS QUEENSLAND STYLE By Frank Brennan. SHARING THE COUNTRY By Frank Brennan. IMMIGRATION By James Jupp. CRITICAL YEARS IN IMMIGRATION: Canada and Australia Compared By Freda Hawkins. A NARROW ROAD TO A FAR COUNTRY: Intimations of Things Japanese By R. W. L. Austin. STRANGE NEIGHBOURS: The Australia-Indonesia Relationship Edited by Desmond Ball and Helen Wilson. POLITICAL AUSTRALIA: A Handbook of Facts By Clement MacIntyre. COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY IN AUSTRALIA: A Brief Survey By D. H. Borchardx. TENTERFIELD REVISITED: Reforming Australia's System of Government for 2001 By Kenneth Wiltshire. THE COUNTRYSIDE OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND Edited by Grenville Astill and Annie Grant. ENGLAND, SPAIN AND THE GRAN ARMADA 1585–1604: Essays from the Anglo-Spanish Conferences London and Madrid, 1988 Edited by M. J. Rodriguez-Salgado and Simon Adams. PARLIAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Edited by Charles Carstairs and Richard Ware. CULTURE AND POLITICS IN NORTHERN IRELAND 1960–1990 Edited by Eamonn Hughes. COMMUNITIES OF RESISTANCE: Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism By A. Sivanandan. WORLD WAR O: Crucible of the Contemporary World: Commentary and Reading Edited by Loyd E. Lee. PAUL LAFARGUE AND THE FOUNDING OF FRENCH MARXISM, 1842–1882 By Leslie Derfler. ITALO BALBO Claudio G. Segre. Berkeley: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR By Sheelagh M. Ellwood. THE NEW DEMOCRACIES IN EASTERN EUROPE: Party Systems and Political Cleavages Edited by Sten Berglund and Jan Ake Dellenbrant. A POLISH PARADOX: International and National Interest in Polish Communist Foreign Policy 1918–1948 By Anatole C. J. Bogacki. ASPECTS OF SOVIET CULTURE: Voices of Glasnosf, 1960–1990 By Jelena Milojkovic-Djuric. TO THE GATES OF RICHMOND: The Peninsula Campaign By Stephen W. Sears. MAKING AMERICA CORPORATE 1870–1920 By Olivier Zura. FOREVER FRENCH: Exile in the United States, 1939–1945. By Colin W. Nettelbeck. PUERTO RICANS BORN IN THE USA By Clara E. Rodriguez. WOMAN'S WORLD, WOMAN'S EMPIRE: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880–1930 By Ian Tyrrell. THE VIETNAM WAR AND AMERICAN CULTURE Edited by John Carlos Rowe and Rick Berg. STRUCTURE, PROCESS, AND PARTY: Essays in American Political History By Peter H. Argersinger. WAGES OF WHITENESS: Race and the Making of the American Working Class By David R. Roediger. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN ALBERTA, EDMONTON Edited by Allan Tupper and Roger Gibbins. A PROPENSITY TO PROTECT: Butter, Margarine and the Rise of Urban Culture in Canada By W. H. Heick. KASHMIR: A Disputed Legacy 1846–1990 By Alastair Lamb. INDIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY 1858–1913: Some Aspects of Trade and Finance By Nabendu Sen. COLONIES AND THE EMPIRE: India 1890–1914 By Sunanda Sen. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN INDIA: A Review of the Literature By Ghanshyam Shah. THE TRAGEDY OF CAMBODIAN HISTORY: Politics, War and Revolution Since 1945 David P. Chandler. THE DIPLOMACY OF IMPERIAL RETREAT: Britain's South China Policy, 1924–1931 By Edmund S. K. Fung. SOVEREIGNS AND SURROGATES: Constitutional Heads of State in the Commonwealth Edited by David Butler and D. A. Low. THE MODE OF INFORMATION: Poststructuralism and Social Context Mark Poster. THE WORD AND THE SWORD: How Techniques of Information and Violence Have Shaped Our World By Leonard M. Dudley. TERROR By Conor Gearty. SOCIALISM AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM Edited by Peter Osbourne. THE POLITICS OF BEING: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger By Richard Wolin.     

Book Notes

JOHN CARTWRIGHT. By John W. Osborne THE ABERYSTWYTH PAPERS: International Politics 1919–1969. Edited by Brian Porter FROM SADOWA TO SARAJEVO: The Foreign Policy of Austria-Hungary, 1866–1914. By F. R. Bridge LAUNCESTON BANK FOR SAVINGS, 1835–1870: A History of Australia's oldest Savings Bank. By E. A. Beever AUSTRALIAN SENATE PRACTICE. By J. R. Odgers COMPARATIVE COMMUNIST POLITICAL LEADERSHIP. By Carl Beck, F. J. Fleron, M. Lodge, D. J. Waller, W. Welch and N. G. Zaninovich SOCIALISATION IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by F. J. Hunt COLONIALISM, DEVELOPMENT, AND INDEPENDENCE: The case of the Melanesian islands in the South Pacific. By H. C. Brookfield MACHIAVELLI: The prince, Selections from The Discourses and other Writings. Selected and introduced by John Plamenatz THE POLITICAL CALCULUS: Essays On Machiavelli's Philosophy. Edited by Anthony Parel HISTORIANS AND THE OPEN SOCIETY. By A. R. Bridbury THE EVANGELISTIC BUREAUCRAT: A Study of a Planning Exercise in Newscastle upon Tyne. By Jon Gower Davies ROMAN FRANCE. By Paul MacKendrick A HISTORY OF JAPAN. By R. H. P. Mason and J. G. Caiger SINCE 1945: Aspects of contemporary world history. Edited by J. L. Henderson REVOLUTIONS AND PEACE TREATIES 1917–1920. By G. Schulz, translated by M. Jackson GREAT BRITAIN AND THE WAR OF 1914–1918. By Sir Llewellyn Woodward THE CONDUCT OF WAR 1789–1961: A Study of the impact of the French, Industrial and Russian Revolutions on War and its Conduct. By Major-General J. F. C. Fuller BRONTERRE: A Political Biography of Bronterre O'Brien, 1804–1864. By Alfred Plummer THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Causes, Conduct and Consequences. Edited by Joachim Renam RECORDS OF INTEREST TO SOCIAL SCIENTISTS 1919 TO 1939. Edited by Brenda Swann nd Maureen Turnbull TUMBLE-DOWN DICK: The Fall of the House of Cromwell. By Earl Malcolm Hause RUSSIAN HISTORY ATLAS. By Martin Gilbert. Cartographic consultant Arthur Banks A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PAPACY IN THE MIDDLE AGES. By Walter Ullmann     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Martin Mulligan and Stuart Hill, Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action Edited by Bruce Kaye, Tom Frame, Colin Holden and Geoff Treloar, Anglicanism in Australia: A History Colin Holden, Church in a Landscape: A History of the Diocese of Wangaratta Mary Anne Jebb., Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers David Philips, William Augustus Miles (1796–1851): Crime, Policing, and Moral Entrepreneurship in England and Australia Compiled by Alison Hoyle for State Records of South Australia, Ancestors In Archives: A Guide for Family Historians to South Australia's Government Archives Julie Carr, The Captive White Woman of Gippsland: In Pursuit of the Legend Keith Pescod, Good Food, Bright Fires & Civility: British Emigrant Depots of the 19th Century B.W. Higman, Domestic Service in Australia Joanne Scott, Ross Laurie, Bronwyn Stevens and Patrick Weller, The Engine Room of Government: The Queensland Premier's Department, 1859–2001 Edited by Ann Millar, The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Vol. 1 1901–1929 M.D. Johnson, Australia, New Zealand and Federation 1883–1901. By Ged Martin. Ian Ward, Edited by John M. Moses and Christopher Pugsley, The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions, 1871–1919: Essays on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism Edited by Martyn Lyons and John Arnold, A History of the Book in Australia 1891–1945 Anna Green, British Capital, Antipodean Labour. Working the New Zealand Waterfront, 1915–1951 George Davies, The Occupation of Japan: The Rhetoric and the Reality of Anglo–Australasian Relations 1939–1952 Tim Rowse, Obliged to be Difficult. Nugget Coombs’ Legacy in Indigenous Affairs Ian Hancock, John Gorton: He Did It His Way Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Mark Finnane, When Police Unionise: the Politics of Law and Order in Australia Bob Carr, Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man Edited by Paul Nursey–Bray and Carol Lee Bachi, Left Directions: Is There a Third Way? Sinclair Dinnen, Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea Ann Turner, Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea, Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries No. 37 Kerry Howe, Nature, Culture and History: the “Knowing” of Oceania W.J. Mander, Alan P.F. Sell, et al., The Dictionary of Nineteenth–Century British Philosophers Manning Clark (Edited by Dymphna Clark, David Headon and John Williams), The Ideal of Alexis de Tocqueville R.B. Rose, Tribunes and Amazons: Men and Women of Revolutionary France, 1789–1871 Ian Hunter, Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany Maiken Umbach (Ed.), German Federalism: Past, Present, Future Judith Keene, Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 R.J.B. Bosworth, Mussolini Edited by John P. McCormick, Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas Agnes Heller, A Theory of Modernity Douglas R. Holmes, Integral Europe: Fast–Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism Rogan Kersh, Dreams of a More Perfect Union     

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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 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 article: DINGO MAKES US HUMAN: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture fly Deborah Bird Rose. WHITEFELLA COMIN': Aboriginal Responses to Colonialism in Northern Australia By David S. Trigger. ALL OUR LABOURS: Oral Histories of Working Life in Twentieth Century Sydney Edited by John Shields. QUEEN'S COLLEGE: University of Melbourne By Owen Parnaby. A PASTORAL ROMANCE: The Tribulation and Triumph of Squatterdom By Maurice French. THOSE RAGGED BLOODY HEROES: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942 By Peter Brune. THE ABOLITION OF THE WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY: The Immigration Reform Movement Revisited Edited by Nancy Viviani. NO PAIN, NO GAIN? Sport and Australian Culture By Jim McKay. AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: Ten Case Studies Edited by Ken Walker. THE LONG BLUE LINE: A History of the Queensland Police By W. Ross Johnston. POLITICAL CROSSROADS: The 1989 Queensland Election Edited by Rosemary Whip and Colin A. A LIFE OF SERVICE: A Biographical Sketch of Errol Solomon Meyers By Derek Meyers. CHARACTERS AND CARITAS: Vignettes of Community Health Care in Central Queensland Edited by H. Mercer, et al. HEALTH, HISTORY AND HORIZONS Edited by J. H. Pearn. SINGER IN A SONGLESS LAND: A Life of Edward Tregear 1846–1931 By K. R. Howe. LOVE IN THE TIME OF VICTORIA: Sexuality, Class, and Gender in Nineteenth Century London By Frangoise Barrel–Ducrocq, translated by John Howe. KOSSUTH AS AN ENGLISH JOURNALIST By Eva H. Haraszti. INNER CITY REGENERATION: The Demise of Regional and Local Government By Norman Lewis. THE RISE OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY: England Since 1880 By Harold Perkin. THE PRIME MINISTER SINCE 1945 By James Barber. PRIMARY SOURCES AND ORIGINAL WORKS INDUSTRY AND IDEOLOGY: IG Farben in the Nazi Era By Peter Hayes. JAPAN'S SOUTHWARD ADVANCE AND AUSTRALIA: From the Sixteenth Century to World War II By Henry P. Frei. CHINESE ATTITUDES TOWARD NUCLEAR WEAPONS: China and the United States During the Korean War By Mark A. Ryan. THE UGLY CHINAMAN AND THE CRISIS OF CHINESE CULTURE By Bo Yang, translated and edited by Don J. Conn and Jing Qing. MODERNIZATION AND REVOLUTION IN CHINA By June Grasso, Jay Corrin and Michael Kort. MORE'S UTOPIA By Dominic Baker-Smith. SEXUAL DEMOCRACY: Women, Oppression and Revolution By Ann Ferguson. CHOOSING JUSTICE: An Experimental Approach to Ethical Theory By Norman Frohlich and Joe A. ROBERT NOZICK: Property, Justice and the Minimal State By Jonathan Wolff. LABOUR'S UTOPIAS: Bolsevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy By Peter Beilharz. BEYOND POLITICS: An Outline of Systematic Ideology By George Walford. FRONTIERS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY By Guglielmo Carchedi.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The oxford history of AUSTRALIA, Volume 5,1942–1988: The Middle Way By Geoffrey Bolton. OUT OF LUCK: Poor Australians and Social Welfare By Stephen Gorton. IRISH-AUSTRALIAN STUDIES. Papers delivered at the Fifth Irish-Australian Conference Edited by Oliver MacDonagh and W. F. Mandle. A MILITARY HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA By Jeffrey Grey. NORTHERN TERRITORY DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY: Volume 1: to 1945. Edited by David Carment, Robyn Maynard, Alan Powell. WALERS: Australian Horses Abroad By A.T. Yarwood. IN WOMEN'S HANDS? A History of Clothing Trades Unionism in Australia By Bradon Ellem. WOMEN AND THE LAW: Commentary and Materials By Jocelynne Scutt. WAYWARD WOMEN: A Guide to Women Travellers By Jane Robinson. A COLONIAL LIBERALISM: The Lost World of Three Victorian Visionaries By Stuart Macintyre. AUSTRALIA AS A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LABORATORY Edited by Gregory Melleuish. FOUNDATIONS OF ARBITRATION: The Origins and Effects of State Compulsory Arbitration 1890–1914 Edited by Stuart Macintyre and Richard Mitchell. THE DIGGERS WHO SIGNED ON FOR MORE: Australia's Part in the Russian War of Intervention, 1918–1919 By Bruce Muirden. DEPRESSION DOWN UNDER Edited by Len Fox. INGELBA AND THE FIVE BLACK MATRIARCHS By Patsy Cohen and Margaret Somerville. CAMILLA: C. H. Wedgwood – A Life By Charlotte Carr-Gregg and David Wetherell. WILLIAM MACMAHON BALL: A Memoir By Peter Ryan. POLITICIZATION AND THE CAREER SERVICE Edited byG.R. Curnow and B. Page. IDEOLOGY AND IMMIGRATION: Australia 1976 to 1987 By Katherine Belts. BUDGETARY STRESS: The South Australian Experience Edited by Richard Blandy and Cliff Walsh IDEAS FOR AUSTRALIAN CITIES By Hugh Stretton. AUSTRALIA TOWARDS 2000 Edited by Brian Hocking. EUROPE AND AMERICA CHARLES I AND THE ROAD TO PERSONAL RULE By L. P. Reeve. ROAD TO DIVORCE: England 1530–1987 By Lawrence Stone. A PILLAR OF THE CONSTITUTION: The House of Lords in British Politics, 1640–1784 Edited by Clyve Jones. THE ORIGINS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS By T. C. W. Manning. ECHOES OF THE MARSEILLAISE: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution By E. J. Hobsbawm. FACES OF DEGENERATION: A European Disorder, c. 1848-c. 1918 By Daniel Pick. COLLABORATION IN FRANCE: Politics and Culture During the Nazi Occupation, 1940–1944 By Gerhard Hirschfeld and Patrick Marsh, eds. “GLASNOST” IN CONTEXT: On the Recurrence of Liberalizations in Central and East European Literatures and Cultures Edited by Marko Pavlyshyn. THE CHANGING SOVIET SYSTEM: Mono-organisational Socialism from its Origins to Gorbachev's Restructuring By T. H. Rigby. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT By Michael Simpson. THE CIA AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. AN AMERICAN ORDEAL: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era By Charles DeBenedetti. WESTERN IMAGES OF CHINA By Colin Mackerras. THE BROKEN MIRROR: China After Tiananmen Edited by George Hicks. MARXISM AND THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE Edited by ArifDirlik and Maurice Meisner. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINA'S SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES By George T. Crane. THE UNDERSIDE OF MALAYSIAN HISTORY:PuUers, Prostitutes, Plantation Workers Edited by Peter J. Rimmer and Lisa M. Allen. TE TALA O NIUOKU: The German Plantation on Nukulaelae Atoll 1865–1890 By Doug Munro THE CAT AND THE LION: Jaipur State in the British Raj By Robert W. Stern POLITICAL STRATEGIES AND ELECTORAL REFORMS: Origins of Voting Systems in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries. Edited by Serge Noiret. ELECTIONS AND VOTERS: A Comparative Introduction By Martin Harrop and William L. Miller. UNCOMMON DEMOCRACIES: The One-Party-Dominant Regimes Edited By T. J. Pempel. THE DEBATE ON CLASSES By Erik Wright et al. WHICH SOCIALISM? By Norberto Bobbio. Translated by Roger Griffin and edited by Richard Bellamy. SOCIALISM Edited by E. F. Paul, F. Miller, J. Paul and D. Greenberg. POLITICAL LEGITIMACY AND THE STATE By Rodney Barker. POLITICAL OBLIGATION IN A LIBERAL STATE By Steven M. DeLue. Albany NUCLEAR DYNAMITE: The Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Fiasco By Trevor Findlay. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UNORGANIZED INDUSTRY: A Study of the Labour Process By Manjit Singh. NICHOLAS KALDOR (Grand Masters in Economics) By Anthony P. Thirlwall. GREAT ECONOMISTS BEFORE KEYNES By Mark Blaug. CHRIST IN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: The Representation of Jesus in the Qur'an and the Classical Muslim Commentaries By Neal Robinson.     

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