Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: KIE DAUDAI: Notes and Sketches From Cape York By Edwina Toohey. COLLINS, THE COURTS AND THE COLONY: Law and Society in Colonial New South Wales 1788–1796 By J. F. Nagle. COLONIAL TECHNOLOGY: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia By Jan Todd. FASHIONING AUSTRALIA'S FORESTS By John Dargavel. WITH FOND REGARDS: Private Lives Through Letters Edited by Elizabeth Riddell. SEX, POWER AND JUSTICE: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia Edited by Diane Kirkby. SINGLE MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia By Shurlee Swain with Renale Howe. MINORITIES: Cultural Diversity in Sydney Edited by Shirley Fitzgerald and Garry Wotherspoon. FAIR ENOUGH: Egalitarianism in Australia By Elaine Thompson. MEMORY AND HISTORY IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AUSTRALIA Edited by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton. THE GUNNERS: A History of Australian Artillery By David Homer. AUSTRALIAN BRASS: The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson By Jeffrey Grey. THE WAR IN THE AIR 1914–1994 Edited by Alan Stephens. BACKGROUND TO THE ANZUS PACT: Policy-Making, Strategy and Diplomacy, 1945–55 By W. David Mclntyre. STRATEGIC INVOLVEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP: Australia's Post-1975 Relations with Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam By Ngaosyvathn Pheuiphanh. Australia-Asia Papers No. 68. AUSTRALIA'S SPIES AND THEIR SECRETS By David McKnight. TRICONTINENTAL: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Bank By Hugo Armstrong and Dick Gross. INSTITUTIONS IN AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY Edited by John Henningham. ELECTION!: How and Why Australia Votes By Dean Jaensch. THE PEOPLE'S SAY: Elections in Australia By the Australian Electoral Commission. AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL IDEAS Edited by Geoff Stokes. SEEDS OF PROGRESS: An Agricultural Scientist in Southeast Asia By Professor L Ross Humphreys COAXES OF KAIPARA By Michael Basset THE ENLIGHTENMENT By Ulrich Im Hof. Translated by William E. Yuill. GLADSTONE AND THE LIBERAL PARTY By Michael Winstanley. INSIDE BABYLON: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain Edited by Winston James and Clive Harris. GESCHICHTSDISKURS: Anfange Modernen Historischen Denkens, Vol. 2. [Historical Discourse: The Beginnings of Modern Historical Thinking] Edited by Wolfgang Küttler, Jörn Rilsen and Ernst Schulin. BISMARCK AND MITTELEUROPA By Bascom Barry Hayes. BÜRGER BESONDERER ART: Evangelische Pfarrer in Preussen 1850–1914 fly Oliver Janz. MÜTTER-REICH: Zurdeutschen Erzählprosa der Dreißiger Jahre By Elisabeth Galvan. AUSLÄNDER, AUSSIEDLER, ASYL: Eine Bestandsaufnahme By Klaus J. Bade. FALLEN SPARROWS: The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War By Michael Jackson. THE EUROPEAN RESCUE OF THE NATION-STATE By Alan S. Milward. THE END OF COMMUNIST POWER: Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Legitimation Crisis By Leslie Holmes. FDR AND THE NEWS MEDIA By Betty Houchin Winfield. PACIFIC COOPERATION: Building Economic and Security Regimes in the Asia-Pacific Region Edited by Andrew Mack and John Ravenhill. THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PACIFIC ISLANDS FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE By Anthony B. van Fossen. RETHINKING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS By Fred Halliday THE FORCE OF LAW: International Law and the Land Commander Edited by Hugh Smith RELIGION IN THIRD WORLD POLITICS. By Jeff Haynes. BUILDING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: Cooperation for Peace Case Studies Edited by Kevin Clements and Robin Ward St. Leonards INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY: The United Nations 1945–95 By Adam Bartos and Christopher Hitchens. NATIONALISM By Elie Kedourie. POLITICAL THOUGHT SINCE 1945: Philosophy, Science, Ideology Edited by Leonard Tivey and Anthony Wright. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1992, pp. x+222. POLITICS, ANCIENT AND MODERN By Pierre Vidal-Naquet. Translated by Janet Lloyd.     

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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 article: BRISBANE: The First Thirty Years By W. Ross Johnston. BELYANDO SHIRE: A History of Clermont and District By Dan O'Donnell. AUSTRALIAN HISTORY IN NEW SOUTH WALES 1888 to 1938 By Brian H. Fletcher. HAULING THE LOADS: A History of Australia's Working Horses and Bullocks By Malcolm J. Kennedy. WHAT'S LEFT: Memoirs of an Australian Communist By Eric Aarons. A LAST CALL OF EMPIRE: Australian Aircrew, Britain and the Empire Air Training Scheme By John McCarthy. DEPENDENT ALLY: A Study in Australian Foreign Policy By Coral Bell. MUNICH TO VIETNAM: Australia's Relations with Britain and the United States since the 1930s Edited by Carl Bridge. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN WORLD HISTORY: Essays in World History Series By Peter N. Stearns. BRITISH PUBLIC OPINION: A Guide to the History and Methodology of Political Opinion Polling By Robert M. Worcester. REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE, 1770–1880 By François Furet, translated by Antonia Nevill. THE FRENCH FOREIGN OFFICE AND THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, 1898–1914 By M. B. Hayne. GERMANY AND THE APPROACH OF WAR IN 1914 By V. R. Berghahn. DIE DDR-GESCHICHTSWISSENSCHAFT AUF DEM WEG ZUR DEUTSCHEN EINHEIT: Luther, Friedrich II und Bismarck als Paradigmen politischen Wandels By Jan Herman Brinks. THE ANATOMY OF THE NUREMBERG TRIALS By Telford Taylor. THE GERMAN LEFT: Red, Green and Beyond By Andrei S. Markovits and Philip S. Gorski, LEBANON: FIRE AND EMBERS: A History of the Lebanese Civil War By Dilip Hiro. PATRIARCH: George Washington and the New American Nation By Richard Norton Smith. NEW TOWNS IN THE NEW WORLD: Images and Perceptions of the Nineteenth-Century Urban Frontier By David Homer. BETWEEN FREEDOM AND SUBSISTENCE: China and Human Rights By Ann Kent. BROTHER NUMBER ONE: A Political Biography of Pol Pot By David Chandler. THE BURMA-THAILAND RAILWAY Edited by H. Nelson and G. McCormack. GOVERNING THE JAPANESE ECONOMY By Kyoko Sheridan. NANMIN [Refugee] Edited by Takashi Koto and Takashi Miyajima, ESTRANGED DEMOCRACIES: India and the United States 1941–1991 By Dennis Kux, PACKAGING THE PAST? Public Histories Edited by John Richard and Peter Spearritt. NUCLEAR PRESENT G. Burns. Metuchen, N.J. ATOMIC AUSTRALIA A. Cawte. WHITE, MALE & MIDDLE CLASS: Explorations in Feminism & History By Catherine Hall. INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS By Geoffrey Ponton and Peter Gill. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN AN AGE OF CONSTRAINT: Bureaucratic Politics Under Hawke and Keating By Colin Campbell S.J. and John Halligan. SOCIAL SCIENCES IN AUSTRALIA: An Introduction By Chilla Bulbeck. RACE, POLITICS, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Community Perspectives Edited by James Jennings. THE RISE OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY By Dennis Smith. SOCIAL MEMORY By James Fentress and Chris Wickham.     

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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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: ORDERED TO THE ISLAND: Irish Convicts and Van Diemen's Land By John Williams. THE IRISH-AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION AN CAIDREAMH GAEL-ASTRALACH Edited by Seamus Grimes & Gearoid O Tuathaigh. BRISBANE: The Ethnic Presence Since the 1850s Edited by Rod Fisher and Barry Shaw. AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: Essays and Cases Edited by Stephen Dovers. POLICY-MAKING IN VOLATILE TIMES Edited by A. Hede and S. Prasser. THE TASMANIAN PARLIAMENTARY ACCORD AND PUBLIC POLICY 1989-92: Accommodating the New Politics?Edited by Marcus Howard and Peter Larmour. UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL JUSTICE: An Australian Perspective By Andrew C. Theophanous. GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS RELATIONS IN AUSTRALIA Edited by Randal G. Stewart. STRIKES: Causes, Conduct and Consequences By Douglas Blackmur. A LIFE OF JOHN CALVIN: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture By Alister E. McGrath. THE MAKING OF BOURGEOIS EUROPE: Absolutism, Revolution, and the Rise of Capitalism in England, France and Germany By Colin Mooers. WOMEN IN ENGLAND 1500–1760: A Social History By Anne Lawrence. THE HISTORY MEN: The Historical Profession in England Since the Renaissance By John Kenyon. THE IMAGINED SLUM: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870–1914 By Alan Mayne. THE FALL OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA By Nicholas Tarling. LABOURISM AND THE ENGLISH GENIUS: The Strange Death of Labour England?By Gregory Elliott. DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY: Inside Kinnock's Labour Party By Richard Heffernan and Mike Marqusee. ULSTER: CONFLICT AND CONSENT By Tom Wilson. THE POST-COLD WAR ORDER: Diagnoses and Prognoses Edited by Richard Leaver and James L. EX UNO PLURES: Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada 1867–1896 By Garth Stevenson. FRANCE AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC SINCE 1940 By Robert Aldrich. GENOCIDE AND DEMOCRACY IN CAMBODIA: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community Edited by Ben Kiernan. THE SHADOW OF THE DURIAN: Indonesia Observed By R. W. L. Austin. THE TOKYO TRIAL AND BEYOND: Reflections of a Peace Monger By B. V. A. Roling. Edited and with an introduction by Antonio Cassese. SOCIAL CHANGE, DEVELOPMENT AND DEPENDENCY Tony Spybey. A ZONE OF ENGAGEMENT By Perry Anderson. ANTONIO GRAMSCI: LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY By Giuseppe Fiori. FREEDOM: A HISTORY By Donald W. Treadgold. POSTHISTOIRE: Has History Come to An End?Lutz Niethammer, in collaboration with Dirk Van Laak, translated by Patrick Camiller.     

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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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Fred R. Myers, Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art Rebe Taylor, Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island Daniel Marc Segesser, Empire und Totaler Krieg: Australien 1905–1918 Marilyn Lake, Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist David Goldsworthy, Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire Bridget Griffen‐Foley, Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal Edited by Susan Ryan and Troy Bramston, The Hawke Government: A Critical Retrospective Rae Wear, Johannes Bjelke‐Petersen: The Lord's Premier Marilyn Dodkin, Bob Carr: The Reluctant Leader Edited by Michael Hogan and David Clune, The People's Choice. Electoral Politics in 20th Century New South Wales. Volume One: 1901 to 1927; Volume Two: 1930 to 1965; Volume Three: 1968 to 1999 Verity Burgmann, Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation Michael Goldsmith and Doug Munro, The Accidental Missionary: Tales of Elekana The State Trials 1163–1858 on CD‐ROM Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830 – 1867 Robert Sloan, William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848 Edited by Robert J. Young, Under Siege: Portraits of Civilian Life in France during World War I Robert Boyce and Joseph Maiolo, eds, The Origins of the Second World War: The Debate Continues Jürgen Tampke, Czech‐German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe: From Bohemia to the EU Rolf Steininger, Der Mauerbau: Die Westmächte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise 1958–1963 [The Building of the Wall: The Western Powers and Adenauer in the Berlin Crisis, 1958–1963] Edited by Larry Eugene Jones, Crossing Boundaries. The Exclusion of Minorities In Germany and the United States Mark Sanders, Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid Michael E. Brown and ?umit Ganguly, eds, Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles F. Keyes, eds, Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos Asa Briggs and Peter Burke, A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet Sophie Bessis, trans. Patrick Camiller, Western Supremacy: Triumph of an Idea? Henry Milner, Civic Literacy. How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work M. Anne Brown, Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics Janna Thompson, Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice Philip B. Heymann, Terrorism, Freedom and Security: Winning Without War     

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Book reviewed in this article: THE ABORIGINAL TASMANIANS By Lyndall Ryan Sydney TE WAIMANA: The Spring of Mana By Jedffrey Sissons. HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA By Ann Turner. WHITE AUSTRALIA DEFIED: Pacific Islander Settlement in North Queensland By Patricia Mercer. FRANCE AND BOTANY BAY By Colin Forster. SEAPORT SYDNEY: The Making of the City Landscape By Peter proud foot. ASIAN ORIENTATIONS: Studies in Western Australian History Vol. 6 Edited by Jan Gothard THE POLITICS OF AUSTRALIAN CHILD CARE: From Philanthropy to Feminism By Deborah Brennan. THE MENZIES ERA: A Reappraisal of Government, Politics and Policy Edited by Scott Prasser, J. R. Nethercote and John Warhurst. DEVELOPMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Edited by Judith Brett, James Gillespie and Murray Goot. MAYER ON THE MEDIA: Issues and Arguments Edited by Rodney Tiffen. COMMUNICATIONS TRADITIONS IN 20TH CENTURY AUSTRALIA By Graeme Osborre and Glen Lewis. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1965 By Chris Publick. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1941 By David Clune. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1922 By Michael Hogan Sydney ROBIN BOYD: A Life By Geoffrey Serle. INTRUDERS IN THE BUSH: The Australian Quest for Identity Edited by John Carroll. CULTURAL LIBERALISM IN AUSTRALIA: A Study in Intellectual and Cultural History By Gregory Melleuish PERFORMANCES By Greg Denning. BEFORE THE FAMINE STRUCK Life in West Clare 1834–1845 A PEOPLE STARVED: Life and Death in West Clare 1845–1852 By Ignatius Murphy. Blackrock, Co. CHRISTEN UND NATIONALSOZIALISTEN: Darstellung und Dokumente By Georg Denzler and Volker Fabricius. HITLER AND THE JEWS: The Genesis of the Holocaust By Philippe Burrin Translated by Patsy Southgate. RELUCTANT HOST: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896–1994 By Donald H. Avery. UNCONQUERABLE REBEL: Robert W. Wilcox and Hawaiian Politics, 1880–1903 By Ernest Andrade, Jr. OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS: A Doctor in Japan and Elsewhere By Murray Elliott. THE FRENCH WOLF AND THE SIAMESE LAMB: The French Threat to Siamese Independence, 1858–1907 By Patrick Tuck. POLITICS AND PURGES IN CHINA: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950–1965 By Frederick C. Teiwes, THE CHINA FACTOR IN MODERN JAPANESE THOUGHT: The Case of Tachibana Shiraki, 1881–1945 By Lincoln Li. DIMENSIONS OF RADICAL DEMOCRACY: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community Edited by Chantal Mouffe. NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION IN INDONESIA By Philip J. Eldridge. THE UNIQUE GENIUS OF THOMAS PAINE By Mark Anger.     

Landmine clearance and land resettlement in Cambodia: Agents of rural development

Max Boot, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today. New York: Gotham Books, 2006. Paperback, ISBN: 9781592403158, 640 pages.

Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. UK, US: Macmillan, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 9780230016545, 871 pages.

Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer. London: Faber and Faber, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 0571221025, 496 pages.

Alex Thomson, An Introduction to African Politics (second edition). London: Routledge, 2004. Paperback, ISBN: 9780415282611, 284 pages.

Lorna Lloyd, Diplomacy with a Difference: The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1880–2006. Leiden and Boston: Marinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 9789004154971, 353 pages.

Ali A Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Hardcover, ISBN: 9780300136142, 518 pages.

Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope. New York: Threshold Editions, 2006. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781416540588, 419 pages.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone. Toronto: Alfred A Knopf, 2006. Hardcover, ISBN: 9781400044870, 320 page's.

Larry Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. New York: Owl Books, 2006. Hardcover, ISBN: 0805080082, 384 pages.

George Packer, The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Hardcover, ISBN: 0374299633, 481 pages.     

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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Ackerman B &; A Alstott, The Stakeholder Society. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. 296pp. ISBN: 0–300–07826. US$26.00. http://www.yale.edu/yup

Adedeji A (ed.), Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance. London: Zed Books, in association with the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies, Ijebu‐Ode, 1999. 377pp. ISBN: 1–85649–763–1. US$27:50. http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk

Berkovitch N, From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organisations. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 207pp. ISBN: 0–8018–6028–8. US$34.95. http://www.press.jhu.edu/ press/index.html

Bourgia R &; SG Miller (eds), In the Shadow of the Sultan: Culture, Power and Politics in Morocco. Massachussets: Harvard University Press, 1999. 310pp. ISBN 0–932885–20–9. £12.50. http://www.hup.harvard.edu

Cohen R &; Westbrook R (eds.), Armana Diplomacy . Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2000. 307pp. ISBN: 0–8018–6199–3. US$57.00. http://www.press.jhu.edu

Cullather N, Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 142pp. ISBN: 0–8047–3311–2. US$39.50. http://www.sup.org

De Cerreno ALC &; A Keynan, Scientific Co‐operation, State Conflict: The Roles of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord. Edited conference papers published as Volume 866 of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York, 1999, 281 pp, ISBN: 1 57331 203 7, US$27,00. Http://www.press.jhu.edu

Donoso BP, Across the Footsteps of Africa: The Experiences of an Ecuadorian Doctor in Malawi and Mozambique. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1999, 242pp. ISBN: 0–86543–640–1. US$19.95. http.//www.africanword.com

Drèze J, The Economics of Famine, An Elgar Reference Collection, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1999. pp. 524. ISBN: 1–85898–689–3. £130. http://www.e‐elgar.co.uk

Emmett T, ‘A study of the development of a movement of national liberation in Namibia, between 1915 and 1966’, in Popular Resistance and the Roots of Nationalism in Namibia, 1915–1966. Basel, Switzerland: P Schlettwein Publishing, 1999. 420pp. ISBN: 3–908193–03–6. Swiss F55. http://www.baslerafrika.ch/bns.htm

Gaubatz K T, Elections and War: The Electoral Incentive in the Democratic Politics of War and Peace. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999. 208pp. ISBN: 08047–3566–2. US$45.00. http://www.sup.org

Hawken P, Lovins AB &; LH Lovins, Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd, 1999. 396pp. ISBN: 1–85383–461–0. £18.99. http://www.earthscan.co.uk

Herbst J, States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, 280pp. ISBN: 069–10–10285. US$17.95. http://www.pupress.princeton.edu

Jett DC, Why Peacekeeping Fails. New York: St Martin's Press, 2000, 236pp. ISBN: 031–22269–85. US$49.95. http://www.stmartins.com

Hodgson G, Evolution and Institutions: On Evolutionary Economics and the Evolutions of Economics . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999. 345pp. ISBN: 1–85898–813–6. £55.00. http://www.e‐elgar.co.uk

Guha S, Environment and Ethnicity in India: 1200–1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 217pp. ISBN: 0–521–64078–4. £35.00. http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk

Iheduru OM, The Politics of Economic Restructuring and Democracy in Africa. London: Greenwood Press,1999. 169 pp. ISBN: 0–313–30833–0. £37.50. http://www.greenwood.com

Jain PC, Indians in South Africa: Political Economy of Race Relations. Delhi: Kalinga Publications, 1999. 175 pp. ISBN: 81–85163–102‐X. US$80.00.

Kathadra A, Letters from Robben Island: A Selection of his Prison Correspondence, 1964–1989. Bellville and East Lansing: Mayibuye Books and Michigan State University Press, 1999. 263pp. ISBN: 087–01352–79 R120.00. http://www.msu.edu/unit/msupress/index.htm

Middleton N &; D Thomas (eds), World Atlas of Desertification. United Nations Environment Programme, 2^nd edition. London: Arnold, 1997.182pp. ISBN: 0–340–69166–2. http://www.unep.org     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Eric Rolls, Australia, a Biography I. Kepars, Sydney. Volume 223 World Bibliographical Series David Carment, A Past Displayed: Public History, Public Memory and Cultural Resource Management in Australia’s Northern Territory Paul de Serville, Rolf Bouldrewood: A Life Andrea Inglis, Beside the Seaside: Victorian Resorts in the Nineteenth Century Charlie Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression Martin Crotty, Making the Australian Male: Middle Class Masculinity 1870–1920 Clive Moore, Sunshine and Rainbows: The Development of Gay and Lesbian Culture in Queensland Jack Gallaway, The Odd Couple: Blamey and MacArthur at War Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey, Emergency and Confrontation — Australian Military Operations in Malaya and Bornea 1950–1966 Gary Johns, Waking Up To Dreamtime: The Illusion of Aboriginal Self–Determination Marian Sawer, Elections Full, Free and Fair Margaret Critchlow Rodman, Houses Far from Home. British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides Richard Yeo, Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England Paul Langford, Englishness Identified: Manners and Character, 1650–1850 Arden Buchholz, Moltke and the German Wars, 1864–1871 Christian Leitz, Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe during the Second World War Ingo Haar, Historiker im Nationalsozialismus. Deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft und der “Volkstumskampf” im Osten Klaus Neumann, Shifting Memories: The Nazi Past in the New Germany Xu Dixin and Wu Changming, Chinese Capitalism, 1522–1840 Stephen J. Morris, Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of War R.E. Elson, Suharto: a Political Biography Philip J. Eldridge., The Politics of Human Rights in Southeast Asia David Weinstein, Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer’s Liberal Utilitarianism Robert M. Burns and Hugh Rayment–Pickard, Philosophies of History: From Enlightenment to Postmodernity     

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Book reviewed in this article: POLICE AND GOVERNMENT: Histories of Policing in Australia By Mark Finnane OBSTACLE RACE: Aborigines in Sport By Colin Tatz HISTORICAL REFRACTIONS. Vol. XIV: Studies in Western Australian History Edited by Charlie Fox. MEDICINE AT WAR: Medical Aspects of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asia 1950–1972 By Brendan G. O'Keefe with Agent Orange: The Australian Aftermath by F. B. Smith. THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY UNDER LABOUR Edited by Greg Mahony. DIPLOMACY IN THE MARKETPLACE: Australia in World Affairs, Vol. 7, 1981–1990 Edited by P. J. Boyce and J. R. Angel. AUSTRALIA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE WORLD OF THE 1990s By Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant PARTIES AND FEDERALISM IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA Edited by Campbell Sharman RAIN DANCING: Sanctions in Canadian and Australian Foreign Policy By Kim Richard Nossel REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS: Implications and Options for Australia By Richard Snape, Jan Adams and David Morgan THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY IN THE JAPANESE MIRROR Edited by Kyoko Sheridan THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: An Australian Introduction By K. J. Walker OUTSIDERS: Class, Gender and Nation By Dorothy Thompson THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF FRANCE By Colin Jones MOLTKE, SCHLIEFFEN AND PRUSSIAN WAR PLANNING By Arden Buchholz ITALY SINCE 1800: A Nation in Balance?By Roger Absalom. IL CONFLITTO ARABO-ISRAELIANO Documentazione Essenziale (1990–1993) By Ministero degli Affari Esteri DOMESTIC FOOD PRODUCTION AND POLITICAL CONFLICT IN KENYA By Scott MacWilliam, France Desauhin and Wendy Timms U.S. HEGEMONY UNDER SIEGE: Class, Politics and Development in Latin America By James Petras and Morris Morley THE POLITICS OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY By Jerel A. Rosati MARXISM AND NATIONALISM: Theoretical Origins of a Political Crisis By Ephraim Nimni THE PLURALIST THEORY OF THE STATE: Selected Writings of G. D. H. Cole, J. N. Figgis, and H. J. Laski Edited by Paul Q. Hirst JUSTICE AND WORLD ORDER: A Philosophical Inquiry By Janna Thompson INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF SOCIAL CHANGE By Jan Aart Scholte THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE IN ARISTOTLE'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY By Judith A. Swanson     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Craig Arceneaux and David Pion‐Berlin, Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change. Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo, eds., Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness. Benjamin Kohl and Linda Farthing, Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance. Consuelo Cruz, Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics. Carmelo Mesa‐Lago and Jorge Pérez‐López, Cuba's Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons, and Transition Policies. Damián J. Fernández, ed., Cuba Transnational. Paul Lawrence Haber, Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late‐Twentieth‐Century Mexico. Leslie Anderson and Lawrence Dodd, Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990‐2001. Jeremy M. Weinstein, Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence.     

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Book Reviews in this title AUSTRALIA'S AGE OF IRON: History and Archaeology By R. Ian Jack and Aedeen Cremin. South Melbourne: Oxford University Press and Sydney University Press, 1994, pp. xiv+175, Illustrated. Thirteen maps. $39.95. BRISBANE: The Aboriginal Presence 1824–1860 Edited by Rod Fisher. Kelvin Grove: Brisbane History Group Papers No 11, 1992, pp. 106. Illustrated. Two maps. $20. AUSTRALIA'S FIRST LADY By Lennard Bickel. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991, pp. xii +219. $34.95 IRISH CONVICT LIVES Edited by Bob Reece. Sydney: Crossing Press, 1993, pp. x+266, illustrated. No price given. WAR ON THE HOMEFRONT: State Intervention in Queensland 1938–1948 By Kay Saunders. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. pp. ix + 190. $29.95. CROWN OR COUNTRY: The Traditions of Australian Republicanism Ediled by David Headon, James Warden and Bill Gammage. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1994, pp. xiv + 197. Illustrated. $24.95. VIETNAM: The Australian Dilemma By Terry Burstall. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993, pp. xxv + 329. Illustrated. Sixteen maps. $19.95. FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE The Federal Coalition Edited by Brian Costar. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994, pp. xii + 163. $24.95. EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS: Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management in Australia By Margaret Gardner and Gill Palmer. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1992, pp. xii+ 522. $39.95. I WAS A TEENAGE FASCIST By David Greason. Melbourne: McPhee Gribble/penguin, 1994. $16.95. THE OXFORD HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND Edited by Geoffrey W. Rice. Second revised edition. Auckland: Ogord University Press, 1993, pp. xviii i 755. Eleven tables. Four maps. Eight graphs $39.95 STUDYING NEW ZEALAND HISTORY By G. A Wood. Second edition Revised by Simon Cauchi and G. A. Wood. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1992. pp. viii -+ 145. No price given. EUROPE JUSTINIAN By John Moorhead. London and New York: Longman, 1994, pp. ix + 202. Np price given MIRACLES AND THE PULP PRESS DURING THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION: The Battle of the Frogs and Fairford's Flies By Jerome Friedman. London: University College London Press, 1993, pp. xv+304. Illustrated. $39.95. THE COMMODITY CULTURE OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND: Advertising and Spectacle 1851–1914 By Thomas Richards. London: Verso, 1991, pp. 306. $37.9Spb. CLASS AND ETHNICITY: Irish Catholics in England 1880–1939 By Steven Fielding. Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1993, pp. mi + 180. No price given. THE POLlTICS OF IMMIGRATION AND “RACE” RELATIONS IN POST-WAR BRITAIN By Zig Luyton-Henry. Ogord: Blackwell, 1992, pp. xvii + 266. $34.95 pb. GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY By Peter Barberis and Timothy May. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, pp. viii+ 260. $45.00. SOCIAL CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY BRITAIN Edited by Nicholas Abercrombie and Alan Warde. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992, pp xi + 189. $32.9Spb. EUROPE IN OUR TIME A History 1945–1992 By Walter L. uqueur. New York: Penguin Books, 1992, pp. xrii + 617. US$14. CONTEMPORARY FRANCE By Hilary P. M. Winchester. Longman Group UK Limited, 1993, pp. xiii + 273, illustrated with photographs, maps, tables, $16. IMPERIAL GERMANY 1871–1914: Economy, Society, Culture and Politics By Volker Berghahn Providence/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1993, pp. xvii + 362. NO price given THE GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS SINCE 1969 A Party in Power and Opposition Gerard Braunthal. Second revised edition. BoulderBart Francisco/Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. pp. xiii + 402. Tables and charts. $54.95. WHAT ABOUT THE WORKERS? Workers and the Transition to Capitalism in Russia By Simon Clarke, Peter Fairbrother, Michael Burawoy and Pavel Krotov. London: Verso, 1993, pp. 241. No price given. REST OF WORLD THE GUERRILLA WARS OF CENTRAL AMERICA: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala By Saul Landau. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993, pp. xiii + 222. Four maps. $49.45. A CRITICAL STUDY OF BINI AND YORUBA VALUE SYSTEMS OF NIGERIA IN CHANGE: Culture, Religion and the Self By Emmanuel D. Babatunde. Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales: me Edwin Mellen Press, 1992, pp. 283. No price given. IMPERIAL AFFINITIES: Nineteenth Century Analogies and Exchanges Between India and Ireland By S. B. Cook. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1993, pp. 162, Rs 195 (approx $9.00). DENG XIAOPING AND THE MAKING OF MODERN CHINA By Richard Evans. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993, pp. xi + 339_:$39.95. TENNOZAN: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb By George Feifer. New York: Ticknor & Field 1992, pp. xvii + 622. Illustrated. $25. IDEAS DARWINISM, WAR AND HISTORY: The Debate Over the Biology of War From the “Origin of Species” to the First World War By Paul Crook. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xii + 306. $49.95. PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY: North, South, East, West Edited by David Held. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993, pp. xi + 412. $45 cloth; $14 pb. RACE, NATION, CLASS: Ambiguous Identities By Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein London, New York: Verso, 1991, pp. vii+232. $32.95. CULTURAL HISTORY By Roger Chartier. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993, pp. 209. $39.95pb. CULTURES IN CONFLICT By Urs Bitterli, translated by Ritchie Robertson. Oqord: Polity Press, 1993, pp. 215. pb. $39.95. MARC BLOCH: A Life in History By Carole Fink Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 324. $17.95.     

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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: Leóns, Madeline Barbara, and Harry Sanabria, eds. Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality. Griffith, Ivelaw Lloyd. Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty Under Siege. McClintock, Cynthia. Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador's FMLN and Peru's Shining Path. Chesnut, R. Andrew. Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty. Kirk, John M., and Peter McKenna. Canada-Cuba Relations: The Other Good Neighbor Policy. Gainesville: Randall, Stephen J., and Graeme S. Mount, with David Bright. The Caribbean Basin: An International History. Pebley, Anne R., and Luis Rosero-Bixby, eds. Demographic Diversity and Change in the Central American Isthmus. Santa Monica Taylor, Lucy. Citizenship, Participation, and Democracy: Changing Dynamics in Chile and Argentina. Leitinger, Ilse Abshagen, ed. and trans. The Costa Rican Women's Movement: A Reader. Kaplowitz, Donna Rich. Anatomy of a Failed Embargo: U.S. Sanctions Against Cuba. Pelupessy, Wim. The Limits of Economic Reform in El Salvador. Stotzky, Irwin P. Silencing The Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy. Rodríguez O., Jaime E., and Kathryn Vincent, eds. Myths, Misdeeds, and Misunderstandings: The Roots of Conflict in U.S.-Mexican Relations. Serrano, Mónica, ed. Governing Mexico: Political Parties and Elections.     

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Books reviewed: Thomas Nicholas and Oliver Bernhof, George Forster, A Voyage around the World John, Merritt, That Voluminous Squatter, W.E. Abbott, Wingen Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone, The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History David Lawrence, Kakadu: The Making of a National Park Geoffrey Bolton and Jenny Gregory, Claremont: A History Heinz, Schütte, Der Ursprung der Messer und Beile: Gedanken zum zivilisatorischen Projekt rheinischer Missionare im frühkolonialen Neuguinea (The origin of knives and axes: Reflections on the civilizing goal of Rhenish Missionaries in early colonial New Guinea) Dorothy Shineberg, The People Trade: Pacific Island Labourers and New Caledonia, 1865–1930 Judith M. Heimann, The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and his Remarkable Life Victor Treadwell, Buckingham and Ireland 1616–1628. A Study in Anglo‐Irish Politics Joseph M. Levine, Between the Ancients and Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England Christina and David Bewleyl, Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke 1736–1812 Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey, (eds) The 1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial Military History Conference Mary Lindemann, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe Ian Germani and Robin Swales, Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution. Essays in Honour of James A. Leith David E. Barclay and Eric D. Weitz, Between Reform and Revolution. German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990 Peter Juviler, Freedom's Ordeal: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post‐Soviet States Philip Curtin, Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa Robert Aldrich and John Connell, The Last Colonies Radhika Mohanram, Black Body: Women, Colonialism and Space Mabel Lee and Michael Wilding, History, Literature and Society: Essays in Honour of S.N. Mukherjee, Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 15 S.N. Mukherjee, Citizen Historian: Explorations in Historiography. Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 13 Jonathan Spence, Mao 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 Dr Maung Maung, The 1988 Uprising in Burma. Monograph 49 Wim Stokhof and Paul van der Velde, ASEM: A Window of Opportunity Manoranjan Mohanty and Partha Math Mukherji with Olle Törnquist, People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World James Elliott, Tourism: politics and public sector management Bruce L. Benson, To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice Alan Hunt, Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation Andrew Vincent, Political Theory: Tradition and Diversity Gerald Sider and Gavin Smith, Between History and Histories: The Making of Silences and Commemorations