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

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Books Reviewed: Donald Denoon and Philippa Mein‐Smith with Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Elaine Brown, Cooloola Coast: Noosa to Fraser Island. The Aboriginal and Settler Histories of a Unique Environment Edward Duyker and Maryse Duyker, Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, Voyage to Australia and the Pacific John Molony, The Native‐Born. The First White Australians Alan Powell, Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory, Centenary Edition Lynn Sunderland Charlie's Book: the Life and Times of a Country Town Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray.Dealing With Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada Alison Palmer, Colonial Genocide Colin Dyer, A Frenchman's Walk Across the Nullarbor: Henri Gilbert's Diary, Perth to Brisbane, 1897–1899 Al Grassby and Silvia Ordonez, The Man Time Forgot. The Life and Times of John Christian Watson Peter Botsman The Great Constitutional Swindle: a Citizen's View of the Australian Constitution Joy Damousi, The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia Philip Ayres Mawson: A Life Michael McKernan.Beryl Beaurepaire Ben O'Dowd, In Valiant Company: Diggers in Battle‐Korea, 1950–51 Graham Willett Living Out Loud: a History of Gay and Lesbian Activism in Australia Susan Sheridan with Barbara Baird, Kate Borrett and Lyndall Ryan Who Was That Woman?: The Australian Woman's Weekly in the Postwar Years Lynette Russell.Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous‐European Encounters in Settler Societies Peter Dennis, 1945 War and Peace in the Pacific: Selected Essays J. W. Burrow The Crisis of Reason. European Thought, 1848–1914 Tadhg FoleyFrom Queen's College to National University: Essays on the Academic History of QCG/UCG/NUI Terry Eagleton Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth‐Century Ireland Roy Porter.Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World Michael T. Davis, Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775–1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis Susan Thorne.Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in 19th‐Century England Roland Hill Lord Acton F.H.Hinsley and Alan Stripp eds Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park Margaret Lavinia Anderson Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany Peter Monteath ed, Ernst Thälmann. Mensch und Mythos Harold Marcuse Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933–2001 Mikhail Bakunin, Bakounine: Oeuvres Complètes Yarong Jiang and David Ashley Mao's Children in the New China: Voices from the Red Guard Generation Ann Kent, China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance Theodore McNelly, The Origins of Japan's Democratic Constitution H.W. Arndt & Hal Hill, Southeast Asia's Economic Crisis. Origins, Lessons, and the Way Forward Nils Petter Gleditsch et al, Making Peace Pay: A Bibliography on Disarmament & Conversion Arthur L. Rosenbaum and Chae‐Jin Lee The Cold War — Reassessments Paul Boreham, Geoff Dow & Martin Leet, Room to Manoeuvre: Political Aspects of Full Employment Aynsley Kellow, International Toxic Risk Management: Ideals, Interests and Implementation Jeremy Waldron, The Dignity of Legislation Stephen White, Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory     

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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: 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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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: 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: AUSTRALIA. A “DISTANT FIELD OF MURDER”: Western District Frontiers 1834–1848 By Jan Critchett. FEVERS AND FRONTIERS Edited by John Pearn and Mervyn Cobcroft. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF WESTERN ASTRALIA: Membership Register, Electoral Law and Statistics 1980–1989 By David Black. AN INDEX TO PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS 1890–1989 By David Black BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF MEMBERS OF THE PARLIAMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Volume One 1870–1930; Volume Two 1930–1990 By David Black and GeofSrey Bolton. THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY HANDBOOK: Centenary Edition By John Mandy and David Black. THE QUEENSLAND EXPERIENCE: The Life and Work of 14 Remarkable Migrants Edited by Maximilian Brälndle. PIONEERS, POLITICS AND PEOPLE: A Political Memoir By Sir John Crumer. PRUSSIAN-GERMAN MILITARISM 1914-18 IN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE: The Thought of Geoge Arnold Wood By J. A. Moses AUSTRALIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY By Barrie Dyster and David Meredith. EUROPE. THE FIRST INDUSTRAL REVOLUTIONS Edited by Peter Mathias and John A. Davis. ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE 1920s: The Struggle for Supremacy Edited by B. J. C. McKercher. With a Foreword by D. Cameron Watt. BRITAIN AND THE KOREAN WAR By Callurn MacDonald. JACOBINISM AND THE REVOLT OF LYON, 1789–1793 By W. D. Edmonds NAPOLEON BONAPARTE By J. M. Thompson. THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC AND THE YOUNGER PROLETARIAT: An Economic and Social Analysis By Peter D. Stachura. THE SOVIET THEORY OF INTRNATIONAL RELATIONS By Margot Light. THE END OF THE COLD WAR: European Unity, Socialism, and the Shift in Global Power By Bogdan Denitch. THE SLUMP IN EUROPE: Reconstructing Open Economy Theory By Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Edmund S. Phelps. REST OF THE WORLD. NAURU: Environmental Damage Under International Trusteeship By Christopher Weeramantry. GANGSTERS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: The Jakarata People's Militia and the Indonesian Revolution 1945–1949 By Robert Cribb. EVERYDAY FORMS OF PEASANT RESISTANCE Edited by Forrest D. Colburn. ON A DARKLING PLAIN: An Account of the Nigerian Civil War By Ken Saro-Wiwa. NEW ELITES IN OLD STATES: Ideologies in the Anglo-American Democracies By Neil Nevitte and Roger Gibbim. THE CIA AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. THE VOICE OF AMERICA: Propaganda and Democracy, 1941–1945 By Holly COWM Shulman. AMERICAN ENTERPRISE IN SOUTH AFRICA: Historical Dimensions of Engagement and Disengagement By Richard W. Hull. THE PROMISE OF PRIVATISATION: A Challenge for American Foreign Policy Edited by Raymond Vernon. THE WEST AND THE THIRD WORLD: Essays in Honour of J. D. B. Miller Edited by Robert O'Neill and R J. Vincetzc. By Graham K. Wilson. POLITICS. INTEREST GROUPS By Graham K. Wilson. STATE AND DEVELOPMENT Edited by Cal Clark and Jonathan Lemco. SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE: Essays in Honour of Saul Encel Edited by Ann Daniel. POLITICAL CHOICE AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE By Barry Hindess.     

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Book reviewed in this article: IRELAND, ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA: Essays in Honour of Oliver MacDonagh Edited by F. B. Smiih LABOUR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC Edited by Clive Moore, Jacqueline Leckie and Doug Munro. Townsville COAL IN QUEENSLAND: From Federation to the Twenties, 1900 to 1925 By R. W. Whitmore NO EASY PATH: The Life and Times of Lilian Violet Cooper MD, FRACS (1861–1947), Australia's First Woman Surgeon By Lesley M. Williams THE DUNERA AFFAIR: A Documentary Resource Book Edited by Paul R. Bartrop with Gabrielle Eisen AYE, AYE, MINISTER: Australian Naval Administration 1939–59 By Robert Hyslop CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS 1804 TO 1901: Statistics Collected by the Six Colonial CATALOGUE OF HISTORICAL MICROFICHE SERIES: Statistical Publications 1901–1984 Canberra BUDGETARY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL Edited by John Forster and John Wanna CITY OF THE PLAIN: History of a Gay Sub-Culture By Garry Wotherspoon FIGHTING OVER THE FORESTS By Ian Watson, Sydney: Allen & Unwin THE ENGLISH REFORMATION By A G Dickens. 2nd edition. London: B. T Barsford CRANMER IN CONTEXT By Peter Newman Brooks THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION By J. V. Beckett THE MYRIAD FACES OF WAR: Britain and the Great War, 1914–1918 By Trevor Wilson THE FORMATION OF THE POLISH COMMUNITY IN GREAT BRITAIN, 1939–1950: The M. B. Grabowski Migration Project Report By Keith Sword with Norman Davics and Jan Ciechanowski LABOUR PEOPLE: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock By Kenneth O. Morgan THEMES IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY 1830–1890 Edited by Bruce Waller A SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE By Gerold Ambrosius and William H. Hubbard THE ATTRACTIONS OF FASCISM: Social Psychology and Aesthetics of the “Triumph of the Right”Edited by John Milfull RADICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE RISE OF FASCISM IN GERMANY, 1919–1945 Edited by Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann THE POLITICS OF REVENGE: Fascism and the Military in Twentieth-Century Spain By Paul Preston WHY THE HEAVENS DID NOT DARKEN? The “Final Solution” in History By Arno J. May EUROPE AND AMERICA BEYOND 2000 By Pierre Hassner AFTER MEECH LAKE: Lessons for the Future Edited by David E. Smith, Peier MacKinnon, and John Courtney TOWARDS A CANADA-QUEBEC UNION By Philip Resnick, Montreal & Kingston SUDAFRIKA UND DAS “DRITTE REICH”By Albrecht Hagemann, Frankfurt THE PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM: The Indian Debate By A G. Noorani THE INDIAN PARADOX: Essays in Indian Politics By Myron Weiner, Edited by Ashutosh Varshney INDIA THROUGH HINDU CATEGORIES Edited by McKini Marriott WAR AND SECESSION: Pakistan, India and the Creation of Bangladesh By Richard Sisson and Leo E. Rose BANKERS AND BUREAUCRATS: Capital and the Role of the State in Thailand By Kevin Hewison VIETNAM'S ECONOMIC POLICY SINCE 1975 By Vo Nhan Tri. Singapore: Allen & Unwin TO THE PEOPLE: James Yen and Village China By Charles W. Hayford POLITICS AT MAO'S COURT: Gao Gang and Party Factionalism in the Early 1950s By Frederick C. Teiwes. Armonk TARTAR CITY WOMAN: Scenes from the Life of Wang Hsin-Ping, Former Citizen of China By Trevor Hay CHINA: Modernisation in the 1980s Edited by Joseph Y. S. Cheng POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE THIRD WORLD By Charles F. Andrain IN THE DOMINIONS OF DEBT: Historical Perspectives on Dependent Development By Herman M. Schwartz ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THEORY AND PRACTICE By R. M. Sundrum SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: THE POLITICS OF MORAL PROTESTS By Jan Pakulski PARLIAMENT AND INDUSTRY By David Judge COLERIDGE'S POLITICAL THOUGHT: Property, Morality and the Limits of Political Discourse By John Morrow THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE BRITISH IDEALISTS: Selected Studies By Perer P. Nicholson THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF KARL MANNHEIM: Culture, Politics, and Planning By Colin Loader     

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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

Book reviewed in this article: AUSTRALASIA. IMAGES OF AUSTRALIA Edited by Gillian Whitlock and David Carter. AUSTRALIA COMPARED: People, Policies and Politics Edited by Francis G. Castles. MILLERS POINT: The Urban Village By Shirley Fitzgerald and Christopher Keating. AUSTRALIA'S COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT 1901–1988 By G. S. Reid and Martyn Forrest THE WAAAF IN WARTIME AUSTRALIA By Joyce A. Thomon. IMIN NANMIN ENJO NO SEIJIGAKU: Oosutoraraia to kokusai shakai [POLITICS OF MIGRATION, REFUGEES, AND FOREIGH AID: Australia and International Society] Isami Takeda. HAWKE AND PUBLIC POLICY: Consensus and restructuring Edited by Christine Jennett and Randal G. Stewart. HAWKE'S LAW: The Politics of Mining and Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia By Ronald T. Libby. ABORIGINES AND POLITICAL POWER By Scott Bennett. SON OF ALYANDABU By Joe McGinness. THE PRICE OF HEALTH: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910–1960 By James A. Gillespie. HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS IN AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA Edited by A. J. Proust. WORKING FOR CHANGE: The Movement Against Domestic Violence By Heather McGregor and Andrew Hopkins. WORKING AUSTRALIA By Charlie Fox. GAY PERSPECTIVES; ESSAYS IN AUSTRALIAN GAY CULTURE Edited by Robert Aldrich and Gamy Wotherspoon. THE NERVOUS NINETIES: Australian Cultural Life in 1890s By John Docker. THE 1990 GENERAL ELECTION: Perspectives on Political Change in New Zealand Edited by E. McLeay. PAPUA NEW GUINEA: The Challenge of Independence By Mark Turner. PAPUA NEW GUINEA By Sean Dorney. EUROPE. THE EUROPEAN DYNASTIC STATES 1494–1660: The Short Oxford History of the Modern World Series By Richard Bonney. THE MAKING OF MODERN FRANCE: Politics, Ideology and Culture By Emmanuel Todd. THE FRENCH HISTORICAL REVOLUTION: The Annals School, 1929-89 By Peter Burke. THE REVENGE OF HISTORY: Marxism and the East European Revolutions Alex Callinicos. EUROPE FROM BELOW: An East-West Dialogue Edited by Mary Kaldor. GORBACHEV Zhores Medvedev. FROM PADUA TO THE TRIANON; 1918–1920 By Maria Ormos. NORTH AMERICA. AMERICA RECOMMITTED: United States national Interests in a Restructured World By Donald E. Nuechterlein. AGENTS OF REPRESSION: The FBI's Secret War Against the Black Panther Party and he American Indian Movement By Ward Churchill and Jim VanderWall LIBERTY & COMMUNITY: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution By Robert C. Vipond. ASIA. DIPLOMATIC IDEAS AND PRACTICES OF ASIAN STATES Edited by Ashok Kapur. WOMEN IN INDIA AND NEPAL Edited by Michael Alien and S. N. Mukherjee. THE SIKHS: History, Religion and Society By W. H. McLeod. THE COMMONWEALTH ARMIES AND THE KOREAN WAR; An Alliance Study By Jeffery Grey. BUSINESS-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS ININDUSTRIALISING EAST ASIA: South Korea and Thailand By Andrew Maclntyre. CROSSING THE INDUSTRIAL DIVIDE: State, Society and the Poitics of Economic Transformation in Malaysia By Alasdair Bowie. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Global and Australian Perspectives on an Evolving Discipline Edited by Richard Higgott and J. L. Richardson. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN POLITICAL THEORY By Howard Williams. GERMANY, AMERICA, EUROPE: Forty years of German Foreign Policy By Wolfram Hawieder. SECURITY AND DEFENCE: Pacific and Global Perspectives Edited by Desmond Ball Md Cathy Downes. AID AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC By Peter Bauer, Savenuca Siwatibau and Wolfgang Kasper. FRANCE AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC: A Contemporary History By Stephen Henningham. POLITICS AND IDEAS. NEW HORIZONS IN POLITICS: Essays with an Australian Focus Edited by Hugh V. Emy and Andrew Linklater. JIDICIAL ACTIVISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Edited by Kenneth M. Holland. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS COMES OF AGE By Gerald E. Caiden. THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF MONTAIGNE By David Lewis Schaefer. THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF FRIEDRICH ENGELS: A Reinterpretation By J. D. Hunley. THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF POLITICAL THOUGHT Edited by David Miller. THE BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Edited by Vernon Bogdunor. Social science methodology: a Brief But Critical Introduction By Frank Lewins.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: REALIGNMENT OF WORLD POWER: The Russo-Chinese Schism Under the Impact of Mao-Tse-tung's Last Revolution. By Oton Ambroz. SAMUEL TERRY: The Botany Bay Rothschild. By Gwyneth M. Dow. RURAL INDUSTRY IN THE PORT PHILLIP REGION 1835–1880. By Lynnette J. Peel. NOT A WHITE WOMAN SAFE: Sexual Anxiety and Politics in Port Moresby 1920–1934. By Amirah Inglis. SOCIOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT. Edited by E. de Kadt and Gavin Williams. POLITICAL CHANGE: Collected Essays. By David E. Apter. RICH NATIONS AND POOR IN PEACE AND WAR: Continuity and Change in the Development Hierarchy of Seventy Nations from 1913 through 1952. By Henry Barbera. ECONOMIC REALITIES IN POOR COUNTRIES. By Leslie Stein. G.D.H. COLE: An Intellectual Biography. By L.P. Carpenter. HISTORY AND WILL: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao-Tse-Tung's Thought. By F. Wakeman Jr. TO PHOENIX SEAT: An Introductory Study of Maoism and the Chinese Communist Quest for a Paradise on Earth. By L.R. Marchant. THE COUNTER REFORMATION. By G.W. Searle. ON THE MEDIEVAL ORIGINS OF THE MODERN STATE. By Joseph R. Strayer. IMPERIAL ECONOMIC POLICY, 1917–1939: Studies in Expansion and Protection. By Ian M. Drum-mond. TAMATE — A KING: James Chalmers in New Guinea. 1877–1901. By Diane Langmore. THE BASES OF INTERNATIONAL ORDER. Essays in Honour of C.A.W. Manning. Edited by Alan James. SMALL STATES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Nobel Symposium 17. Edited by August Schou and Arne Olav Brundtland. THE MAJOR INTERNATIONAL TREATIES 1914–1973. A History and Guide With Texts. By J.A.S. Grenville. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND NATIONAL BEHAVIOUR: A Behavioral Interpretation of Contemporary International Law and Politics. By A. Sheikh. FULL CIRCLE. By S.F. Rowell. THE NUREMBERG FALLACY: Wars and War Crimes Since World War II. By Eugene Davidson. THE AUSTRALIAN COLONISTS: An Exploration of Social History 1788–1870. By K.S. Inglis. JEREMY BENTHAM: Ten Critical Essays. Edited by Bhikhu Parekh. THE DAMNED INHERITANCE: The Soviet Union and the Manchurian Crises, 1924–35. By G.A. Lensen. GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS AND THE RISE OF SWEDEN. By Michael Roberts. SOCIALISM AND THE CHALLENGE OF WAR: Ideas and Politics in Britain 1912–18. By J.M. Winter. ACCUMULATION ON A WORLD SCALE: A critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment. Vols. 1 and 2. By Samir Amin. Translated by Brian Pearce. GERMANY CONFRONTS MODERNISATION: German Culture and Society, 1790–1890. By Robert Anchor. WORKERS AND PROTEST: The European Labor Movement, The Working Classes and the Origins of Social Democracy, 1890–1914. By Harvey Mitchell and Peter N. Steams. MAJOR IDEOLOGIES: An Interpretative Survey of Democracy. Socialism, and Nationalism. By Alexander Groth. CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT AND POLITICS. By Ernest Gellner. Edited with a preface by I.C. Jarvie and Joseph Agassi. MODERN DEMOCRACIES: Economic Power versus Political Power. By Maurice Duverger. DICK DETERRED: A Play in Two Acts. By David Edgar. THE IMAGE OF AUSTRALIA. British Perception of the Australian Economy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, By Craufurd D.W. Goodwin. CONFIDENTIAL DISPATCHES: Analyses of America by the British Ambassador, 1939–1945. Edited by Thomas E. Hachey. THE STATE'S SERVANTS: The Civil Service of the English Republic 1649–1660. By G.E. Aylmer. NORMAN LINDSAY, The Embattled Olympian. By John Hetherington. MARKETING BOARDS AND MINISTERS: A Study of Agricultural Marketing Boards as Political and Administrative Instruments. By P.J. Giddings. ELITES IN THE POLICY PROCESS. By Robert Presthus. LAW, LEGISLATION AND LIBERTY: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy. Vol. I Rules and Order. By F.A. Hayek. DEPRESSION AND RECOVERY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1928'29–1938'39: A Study in Cyctical and Structural Change. By G.D. Snooks. INDIA'S SECOND LIBERATION. By Pran Chopra. NORMALIZATION OF JAPANESE-SOVIET RELATIONS 1945–1970. By S. Vishwanathan. MAOISM IN ACTION: The Cultural Revolution. By C.L. Chiou. THE PLANS OF WAR: The General Staff and British Military Strategy c. 1900–1916. By John Gooch. REVUE INTERNATIONALE d'HISTOIRE MILITAIRE. A NEW HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA. Edited by F.K. Crowley. AUSTRALIAN CULTURAL ELITES: Intellectual Traditions in Sydney and Melbourne. By John Docker. SUEZ 1956. By Robert R. Bowie. LABOR IN POLITICS: The State Labor Parties in Australia 1880–1920. Edited by D.J. Murphy. J.H. SCULLIN: A Political Biography. By John Robertson.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: POLITICAL DISCOURSE: Explorations in Indian and Western Political Thought. Women And Peace Through The Polls. Australian Public Opinion On National Security Issues. Why Oppose Racism. Public Enterpiuse And National Development. Selected Essays. Public Power And Public Administration. The Italians In Australia. Capital Labour On The Kimberley Diamond Fields 1871–1890. Culture, Identity, And Politics. The French Reconnaissance. Baudin In Australia 1801–1803. Gordon Chalk: A Political Life. A Very Small Insurance Policy: The Politics of Australian Involvement in Vietnam, 1954–1967. All The Way: Australia's road to Vietnam. A Documentary History Of Queensland. The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case Of Authorship. Rail Transport And Australian Federalism. The War Despatches Of Kenneth Slessor, Official Australian Correspondent 1940–1944. Between Two Nations: The Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border and West Papua Nationalism. Highlanders And Foreigners In The Upper Ramu. The Kainantu area 1919–1942. Politics And Power In The Usa. Politics And Culture In Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of H.G. Koenigsberger. AN Edwardian Meed-Doubles: The Bosanquets versus the Webbs: Study in British Social Policy 189&1929. Feminism And Democracy. Women's Suffrage And Reform Politics in Britain. 1900–1918. Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World. Revisionmsm And Emplre: Socialist Imperialism in Germany 1897–1914. Bernstein To Brandt. A Short History of German Social Democracy. Population, Labour And Century Germany. Migration In 19Th And 20Th Century Germany. Einfeuhrung In Fragen An Die Geschichtswissenschaet In Deutschland Nach Hitler 1945–1950. Deutschlands Eneuerung 1945–1950. Der Krieg Und Die Schriiwsteller. Der Kriegsroman Der Weimarer Republik. Exil Und Engagement. Deutsche Schriftsteller Im Frankreich Der Dreissiger Jahre. The Ideological Origins Of Nazi Imperialism. Three Faces Of Imperialism; British And American Approaches To Asia and Africa 1870–1970. Saladm And The Fall Of Jerusalem.     

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     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Gauderman, Kimberly (2003) Women's Lives in Colonial Quito. Gender, Law and Economy in Spanish America Bauer, Brian (2004) Ancient Cuzco: Heartland of the Inca Chassen‐López, Francie R. (2004) From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca. The View from the South, Mexico 1867–1911 Saney Isaac (2004) Cuba: A Revolution in Motion Chomsky, Aviva, Carr, Barry and Smorkaloff, Pamela María (2004) The Cuba Reader. History, Culture, Politics Diacon, Todd A. (2004) Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930 Racine, Karen (2003) Francisco De Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution Joseph, Gilbert M. and Henderson, Timothy J. (eds) (2002) The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics Guenther, Louise H. (2004) British Merchants in Nineteenth‐Century Brazil: Business, Culture, and Identity in Bahia, 1808–50 Deborah Pacini Hernandez; Fernández L'Hoeste, Héctor and Zolov, Eric (eds) (2004) Rockin' Las Americas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America Warren, Jonathan W. (2001)Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indigenous Resurgence in Brazil Diego, Armus (ed.) (2003) Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS Chasteen, John Charles (2004) National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance Brass, Tom (ed.) (2003) Latin American Peasants Thoumi, Francisco (2003) Illegal Drugs, Economy, and Society in the Andes Ariel de Vidas, Anath (2004) Thunder Doesn't Live Here Any More. The Culture of Marginality Among the Teeneks of Tantoyuca Vellinga, Menno (ed.) (2004) The Political Economy of the Drug Industry Manz, Beatriz (2004) Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror and Hope Lauria‐Santiago, Aldo and Binford, Leigh (eds) (2004) Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador Tussie, Diana and Botto, Mercedes (eds) (2003) El alca y las Cumbres de las Américas: ¿una nueva relación público‐privada?     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Gian Luca Gardini and Peter Lambert, eds., Latin American Foreign Policies: Between Ideology and Pragmatism. Benjamin Goldfrank, Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization, and the Left. Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. Mark Ungar, Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America. Serena Cosgrove, Leadership from the Margins: Women and Civil Society Organizations in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador. Matthew R. Cleary, The Sources of Democratic Responsiveness in Mexico. David Smilde and Daniel Hellinger, eds., Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture Under Chávez.     

The ‘Revolution’ of 27 May 1960 in Turkey: British Policy towards Turkey

Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World by Alexandre A. Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. xxii + 265, illustrations, index, bibliography. $20.00.

Islam, Nationalism and Communism in a Traditional Society: The Case of the Sudan by Gabriel Warburg. London: Frank Cass, 1978. Pp. 253 + xi.

A Textbook on Muslim Law by David Pearl. London: Croom Helm, 1979. Pp. 317, bibliography, legislation, index and glossary. £14.95 (hardback), £6.95 (paperback).     

Malaysia: the making of a grand design

Anthony Stockwell is Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was President of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2002–2003 and is currently a Vice-President. His publications include British Policy and Malay Politics during the Malayan Union Experiment (1979) and, as editor, British Documents on End of Empire: Malaya, 1942–1957 (three parts, 1995). He has been joint editor of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History since 1990. This is a version of a lecture delivered to the Royal Society for Asian Affairs on 26 February 2003.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Garretón M., Manuel Antonio, and Edward Newman, eds. Democracy in Latin America: (Re)constructing Political Society.
Joseph, Gilbert M., ed. Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North.
O'Dougherty, Maureen. Consumption Intensified: The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil.
Carey, David, Jr. Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives.
Stephen, Lynn./ Zapata Lives! Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico.     

Stilwell in the stocks: the Chinese nationalists and the allied powers in the second world war

Dr Hans van de Ven is Reader in Modern Chinese History at Cambridge University. His most recent publication is War and Nationalism in China, 1925–45 (Routledge, London, 2003; this will be reviewed in the next issue of Asian Affairs). Other publications include Warfare in Chinese History (Leiden, Brill, 2000) and From Friend To Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991). This article is based on the talk which Dr Hans van de Ven gave to the Society on 11 March 2003.