Fiction in Review

Books reviewed in this article:
Joy Williams, The Quick and the Dead
Janet Kauvman, Rot     

Poetry in Review

Books reviewed in this article:
Heather McHugh, The Farther of the Predicaments
Lynne McMahon, The House of Entertaining Science
Jorie Graham, Swarm     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Robert Barros, Constitutionalism and Dictatorship: Pinochet, the Junta and the 1980 Constitution
Barry Ames, The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil
Christina Biebesheimer and Francisco Mejia (eds), Justice beyond our borders: judicial reforms for Latin America and the Caribbean
Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
Rafael Hernández and John H. Coatsworth, Culturas Encontradas: Cuba y los Estados Unidos
Terence N. D'Altroy, The Incas
Anibal González, Killer Books: Writing, Violence and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative
Efrain Kristal, Invisible Work: Borges and Translation
Beatriz Sarlo, Scenes from Postmodern Life     

Sources of Reform in Britain: A Review Article

Books reviewed in this article:
Anna Clark and Sarah Richardson, History of Suffrage
Gregory Claeys (Ed), The Chartist Movement in Britain 1838–1850     

Jack Curtin and Ben Chifley: A Day in their Lives

Books reviewed in this article:
David Day, John Curtin: a Life
David Day, Ben Chifley     

Fiction in Review: J. F. Powers

Books reviewed in this article:
J. F. Powers, The Stories of J. F. Powers
J. F. Powers, Morte D'Urban
J. F. Powers, Wheat That Springeth Green     

The hollowing-out of local democracy and the 'fatal conceit' of governing without government

Books reviewed in this article:
Stewart, J., The Nature of British Local Government
Stoker, G. (ed.), The New Management of British Local Governance
Stoker, G. (ed.), The New Politics of British Local Governance     

Tourism in Australia and Hawai'i: Historical Perspectives

Books reviewed in this article:
Jim Davidson and Peter Spearritt, Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia since 1870
Mansel G. Blackford, Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959-2000     

When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940

When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940. By Robin Prior (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), pp.xxi + 335. AU$55.00 (cloth), distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.     

Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern

Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern . By James Vernon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014), AU$32.95 (pb), distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Charles Bergquist, Ricardo Peñaranda, and G. Gonzalo Sánchez (eds.), Violence in Colombia 1990––2000. Waging War and Negotiating Peace
H. Kline, State Building and Conflict Resolution in Colombia, 1986–1994
N. Richani, Systems of Violence. The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia
Maxwell A. Cameron, and Brian W. Tomlin, The Making of NAFTA: How the Deal Was Done
Ben Fallaw, Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
Aníbal González, Killer Books: Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative
Valerie Boyle (ed.), A South American Adventure: Letters from George Reid, 1867–1870
Caroline Salvin, A Pocket Eden. Guatemalan Journals 1873–1874/Un paraíso. Diarios guatemaltecos 1873–1874     

Poetry in Review

Books reviewed in this article:
Michael S. Harper, Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems
usefKomunyakaa, Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems
Yusef Komunyakaa, Talking Dirty to the Gods     

The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States

The Burden of White Supremacy: Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States . By David C. Atkinson (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016), pp.334. AU$31.50 (pb). Available in Australia through Footprint Books.     

Franco–German relations and European integration: peeling off the labels

Books Reviewed in this article:
Alistair Cole, Franco–German Relations
Julius Friend, Unequal Partners: French–German Relations 1989–2000
Gisela Hendriks and Annette Morgan, The Franco–German Axis in European Integration
Douglas Webber (ed.), The Franco–German Relationship in the European Union     

Recent Historical Writing on Darwinism: A Review Article

Books reviewed in this article:
Frederick Burkhardt, (ed.), Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825–1859
Mike Hawkins, Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860–1945
Stephen J. Gould, Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin     

Their liberalism and our multiculturalism?

Books reviewed in this article:
Adrian Favell, Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Ideaof Citizenship in France and Britain
Bhikhu Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity andPolitical Theory
Jeff Spinner-Halev, Surviving Diversity: Religion and DemocraticCitizenship     

The new ethics of modern public service

Books reviewed:
Chapman, R. (ed.), Ethics in Public Service
Lawton, A., Ethical Management for the Public Services
Gowthorpe, C. and Blake, J. (eds), Ethical Issues in Accounting     

Studying the New Constitutionalism: bringing political science back in

Books reviewed in this article:
R. Blackburn, and R. Plant, (eds) Constitutional Reform. London and New York
M. Foley, The Politics of the British Constitution
R. Hazell, (ed.) Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years
K. Sutherland, (ed.) The Rape of the Constitution?     

International relations: the dawn of a historiographical turn?

Books reviewed in this article:
Donnelly, Jack, Realism in International Relations
Dunne, Tim, Inventing International Society: A History of the English School
Schmidt, Brian, The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations
Tuck, Richard, The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant     

The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney,Karl Polanyi,E. P. Thompson,and the Critique of Capitalism

The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism . By Tim Rogan (Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2017), pp.263 + viii. AU$48.82 (hb). Available in Australia through Footprint Books.