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Books reviewed in this article: Christopher Cunneen, William John McKell: Boilermaker, Premier, Governor‐General Roger Holdich, Vivianne Johnson and Pamela Andre (eds.), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: The ANZUS Treaty 1951 Michael Keating, John Wanna and Patrick Weller (eds.), Institutions on the Edge? Capacity for Governance Tess Livingstone, George Pell Micheál Ó Siochrú (ed.), Kingdoms in Crisis: Ireland in the 1640s Terence Zuber, Inventing the Schlieffen Plan. German War Planning 1871–1914 David H. Close, Greece since 1945: Politics, Economy and Society Robert O'Brien, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte and Marc Williams, Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements Mary Kaldor (ed.), Global Insecurity: Restructuring the Global Military Sector, Volume III David Miller and Sohail H. Hashmi (eds.), Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives Bernard Crick, Crossing Borders: Political Essays     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES. By R. S. Parker DOCUMENTS ON AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY 1937–49. Vol III: January–June 1940. Edited by H. Kenway, H. J. W. Stokes and P. G. Edwards PUBLIC EXPENDITURES AND SOCIAL POLICY IN AUSTRALIA. Volume I: The Whitiam Years. 1972–75. Edited by R. B. Scotton and Helen Ferber FROM WHITLAM TO FRASER: Reform and Reaction in Australian Politics. Edited by Allan Patience and Brian Head ILLUSIONS OF POWER: The fate of a reform government. By Michael Sexton POLITICS BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS: The fragmentation of executive control in Australian government. By Martin Painter and Bernard Carey CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM OR BARRARISM? The Australian Predicament: Essays in Contemporary Political Economy. By E. L. Wheelwright TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC. Volume I. By Ernest Utrecht (with contributions by Kate Short) OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF AUSTRALIAN CORPORATIONS. By Michael Lawriwsky FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN AUSTRALIA: An Annotated Bibliography. By G. J. Crough AUSTRALIAN URBAN POLICY. By Max Neutze FEDERAL POWER IN AUSTRALIA'S CITIES: Essays in Honour of Peter Till. Edited by Patrick N. Troy AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL CITIES: Historical Essays. Edited by J. W. McCarty and C. B. Schedvin THE LAND RACKET: The Real Costs of Property Speculation. By Leonie Sandercock PROTEST AND PUNISHMENT: The Story of the Social and Political Protesters transported to Australia 1788–1868. By George Rudè ‘THIS SIN AND SCANDAL’: Australia's Population Debate 1891–1911. By Neville Hicks THE CONFIDENT YEARS: Australia in the Twenties. By Robert Murray DEPRESSION DOWN UNDER. By Daisy McWilliams and others. Edited by Len Fox THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. By Jon C. Altman and John Nieuwenhuysen. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) KULINMA: Listening to Aboriginal Australians. By H. C. Coombs KAROBRAN: The Story of an Aboriginal Girl. By Monica Clare RACE POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA. By C. M. Tatz ERNEST GILES: EXPLORER AND TRAVELLER 1835–1897. By Ray Ericksen JAPANESE PRISONERS OF WAR IN REVOLT: The Outbreaks at Featherston and Cowra during World War II. By Charlotte Carr-Gregg DIE LIKE THE CARP!: The Story of the Greatest Prison Escape Ever. By Harry Gordon LEGACY: The First Fifty Years. By Mark Lyons POLITICS IN A UNION: The Hursey case. By Tas Bull BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT 1901–1970. By Heather Radi, Peter Spearritt and Elizabeth Hinton A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY 1891–1939. By Jean Fielding and Robert O'Neill LAST OF LANDS Antarctica. By J. F. Lovering and J. R. V. Prescott. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979) PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Its Economic Situation and Prospects for Development PRACTICE WITHOUT POLICY: Genesis of Local Government in Papua New Guinea. By D. M. Fenbury POLITICS AND MODERNIZATION IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA Edited by Robert N. Kearney PEASANTS AND POLITICS: Grass Roots Reaction to Change in Asia. Edited by D. B. Miller MILESTONES ON MY JOURNEY: The Memoirs of Ali Sastroamijoyo, Indonesian Patriot and Political Leader. Edited by C. L. M. Penders PACIFIC ISLANDERS UNDER GERMAN RULE: A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance. By Peter J. Hempenstall TAIM BILONG MANI: The evolution of agriculture in a Solomon Island society. By John Connell JAPAN'S POLITICAL SYSTEM. By Robert E. Ward A THEORY OF JAPANESE DEMOCRACY. By Nobutaka Ike CHINA'S ROLE IN WORLD AFFAIRS. By Michael B. Yahuda CADRES, COMMANDERS, AND COMMISSARS: The Training of the Chinese Communist Leadership, 1920–45. By Jane L. Price THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF HONG KONG. By Norman Miners CONGRESS AND THE RAJ: Facets of the Indian Struggle 1917–47. Edited by D. A. Low COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES, NATIONALISMS AND PROTEST IN MODERN SRI LANKA. Edited by Michael Roberts DOCUMENTS OF THE CEYLON NATIONAL CONGRESS AND NATIONALIST POLITICS IN CEYLON 1929–1950. Edited by Michael Roberts ARMIES AND PARTIES IN AFRICA. By Henry Bienen A POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA. By E. A. Boateng EXPANSION AND REACTION: Essays on European Expansion and Reactions in Asia and Africa. Edited by H. L. Wesseling THE IMPERIAL IMPACT: Studies in the Economic History of Africa and India. Edited by Clive Dewey and A. G. Hopkins RACISM AND POLITICAL ACTION IN BRITAIN. Edited by Robert Miles and Annie Phizacklea THE ORIGINS OF ENGLISH INDIVIDUALISM: The Family, Property and Social Transition. By Alan Macfarlane EMIGRANT GENTLEWOMEN: Genteel poverty and female emigration, 1830–1914. By A. James Hammerton ECONOCIDE: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition. By Seymour Drescher BEYOND ORANGE AND GREEN: The Political Economy of the Northern Ireland Crisis. By Belinda Probert GERMANY 1866–1945. By Gordon A. Craig BONES OF CONTENTION: An Enquiry into East–West Relations. By Terence Garvey POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE USSR. Second Edition. By David Lane SOVIET POLITICAL ELITES: The Case of Tiraspol. By Ronald J. Hill THE SHADOW OF THE WINTER PALACE: The Drift to Revolution 1825–1917. By Edward Crankshaw WOMEN IN SOVIET SOCIETY: Equality, Development and Social Change. By Gail Warshofsky Lapidus APOSTLES INTO TERRORISTS: Women and the Revolutionary Movement in the Russia of Alexander II. By Vera Broido MIDDLE EAST CONTEMPORARY SURVEY, vol. 1, 1976–77. Edited by Colin Legum and Haim Shaked ARMED STRUGGLE IN PALESTINE: A Political-Military Analysis. By Bard E. O'Neill THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By Morton White U. S. OCCUPATION IN EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II: Papers and Reminiscences from the April 23–24, 1976 Conference held at the George C. Marshall Research Foundation, Lexington, Virginia. Edited by Hans A. Schmitt POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN AMERICA. By George C. S. Benson CORRUPTION: A Study in Political Economy. By Susan Rose-Ackerman POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN LATIN AMERICA. Volume I: Citizen and State. Edited by John A. Booth and Mitchell A. Seligson THE THIRD WORLD REVOLUTION. By Fred J. Carrier MY MISSIONS FOR REVOLUTIONARY BOLIVIA, 1944–1962. By Victor Andrade MODERN REVOLUTIONS AND REVOLUTIONISTS: A Bibliography. By Robert Blackey CLASS IDEOLOGY AND ANCIENT POLITICAL THEORY. By Ellen Meiksins Wood and Neal Wood MARX'S THEORY OF POLITICS. By John M. Maguire THE WEALTH OF SOME NATIONS. By Malcolm Caldwell THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DISTRIBUTION: Equality versus Inequality. By Michael Don Ward GRACCHUS BABEUF: The First Revolutionary Communist. By R. B. Rose CRISIS MANAGEMENT: Confrontation and Diplomacy in the Nuclear Age. By Phil Williams PEOPLE AND AGENCIES. By Bernard Schaffer and Elizabeth O'Keeffe LIBERALS AND SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. By Peter Clarke VICTORIANS AT HOME AND AWAY. By Janet and Peter Phillips THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF HERBERT SPENCER. By David NO MAN'S LAND: Combat and Identity in World War I. By Eric J. Leed THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION SYSTEM IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: A Study of the Operation of Leading Professional Journals in Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work. By Duncan Lindsey SPORT IN HISTORY: The Making of Modern Sporting History. Edited by Richard Cashman and Michael McKernan     

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Books reviewed: Baud, Michiel. Intelectuales y sus Utopías LaFrance, David G. Revolution in Mexico's Heartland. Politics, War, and State Building in Puebla 1913–1920 Meighoo, Kirk. Politics in a Half‐Made Society: Trinidad and Tobago 1925–2001 Striffler, Steve and Moberg, Mark (eds.)Banana Wars: Power, Production and History in the Americas Eckstein, Susan and Wickham‐Crowley, Timothy (eds.)What Justice? Whose Justice? Fighting for Fairness in Latin America Haagh, Louise and Helgo, Camilla (eds)Social Policy Reform and Market Governance in Latin America Devoto, Fernando. Nacionalismo, fascismo y tradicionalismo en la Argentina: una histora McCaughan, Michael. The Battle of Venezuela Irwin, Robert McKee, McCaughan, Edward and Nasser, Michelle Rocío (eds)The Famous 41: Sexuality and Social Control in Mexico, 1901 Lesser, Jeffrey (ed.)Searching for Home Abroad. Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism Dávila, Jerry. Diploma of Whiteness. Race and Social Policy in Brazil Reis, João José. Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth‐Century Brazil Naro, Nancy Priscilla (ed.)Blacks, Coloureds and National Identity in Nineteenth‐Century Latin America Salman, Ton and Zoomers, Annelies (eds)Imaging the Andes: Shifting Margins of a Marginal World Guttman, Matthew C. (ed.)Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America Waxer, Lise (ed.)Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meaning in Latin Popular Music     

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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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Book reviewed in this articles. Historical Records of Australia: Resumed Series III Despatches and Papers Relating to the History of Tasmania Volume IX Tasmania, January ‐ December 1830. General Editor Peter Chapman, Co‐editors Peter Chapman and Tim Jetson Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press 1800‐1900. Edited by Judith Johnston and Monica Anderson John Devoy's Catalpa Expedition. Edited by Philip Fennell and Marie King Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War. By Bruce Scates Jack Lang and the Great Depression. By Frank Cain Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and the Formation of Malaysia 1961‐1966. Edited by Moran Dee Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities. By Graeme Davison with Sheryl Yelland Fear and Politics By Carmen Lawrence Disputed Histories: Imagining New Zealand's Pasts. Edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand, Edited by Melanie Nolan Facing Illness in Troubled Times: Health in Europe in the Interwar Years 1918‐1939. Edited by Iris Borowy and Wolf D. Gruner Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography. By Janet Browne The Dilemmas of De‐Stalinization. Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era. Edited by Polly Jones Anti‐Chinese Violence in Indonesia: 1996‐1999. By Jemma Purdey. Marx's Das Kapital. A Biography. By Francis Wheen     

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

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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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Book reviewed in this issue. Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes: The Colonisation of the Australian Economic Landscape. By Dale Kerwin Australia: William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. Edited by Harry Allen Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes. By Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill The Frauenstein Letters: Aspects of Nineteenth Century Emigration from the Duchy of Nassau to Australia. By Kathrine M. Reynolds Not Quite White: Lebanese and the White Australia Policy 1880 to 1947. By Anne Monsour Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist. By David Lee The Australian Road to Singapore: The Myth of British Betrayal. By Augustine Meaher IV. Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan. By Christine De Matos A Three‐Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock. By Jim Davidson The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 3 1962–1983 with an introduction by Harry Evans. Edited by Anne Miller and Geoffrey Browne Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities. By Anne Tiernan and Patrick Weller Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class. By Tom Bramble and Rick Kuhn All That's Left: What Labor Should Stand For. Edited by Nick Dyrenfurth and Tim Soutphommasane The Quest for Justice. By Ken Crispin The Politics of Human Rights in Australia. By Louise Chappell John Chesterman and Lisa Hill Australia. The State of Democracy. By Marian Sawer, Norman Abjorensen and Phil Larkin. What Were They Thinking? The Politics of Ideas in Australia. By James Walter with Tod Moore Throwing off the Cloak: Reclaiming Self‐reliance in Torres Strait. By Elizabeth Osborne Pacific Ways: Government and Politics in the Pacific Islands. Edited by Stephen Levine The Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists. Edited by William Sweet Churchill's Secret War. The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War Two. By Madhusree Mukerjee Redefining British Politics: Culture, Consumerism and Participation, 1954–70. By Lawrence Black Confronting Hitler. German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929–1933. By William Smaldone Italy Today, the Sick Man of Europe. Edited by Andrea Mammone and Giuseppe Veltri Resentment in History. By Marc Ferro, trans. Steven Rendall Power and the Past: Collective Memory and International Relations. By Eric Langenbacher and Yossi Shain (editors) Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth‐Century Britain. By Peter J. Bowler     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia J. Arnson, eds., Latin American Populism in the Twenty‐First Century. Todd A. Eisenstadt, Michael S. Danielson, Moisés Jaime Bailón Corres, and Carlos Sorroza Polo, eds., Latin America's Multicultural Movements: The Struggle Between Communitarianism, Autonomy, and Human Rights. Stephen B. Kaplan, Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America. Jorge Lanzaro, ed., Presidencialismo y parlamentarismo América Latina y Europa Meridional: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, España, Italia, México, Portugal y Uruguay. William Michael Schmidli, The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy Toward Argentina. Aaron Schneider, State‐Building and Tax Regimes in Central America. Dag Mossige, Mexico's Left: The Paradox of the PRD. Peter H. Smith and Andrew Selee, eds., Mexico and the United States: The Politics of Partnership.     

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Book reviewed in this article: ADVANCE AUSTRALIA—WHERE? Edited by B. D. Beddie. DIPLOMACY AND ENTERPRISE: British China Policy 1933–1937. By Stephen Lyon Endicott. INQUIRY AND DECISION. By John O'Shaughnessy. THE WARSAW PACT: Case Studies in Communist Conflict Resolution. By Robin Alison Remington. PAKISTAN UNDER CHALLENGE. By L. F. Rushbrook Williams. SOCIAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PRACTICE. By Brian Fay. THE EVOLUTION OF THE LABOUR PARTY 1910–1924. By Ross McKibbin. THE EMERGENCE OF PROBABILITY: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. By Ian Hacking. AUSTRALIA AND THE NON-WHITE MIGRANT. Edited by Kenneth Rivett. THE STATE, SOCIETY AND SELF-DESTRUCTION, Edited by Elizabeth Vallance. ITALIAN FOREIGN POLICY 1870–1940. By C. J. Lowe and F. Marzari. THE CARDINAL PROTECTORS OF ENGLAND: Rome and the Tudors before the Reformation. By William E. Wilkie. TUDOR DYNASTIC PROBLEMS 1460–1571. By Mortimer Levine. BOTSWANA: A Short Political History. By Anthony Sillery. ZAMBIA: Security and Conflict. By Jan Pettman. POLITICS AND HIGHER EDUCATION. By John D. Millett. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. BENTHAM AND LEGAL THEORY. Edited by M. H. James. WOMEN AND VOTING STUDIES: Mindless Matrons or Sexist Scientism? By Murray Goot and Elizabeth Reid. BRITISH IMMIGRANTS AND AUSTRALIA: A Psycho-Social Inquiry. By Alan Richardson. A HISTORY OF CONTRACT AT COMMON LAW. By S. J. Stoljar. CHINESE MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT IN AUSTRALIA. By C. Y. Choi. MINORITIES IN MADRAS STATE: Group Interests in Modern Politics. By S. Saraswati. THE KURIL ISLANDS: Russo-Japanese Frontier in the Pacific. By John J. Stephan. THE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE THREAT TO THE WEST: Four Studies in Global Strategy. Edited by Patrick Wall. AN AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE: Words from the Vietnam Years. By Allan Ashbolt. MODERN JAPAN: Aspects of History, Literature and Society. Edited by W. G. Beasley. CHARISMATIC BUREAUCRAT: A Political Biography of Matsudaira Sadanobu, 1758–1829. By Herman Ooms. THE ALLIED OCCUPATION OF JAPAN, 1945–1952: An Annotated Bibliography of Western-Language Materials. By Robert E. Ward and Frank Joseph Shulman. OUT OF THE WILDERNESS The Return of Labor. By C. J. Lloyd and G. S. Reid. RISE UP, WOMEN! The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union 1903–1914. By Andrew Rosen. GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONS. Volume 1. Compiled by C. A. Burmester. THE TIMES REPORTS THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: Extracts from The Times 1860–1865. Edited by Hugh Brogan. NATIONALISM: The Nature and Evolution of an Idea. Edited by Eugene Kamenka. THE BALTIC DILEMMA: The Case of the De Jure Recognition by Australia of the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. By Edgars Dunsdorfs. THE SECOND EMPIRE AND THE PRESS: A Study of Government-Inspired Brochures on French Foreign Policy in Their Propaganda Milieu. By Natalie Isser. CROMWELLIAN IRELAND: English Government and Reform in Ireland 1949–1660. By T. C. Barnard. SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE CITY. By D. Harvey. THE INTRUDERS: Refugee Doctors in Australia. By Egon F. Kunz. IRISH ISSUES IN NEWZEALAND POLITICS 1868–1922. By Richard P. Davis. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS: A Reader. Edited by Stephen Levine. DECISIONS IN ISRAEL'S FOREIGN POLICY. By Michael Brecher. KARL MARX. By Michael Evans. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THOUGHT: A Comparison of the Theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser. By Miriam Glucksmann. THE CONCEPT OF SOCIALISM. Edited by Bhikhu Parekh. ETHICAL CONDUCT: Guidelines for Government Employees. By Kenneth Kernaghan. KNOX: A History of Knox Grammar School 1924–1974. By Bruce Mansfield. RESPONSIBILITY SHARING IN A FEDERAL SYSTEM. Edited by R. L. Mathews. Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Australian National University, Research Monograph No. 8. TEACHERS, EDUCATION AND POLITICS: A History of Organizations of Public School Teachers in New South Wales. By Bruce Mitchell. THE PROBLEM OF PARTY GOVERNMENT. By Richard Rose. THE ORIGINS OF CROWD PSYCHOLOGY. Gustave LeBon and the Crisis of Mass Democracy in the Third Republic By Robert A. Nye. CONQUEST OF MIND: Phrenology and Victorian Social Thought. By David de Giustino. AUSTRALIA'S NEW GUINEA QUESTION. Edited by W. J. Hudson. A DANGEROUS PLACE: The United Nations as a Weapon in World Politics. By Abraham Yeselson and Anthony Gaglione. SOCIOLOGY AS SOCIAL CRITICISM. By T. B. Bottomore. J. S. MILL. By Alan Ryan. A DIVIDED SOCIETY: Tasmania during World War I. By Marilyn Lake. EDWARDIAN RADICALISM 1900–1914: Some Aspects of British Radicalism. Edited by A. J. A. Morris. WITHOUT SYMPATHY OR ENTHUSIASM: The Problem of Administrative Compassion. By Victor A. Thompson.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East , by Leon Hadar Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq , by Larry Diamond Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam , by Robert Dreyfuss The Road Ahead: Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration's Second Term , edited by Flynt Leverett My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope , by L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism , by Michael Provence Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad , by Natana J. Delong‐Bas Reframing Anti‐Semitism: Alternative Jewish Perspectives , Jewish Voice for Peace, eds. Parting Ways: The Crisis in German‐American Relations , by Stephen F. Szabo     

Book Reviews

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

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Cristian C. Baeza and Truman G. Packard, Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America. Eduardo Duhalde, Comunidad sudamericana: logros y desafíos de la integración. Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz, eds., Enforcing the Rule of Law: Social Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies. Laurence Wolff, Juan Carlos Navarro, and Pablo González, eds., Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America. Lessie Jo Frazier, Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation‐State in Chile, 1890 to the Present. Carlos Huneeus, The Pinochet Regime. Translated by Lake Sagaris. J. Christopher Kovats‐Bernat, Sleeping Rough in Port‐au‐Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti. Teresa Alfaro‐Velcamp, So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico. John Tofik Karam, Another Arabesque: Syrian‐Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil. Alberto Ulloa Bornemann, Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political Prisoner's Memoir. Lewis Taylor, Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern Highlands, 1980–1997.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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 issue. Australia's Empire. Edited by Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward, The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series, Editor‐in‐Chief, Wm. Roger Louis Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era. By Babette Smith Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station. By Hamish Maxwell‐Stewart Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia Since 1826. By Geoffrey Bolton The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police. By Jonathan Richards Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a Nation. By Anne Henderson J.V. Barry: A Life. By Mark Finnane Roma the First: A Biography of Dame Roma Mitchell. By Susan Magarey and Kerrie Round The Godfather: The Life of Brian Burke. By Quentin Beresford Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004–2007. Edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall Indigenous Peoples: Self‐Determination, Knowledge, Indigeneity. Edited by Henry Minde The Queen's Other Realms: The Crown and Its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. By Peter Boyce Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice. By Julian Burnside Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia. By Linda Briskman, Susie Latham, and Chris Goddard Literary and Social Diasporas: An Italian Australian Perspective. Edited by Gaetano Rando and Gerry Turcotte Tell It As It Is: Autobiography of Rt Hon Sir Peter Kenilorea KBE PC Solomon Islands' First Prime Minister. By Peter Kenilorea. Edited by Clive Moore Brilliant Women: 18^th‐Century Bluestockings. By Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz The Victorians and Germany. By John R. Davis Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe. By Robert Gildea, Olivier Wieviorka and Anette Warring Burning Books. By Matthew Fishburn Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. By Marcy Norton The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. By Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier and Patrick Reedy Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality. By Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention. By John Cooper Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History. Edited by A. Dirk Moses A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present. By Bruce Haddock The Trouble with Theory: The Educational Costs of Postmodernism. By Gavin Kitching Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification. Edited by Ronald Cole‐Turner The Allure of Machinic Life — Cybernetics. Artificial Life, and the New AI. By Harvey Johnston     

Drugs,Violence, and Corruption: Perspectives from Mexico and Central America

Robert J. Bunker, ed., Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas: The Gangs and Cartels Wage War. New York: Routledge, 2013. Tables, figures, index, 210 pp.; hardcover $160, paperback $56.95. Robert J. Bunker and John P. Sullivan, Studies in Gangs and Cartels. New York: Routledge, 2014. Tables, figures, index, 232 pp.; hardcover $168, paperback $54.95. Michael Deibert, In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico. Guilford: Lyons Press, 2014. Map, bibliography, index, 336 pp.; hardcover $24.95, paperback $16.95. Alfredo Nateras Domínguez, Vivo por mi madre y muero por mi barrio. Significados de la violencia y la muerte en el Barrio 18 y la Mara Salvatrucha. Mexico City: Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud (IMJUVE)/Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL), 2014. Figures, bibliography, 493 pp.; paperback. Sala Negra de El Faro, eds., Crónicas negras desde una región que no cuenta. Mexico City: Aguilar, 2014. 350 pp.; paperback $17. Héctor Silva Ávalos, Infiltrados: crónica de la corrupción en la PNC (1992–2013). San Salvador: UCA Ediciones, 2014. 312 pp.; paperback $10.     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839. By Colin Dyer Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Capetown, 1820–1850. By Kirsten McKenzie Varieties of Vice‐Regal Life (Van Diemen's Land Section). By Sir William and Lady Denison. Edited by Richard Davis and Stefan Petrow A Nation's Imagination: Australia's Copyright Records, 1854–1968. By Merilyn Minell Australia In Focus: Photographs in the National Archives. By Peter Nagle The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe Explorer. Edited with an introduction by Peter Monteath After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860–1940. Edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War. By Tanja Luckins Bigger Than Gallipoli: War, History and Memory in Australia. By Liz Reed Reconsidering Gallipoli. By Jenny Macleod Pompey Elliott. By Ross McMullin John Wren: A Life Reconsidered. By James Griffin Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship. By Chanan Reich It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor. Edited by Jenny Hocking and Colleen Lewis Blackfellas Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race. By Gillian Cowlishaw The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration. Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel Australian Cinema after Mabo. By Felicity Collins and Therese Davies Journey into Darkness. By Winton Higgins Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Gerry Treuren God Under Howard: the Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics. By Marion Maddox The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History. Edited by Stuart Macintyre Imagining Australia: Ideas for Our Future. By Macgregor Duncan, Andrew Leigh, David Madden and Peter Tynan Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait. By Anna Shnukal, Guy Ramsey and Yuriko Nagata Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor. By Clinton Fernandes Abdurrahman Wahid. Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: a View From the Inside. By Greg Barton Pacific Journeys, Essays in Honour of John Dunmore. Edited by Glynnis M. Cropp et al. Pacific Places, Pacific Histories: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste. Edited by Brij V. Lal The Manipulation of Custom: From Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands. By Jon Fraenkel Perceptions of Race and Nation in English and American Travel Writers, 1833–1914. By Erik S. Schmeller Europe's Pasts and Presents: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History Diplomaten und Agenten. Nachrichtendienste in der Geschichte der deutsch‐amerikanischen Beziehungen. Edited by Reinhard R. Doerries Fascists. By Michael Mann The Anatomy of Fascism. By Robert O. Paxton City: Urbanism and its End. By Douglas W. Rae World‐Systems Analysis: An Introduction. By Immanuel Wallerstein Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood. By James Connelly Action as History: The Historical Thought of R. G. Collingwood. By Stein Helgeby “How Good an Historian Shall I be?” R. G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education. By Marnie Hughes‐Warrington