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

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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: A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA. Volume IV: The Earth Abideth For Ever 1851–1888. By C.M.H. Clark AUSTRALIAN LIBERALISM AND NATIONAL CHARACTER. By Tim Rowse INSIDE THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT. By David Solomon THE GOVERNMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY. By Ruth Atkins THE ADVANCEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN NEW SOUTH WALES TO THE PRESENT. By F.A. Larcombe FEDERAL AID TO AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS. By Don Smart THE JOURNEY TO WORK. By Ian Manning SILVER, SIN, AND SIXPENNY ALE: A Social History of Broken Hill 1883–1921. By Brian Kennedy LITERATURE AND THE ABORIGINE IN AUSTRALIA. By J.J. Healy TRADE PRACTICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION: A Commentary on the Trade Practices Act 1974. Second edition. By G.Q. Taperell, R.B. Vermeesch and D.J. Harland POSTAL UNIONS AND POLITICS: A History of the Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union of Australla. By Frank Waters AUSTRALIAN ARMOUR: A History of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, 1927–1972. By R.N.L. Hopkins CHAUVEL OF THE LIGHT HORSE: A Biography of General Sir Harry Chauvel, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. By A.J. Hill PATRIARCH AND PATRIOT: William Grant Broughton 1788–1853, Colonial Statesman and Ecclesiastic. By G.P. Shaw THE AGRICULTURAL BUREAU: A Sociological Study. By Alan W. Black and Russell A. Craig COLONIAL EVE: Souras on Women in Australia 1788–1914. Edited by Ruth Teale THE CATHOLIC CAMPAIGN FOR STATE AID: A Study of a Pressure Group Campaign in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory 1950–1972. By M.C. Hogan LAST QUARTER: The Next Twenty-five Years in Asia and the Pacific. By Malcolm Booker EMPLOYMENT, INCOMES AND MIGRATION IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA TOWNS. By Ross Garnaut, Michael Wright and Richard Curtain POLITICS IN NEW ZEALAND: A Reader. Edited by Stephen Levine THE INDONESIAN TRAGEDY. By Brian May UNLESS HASTE IS MADE: A French Skeptic's Account of the Sandwich Islands in 1836. By Th^Codore-Adolph Barrot. Translated by Rev. Daniel Dole SELF AND BIOGRAPHY: Essays on the Individual and Society in Asia. Edited by Wang Gungwu THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA. Volume 10: LateCh'ing. 1800–1911, Part 1. Edited by D.C. Twitchett and J.K. Fairbank 20th CENTURY CHINA. Third edition. By O. Edmund Clubb A SHORT HISTORY OF CHINA. By Gwendda Milston P'YONGYANG BETWEEN PEKING AND MOSCOW: North Korea's Involvement in the Sino-Soviet Dispute, 1958–1975. By Chin 0. Chung POLITICAL CHANGE IN AN INDIAN STATE: Mysore 1917–1955. By James Manor BETWEEN A TORY AND A LIBERAL: Bombay under Sir James Fergusson, 1880–85. By Amit Kumar Gupta NEHRU AND THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT. By V.T. Patil BUSINESSMEN AND POLITICS: Rising Nationalism and a Modernising Economy in Bombay, 1918–1933. By A.D.D. Gordon A HISTORY OF LADAKH. By A.H. Francke THE KILLING OF THE IMAM: South African Tyranny defied by Courage and Faith. By Barney Desai and Cardiff Morney BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN AN ERA OF REFORM. Edited by W.J. Stankiewicz LABOUR AND THE LEFT IN THE 1930s. By Ben Pimlott CONSERVATIVE DISSIDENTS: Dissent within the Parliamentary Conservative Party 1970–74. By Philip Norto BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY UNDER SIR EDWARD GREY. Edited by F.H. Hinsley LLOYD GEORGE AND FOREIGN POLICY. Volume one: The Education of a Statesman: 1890–1916. By Michael G. Fry WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM: The Great Commoner. By Peter Douglas Brown I. Paul Langord, ‘William Pitt and public opinion, 1757’ 2. John Brewer, Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III 3. Stanley Ayling, The Elder Pitt THE CHURCH AND POLITICS IN THIRTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND: The Career of Adam Orletonc. 1275–1345. By Roy Martin Haines ISSUE VOTING AND PARTY REALIGNMENT. By Donald S. Strong AGGRESSION AMERICAN STYLE. By William H. Blanchard EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT SINCE WORLD WAR II. Edited by Paul R. Schratz EMERGENCY EMPLOYMENT: A Study in Federalism. By Howard W. Hallman CONTAINMENT: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945–1950. Edited by Thomas H. Etzold and John Lewis Gaddis THE POLITICS OF ATTRACTION: Four Middle Powers and the United States. By Annette Baker Fox CLASS, RACE, AND WORKER INSURGENCY: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers. By James A. Geschwender THE FRONTIER IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY. By Alistair Hennessey PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE SECRETARIES—GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS. Volume 8: 1968–1971, U Thant. Edited by Andrew W. Cordier and Max Harrelson SUEZ 1956: A Personal Account. By Selwyn Lloyd CONSCIOUSNESS AND HISTORY: Nationalist Critics of Creeksociety 1897–1914. By Gerasirnos Augustinos THE POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP: Pompey and Cicero. By Beryl Rawson EPIRUS. By Arthur FosS THE SOVIET UNION AND INTERNATIONAL OIL POLITICS. By Arthur Jay Klinghoffer A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HUNGARIAN COMMUNIST PARTY. By Miklós Molnár FEUDALISM. By J.S. Critchley MARXIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: An Outline. By James F. Becker THE POLITICS OF BUREAUCRACY: A Comparative Perspective. By B. Guy Peters HUMAN RIGHTS. Edited by Eugene Kamenka and Alice Erh-Soon Tay ADAM SMITH'S POLITICS: An Essay in Historiographic Revision. By Donald Winch ASPECTS OF POLITICAL THEORY: Classical Concepts in an Age of Relativism. By W.J. Stankiewicz THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF LEON TROTSKY. By Baruch Knei-Paz FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY. Edited by James M. Buchanan and Richard E. Wagner ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC POLICY. By J. Marcus Fleming THE PROCESS OF ECONOMIC PLANNING. By Zoltan Kenessey THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM. By Hermann Glaser THE NEW LIBERALISM: An Ideology of Social Reform. By Michael Freeden EXPERIENCE AND ITS MODES. By Michael Oakeshott REVOLUTIONS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: Four Theories. By Barbara Salert ACTION AND INTERPRETATION: Studies in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Edited by Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit JOHN LOCKE AND THE THEORY OF SOVEREIGNTY: Mixed Monarchy nnd the Right of Resistance in the Political Thought of the English Revolution. By Julian H. Franklin THE JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY, 49, 1977 — Special Issue on the English Revolution. Edited by William H. McNeill     

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

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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: Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967 , by William B. Quandt. Securing Peace in the Middle East: Project on Economic Transition , by the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East of the John F. The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present , by George W. Ball and Douglas B. Ball. Quagmire: America in the Middle East , by Leon T. Hadar. Sleeping on A Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel , by David Grossman. Translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman. Breaking the Ice: Rapprochement Between East and West Germany, the United States and China and Israel and Egypt , by Tony Armstrong. Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East , by David W. Lesch. The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq , by Kenneth R. Timmerman. After the Storm: The Changing Military Balance in the Middle East , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East , by Anthony H. Cordesman. Postmodernism, Reason and Religion by Ernest Gellner.     

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

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Book reviewed in this article:
THE CONVENTIONS OF CRISIS: A Study in Diplomatic Management. By Coral Bell.
DIPLOMACY OF ILLUSION: The British Government and Germany, 1937–39. By Keith Middlemas.
LOCARNO DIPLOMACY: Germany and the West 1925–1929. By Jon Jacobson.
ILLUSIONS OF SECURITY: North Atlantic Diplomacy, 1918–22. By Michael G. Fry.
THE FRENCH AND THE DARDANELLES: A Study of Failure in the Conduct of War. By George H. Cassar. London, Ceorge Allen & Unwin     

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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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MAX WEBER: Essays in Reconstruction By Wilhelm Hennis. Translated by Keith Tribe.
IMPERIAL CHALLENGE: Ambassador Count Bernstorff and German-American Relations, 1908–1917 By Reinhard R. Doerries.
THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC By Eberhard Kolb. Translated by P. S. Falla.
HITLER AND SPAIN: The Nazi Role in the Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 By Robert H. Whealey.
MALE FANTASIES: Volume 2, Male Bodies: Psychoanalyzing the White Terror By Klaus Theweleit.
DIE HABERMAS-KONTROVERSE: Ein deutscher Streit By Imanuel Geiss.
WIE DAS BÜRGERTUM DIE MOD-ERNE FAND ("How the Middle Classes found Modernity") By Thomas Nipperdey.
A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF AUSTRIA By Melanie Sully.
THE AUSTRIAN PARTY SYSTEM Edited by Anton Pelinka and Fritz Plasser.
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AT FORTY Edited by Peter H. Merkl.
TRADE UNION THEORY FROM MARX TO WALESA By John A. Moses.     

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Book reviewed in this article: FEVER, SQUALOR AND VICE: Sanitation and Social Policy in Victorian Sydney. By A.J.C. Mayne. THE MAKING OF A LABOR POLITICIAN: Family and Politics in South Australia, 1900–1980. A Biography. By Penelope Hetherington. POLITICS OF LAW REFORM: Investigating the Powers and Influences behind Australia's Laws. By Stan Ross. WHAT ROUGH BEAST? The State and Social Order in Australian History. By Sydney Labour History Group. ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: The impact of the atom on Australia and the world. By Harry and Jill Redner. IMMIGRANTS AND THE MEDIA? Case Studies in Newspaper Reporting. By Naomi Rosh White and Peter B. White. THE BIG STRIKES. QUEENSLAND 1889–1965. Edited by D.J. Murphy. TAKING AUSTRALIA OFF THE MAP: Facing the threat of nuclear war. By Jim Falk. AUSTRALIA'S EXTERNAL RELATIONS IN THE 1980s-The Interaction of Economic, Political and Strategic Factors. Edited by Paul Dibb. TOWARDS TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT. Edited by Ann Hodgkinson. GIRMITIYAS: The Origins of the Fiji Indians. By Brij V. Lal. PACIFIC PROTEST: The Maasina Rule Movement, Solomon Islands, 1944–1952. Edited by Hugh Laracy. THE INDIAN OCEAN-Region of Conflict or ‘Peace Zone’? By Dieter Braun. Translated by Carol Geldhart and Kathleen Llanivarne. TUVALU: A History. Edited by Hugh Laracy. THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLICS OF EASTERN EUROPE. By Jürgen Tampke. OF BREAD AND GUNS: The World Economy in Crisis. By Nigel Harris. THE ORGANIZATION AND CO-ORDINATION OF LA FRANCOPHONIE. By William W. Bostock. BRITAIN, EUROPE AND THE WORLD, 1850–1982: Delusions of Grandeur. By Bernard Porter, London, George Allen and Unwin THE SUCCESSOR GENERATION: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF POSTWAR EUROPEANS. Edited by Stephen F. Szabo. POLITICAL REPRESSION IN 19th CENTURY EUROPE. By Robert Justin Goldstein. BRITISH ECONOMISTS AND THE EMPIRE. By John Cunningham Wood. POLITICAL IDEAS OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS 1641–1649. A collection of representative texts with a commentary. ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN BURGUNDY SINCE 1850. By Robert Aldrich. RESISTANCE AND COMPROMISE: The Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics. By Peter Holmes. AN ATLAS OF RURAL PROTEST IN BRITAIN 1548–1900. Edited by Andrew Charlesworth. THE TORY CASE. By Chris Patten. TRADE UNIONS IN BRITISH POLITICS. Edited by Ben Pimlott and Chris Cook. THE LEGEND OF RED CLYDESIDE. By lain McLean. CAPITAL AND CLASS IN SCOTLAND. Edited by Tony Dickson. WIVES AND PROPERTY: REFORM OF THE MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY LAW IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND. By Lee Holcombe. THE GERMAN WORKING CLASS, 1888–1933. Edited by Richard J. Evans. GREGOR STRASSER AND THE RISE OF NAZISM. By Peter D. Strachura. THE NAZI MACHTERGREIFUNG. Edited by Peter D. Stachura. THE GDR: MOSCOW'S GERMAN ALLY. By David Childs. THE NAZI PARTY: A SOCIAL PROFILE OF MEMBERS AND LEADERS, 1919–1945. By Michael H. Kater. NIETZSCHE IN GERMAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY 1890–1918. By Richard Hinton Thomas. WILHELM LIEBKNECHT, Letters to the Chicago Workingman's Advocate November 26, 1870-December 2, 1871. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Philip S. Foner. PROTEST UND REPRESSIONIM VORMÄRZ: Norddeutschland zwischen Restauration und Revolution. By Hans-Gerhard Husung. PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY A YEARBOOK, VOL. 1, 1982. Edited by Eveline Cruickshanks. DICTATORSHIP OVER NEEDS. By Ferenc Fehér, Agnes Heller and György Márkus. NEO-MARXIST THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT. Edited by Peter Limqueco and Bruce McFarlane. PARLIAMENT AND BUREAUCRACY. PARLIAMENTARY SCRUTINY OF ADMINISTRATION: PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS IN THE 1980s. Edited by J. R. Nethercote. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (Key Concepts in International Relations: 1). By Clive Archer. BEYOND THE STATE: DOMINANT THEORIES AND SOCIALIST STRATEGIES. By Boris Frankel. THE IRRELEVANCE OF CONVENTIONAL ECONOMICS. By Thomas Balogh. THE PHILOSOPHY OF LEADERSHIP. By Christopher Hodgkinson. HEINRICH HEINE: HISTORY OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY IN GERMANY. Edited, with Introduction and Notes by Paul Lawrence Rose. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE DEED. Reflections on the Passage of Faust. By Harry Redner. THE REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE 1500–1750. By A. Rupert Hall. THE MALTHUS LIBRARY CATALOGUE: The Personal Collection of Thomas Robert Malthus at Jesus College, Cambridge. Edited by Edward Gray.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume I , edited by Augustus Richard Norton.
War and Peace in the Middle East: A Critique of American Policy , by Avi Shlaim.
Beyond Alliance: Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy , by Camille Mansour.
Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad , by Ziad Abu-Amr.
The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World , by Gilles Kepel.
Water Wars: Coming Conflicts in the Middle East , by John Bulloch and Adel Darwish.
Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication Culture and the Iranian Revolution , by Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi.
Don't Kill the Messenger: The Tragic Story of Wells Hangen and Other Journalistic Combat Victims , by Charles Arnot.
A Persian Requiem , by Simin Daneshvar, translated from the Farsi by Roxane Zand.     

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Book reviewed in this article: LA TERRE EST LE SANG DES MORTS: NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE DU PASSE AU PRESENT. By Jean Guiart. NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE: LA REVOLTE KANAKE. By Claude Gabriel and Vincent Kennel. L'IRRUPTION KANAK: DE CALEDONIE A KANAKY. By Marc Coulon, Preface by Léopold Jorédié. NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE: UN SIECLE DE BALLES PERDUES. By Marc Weitzmann, with chapters by Jean Guiart and Jean Chesneaux. L'UTOPIE CALEDONIENNE. By Jean-Marie Colombani. NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE: ILS VEULENT RESTER FRANCAIS. By Thierry Desjardins. L'ENJEU KANAK. By Patrick Paitel. REVIEW ARTICLE: WEST GERMANY'S POLICY TOWARDS THE EAST: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION From Cold War to Ostpolitik.By Michael Freund. THE ELECTRONIC ESTATE: NEW COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA AND AUSTRALIA. By Trevor Ban. DAYS OF WRATH. A LIFE OF JOHN DUNMORE LANG. By D.W.A. Baker. AUSTRALIA AND THE JEWISH REFUGEES 1933–1948. By Michael Blakeney. AVE A GO, YER MUG! AUSTRALIAN CRICKET CROWDS FROM LARRIKIN TO OCKER. By Richard Cashman. UNIONS AGAINST CAPITALISM: A Sociological Comparison of the Australian building and metal workers' unions. By Stephen J. Frenkel and Alice Coolican. SHORE: A history of Sydney Church of England Grammar School. By Geoffrey Sherington. A GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF QUEENSLAND. Compiled by W. Ross Johnston and Margaret Zerner. SURRENDER AUSTRALIA? ESSAYS IN THE STUDY OF THE USES OF HISTORY. Edited by Andrew Markus and M.C. Ricklefs. THE LIBERALS: FACTIONS, FEUDS AND FANCIES. By Patrick O'Brien. THE WEST VICTORIA SEPARATION MOVEMENT. Edited by K.K. O'Donoghue. MONASH AS MILITARY COMMANDER. By P.A. Pedersen. THE HATCH AND BROOD OF TIME. A Study of the First Generation of Native-Born White Australians. Vol. 1. By Portia Robinson. AUSTRALIAN WOMEN AND THE POLITICAL SYSTEM. Edited by Marian Simms. FIGHTERS AND SINGERS: THE LIVES OF SOME AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL WOMEN. Edited by Isobel White, Diane Barwick and Betty Meehan. DAVID LANGE — PRIME MINISTER. By Vernon Wright. EUROPEAN VISION AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC. 2nd ed. By Bernard Smith. SIR ALLAN NAPIER MACNAB. By Donald R. Beer. A CONTINENT APART: THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN WORLD POLITICS. By William T. R. Fox. CITIZEN HUGHES. By Michael Drosnin. SECRET AGENDA. By Jim Hougan. RACE, REFORM AND REBELLION: THE SECOND RECONSTRUCTION IN BLACK AMERICA, 1945–1982. By Manning Marable. TRADE, PLUNDER AND SETTLEMENT. MARITIME ENTERPRISE AND THE GENESIS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1480–1630. By Kenneth R. Andrews. FOOL-PROOF RELATIONS: THE SEARCH FOR ANGLO-AMERICAN NAVAL CO-OPERATION DURING THE CHAMBERLAIN YEARS, 1937–1940. By Malcolm Murfett. POLITICS WITHOUT DEMOCRACY. GREAT BRITAIN, 1815–1914. Perception and Preoccupation in British Government. By Michael Bentley. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN BRITAIN. By John Greenwood and David Wilson. BESIEGED: THE WORLD WAR II ORDEAL OF MALTA, 1940–1942. By Charles A. Jellison. MEN OF BUSINESS AND POLITICS. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE QUAKER PEASE DYNASTY OF NORTH-EAST ENGLAND, 1700–1943, By M.W. Kirby. JACOBITISM AND TORY POLITICS 1710-14. By D. Szechi. PRIDE'S PURGE: POLITICS IN THE PURITAN REVOLUTION. By David Underdown. DID BRITISH CAPITALISM BREED INEQUALITY? By Jeffrey G. Williamson. A FUTURE THAT WILL WORK. By David Owen. DANIEL MANNIX AND IRELAND. By Colm Kiernan. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE MILITIA ISSUE. By John Robertson. LOVE AND POWER IN THE PEASANT FAMILY. RURAL FRANCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, By Martine Segalen. Translated by Sarah Matthews. SICHERHEIT UND ENTSPANNUNG: ZUR AUSSENPOLITIK DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND 1955–1982. By Helga Haftendorn. UNTER KAISERS FLAGGE: DEUTSCHLANDS SCHUTZGEBIETE IM PAZIFIK UND IN CHINA EINST UND HEUTE. By Joachim Schultz-Naumann. THE PECULIARITIES OF GERMAN HISTORY — Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth Century Germany. By David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley. DEUTSCHE GESCHICHTE 1800–1866. BÜRGERWELT UND STARKER STAAT. By Thomas Nipperdey. GESCHICHTE DER STAATSIDEEN. By Reinhold Zippelius. POLAND TO PEARL HARBOR: THE MAKING OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By William Carr, Edward Arnold POLAND'S SELF-LIMITING REVOLUTION. By Jadwiga Staniszkis. Edited by Jan T. Gross. POLAND 1981. TOWARDS SOCIAL RENEWAL. By Peter Raina. THE SOVIET ECONOMY: TOWARD THE YEAR 2000. By Abram Bergson and Herbert S. Levine. LIFE SENTENCE. MEMOIRS OF A UKRAINIAN POLITICAL PRISONER. By Danylo Shumuk. Edited by Ivan Jaworsky. WOMEN AND RUSSIA. Feminist writings from the Soviet Union. Edited by Tatyana Mamonovna. WHITE LIBERALS, MODERATES AND RADICALS IN RHODESIA 1953–1980. By Ian Hancock. ISLAM IN REVOLUTION: FUNDAMENTALISM IN THE ARAB WORLD. By R. Hrair Dekmejian. BURIED ALIVE. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF AN INDIAN REVOLUTIONARY. By Sardar Ajit Singh. Edited by Pardaman Singh and J. S. Dhanki. WOMEN IN INDIA AND NEPAL. By Michael Allen and S.N. Mukherjee. THEORIES OF IMPERIALISM. WAR, CONQUEST AND CAPITAL. By Norman Etherington. TORTURE IN THE EIGHTIES: AN AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT. BEHIND THE LINES: One Woman's War 1914-18. The Letters of Caroline Ethel Cooper. Edited and with an introduction by Decie Denholm.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite , by Robert D. Kaplan. The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East , by Richard B. Parker. Peace for Palestine: First Lost Opportunity , by Elmer Berger. Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the U.S.-Israeli Relationship , by Paul Findley Profits of War , by Ari Ben-Menashe. Americans and the Palestinian Question: The U.S. Public Debate on Palestinian Nationhood, 1973–1978 , by Marianne van Leeuwen. Wasta: The Hidden Force in Middle Eastern Society , by Robert B. Cunningham and Yasin K. Sarayrah. Oil Trade: Politics and Prospects , by J. E. Hartshorn. The Forgotten Queens of Islam , by Fatima Mernissi. Translated from French by Mary Jo Lakeland.     

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Book reviewed in this article: A HISTORY OF THE PHILLIP DISTRICT: Victoria Before Separation By A. G. L Shaw. NORTHERN TERRITORY DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY Volume 3 Edited by David Carment and Helen J. Wilson. THE WAR DIARIES OF EDDIE ALLAN STANTON By Hank Nelson. HARTNETT: PORTRAIT OF A TECHNOCRATIC BRIGAND By Joe Rich. SUSPECT HISTORY: Manning Clark and the Future of Australia's Past By Humphrey McQueen. THE MIGHTY WAVE: The 1798 Rebellion in Wexford Edited by Dáire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong. ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION: Planting the Green Bough By E. W. McFarland. POLITICAL WRITINGS OF THE 1790s Edited by Gregory Claeys. THE THUNDERBOLT OF REASON By Graham Bain. THE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN ON CD-ROM Edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. The library edition re-issued with an introduction by Michael Wheeler and a history of the library edition by James S. Dearden. FRANCE ABROAD Edited by Robert Aldrich and Isabelle Merle. EUROPE: Retrospects and Prospects Edited by John Perkins and Jürgen Tampke. PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP DURING CANADA'S GREAT WAR By Jeffrey A. Keshen. THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVES: Electoral Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region Edited by Graham Hassall and Cheryl Saunders. LEGITIMATING THE CHINESE ECONOMIC REFORMS: A Rhetoric or Myth and Orthodoxy By Alan R. Kluver IDEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC REFORM UNDER DENG XIAOPING: 1978–1993 By Wei-Wei Zhang. ECOLOGY AND EMPIRE: Environmental History of Settler Societies Edited by Tom Griffiths & Libby Robin. GLOBALISATION AND REGIONAL COMMUNITIES: Geoeconomic, Sociocultural and Security Implications for Australia Edited by Donald H. McMillen. MANY ARE CHOSEN: Divine Election and Western Nationalism Edited by William R. Hutchison and Hartmut Lehmann. EQUITY AND DEVELOPMENT ACROSS NATIONS: Political and Fiscal Realities Edited by Christine Fletcher. RULERS AND RULED: An Introduction to Classical Political Theory from Plato to the Federalists By Irving M. Zeitlin.     

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Book reviewed in this article: ARGUMENTS ABOUT ABORIGINES: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology By L. R. Watt. ABORIGINAL SOVEREIGNTY: Reflections on Race, State and Nation By Henry Reynolds. OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD Johann Reinhol Forster. PEOPLE, PLACES AND POLICES: Aspects of Queensland Administration 1859–1920 Edited by Kay Cohen and Kenneth Wiltshire. AN AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRAT: The Life, Work and Consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark Edited by Marcus Howard and James Warden. WITH LANE IN PARAGUAY: Harry Taylor of The Murray Pioneer 1873–1932 Edited, with a biographical sketch, by Don Gobbett and Malcolm Sounders. A VERITABLE DYNAMO: Lloyd Ross and Australian Labour 1901–1987 By Stephen Holt. ANZUS IN REVISION: Changing Defense Features of Australia and New Zealand in the Mid-1980s By Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Donnini. THE 1992 PAPUA NEW GUINEA ELECTION: Change and Continuity in Electoral Politics Edited by Yaw Saffu. THE RIGHT ROAD: A History of Right-Wing Politics in Australia By Andrew Moore. POLITICS ONE Randall G. Stewart and Ian Ward. THE STATE IN QUESTION: Transformations of the Australian State Edited by Paul James. WE THE PEOPLE Edited by George Winterton. PEOPLE POLICY: Australia's Population Choices By Doug Cocks. A CONCISE HISTORY OF WORLD POPULATION By Massimo Livi-Bacci. Translated by Carl Ipsen. THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND IDEOLOGICAL POLITICS: Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846–1922 By Corinne Comstock Weston ELIXIR OF EMPIRE: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry and Imperialism By P. J. Rich. NATIONALISM IN EUROPE, 1815 TO THE PRESENT: A Reader Edited by Stuart Woolf. IMPERIAL GERMANY 1867–1918: Politics, Culture, and Society in an Authoritarian State By Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Richard Devesnn. FROM A ONE-PARTY STATE TO DEMOCRACY: Transition in Eastern Europe Edited by Janina Frentzel-Zagórska. THE ORDINARY AND THE EXTRAORDINARY: An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's Movement in Beijing By Frank N. Pieke THE EGALITARIAN MOMENT: Asia and Africa 1950–1980 By Anthony Low. INDIGENOUS CAPITAL IN KENYA: The “Indian” Dimension of the Debate By Michael Cowen and Scott MacWilliam ETHICAL PRACTICE IN GOVERNMENT: Improving Organisational Management Edited by John Uhr. DEMOCRACY AND THE GLOBAL ORDER: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance By David Held. COMPARATIVE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: Studies Under the Upas Tree Edited by Anthony J. Parel and Ronald C. Keith     

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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.