BOOK REVIEWS

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.