Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE IN CANADA AND AUSTRALIA: A Comparative Political Economy Analysis. By Malcolm C. Brown. Canberra. WHY SO FEW? Women Academics in Australian Universities. By Bettina Cass. THE LONG FAREWELL: The Perilous Voyages of Settlers under Sail in the Great Migrations to Australia. By Don Charlwood. ARBITRATOR AT WORK: Sir William Raymond Kelly and the Regulation of Australian Industrial Relations. By Braham Dabscheck. NEW GUINEA UNDER THE GERMANS. By Stewart Firth. ALL THAT DIRT: Aborigines 1938. An Australian 1938 Monograph. Edited by Bill Gammage and Andrew Markus. FREDERICK WELD. By Jeanine Graham. THE REMARKABLE REVEREND CLARKE: The Life and Times of the Father of Australian Geology. By Elena Grainger. THE GLENNIE: A Work of Faith. By Christine Henderson. CONVICT SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES: A History of Early New South Wales. By J. B. Hirst. THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN NIGHTMARE: A Critique of Home-ownership Ideology. By Jim Kemeny. PUBLIC SECTOR ADMINISTRATION: New Perspectives. Edited by Alexander Kouzmin. A NATION APART: Essays in Honour of Andrew Fabinyi. Personal Views of Australia in the Eighties. Edited by John McLaren. FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia. By Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley. AUSTRALIA'S CONSTITUTION: Time for Change? By John McMillan, Gareth Evans and Haddon Storey. AUSTRALIAN FEDERALISM: Future Tense. Edited by Allan Patience and Jeffrey Scott. SUB ROSA: Memoirs of an Australian Intelligence Analyst. By R. H. Mathams. PUBLIC SECTOR BORROWING IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by R. L. Mathews. MICRONATIONALIST MOVEMENTS IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Edited by R. J. May. THE FIRM AND THE FORMLESS: Religion and Identity in Aboriginal Australia. By Hans Mol. THE FIXED AND THE FICKLE: Religion and Identity in New Zealand. By Hans Mol. INTERNEE 1/5126. By Robert Paterson. Annerley, Queensland, Dr Robert Paterson, 1983. THE PHONE BOOK: The Future of Australia's Communications on the Line. By Ian Reinecke and Julianne Schultz. A HISTORY OF TASMANIA. Vol. I: Van Diemen's Land from the Earliest Times to 1855. By Lloyd. MINING AND AUSTRALIA. Edited by W. H. Richmond and P. C. Sharma. TRADE, TACTICS AND TERRITORY: Britain in the Pacific 1783–1823. By Margaret Steven. HEATHCOTE: A Study of Local Government and Resident Action in a Small Australian Town. By R. A. Wild. SOCIAL PROCESS AND THE CITY. Urban Studies Yearbook I. Edited by Peter Williams. SYDNEY'S TRANSPORT: Studies in Urban History. Edited by Garry Wotherspoon. ARMING THE CHINESE: The Western Armaments Trade in Warlord China, 1920–1928. By Anthony B. Chan. COLD WAR HOT WAR. An Australian Perspective on the Korean War. By Gavan McCormack. IMPERIALISMUS UND KOLONIALMISSION: Kaiserliches Deutschland und Koloniales Imperium. Edited by Klaus J. Bade, Weisbaden, Steiner Verlag, 1982. THE ISLAMIC THREAT TO THE SOVIET STATE: By Alexander Benningsen and Marie Broxup. ITALY AND THE APPROACH OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. By Richard Bosworth. THE CRISIS OF MEDIEVAL RUSSIA 1200–1304. By John Fennell. THE STATE, FRANCE AND THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By Howell A. Lloyd. SOCIALISM AND EUROPEAN UNITY: The Dilemma of the Left in Britain and France. By Michael Newman. SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIETY: Working-class Radicalism in Diisseldorf, 1890–1920. By Mary Nolan. POLICY STYLES IN WESTERN EUROPE. Edited by Jeremy Richardson. IMAGES OF IMPERIAL RULE. By Hugh Ridley. THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: Past, Present and Future. Edited by Loukas Tsoukalis. NAZI PROPAGANDA: The Power and the Limitations. Edited by David Welch. THE UNOFFICIAL COMMONWEALTH: The Story of the Commonwealth Foundation, 1965–1980. By John. COVENANTS WITHOUT THE SWORD: Public Opinion and British Defence Policy 1931–1935. By Patrick Kyba. THE GREAT MAP OF MANKIND: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment. By P. J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams. WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? Industrial Performance, Education and the Economy in Victorian Britain. Edited and introduced by Gordon Roderick and Michael Stephens. LOCAL GOVERNMENT: The Conditions of Local Choice. By John Stewart. THE ORIGINS OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY. By Noel Tracy. CHINESE MINE LABOUR IN THE TRANSVAAL. By Peter Richardson. POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA: Principles and Perspectives. Edited by D. J. van Vuuren and D. J. Kriek. MAX WEBER ON CAPITALISM, BUREAUCRACY AND RELIGION: A Selection of Texts. Edited by Stanislav Andreski. MODERNISATION AND REVOLUTION. By Bill Brugger and Kate Hannan. A CRITIQUE OF FREEDOM AND EQUALITY. By John Charvet. THE MODERN LIBERAL THEORY OF MAN. By Gerald F. Gaus. FROM RIGHT TO LEFT: An Autobiography. By Frederick Vanderbilt Field. MAKING HISTORIES: Studies in History-Writing and Politics. Edited by Richard Johnson, Gregor McLennan, Bill Schwarz and David. GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY 1895–1905: Great Power Pressure in Venezuela. By Miriam Hood. EDUCATED GUESSING: How to Cope in an Uncertain World. By Samuel Kotz and Donna F. Stroup. THE PURSUIT OF POWER: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A. D. 1000. By William H. McNeill. LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND ITS CRITICS. Edited by Norman Wintrop. ORGANIZING INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS. By Timothy B. Woolstencroft. PUBLIC MONEY IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR: Industrial Assistance Policy and Canadian Federalism. By Allan Tupper.