The Australian Journal of Politics and History back issues from September 2001:
"The word makes the man": A Catalan Anarchist Autodidact in the Australian Bush.(Salvador Torrents)
Sep 01, 2001; ... In the history of the anarchist movement the autodidact has been an important figure in the transmission of ideas. Armed with knowledge acquired through their own efforts these militants carried out the struggle against the church, the capitalists and the state in, what Rod Kedward ...
Judicial Interaction on the Latham Court: A Quantitative Study of Voting Patterns on the High Court 1935-1950.(chief justice John Latham)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Introduction There are a number of North American studies that examine voting patterns on appellate courts. There are studies for the United States Supreme Court,(2) various state supreme courts in the United States(3) and the Supreme Court of Canada.(4) However, there is only ...
Selling Goodwill: Peter Russo and the Promotion of Australia-Japan Relations, 1935-1941.
Sep 01, 2001; ... In the late 1930s, as Japan renewed her aggression in China and her expansionist aims became increasingly evident, there was a pressing need in Australia for authoritative historical and cultural background to Japanese policy. Following a period of progress in Australia-Japan relations in ...
Holt, Johnson and the 1966 Federal Election. A Question of Causality.(Lyndon Johnson's visit to Harold Edward Holt)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Introduction Australia has a record of playing cordial host to numerous visiting foreign emissaries. Since Federation, numerous Heads of State and Faith have visited Australia and, on most occasions, Australians have expressed genuine warmth toward their international guests. In ...
Wedge Politics and Welfare Reform in Australia.
Sep 01, 2001; ... Introduction Media speculation about the Howard Government adopting the tactics of "wedge politics" has drawn attention to divisive strategies used by political parties to attract support for their policies. Although wedge politics has entered the political language at a ...
Developmentalism and its Environmental Legacy: The Western Australia Wheatbelt, 1900 - 1990s.
Sep 01, 2001; ... The opening up of Western Australia's Wheatbelt during the seventy years between the early 1900s and the late 1970s is an example of State-sponsored development -- or statist developmentalism -- characteristic of the prevailing model of economic development throughout much of Australia's ...
A Man about Town: The Letters of James Graham, Victorian Entrepreneur 1854-1864.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... A Man about Town: The Letters of James Graham, Victorian Entrepreneur 1854-1864. By Sally Graham ed (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998), pp. xvii + 437, illustrated, index. Npg. James Graham was one of colonial Victoria's most successful businessmen, and a close ...
The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800. By Pamela Jeanne Fulton ed (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xviii + 290, illustrated, maps. Npg. James Graham was one of colonial ...
Dolly's Creek: An Archaeology of a Victorian Goldfields Community.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Dolly's Creek: An Archaeology of a Victorian Goldfields Community. By Susan Lawrence (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xv + 217, $32.95. Unlocking the silences of history -- at the Moorabool diggings in Victoria. This was just yet one more of those many, small ...
Theodore Fink. A Talent for Ubiquity.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Theodore Fink. A Talent for Ubiquity. By Don Garden (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998), npg. The fertile field of Melbourne journalism has long awaited its historians. In the case of Don Garden's well crafted biography, it emerges through a lesser known subject but is ...
Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 15. 1940-1980. Kem-Pie.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 15. 1940-1980. Kem-Pie. By John Ritchie ed (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xxx + 611, npg. One of the success stories of Australian historical research continues its steady course. For the fifteenth time anyone who ...
Alien Justice. Wartime Internment in Australia and North America.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Alien Justice. Wartime Internment in Australia and North America. By Kay Saunders and Roger Daniels eds (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000), pp xix +323, illustrated, $29.95. This important study of the internment of enemy aliens in Australia, the United States of ...
Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II. By Mark Johnston (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 206, npg. This is an important book that deals with a subject all too often forgotten in the study of warfare. Killing the enemy is ...
The People's Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The People's Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition. By Frank Bongiorno (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. xii + 268, $24.95 paper. Frank Bongiorno's book is an important contribution to our understanding of early labour politics in Victoria. The ...
The Kennett Revolution. Victorian Polities in the 1990s.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Kennett Revolution. Victorian Polities in the 1990s. By Brian Costar and Nicholas Economou eds (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999), pp. xiv + 274, $24.95. Brian Costar, since he left Queensland, has become something of an authority on the politics of his ...
Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the Labor Party.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the Labor Party. By Michael Thompson (Sydney: Pluto Press, 1999), pp. x + 118. $20.00 Written with such passion that you can almost hear his teeth grinding, Michael Thompson stridently critiques the "younger bourgeois" who he argues ...
National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia 1944-1965.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia 1944-1965. By Ian Hancock (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xvi + 317, $49.95. "National" and "permanent" are words that haunt the early records of the Liberal Party of ...
Liberalism in Australia.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Liberalism in Australia. By Ian Cook (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. xi + 244, $48.95. This is an odd book in many ways. It purports to be a study of Australian liberalism. Its method of approach is to examine the ideas of ten Australian thinkers whom Ian Cook ...
Defining Australian Citizenship: Selected Documents.(Brief Article)(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Defining Australian Citizenship: Selected Documents. By John Chesterman & Brian Galligan eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999), pp. xix + 286, $32.84. Citizenship has been one of the buzzwords in academic circles at the end of the twentieth century. It is a rather ...
Reshaping the Labour Market: Regulation, Efficiency and Equality in Australia.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Reshaping the Labour Market: Regulation, Efficiency and Equality in Australia. By Sue Richardson ed (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. xvii + 247, 25 tables and 18 figures, $38.40 Part of the wide-ranging Reshaping Australian Institutions program at the Research ...
The Unemployment Crisis in Australia: Which Way Out?(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Unemployment Crisis in Australia: Which Way Out? By S. Bell ed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp xv + 308, $34.95. When I was an undergraduate student in Britain in the 1960s I learned (from one of my teachers, an Australian economist) that unemployment was ...
The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History. By Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1999), pp. xxii + 375, illustrated, $29.95 The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights marks a welcome stage in the scholarship of Australian race relations history ....
Why Universities Matter.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Why Universities Matter. By Tony Coady ed (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2000), pp. xvii +254, $24.95. This volume received a good deal of advance publicity, albeit of an unsought-after kind, when Melbourne University Press decided in July 1998 not to publish it, apparently ...
Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Global Nation? Australia and the Polities of Globalisation. By John Wiseman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp vii + 202, $24.95. In a market already awash with books purporting to tell us what "globalisation" is, it is becoming difficult for new offerings to say ...
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders. By Donald Denoon ed. with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea and Karen Nero (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xvii + 518pp, maps and figures, $108.70. An outside observer might conclude that Pacific ...
British Society, 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... British Society, 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change. By Richard Price (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. xii+349, $110.00. This book is an arresting oddity. Neither a comprehensive textbook survey nor a monograph study in the conventional sense, it seeks ...
The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785. By Kathleen Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), paper. Who was important in Hanoverian England, and where were these people to be found? The most venerable answers point in two ...
Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany. By John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth eds (Oxford: The German Historical Institute London/Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. x + 412, 55.00 [pounds sterling], US$105.00. This collection of essays is a ...
Westliches Geschichtsdenken. Eine interkulturelle Debatte.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Westliches Geschichtsdenken. Eine interkulturelle Debatte. By Jorn Rusen ed (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Gottingen, 1999), pp. 322, DM46.00. World history, it seems, is "in", judging by the growing number of university courses, books, and even journals devoted to the field. There ...
Naval Strategy and Policy in the Mediterranean. Past, Present and Future.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Naval Strategy and Policy in the Mediterranean. Past, Present and Future. By John B. Hattendorf ed, with a foreword by Paul Kennedy (London/Portland: Frank Cass, 2000), pp.xxiv + 445, illustrated, npg. John B. Hattendorf is the Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the ...
The Red Cross and the Holocaust.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Red Cross and the Holocaust. By Jean-Claude Favez (John and Beryl Fletcher eds and trans) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. xxxiii + 353, npg. It is meaningful that The Red Cross and the Holocaust has only now appeared in an English translation, eleven years ...
The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and its Aftermath.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and its Aftermath. By Istvan Deak, Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt eds (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. xii + 337, npg. In his preface to this jointly edited collection, Tony Judt promises that his contributors ...
Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain. By Peter Grose (Boston: Houston Mifflin Co, 2000), pp. ix + 256, illustrations, map, notes, and index, $25 hardcover. In his latest book, Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain Peter ...
Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance. Princes, Peasants and Paramount Power.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance. Princes, Peasants and Paramount Power. By Hira Sing, foreword by Andre Beteille (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998), pp. 274, two maps, rs375. Agrarian history is crucial to the understanding of the dynamics of continuity, conflict and ...
Dynamics of State Formation, India and Europe Compared.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Dynamics of State Formation, India and Europe Compared. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, 19. By Martin Doombos and Sudipta Kaviraj (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997), pp. 441, rs475 hardcover. One of the paradoxes of the state -- the editors of this book argue ...
Sun Yat-Sen.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Sun Yat-Sen. By Marie-Claire Bergere (Janet Lloyd trans) (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp. ix + 480, illustrated, five maps, thirty-four biographical sketches, $90.00 hardcover. Marie-Claire Bergere's book Sun Yat-sen is one of the newest -- and ...
Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945. By Sherman Cochran ed (Ithaca NY: Cornell University East Asia Papers, 1999), pp. viii + 252, $28 Hardcover, $17 paper. China's urban history has previously been explored through such themes as hierarchical ...
China's Road to Disaster, Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955-1959.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... China's Road to Disaster, Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955-1959. By Frederick C. Teiwes with Warren Sun (Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1999), pp. xxviii + 320, bibliographies, 2 appendices, 20 illustrations. ...
Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Polities of Secret Service.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Polities of Secret Service. By Richard J. Aldrich (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2000), pp. xxiv + 512, $59.95 hardcover. Richard Aldrich's Intelligence and the War against Japan is a particularly ...
The 1988 Uprising in Burma.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The 1988 Uprising in Burma. Monograph 49. By Dr Maung Maung (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 1999), pp. xix + 285, npg. This is an extraordinary book. Clearly written, it recounts from the viewpoint of the author, Dr Maung Maung, the uprising in Burma in ...
People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World. By Manoranjan Mohanty and Partha Math Mukherji with Olle Tornquist eds (New Delhi: Thousand Oaks/London: Sage Publications, 1998), pp. 436, rs495 hardcover. This intriguing multi-authored book is an attempt by ...
The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine and the Nature-Nurture Debate.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine and the Nature-Nurture Debate. By Diane B. Paul (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), pp. viii + 219, US$19.95. This is a collection of revisionist essays by one of the more discerning scholars in this ...
John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control. By Joseph Hamburger (Princeton University Press, 1999), $35/21.95 [pounds sterling], hardcover. Professor Joseph Hamburger, Pelatiah Petit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University, author of books on James Mill, John ...
Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Perspectives in Contemporary Political Thought.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Perspectives in Contemporary Political Thought. By April Carter and Geoffrey Stokes eds (Oxford: Polity Press, 1998), pp. x + 245, $13.95. This collection contains eleven substantive essays, and a substantial introduction by the editors, which ...
Redeeming American Political Thought.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... Redeeming American Political Thought. By Judith N. Shklar (Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson eds) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp. 209. Shortly after Shklar's premature death eight years ago a reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement wrote: "Shklar's ...
A History of Sociological Research Methods in America: 1920-1960.(Review)
Sep 01, 2001; ... A History of Sociological Research Methods in America: 1920-1960. By Jennifer Platt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. xi, +333, index, five tables. $39.95 paper. Why have some sociologists preferred "statistics" to "case study" or "survey" to "participant ...