The Australian Journal of Politics and History back issues from March 2004:
The same but different.(Introduction)
Mar 01, 2004; ... The articles in this special number of the Australian Journal of Politics and History are revised versions of papers delivered at a conference with the over-ambitious title Transcending the National, held at the University of New South Wales in July 2002. My original aim in convening the ...
The "transformation" of governance: new directions in policy and politics.(e)
Mar 01, 2004; ... 1. Introduction. A quick survey of titles of books and working papers since 1979 shows that the term "transformation" has become increasingly popular. (1) At the very least, this reveals that something is going on that is attracting the interest of social scientists and that a ...
Value pluralism and multinational federalism.
Mar 01, 2004; ... I detest all kinds of tyrannies, that of words and that of facts. Montaigne, Essais, Book III, VIII Federalism is designed to prevent tyranny without preventing governance. Daniel Elazar, Exploring Federalism The debate that has taken place over the past decade as to ...
Federalism: fuzzy global trends.
Mar 01, 2004; ... Introduction This article explores the governance (2) of society and federalism. Being concerned with the governance of society overall, it considers public governance, corporate (or private) governance and the civil society sector as components of a socio-political system. It ...
Transcending the national / asserting the national: how stateless nations like Scotland, Wales and Catalonia react to European integration (1).
Mar 01, 2004; ... The members of some of Europe's stateless nations belong to the more enthusiastic supporters of European integration in their respective states. What is perhaps more surprising is that even nationalists are in favour of it. Catalan nationalists have always stressed their "Europeanness" ....
Negotiating identities: the Party of Democratic Socialism between East German regionalism, German national identity and European integration.
Mar 01, 2004; ... The PDS as "Crystallisation Point of Dfferences" A decade after German unification a stable regional identity distinguished East Germans from West Germans, although the feeling of being one German nation had been overwhelming in the last months of the separate existence of the ...
Cyprus from 1960 to EU accession: the case for non-territorial autonomy.
Mar 01, 2004; ... In this article I do not intend to give a comprehensive treatment of the complex and significant political issues surrounding the accession of Cyprus to the European Union, but to utilise these issues to provide a context for exploring some broader conceptual issues concerning the granting ...
Federalism: distance and devolution.
Mar 01, 2004; ... I want to reflect a little on the nature of federalism in Australia by contrasting it with American federalism. And I want to consider the ideas of four thinkers from quite disparate disciplines and perspectives: Geoffrey Blainey, an eminent Australian historian; Tim Flannery, an ...
Factors for integration? Transnational party cooperation in the European Parliament, 1952-79.
Mar 01, 2004; ... Political parties at the European level are important as a factor of integration within the Union. They contribute to forming a European awareness and to expressing the political will of the citizens. (Treaty on European Union, Article 138a) In current analysis of the ...
Jack Curtin and Ben Chifley: a day in their lives.(book review)(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... In 1999, David Day's 610-page John Curtin: a Life was published by HarperCollins. It was followed in 2001 by his 562-page Ben Chifley, again published by HarperCollins. Two more "damned, thick, square books", as the first Duke of Gloucester is reputed to have complained to Edward Gibbon ...
Tourism in Australia and Hawai'i: historical perspectives.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia since 1870. By Jim Davidson and Peter Spearritt. (Carlton, Victoria: Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press, 2000). xxxi + 416pp. Illustrated. $65.95 (Hb). Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maul 1959-2000. By Mansel G ....
Painting Culture: the Making of an Aboriginal High Art.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. By Fred R. Myers. (Durham and London: Duke University Press 2002), pp. 438. Colour plates, black and white photographs and figures. A$24.95 (paper). Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art traces the ...
Unearthed: the Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island. By Rebe Taylor. (Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2002), pp. 385, illustrated, maps, tables, $29.95. Unearthed." The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island is both an absorbing and important book. As the ...
Empire und Totaler Krieg: Australien 1905-1918.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Empire und Totaler Krieg: Australien 1905-1918. By Daniel Marc Segesser (Paderboru-Munchen-Wien-Zurich: Ferdinand Schoningh, 2002), pp.590, EUR 75.80. This handsomely produced work is a revised doctoral dissertation for the university of Bern, Switzerland, but is published here ...
Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist. By Marilyn Lake (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2002), pp. xii, 239, ISBN 1 86508 841 2. $A39.95 (cloth). Let us be bold. By my reckoning Faith Bandler is one of the top twenty Australians of the twentieth century. She came from humble ...
Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire. By David Goldsworthy (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. viii + 209, $34.95. There is no shortage of books or articles on Australia and the British Empire but, as David Goldsworthy points out in ...
Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal. By Bridget Griffen-Foley (South Melbourne: The Text Publishing Co, 2003), pp.292, $A32 (paperback). The publication of Party Games coincided with the Senate's rejection of yet another bill introduced by the ...
The Hawke Government: a Critical Retrospective.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... The Hawke Government: A Critical Retrospective. Edited by Susan Ryan and Troy Bramston (Melbourne: Pluto, 2003), xiii+512pp, $39.95. As John Warhurst and Jim Chalmers note in their bibliographical appendix to this collection, "There is a substantial and diverse literature on Bob ...
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: the Lord's Premier.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: The Lord's Premier. By Rae Wear (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002), pp. xvi +249, Illustrated. $35.00. This book contributes to the practice of political biography by allying a life story with an analysis of political work. The first half ...
Bob Carr: the Reluctant Leader.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Bob Carr: The Reluctant Leader. By Marilyn Dodkin (Kensington, NSW: University of New South Wales Press, 2003), pp. x + 291, $29.95. In Marilyn Dodkin's account of Bob Carr's leadership of the New South Wales Labor Party, the reader is allowed an insight into Carr's private ...
The People's Choice. Electoral Politics in 20th Century New South Wales. Volume One: 1901 to 1927; Volume Two: 1930 to 1965; Volume Three: 1968 to 1999.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... The People's Choice. Electoral Politics in 20th Century New South Wales. Volume One: 1901 to 1927; Volume Two: 1930 to 1965; Volume Three: 1968 to 1999. Edited by Michael Hogan and David Clune (Sydney: Parliament of New South Wales and The University of Sydney, 2001). Vol. 1 pp. xiv+391; ...
Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation. By Verity Burgmann (Crows Nest, [Sydney]: Allen and Unwin, 2003), pp. 400, $39.95. This book provides an interesting and thoughtful analysis of several movements for change in Australian society; namely ...
The Accidental Missionary: Tales of Elekana.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... The Accidental Missionary: Tales of Elekana. By Michael Goldsmith and Doug Munro. (Christchurch: MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, 2002) pp. xviii + 142. Index. NZD29.95. The study of Pacific History, and Pacific Christian history in ...
The State Trials 1163-1858 on CD-ROM.(Video Recording Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... The State Trials 1163-1858 on CD-ROM (Oxford: Jutastat, 2001), 1 CD-ROM + user manual, 1,900 [pounds sterling] for single-user purchase. Digitisation is an increasingly unavoidable and important research tool for historians, and the publication of The State Trials on CD-ROM, ...
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. By Catherine Hall (Cambridge: Polity, 2002), pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. After a steady stream of articles on colonisation in the British Empire, Catherine Hall, co-author of the famed Family ...
William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848. By Robert Sloan (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2000), pp. 320; bibliography; index; 9 illustrations. Map by Matthew Stout on the geography of the Rebellion. The past several years have been marked with publications ...
Under Siege: Portraits of Civilian Life in France during World War I.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Under Siege: Portraits of Civilian Life in France during World War I. Edited by Robert J. Young. (New York; Oxford: Bergahn Books, 2000), pp. xxix + 183. Twelve maps. HB 37.00 [pounds sterling], pb 13.95 [pounds sterling]. Robert Young has put together a curious collection of ...
The Origins of the Second World War: the Debate Continues.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... The Origins of the Second World War: The Debate Continues. By Robert Boyce and Joseph Maiolo, eds (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), xvi + 397 pp, $49.00. This book consists of a collection of nineteen essays on various aspects of the origins of the Second World War. The first ...
Czech-German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe: From Bohemia to the EU.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Czech-German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe: From Bohemia to the EU. By Jurgen Tampke (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp.xviii + 213, $45.00. Until the rise of modern nationalism in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789, ...
Der Mauerbau: Die Westmachte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise 1958-1963 [The Building of the Wall: the Western Powers and Adenauer in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963].(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Der Mauerbau: Die Westmachte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise 1958-1963 [The Building of the Wall: The Western Powers and Adenauer in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963]. By Roll Steininger. (Munich: Olzog Verlag, 2001), pp. 411. EUR 18.50. Rolf Steininger is one of the leading German ...
Crossing Boundaries. The Exclusion of Minorities In Germany and the United States.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Crossing Boundaries. The Exclusion of Minorities In Germany and the United States. Edited by Larry Eugene Jones (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2001), pp.v + 266, US$69.95 (cloth), $25.00 (paperback). For decades, Georg Iggers has been one of the world's leading ...
Complicities: the Intellectual and Apartheid.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid. By Mark Sanders (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002), pp. xiii + 273, US$ 19.95 (paper). Amidst the flood of books that will accompany the tenth anniversary of democratic government in South Africa in 2004, this (early) ...
Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia. Michael E. Brown and Sumit Ganguly, eds (Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2003), pp. 480pp + xi, US$48.00/30.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). This volume is a study by fourteen scholars of the language policies ...
Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos. By Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles F. Keyes, eds (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002), pp. xii + 312. Cloth US$45.00. This book, the editors tell us, is about "social memory in the milieu of ...
A Social History of the Media: from Gutenberg to the Internet.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. By Asa Briggs and Peter Burke (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003), pp. 374, 15.99 [pounds sterling]. This collaboration between two distinguished British media historians promises an important study and delivers on many ...
Western Supremacy: Triumph of an Idea?(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Western Supremacy: Triumph of an Idea? By Sophie Bessis, trans. Patrick Camiller (London: Zed Books, 2003), pp. 290. 15.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). Though the original French text was published in 2001, in the wake of what Americans simply refer to as 9/11, this is a timely ...
Civic Literacy. How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Civic Literacy. How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work. By Henry Milner. (Hanover: Tufts University/University Press of New England, 2002), pp. ix + 293. Graphs and tables. US$19.95 (paper). Although Henry Milner clearly sees his work as part of the growing body of literature ...
Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: the Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics. By M. Anne Brown (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. vii +232, 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The end of the Cold War has generated a new revisionist ...
Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice. By Janna Thompson (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002), pp. xxi, 173. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (paper). When addressing the question of whether the inhabitants of current states are obligated to make reparations ...
Terrorism, Freedom and Security: Winning Without War.(Book Review)
Mar 01, 2004; ... Terrorism, Freedom and Security: Winning Without War. By Philip B. Heymann (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003), pp. 210, Index. Hbk. ISBN 0-262-08327-2. US$24.95. Although Heymann's latest book on America's response to terrorism was written in the aftermath of the September 11 ...