The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from January 1997

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from January 1997

Herder and nationalism: reclaiming the principle of cultural respect. (Johann Gottfried Herder)(Rethinking Nationalism)
January 1, 1997... Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) has long been seen as a central thinker in the transition from the universalism of the Enlightenment to a historical and cultural particularism which has fuelled nationalist claims for "self-determination". He...

Liberal nationalism and communitarianism: an ambiguous association.(Rethinking Nationalism)
January 1, 1997... The main focus of this paper is on the relation between contemporary liberal nationalism and communitarianism. Despite some affinities between these two doctrines, there is a paucity of reflection on their precise relation, except by default....

Nationalism within reason.(Rethinking Nationalism)
January 1, 1997... This paper deals with a question that has exercised observers of nationalism for generations: namely, when should we condone the use of non-rational arguments or appeals to mobilise support for national programmes, and when should we oppose them?...

Women and nation in Australia: the politics of representation.(Rethinking Nationalism)
January 1, 1997... I propose that Australian women in the land of mateship, `the Ocker', keg-culture, come pretty close to top rating as the Doormats of the Western World'. Miriam Dixson.(1) To say women and nation in the one breath is almost of necessity to say...

Nationalism and international relations theory.(Rethinking Nationalism)
January 1, 1997... The bipolar world is gone. The world's states are careening toward some new equilibrium -- or so we imagine, for no one can foretell what the new order will be. All that we know for sum is that it won't resemble what went ...

Nationalism and global citizenship. (Rethinking Nationalism)
January 1, 1997... Nationalism has been a major political force for the last two hundred years.(1) Academic analysis has charted the waves of nationalism, including the results of decolonisation since 1945 and the revival of regional nationalisms in the West in the...

The Search for Understanding.
January 1, 1997... R. L. Franklin's book on the search for understanding is the culmination of a lifetime of philosophical endeavour, including about fifteen years of specialisation on the concept of understanding. The book is arguably the most comprehensive...

Arguments About Aborigines: Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology.
January 1, 1997... By L. R. Hiatt. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xv + 255. Illustrated. One map. $29.95 pb, $90.00 hb. The book originated in a lecture course Hiatt taught at Harvard in 1990-1991 when he was Visiting...

Aboriginal Sovereignty: Reflections on Race, State and Nation.
January 1, 1997... By Henry Reynolds. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1996, xviii + 186 pp. No price given. The objective of Professor Reynolds's latest work is unclear. As an intervention in the important social policy debate over indigenous affairs in...

Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World.
January 1, 1997... Johann Reinhol Forster. Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press, 1996, lxxviii + 446 pp., illustrated. No price given. Johann Reinhold Forster was the principal naturalist on the Resolution during Cook's second voyage around the world between...

People, Places and Policies: Aspects of Queensland Administration, 1859-1920.
January 1, 1997... Edited by Kay Cohen and Kenneth Wlltshire. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1995, xvi + 304 pp. Illustrated. $19.95. Any work titled "aspects" raises the question of cohesion. As this book is multi-authored, the approach, style and...

An Australian Democrat: The Life, Work and Consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark.
January 1, 1997... Edited by Marcus Haward and James Warden. University of Tasmania: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, 1995. 221 pp + notes. No price given. Andrew Inglis Clark is, rather belatedly, acknowledged to have been one of the chief architects of...

With Lane in Paraguay: Harry Taylor of 'The Murray Pioneer,' 1873-1932.
January 1, 1997... Edited, with a biographical sketch, by Don Gobbett and Malcolm Saunders. Rockhampton: Central Queensland Press in association with The Murray Pioneer, 1955, pp. vii + 141. Two maps, five photographs $14.95. Harry Taylor was a remarkable...

A Veritable Dynamo: Lloyd Ross and Australian Labour, 1901-1987.
January 1, 1997... By Stephen Holt. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1996, xvi + 196 pp. Illustrated $32.50 pb. Stephen Holt has written a scholarly and readable biography of Lloyd Ross, a man who was at the forefront of political and trade union...

ANZUS in Revision: Changing Defense Features of Australia and New Zealand in the Mid-1980s.
January 1, 1997... By Lieutenant Colonel Frank P. Donnini. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama Air University Press, 1991, xvi + 203 pp. Illustrated. Four maps. No price given. Frank P. Donnini is currently chief of the Targets Division, Headquarters Tactical Air...

The 1992 Papua New Guinea Election: Change and Continuity in Electoral Politics.
January 1, 1997... Edited by Yaw Saffu. Canberra: Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1996, pp. xii + 410. Illustrated. Maps. $30.00. Papua New Guinea is the psephologist's...

The Right Road: A History of Right-Wing Politics in Australia.
January 1, 1997... By Andrew Moore. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995, x + 166 pp. $22.95. Andrew Moore's history of the conservative right in Australian politics is a welcome addition to the literature on right-wing political activism in Autralia. This...

Politics One, 2d ed.
January 1, 1997... Randall G. Stewart and Ian Ward. Melbourne: Macmillan, 2nd edition, March 1996, pp. 321. $34.95. The second edition of this introductory Australian politics textbook provides a welcome and well handled revision to the original edition,...

The State in Question: Transformations of the Australian State.
January 1, 1997... Edited by Paul James. St Leonards: Allen Unwin, 1996, x + 261 pp. $24.95. Readers of the journal Arena over recent years have been both pleased and puzzled by its change of direction. Once a modernist Marxist journal, it is now arguably a...

We the People.
January 1, 1997... Edited by George Winterton. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994, xii + 209 pp. $19.95. This is a most timely contribution to the republican debate. Professor Winterton's advocacy of the republican cause is well known so his editorship is appropriate...

People Policy: Australia's Population Choices.
January 1, 1997... By Doug Cocks. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1996, xvii + 347 pp. $29.95. If you are interested in the current population debate, including issues about immigration, population policies and future population options for...

A Concise History of World Population.
January 1, 1997... By Massimo Livi-Bacci. Translated by Carl Ipsen. Cambridge MA, & Oxford UK: Blackwell, 1992, xvi + 220 pp. $39.95 pb. This excellent book provides both "a general discussion of demographic development", and, more importantly, "a guide to...

The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846-1922.
January 1, 1997... By Corinne Comstock Weston, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1995, x + 231 pp. $25.00. This book is immediately arresting in that the title represents a paradox. Essentially, conservatism is dependent on habit and tradition, on a...

Elixir of Empire: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry and Imperialism.
January 1, 1997... By P. J. Rich London: Regency Press, 1989. 152 pp. No price given. "It was the sort of look that kept the Empire together or quelled it at least. Armed with that look and perhaps a riding crop, white men could keep order easily among the clubs...

Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to the Present: A Reader.
January 1, 1997... Edited by Stuart Woolf. London and New York: Routledge, 1966, 204 pp. No price given. This is one of a number of readers now being published on the topic of nationalism, and, given the explosion of research into and courses on the topic, it is...

Imperial Germany, 1867-1918: Politics, Culture, and Society in an Authoritarian State.
January 1, 1997... By Wolfgang J. Mommsen, translated by Richard Deveson. London, New York, Sydney, Auckland: Arnold, 1995, xiv + 304 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] pb. Specialists in this period of German history, known as the Kaiserreich, will already know this...

From a One-Party State to Democracy: Transition in Eastern Europe.
January 1, 1997... Edited by Janina Frentzel-Zagorska. Amsterdam: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, 1993, xiii + 224 pp. No price given. The collapse of Soviet communism is the most important event in the changing way we think...

The Ordinary and the Extraordinary: An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's Movement in Beijing.
January 1, 1997... By Frank N. Pieke, London: Kegan Paul International, 1996, x + 287 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. 55.00 [pounds sterling]/$93.50 hb. This book is based on eight months of fieldwork in Beijing which Frank N. Pieke conducted for his PhD...

The Egalitarian Moment: Asia and Africa, 1950-1980.
January 1, 1997... By Anthony Low. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xlv + 131 pp. $23.95 pb. $69.95 hb. Professor Anthony Low has brought together, in this succinctly written "slim volume", all the various strands in the thesis for which he is best...

Indigenous Capital in Kenya: The "Indian" Dimension of the Debate.
January 1, 1997... By Michael Cowen and Scott Mac William, Interkont Books, 8, Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, 1996. 245 pp. No price given. The claims in a recent thesis by David Himbara that Asians have been mainly responsible for...

Ethical Practice in Government: Improving Organisational Management.
January 1, 1997... Edited by John Uhr. Canberra Australian Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University, 1996, x + 125 pp. No price given. It seems that there is a global revival of moral fervour in public administration, which has become more than...

Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance.
January 1, 1997... By David Held Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995, xii + 324 pp. Bibliography and index, $45 hb, $13.95 pb. Professor Held's ambitious book proposes to reconstruct democratic theory and revitalise democratic practice by transcending the nation...

Comparative Political Philosophy: Studies Under the Upas Tree.
January 1, 1997... Edited by Anthony J. Parel and Ronald C Keith New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992, 262 pp. Rs. 225. Professor Parel explains the metaphor of the Upas Tree. Gandhi used it "to describe the impact of modernity as `modern civilization' on...