The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from June 2000

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from June 2000

The "Polish Problem" -- American War-Time Perspectives(*).(causes of Cold War)
June 1, 2000... The causes of the Cold War, needless to say, were many and varied, and have inspired countless theories expounding the reasons and circumstances which brought them about. According to one generalising account, though, "all writers consider the...

F.L. McDougall and the Origins of the FAO.(Food and Agriculture Organisation)
June 1, 2000... Walking in Melbourne's Botanical Gardens in July 1924, Frank Lidgett McDougall asked himself "what was I"? to which he replied "an expert on Empire Trade and an artist at propaganda".(1) This was some advance on an earlier appreciation of...

"Cold Storage": British Policy and the Beginnings of the Irian Barat/West New Guinea Dispute.
June 1, 2000... The Round Table agreement of November 1949, which established the independence of Indonesia, did not settle the future of Irian Barat/West New Guinea. For the Indonesians it was properly part of the colonial empire they were inheriting and a...

Issues in Australian Foreign Policy.(East Timor)
June 1, 2000... In a December 1998 letter to Indonesian President B.J. Habibie, Prime Minister John Howard urged Indonesia to offer East Timor autonomy and subsequent self-determination. Opportunity seemed at hand to resolve long-festering violence in the...

POLITICAL CHRONICLES.(Australian politics)
June 1, 2000... Commonwealth of Australia July to December 1999 RAE WEAR Government, The University of Queensland Despite a continuing healthy economy with the lowest jobless rate in a decade, the last six months of 1999 showed that the divisions in...

A Cabinet Diary: A Personal Record of the First Keating Government.(Review)
June 1, 2000... A Cabinet Diary: A Personal Record of the First Keating Government. By Neal Blewett (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1999), pp. 343. Hardcover $39.95. The Blewett Diary is a very small window into the life of a cabinet minister in an atypical...

The Governor's Noble Guest. Hyacinthe de Bougainville's Account of Port Jackson, 1825.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Governor's Noble Guest. Hyacinthe de Bougainville's Account of Port Jackson, 1825. By Marc Serge Riviere, translator and editor (Carlton: The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1999), pp. xxvii + 291, 15 illustrations. $49.95....

The French Consul's Wife. Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The French Consul's Wife. Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia. By Patricia Clancy and Jeanne Allen, translated and introduced (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1998). Pp. xi + 303. Hardcover...

Expediency or Principle: Liberalism in Commonwealth Politics 1901-1917.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Expediency or Principle: Liberalism in Commonwealth Politics 1901-1917. By John Murdoch (London: Minerva Press, 1997), pp. vii + 124. Npg. This is a lively and readable essay that deals with the principles and practices of a selection of...

Robert Menzies: A Life. Vol. 2 1944-1978.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Robert Menzies: A Life. Vol. 2 1944-1978. By A.W. Martin (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999), pp. xx + 596, illustrated, index. $49.95. Thirty-four years after his retirement and twenty-two years after his death, Robert Gordon...

Alien to Citizen. Settling Migrants in Australia, 1945-75.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Alien to Citizen. Settling Migrants in Australia, 1945-75. By Ann-Mari Jordens (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian Archives, 1997), pp. xiv + 306. $39.95 This is a flawed but important work -- one of the more...

Socialism in Contemporary Australia.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Socialism in Contemporary Australia. By Tim Batten and Graham Maddox eds. (South Melbourne: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996), pp. viii + 208. $32.95 In the 1990s, it was most unusual to find an academic book with the word "socialism" in the...

Scandals: Media, Politics & Corruption in Contemporary Australia.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Scandals: Media, Politics & Corruption in Contemporary Australia. By Rodney Tiffin (Sydney: The University of New South Wales Press, 1999), pp. ix + 291. $29.95. This is a very timely book which draws together the interaction between the...

Australia's Security in the 21st Century.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Australia's Security in the 21st Century. By J. Mohan Malik ed. (St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1999), pp. xvii + 284. $29.95. The title of this otherwise useful book is something of a misnomer -- this is a collection of essays that explore...

Towards a New Vision: Australia and Japan through 100 Years.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Towards a New Vision: Australia and Japan through 100 Years. By Neville Meaney (Sydney: Kangaroo Press, Simon & Schuster, 1999), pp. 144. Paper $19.95. Relations between Australia and Japan are at an all-time high, given the economic...

You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare Against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific.(Review)
June 1, 2000... You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare Against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific. By Allison B. Gilmore (London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998), pp. xvi + 244. Hardcover 42.75 [pounds sterling]. Allison...

Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century.(Ryder, Sean)(Foley, Tadhg)
June 1, 2000... Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. By Tadhg Foley and Sean Ryder, eds. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998), pp. 222, illustrated. Hardcover 39.50 [pounds sterling], paper 17.50 [pounds sterling]. I think it was Tschaikovsky...

Into the Dark House: American Diplomacy and the Ideological Origins of the Cold War.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Into the Dark House: American Diplomacy and the Ideological Origins of the Cold War. By Joseph M. Siracusa (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 1998), pp. 273. $14.95. The purpose of this book, which presupposes that the nature of the Cold War...

The Global Gamble. Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Global Gamble. Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance. By Peter Gowan (London: Verso. 1999), pp. 280. Hardcover 40.00 [pounds sterling]/US$60.00, paper 13.00 [pounds sterling]/US$20. In the summer of 1998, economic commentators...

Ernest Lapointe and Quebec's Influence On Canadian Foreign Policy.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Ernest Lapointe and Quebec's Influence On Canadian Foreign Policy. By John MacFarlane (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), pp. 1x + 270, notes, index. US$45.00. This book undertakes to do several things at once, not all of them...

The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now. By Jonathan Schell (New York: Granata Books, 1998), pp. 239. Paper $24.95. In a seminal book titled The Absolute Weapon, published at the onset of the Cold War in 1946, American...

Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Ecofeminism as Polities: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern. By Ariel Salleh (London: Zed Books, 1997), pp. 208. Npg. Ecofeminism as Politics is a comprehensive and persuasive account of ecofeminism's role in critiquing the foundations of the...

Tradition and Dissent.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Tradition and Dissent. By Davis McCaughey (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1997), pp. xiii + 272. Npg. This book is a collection of essays -- all of them stemming from lectures or orations -- by an important...

Erratum.
June 1, 2000... Apology One omission and one amendment to footnotes in "The Seed of Freedom Regional Security and the Colombo Plan" by Daniel Oakman, published Volume 46, Number 1, 2000 are now correctly produced below. * I am grateful to Professor...