The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from March 1998

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from March 1998

Guild Socialism and the Historians.
March 1, 1998... Historians have often marginalised or dismissed Guild Socialism, and biographers have underplayed the Guild Socialist commitment of some of its most prominent adherents. This article details the historiographical neglect of Guild Socialism and...

Australia and the Emergence of the Modern Two-Party System.
March 1, 1998... Although the Australian party system is accepted in some literature as a "classic" example of a two-party system, information about how this system came about does not feature prominently in international studies on political parties. It is...

Assisted Emigration from Northern Germany to South Australia in the Nineteenth Century.
March 1, 1998... Between 1848 and 1854, the Kingdom of Hanover financed emigration from the Harz mountains to South Australia. The scheme employed was exceptional; emigrants received interest-free loans and only those with a "good character" were eligible, not...

From an Italian Swiss Valley to Australia: A Study on Emigration and the Home Community.
March 1, 1998... This paper discusses the origins of the emigration to Australia from a small and enclosed Swiss valley, the Poschiavo Valley in Canton Grigioni (the Grisons), in the 1850s. It argues that those left at home were a part of the same migration...

"A Very Present Menace"? Attlee, Communism and the Cold War(1).
March 1, 1998... With the end of the Cold War and the further opening of archives, the role of Western communist parties and their relationship with the former Soviet Union has been the subject of fresh scrutiny. This article examines the conviction of the...

The Class of 96: A Biographical Analysis of New Government Members of the Australian House of Representatives(1).
March 1, 1998... The 1996 federal election brought thirty-six new government members into the House of Representatives. The size of the "Class of 96" provides an opportunity for a comparison of biographical characteristics, looking for common experiences and...

Can History Be True? A Review Essay.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Philosophy and theory of history is currently experiencing one of its periodic boom periods. For this we have largely to thank the challenge of what is variously referred to as the "linguistic turn", deconstructionism, post-structuralism, or...

Brisbane: Corridors of Power.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Barry Shaw, ed., Brisbane: Corridors of Power. Brisbane History Group Papers No. 15 (1997), illustrated, viii + 214 pp. $15. This is a collection of papers delivered at Brisbane History Group meetings from 1991 to 1995. It is divided into...

For the Record: 160 Years of Aboriginal Print Journalism.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Michael Rose, For the Record: 160 Years of Aboriginal Print Journalism. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996, xxxv + 219 pp, $24.95. The aim of this book is to "bring together in an easily accessible form some of the extraordinarily interesting and...

With Just but Relentless Discipline: A Social History of Corrective Services in New South Wales.(Review)
March 1, 1998... John Ramsland, With Just but Relentless Discipline: A Social History of Corrective Services in New South Wales. Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press, 1996, illustrated, 368 pp. $56. On the dust-jacket we read that the author is Honorary Historian...

Never Trust a Government Man: Northern Territory Aboriginal Policy, 1911-1939.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Tony Austin, Never Trust a Government Man: Northern Territory Aboriginal Policy, 1911-1939. Darwin: Northern Territory University Press, 1997, x + 335 pp. $19.95. This is a competent study of twentieth century Aboriginal policy. It...

Charles Cameron Kingston: Federation Fathers.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Margaret Glass, Charles Cameron Kingston: Federation Fathers. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1997, index, pp. 247. $34.95. It has always been a small matter for regret that I could not claim descent from...

Sir Joe: A Political Biography of Sir Joseph Cook.(Review)
March 1, 1998... John Murdoch, Sir Joe: A Political Biography of Sir Joseph Cook. London: Murdoch Press, 1996, illustrated, xii + 164 pp.(*) 7.99 [pounds sterling]. Joe Cook has sunk even further into obscurity in the forty years since the ALP stopped...

Black Jack McEwen: Political Gladiator.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Peter Golding, Black Jack McEwen: Political Gladiator. Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1996, illustrations, endnotes, index, pp. xxi + 374. $45. It is not belittling this book to say that it is more interesting than the title...

Political Lives.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Judith Brett, Political Lives. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997, xv + 181 pp. $19.95. Political Lives, edited by Judith Brett, is a collection of mainly Australian biographical vignettes illustrating the application of psychoanalytic tools to...

The Indochinese in Australia: From Burnt Boats to Barbecues.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Nancy Viviani, The Indochinese in Australia: From Burnt Boats to Barbecues. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996, statistical appendix, pp. xvi + 208. $24.95. Nancy Viviani is the leading authority on Vietnamese immigration to...

Changing Perceptions: The Attitudes of the PRC Chinese Towards Australia and China, 1989-1996.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Edmund S. K. Fung and Chen Jie, Changing Perceptions: The Attitudes of the PRC Chinese Towards Australia and China, 1989-1996. Brisbane: Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations, Griffith University, Australia-Asia Papers No. 78 (1996),...

Escape From Affluence: Japanese Students in Australia.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Curtis Andressen and Keichi Kumagai, Escape From Affluence: Japanese Students in Australia. Brisbane: Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations, Griffith University, Australia-Asia Papers No. 79 (1996), 116 pp. $16 + postage. These...

Evaluating Policy Advice: Learning from Commonwealth Experience.(Review)
March 1, 1998... John Uhr and Keith Mackay, eds, Evaluating Policy Advice: Learning from Commonwealth Experience. Canberra: Federalism Research Centre and Commonwealth Department of Finance, 1996, ix + 178 pp. No price given. This book, combining previously...

A Government of Routines: Executive Coordination in an Australian State.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Glyn Davis, A Government of Routines: Executive Coordination in an Australian State. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1996, 169 pp. $29.95. This book presents an analysis of how government seeks to achieve coordination in a policy, administrative and...

Imagining the Antipodes: Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Peter Beilharz, Imagining the Antipodes: Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xv + 216 pp. $39.95. Peter Beilharz sums up Bernard Smith as being "a major thinker in the...

From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Chris Healy, From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, viii + 249 pp. $29.95. How should one deal with the Australian past at a time when the links binding contemporary Australia...

Australia: A Cultural History.(Review)
March 1, 1998... John Rickard, Australia: A Cultural History. 2nd edition, London: Longman, 1997, xiv + 315 pp. $39.95. How should one deal with the Australian past at a time when the links binding contemporary Australia to that past have become...

To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Helen Irving, To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xiii + 253 pp. $49.95. How should one deal with the Australian past at a time when the links binding...

Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Gerard J. DeGroot, Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War. London and New York: Longman, 1996, xiii + 357 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. This book is a compact social history of Britain during World War I, but there is a deal...

A Bedside Nature; Genius and Eccentricity 1869-1953.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Walter Gratzer, ed., A Bedside Nature; Genius and Eccentricity 1869-1953. London: Macmillan Magazines Ltd, 1996, illustrated, xiii + 266 pp. $46.95. "What a glorious title Nature... It includes the seen as well as the unseen... Nature...

A Military History of Ireland.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery, eds, A Military History of Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, index, illustrations and maps, xxv + 565 pp. $80. This impressively presented volume, produced at the time of the 1994...

Documents on the Continental Reformation.(Review)
March 1, 1998... William G. Naphy, ed. and translator, Documents on the Continental Reformation. London: Macmillan Press, 1996, illustrated, xviii + 178 pp. $32.95. I began using this book immediately. In a one semester, first year course which speeds on...

Power, Conscience and Opposition: Essays in German History in Honour of John A. Moses.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Andrew Bonnell, Gregory Munro and Martin Travers, eds, Power, Conscience and Opposition: Essays in German History in Honour of John A. Moses. New York: Peter Lang, 1996, xiv + 538 pp. US$79.95. It was, I believe, the first and arguably the...

Child of the Kulaks.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Alex Saranin, Child of the Kulaks. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1997, map + 20 photographs, 181 pp. $18.75 pb. This autobiography is interesting to read on both the socio-political and personal levels. Alex Savin was born on...

The Government and Politics of Israel.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Don Peretz and Gideon Doron, The Government and Politics of Israel. Oxford: Westview Press, 1997, 3rd edition, 308 pp. No price given. Without doubt, this is an invaluable book for anyone seeking a solid, comprehensive, and well written...

Remaking the Middle East.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Paul White and William Logan, eds, Remaking the Middle East. Oxford: Berg, 1997, 340 pp. No price given. This text contains thirteen chapters originally presented as papers at the 1993 Conference of the Australasian and Middle East Studies...

Dominion or Decline: Anglo-American Naval Relations in the Pacific, 1937-1941.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Ian Cowman, Dominion or Decline: Anglo-American Naval Relations in the Pacific, 1937-1941. Oxford and Washington: Berg, 1996, x + 327 pp. $36.95 Dominion or Decline is a persuasively argued revisionist assessment of Anglo-American naval...

Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Robert Buzzanco, Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era. Cambridge University Press, 1997, glossary, bibliography, index, xiv + 386 pp. $28.95. This is the book we have been waiting for on Vietnam: it cuts to the...

Forgone Conclusions: US Weapons Acquisition in the Post-Cold War Transition.(Review)
March 1, 1998... James H. Lebovic, Forgone Conclusions: US Weapons Acquisition in the Post-Cold War Transition. Oxford: Westview Press, 1996, 197 pp. No price given. The post-Cold War environment has been a topic of great interest and the subject of...

A Crisis of Expectations: UN Peacekeeping in the 1990s.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Ramesh Thakur and Carlyle Thayer, eds, A Crisis of Expectations: UN Peacekeeping in the 1990s. Colorado: Westview Press, 1995, 317 + xvii pp. $56. In this informative volume, which contains a foreword by Gareth Evans, Ramesh Thakur and...

Thai Tourism, Hill Tribes and Open-ended Prostitution.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Erik Cohen, Thai Tourism, Hill Tribes and Open-ended Prostitution. Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 1996, illustrated, xiii + 396 pp. No price given. This is a excellent sociological study of tourism in Thailand. It is a scholarly publication...

History-Making: The Intellectual and Social Formation of a Discipline.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Rolf Torstendahl and Irmline Veit-Brause, eds, History-Making: The Intellectual and Social Formation of a Discipline. Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Konfererser 37, 1996, 177 pp. No price given. This book...

Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map.(Review)
March 1, 1998... P. D. A. Harvey, Mappa Mundi: The Hereford World Map. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1996, illustrated, pp. 58. US$40/20. The phrase mappa mundi, or "literally cloth of the world", dates from the ninth century, and...

Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Sheila Tobias, Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1997, pp. xiii + 332. US$24. Some movements or ideas have had such an epochal effect that they may be said to have changed...