The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from March 2000

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from March 2000

Stephen H. Roberts' The House That Hitler Built as a Source on Nazi Germany.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2000... Many pre-war visitors to Nazi Germany published contemporary eyewitness accounts of their impressions of the "Third Reich"; a recent study by Angela Schwarz identifies sixty-two book-length accounts published before 1945 by British and British...

The Italians in Europe.
March 1, 2000... Some of you may remember why and how the European Economic and Monetary Union came into being. Fearing that German unification would jeopardise the "Rhenish" balance on which Europe had rested till then, President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl...

Commonwealthmen and Republicans: Dr. H.V. Evatt, the Monarchy and India(1).
March 1, 2000... Sovereigns die and Sovereignties: how all dies, and is for a Time only; is a `Time-Phantasm, yet reckons itself real'! Observe... that of man's whole terrestrial possessions and attainments, unspeakably the noblest are his Symbols, divine...

Playing with Princes and Presidents: Sir Frank Packer and the 1962 Challenge for the America's Cup.
March 1, 2000... The America's Cup is the world's oldest and most prestigious yachting challenge. By the 1950s no foreign nation had succeeded in wresting custodianship of the century-old mug from the New York Yacht Club. In 1959 Sir Frank Packer, a keen...

The Seed of Freedom: Regional Security and the Colombo Plan.
March 1, 2000... On 9 March 1950, Percy Spender delivered his first speech as Minister for External Affairs in the Australian Parliament's House of Representatives. "No nation can escape its geography", he warned. "We live side by side with the countries of...

The Triumph of the Non-Idealist Intellectuals? An Investigation of Fiji's 1999 Election Results.(Statistical Data Included)
March 1, 2000... Fiji's May 1999 general election brought to power the country's first Indo-Fijian Prime Minister. In the first general election under the new 1997 constitution, Mahendra Chaudhry's Labour Party won a landslide victory, inflicting a major defeat...

Lee Kuan Yew's Fabian Phase.
March 1, 2000... In the late 1990s, Lee Kuan Yew described himself as an economic liberal.(1) This should come as no great surprise to followers of Lee's career, because he has associated welfare with "malingering and laying about" since 1969.(2) Yet to this...

Finding Families. The Guide to the National Archives of Australia for Genealogists.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Finding Families. The Guide to the National Archives of Australia for Genealogists. By Margaret Chambers comp. (National Archives of Australia in association with Hale & Iremonger, 1998), pp. 344, index, illustrations. Paper $A34.95. 1998...

A Measure of Greatness: The Origins of the Australian Iron and Steel Industry.(Review)
March 1, 2000... A Measure of Greatness: The Origins of the Australian Iron and Steel Industry. By E.M. Johnston-Liik, George Liik and R.G. Ward (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1998), pp. xviii + 358, illustrated. $44.95. This needed account of...

The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation. By Helen Irving ed. (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 528. RRP$49.94. This comprehensive text is a notable contribution to the plethora of books released recently concerned...

Power and Politics in the City: Brisbane in Transition.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Power and Politics in the City: Brisbane in Transition. By Janice Caulfield and John Wanna eds. (South Melbourne; Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd, 1995), pp. xx + 308, twelve figures, ten tables, two appendices, references, index. $34.95....

Brisbane on Fire: A History of Firefighting 1860-1925.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Brisbane on Fire: A History of Firefighting 1860-1925. By K.D. Calthorpe and K. Capell (Holland Park, Qld: Ken Capell, 1997), pp. xv +239, illustrated, appendices, c$40.00. The book has been written as a memorial tribute to Kevin Desmond...

True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930.(Review)
March 1, 2000... True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930. By Ian Tyrrell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), pp. xiii + 313. Npg. One of the strengths of environmental history is its capacity to focus...

A Long Way to Tipperary.(Review)
March 1, 2000... A Long Way to Tipperary. By Sue Gough (St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1992), pp. 145. $13.95. In 1932 J.B. Priestley published a best selling account of a group of adventurers brought together by chance, who form a...

Here Comes the Night.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Here Comes the Night. By Sue Gough (St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1997), pp. 184. $14.95. In 1932 J.B. Priestley published a best selling account of a group of adventurers brought together by chance, who form a theatrical...

Citizens: Flowers and the Wide Sea.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Citizens: Flowers and the Wide Sea. By Eric Rolls (St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 1996), pp. xiii + 631. Hardcover $49.95. Ever since Peter Ryan's mea culpa over his lack of courage in allowing Manning Clark's History of...

The Wik Debate: Its Impact on Aborigines, Pastoralists and Miners.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Wik Debate: Its Impact on Aborigines, Pastoralists and Miners. By Father Frank Brennan (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1998), pp. 93. Npg. The first stage of the native title debate in Australia has now closed. The result...

Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship. By Moira Gatens and Alison Mackinnon eds. (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. xx + 214. Paper $29.95. This book, through an assemblage of interdisciplinary scholars...

Americanization and Australia.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Americanization and Australia. By Philip Bell and Roger Bell eds. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1998), pp. 282. Paper $24.95. In 1940, Great Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. And so too was Australia. Australia's new...

Charles Abel and the Kwato Mission of Papua New Guinea, 1891-1975.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Charles Abel and the Kwato Mission of Papua New Guinea, 1891-1975. By David Wetherell (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 344. Paper $24.95. The word "Kwato" is instantly recognisable by most Papua New Guineans and by all...

My gun, my brother, the world of the Papua New Guinea colonial police 1920-1960.(Review)
March 1, 2000... My gun, my brother, the world of the Papua New Guinea colonial police 1920-1960. By August K. Kituai (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998), pp. 414, b&w illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Hardcover US$48.00. My gun, my...

Ireland and Scandinavia in Early Viking Age.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Ireland and Scandinavia in Early Viking Age. By Howard B. Clarke, Maire Ni Mhaonaigh and Raghnall O Floinn (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998), pp. 496. Hardcover 25 [pounds sterling]. This collection of sixteen papers from a conference held...

The British Empire and Commonwealth: A Short History.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The British Empire and Commonwealth: A Short History. By Martin Kitchin (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. vi + 197. $27.95. In presenting a narrative of the British Empire from 1400 to the present, in less than two hundred pages Martin Kitchin...

The Blueshirts and Irish Politics.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Blueshirts and Irish Politics. By Mike Cronin (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997), pp. 220. Npg. The Irish Blueshirt movement was significant in the years 1932-34. As Ireland's approach to Fascism in which W.B. Yeats was briefly...

The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany. By Jonathan Sperber (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. xiii + 389, figures and tables. Hardback $95.00. There is no shortage of works on elections in Imperial...

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. By Roger Chickering (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. xvi + 227, plates, figures and maps. Paper $26.95. Roger Chickering's recent book is published in Cambridge University...

The Republican Option in Canada, Past and Present.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Republican Option in Canada, Past and Present. By David E. Smith (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), pp. xiv + 352, notes, index. US$50.00. David E. Smith, a political scientist at the University of Saskatchewan, has written...

The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947. By Ian Copland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society], 1997), pp. xiii + 302. $95.00. The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire...