The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from March 2002

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from March 2002

Writing Europe's pasts: Germany's twentieth century.
March 1, 2002... Introduction All articles in this special issue of the Australian Journal of Politics and History originated in papers presented at the thirteenth biennial conference of the Australasian Association for European History, Auckland, 9-12...

Did they read Marx? Marx reception and Social Democratic Party members in Imperial Germany, 1890-1914.
March 1, 2002... On October 31, 1894, the following advertisement appeared in the classified advertising pages of the German Social Democratic party's main newspaper, Vorwarts. Berliner Volksblatt, which also doubled as the local paper for party comrades in...

The Lansdowne "Peace Letter" of 1917 and the prospect of peace by negotiation with Germany (1).(Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne)
March 1, 2002... What really happened in history is often obscured by what happened next. This certainly seems to be the case for Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, and his so-called "Peace Letter" to the editor of the London Daily Telegraph of...

Nazis and workers before 1933.
March 1, 2002... As its name suggests, the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) understood itself to be a party of and for the German working class. Its initial programme combined volkisch elements with social-radical demands for the punishment of...

"Export or die"; Foreign Trade in the Third Reich (1).
March 1, 2002... Hitler, Schacht, Goring and the German Economy It is commonly assumed that Adolf Hitler was a complete layman in economic matters and that, once in power, he showed little interest in Germany's economy. In a typical, recent, example the...

What was different about the German Democratic Republic?
March 1, 2002... Ten years after the fall of the wall, there has been a marked change in the discourse on German unification, and, in particular, on the forty years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). (1) The triumphalism of the first years and the vulgar...

Forgetting the Fuhrer: the recent history of the Holocaust denial movement in Germany.
March 1, 2002... Holocaust denial has a long history in Germany, but it was not until the 1970s that its current incarnation began to feature more heavily in the propaganda of the far right. Works such as Thies Christophersen's Die Auschwitz-Luge (1) and...

Holocaust compensation payments and the global search for justice for victims of Nazi persecution.
March 1, 2002... When, in December 1995, Edgar Bronfman, President of the World Jewish Congress, met with Alfonse M. D'Amato, then senator from New York and chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, for a dinner to discuss the matter of dormant bank...

A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. By Donald Denoon and Philippa Mein-Smith with Marivic Wyndham (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000), xiv + 523 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. The authors of this wide-ranging ethnohistory...

Cooloola Coast: Noosa to Fraser Island. The Aboriginal and Settler Histories of a Unique Environment. (Book Reviews).(Cooloola Coast: Noosa to Fraser Island. The Aboriginal and Settler Histories of a Unique Environmen)
March 1, 2002... Cooloola Coast: Noosa to Fraser Island. The Aboriginal and Settler Histories of a Unique Environment. By Elaine Brown (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000), 212 pp. Maps. Illustrated. $40.00. Elaine Brown's Cooloola Coast is an...

Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, Voyage to Australia and the Pacific, 1791-1793. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, Voyage to Australia and the Pacific, 1791-1793. Edited and translated by Edward Duyker and Maryse Duyker (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2001), pp. xlii +392. Illustrated, seven maps. $59.95. In September 1791 Bruny...

The Native-Born. The First White Australians. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Native-Born. The First White Australians. By John Molony. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xi + 252. Illustrated. $32.95 John Molony's The Native-Born represents a successful marriage of collective biography with...

Far Country: a Short History of the Northern Territory, Centenary Edition. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory, Centenary Edition. By Alan Powell. (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. viii + 312. Illustrated. Eight maps. $43.95 Alan Powell is widely and justifiably regarded as...

Charlie's Book: the Life and Times of a Country Town. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Charlie's Book: the Life and Times of a Country Town. By Lynn Sunderland (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999), pp. xiii + 251, illustrated, npg. Local history is a lively genre, and this work is a lively addition to the corpus....

Dealing With Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Dealing With Alcohol: Indigenous Usage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. By Sherry Saggers and Dennis Gray. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp.vii + 240. $29.95. Dealing With Alcohol describes the impact of alcohol on...

Colonial Genocide. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Colonial Genocide. By Alison Palmer, foreword Henry Reynolds (Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing, 2000), Pp. ix, 248. $29.95. The purpose of this book, originally a sociology doctoral thesis directed by Anthony Smith at the University of...

A Frenchman's Walk Across the Nullarbor: Henri Gilbert's Diary, Perth to Brisbane, 1897-1899. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... A Frenchman's Walk Across the Nullarbor: Henri Gilbert's Diary, Perth to Brisbane, 1897-1899 Translated and edited by Colin Dyer. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000). Pp xii + 195. Hardback $29.95. Crossing Australia's 600 km...

The Man Time Forgot. The Life and Times of John Christian Watson. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Man Time Forgot. The Life and Times of John Christian Watson. By Al Grassby and Silvia Ordonez. (Sydney: Pluto Press, 1999), pp. xi + 193. npg. Every Australian Prime Minister ought to have a biography, and there may well be a case for...

The Great Constitutional Swindle: a Citizen's View of the Australian Constitution. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Great Constitutional Swindle: a Citizen's View of the Australian Constitution. By Peter Botsman (Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press, 2000), xiii, 231 pp. $27.45 pb. The Federation cavalcade is doing its last round of the nation. 1901-2001 has...

1901: Australian life at Federation: an Illustrated Chronicle.
March 1, 2002... 1901: Australian life at Federation: an Illustrated Chronicle. Edited by Aedeen Cremin (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2001), ix, 164 pp. $44.95 pb The Federation cavalcade is doing its last round of the nation. 1901-2001 has been played out in a...

The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. By Joy Damousi. (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999). 212 pp. $32.90. Joy Damousi has ventured into territory almost unexplored in Australian...

Mawson: a Life. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Mawson: A Life. By Philip Ayres (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 1999), pp. xx + 321. Illustrated. Maps. $43.95. Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) became a legend early in life as a result of his exploits as a member of...

Beryl Beaurepaire. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Beryl Beaurepaire. By Michael McKernan. (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1999), pp. xv + 316. Illustrated. $43.95. Beryl Beurepaire's life was quintessentially Melbourne. Born in 1923 into the middle class, her family were shoe...

In Valiant Company: Diggers in Battle- Korea, 1950-51. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... In Valiant Company: Diggers in Battle- Korea, 1950-51. By Ben O'Dowd. (St. Lucia: The University of Queensland Press, 2000), pp. xiii + 212. Illustrated. Twenty Maps. $21.84. In recent years, an increasing amount of attention has been...

Living Out Loud: a History of Gay and Lesbian Activism in Australia. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Living Out Loud: a History of Gay and Lesbian Activism in Australia. By Graham Willett (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2000), pp. xii, 307. $35.00. The first tentative attempts to write the history of the gay and lesbian community in Australia...

Who Was That Woman?: the Australian Woman's Weekly in the Postwar Years. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Who Was That Woman?: The Australian Woman's Weekly in the Postwar Years By Susan Sheridan with Barbara Baird, Kate Borrett and Lyndall Ryan (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2001), pp. 165. $39.95. The Australian Woman 'S Weekly is not just one of...

Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous-European Encounters in Settler Societies. Edited by Lynette Russell. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2001), pp. xvii, 247. $148.35. This book attempts to reshape the way we think about...

1945 War and Peace in the Pacific: Selected Essays. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... 1945 War and Peace in the Pacific: Selected Essays. Edited by Peter Dennis. (Canberra: The Australian War Memorial, 1999), pp. viii + 213. $21.60. If any single year could claim significance in world history, 1945 was that year. The...

The Crisis of Reason. European Thought, 1848-1914. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Crisis of Reason. European Thought, 1848-1914. By J. W. Burrow (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), xvi + 271 pp, illustrated. US$29.95. J.W. Burrow's intellectual history of Europe during the emergence of modernism (a...

From Queen's College to National University: Essays on the Academic History of QCG/UCG/NUI. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... From Queen's College to National University: Essays on the Academic History of QCG/UCG/NUI. Edited by Tadhg Foley (Galway, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999), pp. xii + 440. npg. A number of important papers have been written about Galway's...

Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. By Terry Eagleton (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999), pp. 177. $39.95 This book takes us into the rich, complex and stimulating intellectual world of nineteenth-century Dublin, where a...

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World. By Roy Porter. (London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2000), pp.xxiv + 728. Illustrated. Forty-six colour plates. $60. In 1784 Kant responded to the question, "What is...

Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848: Essays in Honour of Malcolm I. Thomis. Edited by Michael T. Davis. (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000), pp. xv+242. $130.90 AUD. This interesting collection of essays pays tribute to a...

Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in 19th-Century England. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in 19th-Century England. By Susan Thorne. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. ix + 247. npg. This is an extraordinarily dense book. Dense in the sense...

Lord Acton. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Lord Acton. By Roland Hill, Foreword by Owen Chadwick (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000), pp.xvii+548. Price 25.00 [pounds sterling]. Students of Victorian studies and Church historians will welcome this finely crafted...

Codebreakers: the Inside Story of Bletchley Park. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park. By F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp eds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001; first pub. 1993), xxi + 321 pp. Paper 9.99 [pounds sterling], $14.95 US. There has been a recent revival of...

Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany. By Margaret Lavinia Anderson (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), xix + 483 pp. Hardcover US $65.00, paper US $24.95. There have been many studies of...

Ernst Thalmann Mensch und Mythos. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Ernst Thalmann. Mensch und Mythos. By Peter Monteath ed. (Amsterdam, Atlanta GA: Rodopi, 2000 = German Monitor 52), x + 208 pp. 13 illustrations. Hardcover: EUR46/US$43; Paperback: EUR 18/US$17. On the one hand, one has to feel sorry for...

Legacies of Dachau: the Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001. By Harold Marcuse, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) pp. 590. Illustrated. $64.95 There was no debate at all in 1933 when the town of Dachau acquired a...

Bakounine: Oeuvres Completes. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Bakounine: Oeuvres Completes. By Mikhail Bakunin. (CD-ROM). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (eds.), (Amsterdam, 2000). npg. The Russian revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) was one of the most important but...

Mao's Children in the New China: Voices from the Red Guard Generation. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Mao's Children in the New China: Voices from the Red Guard Generation. Edited by Yarong Jiang and David Ashley (London and New York: Routledge, 2000) pp. xxix + 177. Softcover $43.90. This book includes the personal testimony of...

China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: the Limits of Compliance. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance. By Ann Kent. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. xiii + 328. ISBN 0-8122-1681-4 (pbk). US$22.50. This is one of the best books on Chinese human...

The Origins of Japan's Democratic Constitution. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Origins of Japan's Democratic Constitution, by Theodore McNelly. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2000). xiii, 221pp. US $29.50, paper. The 1940s witnessed upheaval and turbulence on an unprecedented scale. Germany, Italy, and...

Southeast Asia's Economic Crisis. Origins, Lessons, and the Way Forward. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Southeast Asia's Economic Crisis. Origins, Lessons, and the Way Forward. Edited by H.W. Arndt & Hal Hill. (St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1999), pp. 182. $29.95 This is a compact book that provides a succinct coverage of the financial...

Making Peace Pay: a Bibliography on Disarmament & Conversion. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Making Peace Pay: A Bibliography on Disarmament & Conversion. Edited by Nils Petter Gleditsch et al. (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2000), pp. 270. Cloth $US39.95. The ending of the Cold War and the costly arms race that accompanied it has...

The Cold War -- Reassessments. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Cold War -- Reassessments. Edited by Arthur L. Rosenbaum and Chae-Jin Lee (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2000), pp. 214. Cloth $US32.95, Paper $US 14.95. The ending of the Cold War and the costly arms race that accompanied it has made...

Room to Manoeuvre: Political Aspects of Full Employment. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Room to Manoeuvre: Political Aspects of Full Employment. By Paul Boreham, Geoff Dow & Martin Leet. (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1999), pp.xii + 249. $29.95. Room to Manoeuvre adds to a handful of books that involve a...

International Toxic Risk Management: Ideals, Interests and Implementation. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... International Toxic Risk Management: Ideals, Interests and Implementation. By Aynsley Kellow. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. xii + 222. $34.95 paperback. Kellow uses a detailed study of the regulation of non-ferrous...

The Dignity of Legislation. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Dignity of Legislation. By Jeremy Waldron. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. xiii + 206. $34.95. This book argues that theories of law give too much attention and too much credit to the role of courts, and too little to...

Sustaining Affirmation: the Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory. By Stephen White. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), xii + 158pp. US$15.95 pb. Ethical and political conduct are often thought to depend upon...