The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from March 2004

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from March 2004

The same but different.(Introduction)
March 1, 2004... The articles in this special number of the Australian Journal of Politics and History are revised versions of papers delivered at a conference with the over-ambitious title Transcending the National, held at the University of New South Wales in...

The "transformation" of governance: new directions in policy and politics.(e)
March 1, 2004... 1. Introduction. A quick survey of titles of books and working papers since 1979 shows that the term "transformation" has become increasingly popular. (1) At the very least, this reveals that something is going on that is attracting the...

Value pluralism and multinational federalism.
March 1, 2004... I detest all kinds of tyrannies, that of words and that of facts. Montaigne, Essais, Book III, VIII Federalism is designed to prevent tyranny without preventing governance. Daniel Elazar, Exploring Federalism The debate that has taken...

Federalism: fuzzy global trends.
March 1, 2004... Introduction This article explores the governance (2) of society and federalism. Being concerned with the governance of society overall, it considers public governance, corporate (or private) governance and the civil society sector as...

Transcending the national / asserting the national: how stateless nations like Scotland, Wales and Catalonia react to European integration (1).
March 1, 2004... The members of some of Europe's stateless nations belong to the more enthusiastic supporters of European integration in their respective states. What is perhaps more surprising is that even nationalists are in favour of it. Catalan nationalists...

Negotiating identities: the Party of Democratic Socialism between East German regionalism, German national identity and European integration.
March 1, 2004... The PDS as "Crystallisation Point of Dfferences" A decade after German unification a stable regional identity distinguished East Germans from West Germans, although the feeling of being one German nation had been overwhelming in the last...

Cyprus from 1960 to EU accession: the case for non-territorial autonomy.
March 1, 2004... In this article I do not intend to give a comprehensive treatment of the complex and significant political issues surrounding the accession of Cyprus to the European Union, but to utilise these issues to provide a context for exploring some...

Federalism: distance and devolution.
March 1, 2004... I want to reflect a little on the nature of federalism in Australia by contrasting it with American federalism. And I want to consider the ideas of four thinkers from quite disparate disciplines and perspectives: Geoffrey Blainey, an eminent...

Factors for integration? Transnational party cooperation in the European Parliament, 1952-79.
March 1, 2004... Political parties at the European level are important as a factor of integration within the Union. They contribute to forming a European awareness and to expressing the political will of the citizens. (Treaty on European Union, Article...

Jack Curtin and Ben Chifley: a day in their lives.(book review)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... In 1999, David Day's 610-page John Curtin: a Life was published by HarperCollins. It was followed in 2001 by his 562-page Ben Chifley, again published by HarperCollins. Two more "damned, thick, square books", as the first Duke of Gloucester is...

Tourism in Australia and Hawai'i: historical perspectives.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia since 1870. By Jim Davidson and Peter Spearritt. (Carlton, Victoria: Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press, 2000). xxxi + 416pp. Illustrated. $65.95 (Hb). Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism...

Painting Culture: the Making of an Aboriginal High Art.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art. By Fred R. Myers. (Durham and London: Duke University Press 2002), pp. 438. Colour plates, black and white photographs and figures. A$24.95 (paper). Painting Culture: The Making of an...

Unearthed: the Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island. By Rebe Taylor. (Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2002), pp. 385, illustrated, maps, tables, $29.95. Unearthed." The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island is both an...

Empire und Totaler Krieg: Australien 1905-1918.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Empire und Totaler Krieg: Australien 1905-1918. By Daniel Marc Segesser (Paderboru-Munchen-Wien-Zurich: Ferdinand Schoningh, 2002), pp.590, EUR 75.80. This handsomely produced work is a revised doctoral dissertation for the university of...

Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist. By Marilyn Lake (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2002), pp. xii, 239, ISBN 1 86508 841 2. $A39.95 (cloth). Let us be bold. By my reckoning Faith Bandler is one of the top twenty Australians of the...

Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire. By David Goldsworthy (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. viii + 209, $34.95. There is no shortage of books or articles on Australia and the British Empire...

Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal. By Bridget Griffen-Foley (South Melbourne: The Text Publishing Co, 2003), pp.292, $A32 (paperback). The publication of Party Games coincided with the Senate's...

The Hawke Government: a Critical Retrospective.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Hawke Government: A Critical Retrospective. Edited by Susan Ryan and Troy Bramston (Melbourne: Pluto, 2003), xiii+512pp, $39.95. As John Warhurst and Jim Chalmers note in their bibliographical appendix to this collection, "There is a...

Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: the Lord's Premier.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: The Lord's Premier. By Rae Wear (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002), pp. xvi +249, Illustrated. $35.00. This book contributes to the practice of political biography by allying a life story with an...

Bob Carr: the Reluctant Leader.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Bob Carr: The Reluctant Leader. By Marilyn Dodkin (Kensington, NSW: University of New South Wales Press, 2003), pp. x + 291, $29.95. In Marilyn Dodkin's account of Bob Carr's leadership of the New South Wales Labor Party, the reader is...

The People's Choice. Electoral Politics in 20th Century New South Wales. Volume One: 1901 to 1927; Volume Two: 1930 to 1965; Volume Three: 1968 to 1999.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The People's Choice. Electoral Politics in 20th Century New South Wales. Volume One: 1901 to 1927; Volume Two: 1930 to 1965; Volume Three: 1968 to 1999. Edited by Michael Hogan and David Clune (Sydney: Parliament of New South Wales and The...

Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation. By Verity Burgmann (Crows Nest, [Sydney]: Allen and Unwin, 2003), pp. 400, $39.95. This book provides an interesting and thoughtful analysis of several movements for...

The Accidental Missionary: Tales of Elekana.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Accidental Missionary: Tales of Elekana. By Michael Goldsmith and Doug Munro. (Christchurch: MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, 2002) pp. xviii + 142. Index. NZD29.95. The study of Pacific History,...

The State Trials 1163-1858 on CD-ROM.(Video Recording Review)
March 1, 2004... The State Trials 1163-1858 on CD-ROM (Oxford: Jutastat, 2001), 1 CD-ROM + user manual, 1,900 [pounds sterling] for single-user purchase. Digitisation is an increasingly unavoidable and important research tool for historians, and the...

Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. By Catherine Hall (Cambridge: Polity, 2002), pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. After a steady stream of articles on colonisation in the British Empire, Catherine...

William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848. By Robert Sloan (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2000), pp. 320; bibliography; index; 9 illustrations. Map by Matthew Stout on the geography of the Rebellion. The past several years...

Under Siege: Portraits of Civilian Life in France during World War I.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Under Siege: Portraits of Civilian Life in France during World War I. Edited by Robert J. Young. (New York; Oxford: Bergahn Books, 2000), pp. xxix + 183. Twelve maps. HB 37.00 [pounds sterling], pb 13.95 [pounds sterling]. Robert Young has...

The Origins of the Second World War: the Debate Continues.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Origins of the Second World War: The Debate Continues. By Robert Boyce and Joseph Maiolo, eds (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), xvi + 397 pp, $49.00. This book consists of a collection of nineteen essays on various aspects of the...

Czech-German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe: From Bohemia to the EU.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Czech-German Relations and the Politics of Central Europe: From Bohemia to the EU. By Jurgen Tampke (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp.xviii + 213, $45.00. Until the rise of modern nationalism in the...

Der Mauerbau: Die Westmachte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise 1958-1963 [The Building of the Wall: the Western Powers and Adenauer in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963].(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Der Mauerbau: Die Westmachte und Adenauer in der Berlinkrise 1958-1963 [The Building of the Wall: The Western Powers and Adenauer in the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1963]. By Roll Steininger. (Munich: Olzog Verlag, 2001), pp. 411. EUR 18.50. Rolf...

Crossing Boundaries. The Exclusion of Minorities In Germany and the United States.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Crossing Boundaries. The Exclusion of Minorities In Germany and the United States. Edited by Larry Eugene Jones (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2001), pp.v + 266, US$69.95 (cloth), $25.00 (paperback). For decades, Georg Iggers has...

Complicities: the Intellectual and Apartheid.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid. By Mark Sanders (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002), pp. xiii + 273, US$ 19.95 (paper). Amidst the flood of books that will accompany the tenth anniversary of democratic government...

Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia. Michael E. Brown and Sumit Ganguly, eds (Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 2003), pp. 480pp + xi, US$48.00/30.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). This volume is a study by...

Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos. By Shigeharu Tanabe and Charles F. Keyes, eds (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002), pp. xii + 312. Cloth US$45.00. This book, the editors tell us, is...

A Social History of the Media: from Gutenberg to the Internet.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. By Asa Briggs and Peter Burke (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003), pp. 374, 15.99 [pounds sterling]. This collaboration between two distinguished British media historians promises...

Western Supremacy: Triumph of an Idea?(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Western Supremacy: Triumph of an Idea? By Sophie Bessis, trans. Patrick Camiller (London: Zed Books, 2003), pp. 290. 15.95 [pounds sterling] (paper). Though the original French text was published in 2001, in the wake of what Americans...

Civic Literacy. How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Civic Literacy. How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work. By Henry Milner. (Hanover: Tufts University/University Press of New England, 2002), pp. ix + 293. Graphs and tables. US$19.95 (paper). Although Henry Milner clearly sees his work as...

Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: the Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics. By M. Anne Brown (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. vii +232, 45.00 [pounds sterling]. The end of the Cold...

Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice. By Janna Thompson (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002), pp. xxi, 173. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (paper). When addressing the question of whether the inhabitants of current...

Terrorism, Freedom and Security: Winning Without War.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Terrorism, Freedom and Security: Winning Without War. By Philip B. Heymann (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003), pp. 210, Index. Hbk. ISBN 0-262-08327-2. US$24.95. Although Heymann's latest book on America's response to terrorism was written...