The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from March 2006

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from March 2006

"White Queensland": the Queensland Government's ideological position on the use of Pacific Island labourers in the sugar sector 1880-1901.
March 1, 2006... Pacific Island labourers did the back-breaking work which allowed the Queensland sugar industry to prosper during the nineteenth century. Clive Moore, Patricia Mercer, Ralph Shlomowitz and others have illuminated the economic contribution of...

State socialism in Australian political thought: a reconsideration.
March 1, 2006... There has been a welcome burgeoning of attention to Australian political thought in the past decade. When one attempts to follow a particular strand, however, academic specialisation sometimes impedes attempts to gain an understanding of broad...

A troika of agitators: three Comintern liaison agents in Australia, 1920-22.
March 1, 2006... Thus wrote one of Paul Freeman's close comrades, Alexander Zuzenko, in Moscow on 15 August 1920 while preparations were in train to send both men, recent deportees from Australia, back on a liaison mission for the Third International, to...

The middle way: the discourse of planning in Britain, Australia and at the League in the interwar years *.
March 1, 2006... From the late 1920s, it was a common-place that laissez-faire capitalism was dead and the choice facing society was not whether to plan or not to plan, but between wise and poor planning. Evan Durbin announced in 1930, that although socialism...

From British colony to American satellite? Australia and the USA during the cold war.
March 1, 2006... "For too long", the historian David Day wrote in 1992, "Australia has looked at the world with British and then American eyes". Australia was hamstrung by a "dependent mentality", reflected in an inability "to formulate policies based on a...

Separatism or status-quo?: Indigenous affairs from the birth of land rights to the death of ATSIC *.
March 1, 2006... Indigenous peoples in Australia enjoy less formal political autonomy than in any comparable settler society in the world. (1) They also "enjoy" the worst discrepancy between their people and non-Indigenous populations in terms of key...

The rise and fall of missile diplomacy? President Clinton and the "revolution in military affairs" in retrospect.(Bill Clinton)
March 1, 2006... Introduction When Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992 pundits worried he would retreat from the international activism of his predecessor, George Bush Senior. It was certainly assumed he would be reluctant to militarize US foreign...

Existential terrorism: civil society and its enemies.
March 1, 2006... Introduction This paper relates a central trend in terrorist strategy to the history of attitudes towards civil society. Contemporary terrorism increasingly eschews attacks on political, military, diplomatic or corporate targets, and...

The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772-1839.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772-1839. By Colin Dyer (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2005). $32.95 pb. Altogether ten French expeditions made their way to the shores of Australia in the period covered by...

Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Capetown, 1820-1850.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Capetown, 1820-1850. By Kirsten McKenzie (Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2004); pp.xiii + 210; $34.95 pb. One of the virtues of the new transnational historians is their ability to see history...

Varieties of Vice-Regal Life (Van Diemen's Land Section).(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Varieties of Vice-Regal Life (Van Diemen's Land Section). By Sir William and Lady Denison. Edited by Richard Davis and Stefan Petrow (Hobart: The Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 2004), pp. iv + 298, index, illustrations. $35.00 pb....

A Nation's Imagination: Australia's Copyright Records, 1854-1968.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... A Nation's Imagination: Australia's Copyright Records, 1854-1968. By Merilyn Minell (Canberra: National Archives of Australia, 2003) ISBN 0642344930. $10.00 pb. Australia In Focus: Photographs in the National Archives. By Peter Nagle...

The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe Explorer.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe Explorer. Edited with an introduction by Peter Monteath (Adelaide: Corkwood Press, 2004), pp. xi + 117, maps and photographs. $34.95 hbk. Caroline or "Carrie" Creaghe (nee Robinson, later Barnett) was...

After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940. Edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor (Otherland Literary Journal, No.9, Dec 2004), $29.95 pb. This book is probably best...

The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War. By Tanja Luckins (Perth: Curtin University Press, 2004). Pp. 304, $29.95 pb. Bigger Than Gallipoli: War, History and Memory in Australia. By Liz...

Reconsidering Gallipoli.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Reconsidering Gallipoli. By Jenny Macleod (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004). Pp. 262 + x, A$52.95 pb. ISBN 0-7190-6743-X. Gallipoli is a subject of endless fascination and has been ever since the morning of 25 April 1915....

Pompey Elliott.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Pompey Elliott. By Ross McMullin (Carlton North, Vic: Scribe Publications, 2002), xii + 718 pp. $45.00 pb. There can be no question that Ross McMullin has successfully accomplished a formidable task in this biography of Major-General Harold...

John Wren: A Life Reconsidered.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... John Wren: A Life Reconsidered. By James Griffin (Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2004). Pp. 468. $60.0 pb. Revisionist biographies command particular attention when they serve to re-habilitate a subject whose reputation has been severely...

Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship. By Chanan Reich (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002). Pp. 184, A$39.95 hb. Looked at today, the relationship between Australia and Israel is strong and vibrant. The two countries...

It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor. Edited by Jenny Hocking and Colleen Lewis (Armadale, Vie.: Circa Press, 2003), pp. xviii + 478, index. ISBN 0 958093849. $19.95 pb. Some might groan at the appearance of yet another volume on the...

Blackfellas Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Blackfellas Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race. By Gillian Cowlishaw (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2004). $52.95 pb. Gillian Cowlishaw's return to the New South Wales country town of Bourke in 1998, ten years after the...

The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration. Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Pp. 456 + tables, figures + halftones. $79.95 hb. ...

The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). $37.95 pb. This book is a timely and important contribution to discussions of how social policy affects those who most need it to be...

Australian Cinema after Mabo.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Australian Cinema after Mabo. By Felicity Collins and Therese Davies (Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Pp. 204 + bibliography and index, $39.95 pb. Australian Cinema after Mabo is a collection of joint essays by Felicity...

Journey into Darkness.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Journey into Darkness. By Winton Higgins (Blackheath: Brandl and Schlesinger, 2003). Pp. 286. $29.95 pb. Winton Higgins' work is an important contribution to our understanding of western modernity's darker side, especially if the...

Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Gerry Treuren (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2004), pp. x + 324). $34.95 pb. Shanahan and Treuren's timely edited collection highlights the diversity of...

God Under Howard: the Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... God Under Howard: the Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics. By Marion Maddox (Crows Next, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2005), $29.95 pb. Maddox's book begins with a return to John Howard's Methodist childhood, which some...

The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History. Edited by Stuart Macintyre (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004). Pp. 166, $29.95 pb. The Historian's Conscience is not about "The Windschuttle Debate", nor...

Imagining Australia: Ideas for Our Future.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Imagining Australia: Ideas for Our Future. By Macgregor Duncan, Andrew Leigh, David Madden and Peter Tynan (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2004). $24.95 pb. This book is a welcome addition to a small body of literature in Australia:...

Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait. By Anna Shnukal, Guy Ramsey and Yuriko Nagata (Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2004). Pp. xii + 318, illustrations. $55.00 pb. Who are Torres Strait Islanders? How did Torres Strait...

Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor. By Clinton Fernandes (Melbourne: Scribe Publication, 2004). Pp. 138, index. $22.00 pb. The products of the genre of diplomatic history can often be complex,...

Abdurrahman Wahid. Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: a View From the Inside.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Abdurrahman Wahid. Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: a View From the Inside. By Greg Barton (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2002). Pp. 414, $39.95 pb. This book opens with a rather disquieting disclaimer to the effect...

Pacific Journeys, Essays in Honour of John Dunmore.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Pacific Journeys, Essays in Honour of John Dunmore. Edited by Glynnis M. Cropp et al. (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005), 232 pp. NZ$39.95. This collection of essays is in honour of John Dunmore, Professor of French and Head of...

Pacific Places, Pacific Histories: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Pacific Places, Pacific Histories: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste. Edited by Brij V. Lal (Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 2004), vii, 345pp., index. US$57.00 hb. This volume pays tribute to Bob Kiste who recently retired as head of...

The Manipulation of Custom: From Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... The Manipulation of Custom: From Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands. By Jon Fraenkel (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004). Pp. 256, maps. NZ$34.95 pb. This book by Jon Fraenkel of the University of the South Pacific is...

Perceptions of Race and Nation in English and American Travel Writers, 1833-1914.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Perceptions of Race and Nation in English and American Travel Writers, 18331914. By Erik S. Schmeller (New York, Bern, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004), pp.x + 117, SFR 72. By examining the work of twelve travel writers Schmeller hopes to...

Europe's Pasts and Presents: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Europe's Pasts and Presents: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History (Brisbane, Australia, July 2003). Edited by Stephan Atzert and Andrew G. Bonnell (Unley: Australian Humanities...

Diplomaten und Agenten. Nachrichtendienste in der Geschichte der deutschamerikanischen Beziehungen.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Diplomaten und Agenten. Nachrichtendienste in der Gesehichte der deutschamerikanischen Beziehungen. Edited by Reinhard R. Doerries (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 2001), 229 pp., Euro38, ISBN 3-8253-1137-6. Six of the seven...

Fascists.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Fascists. By Michael Mann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp.x + 429, maps, tables. A$49.95 pb (cloth also available). The Anatomy of Fascism. By Robert O. Paxton (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), pp.xii + 321. Cloth...

City: Urbanism and its End.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... City: Urbanism and its End. By Douglas W. Rae (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. i-xix +516. Figures, maps, tables, plates, references, bibliography, Index. US$30.00. Douglas Rae's experience as Chief Administrative Officer of...

World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. By Immanuel Wallerstein (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2004). Pp. xii + 109. US$49.95 hbk, US$16.95 pbk. Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis represents one of the most...

Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood. By James Connelly (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2003). Pp. 336. 25 [pounds sterling]. Action as History: The Historical Thought of R. G. Collingwood. By Stein...