The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from September 2000

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from September 2000

Europe -- Divided or United? Introduction.
September 1, 2000... The articles gathered in this issue of the Australian Journal of Politics and History are a selection from papers presented at the 12th biennial conference of the Australasian Association for European History, held in Perth, Western Australia,...

"European Identity": An Emerging Concept.
September 1, 2000... Europe has always been more of a mental construct than a geographical or social entity. The very notion of Europe was born out of, and long limited to, the realm of myth and folklore. There is nothing obviously distinctive about this western...

"Concentric Circles" at the Periphery of the European Union.
September 1, 2000... Accounts of the origins of European unification after the World War II minimise the determination of colonial powers to reconcile their presence overseas with the new project to integrate Germany into a cooperative Europe.(1) Today too the...

Liability, Responsibility and Blame: British Ransom Victims in the Mediterranean Periphery, 1860-81.
September 1, 2000... Epilogue as Prologue As this article was nearing completion, the British newspaper The Guardian reported that during 1999 there had been recorded, worldwide, 1,789 kidnappings for ransom. Most of these had occurred in Latin America,...

The French Churches and the Jewish Question: July 1940 -- March 1941.
September 1, 2000... On 16 March 1998 the Vatican issued the long awaited document addressed to Judeo-Christian relationship during the Nazi era. Presented by "The Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews" it is entitled: "We remember: A Reflection on the...

Russia's Twentieth Century in History and Historiography(*).
September 1, 2000... In the early 1990s, Russians often spoke of the seventy-four years of Soviet power that ended in 1991 as a blank space in their history, a mistake, a detour, something that essentially hadn't happened. Now 1991 is referred to as the "collapse"...

Beer and Skittles? Workers and Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Germany.
September 1, 2000... This paper first examines the culture of the workers' leisure organisations associated with the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), then attempts to assess the extent to which it resembled or differed from `bourgeois' or `high' culture on the...

Decolonisation after Suez: Retreat or Rationalisation?
September 1, 2000... The Suez crisis of 1956 has come to be regarded as one of the turning-points in the history of Europe. The failure of the Anglo-French intervention -- in stark contrast to that of 1882, which left the British in power in Egypt for almost...

Gender, Civil War and National Identity: Women Partisans during the Greek Civil War 1946-1949.
September 1, 2000... The active participation of women in nation-building conflicts as well as civil wars has received considerable attention in recent years from scholars inspired by the link between gender, war, citizenship and national identity. This paper...

George Forster, A Voyage around the World.(Review)
September 1, 2000... George Forster, A Voyage around the World. By Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Bernhof eds (Honolulu: University of Hawai 'i Press, 2000), 2 volumes. First published in 1777, George Forster's account of James Cook's second voyage in search of...

That Voluminous Squatter, W.E. Abbott, Wingen.(Review)
September 1, 2000... That Voluminous Squatter, W.E. Abbott, Wingen. By John Merritt (Bungendore, NSW: Turalla Press, 1999), xii + 227 pp. As a social group the Anglo-Irish have been largely neglected in Australian historiography. Therefore, John Merritt's study...

The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History. By Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone eds (St Leonards NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2000), ix + 229 pp, illustrated. Paper $35.00. In this slim volume, ten authors have put the development of urban...

Kakadu: The Making of a National Park.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Kakadu: The Making of a National Park. By David Lawrence (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2000), xvii + 384 pp. Hardcover $49.95. Between 1993 and 1995 David Lawrence was a Research Fellow based at the North...

Claremont: A History.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Claremont: A History. By Geoffrey Bolton and Jenny Gregory (Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1999), v + 244 pp, illustrated, 3 maps. Paper $29.95. A review of the growth and development of any suburb in the Australian city...

Der Ursprung der Messer und Beile: Gedanken zum zivilisatorischen Projekt rheinischer Missionare im fruhkolonialen Neuguinea (The origin of knives and axes: Reflections on the civilizing goal of Rhenish Missionaries in early colonial New Guinea).(Review)
September 1, 2000... Der Ursprung der Messer und Beile: Gedanken zum zivilisatorischen Projekt rheinischer Missionare im fruhkolonialen Neuguinea (The origin of knives and axes: Reflections on the civilizing goal of Rhenish Missionaries in early colonial New...

The People Trade: Pacific Island Labourers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The People Trade: Pacific Island Labourers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930. By Dorothy Shineberg (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999), xxiii + 309 pp. Hardcover US$45.00. This book has been long-awaited by scholars interested in the...

The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and his Remarkable Life.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and his Remarkable Life. By Judith M. Heimann (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999), viii + 468 pp, bibliographical references and index. Hardcover US$54.00, paper US$26.95 Tom Harrisson...

Buckingham and Ireland 1616-1628. A Study in Anglo-Irish Politics.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Buckingham and Ireland 1616-1628. A Study in Anglo-Irish Politics. By Victor Treadwell (Dublin: Four Corners Press, 1998), 443 pp, illustrated, one map. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Victor Treadwell argues that anglocentrism has been the curse...

Between the Ancients and Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Between the Ancients and Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England. By Joseph M. Levine (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999), xiii + 279 pp, illustrated. US$40.00. This is a very impressive publication. Its most...

Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke 1736-1812.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Home Tooke 1736-1812. By Christina and David Bewley (London: Tauris Academic, 1998), xiv + 297 pp, illustrated. 42.00 [pounds sterling]. To his friends he was affectionately admired in later life as the...

The 1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial Military History Conference.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The 1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial Military History Conference. By Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey eds (Canberra: Army History Unit, Department of Defence, 2000), xi + 235 pp. Npg. To commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of...

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe. By Mary Lindemann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [New Approaches to European History], 1999), xii + 249 pp, illustrations and tables. Npg. This book, part of the Cambridge series of New...

Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution. Essays in Honour of James A. Leith.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution. Essays in Honour of James A. Leith. By Ian Germani and Robin Swales eds (Regina, Saskatchewan: Canadian Plains Research Center Regina, 1998), xiii + 342 pp, illustrated. Can$49.95. This...

Between Reform and Revolution. German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Between Reform and Revolution. German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990. By David E. Barclay and Eric D. Weitz eds (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1998), xi + 580 pp. US$79.00 It is now over four decades since the pioneering...

Freedom's Ordeal: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Freedom's Ordeal: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States. By Peter Juviler (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), xvi + 283 pp. US$47.50. Freedom's Ordeal examines the situation of the post-Soviet...

Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa. By Philip Curtin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 231 pp. The subtitle of this book is absolutely necessary. Disease and Empire has, in one sense, a...

The Last Colonies.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Last Colonies. By Robert Aldrich and John Connell (Cambridge: Melbourne University Press, 1998), 352 pp, 4 maps, 2 tables. Hardcover, $59.95. A reference work with commentary, an interdisciplinary survey, an animated thesis: The Last...

Black Body: Women, Colonialism and Space.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Black Body: Women, Colonialism and Space. By Radhika Mohanram (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1999), xx + 250 pp. $35.00 In Black Body, Radhika Mohanram highlights the importance of place in the construction of female black bodies by both...

History, Literature and Society: Essays in Honour of S.N. Mukherjee.(Review)
September 1, 2000... History, Literature and Society: Essays in Honour of S.N. Mukherjee. Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 15. By Mabel Lee and Michael Wilding eds (New Delhi: Manohar, 1997), 283 pp. This collection of essays reflects the wide range of...

Citizen Historian: Explorations in Historiography.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Citizen Historian: Explorations in Historiography. Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 13. By S.N. Mukherjee (New Delhi: Manohar, 1996), xiv + 148 pp. Npg. Throughout his long career Soumyen Mukherjee has always been a "solid"...

Mao.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Mao. By Jonathan Spence (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), xv + 205 pp. Hardcover $29.95. Readers have come to expect great things from the noted historian Jonathan Spence, and his new book, a biography of Mao Zedong, is written with...

China's Road to Disaster, Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955-1959.(Review)
September 1, 2000... China's Road to Disaster, Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955-1959. By Frederick C. Teiwes with Warren gun (Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1999), xxviii + 320 pp, 2...

The 1988 Uprising in Burma.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The 1988 Uprising in Burma. Monograph 49. By Dr Maung Maung (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 1999), xix + 285 pp. Npg. This is an extraordinary book. Clearly written, it recounts from the viewpoint of the author, Dr...

ASEM: A Window of Opportunity.(Review)
September 1, 2000... ASEM: A Window of Opportunity. By Wim Stokhof and Paul van der Velde eds (London: Kegan Paul International in association with the International Institute for Asian Studies, 1999), 179 pp. Hardcover 55.00 [pounds sterling]. The conference...

People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World.(Review)
September 1, 2000... People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World. By Manoranjan Mohanty and Partha Math Mukherji with Olle Tornquist eds (New Delhi: Thousand Oaks; London: Sage Publications, 1998), 436 pp. Npg. This intriguing...

Tourism: politics and public sector management.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Tourism: politics and public sector management. By James Elliott (London: Routledge, 1997), xv + 280 pp, illustrated, eight figures, four tables, 28 boxes. US$27.99. James Elliott has provided a timely structured assessment of the role of...

To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice.(Review)
September 1, 2000... To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice. By Bruce L. Benson (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), xxviii + 371 pp. $37.50. The central theme advanced by Bruce L. Benson in his most recent...

Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation. By Alan Hunt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), ix + 273 pp. Hardcover $90, paper $39.95 Governing Morals is a survey spanning a selected series of volunteer societies...

Political Theory: Tradition and Diversity.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Political Theory: Tradition and Diversity. By Andrew Vincent ed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xi + 275 pp. Hardcover $90.00, Paper $29.95. This collection of essays is partly the product of a seminar series on the theme,...

Between History and Histories: The Making of Silences and Commemorations.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Between History and Histories: The Making of Silences and Commemorations. By Gerald Sider and Gavin Smith eds (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1997), xii + 314 pp. This collection of thirteen essays represents an...