The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from September 2001

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from September 2001

"The word makes the man": A Catalan Anarchist Autodidact in the Australian Bush.(Salvador Torrents)
September 1, 2001... In the history of the anarchist movement the autodidact has been an important figure in the transmission of ideas. Armed with knowledge acquired through their own efforts these militants carried out the struggle against the church, the...

Judicial Interaction on the Latham Court: A Quantitative Study of Voting Patterns on the High Court 1935-1950.(chief justice John Latham)
September 1, 2001... Introduction There are a number of North American studies that examine voting patterns on appellate courts. There are studies for the United States Supreme Court,(2) various state supreme courts in the United States(3) and the Supreme...

Selling Goodwill: Peter Russo and the Promotion of Australia-Japan Relations, 1935-1941.
September 1, 2001... In the late 1930s, as Japan renewed her aggression in China and her expansionist aims became increasingly evident, there was a pressing need in Australia for authoritative historical and cultural background to Japanese policy. Following a...

Holt, Johnson and the 1966 Federal Election. A Question of Causality.(Lyndon Johnson's visit to Harold Edward Holt)
September 1, 2001... Introduction Australia has a record of playing cordial host to numerous visiting foreign emissaries. Since Federation, numerous Heads of State and Faith have visited Australia and, on most occasions, Australians have expressed genuine...

Wedge Politics and Welfare Reform in Australia.
September 1, 2001... Introduction Media speculation about the Howard Government adopting the tactics of "wedge politics" has drawn attention to divisive strategies used by political parties to attract support for their policies. Although wedge politics has...

Developmentalism and its Environmental Legacy: The Western Australia Wheatbelt, 1900 - 1990s.
September 1, 2001... The opening up of Western Australia's Wheatbelt during the seventy years between the early 1900s and the late 1970s is an example of State-sponsored development -- or statist developmentalism -- characteristic of the prevailing model of...

A Man about Town: The Letters of James Graham, Victorian Entrepreneur 1854-1864.(Review)
September 1, 2001... A Man about Town: The Letters of James Graham, Victorian Entrepreneur 1854-1864. By Sally Graham ed (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998), pp. xvii + 437, illustrated, index. Npg. James Graham was one of colonial Victoria's most...

The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800. By Pamela Jeanne Fulton ed (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xviii + 290, illustrated, maps....

Dolly's Creek: An Archaeology of a Victorian Goldfields Community.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Dolly's Creek: An Archaeology of a Victorian Goldfields Community. By Susan Lawrence (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xv + 217, $32.95. Unlocking the silences of history -- at the Moorabool diggings in Victoria. This was...

Theodore Fink. A Talent for Ubiquity.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Theodore Fink. A Talent for Ubiquity. By Don Garden (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998), npg. The fertile field of Melbourne journalism has long awaited its historians. In the case of Don Garden's well crafted biography, it...

Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 15. 1940-1980. Kem-Pie.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 15. 1940-1980. Kem-Pie. By John Ritchie ed (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xxx + 611, npg. One of the success stories of Australian historical research continues its steady...

Alien Justice. Wartime Internment in Australia and North America.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Alien Justice. Wartime Internment in Australia and North America. By Kay Saunders and Roger Daniels eds (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000), pp xix +323, illustrated, $29.95. This important study of the internment of enemy...

Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II. By Mark Johnston (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 206, npg. This is an important book that deals with a subject all too often forgotten in the...

The People's Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The People's Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition. By Frank Bongiorno (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. xii + 268, $24.95 paper. Frank Bongiorno's book is an important contribution to our understanding of early...

The Kennett Revolution. Victorian Polities in the 1990s.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Kennett Revolution. Victorian Polities in the 1990s. By Brian Costar and Nicholas Economou eds (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999), pp. xiv + 274, $24.95. Brian Costar, since he left Queensland, has become something of...

Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the Labor Party.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Labor Without Class: The Gentrification of the Labor Party. By Michael Thompson (Sydney: Pluto Press, 1999), pp. x + 118. $20.00 Written with such passion that you can almost hear his teeth grinding, Michael Thompson stridently critiques...

National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia 1944-1965.(Review)
September 1, 2001... National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia 1944-1965. By Ian Hancock (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xvi + 317, $49.95. "National" and "permanent" are words that haunt the...

Liberalism in Australia.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Liberalism in Australia. By Ian Cook (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. xi + 244, $48.95. This is an odd book in many ways. It purports to be a study of Australian liberalism. Its method of approach is to examine the ideas of...

Defining Australian Citizenship: Selected Documents.(Brief Article)(Review)
September 1, 2001... Defining Australian Citizenship: Selected Documents. By John Chesterman & Brian Galligan eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999), pp. xix + 286, $32.84. Citizenship has been one of the buzzwords in academic circles at the end of...

Reshaping the Labour Market: Regulation, Efficiency and Equality in Australia.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Reshaping the Labour Market: Regulation, Efficiency and Equality in Australia. By Sue Richardson ed (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. xvii + 247, 25 tables and 18 figures, $38.40 Part of the wide-ranging Reshaping...

The Unemployment Crisis in Australia: Which Way Out?(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Unemployment Crisis in Australia: Which Way Out? By S. Bell ed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp xv + 308, $34.95. When I was an undergraduate student in Britain in the 1960s I learned (from one of my teachers, an...

The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History. By Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1999), pp. xxii + 375, illustrated, $29.95 The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights marks a welcome stage in the...

Why Universities Matter.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Why Universities Matter. By Tony Coady ed (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2000), pp. xvii +254, $24.95. This volume received a good deal of advance publicity, albeit of an unsought-after kind, when Melbourne University Press decided in July...

Global Nation? Australia and the Politics of Globalisation.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Global Nation? Australia and the Polities of Globalisation. By John Wiseman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp vii + 202, $24.95. In a market already awash with books purporting to tell us what "globalisation" is, it is...

The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders. By Donald Denoon ed. with Stewart Firth, Jocelyn Linnekin, Malama Meleisea and Karen Nero (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xvii + 518pp, maps and figures, $108.70. An outside...

British Society, 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change.(Review)
September 1, 2001... British Society, 1680-1880: Dynamism, Containment and Change. By Richard Price (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. xii+349, $110.00. This book is an arresting oddity. Neither a comprehensive textbook survey nor a monograph...

The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785. By Kathleen Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), paper. Who was important in Hanoverian England, and where were these people to be found?...

Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany. By John Brewer and Eckhart Hellmuth eds (Oxford: The German Historical Institute London/Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. x + 412, 55.00 [pounds sterling], US$105.00....

Westliches Geschichtsdenken. Eine interkulturelle Debatte.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Westliches Geschichtsdenken. Eine interkulturelle Debatte. By Jorn Rusen ed (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: Gottingen, 1999), pp. 322, DM46.00. World history, it seems, is "in", judging by the growing number of university courses, books, and even...

Naval Strategy and Policy in the Mediterranean. Past, Present and Future.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Naval Strategy and Policy in the Mediterranean. Past, Present and Future. By John B. Hattendorf ed, with a foreword by Paul Kennedy (London/Portland: Frank Cass, 2000), pp.xxiv + 445, illustrated, npg. John B. Hattendorf is the Ernest J....

The Red Cross and the Holocaust.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Red Cross and the Holocaust. By Jean-Claude Favez (John and Beryl Fletcher eds and trans) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. xxxiii + 353, npg. It is meaningful that The Red Cross and the Holocaust has only now appeared...

The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and its Aftermath.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and its Aftermath. By Istvan Deak, Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt eds (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. xii + 337, npg. In his preface to this jointly edited collection, Tony...

Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain. By Peter Grose (Boston: Houston Mifflin Co, 2000), pp. ix + 256, illustrations, map, notes, and index, $25 hardcover. In his latest book, Operation Rollback: America's Secret...

Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance. Princes, Peasants and Paramount Power.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance. Princes, Peasants and Paramount Power. By Hira Sing, foreword by Andre Beteille (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998), pp. 274, two maps, rs375. Agrarian history is crucial to the understanding of...

Dynamics of State Formation, India and Europe Compared.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Dynamics of State Formation, India and Europe Compared. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, 19. By Martin Doombos and Sudipta Kaviraj (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997), pp. 441, rs475 hardcover. One of the paradoxes of the...

Sun Yat-Sen.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Sun Yat-Sen. By Marie-Claire Bergere (Janet Lloyd trans) (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp. ix + 480, illustrated, five maps, thirty-four biographical sketches, $90.00 hardcover. Marie-Claire Bergere's book Sun...

Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945. By Sherman Cochran ed (Ithaca NY: Cornell University East Asia Papers, 1999), pp. viii + 252, $28 Hardcover, $17 paper. China's urban history has previously been explored...

China's Road to Disaster, Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955-1959.(Review)
September 1, 2001... 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 Sun (Armonk, New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1999), pp. xxviii + 320,...

Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Polities of Secret Service.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Polities of Secret Service. By Richard J. Aldrich (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2000), pp. xxiv + 512, $59.95 hardcover. Richard Aldrich's Intelligence and the...

The 1988 Uprising in Burma.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The 1988 Uprising in Burma. Monograph 49. By Dr Maung Maung (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 1999), pp. xix + 285, npg. This is an extraordinary book. Clearly written, it recounts from the viewpoint of the author, Dr...

People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World.(Review)
September 1, 2001... 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), pp. 436, rs495 hardcover. This...

The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine and the Nature-Nurture Debate.(Review)
September 1, 2001... The Politics of Heredity: Essays on Eugenics, Biomedicine and the Nature-Nurture Debate. By Diane B. Paul (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), pp. viii + 219, US$19.95. This is a collection of revisionist essays by one of the...

John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control.(Review)
September 1, 2001... John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control. By Joseph Hamburger (Princeton University Press, 1999), $35/21.95 [pounds sterling], hardcover. Professor Joseph Hamburger, Pelatiah Petit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale...

Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Perspectives in Contemporary Political Thought.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Liberal Democracy and its Critics: Perspectives in Contemporary Political Thought. By April Carter and Geoffrey Stokes eds (Oxford: Polity Press, 1998), pp. x + 245, $13.95. This collection contains eleven substantive essays, and a...

Redeeming American Political Thought.(Review)
September 1, 2001... Redeeming American Political Thought. By Judith N. Shklar (Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson eds) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp. 209. Shortly after Shklar's premature death eight years ago a reviewer in the Times...

A History of Sociological Research Methods in America: 1920-1960.(Review)
September 1, 2001... A History of Sociological Research Methods in America: 1920-1960. By Jennifer Platt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. xi, +333, index, five tables. $39.95 paper. Why have some sociologists preferred "statistics" to "case...