The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from September 2002

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from September 2002

From the state of nature to evolution in John Stuart Mill.
September 1, 2002... What is late-modern liberalism's perception of nature? By the turn of the millennium, little trace seems to be left of earlier authors' appeal to the state of nature. (1) In the twentieth century, attempts to derive political principles from...

The state in world history: perspectives and problems.
September 1, 2002... Introduction The publication of S.E. Finer's magisterial History of Government (1) has raised questions regarding the nature of government and the state and its relationship to what might be termed the "human condition". What might roughly...

The mobilisation of the intellectuals 1914-1915 and the continuity of German historical consciousness (1).
September 1, 2002... The debate about the significance of the First World War in the continuity of German national consciousness refuses to be laid to rest. Since the Fischer Controversy that began in the early sixties, it has assumed various forms such as the...

The zenith of realism in New Zealand's foreign policy.
September 1, 2002... New Zealand's modern foreign policy is a blend of the Realist and Liberal Internationalist approaches to international relations, with the latter now probably being the predominant strand. This, however, was not always so. Between 1912 and 1935...

Poland and Hungary, 1956: a comparative essay based on new archival findings.
September 1, 2002... The American naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan once wrote, "Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished." This article will examine the different courses of events in Poland and Hungary in October 1956...

Policies, principles, and polls: Bill Clinton's third way welfare politics 1992-1996.
September 1, 2002... Introduction In his 1998 State of the Union address President Clinton said: "My fellow Americans we have found a Third Way [...] [We have] moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say it is...

The hidden history of the revolutionary Atlantic *. (Review Article).(The Many-Headed Hydra. Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic)
September 1, 2002... This book has been both heralded and eagerly awaited. It was noted in Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic and Christopher Hill's Liberty Against the Law, and its general thrust is in line with the recent disposition both to read the empire back...

Australia, a Biography.
September 1, 2002... By Eric Rolls. (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000), xi + 316 pp. $35.00. Usually we have biographies of individual people--but the genre is extendable, to groups of people, and more recently we have embraced large entities of...

Sydney. Volume 223 World Bibliographical Series.
September 1, 2002... By I. Kepars (Oxford: Clio Press, 2000), xxv + 164 pp. 33.00 [pounds sterling]. I. Kepars' annotated bibliography of Sydney, a recent addition to the World Bibliographical Series of Clio Press, fails to achieve the compiler's stated claim....

A Past Displayed: Public History, Public Memory and Cultural Resource Management in Australia's Northern Territory.
September 1, 2002... By David Carment (Northern Territory University Press, 2001), pp. 133. Illustrated with maps. $42.00. In this "year of the outback", it is timely to reflect upon public history, public memory and the Northern Territory as "A Past...

Rolf Bouldrewood: A Life.
September 1, 2002... By Paul de Serville. (Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 403. Illustrated. $65.95. This biography discusses the concerns of the early settlers in Victoria and New South Wales during the pre gold-mining...

Beside the Seaside: Victorian Resorts in the Nineteenth Century.
September 1, 2002... By Andrea Inglis (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 1999), pp. x + 116. $34.95. Andrea Inglis has produced a social study of the rise of seaside resorts in Victoria as definitive of class structure in the nineteenth century. The book...

Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression.
September 1, 2002... By Charlie Fox. (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xii + 281. $32.95 Paul Keating once told some protestors to "get a job". Tony Abbott accused the unemployed of being "job snobs". Talk-back radio shock-jocks, the...

Making the Australian Male: Middle Class Masculinity 1870-1920.
September 1, 2002... By Martin Crotty. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001). Pp.301. $34.95. In this book Martin Crotty seeks to investigate the pressures brought to bear on the grandfathers and great-grandfathers of Australia's Protestant...

Sunshine and Rainbows: the Development of Gay and Lesbian Culture in Queensland.
September 1, 2002... By Clive Moore. (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001), pp. xiv + 244. Illustrated. One map. $30.00. Sunshine and Rainbows is an important contribution to Queensland historiography. Its focus is on the development of gay identity...

The Odd Couple: Blamey and MacArthur at War.
September 1, 2002... By Jack Gallaway. (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000), pp. viii + 271. Illustrated. Six maps. $34.95. There is little to commend about Jack Gallaway's The Odd Couple: Blamey and MacArthur at War. The book purports to provide a...

Emergency and Confrontation--Australian Military Operations in Malaya and Borneo 1950-1966.
September 1, 2002... By Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey. (St Leonards: Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial, 1996), pp. xvi + 381. Illustrated. Nine maps. $65.83. This is the fifth volume of the series: The Official History of...

Waking Up To Dreamtime: The Illusion of Aboriginal Self-Determination.
September 1, 2002... Edited by Gary Johns. (Singapore: Media Masters, 2001), pp.viii + 171. $19.95. Waking Up to Dreamtime makes only a superficial pretence of providing an intellectually balanced view of the contemporary politics of difference. This is a pity...

Elections Full, Free and Fair.
September 1, 2002... Edited by Marian Sawer. (Sydney, The Federation Press, 2001), pp. xv + 256, Illustrated. $38.50. This is a very timely and welcome addition to the literature on elections. As such it falls between a work on electoral behaviour and one...

Houses Far from Home. British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides.
September 1, 2002... By Margaret Critchlow Rodman. (Hawai'I: University of Hawai'I Press, 2001), xiv + 247 pp. maps, figures, photographs, $17.95. Researchers were not in favour in Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, for eight years in the 1980s and 90s....

Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture.
September 1, 2002... By Richard Yeo. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 358. A$90.00 (hb). The Enlightenment witnessed a new phase in the evolution of the western encyclopedic tradition. Encyclopaedic Visions seeks to analyse this new phase...

Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England.
September 1, 2002... By Kevin Sharpe. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000). xiv, 358. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. In Reading Revolutions, Kevin Sharpe observes that the modern method of reading "sequentially through a book," "annotating as we...

Englishness Identified: Manners and Character, 1650-1850.
September 1, 2002... By Paul Langford. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. x+389. $95.00 AUD (hb), $49.95 AUD (pb). Few historians have described so remarkable an arc over the course of their career as has Paul Langford. His first book, The First...

Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871.
September 1, 2002... By Arden Buchholz. (Basingstoke/New York, Palgrave, 2001), pp.ix + 240. 19.75 [pounds sterling] (pb). This is the second study of Helmuth von Moltke (1800-1891) by Buchholz, Professor of History at the State University of New York, College...

Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe during the Second World War.
September 1, 2002... By Christian Leitz. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. vii + 213. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. According to President George W. Bush, in the current "war on terrorism" every state is either on America's side or against her;...

Historiker im Nationalsozialismus. Deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft und der "Volkstumskampf" im Osten.
September 1, 2002... By Ingo Haar (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000), pp.433, maps and figures, DM78.00. In the mid-1980s, the (West) German historical profession was agitated by a "dispute of the historians" (Historikerstreit), which attracted...

Shifting Memories: the Nazi Past in the New Germany.
September 1, 2002... By Klaus Neumann. (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000), pp. x + 333. Illustrated. pb $US24.95. Germany's epidemic of remembrance of its Nazi past, apparent since the early 1980s, has shown few signs of abating in recent...

Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840.
September 1, 2002... Edited By Xu Dixin and Wu Changming. Translated by Wang Shixin, Shi Qi, Fang Zhuofen, Hu Tiewen, Jian Rui and Fang Xing. (London: Macmillan Press, 2000), xl,517 pp. $218.90 (cloth). When looking at China's economic history one immediately...

Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of War.
September 1, 2002... By Stephen J. Morris (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press), 1999. Pp. xviii + 315. A$33.95. The linked questions Stephen Morris sets out to answer in this book are: Why did the Khmer Rouge regime so provoke the Vietnamese that they...

Suharto: a Political Biography.
September 1, 2002... By R.E. Elson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Xxii + 389 pp. Index, bibliography. 21.29 [pounds sterling]. The figure of Suharto looms like no other Indonesia's history in the last third of the twentieth century. President...

The Politics Of Human Rights In Southeast Asia.
September 1, 2002... By Philip J. Eldridge. (London and New York: Routledge, 2002). ISBN 0-415-21429-7. pp. xvi + 240. hardback. A$181.50. This book began as a country study--presumably of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia--but was expanded at the publisher's...

Equal Freedom and Utility: Herbert Spencer's Liberal Utilitarianism.
September 1, 2002... By David Weinstein. (Cambridge: University Press, 1998), pp. xii + 228. $115. Herbert Spencer is amongst the most remote and forbidding of eminent Victorians and the fourteen enormous volumes of the Synthetic Philosophy, which were...

Philosophies of History: From Enlightenment to Postmodernity.
September 1, 2002... By Robert M. Burns and Hugh Rayment-Pickard, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000). Pp. 360. $A57.95 This will be a very useful book for Honours seminars in history as it provides both a judicious selection of primary texts of major philosophers...