The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from September 2004

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from September 2004

Foreword.(Australasian Association for European History conferences)
September 1, 2004... For some years, this journal has regularly published a selection of articles from the biennial conferences of the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH) in special issues. The articles in this special issue are from the fourteenth...

Francesco Crispi and Italy's pursuit of war against France, 1887-9.
September 1, 2004... The Conundrum of Francesco Crispi Francesco Crispi is one of the most controversial and problematic figures in modern Italian history. He was born in Sicily in 1818, and as a young man was caught up in the heady world of literary and...

Anarchism, internationalism and nationalism in Europe, 1860-1939.
September 1, 2004... Introduction This article will focus on the internationalism of the European anarchist and syndicalist movements during the "classical" period of anarchism (1860/70-1939) (1). Even if anarchists and anarchism are assumed to be antithetical...

The origins of world history: Arnold Toynbee before the First World War.(Biography)
September 1, 2004... As a monument to the twentieth-century historical imagination, Arnold Toynbee's hugely ambitious A Study of History stands alone. Certainly there were many others in the last century who attempted to survey the meaning of history on a grand...

Happiness and toska: an essay in the history of emotions in pre-war Soviet Russia.
September 1, 2004... I can't tell you how people "really" felt in Stalin's Russia. For that matter, I'm not sure how accurately I can tell you how I feel today, and if I were to make claims about your emotional condition--individually or collectively--those claims...

Accomplices with reservations: German diplomats and the preparation of the Polish campaign of September 1939 (1).
September 1, 2004... Statements and retrospective attempts at explanation by prominent representatives of the conservative governing elite of the German Reich, from whom the majority of members of the diplomatic service were drawn, create the impression that they...

The rescue of Jews in Nazi-occupied Belgium, France and the Netherlands *.
September 1, 2004... The questions of why and how non-Jews helped Jews to escape or go into hiding to avoid persecution and deportation during the Nazi period has been a consistently debated element in the wider historiography of the Holocaust ever since 1945 and...

The "sin of omission"? Radio Vatican and the anti-Nazi struggle, 1940-1942 *.
September 1, 2004... Much has recently been published accusing Plus XII and the Catholic Church of having been silent as the Jews of Europe were murdered. The Pope is accused of having committed a "sin of omission" for not having publicly condemned the murder of...

Die Grunen and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
September 1, 2004... Germany's Green Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer visited the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in 2003, quoting Willy Brandt's "Memories are the key, not to the past, but to the future", in the visitors' book. (1) An earlier Green delegation to...

Brisbane and federation: a review article.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Our Federation: Brisbane Heritage Trail 1901. Edited by Rod Fisher et al. (Brisbane: Brisbane History Group, 2001), 108 pp. Our Federation: Brisbane: Patriotism, Passion and Protest 1901. Edited by Barry Shaw (Brisbane: Brisbane History...

An Australian "Historikerstreit"?(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Frontier Conflict. The Australian Experience. Edited by Bain Attwood and S.G. Foster (Canberra: National Museum of Australia, 2003), $39.95, pb. Historical Records of Australia Series III Despatches and Papers Relating to the History of...

Greatness as measure? Recent writings on the high court of Australia.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Owen Dixon. By P. Ayres (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2003), 400pp, hb, $65. Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia. Edited by T. Blackshield, M. Coper and G. Williams (Oxford University Press, 2000, repr. 2003), hb, 804 pp,...

David Collins: a Colonial Life.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... David Collins: A Colonial Life. By John Currey (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. xiv + 390. $65.95, hb. David Collins is one of the most important commentators on historical events in early colonial Australia. He wrote the...

Brisbane: Squatters, Selectors and Surveyors. (Brisbane History Group Papers No 16).(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Brisbane: Squatters, Selectors and Surveyors. (Brisbane History Group Papers No 16) Edited by Rod Fisher and Jennifer Harrison (Brisbane: Brisbane History Group, 2000), pp.159, RRP $30.00, pb. The Brisbane History Group is a collective of...

Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans. By Clare Wright (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003), 256 pp, 33 black and white illustrations, rrp $34.95, pb. I've always admired Melbourne's bars: comfy spaces that feel...

Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture, Nation.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture, Nation. Edited by Laksiri Jayasuriya, David Walker and Jan Gothard (Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2003), 280 pp., $38.95, pb. As the editors of this volume note, much of the...

This War Never Ends: the Pain of Separation and Return.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... This War Never Ends: The Pain of Separation and Return. By Michael McKernan (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001), $35.00, pb. This War Never Ends details the effect becoming a prisoner of war (POW) of the Japanese had on...

Keeper of the Faith: a Biography of Jim Cairns.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangio (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2002), $49.95 hb. Paul Strangio's study of the former deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party, Dr Jim Cairns, is the third...

Platypus and Parliament: the Australian Senate in Theory and Practice.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Platypus and Parliament: The Australian Senate in Theory and Practice. By Stanley Bach (Canberra: Department of the Senate, 2003), pp. xiv + 389. $29.95 pb. If the study of political institutions ever revives in Australian political...

Unfolding History, Evolving Identity: the Chinese in New Zealand.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Unfolding History, Evolving Identity: The Chinese in New Zealand. Edited by Manying Ip (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003), NZ$ 44.00. The unique accomplishment of this new collection of essays edited by the historian Manying Ip...

New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003). ISBN 0 8248 2485 73: xiv + 204 pp + notes, bibliography, photos and maps. US$50.00 hb. This handsome volume confirms Clive Moore's...

Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c.1920-2000.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations e.1920-2000. By Bruce Mansfield (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), pp.xiv + 324. 45.00 [pounds sterling] hb. This is the third and final volume of Bruce Mansfield's...

Eighteenth-Century British Erotica.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Eighteenth-Century British Erotica. Edited by Chris Mounsey and Rictor Norton (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2002), 5 volumes. 450 [pounds sterling]. To recommend the reading of erotica--or, as it may be referred to, pornography--may not be...

London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... London Corresponding Society, 1792-1799. Edited by Michael Davis. 6 volumes (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002), ISBN 1 85196 734 6. 495.00 [pounds sterling]. Founded by a humble Scottish shoemaker, Thomas Hardy, the London Corresponding...

Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798. By Ruan O'Donnell (Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 2003), 276 pages; bibliography, index, 33 illustrations. 27.50 [pounds sterling] pb. Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803. By Ruan O'Donnell (Irish...

Wilhelminism and its Legacies. German Modernities and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930. Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Wilheiminism and its Legacies. German Modernities and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930. Essays for Hartmut Pogge yon Strandmann. Edited by Geoff Eley and James Retallack (Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford, 2003), pp.x + 269. US$75.00...

Divided Lives: the Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany. By Cynthia A. Crane. Second edition (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 341 pp (excl. notes). $14.99 pb. This book, which examines through a series of ten...

Conqueror's Road: an Eyewitness Report of Germany 1945.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Conqueror's Road: An Eyewitness Report of Germany 1945. By Osmar White (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), xvii + 222 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-521-53751-7 In late 1944, Australian journalist Osmar White was sent by Sir Keith Murdoch...

Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971-1989: a Precarious Stability.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971-1989: A Precarious Stability. By Jeannette Z. Madarasz (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003), $50.00 hb. The overwhelming majority of studies of the GDR focus on its origins in the aftermath of war or...

The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World. By Fredric S. Zuckerman (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. xix + 277. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 50.00 [pounds sterling] hb. On the positive...

"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. By Samantha Power (New York: Basic Books, 2002), xxiv, 610 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-465-06150-8. The literature on genocide in recent years, as grim a subject as it is, has grown...

A History of Modern India, 1480-1959.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... A History of Modern India, 1480-1959. Edited by Claude Markovitz; translated by Nisha George and Maggy Hendry (London: Anthem Press, 2002), pp. viii, 593. npg. The English translation of Histoire de l'Inde Moderne, originally published by...

Power in Transition: the Peaceful Change of International Order.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order. By Charles A. Kupchan, Emanuel Adler, Jean-Marc Coicaud and Yuen Foong Khong (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2001), 182 pp., index. 10.86 [pounds sterling] Pbk. ISBN...

Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law.
September 1, 2004... Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law. By Anne Orford (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 256 pp, $150.00 hb, ISBN: 0 521 804647. This book is most timely because it focuses attention on...

Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration: Together Forever?(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration: Together Forever? By John Hart (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2002), pp. xx + 166. $US 19.95 pb, $US49.95 hb. As I write, the Australian government is making political mileage out of blocking...

The Dynamics of Political Crime.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Dynamics of Political Crime. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003), pp 194, 25.00 [pounds sterling], pb. This is a very timely book given that terrorism and corruption are on the agenda as never before in the intellectual...

The Battle for Hearts and Minds: Using Soft Power to Undermine Terrorist Networks.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Battle for Hearts and Minds: Using Soft Power to Undermine Terrorist Networks. Edited by Alexander T. J. Lennon (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2003), 392 pp, US$25.00 pb. ISBN: 0-262-62179-7. How should the war on terror be waged? This...

The Media and Neo-Populism: a Contemporary Comparative Analysis.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... The Media and Neo-Populism: A Contemporary Comparative Analysis. Edited by Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Julianne Stewart and Bruce Horsfield (Westport CT: Praeger. 2003), 45.00 [pounds sterling], pb. In many respects now is a good time to read The...