The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from September 2006

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from September 2006

British responses to Mahdist and other unrest in North and West Africa, 1919-1930 *.
September 1, 2006... The extension of British imperial interests during and immediately after the First World War brought new challenges for British civil servants and their political masters. (1) Besides purely strategic considerations, with war-time conditions...

The "ANRC has withdrawn its offer": Paul Kirchhoff, academic freedom and the Australian academic establishment *.(Australian National Research Council)
September 1, 2006... We should ask the executive officers [of the Australian National Research Council] to see that Kirchhoff is not officially or otherwise told [the fellowship] has been withdrawn at the request of a Government. (1) The...

An almost universal scheme of national service in Australia in the 1950s *.
September 1, 2006... In 1951 the Australian Government established a National Service Training Scheme (NSTS). All eighteen-year-old males were required to undertake fourteen weeks of full-time training, followed by three years of part-time service in their local...

Australia's response to the Indochina crisis of 1954 amidst the Anglo-American confrontation.
September 1, 2006... Introduction The Indochina war between the French and Viet Minh forces led by the Communist Ho Chi Minh began in late 1946. By early 1954 it had become deeply incorporated into the Cold War, with the USA underwriting about 80 per cent of...

East Germany in 1956: Walter Ulbricht's tenacity in the face of opposition.
September 1, 2006... While the German Democratic Republic (GDR) itself may not have become a mere footnote in history as novelist Stefan Heym once predicted, the treatment of GDR history and of contemporary East German issues in academic teaching has continuously...

A prehistory of Australia's History Wars: the evolution of Aboriginal history during the 1970s and 1980s.
September 1, 2006... During the 1970s and 1980s what had previously been considered the domain of anthropologists, ethnologists and archaeologists became an interest of historians as well. (1) While initially historians concentrated on challenging the image of...

The Australian Greens: party organisation and political processes.
September 1, 2006... Introduction This paper examines the nature of the Australian Greens' challenge to the Australian two-party system through a focus on their distinctive party organisation. In Europe, the Greens have emerged as effective challengers to...

No just war: political reflections on Australian churches' condemnation of the Iraq war.
September 1, 2006... Potentially, there are positive roles churches can play in public debates about foreign policy and especially on defence and security matters involving the threat or use of armed force. Churches can bring considered moral reasoning to these...

The Astronomer of Rousdon: Charles Grover 1842-1921.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Astronomer of Rousdon: Charles Grover 1842-1921. By Barbara Slater (Steam Mill Publishing, 2005), 276 pp. 9.95 [pounds sterling] pb. This is a scientific biography--with a difference. Instead of researching the life of an eminent...

Decision and Deliberation: The Parliament of New South Wales 1856-2003.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Decision and Deliberation: The Parliament of New South Wales 1856-2003. By David Clune and Gareth Griffth (Sydney: Federation Press, 2006), 250 pp, $59.95 hb. The sesquicentenary of the New South Wales Parliament has provided a marvellous...

The Premiers of New South Wales 1856-2005.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Premiers of New South Wales 1856-2005. Edited by David Clune and Ken Turner (Sydney: Federation Press, 2006). Two volumes, 820pp. $39.95 each, hb. One of the most-overlooked fields of study in Australian politics has always been...

The First New South Wales Labor Government 1910-1916. Two Memoirs: William Holman and John Osborne.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The First New South Wales Labor Government 1910-1916. Two Memoirs: William Holman and John Osborne. Edited by Michael Hogan (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005), pp i-xxiii, 1-334. $59.95 (cloth). This is one of a number of projects funded by the...

Heroes before Gallipoli: Bita Paka and that One Day in September.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Heroes before Gallipoli: Bita Paka and that One Day in September. By Kevin Meade (Milton: John Wiley & Sons, 2005), pp xi + 138; $29.95. Journalist Kevin Meade has an eye for both the big picture and small detail. This serves him well in a...

Francis De Groot: Irish Fascist, Australian Legend.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Francis De Groot: Irish Fascist, Australian Legend. By Andrew Moore (Sydney: Federation Press, 2005), ISBN 1-86287-573-1,232 pp, $39.95 hb. The newsreel footage is iconic. A small man in uniform is riding a skittish horse. He raises a...

Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming and Memory in World War II.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming and Memory in World War II. Edited by Bob Moore and Barbara Hately-Broad (Oxford: Berg, 2005), 288pp, 47.50 [pounds sterling] hb. Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace, edited by...

The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia. By Richard Waterhouse (Fremantle: Curtin University Books and Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005), ISBN 1 920731 05 9, 320pp, 70 photographs, $35.00 pb. By Richard...

Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. By Pat Jalland (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006). 409 pp, $39.95. This is an intriguing work. Rather than focus on how Australians have lived in the...

Treaty.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Treaty. By Sean Brennan, Larissa Behrendt, Lisa Strelein and George Williams (Sydney: Federation Press, 2005), 176pp, $29.95 pb. The reviewed work is a collaborative effort of four authors, each an expert, who bring an impressive array of...

Five Things to Know About The Australian Constitution.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Five Things to Know About The Australian Constitution. By Helen Irving (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004), vi + 162 pp., $32.95, pb. Helen Irving acknowledges that this book is not a "lawyers' book". Rather, it targets a general...

Colonial Connections 1815-45: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Colonial Connections 1815-45: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government. By Zoe Laidlaw (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp. xii + 241, 50.00 [pounds sterling] hb. Colonial Connections is a...

Elizabethan Hero: The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Elizabethan Hero: The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher. By K.A. Frobisher (North Charleston, South Carolina: Booksurge LLC, 2005), pp. XVIII+140. Illustrations and maps. US$14.99 pb. The author, collateral descendant of Sir Martin Frobisher,...

Pardons and Punishments: Judges' Reports on Criminals, 1783-1830: HO (Home Office) 47 [1: HO 47/1-12, 1783-1790] (List and Index Society, volumes 304-5).(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Pardons and Punishments: Judges' Reports on Criminals, 1783-1830: HO (Home Office) 47 [1: HO 47/1-12, 1783-1790] (List and Index Society, volumes 304-5). Edited by Paul Carter (Kew, Surrey: List and Index Society/The National Archives, 2004-5)....

The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England. By Cindy McCreery (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), xviii + 281 pp.; AU$150.00 / GB52.50 [pounds sterling]. Cindy McCreery has written a book that will be read with both...

J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian. By Julia Markus (New York, Scribner, 2005); pp. 340; US$30.00 hb. James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), historian and man of letters, suffered injustice in his life. From the tender age...

Ulster and Scotland 1600-2000 History, Language and Identity.(Ulster-New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Ulster and Scotland 1600-2000 History, Language and Identity. Edited by William Kelly and John R. Young (Dublin: Four Courts Press in association with the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies at University of Ulster, 2004), pp. 189, index, GB45.00...

Washington und Berlin zwischen den Kriegen. Die Mixed Claims Commission in den transatlantischen Beziehungen.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Washington und Berlin zwischen den Kriegen. Die Mixed Claims Commission in den transatlantischen Beziehungen. By Burkhard Jahnicke (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003), pp.370; 68.00 [euro]. A study of the Mixed Claims Commission,...

Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood. By Idith Zertal, trans. Chaya Galai, originally published in Hebrew in 2002. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 248 pages | 228 x 152 mm, hb $59.95, ISBN: 0521850967. Grief,...

Political Cultures in the Andes 1750-1950.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Political Cultures in the Andes 1750-1950. Edited by Nils Jacobsen and Cristobal Aljovin de Losada (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005); XII + 386pp. US$24.95 pb. This book is a collection of studies of various periods in the...

Virtual Thailand: The Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Virtual Thailand: The Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. By Glen Lewis (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), GBP65 [pounds sterling]. hbk 227. ISBN 0-415-36499. Index, 7 photographs This book attempts to...

The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific. By Michael K. Connors, Remy Davidson and Jorn Dosch (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), pp. x + 224; GB18.99 [pounds sterling] pb. The authors of this volume have targeted their work at...

Darwinian Conservatism.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Darwinian Conservatism. By Larry Arnhart (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2005), pp. iv+ 156, GB8.95 [pounds sterling] pb. Despite its reputation as a radical, atheistic force, despised by the religious and political right, Darwinism historically...

The "Puritan" Democracy of Thomas Hill Green.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The "Puritan" Democracy of Thomas Hill Green. By Alberto de Sanctis. Green Studies, volume 4 (Exeter: Imprint Academic, September 2005), pp ix-208, ISBN 1-84540-038-0; GB25.00 [pounds sterling] hb. I noticed in the preface that the author...