Martov and Menshevism

Israel Getzler, Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1967, pp. 246, $8.50.     

Suburbia and thorns

Lois Bryson and Faith Thompson, An Australian Newtown. Life and Leadership in a Working‐class Suburb, Penguin, Melbourne, 1972, pp. 380, $2.25. Bernard Barrett, The Inner Suburbs. The Evolution of an Industrial Era, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1971, pp. 181 + xv, $9.00. Theo W. Brown with Keith Willey, Crown of Thorns. The Death of the Great Barrier Reef?, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1972, pp. 128 + xiii, $2.95.     

REVIEW

A Picnic with the Natives: Aboriginal-European Relations in the Northern Territory to 1910 By Gordon Reid. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 1990. Pp. 220.     

Born in Melbourne? Considerations on the origins of Australian political science

In a pioneering academic discussion of Australian politics written just before the First World War, William Harrison Moore reinforced the image of Australia as an increasingly autonomous part of a slowly evolving but essentially liberal British Empire. In this 34-page account of ‘Political Systems of Australia’ published in George H. Knibbs, ed., Federal Handbook (Melbourne, 1914), the Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Melbourne arguably created the ur-text of the Australian Politics textbook. It is argued that there is an unbroken thread of Cambridge-inspired political science teaching and writing at Melbourne from Harrison Moore onwards. The early Australian politics textbooks and ‘Political Systems of Australia’ are cut from the same cloth, making the latter an important precursor.     

Australia in Asia

Anthony Milner (ed). Australia in Asia. Comparing Cultures. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds). Australia in Asia. Communities of Thought. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds). Australia in Asia. Episodes. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.     

Connecting the Dots

Dangerous Liaisons. Essays in Honour of Greg Dening. Edited by Donna Merwick. Melbourne, University of Melbourne, History Department, 1994. viii, 414 pp. ISBN 0–7325–0607–7. $A29.95.

Pacific Islands History; Journeys and Transformations. Edited by Brij. V. Lal. Canberra, The Journal of Pacific History, 1992. vi, 231 pp, bibliog., index. ISBN 0–9595–477–6–2. $A15/$US20.     

Book reviews

The New South Pacific. By R. G. Crocombe. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973. 130 pp. $A4–50.

Lae Village and City. By Ian Willis. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1974. 173 pp. $10.80.

Fijian Way of Life. By Kingslev Roth. Second Edition with a new Introduction by G. B. Milner. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1973. XXXIX, 176 pp. $6.00.

Contention and Dispute: Aspects of Law and Social Control in Melanesia. Edited by A. L. Epstein. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. 354 pp. $11.95.

A new system of slavery: the export of Indian labour overseas 1830–1920. By Hugh Tinker. London, New York, Bombay, Oxford University Press, 1974. xvi, 432.     

Electioneering 1974 and labor in government

Laurie Oakes and David Solomon, Grab for Power: Election ‘74, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 557, paperbound, $7.95.

Peter Blazey and Andrew Campbell, The Political Dice Men, Outback Press, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 254, paperbound, $3.50.

C. J. Lloyd and G. S. Reid, Out of the Wilderness: The Return of Labor, Cassell Australia, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 447, paperbound, $6.95.     

The civil war and its aftermath

Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, 1640–1649. By David L. Smith (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xiv + 371 pp.

Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660–1685. By Alan Marshall (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xvi + 334 pp.

Politics and Opinion in Crisis, 1678–81. By Mark Knights (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994), xv + 424 pp.     

Three views of New Guinea

Peter Hastings, New Guinea: Problems and Prospects, A.I.I.A.‐Cheshire, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 320, $3.50.

John Ryan, The Hot Land, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 390, $5.95.

Maslyn Williams, In One Lifetime, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 72, $4.95.     

Review article: Turning the talk of war into history

The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War II. Edited by Geofffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom. Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 8, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaii. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1989. xiv, 433 pp. maps, photos, notes, bibliogs, indexes, US$34.00. Co‐published at Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1990. A$44.95.     

Australian economic policy

Bruce McFarlane: Economic Policy in Australia—The Case for Reform, Cheshire Melbourne. 1968, 243 pp., $3.00.     

Knopfelmacher's essays

Frank Knopfelmacher: Intellectuals and Politics, Nelson's Australian Paperbacks, Melbourne, 1968, vii + 156 pp., $2.95.     

Federalism and the courts

Geoffrey Sawer: Australian Federalism in the Courts, Melbourne University Press, 1967, vii + 262 pp., $6.50.     

The movement: Two views

Paul Ormonde, The Movement, Thomas Nelson (Aust.), Melbourne, 1972, pp. xxiii + 198, $5.95.     

Administration and archives

Robert Hyslop, Australian Naval Administration 1900–1939, The Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1973, pp. 254, $6.95.     

Children and politics

R. W. Connell, The Child's Construction of Politics, Melbourne University Press, 1971, pp. 251, $3.75.     

A courageous colonialist

R. B. Joyce, Sir William MacGregor, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971, pp. xvi + 484, $15.00.     

REVIEWS

Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga. By Noel Rutherford. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971. Pp. xiv + 202. Price: $A9.00.     

The politics of the diarist

Peter Howson, The Life of Politics: The Howson Diaries, ed. Don Aitkin, Melbourne, The Viking Press, pp. 1013. $39.95