Catholic missions in the Caroline and Marshall Islands: A survey of historical materials

The Majesty of Colour: A Life of Sir John Bates Thurston. Volume One. I, The Very Bayonet. By Deryck Scarr. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. 370 pp, $10.95.

Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration 1870–1914. By Peter Corris. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1973. 201 pp, 59.95.

Bougainville: a personal history. By Douglas Oliver. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1973. 231 pp.

The Settlement of Polynesia: A Computer Simulation. By Michael Levison, R. Gerard Ward and John W. Webb. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973. 137 pp, $10.75.

The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade. By William T. Wawn. Edited by Peter Corris. Pacific History Series: No. 5. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973, xlviii, 474 pp, $9.95.

Holy Man. Father Damien of Molokai. By Gavan Daws. New York, Harper and Row, 1973. xl +. 293 pp, illus. $US8.95.

Rangiroa, Parente Etendue, Résidence et Terres dans un Atoll Polynésien. By Paul Ottino. Paris, Ed. Cujas, 1972. 530 pp, 37 figs et trois annexes.

Land Between Two Laws. Early European Land Acquisitions in New Guinea. By Peter G. Sack. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973. 197 pp, $7.50.

The Chimbu: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands. By Paula Brown. London, Routledge &; Kegan Paul, 1973. 151 pp, £3.25.

Man in the Pacific Islands. Essays on Geographical Change in the Pacific Islands, Edited by R. Gerard Ward. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972. 328 pp, illus., index, $A16.20.

Big‐Men and Business: Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands. By Ben R. Finney. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973. xix, 206 pp, $7.95.

Da Kine talk: from Pidgin to standard English in Hawaii. By Elizabeth Ball Carr. Honolulu, University Press of Hawaii, 1972. xvii, 191 pp, $US8.50.     

Beyond the Vietnam Principle

K. Buchanan, Out of Asia: Asian Themes. 1958–66, Sydney University Press, 1968, pp. 320, $6.75. H. G. Gelber, The Australian American Alliance: Costs and Benefits, Penguin, 1968, pp. 160, 85c. G. Greenwood and N. Harper, Australia in World Affairs, 1961–1965, F. W. Cheshire for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, 1968, pp. viii + 503, $8.75. T. B. Millar, Australia's Foreign Policy, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1968, pp. xiv + 361, $4.95. T. B. Millar (ed.), Australian‐New Zealand Defence Co‐operation, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968, pp. ix + 125, $3.75. R. J. O'Neill, Indo China Tragedy, 1945–54, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1968, pp. 56. M. Teichmann (ed.), New Directions in Australian Foreign Policy: Ally Satellite or Neutral?, Penguin, 1969, pp. 212, $1.00. D. Vital, The Inequality of States: A Study of the Small Power in International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 198, $5.10. A. Watt, Vietnam: an Australian Analysis, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1968, pp. ix + 177, $3.50.     

Book reviews

S. Schafer, The Political Criminal: The Problem of Morality and Crime, Free Press, New York, 1974, pp. 179, $8.95.

Audrey Williamson, Thomas Paine: His Life. Work and Times, London, George Allen & Unwin. 1973, pp. 296, $14.40.

Anthony Clunies Ross and John Langmore, eds, Alternative Strategies for Papua New Guinea, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1973, pp. viii + 263, $5.95.

Frank Stevens, Aborigines in the Northern Territory Cattle Industry, ANU Press, Canberra, 1974, pp. xiv + 226, $7.95.

K. Lindgren, H. H. Mason and B. L. J. Gordon, The Corporation and Australian Society, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1974, pp. v + 334, $14.50.

J. R. Davis and P. Spearritt, Sydney at the Census: 1971 A Social Atlas, Urban Research Unit, ANU, Canberra, 1974.     

Shorter notices

Hubert Murray: The Australian Pro‐Consul. By Francis West. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1968. vii, 296pp., illus., bibliog., end maps. $7.50.

An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I. By Abraham Fornander. Rutland, Vermont, and Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. Three volumes in one: ix‐xii, iii‐x, 247pp.; iiiv, 399pp.; iii‐x, 292pp.; iii‐xiv, i5–86pp., folding table. $US15.00.

Presses of the Pacific Islands, 1817–1867. By Richard E. Lingenfelter. Los Angeles, The Plantin Press, 1967. xvi, 132pp., illus., map. $US20.

Australia's Pacific Frontier: Economic and Cultural Expansion into the Pacific, 1795–1885. Edited with an introduction by John M. R. Young. Melbourne, Cassell, 1967. 111pp., bibliog. $1.75.

Claus Spreckels, the Sugar King in Hawaii. By Jacob Adler. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1966. 339pp.

Murray of Yarralumla. By Gwendoline Wilson. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1968. xvii, 334pp., illus., end maps. $8.50.     

Review articles

Missionary politicians

Church and State in Tonga: The Wesleyan Methodist Missionaries and political development 1822–1875. By Sione Latukefu. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1974. xi, 302 pp. Bibliography. Appendices. Glossary. $A7–95.     

France in the South Pacific: power and politics

Two Worlds. First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans 1642–1772. By Anne Salmond. Auckland, Viking, 1991. 476 pp, illus., maps, appendix, refs, bibliog., index. $NZ69.95. ISBN 0–670–83298–7.

Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern. By Ian Campbell. Christchurch, New Zealand, Canterbury University Press. 274 pp, bibliog., maps, illus., appendixes, glossary.

Mararoko: A Study in Melanesian Religion. By Mary MacDonald. New York, Peter Lang, 1991. 591 pp.

The City and County of Honolulu: a Governmental Chronicle. By Donald D. Johnson assisted by Phyllis Turnbull. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press and City Council of the City &; County of Honolulu, 1991. viii, 462 pp, tables, notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 0–8248–1344–8. $US35.

Marquesan Societies: Inequality and Political Transformation in Eastern Polynesia. By Nicholas Thomas. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990. xvi, 256 pp, gloss., illus., maps, append. $A75.

Micronesia: Decolonization and U.S. Military Interests in the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands. By Gary Smith. Canberra, Australian National University, Peace Studies Centre, 1991. 131 pp. $A12.

Decentralisation in a developing country: The experience of Papua New Guinea and its health service. Edited by Jane A. Thomason, William C. Newbrander and Riita‐Liisa Kolehmainen‐Aitken. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, R.S.Pac.S., Australian National University, 1991. x, 162 pp, figs, tables, map, refs, index. $A25.     

Book reviews

New Book Review policy

Australia

IDEALS AND FOREIGN POLICY

Henry S. Albinski

J. A. Camilleri, An Introduction to Australian Foreign Policy, Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, 1973, pp. v + 137, $1.50; J. Camilleri and M. Teichmann, Security and Survival. The New Era in International Relations, Heinemann Educational Australia. Melbourne, 1973, pp. ix + 226, $3.75.

Peter Aimer, Politics, Power and Persuasion: the Liberals in Victoria, James Bennett, Melbourne. 1974. pp. lv + 243, $9.95.

Alan Richardson, British Immigrants and Australia: A Psycho‐social Inquiry, ANU Press, Canberra, 1974, pp. 198, $8.95.

Bruce Juddery, At the Centre: The Australian Bureaucracy in the 1970s, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 272. Illustrated by Pickering. $4.95.

F. A. Larcombe, The Origin of Local Government in New South Wales 1831–58, Sydney University Press, in association with the Local Government Association of New South Wales and the Shires Association of New South Wales, 1973, pp. xv + 323, maps, $12.00.

H. G. Oxley, Mateship in Local Organization, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1974, pp. 240, $8.00.

H. Raysmith, J. Rimmer and D. Wookey, The Gee‐long Experiment in Social Planning, Geelong and District Community Chest Association, 1973, pp. 110, no price given.

C. A. Hughes and B. D. Graham, Voting for the Australian House of Representatives 1901–1964, ANU Press, Canberra, 1974, pp. xiv + 544 + xiii, $8.95.

International

URBAN POLITICS Martin Painter

Eugene Lewis, The Urban Political System, Dryden, Hinsdale, Illinois, 1973, $5.00.

Murray S. Stedman, Urban Politics, Winthrop, Cambridge, Mass., 1972, $7.50.

Kevin R. Cox, Conflict, Power and Politics in the City, McGraw‐Hill, N.Y., 1973, $4.50.

I. H. Burnley, ed., Urbanization in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974, $13.50.

Rex Mortimer, ed., Showcase State: The Illusion of Indonesia's “Accelerated Modernisation”, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1973, pp. xiii + 163, $3.25, $5.95.

CHINA, RUSSIA, INDIA

S. P. Seth

Edward E. Rice, Mao's Way, University of California Press (Centre for Chinese Studies), Berkeley, 1972, pp. 596 + ix, $14.00.

Richard H. Solomon, Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture, University of California Press (Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan), 1972 (paperback), pp. 604 + xix, $US5.95.

Geoffrey Jukes, The Soviet Union in Asia, Angus and Robertson (in association with The Australian Institute of International Affairs), Sydney, 1973, pp. 304 + vii, $7.50.

Alastair Lamb, The Sino‐Indian Border in Ladakh, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1973, pp. 113 + xi, $6.00.

T. E. Smith, ed., The Politics of Family Planning in the Third World, Allen and Unwin, London, 1973, pp. 352, $14.00.

Ronald J. May, ed., Priorities in Melanesian Development: Papers Delivered at the Sixth Waigani Seminar, University of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby, and Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, ANU Press, Canberra, 1973, pp. xii + 470, $6.00.

J. Ayodele Langley, Pan‐Africanism and Nationalism in West Africa 1900–1945, Oxford University Press, London, 1973, pp. viii + 421, $12.00.

Robert C. Good, U.D.I.: The International Politics of the Rhodesian Rebellion, Faber & Faber, London, 1973, pp. 368, $14.00.

Jack. Hayward, The One and Indivisible French Republic, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973, pp. 306, $16.00 and $6.10.

Jean‐Jacques Salomon, Science and Politics, N. Lindsay, trans., MIT Press, Cambridge, 1973, pp. xxii + 277, $US 15.00.

M. Moroshima, Marx's Economics, Cambridge University Press, 1973, pp. viii + 198, £3.60.     

Intersections: history,memory, discipline. By Brij V. Lal. Lautoka

Bellona Island Beliefs and Rituals. By Torben Monberg. Pacific Islands Monograph Series No. 9. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1991. xix, 449 pp, figs, genealogies, maps, photos, tables, bibliog., index. $US42.

Te Waimana, The Spring of Mana: Tuhoe History and the Colonial Encounter. By Jeffrey Sissons. Te Whenua Series No. 6, Pacific People, Land, and Literature. Dunedin, University of Otago Press, 1991. xiv, 304 pp; maps, photos, figs, gloss., bibliog., index. ISBN 0–908569–59–9. $NZ39.95.

Labour in the South Pacific. Edited by Clive Moore, Jacqueline Leckie and Doug Munro. Townsville, James Cook University, 1990. 335 pp, maps, tables, bibliog., index.

Health and Healing in Tropical Australia and Papua New Guinea. Edited by Roy MacLeod and Donald Denoon. Townsville, James Cook University, Department of History and Politics and Centre for Melanesian Studies, 1991. xviii, 213 pp, intro., notes, bibliog., index. $A16 ($A25 outside Australia including postage).

Beach‐la‐Mar to Bislama: the emergence of a national language in Vanuatu. By Terry Crowley. Oxford Studies in Language Contact. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990. xxi, 422 pp. $A120.

The Mundugumor: From the Field Notes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune. By Nancy McDowell. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. xiii, 337 pp.

Singer in a Songless Land: A Life of Edward Tregear 1846—1931. By K, R. Howe. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 1991. 241 pp. $NZ39.95.

The Empty Place: Poetry, Space and Being among the Foi of Papua New Guinea. By James S. Weiner. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1991. xiv, 218 pp, maps, illus., bibliog., index.

On the Margins of History: From the Punjab to Fiji. By Oskar Spate. History of Development Studies 3. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1991. 142 pp, app. $25.     

BOOKS RECEIVED

Hal B. Levine and Marlene Wolfzahn Levine. Urbanization in Papua New Guinea: A Study of Ambivalent Townsmen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. 160 pp. $21.50.

T. J. May, ed. Change and Movement: Readings on Internal Migration in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Australian National University Press, for Papua New Guinea Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, 1978. xii + 284 pp. $21.95, Aust.     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Man, State and Deity: Essays in Ancient History. By Victor Ehrenberg. (London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1974. Pp. 191. Cloth $12.50, paperback $6.00.) The Archidamian War. By Donald Kagan. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1974. Pp. 392. $17.50.) From Tiberius to the Antonines. By Albino Garzetti. (London: Methuen & Co., 1974. Pp. x, 861. $30.00.) Ancient Rome: From Romulus to Augustus. By Georgina Masson. [A Studio Book.] (New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1974. Pp. 192. $13.95.) Aspects of Greek Medicine. By E. D. Phillips. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. Pp. 240. $12.95.) Muslim Spain: lts History and Culture. By Anwar G. Chejne. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974. Pp. xvi, 559. $24.75.) Islam and Capitalism. By Maxime Rodinson. Translated from the French by Brian Pearce. (First American Edition; New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. Pp. xviii, 308. $10.00.) Lordship and Community: Battle Abbey and lts Banlieu 1066–1538. By Eleanor Searle. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1974. Pp. 479. $20.00.) Cromwell: The Lord Protector. By Antonia Fraser. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Pp. xx, 774. $12.50.) Alexander Carlyle: Anecdotes and Characters of the Times. Edited with an Introduction by James Kinsley. [Oxford English Memoirs and Travels.] (London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. xxiv, 318. $14.50.) England's Mission: The Imperial Idea in the Age of Gladstone and Disraeli 1868–1880. By C. C. Eldridge. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1973. Pp. xvii, 288. $10.95.) Liberal Landslide: The General Election of 1906. By Alan K. Russell. [David and Charles Elections and Administrations Series.] (Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1973. Pp. 260. $12.50.) Anglo-American Relations Since the Second World War. Edited, with an Introduction, by Ian S. McDonald. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974. Pp. 264. $12.95.) Europe's Crucial Years: The Diplomatic Background of World War I, 1902–1914. By Dwight E. Lee. (Hanover, New Hampshire: Clark University Press by the University Press of New England, 1974. Pp. xiv, 482. $15.00.) The Politics of Torch: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch, 1942. By Arthur L. Funk. (Lawrence, Kansas: The University Press of Kansas, 1974. Pp. viii, 322. $11.00.) The Octobrists in the Third Duma, 1907–1912. By Ben–Cion Pinchuk. (Seattle and London; University of Washington Press, 1974. Pp. 232. $10.50.) Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany, 1813. By F. Loraine Petre. With an Introduction by David G. Chandler. (New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 1974. Pp. xii, 403. $10.00.) General Maurice Sarrail, 1856–1929: The French Army and Left–Wing Politics. By Jan Karl Tanenbaum. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 300. $12.95.) The Nazi Party Courts: Hitler's Management of Conflict in His Movement, 1921–1945. By Donald M. McKale. (Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 1974. Pp. xii, 252. $10.00.) Pedro de la Torre: Doctor to Conquerors. By John Tate Lanning. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 145. $7.50.) Maryland's Revolution of Government, 1689–1692, By Lois Green Carr and David William Jordan. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1974. Pp. xviii, 321. 115.00.) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin. By Catherine Drinker Bowen. (Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1974. Pp. xiv, 274. $8.95.) Thomas Jefferson; An Intimate History. By Fawn Brodie. (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1974. Pp. 591. $12.50.) The Struggle for Neutrality: Franco-American Diplomacy During the Federalist Era. By Albert Hall Bowman. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1974. Pp. x, 460. 113.50.) The American Revolution of 1800. By Daniel Sisson. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Pp.xiii, 468. $12.50.) American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era. By Ronald N. Satz. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975. Pp. xii, 343. $12.95.) Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. By Eugene D. Genovese. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. Pp. xxii, 823. $17.50.) The North, the South, and the Powers, 1861–1865. By D. P. Crook. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1975. Pp. x, 405. $11.95.) The Memoirs of Henry Heth. Edited by James L. Morrison, Jr. [Contributions in Military History, Number 6.] (Westport, Connecticut-London, England: Greenwood Press, 1974. Pp. lxxvi, 303. $13.95.) Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol. By William C. Davis. [Southern Biography Series.] (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974. Pp. xxii, 687. 117.50.) Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy. By John Niven. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Pp. x, 676. $17.50.) America, The Middle Period: Essays in Honor of Bernard Mayo. Edited by John B. Boles. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1973. Pp. xviii, 278. $8.50.) American Transcendentalism, 1830–1860: An Intellectual Inquiry, By Paul F. Boiler, Jr. (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons and Books, 1974. Pp. xxvi, 227. $6.95.) American Gunboat Diplomacy and the Old Navy, 1877–1889.[Contributions in Military History No. 4.] By Kenneth J. Hagan. (Westport, Connecticut, and London, England: Greenwood Pres, 1973. Pp. x, 262. $11.50.) Nature's Yellowstone. By Richard A. Bartlett. (Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 250. $10.00.) The Hard Rock Men: Cornish Immigrants and the North American Frontier. By John Rowe. (London and New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974. Pp. x, 296. $18.00.) Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman. By Leon C. Metz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 329. $8.95.) Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years. By Richard H. Pells. (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. Pp. xv, 424. $12.50.) The Intelligence of a People. By Daniel Calhoun. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973. Pp. xiii, 408. $14.50.) The Radical Immigrant. By Sally M. Miller. [The Immigrant Heritage of America Series.] (New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1974. Pp. 169. $7.50.) The Emancipation of Angelina Grimke. By Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1974. Pp. xv, 265. $11.95.) Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor 1848–1896. By Stuart Bruce Kaufman. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. xiv, 274. $11.50.) The Tariff, Politics, and American Foreign Policy, 1874–1901. By Tom E. Terrill. (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1973. Pp. ix, 306. $12.00.) Debtors and Creditors in America: Insolvency, Imprisonment for Debt, and Bankruptcy, 1607–1900. By Peter J. Coleman. (Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1974. Pp. xiii, 303. $17.50.) A History of Regulatory Taxation. By R. Alton Lee. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1973. Pp. xi, 228. $15.25.) Progress and Pragmatism: James, Dewey, Beard, and the American Idea of Progress. By David W. Marcell. [Contributions in American Studies No. 9.] (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 420. $13.95.) Richard Irvine Manning and the Progressive Movement in South Carolina. By Robert Milton Burts. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1974. Pp. viii, 262. $9.95.) Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era. By Lewis L. Gould. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973. Pp. 339. $10.00.) Lindbergh of Minnesota: A Political Biography. By Bruce L. Larson. Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973. Pp. xix, 363. $14.50.) The Hofstadter Aegis: A Memorial. Edited by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Pp. xiv, 384. $10.00.) An Alternative Vision: The Socialists Party in the 1930's. By Frank A. Warren. (Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1974. Pp. xiii, 273. $10.00.) Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice. By Alexander L. George and Richard Smoke. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. Pp. xii, 666. $17.50 hardcover, $6.95 paperback.) Closing the Open Door: American-Japanese Diplomatic Negotiations, 1936–1941. By James H. Herzog. (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1973. Pp. xi, 295. $12.50.) Formosa: Licensed Revolution and the Home Rule Movement, 1895–1945. By George H. Kerr. (Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1974. Pp. xxviii, 265. $12.50.)     

Book reviews

THE ALLIED OCCUPATION OF JAPAN 1945–1952: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WESTERN‐LANGUAGE MATERIALS. R.E. Ward and F.J. Shulman. American Library Assoc., Chicago, 1974. 876 pp. 0–8389–0127–1. $US50.

AUSTRALIAN COMMENTARIES: SELECT ARTICLES FROM THE ROUND TABLE 1911–1942. L.L. Robson (ed.). Melbourne University Press, 1975. xi + 212 pp. $12.60.

APPROACHES TO ASIA: Australian Postwar Policies and Attitudes. Gordon Greenwood and Pamela Bray. McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Sydney, 1975. XII + 612 pp. 0–07–093308–1. $17.95.

CONSERVATISM AS HERESY: An Australian Reader. John J. Ray (ed.). Australian and New Zealand Book Co., Sydney, 1974. xxix pp, 402 pp. 0 85552 029 9. paper. $6.95.

PAKISTAN UNDER CHALLENGE. L.F. Rushbrook Williams. Stacey International, London, 1975. 224 pp. incl. appendices. 0 9503304–1 8. hardback $3.90. 0 9503304–2 6. paperback $2.50.

LABOUR, RACE, AND COLONIAL RULE: THE COPPERBELT FROM 1924 TO INDEPENDENCE. Elena L. Berger. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974. 257 pp. 0–19–821690–4. $19.30.

THE NATIONAL INCOME OF WESTERN SAMOA. Ian J. Fairbairn. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1973, 215 pp. 0–19–550389–9. $12.00.

BOUGAINVILLE AN NATIONALISM: Aspects of Unity and Discord. Alexander Mamak and Richard Bedford with Leo Hannett and Moses Havini. Bourgainville Special Publication, No. 1. Christchurch, 1974. $NZ2.50. (Distributed by Bougainville Special Publications, c/‐ Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.)

THE BALTIC DILEMMA: THE CASE OF THE DE JURE RECOGNITION BY AUSTRALIA OF THE INCORPORATION OF THE BALTIC STATES INTO THE SOVIET UNION. Edgars Dunsdorfs. Robert Speller and Sons, Publishers, Inc., New York, 1975. 302 pp. 0–8315–0148–0.     

Review articles

Ancient Tahitian Society. By Douglas L. Oliver. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1974. 3 vols. xl, 1421 pp. Figs, plates. Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1975. $A45.00.     

Book reviews

Stephen G. Hall and Fred Atkinson, Oil and the British Economy. London, Croom Helm, 1983–208 pp. $12.95.

Harvey B. Feigenbaum, The Politics of Public Enterprise: Oil and the French State. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1985. xvii + 194 pp. $US 33.00.

H.W. Arndt, A Course Through Life: Memoirs of an Australian Economist. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, 1985. ix + 177 pp. $10.00. Alan Rix (ed.), Intermittent Diplomat: The Japan and Batavia Diaries of W. MacMahon Ball. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1988. $37.50.

Benjamin Higgins, The Road Less Travelled. A Development Economist's Quest. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University History of Development Studies 2, 1989. x + 204 pp. $20.00.

Francis Stuart, Towards Coming of Age. A Foreign Service Odyssey. Brisbane, Griffith University Centre for the Study of Australian‐Asian Relations. Australians in Asia series no. 2, 1989. vi + 264 pp. $12.00.

Edward L. Warner III and David A. Ochmanek, Next Moves: An Arms Control Agenda for the 1990's. Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1989. xi + 163 pp. $US10.95.

Malcolm Saunders and Ralph Summy, The Australian Peace Movement: A Short History. Canberra, Peace Research Centre, Australian National University, 1986. 78pp. $3.75.

Malcolm Saunders, A Bibliography of Books, Articles and Theses on the History of the Australian Peace Movement. Canberra, Peace Research Centre, Australian National University, 1987. 115pp. $10.00.

Robert O'Neill, Alliances and International Order. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988. No price given.

Christine Jennett and Randal G. Steward (eds), Politics of the Future: The Role of Social Movements. Melbourne, Macmillan, 1989. xii + 471 pp. $69.95 (cloth), $34.95 (paper).

John Ravenhill (ed.), No Longer an American Lake? Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1989. ix + 226 pp. $17.95.

Peter Dennis, Troubled Days of Peace. Mountbatten and South East Asia Command, 1945–46. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1987. xi + 270pp. £40.00 (cloth), £13.95 (paper).

Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom (eds), Pacific Theater. Island Representations of World War II. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 1990. xiv + 433 pp. $44.95.

Rodney Tiffen, News and Power. Sydney Allen and Unwin, 1989. $19.95.

Janet Hunt el al. One World or ... None: Making the Difference. Canberra, Australian Council for Overseas Aid, 1988. 58pp. $5.95.

Tran Tri Vu, lost Years: My 1,632 Days in Vietnamese Reeducation Camps. Berkeley, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1988. xv + 381 pp. $US15.00.

Richard J. Kessler, Rebellion and Repression in the Philippines. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. xii + 227 pp. $US25.00.

Margaret Jolly and Martha MacIntyre (eds), Family and Gender in the Pacific: Domestic Contradictions and the Colonial Impact. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiii + 296pp. $49.50.

Frank G. Jarrett and Kym Anderson, Growth, Structural Change and Economic Policy in Papua New Guinea: Implications for Agriculture. Pacific Policy Paper No. 5. Canberra, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University. 1989. xx + 122pp. $20.00.

Trevor W. Parfitt and Stephen P. Riley, The African Debt Crisis. London, Routledge, 1989. vii + 228 pp.     

Book reviews

SYSTEM 37 VIGGEN: ARMS, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE DOMESTICATION OF GLORY. Ingemar Dörfer. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1973. 258 pp. N.Kr.90 ($US18.00).

SIR JOHN MONASH. A. J. Smithers. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1973. 0–207–12587–2. 303 pp. $7.95.

RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: COLLECTED ESSAYS. E. L. Wheelwright. ANZ Books, Sydney, 1974. 0–85552–018–3. 414 pp. $5.95 paper.

JAPAN'S FOREIGN POLICY. F. C. Langdon, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1973. 321 pp. $US9.00 hardcover.

THE PATHET LAO: LEADERSHIP AND ORGANISATION. Joseph J. Zasloff. Lexington Books, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1973. 174 pp. $US10.00.

PERVASIVE POLITICS: A STUDY OF THE INDIAN DISTRICT. Donald F. Miller Melbourne Politics Monographs, Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne, 1972. 226 pp. $2.80, $1.80 (students), paper (postage: local 85c, overseas $1.05).

CHINA IN BURMA'S FOREIGN POLICY. Ralph Pettman. Australian National University Press, Contemporary China Papers No. 7, Canberra, 1973. 56 pp. $2.50 paper.

ZAMBIA. SECURITY AND CONFLICT. Jan Pettman. Julian Friedmann Publishers Ltd., Lewes, Sussex, 1974. 284 pp. £4.25.

THE DIPLOMACY OF CONSTRAINT: CANADA, THE KOREAN WAR AND THE UNITED STATES. Denis Stairs. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1974. 371 pp. $C15.00 hard cover.

ALL TOGETHER NOW: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE IN CANADA, 1964–1972. Vernon J. Kronenberg. Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Toronto, 1973. 124 pp. $C2.50 paper.

WAR MACHINERY AND HIGH POLICY: DEFENCE ADMINISTRATION IN PEACETIME BRITAIN 1902–1914. Nicholas d'Ombrain. Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press, London, 1973. 302 pp. $13.15.

BRITAIN'S LEGACY OVERSEAS. Geoffrey Bolton. Oxford University Press, 1973. 168 pp. $2.10, paper.

GREAT POWER POLITICS AND NORWEGIAN FOREIGN POLICY: A STUDY OF NORWAY'S FOREIGN RELATIONS NOVEMBER 1940‐FEBRUARY 1948. Nils Morten Udgaard. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1973.

EUROPE 1945 TO 1970. Charlotte Waterlow and Archibald Evans. Methuen, London, 1973. 423–87840–9. 316 pp. $11.60.     

Rowley on the aboriginal condition

C. D. Rowley, Aboriginal Policy and Practice, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1970–71: Volume I, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, pp. xii + 430; Volume II, Outcasts in White Australia, pp. xiv + 472; Volume III, The Remote Aborigines, pp. vii + 379. $6.50 per volume. All three also in Penguin, Melbourne, 1972, at $2.50 per volume.     

Book reviews

AUSTRALIA IN WORLD AFFAIRS 1966–70. Gordon Greenwood and Norman Harper (eds.). Cheshire, for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, 1974. vii + 489 pp. 0–7015–1571–6. $13.95.

FROM TWEEDLEDUM TO TWEEDLEDEE. THE NEW LABOR GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA: A CRITIQUE OF ITS SOCIAL MODEL. Robert Catley and Bruce McFarlane. Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Sydney, 1974. 88 pp. + 24 pp. app. 0–8555–022–1. $3.50 paper.

FULL CIRCLE. S. F. Rowell. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, 206 pp. $9.90.

PUBLIC POLICY IN AUSTRALIA. Roy Forward (ed.). Cheshire, Melbourne, 1974. 276 pp. 07015–1741–7. $6.50 paper.

TO PHOENIX SEAT: AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY OF MAOISM AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST QUEST FOR A PARADISE ON EARTH. Leslie R. Marchant. Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1973. 276 pp. 0–207–12373. $7.95.

THE NORTH KOREAN COMMUNIST LEADERSHIP, 1945–1965: A STUDY OF FACTIONALISM AND POLITICAL CONSOLIDATION. Koon Woo Nam. The University of Alabama Press, Alabama 35486, 1974. 214 pp. 08193–4723–2. $7.50.

TRADITION AND REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM. Nguyen Khac Vien. Indochina Resource Center, Berkeley, California, 1974. 169 pp. $US 2.65.

POLITICS AND POWER IN CAMBODIA: THE SIHANOUK YEARS. Milton Osborne. Longman, Melbourne, 1974. 120 pp. $7.50 hard cover, $3.50 paper.

THE 1971 ELECTIONS IN INDONESIA: AN EAST JAVA CASE STUDY. Ken Ward. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, 1974. 120 pp. 0–909835–09–8. $3.75.

TWENTY YEARS OF INDONESIAN FOREIGN POLICY, 1945–1965. Ide Anak Agung Gde Agung. Mouton, The Hague and Paris, 1973. 640 pp. $17.00.

HET EKONOMISCH BELEID IN NEDERLANDSCH‐INDIE, CAPITA SELECTA. EEN BRONNENPUBLICATIE (Economic Policy in the Netherlands Indies, Selected Subjects), PART II. P. Creutzberg (ed.). Publication No. 6 of the ‘Committee for the Publication of Primary Sources Concerning the History of the Netherlands Indies 1900–1942’. H. D. Tjeenk Willink, B.V., Groningen, The Netherlands, 1974. 792 pp.

FIFTEEN MEN ON A POWDER KEG: A HISTORY OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL. Andrew Boyd. University Paperback, London, 1973. (First published by Methuen & Co. 1971.) 416–70230–9. 383 pp. $4.20.

HAMMARSKJOLD. Brian Urquhart. The Bodley Head, London, 1972. 630 pp. $14.70.

THE NEW ZEALAND BUREAUCRAT. T. B. Smith. Cheshire, Wellington, New Zealand, 1974. 162 pp. $9.95.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: FOUNDATIONS OF THE SYSTEM. Werner Levi. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1974. (Distributed in Australia by Oxford University Press.) 285 pp. 0–8166–0703–6. $11.00.     

REVIEWS

Land Between Two Laws. By Peter G. Sack, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1973. Pp. 1–197. Price $A7.50.     

Book reviews

Nicholas Tarling: South East Asia: Past and Present, F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1966, pp. 334, $5.55.

W. H. C. Eddy, ed.: Studies In Demoracy, F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1966, pp. 178 + xi, $3.75.

Ruth Knight: Illiberal Liberal, Robert Lowe in New South Wales, 1842–1850, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966, pp. 299 ‐f ix, $6.00.

B. D. Graham: The Formation of the Australian Country Parties, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1966, pp. 320 ‐f xiv, $6.90.

C. Sanders, ed.: Technical Education for Development, University of Western Australia Press, 1966, pp. 302 ‐f‐ vii.

Cyril Pearl: Wild Men of Sydney, Cheshire‐Lansdowne, pp. 255, $2.50 paper, $4.20 bound.

Bruce Mansfield: Australian Democrat, Sydney University Press, 1965, pp. 322, $3.00.

T. H. Rigby, ed.: Stalin, Great Lives Observed series, Spectrum Books, Prentice‐Hall, N.J., 1966, pp. 182, paperback $1.95, boards $4.95.

D. G. Bettison, C. A. Hughes and P. W. van der Veur, eds.: The Papua‐New Guinea Elections, 1964, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1965, pp. 545, $9.00.

Denis Warner: Reporting South‐East Asia, Angus & Robertson, 1966, pp. 342, $4.50.

Patrick Ford: Cardinal Moran and the A.L.P.—A Study in the Encounter Between Moran and Socialism, 1890–1907, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp. 319 + xxii, $7.50.     

Contemporary Histories of the Conflict in Solomon Islands

Happy Isles in Crisis. The historical causes for a failing state in Solomon Islands 1998–2004. Australian National University, Canberra: Asia Pacific Press 2004. Pp: xi + 265. By Clive Moore . Price A$35 The Manipulation of Custom. From Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands Australian National University, Canberra: Pandanus Books RSPAS 2004. Pp: 262. By Jon Fraenkel . Price: $34.95     

New Caledonia viewed from Australia

John Connell. New Caledonia or Kanaky? The Political History of a French Colony. Canberra: National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, 1987. xx+493 pp. $25.00.

Michael Spencer, Alan Ward and John Connell (eds). New Caledonia. Essays in Nationalism and Dependency. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1988. xv+253 pp.