BOOKS RECEIVED

Physical geography by W.J. Jonas and B.P. Sheedy The Letters of F.W. Ludwig Leichhardt edited by M. Aurousseau A cruise in a Queensland labour vessel to the South Seas by W.E. Giles, edited by D. Scarr Australian-New Zealand defence co-operation edited by T.B. Millar The Paracas Papers, Vol 1, No.2, Reconnaissance Report by A.K. Craig and N.P. Psuty Man and the land, second edition by G.F. Carter A geography of Wales by H.J. Savory China: evolution of a revolution 1959-66 by J.D. Simmonds Exploiting our economic potential edited by R. Shearer Geography and regional administration by T.W. Freeman Case studies in Australasian geography edited by R.S. Coggins Struggle for the Snowy, The background of the Snowy Mountains Scheme by L. Wigmore Fitzroy Region, Queensland: Resources series prepared by and available from Department of National Development, Meteorology and climatology of New Zealand. A bibliography complied by C.J. Sparrow and T.R. Healy The geography of state policies by J.R.V. Prescott Acadia The geography of early Nova Scotia to 1760 by A.H. Clark     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: A spatial approach to the measurement of support for the separatist movement in Norrhern New South Wales by E. R. Woolmington Central Otapo, by R. G. Lister & R. P. Hargreaves. Atlas of New Zealand Geography, by G. J. R. Linge and R. M. Frazer. Land and Society in New Zealand. Essays in Historical Geography, edited by R. F. Watters Rainfall in rhe Tropical Southwest Pacific by H. C. Brookfield and Doreen Hart The Delimitarion of Urban Boundaries, by G. J. R. Linge.     

REVIEWS

Southeast Ambrym Dictionary. By G. J. Parker. Pacific Linguistics, Series C — No. 17, Australian National University, Canberra. 1970. Pp. xiii + 60. Price $A1.50.     

Reviews

D.R. Rothwell and R. Davis Antarctic Environmental Protection: a Collection of Australian and International Instruments G.J. Aplin Australians and their Environment: an Introduction to Environmental Studies J. Dargavel (ed.) Australia's Ever-Changing Forests III: Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Australian Forest History D. Slattery The Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks J.M. Jacobs Edge of Empire Postcolonialism and the City M. McKinnon with B. Bradley and R. Kirkpatrick (eds) New Zealand Historical Atlas: Ko Papatuanuku e Takoto Nei I.G. Thomas Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia: Theory and Practice D. Shearman and G. Sauer-Thompson Green or Gone A.S. Goudie (ed.) The Human Impact Reader: Readings and Case Studies G.C. Wescott Wilsons Promontory: Marine and National Park, Victoria     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Society and Environment in New Zealand edited by R. J. Johnston Australian Urban and Regional Development by Frank J. B. Stilwell, Sydney at the Census: 1971; A Social Atlas by R. J. Davis and Peter Spearritt, Lae: Village and City by Ian Willis The Agricultural Systems of the World: An Evolutionary Approach by D. B. Grigg     

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     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: R.G., Golledge, H. Couclelis, P. Gould (editors) A Ground for Common Search, Santa Barbara E.W. Soja Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory Bill McGibben The End of Nature G.J.R. Linge, and G.A. van der Knaap, (editors) Labour, Environment and Industrial Change Sophie Watson Accommodating Inequality D.I. Smith and J.W. Handmer (editors) Flood Insurance and Relief in Australia G.J. Symen, B.J. Shaw, D.M. Fenton and W.S. Mueller (editors) The Planning and Evaluation of Hallmark Events M. Hordern Mariners are Warned! John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. O.H.K. Spate The Pacific since Magellan Allen J. and White J.P., 1988: “The Lapita homeland: some new data and an interpretation” Campbell I.C., 1990; A History of the Pacific Islands Pacific Islands, Journal of the Polynesian Society Spate, O.H.K., 1978: The Pacific as an Artefact, In N. Gunson, (ed.), The Changing Pacific: Essays in Honour of HE Maude Spate, O.H.K., 1983: The Pacific since Magellan: Il. Monopolists and Freebooters J.A. Kesby and K.J. Frawley The Forest Record in Australian Local and Regional History: An Annotated Bibliography Panbiogeography Special Issue New Zealand Journal of Zoology Jim Falk and Andrew Brownlow The Greenhouse Challenge: What's to be done?     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
THOUGHT: from the Learned Societies of Canada 1960 , W. J. Gage Limited
Crossroads , by G. B. C ressey
The National Geographer , edited by M. N. K han and R. C. S harma
The Earth's Problem Climates , by G len T. T rewartha
Statistical Geography: Problems in Analyzing Areal Data , by O tis D udley D uncan , R ay P. C uzzort , and B everly D uncan
The Geography of Communications in Great Britain , by J. H. A ppleton
A Glossary of Geographical Terms , prepared by a committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and edited by L. D udley S tamp
Cassell's New Atlas , Cassell and Co., Ltd.
The Meridian Compact Atlas of the World , Meridian Books, The World Publishing Co., New York, 1961; cartographie par John Bartholomew and Son Ltd., Great Britain, 1961; XVI pages de statistiques, 128 pages de cartes, index de 30 pages     

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.     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Themes in Geographic Thought , edited by M ilton E. H arvey and B rian P. H olly
Timber Colony: A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick , by G raeme W ynn
Hopeful Travellers: Families, Land, and Social Change in Mid-Victorian Peel County, Canada West , by D avid G agan
National and Regional Economic Development Strategies: Perspectives on Canada's Problems and Prospects , edited by B arry W ellar
Agrometeorology , by J. S eemann , Y.I. C hirkov , J. L omas , and B. P rimault
Geomorphological Techniques , edited by A ndrew G oudie     

REVIEWS

Private Politics: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to ‘Big-man’ Systems. Edited by Martin A. van Bakel, Renée R. Hagesteijn and Peter van de Velde . The Politics and Finance of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea. By Norman Bonney . Torres trait Islanders: Custom and Colonialism. By J. Beckett . Aging and Its Transformations: Moving Towards Death in Pacific Societies. Edited by Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts . Gender and Society in the New Guinea Highlands: an Anthropological Perspective on Antagonism Towards Women. By Marilyn G. Gelber . An Introduction to Aboriginal Societies. By W.H. Edwards . Cosmologies in the Making: a Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. By Fredrik Barth . Cultural Models in Language and Thought. Edited by D. Holland and Naomi Quinn . Leslie A. White: Ethnological Essays. Edited by Beth Dillingham and Robert L. Carneiro . Wetan Fieldnotes: Some Eastern Indonesian Texts with Linguistic Notes and a Vocabulary. By J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong . The Heart of the Pearlshell: The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality. By James F. Weiner . Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890. By David Hanlon . Copra Marketing and Price Stabilization in Papua New Guinea. A History to 1975. By Harry H. Jackman . Wealth of the Solomons: a History of a Pacific Archipelago, 1800–1978. By Judith A. Bennett . An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages to the South Seas. By Jules S-C. Dumont D'Urville — Translated and edited by Helen Rosenman . Connections: Essays on Black Literatures. Edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson . Anthropological Studies of Religion: An Introductory Text. By Brian Morris . Human Resources Development in the Pacific. Edited by C.D. Throsby . Intimations of Infinity: The Mythopoeia of the Iqwaye Counting System and Number. By Jadran Mimica . La Dernière Isle. By Joel Bonnemaison .     

REVIEW

Tongan Culture and History: Papers from the 1st Tongan History Conference held in Canberra 14–17 January, 1987. Edited by Phyllis Herda, Jennifer Terrell and Niel Gunson. Canberra: Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. 1990.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: J.M. Powell Plains of Promise, Rivers of Destiny: Water Management in the Development of Queensland 1824–1990 J.W. Handmer, A.H.J. Dorcey and D.I. Smith (eds) Negotiating Water: Conflict Resolution in Australian Water Management Norman Mackay and David Eastburn (ed.) The Murray Australian Defence Force Academy. Canberra D.J. Mulvaney (ed). The Humanities and the Australian Environment William J. Lines Taming the Great South Land Melbourne J.B. Kirkpatrick (ed) Tasmanian Native Bush: a Management Handbook Brotchie, J., Batty, M., Hall., and Newtown, P. Cities of the 21 st Century: New Technologies and Spatial Systems Kay J. Anderson Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875–1980 Daniel W. Bromley. Environment and Economy: Property Rights and Public Policy Wetlands: A Threarened Landscape Learmonth, Andrew Disease Ecology     

Reviews

P.J. Rimmer (ed.)Pacific Rim Development: Integration and Globalisation in the Asia-Pacific Economy I.H. Burnley, P.A. Murphy and R.H. Fagan Immigration and Australian Cities A. Deville and R. Harding Applying the Precautionary Principle B. O'Neil, J. Raftery and K. Round (eds) Playford's South Australia Essays on the History of South Australia, 1933–1968 G. Seddon Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape E.K. Webb Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: L'Homme duns le Pucifique Sud: dtude gtogruphique, by FranGois Doumenge. New Viewpoints in Economic Geography, by J. Rutherford, M. I. Logan, G. Missen. Essays in Geomorphology, edited by G. H. Dury Atlas of Tasmania, edited by J. L. Davies.