Reviews

Book reviews in this Article:
R aoul M ortley : Womanhood: The Feminine in Ancient Hellenism, Gnosticism, Christianity and Islam.
R ichard K rautheimer : Rome
A nders P litz : The World of Medieval Learning (Translated by David Jones).
W illiam G. C raven : Giovanni Pico delta Mirandola, Symbol of His Age: Modern Interpretations of a Renaissance Philosopher.
B ruce M ansfield : Phoenix of His Age: Interpretations of Erasmus c 1550-1750.
D avid C. S teinmetz : Luther and Staupitz: An Essay in the Intellectual Origins of the Protestant Reformation.
P hilip B enedict : Rouen During the Wars of Religion.
W alter P hillips : Defending 'A Christian Country':
G eorge R usso : Lord Abbot of the Wilderness:
U rsula M. L. B ygott :.
S tuart B raga
H elen P raetz :
C olin B rown : Forty Years On     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
Asher D. Biemann, ed.: The Martin Buber Reader: Essential Writings .
Graham Ward: True Religion (Blackwell Manifestos).
Jeffrey Chipps Smith: Sensuous Worship. Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany .
Mark Hutchinson: Iron in our Blood: A History of the Presbyterian Church in NSW, 1788–2001 .
Richard M. Jaffe: Neither Monk Nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism.
Michael Lambek, ed.: A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion .
Jennifer Nimmo Smith, ed. and trans.: A Christian's Guide to Greek Culture: The Pseudo-Nonnus Commentaries on Sermons 4, 5, 39, and 43 by Gregory of Nazianus , Translated Texts for Historians series.
Charles M. Radding and Francis Newton: Theology, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Eucharistic Controversy, 1078–1079. Alberic of Monte Cassino Against Berengar of Tours .
Mikael Rothstein and Reender Kranenborg, eds: New Religions in a Postmodern World .
James R. Lewis: Legitimating New Religions .
Peter L. Berger: Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Affirmation of Christianity .
Mattias Gardell: Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism .
Seth D. Kunin: Religion: The Modern Theories .
Erika Simon: Festivals of Attica. An Archaeological Commentary .
Walter Stephens: Demon Lovers. Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief .
Diana Webb: Medieval European Pilgrimage, c.700–c.1500 , European Culture and Society Series.
Carole M. Cusack: Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
N ahmana A vigadh : Hebrew Bullae from the Time of Jeremiah:- Remnants of a Burnt Archive
M artin G oodman : The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome, A.D. 66–70. Cambridge
J oseph P. L ynch : Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe
M ichael M ullett : Popular Culture and Popular Protest in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
C arol Z aleski : Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times
orna J ane A bray : The People's Reformation: Magistrates, Clergy, and Commons in Strasbourg, 1500–1598
J. D enny W eaver : Becoming Anabaptist
R onald B. B ond : Certain Sermons or Homilies (1547) and A Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1570): A Critical Edition
G. J. R. P arry : Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation of the Elizabethan Church
D avid B erman : A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell
S tephen J udd and K enneth C able : Sydney Anglicans: A History of the Diocese
A lan P. F. S ell : Defending and Declaring the Faith: Some Scottish Examples, 1860–1920
J ill R oe : Beyond Belief Theosophy in Australia 1879–1939
J. B. G ribble : Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land
M ichael H ogan : The Sectarian Strand: Religion in Australian Society
P atrick P. F ord : The Socialist Trend in the Catholic Church in Australia and New Zealand , Melbourne, John XXIII Fellowship Co-op
W. D. R ubinstein (ed.): Jews in the Sixth Continent , Sydney, Allen and Unwin
A rvind S harma (ed.): Women in World Religions     

SHORT NOTICES

E dith L. B lumhofer : Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture ,
O wen C hadwick : The Christian Church in the Cold War ,
J ames R obert C oggins : John Smyth's Congregation: English Separation, Mennonite Influence, and the Elect Nation
R obert D. C ornwall : Visible and Apostolic: The Constitution of the Church in High Church Anglican and Non-Juror Thought
N eal D onner and D aniel B. S tevenson : The Great Calming and Contemplation: A Study and Annotated Translation of the First Chapter of Chih-i's Mo-ho chih-kuan
B ryan E gan : Ways of a Hospital: St Vincent's Melbourne 1890s-1990s
R uth F ry : The Community of the Sacred Name: A Centennial History
G erald P. G leeson (ed.): Priesthood: The Hard Questions , E. J. Dwyer
P auline M atarasso (ed. and trans.): The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century
S tewart S utherland and P eter C larke (eds): The Study of Religion: Traditional and New Religions
C harles Z ika (ed.): No Gods Except Me: Orthodoxy and Religious Practice in Europe 1200-1600     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
C. M ackenzie B rown : The Triumph of the Goddess: The Canonical Models and Theological Visions of the Devī Bhāgavata Purāna.
R obert M arkus : The End of Ancient Christianity.
T homas A. M ason : Serving God and Mammon. William Juxon, 1582–1663: Bishop of London, Lord High Treasurer of England, and Archbishop of Canterbury.
S uzanne D esan : Reclaiming the Sacred: Lay Religion and Popular Politics in Revolutionary France.
D. W. B ebbington : Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s.
O wen C hadwick : Michael Ramsey: A Life.
K enneth C. B arnes : Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity: Protestant Social Thought in Germany and Great Britain, 1925–1937.
R ichard W. V audry : The Free Church in Victorian Canada, 1844–1861.
T homas C. R eeves : A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy.
E ric J. S harpe : Nathan Söderblom, and the Study of Religion.
M ichael M c K ernan : Padre: Australian Chaplains in Gallipoli and France
A lan W. B lack (ed.): Religion in Australia: Sociological Perspectives.
J ames A. B outilier and others (eds): Mission, Church and Sect in Oceania.
C har M iller (ed.): Missions and Missionaries in the Pacific.
R. L anier B rttsch : Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific.
M ichael C athcart and others (eds): Mission to the South Seas: The Voyage of the 'Duffl', 1796–1799.     

Publications briefly noted

B. A. HUSSAINMIYA. The Brunei Constitution of 1959: an Inside History. Bandar Seri Begawan: Brunei Press, 2000. xvi, 81 pp. B$8.90, paper.

DAVID E. POLLARD. The Chinese Essay. Hong Kong: Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. US$50.00, hardcover.

EVA HUNG (ed). City Women: contemporary Taiwan Women Writers. Hong Kong: Rendition Paperbacks, 2001. 160 pp. No price given, paper.

P. J. MOORE. A Concise History of Dutch Mauritius, 1598-1710: a Fruitful and Healthy Land. London: Kegan Paul International for the International Institute of Asian Studies, 1998. x, 127 pp. Illustrations. £55.00/US$93.50, hardcover.

HENRY YUHUAI HE. Dictionary of the Political Thought of the People's Republic of China. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. 727 pp. US$124.95, hardcover.

WILLIAM DUIKER. Historical Dictionary of Vietnam. Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries No. 27, 2nd edition. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998. 512 pp. US$68.00, hardcover.

RIZAL SUKMA. Indonesia and China: the Politics of a Troubled Relationship. London: Routledge, 1999. xiv, 224 pp. £55.00, hardcover.

NICHOLAS TARLING (ed). Indonesia after Soeharto. Auckland: New Zealand Asia Institute, 1999. 168 pp. No price given, paper.

ROY DAVIS LINVILLE JUMPER. Orang Asli Now: the Orang Asli in the Malaysian Political World. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999. US$48.00, hardcover.

LIANG XIAOSHENG. Panic and Deaf: two Modern Satires. Hanming Chen, trans; James O. Belcher, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 157 pp. US$14.95, paper.

LEO DOUW, CEN HUANG and MICHAEL R. GODLEY (eds). Qiaoxiang Ties: interdisciplinary Approaches to ‘Cultural Capitalism’ in South China. London: Kegan Paul International, 1999. 346 pp. No price given, hardcover.

CYRIL BIRCH. Scenes for Mandarins: the Elite Theatre of the Ming. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiii, 262 pp. US$20.50, paper.

JI GILES UNGPAKORN. Thailand: class Struggle in an Era of Economic Crisis. Hongkong: Asia Resources Monitor Center; Bangkok: Workers' Democracy Book Club, 1999. 118 pp. Thai baht 150.

JI UNGPAKORN. The Struggle for Democracy and Social Justice in Thailand. Bangkok: Arom Pongpangan Foundation, 1997. 130 pp. Thai baht 150.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Gabriel A. Almond , R. Scott Appleby , and Emmanuel Sivan : Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World. Chicago, IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Craig D. Atwood : Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004; pp. xi + 283. Nora Berend : At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and “Pagans” in Medieval Hungary, c. 1000‐1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001; pp. 340. Peggy Brock , ed.: Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2005; pp. x + 262. Martinus Cawley , trans.: Send Me God: The Lives of Ida the Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramée, Arnulfus, Lay Brother of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers, by Goswin of Bossut. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, vol. 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003; pp. xlvii + 258. J. P. Daughton : An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880‐1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. xiv + 330. Khaled El ‐Rouayheb : Before Homosexuality in the Arab‐Islamic World, 1500‐1800. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005; pp. x + 210. J. Albert Harrill : Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social and Moral Dimensions. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006. Timothy Insoll : Archaeology, Ritual, Religion. London: Routledge, 2004; pp. 184. Jean ‐René Jannot : Religion in Ancient Etruria, trans. Jane K. Whitehead. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005; pp. xviii + 230.
Nancy Thomson De Grummond and Erika Simon , eds.: The Religion of the Etruscans. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006; pp. xiv + 226. Clayton N. Jefford : The Apostolic Fathers: An Essential Guide. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. R. M. Jensen : Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2005. Sara Raup Johnson : Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson : The Life and Miracles of Thekla, a Literary Study. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. Mathew Kuefler , ed.: The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2006. pp. 348. Amy ‐Jill Levine , Dale C. Allison J, r ,., and John Dominic Crossan , eds.: The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006; pp. x + 440. Keith Luria : Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2005; pp. xxxviii + 357. Peter McCullough , ed.: Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005; p. 491. Kari Miettinen : On the Way to Whiteness: Christianization, Conflict and Change in Colonial Ovamboland, 1910‐1965. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden, 2005; pp. 370. John Milbank : Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason, 2d ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006; pp. 448. Lynette Olson : The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe. Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; pp. xvii + 248. David Shankland , ed.: Archaeology, Anthropology and Heritage: In the Balkans and Anatolia: The Life and Times of F. W. Hasluck, 1878‐1920, 2 vols. Istanbul: Isis, 2005; pp. 495. Nigel Yates : The Religious Condition of Ireland 1770‐1850. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; pp. xxiv + 401.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
M ichael P. C arroll The Cult of the Virgin Mary
S hery L. R eamies : The Legenda Aurea: A Reexamination of its Paradoxical History
J ohanna B roda , D aviad C arrasco and E duardo M atos M octezuma : The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan: Center and Periphery in the Aztec World
P eter L ake and M aria D owling (eds): Protestantism and the National Church in Sixteenth Century England
P atrick C ollinson : The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559–1625, being the Ford Lectures for 1979
D avid H empton : Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850
R obert C olls : The Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield; Work, culture and Portest, 1790–1850
D eborah M. V alaence : Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England
J ohn H osie : Challenge: The Marists in Colonial Australia
S tuart P iggin : Faith of Steel: A History of theChristian Churches in Illawarra, Australia
L ogie B arrow : Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850–1910
M arie P eters : Christchurch-St Michael's: A Study in Anglicanism in New Zealand 1851–1972
R obert E. S ullivan and J ames M. O'T oole (eds): Catholic Boston: Studies in Religion and Community, 1870–1970
M argaret H ope B acon : Let This Life Speak- The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury
J ohn F. P ollard : The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929–32: A Study in Conflict
J ames B entley : Martin Niemöller
A ndrew M ichael M anis : Southern Civil Religions in Conflict: Black and White Baptists and Civil Rights, 1947–1957     

Reviews

H enri D esroche : The Sociology of Hope.
D aniel W. P atterson : The Shaker Spiritual.
I iro K ajanto : Classical and Christian; Studies in the Latin Epitaphs of Medieval and Renaissance Rome.
M ark R. C ohen : Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt: The Origins of the Office of Head of the Jews ca. 1065–1126.
J effrey R ichards : Consul of God: The Life and Times of Gregory the Great.
P aul L awrence R ose : Bodin and the Great God of Nature: The Moral and Religious Universe of a Judaiser.
P aul L awrence R ose (ed.): Jean Bodin: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics.
J oyce O ldham A ppleby : Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England.
J. A. S harpe : Defamation and Sexual Slander in Early Modern England: The Church Courts at York (Borthwick Papers, No. 58).
K enneth M. B oyd : Scottish Church Attitudes to Sex, Marriage and the Family, 1850–1914.
P aul M c H ugh : Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform.
E dmund C ampion : John Henry Newman: Friends, Allies, Bishops, Catholics.
N. M errill D istad : Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) Shepherdstown
A lan D. G ilbert : The Making of Post-Christian Britain: A History of the Secularization of Modern Society.
A nn -M ari J ordens : The Stenhouse Circle: Literary Life in Mid-Nineteenth Century Sydney.
B rian K ennedy : Silver, Sin, and Sixpenny Ale: A Social History of Broken Hill, 1883–1921.
I an B reward : Grace and Truth: A History of the Theological Hall, Knox College, Dunedin 1876–1975.     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Faces of Fraternalism: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. The Racial State: Germany, 1933–1933. The Silent Holocaust: Romania and Its Jews. The Devil Soldier. The Norman Achievement. Asia before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750. Gentlemen and Tarpaulins: The Officers and Men of the Restoration Navy. Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich. The English Police: A Political and Social History. China: A New History. Kings and Lords in Conquest England. The Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat: Britain's South China Policy, 1924–1924. The Miracle That Was Macedonia. Goths and Romans, 332–332. The English Spa, 1560-1815: A Social History. Robert Boothby: A Portrait of Churchill's Ally. Russia's Balkan Entanglements, 1806–1806. Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler. Grand Strategies in War and Peace. Nicholas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance Europe. The Cambridge History of China. The News under Russia's Old Regime: The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press. Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History. The Unification and Division of India. Peasantry and Society in France since 1789. Germans against Nazism: Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich. The Invention of Scotland: The Stuart Myth and the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the Present. The Conquest of Christian and Muslim Spain, 1031–1031. Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. The Secularization of Early Modern England: From Religious Culture to Religious Faith. The Restoration Church of England, 1646–1646. Disorder under Heaven: Collective Violence in the Ming Dynasty. Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian. Tom Mann, 1856-1941: The Challenges of Labour. The Origins of the Federal Theology in Sixteenth-Century Reformation Thought. International Theory: The Three Traditions. Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973–1973. The Chairman: John J. Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism. America in the Modern World: The Transcendence of United States Hegemony. Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland. Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement. Moving the Mountain: The Women's Movement in America since 1960. Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western. George Scarborough: The Life and Death of a Lawman on the Closing Frontier. Night Boat to New England, 1815–1815. A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh. The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign: A Study of Failure in High Command. Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. The First Day at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership. Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. Woodrow Wilson. Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero: The Formative Years. The American Communist Movement: Storming Heaven Itself. Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist. Northern Arizona University Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War. Partisans and Progressives: Private Interest and Public Polio/ in Illinois, 1870–1870. Christianity Comes to the Americas. Appalachian Frontiers: Settlement, Society, and Development in the Preindustrial Era. Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts. Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism. Colombia and the United States: Hegemony and Interdependence. Dubious Victory: The Reconstruction Debate in Ohio. The United States in Central America, 1860-1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System. America's Germany: John J. Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1755–1755. From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era. Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System. The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860–1860. Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief. The Mysterious History of Columbus: An Exploration of the Man, the Myth, the Legacy. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America.     

Publications briefly noted

WEN‐HSIN YEH (ed). Becoming Chinese: passages to Modernity and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. x, 435 pp. US$55.00, hardcover; US$22.00, paper.

CLAIRE HUOT. China's New Cultural Scene: a Handbook of Changes. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. viii, 258 pp. US$18.95, paper.

PANG‐YUAN CHI and DAVID DER‐WEI WANG (eds). Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: a Critical Survey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xliii, 332 pp. US$39.95, hardcover.

RICHARD JOHN LYNN (trans). The Classic of the Way and Virtue: a New Translation of the Tao‐te Ching of Laozi as Interpreted by Wang Bi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 244 pp. US$29.00, hardcover.

KENNETH G. HENSHALL. Dimensions of Japanese Society: gender, Margins and Mainstream. New York and London: St Martin's Press/Macmillan Press, 1999. xxi, 249 pp. List of tables, preface, acknowledgments, glossary, introduction, notes, references, index. £47.50, hardcover; £20.99, paper.

KENNETH G. HENSHALL. A History of Japan. From Stone‐Age to Superpower. London: Macmillan Press, 1999. xvi, 242 pp. List of tables, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, references, glossary of Japanese terms, index. £19.99, paper.

ROGER BUCKLEY. Japan Today, 3rd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 233 pp. Preface to the first edition, preface to the third edition, abbreviations, note on Japanese names, map, introduction, appendices, bibliography, index. £13.95, paper.

SUSAN ORPHETT LONG (ed). Lives in Motion: composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan. Ithaca, NY: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1999. xii, 295 pp. Preface, list of contributors, introduction, index. No price given, paper.

DEWI ANGGRAENI. Neighbourhood Tales: a Bilingual Collection of Short Stories. Briar Hill, VIC: Indra Publishing, 2001. 248 pp. A$21.95, paper.

KANDICE CHUH and KAREN SHIMAKAWA (eds). Orientations: mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 339 pp. US$19.95, paper.

HAROLD D. ROTH. Original Tao: inward Training (Nei‐yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 275 pp. US$29.50, hardcover.

CHIANG YEE. The Silent Traveller in London. Oxford: Signal Books Ltd, 2002. xvi, 216 pp. £24.95, hardcover; £10.99, paper.     

Reviews

Book review in this Article
E rnest L. M artin : The Birth of Christ Recalculated.
H. M. T eepl E: The Noah's Ark Nonsense.
R. M. O gilvi E: The Library of Lactantius.
A lan Y oung : William Cumin: Border Politics and the Bishopric of Durham, 1141–1144
R oy M artin H aines : The Church and Politics in Fourteenth-Century England: The Career of Adam Orleton, c. 1275–1345
R obert S auzet : Contre-Réforme et reforme catholique en Bas-Languedoc: Le diocèse de Nimes au XVIIe siècle
H. C. P orter : The Inconstant Savage: England and the North American Indian, 1500–1660.
M artin K ing W hyte : The Status of Women in Pre-Industrial Societies.
O wen C hadwick : The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century.
G eoffrey S tephens : The Hutchins School: Macquarie Street Years, 1846–1965.
W illiam N icolle O ats : The Rose and the Waratah: The Friends'School, Hobart. Formation and Development, 1832–1945.     

Book reviews

Australian Politics

Douglas Blackmur, Strikes: Causes, Conduct and Consequences (Sydney: The Federation Press, 1993) pp.232 $n.p. ISBN 1 86287 114 0.

W.D. Borrie, The European Peopling of Australasia (Canberra: Demographic Program, RSSS, Australian National University, 1994) pp.403 $24.50 ISBN 0 7315 1860 8.

Deborah Brennan, The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) pp.242 $29.95 ISBN 0 521 41792 9.

Peter Gathercole, T.H. Irving and Gregory Melleuish (eds), Childe and Australian Archaeology, Politics and Ideas (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1995) pp.241 $16.95 ISBN 0 7022 26130.

Gerard Henderson, Menzies’ Child: The Liberal Party of Australia (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994) pp.382 $29.95 ISBN 1 86373 747 2.

Dean Jaensch, Election! How and why Australia votes (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1995) pp.155 $19.95 ISBN 1 86373 761 8.

John Murphy, Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia's Vietnam War (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993) pp.335 $19.95 ISBN 1 86373 49 X.

Bron Stevens and John Wanna (eds), The Goss Government: Promise and Performance of Labor in Queensland (Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia, 1993) pp.292 $29.95 ISBN 0 7329 2622 X.

Beverley Symons (compiled with Andrew Wells and Stuart Macintyre), Communism in Australia: A Resource Bibliography (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1994) pp.281 $25.00 ISBN 0 642 10625 8.

W.A. Townsley, Tasmania: Microcosm of the Federation or Vassal State 1945–1983 (Hobart: St David's Park Publishing, 1994) pp.451 $n.p. ISBN 0 7246 2345 0.

Comparative and International Politics

David Baldwin (ed.), Neorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993) pp.377 $US56.50 ISBN 0 231 08440 4.

Leon Brittan, Europe. The Europe We Need (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994) pp.248 $35.95 ISBN 0 261 00249 4.

Desmond Dinan, Ever Closer Union? An Introduction to the European Community (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 1994) pp.532 $US19.95 ISBN 1 55587 388 X.

Francis G. Castles (ed.), Families of Nations: Patterns of Public Policy in Western Democracies (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1993) pp.353 £37.50 ISBN 1 85521 345 1.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Civil War (Granta Books: London, 1994) pp.144 $14.95 ISBN 0 14 014094 8.

Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant, Australia's Foreign Relations: in the world of the 1990s (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2nd ed., 1995) pp.417 $34.95 ISBN 0 522 84657 2.

S. Henningham and R.J. May (eds), Resources, Development and Politics in the Pacific Islands (Bathurst: Crawford House Press, 1992) pp.323 $24.95 ISBN 186333063 1.

Helen Hughes, Wolfgang Kasper and John Macleod, Australia's Asian Challenge (Sydney, The Centre for Independent Studies, CIS Policy Forums 12, 1994) pp.47 $7.95 ISBN 1 86432 000 1.

Fergal Keane, The Bondage of Fear: A Journey Through the Last White Empire (London: Viking, 1994) pp.242 £17.00 ISBN 0 670 85391 7.

Bradley S. Klein, Strategic Studies and World Order: The Global Politics of Deterrence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) pp.196 £11.95 ISBN 0 521 46644 X.

Roy Licklider (ed.), Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End (New York: New York University Press, 1993) pp.354 $US50.00 ISBN 0 8147 5070 2.

Andrew Maclntyre (ed.), Business and Government in Industrialising Asia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994) pp.312 $29.95 ISBN 186373 556 9.

Michael McKinley, The Gulf War: Critical Perspectives (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994) pp.201 $24.95 ISBN 1 86373 606 9.

Robert F. Miller (ed.), The Development of Civil Society in Communist Systems (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992) pp.197 $22.95 ISBN 1 86373 1717.

Kim Richard Nossal, Rain Dancing: Sanctions in Canadian and Australian Foreign Policy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994) pp.323. $US21.95 ISBN 0 8020 7571 1.

Barnett R. Rubin, The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995) pp.378 $US35 ISBN: 0 300 05963 9.

Dennis J.D. Sandole and Hugo van der Merwe (eds), Conflict Resolution, Theory and Practise: Integration and Application (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993) pp.298 $55.00 ISBN 0 7190 3748 4.

Jan Aart Scholte, International Relations of Social Change (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993) pp.186 $45.00 ISBN 0 335 09329 9.

Susan L. Shirk, How China Opened its Door: The Political Successes of the PRC's Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms (Washington DC: Brookings Institute, 1994) pp.120 $US28.95 ISBN 0 8157 7854 6.

Stephen John Stedman (ed.), South Africa: The Political Economy of Transition (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 1994) pp.213 $US38.00 ISBN 1 55587 421 5.

Lionel Cliffe et al, The Transition to Independence in Namibia (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 1994) pp.293 $US38.00 ISBN 1 55587 420 7.

Frederick C. Teiwes, Politics and Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950–1965. 2nd edn (Armonk and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1993) pp.594 $US27.95 ISBN 1 56324 227 3.

Luke Trainor, British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: manipulation, conflict and compromise in the late nineteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) pp.213 $29.95 ISBN 0 521 43476 9.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, The State of the World's Refugees: The Challenge of Protection (London: Penguin, 1993) pp.191 $19.95 ISBN 0 14 023487.

Joyce N. Wiley, The Islamic Movement of Iraqi Shias (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 1992) pp.193 $US30.00 ISBN 1 55587 2727.

David W. Ziegler, War, Peace and International Politics, 6th ed. (London: Harper Collins, 1993) pp.458 $n.p. ISBN 0 673 52287 3.

Political Theory and Methodology

Stephen Eric Bronner, Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994) pp.372 $45.00 ISBN 0 631 18738 3.

William James Booth, Patrick James and Hudson Meadwell (eds), Politics and Rationality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.307 $39.95 ISBN 0 521 43568 4.

Richard Sylvan and David Bennett, The Greening of Ethics: From Human Chauvinism to Deep‐Green Theory (Cambridge, UK: White Horse Press, 1994) pp.269 £11.95 ISBN 0 8165 1529 8.

Danilo Zolo, Democracy and Complexity: A Realist Approach. David McKie (trans.) (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992) pp.202 $39.95 ISBN 0 7456 0675 X.     

Book reviews

CHINA

RONALD SULESKI. Civil Government in Warlord China: tradition, Modernization and Manchuria. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 302 pp. Bibliography, index. US$66.95, hardcover.

BØRGE BAKKEN. The Exemplary Society: human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 516 pp. Notes, bibliography, glossary, index. A$300.00, hardcover.

DU SHANSHAN. "Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs”. Gender Unity and Gender Equality Among the Lahu of Southwest China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. US$60.00, hardcover; US$25.50, paper.

REBECCA E. KARL. Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. US$59.95, hardcover; US$19.95, paper.

ELIZABETH J. PERRY. Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: social Protest and State Power in China. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. US$73.95, hardcover; US$27.95, paper.

JAPAN AND KOREA

STEVE ODIN. Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 204 pp. Index. US$55.00, hardcover; US$19.95, paper.

VERA MACKIE. Feminism in Modern Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv, 293 pp. £50.00, hardcover; £18.95, paper.

KAYE BROADBENT. W omen's Employment in Japan: the Experience of Part‐time Workers. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 176 pp. US$90.00/£55.00, hardcover.

JAMES R. BRANDON and SAMUEL L. LEITER (eds). Kabuki Plays on Stage: Darkness and Desire, 1804–1864. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. xv, 397 pp. 31 colour and 14 b/w plates, glossary, selected bibliography, contributors, index, list of plays by volume, dust jacket. US$50.00, hardcover.

KONGDAN OH (ed). Korea Briefing 1997–1999: challenges and Change at the Turn of the Century. Published in cooperation with the Asia Society. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. 243 pp. Preface, map, chronology, glossary, suggestions for further reading and websites, index. US$30.95, paper.

KONGDAN OH and RALPH HASSIG (eds). Korea Briefing 2000–2001: first Steps Toward Reconciliation and Reunification. Published in cooperation with the Asia Society. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. 308 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, chronology, index. US$24.95, paper.

The Korean Peninsula: peace and Prosperity after the Pyongyang Summit (Proceedings of a Conference 6–7 October 2000). New Zealand Asia Institute: The University of Auckland, 2001. 146 pp. New Zealand domestic price $NZ20.00 or equivalent incl. postage and packing. Overseas price $NZ30.00 or equivalent incl. postage and packing.

YONGHO CH'OE, PETER H. LEE, and W.M. THEODORE DE BARY (eds). Sources of Korean Tradition, Volume 2: from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Preface, explanatory note, contributors, bibliography, index. US$54.00, hardcover; US$22.50, paper.

SEIJI M. LIPPIT. Topographies of Japanese Modernism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 301 pp. US$22.50/£16.50, paper.

SOUTH, WEST & CENTRAL ASIA

ALF HILTEBEITEL. Rethinking the Mahàbhàrata: a Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x, 365 pp. US$50.00, hardcover; US$25.00, paper.

ALI AMJAD. Labour Legislation and Trade Unions in India and Pakistan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. xix, 190 pp. £15.99, hardcover.

LIONEL CAPLAN. Children of Colonialism: Anglo‐Indians in a Postcolonial World. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001. x, 261 pp. US$75.00, hardcover; US$25.00, paper.

JACQUES POUCHEPADASS. Land, Power and Market: a Bihar District under Colonial Rule, 1860–1947. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London: Sage Publications, 2000. 574 pp. Tables, figures, maps, appendixes, abbreviations, glossary, introduction, sources and bibliography, index. Rs 695, hardcover.

SOUTHEAST ASIA

THOMAS M. McKENNA. Muslim Rulers and Rebels: everyday Politics and Armed Separatism in the Southern Philippines. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 364 pp. £37.95, hardcover; £16.95, paper.

JEROEN TOUWEN. Shipping and Trade in the Java Sea Region, 1870–1940: a Collection of Statistics on the Major Java Sea Ports. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001. xi, 172 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography.

DANIEL FITZPATRICK. Land Claims in East Timor. Canberra: Asia‐Pacific Press, 2002. x, 246 pp. A$40.00.

GEORGE McT. KAHIN. Southeast Asia: a Testament. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. xxiv, 350 pp. £75.00, hardcover; £19.99, paper.

BOB HERING. Sukarno: founding Father of Indonesia 1901–1945. Leiden: KITLV [Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde] Press, 2002. 439 pp. Euro30.00, paper.

POLINE BALA. Changing Borders and Identities in the Kelabit Highlands: anthropological Reflections on Growing Up in a Kelabit Village near the International Border Dayak Studies Contemporary Society Series, no. 1. The Institute of East Asian Studies, Sarawak Malaysia: Unit Penerbitan Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 2002. 142 pp. Bibliography, glossary, index, images. No price given, paper.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this articles: Irving M. Zeitlin : Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism from Max Weber to the Present. C. H. Berman : Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians: A Study of Forty-three Monasteries. Elisja Schulte van Kessel (ed.): Women and Men in Spiritual Culture, XIV-XVII Centuries: A Meeting of South and North. Manfred Welti : Breve Storia delta Riforma Italiana, trans, by Armido Rizzi. A. G. Dickens and John M. Tonkin with Kenneth Powell : The Reformation in Historical Thought. Cambridge, Mass. Odile Martin : La Conversion Protestante à Lyon (1659-1687). Edward Berenson : Populist Religion and Left-wing Politics in France, 1830-1852: Princeton N. Keith Clifford : The Resistance to Church Union in Canada, 1904-1939. Gilmer W. Blackburn : Education in the Third Reich: A Study of Race and History in Nazi Textbooks. Hilary Rubinstein , Chosen: The Jews in Australia.     

Book reviews

Australian Books

A. T. Yarwood: Attitudes to Non‐European Immigration (Problems in Australian History), Cassell, Melbourne, 1968, pp. 146, $2.25.

Frank Hardy: The Unlucky Australians, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1968, pp. 249 + index, $4.95 (cloth), $1.95 (paper).

Stanley Brogden: Australia's Two‐Airline Policy, Melbourne University Press, 1968, pp. 235, $5.75.

C. A. Hughes, ed.: Readings in Australian Government, University of Queensland Press, 1968, pp. 504, $6.50.

Jean Spender: Ambassador's Wife, Angus and Robertson. Sydney, 1968, pp. 207, $4.25.

Arthur Huck: The Chinese in Australia, Longmans, Melbourne, 1968, pp. 117, $4.50.

M. Revelman: Sex and Politics in Australia, Publicity Press Books, Adelaide, 1968, pp. 297, $1.35.

J. A. La Nauze, ed.: Alfred Deakin: Federated Australia: Selections from Letters to the Morning Post: 1900–1910, Melbourne University Press, 1968, pp. 314, $7.20.

Overseas Books

Frank Parkin: Middle‐Class Radicalism: The Social Bases of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Melbourne University Press, 1968, pp. 207 + vii, $4.75.

L. J. Sharpe, ed.: Voting in Cities, Macmillan, London, 1968, pp. 340, $8.80.

The Times News Team: The Black Man in Search of Power, Nelson, London, 1968, pp. 174, $4.95.

J. A. A. Stockwin: The Japanese Socialist Party and Neutralism: A Study of a Political Party and its Foreign Policy, Melbourne University Press, 1968, pp. 197 + x, $6.50.

D. A. Low, ed.: Soundings in Modern South Asian History, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968, pp. 399 + viii, $7.50.

Gwendolen M. Carter, Thomas Karis and Newell M. Stulyz: South Africa's Transkei: The Politics of Domestic Colonialism, London, Heinemann, 1967, pp. 184 + viii, $6.70.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in this Article:
J ohn S. S trong : The Legend and Cult of Upagupta: Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia .
J. A ndrew D earman : Religion and Culture in Ancient Israel .
C raig S. K eener : Paul, Women and Wives: Marriage and Women's Ministry in the Letters of Paul .
Libanius: Autobiography and Selected Letters , A. F. Norman (ed. and trans.).
The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liber Pontificalis), Raymond Davis (ed. and trans.).
V alerie I. J. F lint : The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe .
A lbert S chrauwers : Awaiting the Millennium: The Children of Peace and the Village of Hope, 1812-1889 .
R oyden K. L oewen : Family, Church and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and New Worlds, 1850-1930 .
B. C armon H ardy : Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage .
Prisoner for Polygamy: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87 , Stan Larson (ed.).
R onald L. N umbers : The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism .
N eil J. B yrne : Robert Dunne, 1830-1917: Archbishop of Brisbane .
A l G abay : The Mystic Life of Alfred Deakin .     

Book reviews

Australian books

Lionel Wigmore: Struggle for the Snowy, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1968, pp. xx + 215, $8.75.

G. Singer, Margaret Austin, Fil Schofield: On How to Keep Your Gown Clean, Basic Books, Sydney, 1968, pp. 47, 95c.

M. Kahan and D. Aitkin: Drawing a Sample of the Australian Electorate, A.N.U., Research School of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Occasional Papers no. 3, Canberra, 1968, pp. 46 + viii, n.p.

Malcolm Mackerras: The 1968 Federal Redistribution, A.N.U. Press, Canberra, 1969, pp. 125, $3.50.

Arthur Dean: A Multitude of Counsellors: A History of the Bar of Victoria, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1968, pp. 332 + xiii, $10.50.

Rupert Goodman: Secondary Education in Queensland, 1860–1960, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968, pp. 396 + xi, $10.50.

Ravinder Kumar: Western India in the Nineteenth Century: a Study in the Social History of Maharashtra, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1968, pp. 347 + xii, $6.90.

Peter Boyce: Malaysia and Singapore in International Diplomacy: Documents and Commentaries, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1968, pp. 268, $6.50.

Alastair Lamb: Asian Frontiers: Studies in a Continuing Problem, F. W. Cheshire for the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, 1968, $3.50.

J. D. B. Miller (ed.): India, Japan, Australia: Partners in Asia?, A.N.U. Press, Canberra, pp. 212, $6.50.

Non‐Australian books

Daniel Wit: Thailand: Another Vietnam?, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1968, pp. 125, $A3.70.

Radivon Richta (ed.): Civilisation at the Crossroads: Social and Human Implications of the Scientific and Technological Revolution, Australian Left Review Publications, Sydney, 1967, pp. 275, $3.00.

Ruth M. Beard: An Outline of Piaget's Developmental Psychology, Routledge & Kegan Paul Students’ Library of Education, London, 1969, pp. 128 + xvi, $1.55.

Hans G. Furth, Piaget and Knowledge: Theoretical Foundations, Prentice‐Hall, Engle‐wood Cliffs, 1969, pp. 270 + xvii, $9.30.

J. W. Davis and K. M. Dolbeare: Little Groups of Neighbours: The Selective Service System, Markham, Chicago, 1968, pp. 268, $U.S.6.50.

E. J. Feuchtwanger: Disraeli, Democracy and the Tory Party, O.U.P., Melbourne, 1968, pp. 268 + xiv, $6.30.

Arnold J. Heidenheimer and Frank C. Langdon: Business Associations and the Financing of Political Parties: A comparative study of the evolution of practices in Germany, Norway and Japan, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1968, pp. 247 + xxiii.