Review articles

Maxence, J.‐L., Les Écrivains sacrifiés des années sida (Bayard, 1997), 139 pp., 100F, ISBN 2 227 304 02 2

Thomé‐Renault, A., Le Traumatisme de la mort annoncée. Psychosomatique et sida (Dunod, 1996), 196 pp., 158F, ISBN 2 10 002488 4     

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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.     

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P. Loveday and A. W. Martin: Parliament Factions and Parties—The First Thirty Years of Responsible Government in New South Wales 1856–1889, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp. 230 + xiii, 4 tables, $5.50.     

Review articles

Decline of the British model

Philip Norton, The British Polity. New York and London, Longman, 1984, pp. 386. $23.95 (paper).

David Childs, Britain since 1945, London, Methuen, 1984, pp. 308. $17.95 (paper).

F.E.C. Gregory, Dilemmas of Government: Britain and the European Community, Oxford, Martin Robertson, 1983, pp. 265. $17.95 (paper).

Zig Layton‐Henry, The Politics ‐of Race in Britain, London, Allen and Unwin, 1984, pp. 191. $17.95 (paper).

Alan Doig, Corruption and Misconduct in Contemporary British Politics, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1984, pp. 437. $12.95 (paper).     

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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.     

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Colette is not generally included in recent narratives of twentieth-century French neoclassicism. However, her contemporaries of various political and aesthetic persuasions considered Colette to be a classique of the first order. This article explores classification as classique by critics sympathetic to Charles Maurras and the aesthetics of the Action française as well as left-leaning critics associated with André Gide and the group surrounding the Nouvelle Revue française. The article shows that it is Colette's strong association with a particular type of femininity that allows her to be thought of as classique by critics of such different political and aesthetic commitments. The article also examines examples of resistance to Colette's categorisation as classique, and attempts to assert the modernity of her work, coining the term classique moderne as a way of bringing together diverse attempts to explain the harmony between classicism and modernity in Colette's work. The article suggests that Colette's incorporation in the canon of the classique is part of a larger solidifying of the role of femininity in French identity at that moment.     

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Raymond Plant, Hegel, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1973, $11.30, $6.15 paper.     

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Hugh Stretton: The Political Sciences, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1969, pp. xii + 453, $8.15.     

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Jonathan Frankel, Prophecy and Politics. Socialism, Nationalism and the Russian Jews, 1862–1917, Cambridge University Press, 1981

Michael M. Laskier, The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Morocco, 1862–1962, State University of New York Press, Albany, 1983, xv+372 pp.

Yehoshua Freundlich, ed., Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel, vol. 3, Israel State Archives, Jerusalem, 1983 LIV+758 pp. and Companion Volume, LXXV+229 pp.     

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Jeff Halper, Between Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv of Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century, Boulder, Westview Press, 1991, xii+290 pp.

Svante Lundgren, Moses Hess on Religion, Judaism and the Bible, n.p., Åbo Academy Press, Åbo, 1992, x+206 pp.

Derek J. Penslar, Zionism and Technocracy: The Engineering of the Jewish Settlement in Palestine, 1870–1918, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1991, xiii+210 pp.

Yaakov Ariel, On Behalf of Israel: Fundamentalist Attitudes toward Jews, Judaism, and Zionism, 1865–1945, Brooklyn, New York, Carlson, 1991, xv+172 pp.

Sharman Kadish, Bolsheviks and British Jews: The Angb‐Jewish Community, Britain, and the Russian Revolution, Frank Cass, London, 1992, 312 pp.

Bernard Wasserstein, Herbert Samuel: A Political Life, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1992, xv+427 pp.

Menahem Kaufman, An Ambiguous Partnership: Non‐Zionists and Zionists in America, 1939–1948, Jerusalem, Magnes University Press, 1991, 418 pp.

Bruce J. Evensen, Truman, Palestine, and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1992, 243 pp.

Selwyn Ilan Troen and Moshe Shemesh, eds., Suez‐Sinai Crisis 1956: Retrospective and Reappraisal, New York, Columbia University Press, 1990, xiv+395 pp.

Arthur Hertzberg, Jewish Polemics, New York, Columbia University Press, 1992, xiv+259 pp.

Robert S. Wistrich, Between Redemption and Perdition: Modern antisemitism and Jewish identity, London and New York, Routledge, 1990, vi+283 pp.     

Review articles/Besprekingsartikels

Abstract

Swiss missionary Henri Alexandre Junod has been widely recognised for his extensive entomological, botanical, linguistic and anthropological contributions regarding southern Africa. However, shortly after publishing his most acclaimed work, The Life of a South African Tribe, Junod wrote a little-studied novel, Zidji: étude de m?urs sud-africaines, in which he endeavoured to give a detailed portrayal of South African Society. Interestingly, he chose fiction as the best vehicle for conveying what he saw as the 'truth' of the situation. As the only novel written by Junod this is a unique piece of writing in relation to his other work and its study shows that it is essential to an understanding of Junod. In Zidji he attempts to give a complete picture of South African society at the beginning of the twentieth century by recounting a black convert's experiences of what Junod considered to be the three main influences acting upon black society of the time, that is, tribal life (paganism), the mission station (Christianity) and white society (civilisation). By considering his depiction of South Africa, in particular his presentation of 'civilisation', further light is shed on his sentiments and perspective of the missionary encounter, social change and race relations in South Africa.     

Reviews articles

G.R. Curnow and R.L. Wettenhall (eds), Understanding Public Administration, Sydney, George Allen and Unwin, 1981, pp. 293. $19.95 (paper).