Book reviews

Geoffrey Sherington. Australia's Immigrants 1788–1988. Second edition. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1990. x + 199 pp. $17.95 (paper).

Colin Golvan. The Distant Exodus. Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1990. 115 pp. $19.95 (paper).

R.A. Herr, H.R. Hall and M.G. Haward (eds.). Antarctica's Future: Continuity or Change? Canberra: Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1990. 338 pp. $29.95.

Klaus J. Pertz (ed.). Policies for Rational Use of Energy. Singapore, McGraw‐Hill/GTZ, 1989. xi + 189 pp. $US19.95.

James E. Dooley. Risk Analysis for Health and Environmental Management. Halifax and Jakarta: Environmental Management Development in Indonesia, 1990. xix + 188 pp. $Can15.00.

Paul A. Smith Jr. On Political War. Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 1989. xix + 279 pp. No price given.

Boris Kagarlitsky (translated by Rick Simon). The Dialectic of Change. London and New York: Verso, 1990. xi + 393 pp. $29.95 (paper).

R.J. May and William J. O'Malley (eds.). Observing Change in Asia. Bathurst: Crawford House Press, 1989. x + 265 pp. $24.95.

Kevin Hewison. Bankers and Bureaucrats: Capital and the Role of the State in Thailand. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series 34, 1989. 320 pp. $US30.00 (cloth), $US17.00 (paper).

Robert C. Rice (ed.). Indonesian Economic Development: Approaches, Technology, Small‐Scale Textiles, Urban Infrastructure and NGOs. Clayton: Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1990. iv + 106 pp. $12.00.

Paul Monk. Truth and Power: Robert S. Hardie and the Land Reform Debates in the Philippines 1950–1987. Clayton: Monash University, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1990. 168 + 41pp. $16.00.

Gregg R. Jones. Red Revolution: Inside the Philippine Guerrilla Movement. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1989. xxii + 360 pp. $US26.95 (cloth).

Jose Maria Sison. The Philippine Revolution. The Leader's View. New York: Crane Russak, 1989. xxix + 241 pp.

Tan Liok Ee. The Rlietoric of Bangsa and Minzu: Community and Nation in Tension, the Malay Peninsula, 1900–1955. Clayton: Monash University, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1988.

Peter Rimmer and Lisa Allen (eds.). The Underside of Malaysian History. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1990. xiv + 259 pp. $S38.00.

Jane Drakard. A Malay Frontier: Unity and Duality in Sumatran Kingdom. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University; Studies on Southeast Asia no.7, 1990. 205 pp. $US15.00.

Reading Southeast Asia — Translation Series Vol.1. Translation of Contemporary Japanese Scholarship on Southeast Asia. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1990. 188 pp. $US12.00.

Kennedy Graham. National Security Concepts of States: New Zealand. New York: Taylor and Francis/United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, 1989. xvii + 180 pp. No price given.

Helen Fraser. Your Flag's Blocking Our Sun. Sydney: ABC Books, 1990. 215 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

William Cobbelt and Robin Cohen (ed.). Popular Struggles in South Africa. Tenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1988. xiv + 234 pp. 25.00 (cloth), 5.95 (paper).

Frances Meli. South Africa Belongs to Us. Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House, 1988. xxi + 258 pp. 19.95 (cloth), 5.95 (paper).

Peter Katjavivi. A History of Resistance in Namibia. London: James Currey/Paris: Unesco Press, 1988. 152 pp. 4.95 (paper).

Georges Fauriol (ed.). Security in the Americas. Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 1989. xv + 369 pp. No price given.     

Police power and fettered freedom: regulating coastal freedom camping in New Zealand

Freedom camping is a form of tourism entailing overnight stays in public open spaces, rather than formal campgrounds. It presents varied challenges for local governments charged with maintaining safe and orderly public spaces. This article provides empirical and conceptual insights into the regulation of coastal freedom camping in New Zealand, drawing on the notion of police power. This form of law is centrally concerned with preventing disruption and disorder in public space, and seeks to advance collective welfare rather than individual rights. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, we consider why and how local governments in New Zealand regulate coastal freedom camping, focusing on a case study of the Coromandel district. Second, we consider how freedom campers understand and experience the regulation of their activities, drawing on a survey of 61 campers in three North Island coastal areas. We find that the policing of freedom camping proceeds through regulation of space, objects and behaviours. Underpinning this approach is an understanding of the activity as inherently problematic. Freedom campers themselves were generally aware of local regulations, but had little experience of enforcement. Most sought to perform camping responsibly, whilst noting that some others required policing.     

Charlemagne's involvement in central and southern Italy: power and the limits of authority

This article is an overview of political developments in southern Italy during Charlemagne's reign. Traditionally the historiography has approached this topic from a Carolingian or papal perspective. Without denying the reality of both papal and Carolingian influence, the article argues that neither of these institutions exercised predominant influence in southern Italy in this period, much as they may have wished to. Rather the pattern of political (and to an extent ideological) development in the area was determined by a series of compromises dictated by self-interest and the limits of power. This article therefore deals in turn with the evidence concerning the main protagonists in the south: the abbey of Farfa, the dukes of Spoleto, the monasteries of Monte Cassino and San Vincenzo al Volturno and the princes of Benevento. The article goes on to argue that the activities of these institutions are driven by self-interest. Finally the paper concludes that in the 790s there is a change in the way Carolingian government worked, at least in Spoleto.