Book reviews

Australian Politics. Sharon Beder, The Nature of Sustainable Development (Newham, Vic: Scribe Publications, 1993) pp.304 $32.95 ISBN 0 908011 24 5.

Stephen Bell, Australian Manufacturing and the State: The polities of industry policy in the post‐war era (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.276 $29.95 ISBN 0521 44800 X.

Ann Capling and Brian Galligan, Beyond the Protective State: The political economy of Australia's manufacturing industry policy (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1992) pp.272 $29.95 ISBN 0 521 42629 4.

Hugh V. Emy, Remaking Australia: The State, the Market, and Australia's Future (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993) pp.257 $19.95 ISBN 1 86373 450 3.

Murray Goot and Rodney Tiffen (eds), Australia's Gulf War (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992) pp.304 $24.95 ISBN 0 522 84463 4.

John Halligan and John Power, Political Management in the 1990s (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992) pp.310 $27.95 ISBN 0 19 553428 X.

Race Mathews, Australia's First Fabians: Middle‐class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.284 $29.95 ISBN 0 521 44678 3.

Uldis Ozolins, The Polities of Language in Australia (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.287 $35.00 ISBN 0 521 44786 0.

Malcolm Saunders, Quiet Dissenter: The life and thought of an Australian pacifist Eleanor May Moore, 1875–1949, Monograph no. 12 (Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 1993), pp.398 $n.p. ISBN 0 7315 1321 5.

R.B. Scotton and C.R. Macdonald, The Making of Medibank (Sydney: School of Health Services Management, University of New South Wales, 1993) pp.320 $35.00 ISBN 0 85832 081 9.

Rodney Smith (ed.), Politics in Australia, 2nd ed. (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1993) pp.341 $24.95 ISBN 1 86373 341 8.

Patrick Weller, John Forster and Glyn Davis (eds.), Reforming the Public Service: Lessons from Recent Experience (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1993) pp.258 $29.95 ISBN 0 7329 2390 5.

Comparative and International Politics. Ian Ayres and John Braithwaite, Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate. Oxford Socio‐Legal Studies, general editors Donald R. Harris et al (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) pp.205 $55.00 ISBN 0 19 507070 4.

Robert H. Bates and Anne O. Krueger (eds), Political and Economic Interactions in Economic Policy Reform (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993) pp.481 £55.00 ISBN 1 55786 340 7.

John Baylis and N.J. Rengger (eds), Dilemmas of World Politics. International Issues in a Changing World (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992) pp.438 $37.50. ISBN 0 19 827350 9.

Coral Bell, Dependent Ally: A Study In Australian Foreign Policy (Canberra: Allen & Unwin in association with Department of International Relations, RSPacS, ANU) pp.205 $24.95 ISBN 1 86373 400 7.

Frank Castles (ed.), The Comparative History of Public Policy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989) pp.340 $39.95 ISBN 0 7456 1069 2.

J. Patrick Dobel, Compromise and Political Action: Political Morality in Liberal and Democratic Life (Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990) pp.215 $n.p. ISBN 0 84767604 8.

Michael Gleeson, Toni Allan, Michael Wilkins, An Act of Corruption: Nick Greiner's years in Power and His Unorthodox Demise (Sydney: ABC, 1992) pp.234 $n.p. ISBN 07333 02637 7.

Peter de Leon, Thinking About Political Corruption (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993) pp.241 $US16.50 ISBN 0 87332 839 6.

Michael Button, Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to ‘the People’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) pp.354 $75.00 ISBN 0 521 40097 X.

David J. Elkins, Manipulation and Consent: How Voters and Leaders Manage Complexity (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1993) pp.248 $Can65.00 ISBN 0 7748 0424 6.

Kofi Buenor Hadjor, The Penguin Dictionary of Third World Terms (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992) pp. 305 $16.95 ISBN 0 14 051293 4.

Richard Heffernan and Mike Marqusee, Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock's Labour Party (London and New York: Verso, 1992) pp.344 $37.95 ISBN 0 86091 561 1.

James C. Hslung (ed.), Asia Pacific in the New World Politics (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 1993) pp.265 $US18.95 ISBN 1 55587 355 3.

George F. Kennan, The Other Balkan Wars: A 1913 Carnegie Endowment Inquiry in Retrospect with a New Introduction and Reflections on the Present (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1993) pp.418 $US15.95 ISBN 0 87078 032 9.

Walter Laqueur, Europe in Our Time: History 1945–92 (London: Penguin, 1993) pp.617 $19.95 ISBN 0 14 013969 9.

Andrew MacIntyre and Kanishka Jayasuriya (eds), The Dynamics of Economic Policy Reform in South‐East Asia and the South‐West Pacific (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1992) pp.256 $55.95 ISBN 0 19 588584 8.

Stephen McBride, Not Working: State. Unemployment, and Neo‐Conservatism in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992) pp.259 $Can19.95 ISBN 0 8020 5998 8.

Barrett L. McCormick, Political Reform in Post‐Mao China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) pp.222 $n.p ISBN 0 520 06765 7.

T.B. Millar and James Walter (eds), Asian‐Pacific Security After the Cold War, 2nd ed., (Canberra: Allen & Unwin/Department of International Relations, Australian National University, 1993) pp.142 $n.p. ISBN 1 86373 398 1.

James W. Morley (ed.) Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia‐Pacific Region (Armonk N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993) pp.346 $US55.00 ISBN 1 56324 013 0.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) pp.221 $54.95 ISBN 0 19 827787 3.

B. Guy Peters and Anthony Barker (eds), Advising West European Governments (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1993) pp.228 $£30.00 ISBN 0 7486 0357 3.

Anthony Barker and B. Guy. Peters (eds), The Politics of Expert Advice (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1993) pp.129 $£25.00 ISBN 0 7486 0349 2.

Jonas Pontusson, The Limits of Social Democracy: Investment Politics in Sweden (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992) pp.261 $US31.35 ISBN 0 8014 2652 9.

Joseph Rothschild, Return to Diversity. A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) pp.299 $28.95 ISBN 0 19 507382 7.

Michael Waller, The End of the Communist Power Monopoly (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993) pp.287 $35.00 ISBN 0 7190 3820 0.

Steven A. Shull, A Kinder, Gentler Racism? The Reagan‐Bush Civil Rights Legacy (Armonk: New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993) pp.256 $US20.00 ISBN 156324 240 0.

Mark Sproule‐Jones, Governments at Work: Canadian Parliamentary Federalism and Its Public Policy Effects (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993) pp.291 $n.p. ISBN 0 8020 7355 7.

C. Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990–1992 (Cambridge M.A. and Oxford: Blackwell, 1993) pp.271 $39.95 ISBN 1 55786 368 7.

Chris Ward, Stalin's Russia (London: Edward Arnold, 1993) pp.241 $32.95 ISBN 07131 6530 8.

Christopher Weeramantry, Nauru: Environmental Damage Under International Trusteeship (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992) pp.448 $65.00 ISBN 0 19 553289 9.

Stephen White, Alex Pravda, Zvi Gitelman (eds), Developments in Soviet and Post‐Soviet Politics, 2nd ed. (Durham NC: Duke University Press and Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992) pp.347 $US19.95 ISBN 0 8223 12670.

Avner Yaniv (ed.), National Security and Democracy in Israel (An Israel Democracy Institute Policy Study) (London: Lynne Rienner, 1993) pp.257 $n.p. ISBN 1 5587 394 4.

Political Theory and Methodology. Ian Adams, Political Ideology Today (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993) pp.369 $27.50 ISBN 0 7190 3347 0.

W.J. Stankiewicz, In Search of a Political Philosophy: Ideologies at the Close of the Twentieth Century (London and New York: Routledge, 1993) pp.460 $130.00 ISBN 0 415 08874 7.

Frederick Beiser (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Hegel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) pp.518 $35.00 ISBN 0 521 38711 6.

Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner (eds), The Global Resurgence of Democracy (Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 1993) pp.336 $US29.95 ISBN 0 8018 4564 3.

Robyn Eckersley, Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric Approach (London: UCL Press, 1992) pp.274 $29.95 ISBN 1 85728 020 2.

Robert Goodin, Green Political Theory (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992) pp.240 $39.95 ISBN 0 7456 1027 7.

Murray Forsyth, Maurice Keens‐Soper and John Hoffman (eds), The Political Classics: Hamilton to Mill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993) pp.250 $28.95 ISBN 0 19 878026 5.

Donald F. Miller, The Reason of Metaphor. A Study in Politics (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992) pp.268 $n.p. ISBN 0 8039 9410 9.

Chantal Mouffe, The Return of the Political (London: Verso, 1993) pp.156 $37.95 ISBN 0 86091 660 X.

Philip Pettit, The Common Mind (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1993) pp.365 $59.95 ISBN 0 19 507818 7.

Maurice Roche, Rethinking Citizenship: Welfare, Ideology and Change in Modern Society (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992) pp.280 $39.95 ISBN 0 7456 0307 6.     

Unsafe drinking water quality in remote Western Australian Aboriginal communities

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is important in the fields of public health and health geography because of its heavy burden on the health system and high cost of treatment in its advanced stages. The causes of CKD are associated with diabetes and hypertension, but in some parts of the world, the disease occurs in the absence of these factors. Researchers identify this condition as CKD of “unknown” causes (CKDu). CKDu is a multi‐factored health problem and one suspected causal factor is contaminated drinking water. The disease occurs globally but is found in particularly high concentrations among people of certain ethnic and disadvantaged social groups living in very different locations around the world. CKD has become endemic in Western Australia where hospital admissions for Aboriginal people requiring renal dialysis or treatment for diabetes are much higher than for the general population. The possible proportions of CKDu cases among the CKD patients are unknown. This study examines the drinking water quality among communities such as these. Water chemistry analysis in these areas indicates that the nitrate and uranium content greatly exceed officially recommended levels. Most of these communities rely on raw groundwater to supply their domestic needs, and it is very likely that the people are unwittingly ingesting high levels of nitrates and uranium, probably including uranyl nitrates. Very few such remote communities have access to treated drinking water, and cost‐effective water treatment systems are required to provide potable water at the local scale.     

Foraging–Farming Transitions in Island Southeast Asia

The origins of agriculture have been debated by archaeologists for most of the discipline’s history, no more so than in Island Southeast Asia. The orthodox view is that Neolithic farmers spread south by sea from mainland China to Taiwan and thence to Island Southeast Asia, taking with them a new material culture and domestic rice and pigs and speaking the precursor of the Austronesian languages that are spoken in the region today. Opponents of this ‘farming/language dispersal’ theory have proposed models of acculturation, in which foragers acquired new material culture and food resources by trading with farmers. However, new work in archaeology, palaeoecology, palynology and anthropology, especially in Borneo, and in genetics and linguistics for the region as a whole, is suggesting that foraging/farming transitions in Southeast Asia were far more complex than either of these opposing ‘grand narratives’ of discontinuity (population colonisation) or continuity (acculturation) allows. Through the course of the Early/Mid-Holocene new material culture, technologies and foods were variously taken up, promoted or resisted in order to provision changes in the social and ideological constitution of societies. Whilst new readings of the data for foraging–farming transitions in the region vary, a consensus is emerging that it is more useful to focus on how materials and modes of life were used to underwrite changes in social networks than to seek to explain the archaeological record in terms of migrating farmers or acculturating foragers.