Interview with Gilbert C. Fite

Born in 1918, reared and educated in South Dakota, Gilbert C. Fite took his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri. He is a historian of U.S. agriculture, particularly the impact of technology, economics, and politics on midwestern and southern farming since the late nineteenth century. He has written nine books, co-authored seven more, edited three volumes, and published over sixty articles. Former president of Eastern Illinois University, the Agricultural History Society and the Southern and Western Historical Associations, Fite has long been very active in Phi Alpha Theta and served as its president from 1981–1983. He taught at the University of Oklahoma for twenty-six years and held the Richard B. Russell Professorship of American History at the University of Georgia for a decade. He and his wife, June, were married in 1941, have two sons, and live in Bella Vista, Arkansas, where this interview was conducted by Roger Adelson in August 1993.     

Interview with Mary Beth Norton

Born in Michigan in 1943, reared and educated in Indiana, Norton earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. She has written and edited many works that deal mainly with women and gender in the intellectual, political, and social life of North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Besides being the editor of the massive new American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature and a co-author of the best-selling U.S. history text, A People & a Nation, Norton has held leading positions in the American Historical Association, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, International Federation for Research in Women's History, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She taught for two years at the University of Connecticut before she joined the faculty at Cornell University in 1971. The recipient of many fellowships, honorary degrees, and prizes, she has been Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History since 1987. This interview was conducted in Norton's office on the Ithaca, New York campus in April 1997 by Roger Adelson.     

Reviews and book notes

Penelope Hetherington, British Paternalism and Africa 1920–1940. Frank Cass, London, 1978, pp. xvi + 196. Price not stated on review copy.

Agnes Heller, The Theory of Need in Marx, London, Allison and Busby in association with Spokesman Books, August, 1976, pp. 135. Cloth and paper, price as yet unavailable.

P. Loveday, A. W. Martin and R. S. Parker (eds.), The Emergence of the Australian Party System, Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1977, pp. xviii + 538. $9.95 paper.

Robin Evelegh, PEACE‐KEEPING IN ADEMOCRATIC SOCIETY; The Lessons of Northern Ireland. 1978, pp. 240, $7.50.

Tony Bunyan, The History and Practice of the Political Police in Britain, J. Friedmann, 1976.

Abraham Ashkenasi, Modern German Nationalism. Schenkman, 1976. $20.00.

Northern Ireland 1968–74 A Chronology of Events. (Blackstaff Press, Belfast). Volume 1 1968–71, (£3.95); Volume 2 1972–73. (£6.50); Volume 3 1974, (£7.50). All three volumes compiled by Richard Deutsch and Vivien Magowan.

Peter Gibbon, The Origins of Ulster Unionism, Manchester U.P., 1975, pp. 163. £6.00.

Nancy Kinghan, United We Stood, Appletree Press, Belfast, 1975, pp. 95. £1.90.

Halliday, R. J., John Stuart Mill, George Allen and Unwin, London 1976, pp. 151. $9.70 paper, $19.50 cloth.

Anthony Carew, Democracy and Government in European Trade Unions, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London, 1976, pp. 207 + appendices. $24.80.

Charles McCarthy, Trade Unions in Ireland. 1894–1960, Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, 1977, pp. 587 + appendices. £15.00.     

Book reviews

Karl Kaiser, Winston Lord, Thierry de Montbrial, David Watt, Western Security: What Has Changed? What Should be Done? Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. (New York) and Royal Institute of International Affairs (London), 1981, pp. 48. No price given.

Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, The Political Economy of Human Rights. Two volumes, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1979. Volume I, The Washington Connection and Third World Facism, pp. xvii + 441; Volume II, After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Hegemony, pp. xx + 392.

Vanuatu. Institute of Pacific Studies, The University of the South Pacific and The South Pacific Social Sciences Association, 1980, pp. 291. $Fiji4.50

Walter Lini, Beyond Pandemonium. From the New Hebrides to Vanuatu. Asia Pacific Books, Wellington in association with the Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific, 1980, pp. 64. $NZ6.95 (cloth), $NZ4.50 (paper).

Jeremy MacClancy, To Kill a Bird with Two Stones. A Short History of Vanuatu. Vanuatu Cultural Centre Publications No. 1, 1980, pp. 158. 300 Vatu (plus postage).

Richard Shears, The Coconut War. The Crisis on Espiritu Santo. Cassell Australia, North Ryde, pp. 210. $6.95.

G. J. Crough, Foreign Investment and Transnational Corporations in Australia: An Annotated Bibliography. Alternative Publishing Co‐operative, Sydney, 1977, pp. xiii + 200. $14.95.

Michael T. Skully (ed.), A Multinational Look at the Transnational Corporation: An International Collection of Academic and Corporate Views on the Future of Transnational Enterprise. Dryden Press Australia, Sydney, 1978, pp. iv + 278. $24.95.

Francien van Anrooij et al., Between People and Statistics: Essays on Modern Indonesian History. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1979, pp. 315. D.fl.39.50

Michael Brecher, with Benjamin Geist, Decisions in Crisis. Israel. 1967 and 1973. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1980, pp. xvii + 479. $34.95.

Desmond Ball, A Suitable Piece of Real Estate: American Installations in Australia. Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1980, pp. 180. $19.95 (cloth), $10.95 (paper).

W. J. Hudson, Billy Hughes in Paris. The Birth of Australian Diplomacy. Nelson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne, 1978, pp. 147. $8.95.

Charles R. Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations. Princeton University Press, 1979, pp. 199. $US21.00 (cloth), $US5.00 (paper).

J. H. Leurdijk (ed.), The Foreign Policy of the Netherlands, Sijthoff and Noordhoff, Alphen aan den Rijn, 1978, pp. ix + 356. D.Fl.85.00.

Shashikant Nair, Rural‐born Fijians and Indo‐Fijians in Suva: A Study of Movements and Linkages. Development Studies Centre, Monograph No. 24, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1980, pp. 97. $8.00.

Goran Hyden. Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry Heineman Education Books, London, 1980, pp. 270. £3.50.

Elizabeth Vallance, Women in the House: A Study of Women Members of Parliament, Athlone Press, London, 1979, pp. 212. $9.70.

G. H. Jansen, Militant Islam, Pan Books Ltd, 1979, pp. 224. $4.25.

David Elliott, Thailand: Origins of Military Rule, Zed Press, London, 1978, pp. 190 £5.95 (cloth), £2.95 (paper).

Joseph A. Camilleri, Australian‐American Relations: The Web of Dependence, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1980, pp. 167, $29.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper).

Ross Terrill, Mao: A Biography. Harper and Row, New York, 1980, pp. 481. $19.95