Reviews Australian

Francis G. Castles, The Working Class and Welfare: Reflections on the Political Development of the Welfare State in Australia and New Zealand, 1890–1980, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1985, pp.128. $11.95 (paper)

B. Costar and D. Woodward (eds), Country to National: Australian Rural Politics, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1985, pp.150. $24.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paper)

Jim Moss, Sound of Trumpets: History of the Labour Movement in South Australia, Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1985, pp.454. $20.00 (paper).

Julianne Schultz, Steel City Blues: the human cost of industrial crisis, Ringwood, Penguin, 1985, pp.282. $7.95 (paper)

Jane Ross, The Myth of the Digger, Sydney, Hale & Iremonger, 1985, pp.251. $14.95 (paper)

Pat O'Malley, Law, Capitalism and Democracy: A Sociology of the Australian Legal Order, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1983, pp.204. $12.95 (paper)

A. Patience and J. Scott (eds), Australian Federalism: Future Tense, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp.217. $14.99 (paper)

Trevor Barr, The Electronic Estate: New Communications Media in Australia, Ringwood, Penguin, 1985, pp.271. $8.95 (paper)

Michael Roe, Nine Australian Progressives: Vitalism in Bourgeois Social Thought 1890–1960, St Lucia. University of Queensland Press, 1984, pp.328. $40.00 (cloth)

Strobe Talbott, Deadly Gambits, London, Pan Books, 1985, pp.380. £3.95 (paper)

Ian Clark, Limited Nuclear War, Oxford, Martin Robertson, 1982, pp.266 £9.95 (paper)

Peter Pringle and William Arkin, SIOP: Nuclear War from the Inside, London, Sphere Books, 1983, pp.225. £2.95 (paper)

R.F. Miller and F. Feher (eds), Khruschev and the Communist World, London, Croom Helm, 1984, pp.237. $31.95 (cloth)

N. Nugent and D. Lowe, The Left in France, London, Macmillan, 1982, pp.275. $18.95 (paper)

C. O'Faircheallaigh, Mining and Development: Foreign‐financed Mines in Australia, Ireland, Papua New Guinea and Zambia, Sydney and London, Croom Helm, 1984, pp.302. $33.95 (cloth)

D. C. Pitt and B. C. Smith (eds), The Computer Revolution in Public Administration, Brighton, Wheatsheaf Books, 1984, pp.214. £6.95 (paper)

R. L. Wettenhall, Architects of Departmental Systems: Five Profiles, Canberra, CCAE, Canberra Series in Administrative Studies, Occasional Paper 3, 1984, pp.60 (no price given).

Ian McAllister & Richard Rose, The Nationwide Competition for Votes: The 1983 British Election, London and Dover, Francis Pinter, 1984, pp.257. £12.00 (cloth)

F. Feher, A. Heller, G. Markus, Dictatorship Over Needs: An Analysis of Soviet Societies, Oxford, Blackwell, 1984, pp.299. $14.95 (paper)

Lea Campos Boralevi, Bentham and the Oppressed, European University Institute — Series C:I, Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1984, pp.xii + 248. DM88.00 (cloth)

Conal Condren, The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts: An Essay on Political Theory, Its Inheritance, and the History of Ideas, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1985, pp.xiii + 303. US$36.00 (cloth)

J. M. Barbalet, Marx's Construction of Social Theory, London, Routledge & Regan Paul, 1983, pp. 228. $25.95 (cloth)

Dag Anckar and Erkki Berndtson (eds), Essays on Democratic Theory, Helsinki, Finnish Political Science Association, 1984, pp.166, US$10 (paper); and Ilkka Heiskanen and Sakari Hanninen (eds), Exploring the Basis of Politics, Helsinki, Finnish Political Science Association, 1983, pp.132, US$10 (paper).

Brian W. Head, Ideology and Social Science: Destutt de Tracy and French Liberalism (International Archives of the History of Ideas: 112), Boston & Dordrecht, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1985, pp.229. US$45.00 (cloth)

Z.A. Pelczynski (ed.), The State and Civil Society: Studies in Hegel's Political Philosophy, London, Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 300. £8.95 (paper)

Michael J. Shapiro (ed.), Language and Politics, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1984, pp.261. $17.95 (paper)

James M. Enelow & Melvin J. Hinich, The Spatial Theory of Voting : An Introduction, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 238. $59.50 (cloth), $21.00 (paper)

Jocelyn Clarke and Kate White, Women in Australian Politics, Sydney, Fontana Books, 1983, pp.216. $8.95 (paper)

Marian Sawer and Marian Simms, A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.235. $11.95 (paper)

Marian Simms (ed.), Australian Women and the Political System, Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1984, pp.222. $11.95 (paper)

Race Mathews, David Bennett — a Memoir, Melbourne, Australian Fabian Society (Pamphlet 44), 1985, pp. v + 59. $3.00 (paper)     

Short notices

AGERON, C.‐R. and MICHEL, M. (eds), L'Ere des décolonisations, Karthala, 1996, 516 pp., 170F., ISBN 2 86537 579 X

BRIAN, E. and DEMEULENAERE‐DOUYERE, C. (eds), Histoire et mémoire de l'Académie des sciences. Guide de Recherches, TEC & DOC Lavoisier, 1996, 449 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 7430 0148

CORRÉARD, M.‐H. (ed.), The Pocket Oxford‐Hachette French Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1996, 784 pp., £7.99, ISBN 0 19 864534 1

CORRÉARD, M.‐H. and O'NEILL, M. (eds), Oxford Starter Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1997, 400 pp., £6.99, ISBN 0 19 864527 9

DURAND, P., Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé, Gallimard, 1998, 252 pp., 54F., ISBN 2 07 038939 1 (collection ‘Folio')

HAFEN, L. (ed.), French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West, (Selected with an Introduction by Janet Lecompte) University of Nebraska Press, 1997, 333 pp., £13.95, ISBN 0 8032 7302 9

SOULEZ‐LARIVIÈRE,, D. Grand Soir pour la justice, Seuil, 1997, 175 pp., 110F., ISBN 2 02 032215 3

STEINBERG, P., Chroniques d'ailleurs, Ramsay, 1996, 190 pp., 92F., ISBN 2 84114 133 0     

Local area farming Plans — a common reality for farmers and conservationists in the Scottish Highlands?

This paper supports the need for new policy developments to produce farm conservation plans specific to local areas. It explores attitudes to land management for conservation and economic goals, and presents views of fanners and local conservationists, who are directly involved in agri‐environmental and farm woodland schemes, in three regions of the Highlands of Scotland. It reviews the current state of Scottish agri‐environmental schemes, and presents results of on‐farm workshops conducted with farmers and conservationists and discusses common management plan approaches for environmental action. It concludes that farmers and conservationists are already considering the advantages of local area planning at a local area level and agree that there should be focus on addressing local site specific issues which take into account both the whole farm and its wider environment.     

Voter migration as a source of electoral change in the Rocky Mountain West

Examining county-level voting patterns since 1992, this paper describes the rising strength of the Democratic Party in the Rocky Mountain West and explores domestic migration (voter mobility) as a cause of the electoral change. Other theories of electoral change (voter conversion, voter mobilization and generational replacement) are analyzed and found less significant than a voter migration theory. A spatial autoregressive model also presents evidence of significant contextual “neighborhood effects” contributing to electoral change in the region. Relying on IRS tax-filer migration data, Census data and voting results for all Western counties since 1992, this work finds a significant correlation between growing Democratic strength and in-migration of new voters who generally hail from more Democratic environments than the Western counties into which they are emigrating. The strongest correlations emerge in counties where the share of creative class occupations is also growing quickly. Migrating voters are building a new Western community – a community of creative classes, childless households and urban professionals who are more likely to vote Democrat than the rural conservatives they are increasingly outnumbering.     

Taking the Hill: Archaeological Survey and Excavation of German Communication Trenches on the Summit of Mont St Quentin

The following presents the results of a limited programme of field investigation carried out on the site of German communication trenches running through woodland on the summit of Mont St Quentin, just outside the town of Péronne, in the Somme region of Picardy. The aim of the project was to assess the archaeological potential of features related to the Battle of Mont St Quentin, which took place in August/September 1918 and was co-directed by Tony Pollard and Iain Banks. The fieldwork, which consisted of topographic survey, metal detector survey and limited excavation, was carried out over ten days, between 29 August and 9 September 2011. The action, by men of the Australian Second Division, saw the Germans pushed off their strong position on the hill, and thereafter the recapture of Péronne. As a result, three Victoria Crosses were awarded, and General Rawlinson described the battle as the finest achievement of the war. Given its place in the history of Australian military endeavour on the Western Front, the Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne has taken out a fifty-year lease on an area of land within Mont St Quentin Wood, which is an initiative supported by the Australian government via the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. This ground includes a number of German communication trenches, along with other features such as shell holes. The intention is to include this area in a heritage trail (Australian Remembrance Trail), which will incorporate other sites of Australian activity, including Fromelles, Villers-Bretonneux and Hamel. In order to maximise the impact and educational value of the site it has been subject to archaeological investigation, an exercise that will add to our understanding of events there, and also provide information and material for a proposed interpretation centre.     

A Thorn in the Side: Ian Hunter,Cultural Studies,and the Humanities

Summary

What are the connections between Ian Hunter's specific criticisms of cultural studies and his more general criticisms of those strands of the humanities that take issue with instrumental reasoning? How are these connections informed by his assessments of the limitations, and the consequences, of the ‘moment of theory’? What are the implications of his critique of anti-instrumental defences of the humanities for contemporary debates concerning the future trajectories of cultural studies? In exploring these questions I consider the continuities between Hunter's initial criticisms of cultural studies and the broader contours of his subsequent engagements with contemporary diagnoses of the fading critical vocation of the humanities. While endorsing the general tenor of Hunter's remarks on these questions, I conclude by arguing the need for genealogies of cultural studies and of the humanities that cast their nets more widely than Hunter's primary focus on textual disciplines.     

Chronicle for 1993

Abstract

Theory is not a goal in itself but a means of enriching the history of cartography by stimulating new research questions and objectives. In this paper the concept of ‘transparent maps’ (carriers of an image of the external reality of the world) and ‘opaque maps’ is introduced. The notion is approached structurally (standards of graphical representation, drawing, geometry, text); through the sociology of the map (map makers, institutions, the public); and through seeing maps in their cultural and historical context (an approach which raises issues of the definitional boundaries of the history of cartography and which is arguably one of the most stimulating perspectives today as fostered by, in particular, contributors to the History of Cartography). Finally, attention is drawn to three important topics for the research agenda: the links between maps and culture; maps as a language of communication and as instruments of power; and the links between perception, logic and mnemonics.