In search of Egypt

R. Hrair Dekmejian, Egypt under Nasir: A Study in Political Dynamics, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1971, 368 pp.. $10.00.

Iliya F. Harik, The Political Mobilization of Peasants: A Study of an Egyptian Community, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1974, 309 pp., $12.50.

James B. Mayfield, Rural Politics in Nasser's Egypt: A Quest for Legitimacy, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1971, 288 pp., $10.00.

Amos Perlmutter, Egypt: The Preatorian State, New Brunswick, Transaction Books, 1974, 234 pp., $9.95.     

Early history of the state — West and east

Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, vol. 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to A.D. 1760, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp.549. UK £12.95 (paper).

John A. Hall, Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West, London, Penguin Books, 1986, pp.272. $14.95 (paper).     

Reviews and book notes

Henderson, Paul, Parliament and Politics in Australia, Heinemann Educational Australia, Melbourne, 1978, pp. 260 + vii. $5.95.

Charles P. Ridley, China's Scientific Policies: Implications for International Cooperation, AEI—Hoover Policy Studies 1976, pp. 92. US$3.00.

Peter Wilenski, The Delivery of Health Services in the: People's Republic of China, International Development Research Centre, published ANU Press 1977, pp. 59. $4.50.

Stephen Andors, China's Industrial Revolution, New York, Pantheon Books; London, Martin Robertson & Co., 1977.

Taketsugu Tsurutani, Political Change in Japan, New York, Longman (aDavid McKay), 1977. £12.50 cloth, $6.95 paper.

P. R. Chippendale and Paula V. Wilkes, Accountability in Education, University of Queensland Press, 1977, pp. 205. $13.50.

G. Duncan (ed.), Critical Essays in Australian Politics, Melbourne, Edward Arnold, 1978, pp. 252. $11.50.

P. J. Vatikiotis, Nasser and His Generation, Croom Helm Ltd., August, 1978. $32.95.

Theodore Zeldin, France 1848–1945, Vol. II, Intellect, Taste and Anxiety, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977.

David Kemp, Society and Electoral Behaviour in Australia, St Lucia, Queensland University Press, 1978.

Colin Tatz, Race Politics in Australia; Aborigines Politics and Law, Armidale, The University of New England Publishing Unit, 1979, pp. vi + 118. $1.75 paper.     

Pandora and Hatshepsut: Ancient Archtypes in the iconography of kingship

Greek myths contain iconographic material relating to the legitimacy, power and succession problems of early kingship. They may even represent the relics of kingly liturgies recited at coronations and New Year festivals. This essay analyses Hesiod's Pandora, her presentation and regalia, as an icon of queenly power reflecting the important power of women in the Egyptian royal cult and the great exponent of that role, Queen Hatshepsut. Pandora's veil, crown, name and ‘box’ or ‘jar’ recall both the moment of apotheosis of Egyptian queens and the emblems of the Egyptian royal priestesses who tended the divinity of kings. They also recall the astral and solar imagery of the great goddesses of Mesopotamia, Anath, Ishtar and Astarte—as well as Hesiod's Europa—queenly figures of great power.     

Phenomenology and the social sciences

Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, edited with an introduction by Quentin Lauer, N.Y., Harper Torchbooks, 1965, pp. 192. Australian distributor, Book and Film Services. $A2.90, paper.

Edmund Husserl. Experience and Judgement, Investigations in a Geneology of Logic, revised and edited by Ludwig Landgrebe, translated with an introduction by James S. Churchill, London, Rout‐ledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. xxvii + 443. Australian distributor, Cambridge University Press Australia. $A20.80, cloth.

Edo Pivcevic, Husserl and Phenomenology, London, Hutchinson University Library, 1970, pp. 160. Australian distributor, Hutchinson Australia. $A5.30 cloth, $A2.20 paper.

Werner Marx, Heidegger and the Tradition, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1971, pp. xxxiii + 275. $US10.00, cloth.

Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World, translated by George Walsh and Frederick Lehnert, with an introduction by George Walsh, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1972, pp. xxxii + 255. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A11.20 cloth, $A5.60 paper.

Alfred Schutz and Thomas Luckmann, The Structures of the Life‐World, translated by Richard M. Zaner and H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1974, pp. xxx + 335. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A12.80 cloth, $A6.55 paper.

Alfred Schutz, Reflections on the Problem of Relevance, edited, annotated and with an introduction by Richard M. Zaner, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1970, pp. xxiv + 186. Australian distributor, John Wiley and Sons. $A11.50, cloth.

Alfred Schutz, On Phenomenology and Social Relations. Selected Writings, edited with an introduction by Helmut R. Wagner, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1970, pp. 327. Australian distributor, John Wiley and Sons. $A15.80 cloth, $A3.95 paper.

Maurice Natanson, ed., Phenomenology and Social Reality. Essays in Memory of Alfred Schutz, The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1970, pp. 306, guilders 40.50.

Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, translated by Colin Smith, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, sixth impression 1974, pp. xxi + 466. Australian distributor, Cambridge University Press Australia. $A19.60, cloth.

Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, Phenomenology, Language and Sociology. Selected Essays, edited with an introduction by John O'Neill, London, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1974, pp. lxii + 352. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A17.75 cloth, $A9.30 paper.

Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, Adventures of the Dialectic, translated by Joseph Bein, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1974, pp. xxvii + 237. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A9.60, cloth.

Joseph J. Kockelmans, ed., Phenomenology, The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Its Interpretation, N.Y., Doubleday and Co., Anchor Books, 1969, pp. 555. Australian stockists, Tudor Distributors. $A2.80, paper.

Hwa Yol Jung, ed., Existential Phenomenology and Political Theory. A Reader, Chicago, Henry Reg‐nery, 1972, pp. iv + 444. Australian distributor, Feffer and Simons. $US3.95.

Edward N. Lee and Maurice Mandelbaum, eds, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1969, pp. x + 265. Australian distributor, The Australia and New Zealand Book Company. $A9.60 cloth, $A3.55 paper.

Anthony Giddens, ed., Positivism and Sociology, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1974, pp. x + 244. Australian distributor, Heinemann Educational Australia. $A11.20 cloth, $A5.25 paper.

George Psathas, ed., Phenomenological Sociology, Issues and Applications, N.Y., John Wiley and Sons, 1973, pp. x + 369. Australian distributor, John Wiley and Sons Australia. $A15.80, cloth.

James Edie, ed., Patterns of the Life World. Essays in Honour of John Wild, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1970, pp. xi + 414. $US15.00, cloth.

Maurice Roche, Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, pp. x + 361. Australian distributor, Cambridge University Press Australia. $A18.40, cloth.     

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.