Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: LIBERALS FACE THE FUTURE. Edited by George Brandis, Tom Harley, Don Markwell EQUALITY IN DIVERSITY: Fifty Years of the Commonwealth Grants Commission THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY AND ITS LEADERS. By Denis Murphy AUSTRALIA INTHE KOREAN WAR, 1950–53. VOL. II. COMBAT OPERATIONS. By Robert O'Neill THE DISENCHANTMENT OF THE HOME. Modernizing the Australian Family, 1880–1940. By Kerreen M. Reiger GROWING UP THE COUNTRY. By Phillip Toyne and Daniel Vachon ADVENTUROUS SPIRITS. Australian migrant society in precession Fiji. By John Young IN THE LAND OF STRANGERS: A Century of European Contact with Tanna, 1774–1874. By Ron Adams THE END OF THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY IN SIAM. By Benjamin A DANGEROUS WORDS: Language and Politics in the Pacific. Edited by Donald Lawrence Brenneis and Fred R. Myers SINGAPORE: STRUGGLE FOR SUCCESS. By John Drysdale LEADERSHIP, LEGITIMACY, AND CONFLICT IN CHINA. From a Charismatic Mao to the Politics of Succession. By Frederick C. Teiwes CAMBODIA: 1975–1982. By Michael Vickery THE PAPERS OF DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER: VOLUME VI: OCCUPATION 1945. Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Louis Galambos THE PAPERS OF DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER: VOLUMES VII‐IX: THE CHIEF OF STAFF. Edited by Louis Galambos THE PAPERS OF DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER: VOLUMES X‐XI: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Edited by Louis Galambos THE ARMS RACE TO ARMAGEDDON: A CHALLENGE TO US/NATO STRATEGY. By Generals ON DUTY: A CANADIAN AT THE MAKING OF THE UNITED NATIONS, 1945–1946. By Escott Reid THE MAKING OF THE SHETLAND LANDSCAPE. By Susan A. Knox CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY IN BRITAIN. By Ralph Miliband THE PEOPLE AND THE PARTY SYSTEM. The referendum and electoral reform in British Politics. By Vernon Bogdanor STATES OF MIND: A Study of Anglo‐Irish Conflict 1780–1980. By Oliver MacDonagh WHY IRELAND STARVED: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800–1850. By Joel Mokyr BEFORE MARX: SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM IN FRANCE, 1830–1848. Edited by Paul E. Corcoran PIERRE MENDES FRANCE. By Jean Lacouture DIE GESCHICHTEDER WLASSOW‐ARMEE. By Joachim Hoffmann FACING TOTAL WAR: German Society 1914–1918. By Jiirgen Kocka THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. By James Joll THE NAVY AND GERMAN POWER POLITICS 1862–1914. By Ivo N. Lambi REVOLUTION AND WAR IN SPAIN 1931–1939. Edited by Paul Preston LETTERS FROM SPAIN: LLOYD EDMONDS. Edited by Amirah Inglis HISTORY OF CENTRAL AFRICA, 2 Vols. Edited by David Birmingham and Phyllis M. Martin WESTERN SAHARA. The Roots of a Desert War. By Tony Hodges THE RED SEA. Edited by Abdel Majid Farid CONFLICT IN WORLD SOCIETY: A New Perspective on International Relations. Edited by Michael Banks WAR, STATE AND SOCIETY. Edited by Martin Shaw COALITION WARFARE: AN UNEASY ACCORD. Edited by Keith Neilson and Roy A. Prete PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN SOCIAL LIFE. Edited by S.I. Benn and G.F. Gaus THE STATE AND POLITICAL THEORY. By Martin Carnoy POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND NIHILISM: A Study of Weber and Nietzsche. By Robert Eden CHIVALRY. By Maurice Keen MINING AND DEVELOPMENT. By Ciaran O'Tairchaellaigh THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NATIONALISM. By Dudley Seers IDEAS INTO POLITICS: Aspects of European History 1880–1950. Edited by R.J. Bullen, H. Pogge von Strandmann and A.B. Polonsky