BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: LA TERRE EST LE SANG DES MORTS: NOUVELLE‐CALEDONIE DU PASSE AU PRESENT. By Jean Guiart. NOUVELLE‐CALEDONIE: LA REVOLTE KANAKE. By Claude Gabriel and Vincent Kennel. L'IRRUPTION KANAK: DE CALEDONIE A KANAKY. By Marc Coulon, Preface by Léopold Jorédié. NOUVELLE‐CALEDONIE: UN SIECLE DE BALLES PERDUES. By Marc Weitzmann, with chapters by Jean Guiart and Jean Chesneaux. L'UTOPIE CALEDONIENNE. By Jean‐Marie Colombani. NOUVELLE‐CALEDONIE: ILS VEULENT RESTER FRANCAIS. By Thierry Desjardins. L'ENJEU KANAK. By Patrick Paitel. REVIEW ARTICLE: WEST GERMANY'S POLICY TOWARDS THE EAST: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION From Cold War to Ostpolitik. By Michael Freund. THE ELECTRONIC ESTATE: NEW COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA AND AUSTRALIA. By Trevor Ban. DAYS OF WRATH. A LIFE OF JOHN DUNMORE LANG. By D.W.A. Baker. AUSTRALIA AND THE JEWISH REFUGEES 1933–1948. By Michael Blakeney. AVE A GO, YER MUG! AUSTRALIAN CRICKET CROWDS FROM LARRIKIN TO OCKER. By Richard Cashman. UNIONS AGAINST CAPITALISM: A Sociological Comparison of the Australian building and metal workers' unions. By Stephen J. Frenkel and Alice Coolican. SHORE: A history of Sydney Church of England Grammar School. By Geoffrey Sherington. A GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF QUEENSLAND. Compiled by W. Ross Johnston and Margaret Zerner. SURRENDER AUSTRALIA? ESSAYS IN THE STUDY OF THE USES OF HISTORY. Edited by Andrew Markus and M.C. Ricklefs. THE LIBERALS: FACTIONS, FEUDS AND FANCIES. By Patrick O'Brien. THE WEST VICTORIA SEPARATION MOVEMENT. Edited by K.K. O'Donoghue. MONASH AS MILITARY COMMANDER. By P.A. Pedersen. THE HATCH AND BROOD OF TIME. A Study of the First Generation of Native‐Born White Australians. Vol. 1. By Portia Robinson. AUSTRALIAN WOMEN AND THE POLITICAL SYSTEM. Edited by Marian Simms. FIGHTERS AND SINGERS: THE LIVES OF SOME AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL WOMEN. Edited by Isobel White, Diane Barwick and Betty Meehan. DAVID LANGE — PRIME MINISTER. By Vernon Wright. EUROPEAN VISION AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC. 2nd ed. By Bernard Smith. SIR ALLAN NAPIER MACNAB. By Donald R. Beer. A CONTINENT APART: THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN WORLD POLITICS. By William T. R. Fox. CITIZEN HUGHES. By Michael Drosnin. SECRET AGENDA. By Jim Hougan. RACE, REFORM AND REBELLION: THE SECOND RECONSTRUCTION IN BLACK AMERICA, 1945–1982. By Manning Marable. TRADE, PLUNDER AND SETTLEMENT. MARITIME ENTERPRISE AND THE GENESIS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1480–1630. By Kenneth R. Andrews. FOOL‐PROOF RELATIONS: THE SEARCH FOR ANGLO‐AMERICAN NAVAL CO‐OPERATION DURING THE CHAMBERLAIN YEARS, 1937–1940. By Malcolm Murfett. POLITICS WITHOUT DEMOCRACY. GREAT BRITAIN, 1815–1914. Perception and Preoccupation in British Government. By Michael Bentley. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN BRITAIN. By John Greenwood and David Wilson. BESIEGED: THE WORLD WAR II ORDEAL OF MALTA, 1940–1942. By Charles A. Jellison. MEN OF BUSINESS AND POLITICS. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE QUAKER PEASE DYNASTY OF NORTH‐EAST ENGLAND, 1700–1943, By M.W. Kirby. JACOBITISM AND TORY POLITICS 1710‐14. By D. Szechi. PRIDE'S PURGE: POLITICS IN THE PURITAN REVOLUTION. By David Underdown. DID BRITISH CAPITALISM BREED INEQUALITY? By Jeffrey G. Williamson. A FUTURE THAT WILL WORK. By David Owen. DANIEL MANNIX AND IRELAND. By Colm Kiernan. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE MILITIA ISSUE. By John Robertson. LOVE AND POWER IN THE PEASANT FAMILY. RURAL FRANCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, By Martine Segalen. Translated by Sarah Matthews. SICHERHEIT UND ENTSPANNUNG: ZUR AUSSENPOLITIK DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND 1955–1982. By Helga Haftendorn. UNTER KAISERS FLAGGE: DEUTSCHLANDS SCHUTZGEBIETE IM PAZIFIK UND IN CHINA EINST UND HEUTE. By Joachim Schultz‐Naumann. THE PECULIARITIES OF GERMAN HISTORY — Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth Century Germany. By David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley. DEUTSCHE GESCHICHTE 1800–1866. BÜRGERWELT UND STARKER STAAT. By Thomas Nipperdey. GESCHICHTE DER STAATSIDEEN. By Reinhold Zippelius. POLAND TO PEARL HARBOR: THE MAKING OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By William Carr, Edward Arnold POLAND'S SELF‐LIMITING REVOLUTION. By Jadwiga Staniszkis. Edited by Jan T. Gross. POLAND 1981. TOWARDS SOCIAL RENEWAL. By Peter Raina. THE SOVIET ECONOMY: TOWARD THE YEAR 2000. By Abram Bergson and Herbert S. Levine. LIFE SENTENCE. MEMOIRS OF A UKRAINIAN POLITICAL PRISONER. By Danylo Shumuk. Edited by Ivan Jaworsky. WOMEN AND RUSSIA. Feminist writings from the Soviet Union. Edited by Tatyana Mamonovna. WHITE LIBERALS, MODERATES AND RADICALS IN RHODESIA 1953–1980. By Ian Hancock. ISLAM IN REVOLUTION: FUNDAMENTALISM IN THE ARAB WORLD. By R. Hrair Dekmejian. BURIED ALIVE. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF AN INDIAN REVOLUTIONARY. By Sardar Ajit Singh. Edited by Pardaman Singh and J. S. Dhanki. WOMEN IN INDIA AND NEPAL. By Michael Allen and S.N. Mukherjee. THEORIES OF IMPERIALISM. WAR, CONQUEST AND CAPITAL. By Norman Etherington. TORTURE IN THE EIGHTIES: AN AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT. BEHIND THE LINES: One Woman's War 1914‐18. The Letters of Caroline Ethel Cooper. Edited and with an introduction by Decie Denholm.