BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: THE SUPREME COURT OF TASMANIA: Its First Century 1824–1924 By Carrel Inglis Clark. Edited by Richard Ely. CHILDE AND AUSTRALIA: ARCHEOLOGY, POLITICS AND IDEAS Edited by Peter Gathercole, T. THE GREAT SCOURGE: The Tasmanian Infantile Paralysis Epidemic 1937–38 By Anne Killalea Sandy Bay AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS SINCE FEDERATION: An Introduction By A. G. Kenwood. AUSTRALIA: Reflections on a Republic Multimedia Working Group ONE BIG UNION: A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886–1994 By Mark Hearn and Harry Knowles. GOVERNING PROSPERITY: Social Change and Social Analysis In the 1950s By Nicholas Brown ROYAL COMMISSIONS AND THE MAICING OF PUBLIC POLICY Edited by Patrick Weller. MASTERING RISK Environment, Markets and Politics in Australian Economic History By Colin White. BEYOND THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM: Political Representation, Economic Competitiveness and Australian Politics. By Ian Marsh THE ADMINISTRATIVE VOCATION By R. S. Parker. THE OXFORD COMPANION TO AUSTRALIAN MILITARY HISTORY By Peter Dennis, et al. 4000 BOWLS OF RICE: A Prisoner of War Comes Home By Linda Goetz Hohs. PRESUMPTIVE ENGAGEMENT: Australia's Asia‐Pacific Security Policy in the 1990s By Desmond Ball and Pauline Kerr. THE PACIFIC ISLAND STATES: Security and Sovereignty in the Post‐Cold War World By Stephen Henningham. BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND AUSTRALIAN NATIONALISM: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century By Luke Trainor. CRISES IN US FOREIGN POLICY: An International Reader By Michael H. Hunt. GOD'S CHINESE SON: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan By Jonathan D. Spence. MARXISM AND REFORM IN CHINA By Su Shaozhi THE FORGOTTEN QUEENS OF ISLAM By Fatima Mernissi Translated by Mary Jo Lakeland ST PETERSBURG DIALOGUES, or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence By Joseph de Maistre. Translated and Edited by Richard A. Lebrun. AN HERETICAL HEIR OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT: Politics, Policy, and Science in the Work of Charles E. Lindblom Edited by Harry Redner. DEMOCRACY IN THE THIRD WORLD By Robert Pinkney. CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY By D. Rueschemeyer, E. B. Stephem and J. D. Stephens. BEYOND POLITICS: Markets, Welfare and the Failure of Bureaucracy By William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons CONFRONTING TB[E EXPERTS Edited by Brian Martin. THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S REFUGEES 1993: The Challenge of Protection UNHCR United Notions Commissioner for Refugees. GEOGRAPHY AND EMPIRE Edited by Anne Godlewska and Neil Smith. Institute of British Geographers Special Publication No. 30.