Book Reviews

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Book reviewed in this article: AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATISM: Essays in Twentieth Century Political History. Edited by Cameron Hazichurst. MENZIES OBSERVED. By Cameron Hazlehurst. AUSTRALIAN POPULAR CULTURE. Edited by Peter Spearritt and David Walker. ANATOMY OF AN ELECTION. Edited by P.R. Hay, Ian Ward and John Warhurst. INDONESIA AND AUSTRALIA: The Politics of Aid and Development since 1966. By Philip J. Eldridge.SOUTHEAST ASIAN AFFAIRS 1978. MALAYSIA'S PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM: Representative Politics and Policy‐making in a Divided Society. By Lloyd D. Musolf and J. Frederick Springer. THE TRANSFER OF POWER 1942‐7. Vol. VIII: The Interim Government 3 July ‐ 1 November 1946. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh and Penderel Moon. POLITICS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION: The Balances of Power. By Ferenc A. Vali. POLITICS AND PURGES IN CHINA: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms 1950–1965. By Frederick C. Teiwes THE FORGOTTEN WAR: Australian Involvement in the South African Conflict of 1899–1902. By L.M. Field. THE CITY AND THE COURT 1603–1643. By Robert Ashton. FORD LIST OF BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS 1965–1974, together with Specialist Commentaries. Edited by Diana Marshallsay and J.H. Smith. INDEPENDENT COLLIER: The Coal Miner as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered. Edited by Royden Harrison. THE EXECUTION PROCESS: Vol. 1, Implementation in a Bureaucracy; Vol. 2, Control in a Bureaucracy. By Andrew Dunsire. THE SECOND COMING: Popular Millenarianism 1780–1850. By J.F.C. Harrison. THE MIDDLE CLASS IN POLITICS. Edited by John Garrard, David Jary, Michael Goldsmith and Adrian Oldfield. WOMEN IN THE HOUSE: A Study of Women Members of Parliament. By Elizabeth Vallance. SEPARATE SPHERES: The Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Britain. By Brian Harrison. THE WAR PLANS OF THE GREAT POWERS, 1880–1914. Edited by Paul M. Kennedy. A SHORT HISTORY OF MODERN GREECE. By Richard Clogg. POMPEY: A Political Biography. By Robin Seager. THE SOVIET UNION 1976‐77: Domestic, Economic and Foreign Policy. Edited by Wolfgang Berner LENIN'S GOVERNMENT: Sovnarkom 1917–1922. By T.H. Rigby. DOES CANADA NEED A NEW ELECTORAL SYSTEM? By William P. Irvine. GEOGRAPHY OF ELECTIONS. By P.J. Taylor and R.J. Johnston. WHITE CANADA FOREVER: Popular Attitudes and Public Policy toward Orientals in British Columbia. By W. Peter Ward. LOCKE, ROUSSEAU AND THE IDEA OF CONSENT: An Inquiry into the Liberal‐Democratic Theory of Political Obligation. By Jules Steinberg. MAIN CURRENTS OF MARXISM. By Leszek Kolakowski. KARL MARX'S THEORY OF HISTORY: A Defence. By G.A. Cohen. THE REASON OF STATES: A Study in International Political Theory. Edited by Michael Donelan. MORAL CLAIMS IN WORLD AFFAIRS. Edited by Ralph Pettman. STRATEGY AND ETHNOCENTRISM. By Ken Booth. A MULTINATIONAL LOOK AT THE TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION: An international collection of academic and corporate views on the future of transnational enterprise. Edited by Michael T. Skully.