BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy, Scott Lithgow: Déjà Vu All Over Again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. xi + 364 pp. ISBN: 0 9738934 0 0. Softback US$15.00.
Reviewed by Tony Arnold
University of Leicester Gordon Jackson, The British Whaling Trade. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. xvi + 293 pp. ISBN: 0 9730073 9 7. Paperback US$15.
Reviewed by Tony Barrow
The Open University Adrian Jarvis, In Troubled Times: the Port of Liverpool, 1905–1938. St John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2003. viii + 232 pp. ISBN: 0 9730073 6 2. Paperback US$15.00.
Reviewed by Gordon Boyce
Queensland University of Technology Gwenda Tavan, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia. Melbourne: Scribe, 2005. 298 pp. ISBN: 1 920769 46 3. Paperback A$32.95.
Reviewed by Stephen Constantine
Lancaster University Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, International Trade in East Asia (NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, Volume 14). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 392 pp. ISBN: 0 226 37896 9. Cloth US$80.
Reviewed by Gary Hawke
Victoria University of Wellington Graeme Hunt, Centenary: One Hundred Years of State Insurance. Auckland: IAG New Zealand Ltd, 2005. 238 pp. ISBN: O 473 10097 5. Paperback $NZ29.95.
Reviewed by Frank Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington L. Sharon Davidson and Stephen Salisbury, Australia’s First Bank: 50 Years from the Wales to Westpac. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. 407 pp. ISBN: 0 86840 791 7. Paperback $49.95.
Reviewed by Frank Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington Bruce Pennay, Making a City in the Country – The Albury‐Wodonga National Growth Centre Project 1973–2003. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. xi + 387 pp. ISBN 0 86840 944 8. Paperback $49.95.
Reviewed by Twan Huybers
University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy Patricia Jalland, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. viii + 409pp. ISBN: 0 86840 905 7. Paperback. $39.95.
Reviewed by Fergus King
Anglican Diocese of Newcastle Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi (eds), Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848–1920). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005. xviii + 315 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 3965 7. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Warren J. Samuels
Michigan State University     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Jeremy Rifkin, The Hydrogen Economy. Cambridge: Polity, 2002. Pp. 294. ISBN: 0 7456 3042 1. Paperback A$57.95.
Reviewed by Dave Feickert
Victoria University of Wellington Charles H. Feinstein, An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii + 302. ISBN‐10: 0521616417/ISBN‐13: 9780521616416. Hardback £45.00. ISBN: 0521616417/ISBN‐13:9780521616416. Paperback £19.99.
Reviewed by Bernard Attard
University of Leicester David Black and Lesley Wallace, (eds), John Curtin: Guide to Archives of Australia’s Prime Ministers. Canberra: National Archives of Australia and John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, 2004. Pp. 241. ISBN: 1 920807 12 8. Paperback A$19.95.
Reviewed by David Day
La Trobe University Geoffrey Jones, Multinationals and Global Capitalism. From the Nineteenth to the Twenty‐first Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 340. ISBN 0 19 927210 7. Paperback £25.
Reviewed by John F. Wilson
University of Central Lancashire Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy (eds), The Fibre that Changed the World: The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600–1990s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv + 614. ISBN: 0 19 925566 0. Hardcover £75.00.
Reviewed by J. S. Toms
University of York Gordon Boyce, Over Half a Million Careful Owners: A 75‐Year History of PSIS, 1928–2003. Wellington: Dunmore Publishing, 2005. Pp. 326, illustrations. ISBN: 0 476 0129 29. Paperback NZ$29.95.
Reviewed by David Tripe
Massey University Kaoru Sugihara (ed.), Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 295. ISBN: 0 19 829271 6. Hardback A$250.
Reviewed by John Singleton
Victoria University of Wellington Morris L. Bian, The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change. Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 331. ISBN: 0 674 01717 X. Hardback US$45.00
Reviewed by Luigi Tomba
Australian National University Mario Tiberi, The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. x + 183. ISBN: 0754639169. Hardback £50.
Reviewed by Bernard Attard
University of Leicester Rögnvaldur Hanneson, The Privatization of the Oceans. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 224. ISBN 0‐262‐08334‐5. Hardback US$35.
Reviewed by Peter Cozens
Victoria University of Wellington Brian Costar, Peter Love and Paul Strangio (eds), The Great Labor Schism. A Retrospective. Melbourne: Scribe, 2005. Pp. 374. ISBN: 1‐920769‐42‐0. Hardback A$35.
Reviewed by James Bennett
University of Auckland     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed
George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade . Melbourne: Scribe, 2006. 346 pp. ISBN: 1 920769 79 X. Paperback A$32.95. Reviewed by James Bennett University of Newcastle
Leonie V. Still, Corporate Elders –'Organisation Men' Look Back . Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2006. 235 pp. ISBN: 1 920694 61 7. Paperback A$39.95. Reviewed by Peter Carroll University of Tasmania
William Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Alf Hagger, Giblin's Platoon: The Trials and Triumphs of the Economist in Australian Public Life . Canberra: ANU E-Press, 2006. xv + 263 pp. ISBN (print): 1 920942 49 1. ISBN: 1 920942 50 5. A$24.95, free access online. Reviewed by Gary Hawke Victoria University of Wellington
Helen B. Laurenson, Going Up, Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store . Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006 reprint (2005). 165 pp. ISBN: 86940 341 X. Paperback NZ$34.99. Reviewed by S.R.H. Jones University of Dundee
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 2005: Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of R&D . New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2005. xxxii + 332 pp. ISBN: 92 1 112667 3. US$75. Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson University of Tasmania/University of Queensland
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy, The 'Vanity of the Philosopher': From Equality to Hierarchy in post-Classical Economics . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xviii + 323 pp. ISBN: 0 472 11496 4. Hardback US$40. Reviewed by John Singleton Victoria University of Wellington
Derek H. Aldcroft, Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 217 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 0599 X. Hardback £50. Reviewed by Kirsten Wandschneider Middlebury College     

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Book reviewed
David Blackbourn, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany . London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. xxi + 466 pp. ISBN: 0 224 06071 6. Hardback £30.
Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson
University of Tasmania/University of Queensland
Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales . Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ix + 299 pp. ISBN: 0521541689. Paperback $A36.75.
Reviewed by Seamus O'Hanlon
Monash University
Graeme Morton, Boudien de Vries and R.J. Morris (eds), Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places: Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth Century Europe . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 220 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 5247 5. Hardback £55/US$ 99.95.
Reviewed by Ian Morley
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paweł Bożyk, Globalization and the Transformation of Foreign Economic Policy . Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. x + 262 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 4638 6. Hardback £55.00.
Reviewed by Jerry Mushin
Victoria University of Wellington
John Benson and Laura Ugolini (eds), Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Consumption and Society Since 1700 . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xiv + 297 pp. ISBN: 10: 0 7546 5046 4. Hardback pound;45.00.
Reviewed by Helen Laurenson
University of Auckland     

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Book reviewed
Richard Perren, Taste, Trade and Technology: The Development of the International Meat Industry since 1840 . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xi + 285 pp. ISBN: 0754636488. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Bernard Attard
University of Leicester
Brenda J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder, Explosives, and the State. A Technological History . Ashgate: Aldershot, 2006. 425 pp. Illustrations, maps, and photographs. ISBN: 9780754652595. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Gordon Boyce
The University of Newcastle, NSW
Man-Houng Lin, China Upside Down, Currency, Society, and Ideologies, 1808–1856 . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. xxi + 362 pp. ISBN: 0 674 02268 8. Hardback US$49.95.
Reviewed by Kent G. Deng
London School of Economics
Jari Ojala, Jari Eloranta, and Jukka Jalava (eds), The Road to Prosperity. An Economic History of Finland . Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006. 434 pp. ISBN: 951 746 818 0. €40.
Reviewed by Svante Larsson
Göteborg University
Hazel Petrie, Chiefs of Industry: Maori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealand . Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. viii + 336 pp. ISBN: 9781869403768. Paperback NZ$50.
Reviewed by Jim McAloon
Lincoln University
David Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 . London: Profile Books, 2007. 270 + xviii pp., illustrations. ISBN-13: 978 1861972965. Hardcover £18.99.
Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson
University of Tasmania
Paola Lanaro (ed.), At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400–1800 . Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2006. 412 pp. ISBN: 0 7727 2031 2. Paperback C$32.00.
Reviewed by Carolyn Sissoko
Occidental College     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Alistair Greig, Frank Lewins and Kevin White, Inequality in Australia. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi + 261, bibliography, index. ISBN: 0 521 81891 5. Hardback $99.00. ISBN: 0 521 52442 3. Paperback $44.95. Gavin McLean, Rocking the Boat – A History of Scales Corporation Limited. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2002. Pp. 324, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 1 877270 40 7. Hardback NZ$59.95. Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley, New Zealand's Trade Policy Odyssey: Ottawa, via Marrakech, and On. Wellington: NZ Institute of Economic Research, 2002. Pp. xi + 239, tables, index. ISBN: 0 908969 11 2. NZ$18.00. Robin Haines, Life and Death in the Age of Sail: The Passage to Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003. Pp. 368. ISBN: 0868405493. Hardback A$49.95. Sir Frank Holmes, The Thoroughbred Among Banks in New Zealand: Banking in New Territory, 1984–2000. Wellington: The National Bank of New Zealand, 2003. Pp. xiv + 266. ISBN: 0 473 09946 2. Price not available. James Reveley, Registering Interest: Waterfront Labour Relations in New Zealand. 1953 to 2000. Research in Maritime History No. 25. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2003. Pp. viii + 170. ISBN: 0 9730073 5 4. Paperback US$15. Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez and Richard van Glahn, (eds.), Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470–1800. Aldershot UK and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xiii + 209. ISBN: 0 7546 3213 X. Hardback £47.50. John Chown, A History of Monetary Unions. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 321, notes, index. ISBN: 0 415 27737 X. Hardcover NZ$262.95. Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle and John B. Davis, A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xvii + 712. ISBN: 0 631 22573 0. Hardback £99.99. Dan Usher, Political Economy. Malden USA, Oxford UK and Carlton Australia: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xx + 427. ISBN: 0 631 23333 4. Hardback US$74.95. ISBN: 0 631 23334 2. Paperback US$39.95. Gordon Boyce and Richard Gorski, (eds.), Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500–2000. St John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2002. Pp. ix + 161. ISBN: 0 9730073 2 X. Softcover US$15. Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore, The Size of Nations. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. x + 261. ISBN: 0 262 01204 9. Hardback US$35.00.     

The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

Book reviewed
Grant Fleming, David Merrett and Simon Ville, The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 310. ISBN: 0 521 83311 6. Hardback $59.99. Reviewed by Leslie Hannah University of Tokyo     

The Economic Effects of Constitutions

Book reviewed
Torsten Perrson and Guido Tabellini, The Economic Effects of Constitutions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003. Pp. 320. ISBN: 0 262 16219 9. Hardback US$35.00. Reviewed by Lewis Evans Victoria University of Wellington     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this article: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists: Methodological Issues in Measuring Economic Change in Rural India edited by Pranab Bardhan, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989, ix+288 pp. South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security, 1945–1988 by James Barber and John Barratt, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, x+398 pp.     

Governance, Regulation and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region

Book reviewed
Taktoshi Ito and Anne. O. Kreuger, (eds), Governance, Regulation and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region. Chicago and London: National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 480. ISBN: 0 226 38679 1. Hardback US$95.00. Reviewed by Robert Millward University of Manchester     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Books Reviewed in this Article: Indonesia's Technological Challenge edited by Hal Hill and Thee Kian Wie, published jointly by Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Canberra, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1998, xxv + 414pp. The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy by Angus Deaton, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, viii + 479pp.     

The Transformation of Australia's Population, 1970–2030

Book reviewed
Siew-Ean Khoo and Peter McDonald, (eds), The Transformation of Australia's Population, 1970–2030. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 302, index. ISBN: 0868405027. Paperback $49.95. Reviewed by Glenn Withers Australian National University     

Publications

International Rice Research Institute Economic Consequences of the New Rice Technology, Los Banos, 1978. $6.90 plus postage, (developing countries $2.70) pp. 402.

Philip J. Eldridge, Indonesia and Australia: The Politics of Aid and Development Since 1966, Development Studies Monograph No. 18, Australian National University Press, Pp. 233 + xviii. $8.00.

Robin J. Pryor, Migration and Development in South-East Asia: A Demographic Perspective. Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur. pp. xxi + 354. $27.00 (paper), $50.00 (hardcover).

Van Setten van der Meer, N.C. Sawah Cultivation in Ancient Java, Oriental Monograph Series No. 22, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1979. ppxx + 168. $A6.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this article: The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire by Michael G. Schatzberg, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1988, xiv+193 pp. Lectures on Developing Economies: Japan's Experience and Its Relevance by Kazushi Ohkawa and Hirohisa Kohama, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1989, xv+324 pp.     

Book Reviews

Colin Macandrews (Ed.), Central Government and Local Development in Indonesia, Singapore: Oxford University Press, East Asian Social Science Monographs, 1986, pp. 270, 36 Tables, 2 Figures, 4 Maps.

Himpunan Peraturan Perundang-undangan Republik Indonesia di Bidang Ketenaga-kerjaan [Labour Legislation in Indonesia], Vols I-III, Jakarta: P.T. Twins, 1986.

Michael A. Costello, Thomas R. Leinbach and Richard Ulack, with Marilou Palabrica-Costello and Bambang Suwarno, Mobility and Employment in Urban Southeast Asia: Examples From Indonesia and the Philippines, Boulder: Westview Press, 1987, pp. xvi + 191. $Us 26.50.

Susan Abeyasekere, Jakarta: A History, Singapore: Oxford U.P., 1987, pp. xvii + 280. Cloth: $45.00.

David P. Chandler and M.C. Ricklefs (Eds), Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia: Essays in Honour of Professor J.D. Legge, Clayton, Vic. : Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1986, pp. 281. $14.00.

Graeme J. Hugo, Terence H. Hull, Valerie J. Hull, Gavin W. Jones, The Demographic Dimension in Indonesian Development, Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. xxv + 417. $50.00.

I Ketut Nehen and Ian R. Wills, Land Preparation in West Java: Benefits and Costs of Alternative Techniques, Agency For Agricultural Research and Development, Indonesia, and International Rice Research Institute, 1986, pp. xii + 159.

Michael Smith et al., Asia's New Industrial World, London: Methuen, 1985, pp. vi + 136. £2.95.

Australian Institute of Urban Studies, Review of Australian Assistance to the Indonesian Water Supply and Sanitation Sector, A Report for the Australian Development Assistance Bureau, 1986, pp. xxxiii + 305, $26.00 plus postage.     

Book briefs

Key variables in social investigation, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1986, vii + 276 pp.

Reproductive change in developing countries, Insights from the World Fertility Survey, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1985, xvi + 301 pp, ISBN 0‐19‐828465‐9.

The world crisis in education, The view from the eighties, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985, vii + 353 pp ISBN 0‐19‐503503‐8

Reaching the Urban Poor, Project implementation in developing countries, Westview Press, Boulder Colorado. 1986, vii + 264 pp, ISBN 0‐8133‐7129‐5

Housing policy, An international bibliography, Mansell Publishing Limited, New York, 1986, ix ‐ 398 pp, ISBN 0‐7201‐1785‐2

Agribusiness and the small‐scale farmer: A dynamic partner for development, Westview Press, Boulder, 1985

Agriculture and employment in developing countries: Strategies for effective rural development, Westview Press, Boulder, 1985

Progress in natural resource economics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985

International agricultural trade: Advanced readings in price formation, market structure and price instability 1984

The role of markets in the world food economy, Westview Press, Boulder, 1983     

Corporate Collapse. Accounting, Regulatory, and Ethical Failure

Book reviewed
Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean and Kyle Oliver, Corporate Collapse. Accounting, Regulatory, and Ethical Failure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, revised edition, 2003. Pp. xxviii + 383. ISBN: 0 521 53426 7. Paperback $49.95. Reviewed by Gordon Boyce Queensland University of Technology     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Books Reviewed in this Article: Emancipating the Banking System and Developing Markets for Government Debt by Maxwell J. Fry, London, Routledge, 1997, xviii + 280 pp. Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Reconstruction in the Reform Era by David Zweig, Armonk, N.Y., M. E. Sharp, 1997, xvii + 365 pp. Introduction to Economic Growth by Charles I. Jones, New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 1998, xii + 200 pp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

The Books Reviewed in this Article: Catching Up and Falling Behind: Post‐Communist Transformation in Historical Perspective by David A. Dyker, London, Imperial College Press, 2004, viii + 379 pp. Managing FDI in a Globalizing Economy: Asian Experiences edited by Douglas H. Brooks and Hal Hill, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xx + 340 pp. Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases by Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2004, xiv + 153 pp.     

The City and the Railway in Europe

Book reviewed
Ralf Roth and Marie-Noëlle Polino, (eds), The City and the Railway in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 324. ISBN: 0 7546 0766 6. Hardback £45.00. Reviewed by Gerald Crompton University of Kent