ANU Press Archive, 1965–1991
A collaborative project undertaken by ANU Press and the ANU Digitisation Team has enabled over 500 scholarly works, originally published by The Australian National University Press between 1965–1991, to be made available to a global audience under its open-access policy.
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Oil search in Australia »
Publication date: 2025
Written primarily for the layman, this book is an account of the history, development and current activities in the search for oil in Australia. It outlines the geological factors controlling the generation of oil and natural gas in sedimentary basins and surveys the petroleum potential of onshore and offshore regions. Geological, technological and economic factors are defined and the present and possible future production of crude oil and natural gas in Australia are discussed. Mention is also made of the potential production of synthetic oil from oil shale and coal. This is an authoritative reference work which explains in simple terms the scientific, technological and economic aspects of the search for oil in Australia.
A handbook of Australian government and politics »
Publication date: 2025
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3063 1885_114739.jpg ANU Press A handbook of Australian government and politics Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Hughes, Colin A
The majesty of colour: a life of Sir John Bates Thurston »
Publication date: 2025
John Bates Thurston began life, he said, aboard a barque bound for India - as a 13-year-old apprentice in love with the sea. Some years later, marooned in the South Seas after a shipwreck, he elected to stay on in Fiji. From being Acting British Consul and cotton planter he rose to be Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, the office he held up to his death in 1897. Dr Scarr has delved into diaries, private letters, official correspondence and newspapers to reconstruct the colourful life story of Thurston, one of the most personally compelling and historically significant figures in modern Pacific history. He succeeds in presenting him as utterly honest and forthright, touchy and arrogant, a man often between anger and laughter - above all, completely devoted to his adopted country and its people. At the same time he conveys something of the spell that Fiji cast over Thurston when he first went to the Pacific and which remained with him always. In this book, the first part of a 2-volume work, Thurston is at odds with his own emigrant society and its racist views. But as intimate and supporter of the chiefs he is, to the Fijian elite, Na Kena Vai - the Very Bayonet, or, by free translation, the Pilot Fish. The second volume of the biography, Viceroy of the Pacific, will be concerned with Thurston as architect of policy after the Cession of Fiji to Britain in 1874, and with his role as Governor and High Commissioner. I, the Very Bayonet will not only be valued highly by historians but also read with pleasure and probe by all lovers of the Pacific and of good biography.
A biographical register of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1901-1972 »
Publication date: 2025
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3179 1885_115126.jpg ANU Press A biographical register of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1901-1972 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Rydon, Joan
The Pacific since Magellan »
Publication date: 2025
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3229 1885_115092.jpg ANU Press The Pacific since Magellan Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Spate, O. H. K.
Strive to be fair: an unfinished autobiography »
Publication date: 2025
In his unfinished autobiography Don Whitington looks back wryly and unsentimentally on his family, his youth, and his profession. Born in Victoria of incompatible parents, who separated, he grew up in some hardship, in Tasmania. Poverty - and lack of application - cut his education short and he qualified as a woolclasser in time to lose his job in the Depression. He worked then asa jackaroo, travelling extensively in outback Australia - and finally, with {u00A3}5 in his pocket, he decided to become a journalist, thus unwittingly following in the footsteps of three generations of Whitingtons. The story of his youth is told with a lively humour that laughs at himself and laughs with others. Whitington brought to his profession a sense of justice and compassion, a keen sense of humour and an eye for the ridiculous. One of the longest serving members of the Canberra Press Gallery, he met and mixed with people from all walks of life, with politicians and journalists of all persuasions and abilities. His comments on some of the events and personalities of his times are candid, and pointed. This book is a lively, racy, informed and enjoyable story of a man who graced his profession.
Territorians or mobile Australians? a profile of the urban electorate »
Publication date: 2025
At the end of the first world war the Northern Territory contained less than 4,000 whites and a larger, but uncounted, population of Aborigines. The non-Aboriginal population remained small throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and at the time of the 1947 Census it had not quite reached 11,000. Rapid growth came in the 1960s, and vas marked by successive Censuses: 44,500 in 1961 (Aboriginals were counted for the first time), 56,500 in 1966, 85,700 in 1971, 98,200 in 1976, and 122,800 in 1981. If this steady growth continues, the Territory's population will have begun to match that of the slowly-qrowing Tasmania some time in the middle of the coming century. Long before then it will have become a considerable force in national politics. For the Territory is politically distinctive. One in every four Territorians is an Aborigine, a proportion vastly greater than in any Australian State. only a small proportion of the white population was born in the Territory, and most of its immigrants are very recent indeed. The Territory's citizens have political concerns which the citizens of the States were last preoccupied with a century ago: the building of railways and of roads, isolation, the lack of educational facilities for their children, the provision of water-supplies, and the other imperatives of a frontier society in an often harsh environment. Such a society is worth studying tor its own sake. But in addition it provides a fascinating contrast with more settled societies, which have been the source of most of the 'findings' of the social sciences. A rapidly growing society made up of a diversity of immigrants can offer its citizens few of the community structures and support systems that abound in older, established societies. If a person's political stance comes to some extent from his social milieu, what happens when people leave these milieux and go to a town where no political tradition of any consequence exists and where colleagues and neighbours have made similar departures? How much of anyone's political outlook is portable, how much relates to a particular environment? The authors of this well-designed study show that much is indeed portable. The Territory's party system is clearly a member of the family of Australian party systems, with the ALP facing a fusion of the Liberal and National Country Parties, here labelled the Country Liberal Party. And party allegiances formed elsewhere can be transferred to Territory politics with a minimum of refurbishing. But - and it is an important saver - there is no inevitability about the transfer. The smaller size of the constituencies, the intimacy of life in what are small towns, the practical roads-and-bridges focus of much politicking, the lack of a powerful union movement, the high level of government employment - all these factors operate to subdue the socio- economic ambience in which Australian political life customarily takes place. New arrivals are able either to reconsider their politics or to operate politically in different ways at the Federal level and at the Territory level. To study these processes in any detail requires the chief instrument of the modern social scientist, the sample survey, as well as the patience and dedication necessary if survey research techniques are to be used at all. The Northern Territory survey that is at the heart of this book was designed both to bring Territorians under scrutiny and also to allow comparisons with Australians in the rest of the nation. It has served its purpose well, and the authors and editors have been able to produce a book that provides new insights on the political behaviour of all Australians, not simply those adventurous citizens that have chosen to live and work in the Northern Territory.
Foreign investment and industrialisation in Singapore »
Publication date: 1969
Singapore has faced extremely difficult economic conditions in the 1960s, and these will be exacerbated by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom military establishment during the next few years. Foreign investment can play an important role in Singapore's economy and at the same time make profits for the foreign investors. This book explores the problems involved. The aim of the surveys conducted by Dr Hughes and her colleagues during 1966 and 1967 was to see whether the incentives offered by Singapore to foreign investors were suitable and effective, to evaluate the contribution made by foreign investors to the development of manufacturing in Singapore, and to highlight the problems they faced. The most surprising finding of the book is that direct financial incentives to foreign investors are unnecessary. Singapore's principal attraction to outside investors lies in its efficient administration and the provision of public services, while its central geographic situation in Southeast Asia has to some extent offset the smallness of its internal market. The book will be of particular interest to two kinds of reader: manufacturers, administrators, and others concerned with investment in Southeast Asia, and economists everywhere who are studying the economic development of the area, the problems of establishing manufacturing industries in developing countries, and the economics of direct foreign investment.
Stratigraphy and palaeontology: essays in honour of Dorothy Hill »
Publication date: 1969
Geology is Earth history. The twenty essays in this book are concerned primarily with illustrating this history by reference to four aspects of stratigraphy and palaeontology: the biological interpretation of fossils, biostratigraphy and biogeography, descriptive palaeontology, and marine sedimentation and geomorphology. The dictum that 'palaeontology is the handmaid of stratigraphy' - without stratigraphy palaeontology would lack a time reference - is a truism. Each, of course, elucidates the other. Not nearly so widely recognised, however, is the relationship of stratigraphy and palaeontology to other aspects of Earth history. Some of the essays in the book will interest biologists as well as geologists in the contribution that fossils make to understanding the problems of evolution, classification, functional morphology and ecology. The correlation of Australian Carboniferous, Permian, and Cretaceous rocks, generally valuable to stratigraphers and palaeontologists, is of particular importance for the economic exploitation of the rocks of the country. The biogeographic analysis of new palaeontological and stratigraphic data is pertinent for geophysicists, geologists, and geographers interested in the problem of continental drift; while by virtue of its geography and its geological record Australia must hold many of the keys for understanding southern hemisphere geology, and all Gondwana reconstructions will have to be checked against the detailed information now made available. Geologists, sedimentologists, and geomorphologists will find stimulating the discussions on the geomorphological development of south-east Queensland and on the Great Barrier Reef. The broad scope of this book, offering as it does essays on many new discoveries and revaluations of past work, will be of considerable value to a wide range of scholars in many disciplines. As such, it is a fitting tribute to the woman it is designed to honour, Professor Dorothy Hill, F.R.S.
Microwave power transmission ratio: its use in estimating electron density »
Publication date: 1969
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3715 1885_114981.jpg ANU Press Microwave power transmission ratio: its use in estimating electron density Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Vance, Colin Francis
Dimensions of urban social structure: the social areas of Melbourne, Australia »
Publication date: 1969
The physical segregation of social groups in industrial cities has long attracted the attention of social scientist and casual observer alike. In Australia the possibility of mapping the social ecology of large cities has been limited by the absence of sufficiently detailed census information, a gap remedied in 1961 by the provision of a new range of small area data. Here the author exploits the existence of the new information to present the first intensive social anatomy of any Australian metropolis. Statistics on the residential concentration and segregation of seventy socioeconomic, demographic, ethnic, and religious categories are examined, and the vast complexity and range of these data are reduced by sophisticated techniques of statistical analysis to three theoretically meaningful constructs - social rank, familism, and ethnicity. These constructs are used to develop a typology of social areas which serves as the basis for developing an understanding of, and further hypotheses about, urban social structure. Not only does this analysis present a self-contained study of Australia{u2019}s second largest metropolis, but detailed maps and statistical appendixes provide a benchmark for future social investigations into the urban scene - on subjects such as political preference, immigrant adjustment, poverty, crime, delinquency, and urban planning.
Use of the homopolar generator to power xenon discharge tubes and some associated switching problems »
Publication date: 1969
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3065 1885_114979.jpg ANU Press Use of the homopolar generator to power xenon discharge tubes and some associated switching problems Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Inall, E. K
Ahmedabad: a study in Indian urban history »
Publication date: 1969
In what the author describes as a preliminary excursion into Indian urban history, he writes here not about Indian cities in general but about the unique experience of a particular city, Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat State in western India and for many years the home of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel. Ahmedabad, India's sixth city in size and one of the richest, was not a creation of British rule but an old center of trade and industry that adapted to the new age and became "The Manchester of India." Its recovery in the nineteenth century, after a decline in the previous one, contrasted with the experience of other Indian cities, many of which suffered a different fate under British rule. Ahmedabad provides an interesting qualification of many of the statements commonly made about Indian industrialization. Western influence and social change there were limited in the nineteenth century, and the early industrialization of the city was achieved within a society that remained socially and politically conservative. Modern Ahmedabad was the creation of Ahmedabadis, not of outsiders. In no other great city of India can the continuity of past and present be seen so clearly, and it is continuity rather than change that this book emphasizes. Mr. Gillion's account, focusing mainly on the century beginning with the British annexation in 1817, suggests a new way of viewing Indian social and economic history. Indirectly but none the less suggestively, this work reopens the whole question of westernization in India and places it in a fresh perspective.
The early history of Korea: the historical development of the Peninsula up the the introduction of Buddhism in the Fourth Century A.D. »
Publication date: 1969
Korean studies in Western universities have long been hampered by the absence of an adequate general history of Korea in any Western language. The earliest period of Korean history, up to the introduction of Buddhism late in the fourth century a.d., remains the worst served of any. This short history is intended as an attempt to remedy the situation. It is based mostly upon studies already carried out by Korean and Japanese scholars, and aims at making some of the results of their research available to Western students, particularly students of Chinese and Japanese history. Dr Gardiner writes about the background and history of Korea before the Han conquest in 108 b.c.; the structure and development of the Chinese colonies in Korea from 108 b.c. to the end of the third century a.d. ; the early history of Kogury{u014F} later one of the 'Three Kingdoms' of Korea; and finally about the conditions which produced so many changes in Korea in the fourth century A.D., including the beginning of Japanese intervention and the coming of Buddhism.
Matupit: land, politics and change among the Tolai of New Britain »
Publication date: 1969
One of the most interesting aspects of the study of change among a people after they have had contact with an alien civilisation is not only how they change but also how much they retain of their traditional ways - continuity in change. This book examines the question as exemplified by the Tolai people of Matupit, a small island near Rabaul. The Tolai of the north-eastern Gazelle Peninsula are among the most sophisticated and wealthy indigenous people of New Guinea and occupy a prominence in the affairs of Papua-New Guinea out of all proportion to their numbers. The Matupi are one of the largest groups of Tolai. Despite their sophistication and close links with Rabaul the Matupi retain many of their old traditions and, though they may work for wages in Rabaul, land is still extremely important to them, for most still grow much of their own food and cultivate cash crops. It is not surprising, therefore, that they devote much time and energy to disputes over land, and a major part of this book is an attempt to understand the nature of these disputes and the part that land plays in their lives. To understand this the author has examined in detail the modern political and economic systems of the island and illustrated his findings by case histories of the often involved disputes over land use and ownership which may go back several generations.
Financial development in Malaya and Singapore »
Publication date: 1969
This book describes and analyses the financial system in Malaya and Singapore as it had developed up to 1967, revealing, in particular, the transition from external domination to financial independence which has taken place in the last decade. While the work concentrates on the period after World War II, it also gives a complete account of historical events concerning the evolution of the system. This is the first up-to-date and comprehensive discussion of the financial problems of the Malayan region. Very little has been written on the subject since 1960 and earlier publications relate mainly to currency history and to the establishment of the Central Bank. The book deals thoroughly with currency arrangements, the commercial banking system, the Central Bank, financial enterprises other than banks, money and securities markets, and monetary and financial policy. It provides a full account of the many significant monetary and financial developments of the last decade and will be essential reading for students of economics in Malaysia and Singapore and for bankers and financiers in, and dealing with, that area. It will also be of great value to readers with interests in the fields of comparative banking and finance, economic development, and Malayan studies.
Soviet agriculture since Khrushchev: an economic appraisal »
Publication date: 1969
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3333 1885_115012.jpg ANU Press Soviet agriculture since Khrushchev: an economic appraisal Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Dibb, Paul
Landforms of cold climates »
Publication date: 1969
This is another volume in the series, An Introduction to Systematic Geomorphology. It is concerned with the landscapes produced where water exists commonly in solid form - as ground ice, as snow, or as glacial ice. Although the present distribution of glaciers, snowbanks, and frozen groundwater is relatively limited, these phenomena were much more extensively distributed during the Pleistocene ice ages and they have left their mark on the landscapes of almost all parts of the temperate world. It is impossible to understand the landscapes of much of southeastern Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and northern North America without taking into consideration the parts played by glacial and periglacial processes during the Pleistocene. Since World War II there has been a great upsurge of interest in the phenomena associate with ice sheets, the tundra lands, and high mountain areas. Much of the work carried out has been inspired by the difficulties of planning and executing engineering works in regions where snow and ice are prevalent, and some of the results of this recent work in the Arctic and Antarctic are incorporated in this volume. Well illustrated with half-tone plates, maps, and diagrams, Landforms of Cold Climates has been designed particularly for schools and universities, but should interest a much wider audience.
Pivoted hydrostatic bearing pads for the Canberra homo-polar generator »
Publication date: 1969
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2909 1885_114987.jpg ANU Press Pivoted hydrostatic bearing pads for the Canberra homo-polar generator Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Carden, Peter O'Neil
Instrumentation of the Australian National University 300 kilogauss experimental magnet »
Publication date: 1969
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3051 1885_114991.jpg ANU Press Instrumentation of the Australian National University 300 kilogauss experimental magnet Monday, 18 August, 1969 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Carden, Peter O'Neil
African rural-urban migration: the movement to Ghana's towns »
Publication date: 1969
In the fast-growing populations of the developing tropics, rural areas are no longer able to absorb the vast increases in their populations. In Ghana the result is striking - over a quarter of the population now lives in the towns. This book sets out to examine the kinds of people migrating to the towns, the effect of their migration on the rural areas they leave and the urban areas they adopt, their methods of travel and of solving the problems of accommodation and work, their degree of satisfaction with town life, the numbers returning to the village, and their reasons for doing so. It thus discusses whether and when a truly urban population is created. Those specialising in any branch of the social sciences, and also the layman with an interest in the way tropical African countries are developing, will welcome the information to be found here.
Opposition in a dominant-party system: a study of the Jan Sangh, the Praja Socialist Party, and the Socialist Party in Uttar Pradesh, India »
Publication date: 1969
In countries in which one political party is dominant, attention naturally centers on that party. This book is unusual because it concentrates on what were until recently the largest opposition parties in the largest Indian state. It deals with such questions as: What problems are involved in building an opposition party in a dominant-party system, particularly in a newly independent underdeveloped country? What effects do opposition parties experience when the dominant party is identified with the winning of national independence? What relationship is there between the goals of the dominant party and the activities of opposition parties? In considering these questions, Mrs. Burger offers hypotheses that can be tested in dominant-party systems outside of India. Very little has been written about the Jan Sangh, Praja Socialist, and Socialist parties in Uttar Pradesh, for until recently these were small entities in a system dominated by the Congress Party. In the Indian General Elections of 1967, however, popular support for the Congress Party declined so markedly that the three parties in question were able to form the Uttar Pradesh Government in alliance with several other parties. They are therefore opposition parties no longer. This improvement in their fortunes does not, however, affect the value of this book - and this for two reasons. For one, Mrs. Burger's main concern is with comparative, not area, politics; she has invested much time and effort in identifying factors, developing categories and constructing hypotheses that have broad relevance. The hypotheses that she has tested in Uttar Pradesh can accordingly be tested in other dominant-party systems. Moreover, because the changed political situation in Uttar Pradesh raises questions about the former minority parties and the causes for their recent rise to power, Mrs. Burger offers a close analysis of the socioeconomic political forces utilized in party building and discusses problems of party maintenance as well as providing much background information concerning the state legislators.
Pacific market-places: a collection of essays »
Publication date: 1969
Town and country meet and mingle in the urban produce markets of the Pacific region. From here economic forces operate to diffuse new forms of production and organisation throughout the region. These new forms are, however, superimposed on the traditional trading exchanges of the Pacific peoples; full understanding of them requires consideration of the whole social and economic environment, of trading practices and their economic motivation. This book presents a snapshot of urban marketing in the Pacific in the 1960s against such a background. The five market studies, ranging from small incipient markets in New Guinea to larger, more complex urban markets in the Solomons and Samoa, are empirical, each independently prepared. The editor draws them together with a discussion of the wider aspects of produce marketing in the Pacific, and places them within the context of a theoretical approach to urban markets in developing areas.
Agricultural development in Asia »
Publication date: 1969
This book comes at a critical time in the economic history of Asia. Most countries of the region, faced with burgeoning populations and a demand for higher living standards, are uncertain of their capacity to meet growing food needs and to use agriculture to initiate sustained economic development. The authors examine the problem through analyses of the agricultural development performances of nine countries within the region. What emerges is a mixture of agricultural success stories, indifferent performances, and downright failures to develop the agricultural sector. For each country a specialist author examines past and current growth rates of agricultural output, factors which have promoted and inhibited this growth, and future prospects for development. The final chapter isolates the cardinal elements in the development process and suggests ways in which these can be manipulated to promote a fast rate of growth in output. The book will interest students of agricultural development, policymakers, agricultural administrators, aid-donors, and all those who appreciate the gravity and urgency of the agricultural problems of the region.
A bibliography of Fiji, Tonga and Rotuma »
Publication date: 1969
The Pacific Islands constitute an important geographical link between the civilisations of Europe and America and those of Asia. Increasingly the region is the subject of serious study in many disciplines - over the last twenty or so years, publications referring to the South Pacific exceed those of the past 300 years. Some bibliographies of different regions and selective ones for the whole area do exist; until now none has existed for the trio of territories that straddle the {u2018}dividing{u2019} line between the Melanesian western Pacific and the Polynesian eastern Pacific - Fiji, Tonga, and Rotuma. This bibliography is the result of thirty-one years{u2019} research in libraries and archives throughout the world. It consists of some 10,000 entries in distinct categories, each giving full bibliographical details, and it ranges in time from the seventeenth century to the mid-1960s. It is non-selective, for, as its author rightly says, no bibliographer knows the purposes for which his work will be used. Though this work is an essential tool for all workers in the Pacific area, the many vicissitudes it has endured - literally, it has suffered fire, flood, and war - together with its wide range in time and space, make it less than perfect. It is, therefore, published now as a preliminary working edition with the invitation that any new or emending material be sent to the author.