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Causality in economics »
Publication date: 1980
Is economics a science? This distinguished and provocative book calls into question the increasing tendency of economists to attach themselves to the coat-tails of the scientists. Thus it is not concerned with the scientific method in economics, but with the relation of scientific method to economic method, of scientific explanation to economic explanation; for to discover the cause of a phenomenon or of an event is to explain it. Although it is now fifty years since the author began to write on economics, he has succeeded in looking at economics from the outside and provided a book that examines causality in economics as one case of causality in general. This unconventional approach throws new light on some basic concepts of economic theory. The place of statistical techniques in the sciences and in economics is examined and a corresponding distinction drawn.
Pharmacy manpower in Victoria, 1990 »
Publication date: 1980
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3041 1885_115107.jpg ANU Press Pharmacy manpower in Victoria, 1990 Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Harvey, Donald Roy
Governor in New Guinea »
Publication date: 1980
Dr Albert Hahl first sailed to German New Guinea in 1896 and took up residence in Herbertshohe, a primitive little settlement on Blanche Bay dominated by autocratic planters and merchants. Later he served as Governor in various posts in the Protectorate, including eighteen months as Vice- Governor on the turbulent island of Ponape. After eleven years as Governor of the whole Protectorate, he finally sailed from Rabaul for good in 1914, a few months before World War I ended German rule in the Western Pacific. Hahl's career spanned almost the whole of the period of effective administration by the Reich of German New Guinea, and the 'system' undoubtedly bore his stamp. There was the organisation of the natives under luluai or official chiefs, each with a special cap and staff as insignia of Imperial office. There was too the quaint shipping service round the Gazelle Peninsula provided by the tugboat Roland and its attendant barges. Hahl claimed these and other institutions as his brain-children. He is still recalled as 'Dotal', a fatherly figure, by the old people of the Gazelle Peninsula, and like Sir Hubert Murray he has been seen as the personification of the colony over which he presided. New light is shed on his role by these mellow reminiscences, first published in Germany in 1937, but remarkably free of either bitterness or the ideological claptrap usual in works of that vintage. The introduction by Peter Sack to this edition in English suggests a number of new points of approach to Hahl's career, and includes a biographical sketch. The translation by Dymphna Clark of the original text is supplemented by maps, contemporary photographs and a list of Hahl's publications.
The whale in darkness »
Publication date: 1980
This collection of recent poetry by R. F. Brissenden confirms him as one of the foremost Australian poets of his generation. The poems are strikingly and unmistakably Australian, yet their mood is never parochial. It is a compelling and haunting collection, put together with an assured and accurate hand.
Biographical register of the Tasmanian Parliament, 1851-1960 »
Publication date: 1980
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2797 1885_115048.jpg ANU Press Biographical register of the Tasmanian Parliament, 1851-1960 Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Bennett, Scott Cecil
On economic knowledge: a sceptical miscellany »
Publication date: 1980
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2905 1885_114684.jpg ANU Press On economic knowledge: a sceptical miscellany Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Bensusan-Butt, D. M.
Churchill Fellows of Australia 1966-1977 »
Publication date: 1980
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2895 1885_115154.jpg ANU Press Churchill Fellows of Australia 1966-1977 Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Auchmuty, Margaret Walters
Schools to grow in: an evaluation of secondary colleges »
Publication date: 1980
Following a public inquiry and evidence of widespread student disaffection with schooling, the traditional 6-year secondary schools in the Australian Capital Territory were replaced with 4-year high schools and secondary colleges for students in the two senior years. The new colleges offer a wide curriculum, give students freedom and responsibility to manage their own affairs, and generally try to provide a learning environment in which the emphasis is on cooperation rather than coercion. This study, which is based on parallel surveys of student opinions in 1972 and 1979, explores the shifts that have occured in student attitudes since the change to the college system. It examines what the change has meant for the students themselves, in matters such as opinions on the structure of school, attitudes to authority, relationships with teachers, study interests and post-school plans, and evaluates the colleges from their point of view. Using a theoretical perspective which relates a view of adolescence to the social relationships between students and teachers, it is argued that because of the narrow age range of their students the colleges are able to avoid the traditional reliance on student submission to teacher authority and so minimise student alienation. The findings leave no doubt that the secondary college innovation is of the greatest importance for efforts to make appropriate provision for senior secondary students, and this study will be acutely relevant wherever that is a matter of concern.
Transition from school: an annotated bibliography of recent Australian studies »
Publication date: 1980
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2833 1885_115165.jpg ANU Press Transition from school: an annotated bibliography of recent Australian studies Monday, 18 August, 1980 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Anderson, Don
Aboriginal History Journal: Volume 3 »
Publication date: 1979
Since 1977 the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people's and Torres Strait Islander's interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history.
Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra.
For more information on Aboriginal History Inc. please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au.
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German New Guinea: the annual reports »
Publication date: 1979
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3999 ANU_Press_German_NG_Annual_Reports.jpg ANU Press German New Guinea: the annual reports Monday, 1 October, 1979 Not available http://hdl.handle.net/1885/131772 Scholarly Information Services Sack, Peter & G Clark, Dymphna
Moral claims in world affairs »
Publication date: 1979
Establishing national needs and the policies that flow from them as not only contingent or expedient, but also 'right' and 'due' is meant to lend them a special and pervasive force, and practitioners of world affairs are prone to invest even their most commonplace behaviour with a sense of moral sanctity. This collection of essays explores in general terms the nature of the moral claims common in global politics and the phenomenon of partisan cosmopolitanism in particular. Detailed discussions are presented of the attempts to rescue a single body of human ideals from the multitude of systems that presently prevail, of the group, rather than universal basis of human morality, of the perennial tension between 'realism' and 'idealism', of human rights, justice and evil in the politics of the Powers. The racial conflict in Southern Africa and the moral precepts that inform the foreign policies of China and the Soviet Union are also surveyed. Here moral claims are considered in situ, as they emerge from specific political situations and are coloured by specific ideological perspectives. Although moral discourse is an integral part of any political enterprise, the question of 'morality' in international affairs is a curiously neglected one. This book seeks explicitly to confront our competing ideas of how the world is and how we would like it to be.
Fit work for women »
Publication date: 1979
This book presents a collection of papers which discuss the origins of the domestic ideal and its effects on activities usually undertaken by women: not only on women's wage work, but also on activities either not defined as work or accorded an ambiguous status. It begins with a discussion of how Evangelical aims led to the formation of the ideology of domesticity, which was subsequently moulded to other purposes by economic forces. Within this ideology, the one public arena considered suitable for work by upper-class women was philanthropy. The second paper examines this activity, discussing its immediate and long-term effects on both official policy and on women of the middle and working classes. A study of landladies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries brings to light new aspects of the ideology of domesticity and has interesting implications for theories of women's autonomy, as has the paper in which the little-discussed working-class radical suffragists are examined. The effects of the domestic ideal on Labour Party and trade union attitudes to feminists are themes in both this study of the suffragists and in the succeeding paper on militancy and acquiescence among women wage workers today, which questions the stereotype of the passive woman worker. Modern society is further analysed in a discussion of how and why the legal system reinforces activity specialisation according to gender, and in an examination of why both pre-pre-war capitalism and the modern Welfare State have been unable to meet the needs of dependents. The final paper deals with the nature of domestic work, highlighting inadequacies in current theory and suggesting a new approach to the domestic labour debate. This collection reflects the increasing recognition that in order to understand women's roles today, it is necessary to examine not only their current manifestations, but also their origins and early development.
Captain James Cook and his times »
Publication date: 1979
The widespread effect in Europe of James Cook's voyages of discovery can be seen in the language of Coleridge and Wordsworth, the planning of ambitious Spanish missionaries and far-sighted Russian traders, and the letters exchanged by thinkers and scientists of many countries and two centuries. The round of commemorations that began in 1969 to mark the bicentennial of the three great voyages has stimulated research into Cook, and when an international symposium of Cook scholars was held in 1978 at Simon Fraser University, it brought a strong focus to the most articulate of this thought. Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston have selected eleven papers that re-evaluate Cook's career and accomplishments and amply demonstrate the range and relevance of what was said at the Simon Fraser symposium. Terence Armstrong, Michael E. Hoare and Bernard Smith look at Cook's reputation and how it evolved. Howard T. Fry and David MacKay discuss two figures, Dalrymple and Banks, who lent much to Cook's reputation by means of their own genius. Sir James, Watt, in describing medical aspects of the voyages, sheds light on Cook{u2019}s death- the great puzzle of his biography. Alan Frost, Rudiger Joppien and Glyndwr Williams address Cook{u2019}s effects on art, literature and the language of geographers. Christon I. Archer analyzes why the Spanish allowed Cook to take credit for certain discoveries made by their own explorers. And Robin Fisher asks why we must assume that when Europeans first met men of other races, theirs was the dominant role. These essays, like all good writing by historians, cause us to look afresh at our culture and its evolution while they bring alive the era of James Cook- one of wide-ranging intellectual ferment.
Proterozoic-Cambrian phosphorites »
Publication date: 1979
First International Field Workshop and Seminar on Proterozoic-Cambrian Phosphorites, held in Australia, August 1978
The prehistory of Polynesia »
Publication date: 1979
More than three thousand years ago incredibly skilled navigators from Southeast Asia began their voyages of discovery to the Polynesian Islands. Settling there, they developed a distinctive and complex culture. In the past two decades archaeologists and anthropologists have succeeded in reconstructing the course of those voyages and the emergence of a Polynesian culture. In this volume an outstanding group of scholars takes the story of Polynesia from its origins near the eastern tip of New Guinea to the first encounter with Europeans, just two hundred years ago. The reality of the islands' prehistory is far more exciting than the romantic fictions that have been concocted about it. In probing the Polynesian past, the scientists writing here have used not only sophisticated archaeological techniques but such adventurous methods as building a Hawaiian double-hull canoe and sailing it, with only the ancient navigational aids, across nearly 4,000 kilometers of open ocean to Tahiti. The focus of the book moves chronologically from the early Lapitan villages to Fiji, Samoa/Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island, Hawaii, the Societies, and New Zealand. Further chapters explore the evidence provided by studies of the contemporary Polynesians and their environment: linguistic, biological, ecological, and navigational. A final chapter on the Melanesian background extends the chronology to earlier times. The contributors are an international group of experts on Polynesian archaeology and an thropology. The editor, Jesse D. Jennings, is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah.
The scientific revolution in Victorian medicine »
Publication date: 1979
The discovery of inhalation anesthesia in 1846 began a new era in surgery. Simpson demonstrated the value of chloroform as an anesthetic, and many surgeons quickly adopted it. But chloroform was dangerous if mishandled and only after considerable controversy and numerous fatalities was its use thoroughly understood and established. Painless childbirth was a different matter, and Simpson had to fight a long battle before the ignorance and prejudices of his colleagues were overcome. Ten years later an even more lengthy struggle began over antiseptic surgery. The 'germ' theory, on which Lister's technique was founded, had few adherents among British surgeons, and his methods were deemed absurdly complicated. He was opposed and sometimes ridiculed by the most distinguished men in the profession, including Simpson. Over ten years were required to persuade the majority of British surgeons that Lister did actually achieve the results which he claimed and that it was possible for a competent surgeon to do equally well, if only he would take the trouble. This book shows that a great many factors interacted in delaying the introduction of these new ideas. The almost wholly unscientific nature of British medical education and practice before 1860 or 1870, detailed in the first chapter, was one factor; rivalry and distrust between London and Scotland was another. Genuine disadvantages in the new methods were not unimportant either, while personal animosities, failure to face the facts, and fear of the unknowable consequences of change all played a significant part.
The founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania: 1825 to 1850 »
Publication date: 1979
The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania 1825-50 is the first detailed and documentary history of the seminal period of Roman Catholic missionary activity in Oceania. Before 1825 there had been sporadic missionary efforts but from the founding of the Prefecture Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands in 1825 there was continued development in Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. This lively and dramatic narrative is told largely through the words of the participants in the events, from diaries, documents and letters, and ranges from the politics of the Vatican to sufferings on outpost islands. The focus of attention shifts from Rome to Paris, Valparaiso, Sydney, Honiara, Auckland and many other places, in a study of men and institutions, faith and emotion, rivalries and confusions, murder and annexation, God and mammon. The book{u2019}s great strength is the authority of the material on which it is based, archival resources from the Vatican and seven religious orders, much of it old handwritten documents in many languages, nowhere published. From these complex records and with linguistic skills Ralph Wiltgen has compiled a masterly account with the absorbing interest of a detective story. He works on many levels, juggling the pieces so that we have a wide view of what is happening everywhere and how the moves are interrelated. Powerful and ambitious men press their causes in Rome, their plans obstructed by vast distances, slow-moving sailing vessels, meagre funds, petty jealousies, limited personnel, and even death. In the lands remote from Europe the missionaries found themselves in a tropical climate, wrestling with strange tongues and confronted with puzzling cultures. Rivalries with Protestants, relations with governments, and the activities of idealistic businessmen were other aspects of the often slow and always painful progress in Oceania. The illustrations include maps drawn according to specifications found by the author in contemporary reports, and facsimiles of maps and documents which recapture the details of historic decisions. The whole is a book of particular interest to the peoples of Oceania and to a wider reading public caught up with the magic of the South Seas.
Sawah cultivation in ancient Java: aspects of development during the Indo-Javanese period, 5th to 15th century »
Publication date: 1979
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3723 1885_115095.jpg ANU Press Sawah cultivation in ancient Java: aspects of development during the Indo-Javanese period, 5th to 15th century Saturday, 18 August, 1979 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Van Setten van der Meer,
Cooking with pure ingredients: family recipes for the hyperactive »
Publication date: 1979
Diet as a means of controlling a hyperactive child is a matter of often heated controversy. For some children its effects are dramatic. Ann Tydeman is the mother of a hyperactive child and by the time her son was two years old she was on the brink of despair. At her doctor's suggestion she tried a strict diet which eliminated all foods thought to aggravate hyperactivity. After four days her baby's behaviour improved almost miraculously. Nonetheless, she has sensibly included a note of advice on the need for individual requirements. In this book the recipes contain no artificial colourings or flavours - a bonus, also, for those concerned about adulteration by artificial additives in modern foods. These recipes are appetising, simple to prepare, and appealing to all members of the family. They obviate the need to prepare a special diet and are designed to meet all needs, from a snack to a party. These tasty recipes will be welcomed by all those who prefer an alternative life style; they will be a blessing for many parents of hyperactive children.
Industrial awakening: a geography of Australian manufacturing, 1788-1890 »
Publication date: 1979
Industrial Awakening is a remarkable story of the way manufacturing in a new and remote country pulled itself up by the bootstraps and became enmeshed in changing world commerce and technology. During the first hundred years of European settlement in Australia, a wide range of circumstances influenced the development and location of manufacturing. Many of the issues being debated today about the role of manufacturing in the Australian economy are remarkably familiar to those who read this account of the quarrels of the past: questions of protection and tariffs, confrontations between trade unions and employers, the allocation of contracts between domestic and overseas firms, the relative quality of locally made and imported products, the plight of industry in country towns, and the competition between the colonies to attract investment. Industrial Awakening is a comprehensive account of the development and geography of manufacturing, widely and graphically illustrated and with valuable statistical tables. Much of industrial development in Australia was circumstantial: the line between success and failure was often a very fine one. Sometimes a step forward depended on the right man being available at the right moment, be this a perceptive politician, a broadminded bureaucrat or an enterprising employer. Sometimes, just when all the teething troubles associated with establishing a new kind of industrial activity had been overcome, the enterprise would be wiped out by a stroke of a ministerial pen or the strike of a militant union. The book represents the first fruits of a wider study by the author of the geography of Australian manufacturing to the present time, with information from archival and literary sources supplemented by first-hand investigation of industrial and mining processes.
Cultural options and the role of tradition: a collection of essays on modern Indonesian and Malaysian literature »
Publication date: 1979
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/3489 1885_115096.jpg ANU Press Cultural options and the role of tradition: a collection of essays on modern Indonesian and Malaysian literature Saturday, 18 August, 1979 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Johns, Anthony Hearle
Pacific history bibliography, 1979 »
Publication date: 1979
Published Press Archives http://press.anu.edu.au/node/2921 1885_114765.jpg ANU Press Pacific history bibliography, 1979 Saturday, 18 August, 1979 Not available Archive Scholarly Information Services Forster, Honore
Street trees in Canberra »
Publication date: 1979
Canberra is noted for its beautiful trees, both native and exotic. This book will enable those who would like to identify them - gardeners who would like to grow them and those who just want to know - to identify the trees. Both botanical and common names are given in the index and each street in each suburb is listed in alphabetical order.
Barbarians, gentlemen and players: a sociological study of the development of rugby football »
Publication date: 1979
Rugby football is descended from the winter 'folk games' which were a deeply rooted tradition in pre-industrial Britain. This is the first book to study the development of Rugby from this folk tradition to the game in its modern 'Union' and 'League' forms. The folk forms of football were extremely violent and serious injuries - even death - were a common feature. The game was refined in the public schools who played a crucial role in formulating rules which required footballers to exercise greater self-control. With the spread of Rugby into the wider society, a national rule- making body, the Rugby Football Union, was founded but class tensions led to the split between Rugby Union and Rugby League. These same class tensions - public schools and amateurism as against Rugby League and professionalism - may be seen to exist in Australia. The authors examine the changes in Rugby Union from a 'player-centred' to a 'spectator-centred' form of amateurism and discuss the effect of the {u2018}Australian dispensation' in this context. The increasing extent of 'football hooliganism' is dealt with in the concluding part of this valuable study which will interest all serious followers of both branches of Rugby in Australia.