In March 1871, in the aftermath of France's humiliating defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the workers, radicals, and 'little people' of Paris rose in revolt. The rebels saw themselves as heirs to a great French revolutionary and Parisian tradition, carriers of the demand for popular initiative and popular participation. They were republican, anti-clerical, and, to a large extent, socialist. The Commune of Paris which they proclaimed on 26 March 1871 was dedicated to these principles and beliefs.

Here in one volume are collected the articles and documents produced during the first sixty-odd years of federation which most clearly illustrate the origins and development of Australian fiscal federalism.

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.

Industrial Labour and Politics is a new examination of some of the crucial questions of Australian labour politics - the relation of the industrial and political wings of the labour movement, the conflicts between Labor politicians and the extra-parliamentary organizations, and the part played by left-wing minorities in the movement.

This is the first study of the origin and evolution of the borders that Western powers have imposed upon New Guinea. Making extensive use of diplomatic correspondence, official documents, and Australian and Dutch patrol reports from the end of the nineteenth century up to the 1960s, Dr van der Veur gives the reader an insight into what happens when diplomats and officials of different colonial administrations are faced with periodic crises over invisible boundaries.

The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies. The seminar at which they were presented was held to honour the memory of a literary scholar, David Nichol Smith. It is therefore understandable and fitting that the majority of the contributions should be concerned primarily with literature. History, art, and philosophy, however, are also dealt with; and the collection as a whole offers a widely ranging and illuminating survey of the period. Herbert Davis gives an account of David Nichol Smith, the man and the scholar.

This volume examines the prehistory of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea through a study of its archeology. Working from artifacts collected from seventy-six sites by J. David Cole, Virginia Watson has constructed a paradigmatic classification of stone tools which has the potential of greater elaboration and wider application in New Guinea. The classification represents a distinct departure from most previous attempts to interpret stone tools and carries to a more productive conclusion a line of investi gation that is similar to J.