Shortly after the war, the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the American Institute of Pacific Relations commissioned the Australian anthropologist, W. E. H. Stanner, to survey post-war rehabilitation and reconstruction in Southwest Pacific dependencies. The South Seas in Transition (Australasian Publishing Company, Sydney, 1953), which is the result of this study, is a notable contribution to the history and theory of colonialism. Because of certain features of style and vocabulary it is a difficult book even for the specialist, but in the opinion of this reviewer, it should rank high on the required reading list of everyone interested in the South Pacific in particular, and in the problems of colonialism and "underdeveloped" areas in general. Perhaps the outstanding merit of this book is its balance: the events and problems it discusses have been treated elsewhere by economists, political scientists, officials, journalists, anthropologists, etc., but in no other publication known to this reviewer have these matters been set forth and interpreted with such impartial comprehensiveness. This is not to say that the author indulges in what he terms "the careful silence" or "the agile verbal straddle;" on the contrary, he arrives at some very definite conclusions about the causes and sources of past and continuing difficulties, and these he states unequivocably and with convincing documentation.
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