today, as crucial in the development of the popular press's impact on popular culture. While the book jacket suggests that examples are drawn from Gennany as well as the United States, the German example of the popular tabloid Bild-Zeitung is cursory only, and offers a very superficial analysis of what that newspaper does successfully as a contemporary fonn of the popular press. His examples from the US supermarket tabloids and the British Fleet Street publications are far more comprehensive and useful analyses of popular press practice and its cultural connections. In general, Conboy's work provides a new and useful historical analysis of the popular press's development, primarily because of its focus on the connections between the press and popular culture. Conboy sees that the practices of the popular press are inseparable from popular culture, and indeed act as a vector of that culture (p. 174). There is some discourse analysis provided throughout the book as a way to demonstrate the language and topics of interest to popular press publications, and this works well - particularly for students of journalism and cultural studies. While there is little political analysis in the book - unlike previous works by Curran, etc. on the early British popular press - Conboy does recognise the impact that increasing commercialisation has had on the form of the popular press. He notes that the term 'popular' really just denotes the ability of a paper to sell to a large readership. It no longer implies, as it once did, that the publication represents the interests of, or is a voice for, the majority of the people. More, the popular press has become a form of broad-appeal, high entertainment, and a site for the reinforcement of popular sentiments (p. 51). I feel Conboy's book could have examined these issues in more detail, particularly considering his focus on the historical context of the popular press and its impact on popular culture. He completes the work by arguing that 'beating in tune with the common experiences of its readers, the popular press is as problematically authentic as it ever was' (p. 183). Conboy's work is a welcome addition and enhances our understanding of the place of the popular press in contemporary popular culture. However, there is a need for more critical analysis - particularly if the focus is on the press's impact on popular culture - alongside the growth of conswnerism, obsession with celebrity and the entertainment function of news which dominates the contemporary popular press. - Susan Forde, Arts. Media and C'!,lture, Griffith University Dower. Nigel and Williams, John (eds), Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. ISBN 0 7486 1547 4, 294 pp., A$49.9S. Distributor: Edinburgh University Press. This book is an excellent contribution to debates on global citizenship. Onora O'Neill introduces the book's themes by suggesting that state sovereignty minimises shared ways of thinking about global justice and democracy, hence global citizenship is ethically challenging. As the editors confirm, in a post-September 11 world, we may agree on global values like peace, No. 108 - August2003 177