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Books reviewed in this issue. Australia's Empire. Edited by Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward, The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series, Editor‐in‐Chief, Wm. Roger Louis Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era. By Babette Smith Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station. By Hamish Maxwell‐Stewart Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia Since 1826. By Geoffrey Bolton The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police. By Jonathan Richards Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a Nation. By Anne Henderson J.V. Barry: A Life. By Mark Finnane Roma the First: A Biography of Dame Roma Mitchell. By Susan Magarey and Kerrie Round The Godfather: The Life of Brian Burke. By Quentin Beresford Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004–2007. Edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall Indigenous Peoples: Self‐Determination, Knowledge, Indigeneity. Edited by Henry Minde The Queen's Other Realms: The Crown and Its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. By Peter Boyce Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice. By Julian Burnside Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia. By Linda Briskman, Susie Latham, and Chris Goddard Literary and Social Diasporas: An Italian Australian Perspective. Edited by Gaetano Rando and Gerry Turcotte Tell It As It Is: Autobiography of Rt Hon Sir Peter Kenilorea KBE PC Solomon Islands' First Prime Minister. By Peter Kenilorea. Edited by Clive Moore Brilliant Women: 18^th‐Century Bluestockings. By Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz The Victorians and Germany. By John R. Davis Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe. By Robert Gildea, Olivier Wieviorka and Anette Warring Burning Books. By Matthew Fishburn Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. By Marcy Norton The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. By Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier and Patrick Reedy Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality. By Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention. By John Cooper Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History. Edited by A. Dirk Moses A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present. By Bruce Haddock The Trouble with Theory: The Educational Costs of Postmodernism. By Gavin Kitching Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification. Edited by Ronald Cole‐Turner The Allure of Machinic Life — Cybernetics. Artificial Life, and the New AI. By Harvey Johnston     

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Book reviwed in this articles. The Seeds of Democracy: Early Elections in Colonial New South Wales. By M.M.H. Thompson “No Fit Place for Women”? Women in New South Wales Politics, 1856‐2006. Edited by Deborah Brennan and Louise Chappell The Hitler Club. By Gary Gumpl and Richard Kleinig Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901‐2006. By Patrick Weller Deported: A History of Forced Departures from Australia. By Glenn Nicholls Behind Closed Doors: Politics, Scandals and the Lobbying Industry. By John Warhurst Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand. By Georgina Murray Writing Party History: Papers from a Seminar held at Parliament House, Sydney, May 2006. Edited by David Clune and Ken Turner No, Prime Minister: Reclaiming Politics from Leaders. By James Walter and Paul Strangio Great Mistakes of Australian History. Edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian‐Pacific Indentured Labor Trade. By Tracey Banivanua‐Mar Redefining the Pacific? Regionalism, Past, Present and Future. Edited by Jenny Bryant‐Tolalau and Ian Frazer. Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717‐1927. By Jessica L. Harland‐Jacobs The Victorians: An Age in Retrospect. By John Gardiner Thomas Carlyle. By John Morrow Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life. By Mark Francis The Irish General Thomas Francis Meagher. By Paul R. Wylie Hitler's Bavarian Antagonist. Georg Moenius and the Allgemeine Rundschau of Munich, 1929‐1933. By Gregory Munro Legitimizing Military Rule: Indonesian Armed Forces Ideology, 1958‐2000. By Salim Said Soeharto's Armed Forces: Problems of Civil Military Relations in Indonesia. By Salim Said Democratic Accountability: Why Choice in Politics is Both Possible and Necessary. By Leif Lewin War in Human Civilization. By Azar Gat The Law of Armed Conflict: Constraints on the Contemporary Use of Military Force. Edited by Howard M. Hensel The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Edited by George Crowder and Henry Hardy     

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David Collins: A Colonial Life. By John Currey Brisbane: Squatters, Selectors and Surveyors. (Brisbane History Group Papers No 16) Edited by Rod Fisher and Jennifer Harrison Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans. By Clare Wright Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture, Nation. Edited by Laksiri Jayasuriya, David Walker and Jan Gothard This War Never Ends: The Pain of Separation and Return. By Michael McKernan Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns. By Paul Strangio Platypus and Parliament: The Australian Senate in Theory and Practice. By Stanley Bach Unfolding History, Evolving Identity: The Chinese in New Zealand. Edited by Manying Ip New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History. By Clive Moore Erasmus in the Twentieth Century: Interpretations c.1920–2000. By Bruce Mansfield Eighteenth‐Century British Erotica. Edited by Chris Mounsey and Rictor Norton London Corresponding Society, 1792–1799. Edited by Michael Davis. Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798. By Ruán O'Donnell Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803. By Ruán O'Donnell Wilhelminism and its Legacies. German Modernities and the Meanings of Reform, 1890–1930. Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann. Edited by Geoff Eley and James Retallack Divided Lives: The Untold Stories of Jewish‐Christian Women in Nazi Germany. By Cynthia A. Crane. Conqueror's Road: An Eyewitness Report of Germany 1945. By Osmar White Conflict and Compromise in East Germany, 1971–1989: A Precarious Stability. By Jeannette Z. Madarász The Tsarist Secret Police Abroad: Policing Europe in a Modernising World. By Fredric S. Zuckerman “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. By Samantha Power A History of Modern India, 1480–1959. Edited by Claude Markovitz; translated by Nisha George and Maggy Hendry Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order. By Charles A. Kupchan, Emanuel Adler, Jean‐Marc Coicaud and Yuen Foong Khong Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law. By Anne Orford Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration: Together Forever? By John Hart The Dynamics of Political Crime. By Jeffrey Ian Ross The Battle for Hearts and Minds: Using Soft Power to Undermine Terrorist Networks. Edited by Alexander T. J. Lennon The Media and Neo‐Populism: A Contemporary Comparative Analysis. Edited by Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Julianne Stewart and Bruce Horsfield     

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Books reviewed in this issue Historical Records of Australia, Resumed Series III Despatches and papers relating to the history of Tasmania, Volume X, January‐December 1831. General Editor: Peter Chapman, Co‐editors Peter Chapman and Tim Jetson The Ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian Lady Adventurer. By Alison Alexander Where is Dr Leichhardt? The Greatest Mystery in Australian History. By Darrell Lewis Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland's Frontier Killing Times. By Timothy Bottoms Indigenous Crime and Settler Law: White Sovereignty after Empire. By Heather Douglas and Mark Finnane Forgotten War. By Henry Reynolds Dancing with Empty Pockets. Australia's Bohemians since 1860. By Tony Moore The Baby Farmers: A Chilling Tale of Missing Babies, Shameful Secrets and Murder in 19^th Century Australia. By Annie Cousins Eilean Giblin: A Feminist between the Wars. By Patricia Clarke Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraub Syncopators. By Kay Dreyfus Big Coal: Australia's Dirtiest Habit. By Guy Pearse, David McKnight and Bob Burton Employer Power and Weakness: How Local and Global Factors have shaped Australia's Meat Industry and its Industrial Relations. By Patrick O'Leary and Peter Sheldon Trust Me: Australians and their Politicians. By Jackie Dickenson Australian History Now. Edited by Anna Clark and Paul Ashton J.C. Beaglehole: Public Intellectual, Critical Conscience. By Doug Munro The Habsburgs: The History of a Dynasty. By Benjamin Curtis The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts. By Daniel Pick Before the Nation: Muslim‐Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late‐Ottoman Anatolia. By Nicholas Doumanis A Companion to Woodrow Wilson. Edited by Ross A. Kennedy Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon. By Mark White America's Right: Anti‐Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party. By Robert B. Horwitz Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam. By Lien‐Hang T. Nguyen. The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy. By Edward N. Luttwak Antarctica: a Biography. By David Day The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind. By Roger Chartier, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane     

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Book reviewed in this issue. Aboriginal Dreaming Paths and Trading Routes: The Colonisation of the Australian Economic Landscape. By Dale Kerwin Australia: William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. Edited by Harry Allen Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes. By Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill The Frauenstein Letters: Aspects of Nineteenth Century Emigration from the Duchy of Nassau to Australia. By Kathrine M. Reynolds Not Quite White: Lebanese and the White Australia Policy 1880 to 1947. By Anne Monsour Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist. By David Lee The Australian Road to Singapore: The Myth of British Betrayal. By Augustine Meaher IV. Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan. By Christine De Matos A Three‐Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock. By Jim Davidson The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 3 1962–1983 with an introduction by Harry Evans. Edited by Anne Miller and Geoffrey Browne Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities. By Anne Tiernan and Patrick Weller Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers and the Politics of Class. By Tom Bramble and Rick Kuhn All That's Left: What Labor Should Stand For. Edited by Nick Dyrenfurth and Tim Soutphommasane The Quest for Justice. By Ken Crispin The Politics of Human Rights in Australia. By Louise Chappell John Chesterman and Lisa Hill Australia. The State of Democracy. By Marian Sawer, Norman Abjorensen and Phil Larkin. What Were They Thinking? The Politics of Ideas in Australia. By James Walter with Tod Moore Throwing off the Cloak: Reclaiming Self‐reliance in Torres Strait. By Elizabeth Osborne Pacific Ways: Government and Politics in the Pacific Islands. Edited by Stephen Levine The Moral, Social and Political Philosophy of the British Idealists. Edited by William Sweet Churchill's Secret War. The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War Two. By Madhusree Mukerjee Redefining British Politics: Culture, Consumerism and Participation, 1954–70. By Lawrence Black Confronting Hitler. German Social Democrats in Defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929–1933. By William Smaldone Italy Today, the Sick Man of Europe. Edited by Andrea Mammone and Giuseppe Veltri Resentment in History. By Marc Ferro, trans. Steven Rendall Power and the Past: Collective Memory and International Relations. By Eric Langenbacher and Yossi Shain (editors) Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth‐Century Britain. By Peter J. Bowler     

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Book Reviewed in this issues. Van Diemen's Land. By James Boyce Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Edited by Norman Etherington Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution. By Raelene Frances Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy . By Peter Cochrane Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia. By Judith Godden Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860‐1930. By Philip Jones and Anna Kenny Bishop of Magnetic Power: James Moorhouse in Melbourne, 1876‐1886. By Moma Sturrock Summer in the Hills: The Nineteenth‐Century Mountain Resort in Australia. By Andrea Inglis Anzacs and Ireland. By Jeff Kildea Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful 1900‐1930. By Robert Freestone From the Hustings to Harbour Views: Electoral Institutions in New South Wales, 1856‐2006. By Marian Simms Jean Beadle: A Life of Labor Activism. By Bobbie Oliver The Coalminers of Queensland: A Narrative History of the Queensland Colliery Employees Union. Volume Two: The Pete Thomas Essays. By Pete Thomas and Greg Mallory The Little History of Australian Unionism. By Sean Scalmer The Voice of the Thunderer: Journalism of H.G. Kippax. Selected and introduced by Harry Heseltine Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience. By Antonio Buti Power without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard. By Ann Tiernan John Winston Howard: The Biography. By Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen History's Children: History Wars in the Classroom. By Anna Clark John Grote, Cambridge University and the Development of Victorian Thought. By John R. Gibbins A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe. By Chris Wrigley Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord. Der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart. Edited by Jürgen Matthäus and Klaus‐Michael Mallmann Prague in Black. Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism. By Chad Bryant Prague in Danger. By Peter Demetz Why is there No Labor Party in the United States? By Robin Archer Anti‐Americanism: History, Causes, Themes, 4 volumes. Edited by Brendon O'Connor Equality. By Stuart White The Political Communication Reader. Edited by Ralph Negrine and James Stanyer The Right Road to Radical Freedom. By Tibor Machan Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People. By John Harris     

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Books reviewed in this article: The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839. By Colin Dyer Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Capetown, 1820–1850. By Kirsten McKenzie Varieties of Vice‐Regal Life (Van Diemen's Land Section). By Sir William and Lady Denison. Edited by Richard Davis and Stefan Petrow A Nation's Imagination: Australia's Copyright Records, 1854–1968. By Merilyn Minell Australia In Focus: Photographs in the National Archives. By Peter Nagle The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe Explorer. Edited with an introduction by Peter Monteath After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860–1940. Edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War. By Tanja Luckins Bigger Than Gallipoli: War, History and Memory in Australia. By Liz Reed Reconsidering Gallipoli. By Jenny Macleod Pompey Elliott. By Ross McMullin John Wren: A Life Reconsidered. By James Griffin Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship. By Chanan Reich It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor. Edited by Jenny Hocking and Colleen Lewis Blackfellas Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race. By Gillian Cowlishaw The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration. Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel Australian Cinema after Mabo. By Felicity Collins and Therese Davies Journey into Darkness. By Winton Higgins Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Gerry Treuren God Under Howard: the Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics. By Marion Maddox The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History. Edited by Stuart Macintyre Imagining Australia: Ideas for Our Future. By Macgregor Duncan, Andrew Leigh, David Madden and Peter Tynan Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait. By Anna Shnukal, Guy Ramsey and Yuriko Nagata Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor. By Clinton Fernandes Abdurrahman Wahid. Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: a View From the Inside. By Greg Barton Pacific Journeys, Essays in Honour of John Dunmore. Edited by Glynnis M. Cropp et al. Pacific Places, Pacific Histories: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste. Edited by Brij V. Lal The Manipulation of Custom: From Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands. By Jon Fraenkel Perceptions of Race and Nation in English and American Travel Writers, 1833–1914. By Erik S. Schmeller Europe's Pasts and Presents: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History Diplomaten und Agenten. Nachrichtendienste in der Geschichte der deutsch‐amerikanischen Beziehungen. Edited by Reinhard R. Doerries Fascists. By Michael Mann The Anatomy of Fascism. By Robert O. Paxton City: Urbanism and its End. By Douglas W. Rae World‐Systems Analysis: An Introduction. By Immanuel Wallerstein Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood. By James Connelly Action as History: The Historical Thought of R. G. Collingwood. By Stein Helgeby “How Good an Historian Shall I be?” R. G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education. By Marnie Hughes‐Warrington     

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Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders. By Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath and John West‐Sooby Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape. By Alan Mayne Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle. By Roslyn Poignant So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and the World's First National Labour Government. By Ross McMullin On The War Path: An Anthology of Australian Military Travel. Edited by Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce Radical Brisbane: an Unruly History. Edited by Raymond Evans and Carole Ferrier Jessie Street: A Revised Autobiography. Edited by Lenore Coltheart Kisch in Australia: The Untold Story. By Heidi Zogbaum Freedom Ride: a Freedom Rider Remembers. By Ann Curthoys The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image. By James Curran Latham and Abbott. By Michael Duffy From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual. By Robert Reynolds The West New Guinea Debacle: Dutch Decolonisation and Indonesia, 1945‐1962. By C.L.M. Penders The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War. By Hunt Tooley The Justicing Notebook (1750‐64) of Edmund Tew (Publications of the Surtees Society, vol. 205.) Edited by Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton British Clubs and Societies, 1580‐1800: The Origins of an Associational World. By Peter Clark Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766‐1870. By David M. Hopkin Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. By Alexander Grab Hitler's Last Chief of Foreign Intelligence. Allied Interrogations of Walter Schellenberg. Edited by Reinhard R. Doerries War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race. By Edwin Black A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. By Ilan Pappe Subverting Colonial Authority: Challenges to Spanish Rule in Eighteenth‐Century Southern Andes. By Sergio Serulnikov Honour Among Nations? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People. By Marcia Langton, Maureen Tehan, Lisa Palmer and Kathryn Shain     

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Books reviewed in this article: The Astronomer of Rousdon: Charles Grover 1842–1921. By Barbara Slater Decision and Deliberation: The Parliament of New South Wales 1856–2003. By David Clune and Gareth Griffth The Premiers of New South Wales 1856–2005. Edited by David Clune and Ken Turner The First New South Wales Labor Government 1910–1916. Two Memoirs: William Holman and John Osborne. Edited by Michael Hogan Heroes before Gallipoli: Bita Paka and that One Day in September. By Kevin Meade Francis De Groot: Irish Fascist, Australian Legend. By Andrew Moore Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming and Memory in World War II. Edited by Bob Moore and Barbara Hately‐Broad The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia. By Richard Waterhouse Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth‐Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. By Pat Jalland Treaty. By Sean Brennan, Larissa Behrendt, Lisa Strelein and George Williams Five Things to Know About The Australian Constitution. By Helen Irving Colonial Connections 1815–45: Patronage, the Information Revolution and Colonial Government. By Zoë Laidlaw Elizabethan Hero: The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher. By K.A. Frobisher Pardons and Punishments: Judges' Reports on Criminals, 1783–1830: HO (Home Office) 47 [1: HO 47/1–12, 1783–1790] (List and Index Society, volumes 304–5). Edited by Paul Carter The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth‐Century England. By Cindy McCreery J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian. By Julia Markus Ulster and Scotland 1600–2000 History, Language and Identity. Edited by William Kelly and John R. Young Ulster–New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers. Edited by Brad Patterson Washington und Berlin zwischen den Kriegen. Die Mixed Claims Commission in den transatlantischen Beziehungen. By Burkhard Jähnicke Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood. By Idith Zertal, trans. Chaya Galai, originally published in Hebrew in 2002 Political Cultures in the Andes 1750–1950. Edited by Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada Virtual Thailand: The Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. By Glen Lewis The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific. By Michael K. Connors, Remy Davidson and Jörn Dosch Darwinian Conservatism. By Larry Arnhart The “Puritan” Democracy of Thomas Hill Green. By Alberto de Sanctis     

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Book reviewed in this article: DINGO MAKES US HUMAN: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture fly Deborah Bird Rose. WHITEFELLA COMIN': Aboriginal Responses to Colonialism in Northern Australia By David S. Trigger. ALL OUR LABOURS: Oral Histories of Working Life in Twentieth Century Sydney Edited by John Shields. QUEEN'S COLLEGE: University of Melbourne By Owen Parnaby. A PASTORAL ROMANCE: The Tribulation and Triumph of Squatterdom By Maurice French. THOSE RAGGED BLOODY HEROES: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942 By Peter Brune. THE ABOLITION OF THE WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY: The Immigration Reform Movement Revisited Edited by Nancy Viviani. NO PAIN, NO GAIN? Sport and Australian Culture By Jim McKay. AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: Ten Case Studies Edited by Ken Walker. THE LONG BLUE LINE: A History of the Queensland Police By W. Ross Johnston. POLITICAL CROSSROADS: The 1989 Queensland Election Edited by Rosemary Whip and Colin A. A LIFE OF SERVICE: A Biographical Sketch of Errol Solomon Meyers By Derek Meyers. CHARACTERS AND CARITAS: Vignettes of Community Health Care in Central Queensland Edited by H. Mercer, et al. HEALTH, HISTORY AND HORIZONS Edited by J. H. Pearn. SINGER IN A SONGLESS LAND: A Life of Edward Tregear 1846–1931 By K. R. Howe. LOVE IN THE TIME OF VICTORIA: Sexuality, Class, and Gender in Nineteenth Century London By Frangoise Barrel–Ducrocq, translated by John Howe. KOSSUTH AS AN ENGLISH JOURNALIST By Eva H. Haraszti. INNER CITY REGENERATION: The Demise of Regional and Local Government By Norman Lewis. THE RISE OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY: England Since 1880 By Harold Perkin. THE PRIME MINISTER SINCE 1945 By James Barber. PRIMARY SOURCES AND ORIGINAL WORKS INDUSTRY AND IDEOLOGY: IG Farben in the Nazi Era By Peter Hayes. JAPAN'S SOUTHWARD ADVANCE AND AUSTRALIA: From the Sixteenth Century to World War II By Henry P. Frei. CHINESE ATTITUDES TOWARD NUCLEAR WEAPONS: China and the United States During the Korean War By Mark A. Ryan. THE UGLY CHINAMAN AND THE CRISIS OF CHINESE CULTURE By Bo Yang, translated and edited by Don J. Conn and Jing Qing. MODERNIZATION AND REVOLUTION IN CHINA By June Grasso, Jay Corrin and Michael Kort. MORE'S UTOPIA By Dominic Baker-Smith. SEXUAL DEMOCRACY: Women, Oppression and Revolution By Ann Ferguson. CHOOSING JUSTICE: An Experimental Approach to Ethical Theory By Norman Frohlich and Joe A. ROBERT NOZICK: Property, Justice and the Minimal State By Jonathan Wolff. LABOUR'S UTOPIAS: Bolsevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy By Peter Beilharz. BEYOND POLITICS: An Outline of Systematic Ideology By George Walford. FRONTIERS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY By Guglielmo Carchedi.     

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Book reviewed in this article: POLITICAL DISCOURSE: Explorations in Indian and Western Political Thought. Women And Peace Through The Polls. Australian Public Opinion On National Security Issues. Why Oppose Racism. Public Enterpiuse And National Development. Selected Essays. Public Power And Public Administration. The Italians In Australia. Capital Labour On The Kimberley Diamond Fields 1871–1890. Culture, Identity, And Politics. The French Reconnaissance. Baudin In Australia 1801–1803. Gordon Chalk: A Political Life. A Very Small Insurance Policy: The Politics of Australian Involvement in Vietnam, 1954–1967. All The Way: Australia's road to Vietnam. A Documentary History Of Queensland. The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case Of Authorship. Rail Transport And Australian Federalism. The War Despatches Of Kenneth Slessor, Official Australian Correspondent 1940–1944. Between Two Nations: The Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border and West Papua Nationalism. Highlanders And Foreigners In The Upper Ramu. The Kainantu area 1919–1942. Politics And Power In The Usa. Politics And Culture In Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of H.G. Koenigsberger. AN Edwardian Meed-Doubles: The Bosanquets versus the Webbs: Study in British Social Policy 189&1929. Feminism And Democracy. Women's Suffrage And Reform Politics in Britain. 1900–1918. Perestroika: New Thinking For Our Country and the World. Revisionmsm And Emplre: Socialist Imperialism in Germany 1897–1914. Bernstein To Brandt. A Short History of German Social Democracy. Population, Labour And Century Germany. Migration In 19Th And 20Th Century Germany. Einfeuhrung In Fragen An Die Geschichtswissenschaet In Deutschland Nach Hitler 1945–1950. Deutschlands Eneuerung 1945–1950. Der Krieg Und Die Schriiwsteller. Der Kriegsroman Der Weimarer Republik. Exil Und Engagement. Deutsche Schriftsteller Im Frankreich Der Dreissiger Jahre. The Ideological Origins Of Nazi Imperialism. Three Faces Of Imperialism; British And American Approaches To Asia and Africa 1870–1970. Saladm And The Fall Of Jerusalem.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Australian Dictionary of Biography: Supplement 1580–1980 . Edited by Christopher Cuneen, Jill Roe, Beverley Kingston and Stephen Garton The Europeans in Australia: A History Volume Two: Democracy. By Alan Atkinson Engines of Influence: Newspapers of Country Victoria, 1840–1890. By Elizabeth Morrison Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History. Edited by A. Dirk Moses Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia. By Regina Ganter, with contributions by Julia Martinez and Gary Lee Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia. Edited by Graeme Davison and Marc Brodie My Dearest Brown Eyes: Letters Between Sir Donald Cleland and Dame Rachel Cleland during World War II. Introduced and edited by Nancy Lutton Dear Dr Janzow: Australia's Lutheran Churches and Refugees from Hitler's Germany. Edited by Peter Monteath An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom. By Fay Anderson B.A. Santamaria. Your Most Obedient Servant. Selected Letters: 1938–1996. Edited by Patrick Morgan Australia's Own Cold War: The Waterfront Under Menzies , By Tom Sheridan Asian Alternatives: Australia's Vietnam Decision and Lessons on Going to War. By Garry Woodard The Life and Death of Harold Holt. By Tom Frame The Long, Slow Death of White Australia. By Gwenda Tavan The Longest Decade. By George Megalogenis Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica. By Tom Griffiths Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector. By Donald Jackson Kerr 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London. By Rosemary Ashton War Experiences in Rural Germany, 1914–1923. By Benjamin Ziemann, translated by Alex Skinner Confront! Resistance in Nazi Germany. Edited by John J. Michalczyk Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation. By Zoë Vania Waxman Armageddon des Kommunismus — Strategie, Wirtschaft und die DDR 1970–1990: By Bernd F. Schulte Mussolini's Italy: Life under the Dictatorship, 1915–1945. By R.J.B. Bosworth From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War. By Wilson D. Miscamble C.S.C. Missed Opportunities: US Diplomatic Failures and the Arab-Israel Conflict 1947–1967. By Candace Karp Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development. By Mark Beeson Political Economy from Below: Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840–1914. By Rob Knowles Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894–1901. By Myron Echenberg Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism. By Paul Crook The God Delusion. By Richard Dawkins The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. By Alister and Joanna McGrath The Philosophy of War and Peace. By Jenny Teichman The Law of Armed Conflict: Constraints on the Contemporary Use of Military Force. Edited by Howard M. Hensel Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective. Co-edited by Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research. By Jonathon W. Moses and Torbjørn L. Knutsen     

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Book reviewed in this article: The oxford history of AUSTRALIA, Volume 5,1942–1988: The Middle Way By Geoffrey Bolton. OUT OF LUCK: Poor Australians and Social Welfare By Stephen Gorton. IRISH-AUSTRALIAN STUDIES. Papers delivered at the Fifth Irish-Australian Conference Edited by Oliver MacDonagh and W. F. Mandle. A MILITARY HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA By Jeffrey Grey. NORTHERN TERRITORY DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY: Volume 1: to 1945. Edited by David Carment, Robyn Maynard, Alan Powell. WALERS: Australian Horses Abroad By A.T. Yarwood. IN WOMEN'S HANDS? A History of Clothing Trades Unionism in Australia By Bradon Ellem. WOMEN AND THE LAW: Commentary and Materials By Jocelynne Scutt. WAYWARD WOMEN: A Guide to Women Travellers By Jane Robinson. A COLONIAL LIBERALISM: The Lost World of Three Victorian Visionaries By Stuart Macintyre. AUSTRALIA AS A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LABORATORY Edited by Gregory Melleuish. FOUNDATIONS OF ARBITRATION: The Origins and Effects of State Compulsory Arbitration 1890–1914 Edited by Stuart Macintyre and Richard Mitchell. THE DIGGERS WHO SIGNED ON FOR MORE: Australia's Part in the Russian War of Intervention, 1918–1919 By Bruce Muirden. DEPRESSION DOWN UNDER Edited by Len Fox. INGELBA AND THE FIVE BLACK MATRIARCHS By Patsy Cohen and Margaret Somerville. CAMILLA: C. H. Wedgwood – A Life By Charlotte Carr-Gregg and David Wetherell. WILLIAM MACMAHON BALL: A Memoir By Peter Ryan. POLITICIZATION AND THE CAREER SERVICE Edited byG.R. Curnow and B. Page. IDEOLOGY AND IMMIGRATION: Australia 1976 to 1987 By Katherine Belts. BUDGETARY STRESS: The South Australian Experience Edited by Richard Blandy and Cliff Walsh IDEAS FOR AUSTRALIAN CITIES By Hugh Stretton. AUSTRALIA TOWARDS 2000 Edited by Brian Hocking. EUROPE AND AMERICA CHARLES I AND THE ROAD TO PERSONAL RULE By L. P. Reeve. ROAD TO DIVORCE: England 1530–1987 By Lawrence Stone. A PILLAR OF THE CONSTITUTION: The House of Lords in British Politics, 1640–1784 Edited by Clyve Jones. THE ORIGINS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS By T. C. W. Manning. ECHOES OF THE MARSEILLAISE: Two Centuries Look Back on the French Revolution By E. J. Hobsbawm. FACES OF DEGENERATION: A European Disorder, c. 1848-c. 1918 By Daniel Pick. COLLABORATION IN FRANCE: Politics and Culture During the Nazi Occupation, 1940–1944 By Gerhard Hirschfeld and Patrick Marsh, eds. “GLASNOST” IN CONTEXT: On the Recurrence of Liberalizations in Central and East European Literatures and Cultures Edited by Marko Pavlyshyn. THE CHANGING SOVIET SYSTEM: Mono-organisational Socialism from its Origins to Gorbachev's Restructuring By T. H. Rigby. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT By Michael Simpson. THE CIA AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. AN AMERICAN ORDEAL: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era By Charles DeBenedetti. WESTERN IMAGES OF CHINA By Colin Mackerras. THE BROKEN MIRROR: China After Tiananmen Edited by George Hicks. MARXISM AND THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE Edited by ArifDirlik and Maurice Meisner. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINA'S SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES By George T. Crane. THE UNDERSIDE OF MALAYSIAN HISTORY:PuUers, Prostitutes, Plantation Workers Edited by Peter J. Rimmer and Lisa M. Allen. TE TALA O NIUOKU: The German Plantation on Nukulaelae Atoll 1865–1890 By Doug Munro THE CAT AND THE LION: Jaipur State in the British Raj By Robert W. Stern POLITICAL STRATEGIES AND ELECTORAL REFORMS: Origins of Voting Systems in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries. Edited by Serge Noiret. ELECTIONS AND VOTERS: A Comparative Introduction By Martin Harrop and William L. Miller. UNCOMMON DEMOCRACIES: The One-Party-Dominant Regimes Edited By T. J. Pempel. THE DEBATE ON CLASSES By Erik Wright et al. WHICH SOCIALISM? By Norberto Bobbio. Translated by Roger Griffin and edited by Richard Bellamy. SOCIALISM Edited by E. F. Paul, F. Miller, J. Paul and D. Greenberg. POLITICAL LEGITIMACY AND THE STATE By Rodney Barker. POLITICAL OBLIGATION IN A LIBERAL STATE By Steven M. DeLue. Albany NUCLEAR DYNAMITE: The Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Fiasco By Trevor Findlay. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UNORGANIZED INDUSTRY: A Study of the Labour Process By Manjit Singh. NICHOLAS KALDOR (Grand Masters in Economics) By Anthony P. Thirlwall. GREAT ECONOMISTS BEFORE KEYNES By Mark Blaug. CHRIST IN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY: The Representation of Jesus in the Qur'an and the Classical Muslim Commentaries By Neal Robinson.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Martin Mulligan and Stuart Hill, Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action Edited by Bruce Kaye, Tom Frame, Colin Holden and Geoff Treloar, Anglicanism in Australia: A History Colin Holden, Church in a Landscape: A History of the Diocese of Wangaratta Mary Anne Jebb., Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers David Philips, William Augustus Miles (1796–1851): Crime, Policing, and Moral Entrepreneurship in England and Australia Compiled by Alison Hoyle for State Records of South Australia, Ancestors In Archives: A Guide for Family Historians to South Australia's Government Archives Julie Carr, The Captive White Woman of Gippsland: In Pursuit of the Legend Keith Pescod, Good Food, Bright Fires & Civility: British Emigrant Depots of the 19th Century B.W. Higman, Domestic Service in Australia Joanne Scott, Ross Laurie, Bronwyn Stevens and Patrick Weller, The Engine Room of Government: The Queensland Premier's Department, 1859–2001 Edited by Ann Millar, The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Vol. 1 1901–1929 M.D. Johnson, Australia, New Zealand and Federation 1883–1901. By Ged Martin. Ian Ward, Edited by John M. Moses and Christopher Pugsley, The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions, 1871–1919: Essays on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism Edited by Martyn Lyons and John Arnold, A History of the Book in Australia 1891–1945 Anna Green, British Capital, Antipodean Labour. Working the New Zealand Waterfront, 1915–1951 George Davies, The Occupation of Japan: The Rhetoric and the Reality of Anglo–Australasian Relations 1939–1952 Tim Rowse, Obliged to be Difficult. Nugget Coombs’ Legacy in Indigenous Affairs Ian Hancock, John Gorton: He Did It His Way Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM Mark Finnane, When Police Unionise: the Politics of Law and Order in Australia Bob Carr, Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man Edited by Paul Nursey–Bray and Carol Lee Bachi, Left Directions: Is There a Third Way? Sinclair Dinnen, Law and Order in a Weak State: Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea Ann Turner, Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea, Asian/Oceanian Historical Dictionaries No. 37 Kerry Howe, Nature, Culture and History: the “Knowing” of Oceania W.J. Mander, Alan P.F. Sell, et al., The Dictionary of Nineteenth–Century British Philosophers Manning Clark (Edited by Dymphna Clark, David Headon and John Williams), The Ideal of Alexis de Tocqueville R.B. Rose, Tribunes and Amazons: Men and Women of Revolutionary France, 1789–1871 Ian Hunter, Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany Maiken Umbach (Ed.), German Federalism: Past, Present, Future Judith Keene, Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain During the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 R.J.B. Bosworth, Mussolini Edited by John P. McCormick, Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas Agnes Heller, A Theory of Modernity Douglas R. Holmes, Integral Europe: Fast–Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism Rogan Kersh, Dreams of a More Perfect Union     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: MAKING THE BICENTENAR: A Special Issue of Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 23, No. 91 (October 1988) Edited by S. Janson and S. Macintyre. GOOD MEN AND TRUE: The Aboriginal Police of the Port Phillip district 1937–1853 By Marie Hansen Fels. THE MAKING OF THE ABORIGINES By Bain Attwood. RACE RELATIONS INCOLONIAL QUEENSLAND: A History of Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination By Raymond Evans, Kay Saunders & Kathryn Cronin. THE PRESS IN COLONIAL QUEENSLAND: A Social and Political History 1845–75 By Denis Cryle. JAMES SMITH. The Making of a Colonial Culture By Lurline Stuart. COURAGE A GRACE: A Biography of Dame Mary Gilmore By W. H. Wilde. BREAKER MORANT AND THE BUSHVELDT CARBINEERS Edited by Arthur Davey. BLOCKADE: The Queensland Loans Affair 1920 to 1924 By Tom Cochrane. THE LABOUR EXPERIMENT By Stuart Macintyre. DISPLACED PERSONS: CALWELL'S NEW AUSTRALIANS By Egon Kunz. LOCATIN AUSTRALIA'S PAST: A Practical Guide to Writing Local History By The Local History Coordination Project. AUSTRALIA IN MIND: Thirteen Influential Australian Thinkers By Mark Thomas. AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL FACTS By I. McAllister. M. Mackerras, A. Ascui, and S. Moss. AUSTALIA'S POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS By D. Aitkin, B. Jinks and J. Warhurst. POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA Edited by Rodney Smith and Lex Watson. AUSTRALIAN STUDIES: A Survey Edited by James Walter. THE RISE OF COLONIAL NATIONALISM: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa First Assert Their nationalities Edited by John Eddy and Deryck Schreuder. THE IDEAL SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES. The Foundation of Modern New Zealand Society 1850–1900 By Miles Fairburn. ANTACTICA'S FUTURE: CONTINUITY OR CHANGE? Edited by R. A. Herr, H. R. Hall and M. G. Haward. PLES BLONG INUI: Solomon Islands: The Past Four Thousand Years Edited by Hugh Laracy NAMIBIA 1884–1984: Readings in Namibia's History and Society SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS TO US: A History of the African National Congress By Francis Meli. DEMOCRACY AND PARTICIPATION IN ANTHENS By R. K. Sinclair. THE POLITICS OF PROGRESS: The Origins and Development of the Commerical Republic 1600–1835 By Hiram Caton. MODERNIZATION FRUSTRATED. The Politics of Industrial Decline in Britain Since 1900 By Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter. SELLING THE STATE: Privatisation in Britain By Cento Veljanovski with Mark Bentley. PRIVATISATION: Theory, Practice and Choice By Madsen Pirie. BRITAIN AND THE FALKLANDS WAR By Lawrence Freedman. NORTHERN IRELAND SINCE 1968 Paul Arthur and Keith Jeffrey. VLASOV AND THE RUSSIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT: Soviet reality and Emigre Theories By Catherine Andreyev. UNDERSTANDING SOVIET SOCIETY Edited by Michael Paul Sacks and Jerry G. Pankhurst. THE JEWS IN POLAND Edited by Chimen Abramsky, Maciej Jachimczyk and Antony Polonsky. THE GERMAN STUDENT CORPS IN THE THIRD REICH By R. S. G. Weber. GERMANY, AMERICA, EUROPE: FORTY YEARS OF GERMAN FOREIGH POLICY By Wolfram F. Hanrieder. THE MAFIA OF A SICILIAN VILLAGE, 1860–1960. A Study of Violent Peasant Entrepreneurs By Anton Blok. CINA AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Participation in Non-governmental Organizations Since 1971 By Gerald Chun. THE ORIGINS OF THE VIETMAN WAR By Anthony Short. COLD WAR ON CAMPUS: A Study of the Politics of Organizational Control By Lionel S. Lewis. HISTORY OF THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE. Volume II. The Test of War 1950–1953. By Doris M. Condit. THE POSTMODERN PRESIDENT: The White House Meets the World By Richard Rose. RICH AND POOR COUNTRIES: Consequences of International Economic Disorder By Hans W. Singer and Javed A. Ansari. AGINS AND POLITICAL LEAERSHIP Edited by Angus McIntyre. IN THE AGE OF THE SMART MACHINE: The Future of Work and Power By Shoshana Zuboff. INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION Edited by Ramesh Thokur. ARMS CONTROL By Michael J. Sheehan MEN, MACHINES AND WAR Edited by Ronald Haycock and Keith Neilson. THE POLITICS OF SCANDAL: Power and Process in Liberal Democracies Andrei S. Markovits and Mark Silverstein. THE RULE OF LAW: Foundations of Constitutional Democracy By Geoffrey de Q. Walker. TRADITIONS OF LIBERALISM: Essays on John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill Edited by Knud Haakonssen. LIBERALISMS: Essays in Political Philosophy By John Gray. HUMAN RIGHTS Edited by Peter Davies. THE BITTERSWEET CENTURY: Speculations on Modern Science and American Democracy By Paul N. Goldstene. BIOLOGY AND FREEDOM: An Essay on the Implications of Human Ethology By S. A. Barnett. POWER, MODERNITY AND SOCIOLOGY: Selected Sociological Writings By Raymond Aron XPLANATION IN SOCIAL HISTORY By Christopher Lloyd.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century. By James Howard‐Johnston Dampier's Monkey: The South Sea Voyages of William Dampier. By Adrian Mitchell 1835: the Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia. By James Boyce The Protectors: A Journey through Whitefella Past. By Stephen Gray A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate about Remote Aboriginal Australia. By Diane Austin‐Broos Joseph Lyons: The People's Prime Minister. By Anne Henderson Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence. By John Connor p. O.W: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler's Reich. By Peter Monteath Australia's Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth. By Tom O'Lincoln Embodying Migrants: Italians in Postwar Australia. By Francesco Ricatti Mr Big of Bankstown: The Scandalous Fitzpatrick and Browne Affair. By Andrew Moore Labour and the Politics of Empire. By Neville Kirk Half a Citizen: Life on Welfare in Australia. By John Murphy, Suellen Murray, Jenny Chalmers, Sonia Martin and Greg Marston Michael Kirby: Paradoxes and Principles. By A.J. Brown A Private Life: Fragments, Memories, Friends. By Michael Kirby A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster and How It Led to the Settlement of Australia. By Emma Christopher A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians. By Timothy Larsen God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c.1801–1908. By Hilary M. Carey After Ruskin: The Social and Political Legacies of a Victorian Prophet, 1870–1920. By Stuart Eagles Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain 1850–1950. By Leslie Howsam Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean. By Gillian Weiss All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898–1914. By John W. Steinberg Belarus. The Last European Dictatorship. By Andrew Wilson Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World: the Dynamics of Activism. By Francesco Cavatorta and Vincent Durac Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non‐Violent Action from Gandhi to the Present. Edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence. By Susie Linfield     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: RESTRAINING LEVIATHAN: small government in practice. Edited by Michael James. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. By Gavin Souter. GESCHICHTE AUSTRALIENS. By Johannes H. Voigt THE SEA HORSE and THE WANDERER: Ben Boyd in Australia. By Marion Diamond. MARTIN BOYD: A Life. By Brenda Niall. THE PARLIAMENT OF THE SUBURBS: The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. By Heather Gardner. SCIENTIFIC COLONIALISM: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. Edited by N. Reingold and M. Rothenberg UNIONS and UNIONISTS IN AUSTRALIA. By D. W. Rawson TRADITIONS FOR REFORM IN NEW SOUTH WALES. By Australian Labor Party. AUSTRALIAN CULTURAL HISTORY. Edited by S. L. Goldberg and F. B. Smith INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENTS and AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY. Edited by Brian Head and James Walter. AUSTRALIA: A Cultural History. By John Richard. SILK and CALICO. Class, Gender and the Vote. By Betty Searle. MAITLAND BROWN: A View of Nineteenth Century Western Australia. By Peter Cowan. THE POLITICS OF MANPOWER, 1914–18. By Keith Grieves. THE RISE OF THE BARRISTERS: A Social History of the English Bar 1590–1640. By Wilfred E. Prest THE PROFESSIONS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. Edited by Wilfrid Prest. THE VISION OF ANGLO-AMERICA. The US-UK Alliance and the Emerging Cold War 1943–1946. By Henry Butterfield Ryan. SOCIOLOGY and SCIENTISM: the American Quest for Objectivity 1880–1940. By Robert C. Bannister. CANADIAN WOMEN. A HISTORY. By Alison Prentice DOUBLE STANDARD: The Secret History of Canadian Immigration. By Reg Whitaker. THAI RADICAL DISCOURSE: The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today. By Craig J. Reynolds. FAMINE IN UKRAINE 1932–1933. Edited by Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR. By Evan Mawdsley. Boston PRESS and POLITICS IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. Edited by Jack R. Censer and Jeremy D. GROWTH RECURRING: economic change in world history. By E. L. Jones. CRITICAL ISSUES IN PEACE STUDIES. By Barry Coldrey. JORDAN IN THE 1967 WAR. By Samir A. Mutawi. PROPHETS OF REBELLION: Millenarian protest against the European colonial order. By Michael Adas.     

The Red Flag Riots: A Study of Intolerance.

By Ramond Evans. St. Lucia. University of Queensland Press, 1988. pp, xv + 252. Illustrated. Seven maps. The Fight Goes On. A Picture of Australia and the World in Two Post-war Decades. By Ralph Gibson. Ascot Vale, Red Rooster Press, 1987. pp:280, illustrated. $23.00 paperback. The New Right's Australian Fantasy. Edited by Ken Coghill. The German Presence in Queensland Over the Last 150 Years Edited by Manfred Jurgensen and Alan Corkhill. Brisbane. Research Unit German Australian Relations, Dept. of German. University of Queensland, 1988. pp. 414. No price given. The Fenians In Australia 1865–1880. By Keith Amos. Policing In Australia: Historical Perspectives. Edited by Mark Finnane Law and Government in Colonial Australia. By Paul Finn. A Divided Working Class. By Constance Lever-Tracy and Michael Quinlan. Buongiorno Australia: Our Italian Heritage. By Robert Pascoe. Big-noting: The heroic theme in Australian war writing. By Robin Gerster. Rising Damp: Sydney 1870–90. By Shirley Fitzgerald. A Trunk Full of Books: History of the State Library of South Australia and its Forerunners By Carl Bridge. Delivering the Goods: A History of the NSW Transport Workers Union 1888–1986. By Mark Bray and Malcolm Rimmer. No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in Australia 1788–1914. By Ken Buckley and Ted Wheelwright. Labour Party in New South Wales 1880–1900. By Raymond Markey. The Scottish in Australia. By Malcolm D. Prentis. Bunyip Aristocracy: The New South Wales Constitution Debate of 1853 and Hereditary Institutions in the British Colonies. By Ged Martin. Ambivalent Allies: Myth and Reality in the Australian-American Relationship. By Dennis Phillips. Te Aso Fiafia: Te Tala o Te Kamupane Vaitupu 1877–1887 [The Joyous Day: the tale of the Vaitupu Company, 1877–18871. By T. Isala and D. Munro. Funafuti & Suva, Tuvalu Extension Services Centre and the Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacfic, 1987. Intermittent Diplomat. The Japan and Batavia Diaries of W. MacMahon Ball. Edited and introduced by Alan Rix. Equal or Different—Women's Politics 1800–1914. Edited by Jane Rendall. British Policy in Relation to Poland in the Second World War. By Stanislaw Zochowski. Foreign Policy Implementation. Edited by Steve Smith and Michael Clarke.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: AUSTRALASIA: MANAGING THE LAND: An Index to the Lands Department Papers in Queensland Votes and Proceedings, 1880–1899 By W. Ross Johnston, Helen Gregory and Jennifer Harrison. AUSTRALASIA:MABO: A JUDICIAL REVOLUTION: The Aboriginal Land Rights Decision and its Impact on Australian Law Edited by M. A. Stephenson and S. Ratnapala. AUSTRALASIA SECRETS OF THE FOREST: Discovering History in Melbourne's Ash Range By Tom Griffith AUSTRALASIA OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE DAYS OF SAIL By Ian Jones and Joyce Jones. AUSTRALASIA IET DISSENTER: The Life and Thought of an Australian Pacifist: Eleanor May Moore, 1875–1949 By Malcolm Saunders. AUSTRALASIA WAR, INTERMENT AND MASS MIGRATION: The Italio-Australian Experience 1940–1990 Edited by Richard Bosworth and Romano Ugolini. AUSTRALASIA AN AIRMAN FAR AWAY: The Story of an Australian Dambuster By Eric Fry. AUSTRALASIA A BIBLIOGRAPHY ON OVERSEAS STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA: Australia-Asia Papers No. 64 By Curtis A. Andressen. AUSTRALASIA EDUCATIONAL REFUGEES: Malaysian Students in Australia. Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 29. By Curtis A. Andressen. AUSTRALASIA POWER AND PROTEST: Movements for Change in Australian Society By Verity Burgmann. AUSTRALASIA PUBLIC POLICY IN AUSTRALIA By G. Davis, J. Wanna, J. Warhurst and P Weller. AUSTRALASIA THE WHITE TRIBE OF ASIA: An Indonesian View of Australia By Ratih Hardjono. SAS, PHANTOMS OF THE JUNGLE: A History of the Australian Special Air Service By D. M. Horner. AUSTRALASIA PUNISHMENT IN A PERFECT SOCIETY: The New Zealand Penal System 1840–1939 By John Pratt. EUROPE: FROM MEMORY TO WRITTEN RECORD: England 1066–1307 By M. T. Clancy. EUROPE:VENICE: A Documentary History, 1450–1630 Edited by David Chambers and Brian Pullam with Jennifer Fletcher. EUROPE: MARY TUDOR: A Life By David Loades. EUROPE: CUSTOMS IN COMMON By E. P. Thompson. EUROPE: THE VICTORIANS AND RENAISSANCE ITALY By Hilary Fraser. EUROPEL: ENGLISH QUESTIONS By Perry Anderson, EUROPE: THE THATCHER ERA AND ITS LEGACY By Peter Riddell. EUROPE: IRELAND 1828–1923: From Ascendancy to Democracy By D. George Boyce. EUROPE: THE VILLAGE OF CANNIBALS: Rage and Murder in France 1870 By Alain Corbin. EUROPE: MARXIST INTELLECTUALS AND THE WORKING-CLASS MENTALITY IN GERMANY, 1887–1912 By Stanley Pierson. EUROPE: THE FRENCH HOME FRONT 1914–1918 Edited by Patrick Fridenson. EUROPE: KAUKASIEN 1942/43: Das deutsche Heer und die Orientvölker der Sowjetunion. By Joachim Hoffmann. EXPLAINING AUSCHWITZ AND HIROSHIMA: History Writing and the Second World War 1945–1990 By Richard J. B. Bosworth. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THE END OF THE MODERN AGE By John Lukacs. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE CIVIL WAR: The Best of American Heritage Edited by Stephen W. Sears. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: WORLD WAR II: The Best of American Heritage Edited by Stephen W. Sears. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: EYEWITNESS TO WORLD WAR II: The Best of American Heritage Edited by Stephen W. Sears. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES By Paul Dibb. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: IMPLICATED: The United States in Australia By Philip Bell and Roger Bell. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: PACIFIC CENTURY: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia By Mark Borthwick with contributions by selected scholars. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: ENCOUNTERING THE MAJOR PLAYER: U. S. Extended Deterrence Strategy in the Asia-Pacific By William T. Tow. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: IMAGINED COMMUNITIES: Reflections of the Origin and Spread of Nationalism By Benedict Anderson. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE END OF SOVEREIGNTY? The Politics of a Shrinking and Fragmenting World Joseph A. Camilleri and Jim Folk.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: ADVANCE AUSTRALIA—WHERE? Edited by B. D. Beddie. DIPLOMACY AND ENTERPRISE: British China Policy 1933–1937. By Stephen Lyon Endicott. INQUIRY AND DECISION. By John O'Shaughnessy. THE WARSAW PACT: Case Studies in Communist Conflict Resolution. By Robin Alison Remington. PAKISTAN UNDER CHALLENGE. By L. F. Rushbrook Williams. SOCIAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PRACTICE. By Brian Fay. THE EVOLUTION OF THE LABOUR PARTY 1910–1924. By Ross McKibbin. THE EMERGENCE OF PROBABILITY: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. By Ian Hacking. AUSTRALIA AND THE NON-WHITE MIGRANT. Edited by Kenneth Rivett. THE STATE, SOCIETY AND SELF-DESTRUCTION, Edited by Elizabeth Vallance. ITALIAN FOREIGN POLICY 1870–1940. By C. J. Lowe and F. Marzari. THE CARDINAL PROTECTORS OF ENGLAND: Rome and the Tudors before the Reformation. By William E. Wilkie. TUDOR DYNASTIC PROBLEMS 1460–1571. By Mortimer Levine. BOTSWANA: A Short Political History. By Anthony Sillery. ZAMBIA: Security and Conflict. By Jan Pettman. POLITICS AND HIGHER EDUCATION. By John D. Millett. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. BENTHAM AND LEGAL THEORY. Edited by M. H. James. WOMEN AND VOTING STUDIES: Mindless Matrons or Sexist Scientism? By Murray Goot and Elizabeth Reid. BRITISH IMMIGRANTS AND AUSTRALIA: A Psycho-Social Inquiry. By Alan Richardson. A HISTORY OF CONTRACT AT COMMON LAW. By S. J. Stoljar. CHINESE MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT IN AUSTRALIA. By C. Y. Choi. MINORITIES IN MADRAS STATE: Group Interests in Modern Politics. By S. Saraswati. THE KURIL ISLANDS: Russo-Japanese Frontier in the Pacific. By John J. Stephan. THE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE THREAT TO THE WEST: Four Studies in Global Strategy. Edited by Patrick Wall. AN AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE: Words from the Vietnam Years. By Allan Ashbolt. MODERN JAPAN: Aspects of History, Literature and Society. Edited by W. G. Beasley. CHARISMATIC BUREAUCRAT: A Political Biography of Matsudaira Sadanobu, 1758–1829. By Herman Ooms. THE ALLIED OCCUPATION OF JAPAN, 1945–1952: An Annotated Bibliography of Western-Language Materials. By Robert E. Ward and Frank Joseph Shulman. OUT OF THE WILDERNESS The Return of Labor. By C. J. Lloyd and G. S. Reid. RISE UP, WOMEN! The Militant Campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union 1903–1914. By Andrew Rosen. GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONS. Volume 1. Compiled by C. A. Burmester. THE TIMES REPORTS THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: Extracts from The Times 1860–1865. Edited by Hugh Brogan. NATIONALISM: The Nature and Evolution of an Idea. Edited by Eugene Kamenka. THE BALTIC DILEMMA: The Case of the De Jure Recognition by Australia of the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. By Edgars Dunsdorfs. THE SECOND EMPIRE AND THE PRESS: A Study of Government-Inspired Brochures on French Foreign Policy in Their Propaganda Milieu. By Natalie Isser. CROMWELLIAN IRELAND: English Government and Reform in Ireland 1949–1660. By T. C. Barnard. SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE CITY. By D. Harvey. THE INTRUDERS: Refugee Doctors in Australia. By Egon F. Kunz. IRISH ISSUES IN NEWZEALAND POLITICS 1868–1922. By Richard P. Davis. NEW ZEALAND POLITICS: A Reader. Edited by Stephen Levine. DECISIONS IN ISRAEL'S FOREIGN POLICY. By Michael Brecher. KARL MARX. By Michael Evans. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THOUGHT: A Comparison of the Theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser. By Miriam Glucksmann. THE CONCEPT OF SOCIALISM. Edited by Bhikhu Parekh. ETHICAL CONDUCT: Guidelines for Government Employees. By Kenneth Kernaghan. KNOX: A History of Knox Grammar School 1924–1974. By Bruce Mansfield. RESPONSIBILITY SHARING IN A FEDERAL SYSTEM. Edited by R. L. Mathews. Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Australian National University, Research Monograph No. 8. TEACHERS, EDUCATION AND POLITICS: A History of Organizations of Public School Teachers in New South Wales. By Bruce Mitchell. THE PROBLEM OF PARTY GOVERNMENT. By Richard Rose. THE ORIGINS OF CROWD PSYCHOLOGY. Gustave LeBon and the Crisis of Mass Democracy in the Third Republic By Robert A. Nye. CONQUEST OF MIND: Phrenology and Victorian Social Thought. By David de Giustino. AUSTRALIA'S NEW GUINEA QUESTION. Edited by W. J. Hudson. A DANGEROUS PLACE: The United Nations as a Weapon in World Politics. By Abraham Yeselson and Anthony Gaglione. SOCIOLOGY AS SOCIAL CRITICISM. By T. B. Bottomore. J. S. MILL. By Alan Ryan. A DIVIDED SOCIETY: Tasmania during World War I. By Marilyn Lake. EDWARDIAN RADICALISM 1900–1914: Some Aspects of British Radicalism. Edited by A. J. A. Morris. WITHOUT SYMPATHY OR ENTHUSIASM: The Problem of Administrative Compassion. By Victor A. Thompson.