BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: ORDERED TO THE ISLAND: Irish Convicts and Van Diemen's Land By John Williams. THE IRISH-AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION AN CAIDREAMH GAEL-ASTRALACH Edited by Seamus Grimes & Gearoid O Tuathaigh. BRISBANE: The Ethnic Presence Since the 1850s Edited by Rod Fisher and Barry Shaw. AUSTRALIAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: Essays and Cases Edited by Stephen Dovers. POLICY-MAKING IN VOLATILE TIMES Edited by A. Hede and S. Prasser. THE TASMANIAN PARLIAMENTARY ACCORD AND PUBLIC POLICY 1989-92: Accommodating the New Politics?Edited by Marcus Howard and Peter Larmour. UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL JUSTICE: An Australian Perspective By Andrew C. Theophanous. GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS RELATIONS IN AUSTRALIA Edited by Randal G. Stewart. STRIKES: Causes, Conduct and Consequences By Douglas Blackmur. A LIFE OF JOHN CALVIN: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture By Alister E. McGrath. THE MAKING OF BOURGEOIS EUROPE: Absolutism, Revolution, and the Rise of Capitalism in England, France and Germany By Colin Mooers. WOMEN IN ENGLAND 1500–1760: A Social History By Anne Lawrence. THE HISTORY MEN: The Historical Profession in England Since the Renaissance By John Kenyon. THE IMAGINED SLUM: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870–1914 By Alan Mayne. THE FALL OF IMPERIAL BRITAIN IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA By Nicholas Tarling. LABOURISM AND THE ENGLISH GENIUS: The Strange Death of Labour England?By Gregory Elliott. DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY: Inside Kinnock's Labour Party By Richard Heffernan and Mike Marqusee. ULSTER: CONFLICT AND CONSENT By Tom Wilson. THE POST-COLD WAR ORDER: Diagnoses and Prognoses Edited by Richard Leaver and James L. EX UNO PLURES: Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada 1867–1896 By Garth Stevenson. FRANCE AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC SINCE 1940 By Robert Aldrich. GENOCIDE AND DEMOCRACY IN CAMBODIA: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community Edited by Ben Kiernan. THE SHADOW OF THE DURIAN: Indonesia Observed By R. W. L. Austin. THE TOKYO TRIAL AND BEYOND: Reflections of a Peace Monger By B. V. A. Roling. Edited and with an introduction by Antonio Cassese. SOCIAL CHANGE, DEVELOPMENT AND DEPENDENCY Tony Spybey. A ZONE OF ENGAGEMENT By Perry Anderson. ANTONIO GRAMSCI: LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY By Giuseppe Fiori. FREEDOM: A HISTORY By Donald W. Treadgold. POSTHISTOIRE: Has History Come to An End?Lutz Niethammer, in collaboration with Dirk Van Laak, translated by Patrick Camiller.