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.