BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: LOOKING AT DARWIN'S PAST: Material Evidence of European Settlement in Tropical Australia By David Carment. THE EUROPEANS IN AUSTRALIA: A History, Volume One: The Beginning By Alan Atkinson. THE GREAT EXPERIMENT: Labour Parties and Public Policy Transformation in Australia and New Zealand Edited by Francis Castles, Rolf Gerritsen and Jack Vowles. THE WIRED NATION CONTINENT: The Communication Revolution and Federating Australia By K. T. Livingston. WRITING IN HOPE AND FEAR: Literature and Politics in Postwar Australia By John McLaren. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1953 By David Clune. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1927 By Kevin Cosgrove. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS, 1901–1917 By Joan Rydon, R. N. Spann and Helen Nelson. THE MIGHTY BEARS: A Social History of North Sydney Rugby League By Andrew Moore. Statistics by David Middleton. VOX RE/PUBLICAE: Feminism and the Republic Edited by Jeanette Hoorn and David Goodman. DIALOGUES ON AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE: In Honour of the Late Professor Ronald Henderson Edited by Peter Sheehan, Bhajan Grewal and Margarita Kumnick. APPRENTICESHIP IN ENGLAND, 1600–1914 By Joan Lane. THE PRISON DIARY (16 May-22 November 1794) of John Home Tooke Edited with introduction and notes by A. V. Beedell and A. D. Harvey. THE REPUBLICAN CROWN: Lawyers and the Making of the State in Twentieth Century Britain Joseph M. Jacob. GERMANY: A New Social and Economic History General Editors: Sheilagh Ogilvie and Bob Scribner. Vol. 11450–1630, edited by Bob Scribner; Vol. 2. 1630–1800, edited by Sheilagh Ogilvie. THE GHOSTS OF BERLIN: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape By Brian Ladd. A HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY: From the Revolutionary War to the Present Edited by Jerry K. Sweeney. THE PACIFIC BASIN SINCE 1945: A History of the Foreign Relations of the Asian, Australasian and American Rim States and the Pacific Islands By Roger C. Thompson. REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC: The Quarter-century 1970–95 By Ken Ross. TRADITION VERSUS DEMOCRACY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa Stephanie Lawson. POWER BY DESIGN: Constitution-making in Nationalist China By Zhao Suisheng. VIETNAM 1945: The Quest for Power David G. Marr. TONKIN GULF AND THE ESCALATION OF THE VIETNAM WAR By Edwin E. Moïse. BUDDHIST KINGDOM, MARXIST STATE: The Making of Modern Laos By Martin Stuart-Fox. THE POL POT REGIME: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975–79 Ben Kieman. WAR AND TELEVISION By Bruce Cumings. CHRISTIANITY AND DEMOCRACY:. A Theology for a Just World Order By John W. De Gruchy. THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDICINE Edited by Roy Porter. CULTURES OF NATURAL HISTORY Edited by N. Sardine, J. A. Secord and E. C. Spary.