BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: THE ABORIGINAL TASMANIANS By Lyndall Ryan Sydney TE WAIMANA: The Spring of Mana By Jedffrey Sissons. HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA By Ann Turner. WHITE AUSTRALIA DEFIED: Pacific Islander Settlement in North Queensland By Patricia Mercer. FRANCE AND BOTANY BAY By Colin Forster. SEAPORT SYDNEY: The Making of the City Landscape By Peter proud foot. ASIAN ORIENTATIONS: Studies in Western Australian History Vol. 6 Edited by Jan Gothard THE POLITICS OF AUSTRALIAN CHILD CARE: From Philanthropy to Feminism By Deborah Brennan. THE MENZIES ERA: A Reappraisal of Government, Politics and Policy Edited by Scott Prasser, J. R. Nethercote and John Warhurst. DEVELOPMENTS IN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Edited by Judith Brett, James Gillespie and Murray Goot. MAYER ON THE MEDIA: Issues and Arguments Edited by Rodney Tiffen. COMMUNICATIONS TRADITIONS IN 20TH CENTURY AUSTRALIA By Graeme Osborre and Glen Lewis. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1965 By Chris Publick. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1941 By David Clune. THE NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ELECTION 1922 By Michael Hogan Sydney ROBIN BOYD: A Life By Geoffrey Serle. INTRUDERS IN THE BUSH: The Australian Quest for Identity Edited by John Carroll. CULTURAL LIBERALISM IN AUSTRALIA: A Study in Intellectual and Cultural History By Gregory Melleuish PERFORMANCES By Greg Denning. BEFORE THE FAMINE STRUCK Life in West Clare 1834–1845 A PEOPLE STARVED: Life and Death in West Clare 1845–1852 By Ignatius Murphy. Blackrock, Co. CHRISTEN UND NATIONALSOZIALISTEN: Darstellung und Dokumente By Georg Denzler and Volker Fabricius. HITLER AND THE JEWS: The Genesis of the Holocaust By Philippe Burrin Translated by Patsy Southgate. RELUCTANT HOST: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896–1994 By Donald H. Avery. UNCONQUERABLE REBEL: Robert W. Wilcox and Hawaiian Politics, 1880–1903 By Ernest Andrade, Jr. OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS: A Doctor in Japan and Elsewhere By Murray Elliott. THE FRENCH WOLF AND THE SIAMESE LAMB: The French Threat to Siamese Independence, 1858–1907 By Patrick Tuck. POLITICS AND PURGES IN CHINA: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950–1965 By Frederick C. Teiwes, THE CHINA FACTOR IN MODERN JAPANESE THOUGHT: The Case of Tachibana Shiraki, 1881–1945 By Lincoln Li. DIMENSIONS OF RADICAL DEMOCRACY: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community Edited by Chantal Mouffe. NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION IN INDONESIA By Philip J. Eldridge. THE UNIQUE GENIUS OF THOMAS PAINE By Mark Anger.