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Anne-Maree Whitaker, Distracted Settlement: New South Wales after Bligh: from the Journal of Lieutenant James Finucane, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 1998. hb $45.00 Anyone who has researched the early period of colonisation will know how few personal journals…
Marjorie Theobald, Knowing Women: Origins of Women’s Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia, Melbourne (Cambridge University press), 1996, pp. ix & 294, rrp $35.95. Reviewed By Richard Davis, History Department, University of Tasmania Marjorie Theobald’s Knowing Women repays careful reading, containing as…
James Watson, Links: A History of Transport and New Zealand Society Wellington: GP Publications, 1996 paperback 315pp $39.95 Bryan Gilling, Government Valuers: Valuation New Zealand 1896-1996 Wellington: Valuation New Zealand, 1996 paperback 191 pp $29.95 Reviewed by Jim McAloon James…
Clem Lloyd, and Jacqui Rees, The Last Shilling: a history of repatriation in Australia , Melbourne University Press, 1994. This is a long-overdue piece of work. The history of repatriation in Australia has tended to turn up in a multitude…
Stephanie Lawson. Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x + 228 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography and index. $75.00 ea (cloth). Reviewed by Sandra Tarte, University of the South Pacific.…
‘Ruthless Warfare’: German military planning and surveillance in the Australia – New Zealand region before the Great War. Edited and introduced by Jurgen Tampke. 214 pp. Southern Highlands Publishers, Canberra, 1998. ISBN: 0-733-0504-5. Recommended Retail Price: $24.00. Review by Robert…
Hester Eisenstein, Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996. ISBN 1 86448 036X. $A29.95 Gisela Kaplan, The Meagre Harvest: the Australian Women’s Movement, 1950s-1990s, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1996. 1 86448 062 9. A$35.00 Marilyn…
Bruce Kercher, An Unruly Child: A History of Law in Australia (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1995), pp. xxi + 248, RRP$ 29.95. ‘Q. Do you consider yourself bound to pursue the principles of English Law in all the cases that…
Bruce Scates, A New Australia. Citizenship, Radicalism and the First Republic. Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. vii, + 261. Illustrated, Bibliographic Notes, Index, ISBN 0-521-57596-6. $A29.95, paperback. Reviewed by Bobbie Oliver, Curtin University. Bruce Scates has established a reputation for…
Libby Robin, Defending the Little Desert: the Rise of Ecological Concsciousness in Australia. Melbourne University Press. pp.203. ISBN 0 522 84831 1 (Paper $29.95) Reviewed by John Dargavel In introducing his Places Worth Keeping: Conservationists, Politics and Law (Allen &…
