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‘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…

EJANZH: Hawkes on Kercher

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…

EJANZH: Dargavel reviews Robin

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 &…

EJANZH: Heyward reviewed by Brooklyn

Michael Heyward, The Ern Malley Affair, University of Queensland Press, 1993. Reviewed by Bridget Brooklyn. The way a society responds to or uses art and culture during wartime usually gives us insights into the normal, peacetime life of that society.…

EJANZH: McGregor review of Prentis

Malcolm D. Prentis, Science, Race & Faith: A Life of John Mathew, 1849-1929, Sydney: Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity, 1998, pp.240. ISBN Reviewed by Russell McGregor Insofar as John Mathew is remembered today, it’s for his studies of…

Caroline Daley Reviews Hess and Stewart

Rob Hess and Bob Stewart, eds. More Than A Game: An Unauthorised History of Australian Rules Football Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998. 304 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $A29.95 (paper). ISBN 0-522-84772-2. Reviewed By Caroline Daley When I attended my…