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Making Crime Pay. The Evolution of Convict Tourism in Tasmania by David Young; Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Hobart, 1996, pp 208, rrp $20. ISBN 0 909479 16X. Reviewed by Peter Pierce, School of Languages, Literature and Communication, James Cook University…
Chris Long, Tasmanian photographers 1840-1940. A Directory. Tasmanian Historical Research Association & Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1995. Reviewed by Richard Neville. The compilers of lists engage upon an ill- rewarded task. General readers are thankful for the effort, but…
Mabo: A Judicial Revolution: The Aboriginal Land Rights Decision and its Impact on Australian Law . Edited by M.A. Stephenson and Suri Ratnapala. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. xvii + 225. $29.95. By Russell McGregor, James Cook University.…
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…
