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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…
A Straight-out Man: F.W. Albrecht and Central Australian Aborigines By Barbara Henson. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, (1992) paperback edn 1994. xvi + 313. $24.95. Reviewed by Russell McGregor, James Cook University of North Queensland. Biographies seem to be popular these…
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…
Peter Pierce, The Country of Lost Children: an Australian Anxiety, Oakleigh, Cambridge University Press, 1999, , pp xviii + 211, illustrations and index, ISBN 0 521 594490 5 (hardcover), ISBN 0 521 59499 5 (paperback), ARP $24.95 (paperback), $90 (hardcover)…
Mark Hearn and Harry Knowles, One Big Union. A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886-1994. Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1996, Pp xiii+ 377. Illustrated, Appendix, Index, $29.95 paperback. Reviewed by Bobbie Oliver. ‘One Big Union’ is an apt title…
Jeffery Grey, A Military History of Australia, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1999, , pp xii + 300, with maps, tables and figs, $90 hb, $29.95 pb, revised edition. The first edition of this study appeared in 1990, one of the…
D Phillips, S Davies (eds), A Nation of Rogues? Crime, law and punishment in colonial Australia, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1994. Reviewed by Philippa Martyr I like history which not only informs, but entertains. This is not in the least…
Jenny Gregory (ed.), On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1997. Ppxiv + 364. Illustrated. $39.95. On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II commemorates the efforts made by Western Australians…
A Question of Leadership. By Michael Gordon. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993, xiii + 240. $14.95. Reviewed by Richard Davis, History Department, University of Tasmania. This book, published in February 1993, immediately before the Federal election, has apparently…
Stefan Petrow, Sanatorium of the South? Public health and politics in Hobart and Launceston, 1875-1914, Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1995. Anne Killalea, The Great Scourge: the Tasmanian infantile paralysis epidemic, 1937-1938,Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1995. Reviewed by Philippa…
