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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 &…
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.…
Joe Rich, Hartnett: Portrait of a Technocratic Brigand (Sydney: Turton and Armstrong, 1996) ISBN 0 908031 68 8. pp. vi + 184. $39:95 Reviewed by John Perkins, School of Economics, University of New South Wales: [email protected] Business history in Australia,…
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…
