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EJANZH: Brennan Reviews Mien Smith

Philippa Mein Smith, Mothers and King Baby. Infant survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950. Macmillan, London, 1997. Reviewed by Sheryl Brennan. Philippa Mein Smith explores the decline in infant mortality in relation to the rise and subsequent…

EJANZH: Etherington on Braudel

Fernand Braudel, A History of Civilisations, Penguin Books, 1995. Reviewed by Norman Etherington, History Department, University of Western Australia. This is the last of the major works of Fernand Braudel to be translated into English. Originally published in 1963, it…

EJANZH: Goldsmith on Gelder and Jacobs

Ken Gelder and Jane M. Jacobs, Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1998. ISBN 0522 848168. xvii + 163pp. $24.95. Pb. Reviewed by Ben Goldsmith In this concise and readable book, Ken Gelder…

EJANZH: Brooking review of MacGibbon

Review of John MacGibbon, Going Abroad. The MacGibbon family and other early Scottish emigrants to Otago and Southland, Wellington: John MacGibbon, 1997. 231pp. ISBN: Reviewed by Tom Brooking. John MacGibbon shows other family historians how it should be done in…

EJANZH: Menghetti on Bevege

Behind Barbed Wire: Internment in Australia during World War II. By Margaret Bevege. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia 1993. Ppxx + 314. $29.95 paper. Reviewed by Diane Menghetti During the Second World War Australia returned to its traditional role…