Reviews

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The Fatal Shore. By Robert Hughes. Collins Harvill, London 1987. Pp. xvi + 688. $39.95 cloth.

Frontier: Aborigines, Settlers and Land. By Henry Reynolds. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1987. Pp. ix + 234. $14.95 paper.

This is what happened: Historical narratives by Aborigines. Edited by Luise Hercus and Peter Sutton. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra 1986. Pp. x + 341. $22.95 cloth.

Australian Catholics: The Contribution of Catholics to the Development of Australian Society. By Edmund Campion. Penguin, Ringwood 1987. Pp. 280. $19.95 cloth.

James Duhig. By T.P. Boland. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1986. Pp. xv + 435. $40.00 cloth.

Beyond Belief: Theosophy in Australia 1879–1939. By Jill Roe. New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1986. Pp. xi + 396. $19.95 paper.

’A Bright and Savage Land’. Scientists in Colonial Australia. By Ann Moyal. Collins, Sydney 1986. Pp. 192. $45.00 cloth.

With Conscious Purpose: A History of Town Planning in South Australia. Edited by Alan Hutchings and Raymond Bunker. Wakefield Press in association with Royal Australian Planning Institute (South Australian Division), Adelaide 1986. Pp. xiv + 122. $24.95 paper.

The Adelaide City Plan: Fiction and Fact. By Donald Leslie Johnson and Donald Lang‐mead. Wakefield Press, Adelaide 1986. Pp. 42. $15.95 paper.

Neglected and Criminal: Foundations of Child Welfare Legislation in Victoria. By Donella Jaggs. Phillip Institute of Technology, Centre for Youth and Community Studies, Bundoora 1986. Pp. iii + 211. $10.00 paper.

Her Natural Destiny: The Education of Women in New South Wales. By Noeline Kyle. New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1986. Pp. vii + 222. $19.95 cloth.

The New Women: Adelaide's Early Women Graduates. By Alison Mackinnon. Wake‐field Press in association with the University of Adelaide Foundation, Adelaide 1986. Pp. 228. $17.95 paper.

The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria, 1915–1938. By Marilyn Lake. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1987. Pp. xviii + 317. $35.00 cloth.

High Hopes: The Men and Motives of the Australian Round Table. By Leonie Foster. Melbourne University Press in Association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Melbourne 1986. Pp. xviii + 294. $25.00 cloth.

Labor Judge: The Life and Times of Judge Alfred William Foster. By Constance Larmour. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1985. Pp. 286. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.

From SGIO to Suncorp. By Malcolm I. Thomis and Murdoch Wales. Suncorp Insurance and Finance, Brisbane 1986. Pp. xii + 272. $18.95 cloth.

The 1950s: . . . how Australia became a modern society, and everyone got a house and car. By Stella Lees and June Senyard. Hyland House, Melbourne 1987. Pp. 1987. Pp. 157. $24.95 paper.

Tough Times: Australia in the Seventies. By Frank Crowley. Illustrated by Neil Moore. William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne 1986. Pp. 512. $39.95 cloth.

Chosen: The Jews in Australia. By Hilary L. Rubinstein. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1987. $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Community of Fate: Memoirs of German Jews in Melbourne. Edited by John Foster. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1986. $24.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.

Australia and the Jewish Refugees 1933–1948, By Michael Blakeney. Croom Helm, Sydney 1985. Pp. iii + 330. $29.95 cloth.

Stalag Australia: German Prisoners of War in Australia. By Barbara Winter. Angus & Robertson, Sydney and London 1986. Pp.xv + 406. $29.95 cloth.

The Writing on the Wall: The British Commonwealth and Aggression in the East 1931–1935. By E.M. Andrews Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1987. Pp. xv + 228. $29.95 cloth.

Menzies and Churchill at War: A Controversial New Account of the 1941 Struggle for Power. By David Day. Angus & Robertson, Sydney and London 1986. Pp. ix + 271. $29.95 cloth.

A Great and Powerful Friend: A Study of Australian‐American Relations between 1900 and 1975. By Norman Harper. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1987. Pp. x + 416. $34.95 paper.

Maternity in Dispute: New Zealand 1920–1939. By Philippa Mein Smith. Historical Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington 1986. Pp. xvii + 180. $14.95 cloth.

White Women in Fiji 1835–1930: The Ruin of Empire? By Claudia Knapman. Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1986. Pp. xiv + 226.$ 15.95 paper.

The Totem and the Tricolour: A Short History of New Caledonia since 1774. By Martyn Lyons. New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1986. Pp. xi + 148. $14.95 cloth, $9.95 paper.

The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaelogists in Victorian England 1838–1886. By Philip‐pa Levine. Cambridge University Press. Pp.ix +210. $89.50 cloth.

Feminism and Democracy: Women's Suffrage and Reform Politics in Britain, 1900–1918. By Sandra Stanley Holton. Cambridge University Press 1986. Pp. xi + 201. $75.50 cloth.

Working in Metal: Management and Labour in the Metal Industries of Europe and the USA. By Chris McGuffie. Merlin Press, London 1985. Pp. xl + 302. £17.50 cloth.

Godly Zeal and Furious Rage: The Witch in Early Modern Europe. By G.R. Quaife. Croom Helm, London and Sydney 1987. Pp.235. $82.50 cloth.

Melbourne Historical Journal, vol. 18, 1987. Department of History, University of Melbourne, $4.00.

Past Imperfect: The Sydney University Historical Journal, no. 1, 1987. Department of History, University of Sydney, $4.50.