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Australia: A Cultural History. By John Rickard. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne 1988. Pp. xiv + 309. $18.95 paper.

’Of the hut I builded’. The Archaeology of Australia's History. By Graham Connah. Cambridge University Press 1988. Pp. xvi + 176. $35.00 cloth.

Australian Science in the Making. Edited by R.W. Home. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 1988. Pp. xxvii + 413. $75.00 cloth.

Two Voyages to the South Seas by Dumont D'Urville. Translated from the French and edited by Helen Rosenman. Melbourne University Press 1987. 2 vols. Pp. lxv + 631. $95.00 cloth.

Survival in Our Own Land: ‘Aboriginal’ Experiences in ‘South Australia’ since 1836. Told by Nungas and others. Edited and researched by Christobel Mattingley and co‐edited by Ken Hampton. Wakefield Press, Adelaide 1988. Pp. xv + 339. 545.00 cloth, $27.50 paper.

A Hundred Years War: The Wiradjuri People and the State. By Peter Read. Australian National University Press, Sydney 1988. Pp. xvii + 145. $18.95 cloth.

Kanaka: A History of Melanesian Mackay. By Clive Moore. Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies and University of Papua New Guinea Press, Port Moresby 1985. Pp. xxv + 420. $A21.00 paper.

The Rise of Colonial Nationalism: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa First Assert Their Nationalities, 1880–1914. Edited by John Eddy and Deryck Schreuder. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1988. Pp. vii + 258. $17.95 paper.

Equal or Different: Women's Politics 1800–1914. Edited by Jane Rendall. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1987. Pp. ix + 290. £27.50 cloth, £8.95 paper.

Silk and Calico: Class, Gender and the Vote. By Betty Searle. Hale and Iremonger, Sydney 1988. Pp. 112. $25.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.

No Rising Generation: Women & Fertility in Late Nineteenth Century Australia. By Pat Quiggin. Department of Demography, Australian National University, Canberra 1988. Pp. xii + 141. $11.95 paper.

All Care And Responsibility: A History of Nursing in Victoria 1850–1934. By Richard Trembath and Donna Hellier. Florence Nightingale Committee, Australia, Victorian Branch, Melbourne 1987. Pp. xii + 227. $20.00 cloth (plus $2.00 postage).

Challenge: The Marists in Colonial Australia. By John Hosie. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1987. Pp. x + 305. $34.95 cloth.

Faith and Fatherland: The Christian Brothers and the Development of Irish Nationalism 1838–1921. By Barry M. Coldrey. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1988. Pp. x + 338. £27.50 cloth.

Coburg: Between Two Creeks. By Richard Broome. Lothian, Melbourne 1987. Pp. ix + 366. $40.00 cloth.

Yancannia Creek. By Mary Turner Shaw. Melbourne University Press 1987. Pp. xv + 264. $29.95 cloth.

Delivering the Goods: A History of the NSW Transport Workers’ Union 1888–1986. By Mark Bray and Malcolm Rimmer. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1987. Pp. xii + 297. $24.95 paper.

Traditions for Reform in New South Wales: Labor History Essays. Pluto Press and the NSW Branch of the Australian Labor Party, Sydney 1987. Pp. xiv + 188. $14.95 paper.

The Making of the Labor Party in New South Wales 1880–1900. By Raymond Markey. New South Wales University Press, Kensington 1988. Pp. x + 327. $29.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

The Factory Floor: A Visual and Oral Record 1900–1960. By Carolyn Polizzotto. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle 1988. Pp. 251. $25.00 paper.

The Red Flag Riots: A Study of Intolerance. By Raymond Evans. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1988. Pp. xv + 252. $24.95 paper.

The Red Feds: Revolutionary and the New Zealand Federation of Labour 1908–14. By Erik Olssen. Oxford University Press, Auckland 1988. Pp. xiv + 296. $A97.50 cloth.

Big‐Noting: The Heroic Theme in Australian War Writing. By Robin Gerster. Melbourne University Press 1987. Pp. x + 294. $34.95 cloth.

Loyalty and Disloyalty: Social Conflict on the Queensland Homefront, 1914–18. By Raymond Evans. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1987. Pp. ix + 247. $17.95 paper.

We Were There: Australian Soldiers of World II Tell Their Stories. By John Barrett. Viking, Ringwood 1987. Pp. x + 470. $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.

One Woman at War: Letters of Olive King 1915–1920. Edited by Hazel King. Melbourne University Press 1986. Pp. x + 220. $26.95 cloth.

Frank Honywood, Private: A Personal Record of the 1914–1918 War. By Eric Partridge. Melbourne University Press 1987. Pp. 146. $22.50 cloth.

Sergeant Lawrence Goes to France. Edited by Peter Yule. Melbourne University Press 1987. Pp. xv + 191. $19.95 cloth.

The Unseen Voice: A Cultural Study of Early Australian Radio. By Lesley Johnson. Routledge, London 1988. Pp. xii + 243. $27.95 paper.

Casey. By W.J. Hudson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1986. Pp. xvi + 361. $35.00 cloth.

Gordon Chalk: A Political Life. By Cameron Hazlehurst. Darling Downs Institute Press, Toowoomba 1987. Pp. 318. $29.95 cloth.

The Petrov Affair: Politics and Espionage. By Robert Manne. Pergamon, Sydney 1987. Pp. xiii + 310. $28.50 cloth, $19.00 paper.

Checklist of Collective Biographies. Compiled by D.H. Borchardt with the assistance of Sandra Burr. La Trobe University Library, Bundoora 1988. Pp. iii + 201. $20.00 paper.

John Dunmore Lang: A Comprehensive Bibliography of a Turbulent Scot. By Ian F. McLaren. University of Melbourne Library, Parkville 1985. Pp. xxvi + 387. $12.00 paper.

Adam Lindsay Gordon: A Comprehensive Bibliography. By Ian F. McLaren. University of Melbourne Library, Parkville 1986. Pp. xxviii + 462. $12.00 paper.

Henry Kendall: A Comprehensive Bibliography. By Ian F. McLaren. University of Melbourne Library, Parkville 1987. Pp. xxii + 341. $16.50 paper.

Destined to be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb. By Barbara Caine. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1986. Pp. xi+ 276. £15.00 cloth.

Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775. By A. Roger Ekirch. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1987. Pp. xviii + 277. $85.00 cloth.

Capitalism and Unfree Labour: Anomaly or Necessity? By Robert Miles. Tavistock Publications, London & New York 1987. Pp. v + 250. $87.95 cloth, $37.95 paper.

Sir Allan Napier MacNab. By Donald R. Beer. Dictionary of Hamilton Biography, Hamilton 1984. Pp. xii + 491. $C26.95 cloth.