Book reviews

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The Quest for Grace: By Manning Clark. Viking, Ringwood 1990. Pp. 221. $29.99 cloth.

Vanished Kingdoms. Irish in Australia and New Zealand: A Personal Excursion. By Patrick O'Farrell. New South Wales University Press, Kensington 1990. Pp. xxix + 310. $39.95 cloth.

Ireland, England and Australia: Essays in Honour of Oliver MacDonagh. Edited by F.B. Smith. Australian National University and Cork University Press, Canberra 1990. Pp. vii + 252. $25.00 cloth.

The Vampire of Reason: An Essay in the Philosophy of History. By Richard James Blackburn. Verso, London 1990. Pp. ix + 222. J29.95 paper.

Mission to the South Seas: The Vogage of the Duff 1796–1799. By Michael Cathcart, Tom Griffiths, Lee Watts, Vivian Anceschi, Greg Houghton and David Goodman. History Department, University of Melbourne, Parkville 1990. Pp. ix + 172. $10.00 paper + $3.00 postage.

Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience. By Ronald Hyam. Manchester University Press 1990. Pp. ix + 234. $144.50 cloth.

Boundaries of the Past. By Bernard Smith, John Mulvaney, Greg Dening, Henry Reynolds, Graeme Davison. The History Institute, Victoria, Melbourne 1990. Pp. 35. $7.5O paper + $1.30 postage.

Human History and Social Process. By Johan Goudsblom, E.L. Jones, Stephen Mennell. University of Exeter Press 1989. Pp. 150. £7.50 paper.

Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social Theory. By Alex Callinicos. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1989. Pp. viii + 275. $29.95 paper.

The Oxford History of Australia, vol. 5, 1942–1988: The Middle Way. By Geoffrey Bolton. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1990. Pp. xiv + 334. $39.95 cloth.

Australian Literature: An Historical Introduction. By John McLaren. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne 1989. Pp. xix + 272. $24.99 paper.

From Minstrel Show to Vaudeville: The Australian Popular Stage 1788–1914. By Richard Waterhouse. New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1990. Pp. xv + 160. $24.95 paper.

Opera for the Antipodes: Opera in Australia 1881–1939. By Alison Gyger. Currency Press, Sydney 1990. Pp. viii + 364. $49.95 cloth.

Pioneer Writer. The Life of Louisa Atkinson: Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist. By Patricia Clarke. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1990. Pp. xii + 260. $29.95 cloth.

Ada Cambridge: Her Life and Work 1844–1926. By Audrey Tate. Melbourne University Press 1991. Pp. xii + 319. $24.95 cloth.

Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. By Margaret Bradstock and Louise Wakeling. Penguin, Ringwood 1991. Pp. xvi + 269. $18.95 paper.

Poppy. By Drusilla Modjeska. McPhee Gribble, Melbourne 1990. Pp. 320. $16.95 paper.

Trailing Clouds of Glory: An Informal Chronicle of Northern New South Wales, 1930–46. By Frances Hackett. Hyland House, Melbourne 1990. Pp. x + 228. $32.95 cloth.

Charles Perkins: A Biography. By Peter Read. Penguin, Ringwood 1990. Pp. xviii + 352. $29.99 cloth.

Connie Sweetheart: The Story of Connie Robertson. By Valerie Lawson. Heinemann, Melbourne 1990. Pp. xiii + 349. $39.95 paper.

Norman Lindsay on Art, Life and Literature. Edited by Keith Wingrove. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1990. Pp. xix + 241. $16.95 paper.

E.V. Keogh: Soldier, Scientist and Administrator. By Lyndsay Gardiner. Hyland House, Melbourne 1990. Pp. v + 176. $25.00 cloth.

My Father's Son. By Ric Throssell. William Heinemann Australia, Melbourne 1989. Pp. 414. $39.95 cloth.

The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation. By Avner Offer. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989. Pp. xix + 449. $65.00 cloth.

King and Country Call: New Zealanders, Conscription and the Great War. By Paul Baker. Auckland University Press 1988. Pp. 269. $NZ31. 95 paper.

New Zealand Prepares for War. By W. David McIntyre. University of Canterbury Press with the Historical Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Christ‐church 1988. Pp. 279.

Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45: The Home Front. By Nancy Taylor. 2 vols. Historical Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington 1986. Pp. xxx + 1, 330. $NZ99.50 cloth.

Frontline Gallipoli: C.E.W Bean's Diary from the Trenches. Selected and edited by Kevin Fewster. Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1990 (first published 1983). Pp. 217. $18.95 paper.

The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War. By Bill Gammage. Penguin, Melbourne 1990 (first published 1974). Pp. xi + 330. $24.99 paper.

Gallipoli Mission. By C.E.W. Bean. Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1990 (first published 1948). Pp. xx + 401. $19.99 paper.

On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime 1939–1945. By Kate Darian‐Smith. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1990. Pp. viii + 288. $39.95 cloth.

Australian Science in the Making. Edited by R.W. Home. Cambridge University Press in association with the Australian Academy of Science, Melbourne 1990. Pp. xxvii + 413. $35.00 paper.

Scientist of Empire: Sir Roderick Murchison, Scientific Exploration and Victorian Imperialism. By Robert A. Stafford. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 1989. Pp. xii + 293. $49.95 cloth.

The Riches of Ancient Australia: A Journey into Prehistory. By Josephine Flood. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1990. Pp. xxi + 373. 532.95 paper.

A Picnic with the Natives: Aboriginal‐European Relations in the Northern Territory to 1910. By Gordon Reid. Melbourne University Press 1990. Pp. xii + 220. $24.95 paper.

A ‘Distant Field of Murder’: Western District Frontiers 1834–1848. By Jan Critchett. Melbourne University Press 1990. Pp. xiv + 303. $34.95 cloth.

Governing Savages. By Andrew Markus. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1990. Pp. x + 214. $16.95 paper.

With the White People. By Henry Reynolds. Penguin, Ringwood 1990. Pp. ix + 288. $16.99 paper.

The Black Diggers: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War. By Robert A. Hall. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1989. Pp. xv + 228. $19.95 paper.

The Torres Strait: People and History. By John Singe. Second edition. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1989. Pp. xvi + 261. $19.95 paper.

Labour in the South Pacific. Edited by Clive Moore, Jacqueline Leckie and Doug Munro. Department of History and Politics, James Cook University, Townsville 1990. Pp. li + 335. 525.00 paper.

The History of the Pacific Islands: Kingdoms of the Reefs. By Deryck Scarr. Macmillan, Melbourne 1990. Pp. xi + 426. $59.95 cloth.

A History of the Pacific Islands. By I.C Campbell. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1989. Pp. 239. $34.95 paper.

The Women of Botany Bay. By Portia Robinson. Macquarie Library, Sydney 1988. Pp. 344. $39.95 cloth.

A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal. By Babette Smith. New South Wales University Press, Sydney 1988. Pp. 254. 529.95 cloth.

The Convict Probation System: Van Diemen's Land, 1839–1854. By Ian Brand.Blubber Head Press, Hobart 1990. Pp. viii + 284. $45.00 cloth.