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Gender Relations in Australian Society: Domination and Negotiation. Edited by Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sydney 1992. Pp. xxiv + 464. $34.95 paper.

The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 2, 1770–1860: Possessions. By Jan Kociumbas. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1992. Pp. xvii + 397. $39.95 cloth.

Living in a New Country: History, Travelling and Language. By Paul Carter. Faber & Faber, London 1992. Pp. x + 214. $35.00 cloth.

Hidden Histories: Black Stories from Victoria River Downs, Humbert River and Wave Hill Stations. By Deborah Bird Rose. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra 1991. Pp. xxiv + 268. $22.95 paper.

Dingo Makes us Human: Life and Land in an Aboriginal Australian Culture. By Deborah Bird Rose. Cambridge University Press 1992. Pp. 249. $45.00 cloth.

Whitefella Comin’: Aboriginal Responses to Colonialism in Northern Australia. By David S. Trigger. Cambridge University Press 1992. Pp. xiv + 250. $45.00 cloth.

A Straight‐out Man: F.W. Albrecht and Central Australian Aborigines. By Barbara Henson. Melbourne University Press 1992. Pp. xvi + 313. $39.95 cloth.

Australia's Italians: Culture and Community in a Changing Society. Edited by Stephen Castles, Caroline Alcorso, Gaetano Rando and Ellie Vasta. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992. Pp. xxviii + 261. $19.95 paper.

Russia and the Fifth Continent: Aspects of Russian‐Australian Relations. Edited by John McNair and Thomas Poole. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1992. Pp. xiv + 292. $29.95 paper.

Sojourners: The Epic Story of China's Centuries‐old Relationship with Australia. By Eric Rolls. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1992. Pp. xi + 531. $49.95 cloth.

Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People. By Judith Brett. Pan Macmillan, Sydney 1992. Pp ix + 313. $26.95 paper.

Robert Dunne 1830–1917: Archbishop of Brisbane. By Neil J. Byrne. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1991. Pp. xviii + 347. $49.95 cloth.

As Good as a Yarn with You: Letters between Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanny, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw and Eleanor Dark. Edited by Carole Ferrier. Cambridge University Press 1992. Pp. ix + 438. $49.95 cloth.

Books, Readers, Reading. Australian Cultural History, no. 11, 1992. Pp. vii + 140. $13.00 paper. (Available from Australian Cultural History, Faculty of Humanities, Deakin University, Geelong, 3217).

Australian Readers Remember: An Oral History of Reading 1890–1930. By Martyn Lyons and Lucy Taksa. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1992. Pp. viii + 230. $24.95 paper.

Life Lines: Australian Women's Letters and Diaries 1788 to 1840. Edited by Patricia Clarke and Dale Spender. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992. Pp. xxxi + 261. $22.95 paper.

Woman Suffrage in Australia: A Gift or a Struggle? By Audrey Oldfield. Cambridge University Press 1992. Pp. xiv + 263. $80.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Women in History: Essays on European Women in New Zealand. Edited by Barbara Brookes, Charlotte Macdonald and Margaret Tennant. Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington 1986. Pp. vii + 202. $NZ24.44 paper.

Women in History 2: Essays on Women in New Zealand. Edited by Barbara Brookes, Charlotte Macdonald and Margaret Tennant. Bridget Williams Books, Wellington 1992. Pp. vi + 321. $NZ34.95 paper.

Medicine and Madness: A Social History of Insanity in New South Wales 1880–1940. By Stephen Garton. New South Wales University Press, Kensington 1988. Pp. 212. $24.95 paper.

A Healthy Country: Essays on the Social History of Medicine in New Zealand. Edited by Linda Bryder. Bridget Williams Books, Wellington 1991. Pp. 252. $NZ29.95 paper.

Poverty Abounding Charily Aplenty: The Charity Network in Colonial Victoria. By R.A. Cage. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1992. Pp. 190. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.

Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia. By Stephen J. Pyne. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992. Pp. xiv + 520. $19.95 paper.

History and the Landscape in Central Australia: A Study of the Material Evidence of European Culture and Settlement. By David Carment. North Australian Research Unit, Australian National University, Darwin 1991. Pp. xi + 81. $20.00 paper.

A Shared Harvest: The Australian Wheat Industry, 1939–1989. By Greg Whitwell and Diane Sydenham. Macmillan, Melbourne 1991. Pp. xi + 324. $29.95 cloth.

The Age of Macquarie. Edited by James Broadbent and Joy Hughes. Melbourne University Press in association with Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, Melbourne 1992. Pp. xviii + 194. $29.95 paper.

Sydney 1842–1992. By Shirley Fitzgerald. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1992. Pp. 324. $34.95 cloth.

Commandant of Solitude: The Journals of Captain Collet Barker 1828–1831. By John Mulvaney and Neville Green. Melbourne University Press 1992. Pp. xviii + 431. $49.95 cloth.

Prussian‐German Militarism 1914–18 in Australian Perspective: The Thought of George Arnold Wood. By John Anthony Moses. German‐Australian Studies, vol. 3. Peter Lang, Berne 1991. Pp. 215. 45 francs paper.

The Lesser Evil? Opposition to War and Fascism in Australia, 1920–1941. By Carolyn Rasmussen. Department of History, University of Melbourne, Parkville 1992. Pp. vi + 164. $13.00 paper (posted).

An Army for a Nation: A History of Australian Military Developments 1880–1914. By John Mordike. Allen & Unwin in association with the Department of Defence, Sydney 1992. Pp. xx + 310. $34.95 cloth.

Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan 1942–45. By David Day. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1992. Pp. x + 366. $39.95 cloth.

Aborigines in the Defence of Australia. Edited by Desmond Ball. Australian National University Press, Sydney 1991. Pp. xxii + 240. $35.00 paper.

Australian Brass: The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson. By Jeffrey Grey. Cambridge University Press 1992. Pp. xxi + 249. $49.95 cloth.

Duty First: The Royal Australian Regiment in War and Peace. Edited by David Horner. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1990. Pp. xxviii + 525. $39.95 cloth.

SAS: Phantoms of the Jungle. By D.M. Horner. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1989. Pp. xvi + 527. $39.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Politics, Women and Well‐Being: How Kerala Became ‘A Model’. By Robin Jeffrey. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1992. Pp. xviii + 285. $89.95 cloth.

E.P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives. Edited by Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland. Polity Press, Oxford 1990. Pp. x + 283. $29.95 paper.

Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome. Edited by Beryl Rawson. Humanities Research Centre, Canberra and Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991. Pp. xii + 252. $80.00 cloth.

No Gods Except Me: Orthodoxy and Religious Practice in Europe 1200–1600. Edited by Charles Zika. Department of History, University of Melbourne, Parkville 1991. Pp. vi + 198. $13.00 paper (posted).

The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. By Joel Mokyr. Oxford University Press 1992 (first published 1990). Pp. ix + 349. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Europe and the Rise of Capitalism. Edited by Jean Baechler, John A. Hall and Michael Mann. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1989. Pp. iv + 249. $29.95 paper.

A Social History of France, 1780–1880. By Peter McPhee. Routledge, London 1992. Pp. ix + 347. $79.95 cloth (Distributed by The Law Book Company Limited).

The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilisation in the French Countryside, 1846–1852. By Peter McPhee. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1992. Pp. x + 310. $110.00 cloth.

Sexual Moralities in France 1780–1980: New Ideas on the Family, Divorce and Homosexuality. By Antony Copley. Routledge, London 1992 (first published 1989). Pp. xi + 283. $38.95 paper (Distributed by The Law Book Company Limited).

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