Book reviews

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Creating a Nation. By Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly. McPhee Gribble, Melbourne 1994. Pp. 360. $19.95 paper.

Criminal Law and Colonial Subject: New South Wales 1810–1830. By Paula J. Byrne. Cambridge University Press 1993. Pp. xiv + 301. $59.95 cloth.

Irish‐Australian Studies. Papers Delivered at the Sixth Irish‐Australian Conference July 1990. Edited by Philip Bull, Chris McConville and Noel McLachlan. La Trobe University, Melbourne 1991. Pp. ix + 288. $25.00 paper.

The Irish Emigrant Experience in Australia. Edited by John O'Brien and Pauric Travers. Poolbeg Press, Swords, Co. Dublin 1991. Pp. 279. £12.99 paper.

Exiles from Erin: Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia. Edited by Bob Reece. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1991. Pp. xvi + 336. $29.95 paper.

Irish Convict Lives. Edited by Bob Reece. Crossing Press, Sydney 1993. Pp. 266. $32.00 cloth.

Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past. By Klaus Neumann. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1992. Pp. xvi + 310. $US34.00 cloth.

A Place for Strangers: Towards a History of Australian Aboriginal Being. By Tony Swain. Cambridge University Press 1993. Pp. xi + 303. $29.95 paper.

A Sphere of Benevolence: The Life of Joseph Orton, Wesleyan Methodist Missionary (1795–1842). By Alex Tyrrell. State Library of Victoria, Melbourne 1993. Pp. xiv + 265. $49.00 cloth. (Available from the State Library of Victoria, 328 Swanston St, Melbourne, 3000.)

James Jefferis: Prophet of Federation. By Walter Phillips. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne 1993. Pp. xviii + 341. $34.95 paper.

The Meddlesome Priest: A Life of Ernest Burgmann. By Peter Hempenstall. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1993. Pp. xv + 411. $29.95 paper.

Scots to the Fore:. A History of The Scots College, Sydney, 1893–1993. By Geoffrey Sherington and Malcolm Prentis. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1993. Pp. 303. $47.00 cloth + $10.00 postage. (Available from The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, 2023.)

St. Kevin's College, 1918–1993. By Chris McConville. Melbourne University Press 1993. Pp. xvii + 300. $49.95 cloth.

Xavier Portraits. By Greg Dening and Doug Kennedy. Old Xaverians’ Association, Melbourne 1993. Pp. 441 + 330 photographs. $45.00 cloth + $10.00 postage. (Available from OXA Family Office, Xavier College, Barkers Road, Kew, Victoria, 3101.)

Essays in the History of Rural Education in Australia and New Zealand. Edited by R.C. Petersen and G.W. Rodwell. William Michael Press, Darwin 1993. Pp. vii + 255. $33.00 paper.

The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880–1939. By Raelene Frances. Cambridge University Press 1993. Pp. xii + 267. $80.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. By Richard Gillespie. Cambridge University Press 1991. Pp. x + 282. $80.00 cloth.

The Mt Kembla Disaster. By Stuart Piggin and Henry Lee. Sydney University Press in association with Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1992. Pp. xi + 361. $49.95 cloth.

The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia. By Frank Cain. Spectrum Publications, Melbourne 1993. Pp. viii + 300. $19.95 paper.

Tommy Bent: “Bent by name, Bent by nature”. By Margaret Glass. Melbourne University Press 1993. Pp. xvi + 210. $24.95 paper.

Australia's First Fabians: Middle‐class Radicals, Labour Activists and the Early Labour Movement. By Race Mathews. Cambridge University Press 1993. Pp. xii + 284. $29.95 paper.

The Liberals. By Dean Jaensch. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1994. Pp. vii + 240. $19.95 paper.

Evatt: A Life. By Peter Crockett. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1993. Pp. iv + 388. $44.95 cloth.

Paul Hasluck: A Political Biography. By Robert Porter. University of Western Australia Press, Perth 1993. Pp. xiv + 337. $39.95 cloth.

The Young Ones: Working‐Class Culture, Consumption and the Category of Youth. By Jon Stratton. Black Swan Press, Centre for Australian Studies, Curtin University, of Technology, Perth 1992. Pp. xii + 210. $18.00 paper.

Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia's Vietnam War. By John Murphy. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1993. Pp. xxii + 335. $19.95 paper.

The End of Certainty: The Story of the 1980s. By Paul Kelly. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992. Pp. ix + 755. $529.95 paper.

The Bannon Decade: The Politics of Restraint in South Australia. Edited by Andrew Parkin and Allan Patience. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992. Pp. xi + 368. $19.95 paper.

The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870–1914. By Alan Mayne. Leicester University Press 1993. Pp. ix + 228. £37.50 cloth.

Life after Gold: Twentieth‐Century Ballarat. By Western Bate. Melbourne University Press 1993. Pp. xvi + 237. $39.95 cloth.

Gay Perspectives: Essays in Australian Gay Culture. Edited by Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon. Department of Economic History, University of Sydney 1992. Pp. iv + 197. $14.00 paper.

Gay Perspectives II: More Essays in Australian Gay Culture. Edited by Robert Aldrich. Department of Economic History with The Australian Centre for Gay and Lesbian Research, University of Sydney 1994. Pp. vi + 360. $20.00 paper.

Writing Lives: Feminist Biography and Autobiography. Edited by Susan Magarey with Caroline Guerin and Paula Hamilton. Australian Feminist Studies, Research Centre for Women's Studies, University of Adelaide 1992. Pp. xi + 169. $19.95 paper.

Feminist Histories. Edited by Bain Attwood and Joy Damqusi. The History Institute, Victoria, Melbourne 1991. Pp. iv + 49. $7.95 paper + $1.50 postage.

A Face in the Glass: The Journal and Life of Annie Baxter Dawbin. By Lucy Frost. William Heinemann, Melbourne 1992. Pp. xi + 340. $19.95 paper.

Christina Stead: A Biography. By Hazel Rowley. William Heinemann, Melbourne 1993. Pp. ix + 646. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Artists’ Portraits, Selected and introduced by Geoffrey Dutton. National Library of Australia, Canberra 1992. Pp. v + 171. $23.95 paper.

Paradise Revealed: Natural History in Nineteenth‐Century Australia. By Colin Finney. Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 1993. Pp. xv + 186. $34.95 paper.

Pioneering Days: People and Innovations in Australia's Rural Past. By Gerald Walsh. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1993. Pp. xv + 301. $34.95 cloth.

Reading Labels on Jam Tins: Living Through Difficult Times. By Bill Bunbury. Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Perth 1993. Pp. 216. $19.95 paper.

Created Landscapes: Historians and the Environment. Edited by Don Garden. Compiled by Sue Hodges. The History Institute, Victoria, Melbourne 1993. Pp. 100. $8.95 paper + $2.50 postage.

The Oxford History of New Zealand. Second Edition. Edited by Geoffrey W. Rice. Oxford University Press, Auckland 1992. Pp. xviii + 755. $39.95 paper.

Sir Joseph Ward: A Political Biography. By Michael Bassett. Auckland University Press 1993. Pp. xii + 330. $39.95 paper.