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The Meagre Harvest: The Australian Women's Movement, 1950s‐1990s. By Gisela Kaplan. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996. Pp. xiii + 242. $29.95 paper.

The Christesen Romance. By Judith Armstrong. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. $29.95. Pp. 225 paper.

The Politics of Australian Child Care: From Philanthropy to Feminism. By Deborah Brennan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. Pp. xii + 242. $29.95 paper.

Fair Enough: Egalitarianism in Australia. By Elaine Thompson. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1994. Pp. xii + 283. $24.95 paper.

Welfare and Social Policy in Australia: The Distribution of Advantage. Edited by Michael Wearing and Rosemary Berreen. Harcourt Brace, Sydney, 1994. Pp. xxi + 262. $32.95 paper.

Cultural Liberalism in Australia: A Study in Intellectual and Cultural History. By Gregory Melleuish. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1995. Pp viii + 226. $29.95 paper.

Prehistory to Politics: John Mulvaney, the Humanities and the Public Intellectual. Edited by Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. xii + 271. $29.95 paper.

The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939. By John F. Williams. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. Pp. viii + 288. $29.95 paper.

Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson. By Peter Fitzpatrick. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. Pp. vii + 395. $29.95 paper.

Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places. By Peter Read. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. xiv + 240. $90.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

On ‘What is History?’: From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White. By Keith Jenkins. Routledge, London, 1995. Pp. vii + 200. $33.95 paper.

The Killing of History: How a Discipline is being Murdered by literary Critics and Social Theorists. By Keith Windschuttle. Macleay Press, Sydney, 1994. Pp. 266. $39.95 cloth.

The Discovery of Australian History, 1890–1939. Edited by Stuart Macintyre and Julian Thomas. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1995. Pp. ix + 219. $24.95 paper.

Performances, By Greg Dening. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. xvi + 296. $29.95 paper.

Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia. By Tom Griffiths. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. xiv + 416. $34.95 paper.

Documenting a Nation: Australian Archives—The First Fifty Years. By Hilary Golder. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1994. Pp. viii + 76. $22.95 paper.

Parties to the Award: A Guide to the Pedigrees and Archival Resources of Federally Registered Trade Unions, Employer Associations and their Peak Councils in Australia 1904–1991. By Raj Jadeja. Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Canberra, 1994. Pp. 185. $35.00 paper.

Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia. By Jan Todd. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne and Cambridge, 1995. Pp. xii + 300. $49.95 cloth.

Making Rural Australia: An Economic History of Technical and Institutional Creativity, 1788–1860. By Geoff Raby. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. xiii + 217. $29.95 paper.

Knowing Women: The Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth‐Century Australia. By Marjorie Theobald. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. Pp. ix + 294. $90.00 cloth, $34.95 paper.

Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad. By Ros Pesman. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. viii + 271. $39.95 cloth.

Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia. By Deborah Oxley. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. Pp. xi + 339. $90.00 cloth, $34.95 paper.

In the Wake of First Contact The Eliza Fraser Stones. By Kay Schaffer. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995. Pp. xvii + 320. $35.00 paper.

Looking for La Pérouse: D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific, 1792–1793. By Frank Horner. The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1995. Pp. xiv + 318. $49.95 cloth.

Australia's First: A History of the University of Sydney. Volume 2, 1940–1990. By W.F. Connell, G.E. Sherington, B.H. Fletcher, C. Turney and U. Bygott. University of Sydney in association with Hale & Ire‐monger, Sydney, 1995. Pp. 485. $45.00 cloth.

Black Jack McEwen: Political Gladiator. By Peter Golding. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. xxi + 374. $45.00 cloth.

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