Book reviews

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J.M.R. Cameron, Ambition's Fire. The Agricultural Colonization of Pre‐Convict Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, 1981, pp.xvii + 238, $19.95.

Hugh Speirs, Landscape Art and the Blue Mountains; The Artistic, Historical, & Environmental Influences upon the Landscape Art of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia; with an Introduction to the Ways in which Nature and Art may be linked in Painting, Alternative Publishing Cooperative, Sydney, 1981, pp.xx + 203, $39.95.

G.P. Shaw, Patriarch and Patriot: William Grant Broughton 1788–1853 Colonial Statesman and Ecclesiastic, Melbourne University Press, 1978, pp.348, $18.60.

Ross Fitzgerald, From the Dreaming to 1915; A History of Queensland, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1982, pp.354, $19.95.

Joanna Monie, Victorian History and Politics. European settlement to 1939; a survey of the literature, Borchardt Library, La Trobe University, 1982, pp.689, $27.95.

Jurgen Tampke (ed.) Wunderbar Country: Germans Look at Australia 1850–1914, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1982, pp.223, $24.95, paper $13.95.

Denis O'Brien, The Weekly, Penguin, Melbourne, 1982, pp.160, $12.95.

Kay Saunders, Workers in Bondage, The Origins and Bases of Unfree Labour in Queensland, 1824–1916, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1982, pp. xx + 213, $29.95.

Sydney Labour History Group, What Rough Beast? The State and Social Order in Australian History, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1982, pp.282, S22.50, paper $9.95.

Margaret M. Pawsey, The Demon of Discord: Tensions in the Catholic Church in Victoria, 1853–1864, Melbourne University Press, 1982, $19.95.

Pauline Kneipp, This Land of Promise, The Ursuline Order in Australia, 1782–1982, University of New England Publishing Unit, Armidale, 1982, pp.156, $16, paper $7.70.

Ailsa G. Thomson Zainu'ddin, They Dreamt of a School A Centenary History of Methodist Ladies’ College Kew 1882–1982, Hyland House, Melbourne, 1982, pp.469, $25.

Geoffrey Serle, John Monash. A Biography, Melbourne University Press (in association with Monash University), 1982, pp.xvi + 600, $27.50; Bernard Callinan, Sir John Monash, Melbourne University Press, 1981, pp.29, $3.50.

R. East (ed.), The Gallipoli Diary of Sergeant Lawrence of the Australian Engineers ‐ 1st A.I.F., 1915, pp.xi + 167, Melbourne University Press, 1981, $15.95.

Robert Murray & Kate White, The Ironworkers, A History of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982, pp.xiii + 341, $24.95, paper $11.95.

Judy Mackinolty (ed.) The Wasted Years? Australia's Great Depression, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1981, pp.xiii + 273, $18.95, paper $9.95.