Book Reviews

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Books reviewed:Peter Chapman, general editor, Historical Records of Australia: Resumed Series III, Despatches and Papers Relating to the History of Tasmania, Volume VII. Tasmania, January–December 1828Various authors, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the Colonial Dream: A ReconsiderationGed Martin, Edward Gibbon Wakefield: Abductor and MystagogueRosamond Siemon, The Mayne InheritanceStephen Garton, The Cost of War: Australians ReturnBridget Goodwin, Keen As Mustard: Britain’s Horrific Chemical Warfare Experiments in AustraliaMeredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann, Green Bans, Red Union: Environmentalism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ FederationTim M. Berra, A Natural History of AustraliaGregory Melleuish, The Packaging of Australia: Politics and Culture WarsErrol Cocks, Charlie Fox, Mark Brogan and Michael Lee, eds, Under the Blue Skies: The Social Construction of Intellectual Disability in Western AustraliaR.A. Markus, Gregory the Great and His WorldCaroline Litzenberger, The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire, 1540–1580Peter Marshall, ed., The Impact of the English ReformationTom Webster, Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement, c. 1620–1643Adrian Wilson, ed., Rethinking Social History: English Society 1570–1920 and its InterpretationDavid Alexander, Richard Newton and English Caricature in the 1790sDavid Taylor, The New Police in Nineteenth‐Century England: Crime, Conflict and ControlBernard Lightman, ed., Victorian Science in ContextGeoffrey V. Sutton, Science for a Polite Society: Gender, Culture and the Demonstration of EnlightenmentEdna Hindie Lemay and Alison Patrick, Revolutionaries at Work: The Constituent Assembly, 1789–1791Martin Kitchen, The Cambridge Illustrated History of GermanyDouglas Newton, British Policy and the Weimar Republic 1918–1919Andrei Sinyavsky, The Russian IntelligentsiaBruce Russett, No Clear and Present Danger A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War IIPaul N. Goldstene, Revolution American Style: The Nineteen‐Sixties and BeyondVamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz and Andrew W. Dod, Richard Nixon: A PsychobiographyEric Jones, Lionel Frost and Colin White, Coming Full Circle: An Economic History of the Pacific RimStephen Alomes and Michael Provis, eds, French Worlds, Pacific Worlds: French Nuclear Testing in Australia’s BackyardNicholas Tarling, Nations and States in Southeast AsiaDavid Kelly and Anthony Reid, eds, Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast AsiaEdmund Terence Gomez and Jomo K.S., Malaysia’s Political Economy: Politics, Patronage and ProfitsMartin Stuart‐Fox, History of LaosChristopher Kremmer, Stalking the Elephant Kings: In Search of LaosGrant Evans, The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975K.L. Sharma, Social Stratification in India: Issues and ThemesVera Mackie, Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1990–1937Ian Bellany, The Environment in World Politics: Exploring the LimitsDavid Shearman with Gary Sauer‐Thompson, Green or Gone: Health, Ecology, Plagues, Greed and Our FutureDaniel S. Geller and J. David Singer, Nations at War: A Scientific Study of International ConflictDaniel Pick, War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age