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Aztecs: An Interpretation. By Inga Clendinnen. Cambridge University Press 1991. Pp. xiii + 398. $49.95 cloth. Mr Bligh's Bad Language: Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty. By Greg Dening. Cambridge University Press 1992. Pp. xii + 445. $49.95 cloth. Living Aboriginal History of Victoria: Stories in the Oral Tradition. By Alick Jackomos and Derek Fowell. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 1991. Pp. 203. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. A Story to Tell: The Working Lives of Ten Aboriginal Australians. Edited by Nan Gallagher. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 1992. Pp. vi + 170. $16.95 paper. The World of Albert Facey. By J. B. Hirst. The History Institute, Victoria in association with Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992. Pp. xii + 167. $24.95 paper. Incest and the Community: Australian Perspectives. Edited by Penelope Hetherington. Centre for Western Australian History, Department of History, University of Western Australia, Perth 1991. Pp. xi + 217. $23.00 paper (posted). The Making and Breaking of the Australian Family. By Michael Gilding. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1991. Pp. 171. $17.95 paper. Family Economics. By Kerreen Reiger. McPhee Gribble, Melbourne 1991. Pp. vii + 70. $11.99 paper. The WAAAF in Wartime Australia. By Joyce A. Thomson. Melbourne University Press 1991. Pp. xii + 422. $39.95 cloth. Thanks Girls and Goodbye: The Story of the Australian Women's Land Army, 1942–45. Edited by Sue Hardisty. Viking O'Neil, Melbourne 1990. Pp. xiii + 231. $29.95 paper. Guns and Brooches: Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War. By Jan Bassett. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1992. Pp. x + 261. $39.95 cloth. Australia's Frontline: Remembering the 1939–45 War. By Libby Connors, Lynette Finch, Kay Saunders and Helen Taylor. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1992. Pp. xvi + 244. $16.95 paper. Those Ragged Bloody Heroes: From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942. By Peter Brune. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1991. Pp. xv + 309. $19.95 paper. A People's Counsel: A History of the Parliament of Victoria, 1856–1990. By Raymond Wright. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1992. Pp. xv + 304. $29.95 cloth. The House on the Hill: A History of the Parliament of Western Australia, 1832–1990. Edited by David Black. Parliament of Western Australia, Perth 1991. Pp. xiv + 558. $45.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Children and the State: Social Control and the Formation of Australian Child Welfare. By Robert van Krieken. Allen 8: Unwin, Sydney 1991. Pp. x + 173. $19.95 paper. Arguing about the Welfare State: The Australian Experience. By Peter Beilharz, Mark Considine and Rob Watts. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992. Pp. vi + 183. $19.95 paper. Labour's Utopias: Bolshevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy. By Peter Beilharz. Routledge, London 1992. Pp. xi + 168. $49.95 cloth. The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910–1960. By James A. Gillespie. Cambridge University Press 1991. Pp. xvii + 358. $49.95 cloth. The Drought Walked Through: A History of Water Shortage in Victoria. By Jenny Keating. Department of Water Resources Victoria, Melbourne 1992. Pp. xii + 304. $24.95 paper. Mastering Risk: Environment, Markets and Politics in Australian Economic History. By Colin White. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1992. Pp. viii + 326. $24.95 paper. Markets, Money and Empire: The Political Economy of the Australian Wool Industry. By Kosmas Tsokhas. Melbourne University Press 1990. Pp. viii + 235. $29.95 paper. Australia's First: A History of the University of Sydney, Volume 1, 1850–1939. By Clifford Turney, Ursula Bygott and Peter Chippendale. University of Sydney in association with Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1991. Pp. xix + 683. $49.95 cloth. Long Division: State Schooling in South Australian Society. By Pavla Miller. Wake‐field Press, Adelaide 1986. Pp. xix + 432. $45.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. Tender Sympathies: A Social History of Botany Cemetery. By Sue Zelinka. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1991. Pp. 150. $29.95 cloth. Exploring the Suburbs: North Shore Walks. By Joan Lawrence. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1991. Pp. 170. $14.95 paper. Waterfront Sydney 1860–1920. By Graeme Aplin and John Storey. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1991. First published 1984. Pp. 144. $24.95 paper. Marrickville: Rural Outpost to Inner City. By Richard Cashman and Chrys Meader. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1991. Pp. 224. $29.95 cloth. Surry Hills: The City's Back Yard. By Christopher Keating. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1991. Pp. 120. $24.95 cloth. Millers Point: The Urban Village. By Shirley Fitzgerald and Christopher Keating. Hale & Iremonger, Sydney 1991. Pp. 128. $24.95 cloth. A History of Footscray. By John Lack. Hargreen, Melbourne 1991. Pp. 454. $39.95 cloth. Australia's First Government House. By Helen Proudfoot, Anne Bickford, Brian Egloff and Robyn Stocks. Allen & Unwin and Department of Planning, Sydney 1991. Pp. xv + 196. $29.95 paper. Burke and Wills: From Melbourne to Myth. By Tim Bonyhady. David Ell Press, Sydney 1991. Pp. 383. $69.95 cloth. The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia. By Alison Broínowski. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1992. Pp. xii + 260. $27.95 paper. Rethinking Working‐Class History: Bengal 1890–1940. By Dipesh Chakrabarty. Princeton University Press 1989. Pp. xix + 245. $US39.50 cloth. Woman's World, Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880–1930. By Ian Tyrrell. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1991. Pp. xiii + 381. $US45.00 cloth. Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality, Class and Gender in Nineteenth‐Century London. By Françoise Barret‐Ducrocq. Translated by John Howe. Verso, London 1991. Pp. 225. $49.95 cloth. Contemporary Western European Feminism. By Gisela Kaplan. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992. Pp. xxvi + 340. $24.95 paper.