Book Reviews

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Books reviewed in this issue.Jews, Christians and the Abode of Islam: Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities. By Jacob LassnerFlood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray‐Darling Basin. By Emily O'GormanRoving Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Ocean, 1790–1870. By Lynette RussellPhillip Parker King 1791– 1856: A Most Admirable Australian. By Brian Douglas Abbott, with a Foreword by Paul BruntonMen and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century. By Robert HoggLarrikins: A History. By Melissa BellantaIn the Shadow of Gallipoli: The Hidden History of Australia in World War I. By Robert BollardKitty's War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton. By Janet ButlerAustralia and the World Crisis, 1914–1923: Volume 2: A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy. By Neville MeaneyLooking After One's Own: The Rise of Nationalism and the Politics of the Neuendettelsauer Mission in Australia, New Guinea and Germany (1921–1933). By Christine WinterW. Macmahon Ball: Politics for the People. By Ai KobayashiImmigrants Turned Activists: Italians in 1970s Melbourne. By Simone BattistonAustralia and the United Nations. Edited by James Cotton and David LeeTransforming a “White Australia”: Issues of Racism and Immigration. By Laksiri JayasuriyaAustralia's Asia: from Yellow Peril to Asian Century. Edited by David Walker and Agnieszka SobocinskaRoddy's Folly: R. P. Meagher QC – Art Lover and Lawyer. By Damien FreemanMiddle Power Dreaming: Australia in World Affairs, 2006–2010. Edited by James Cotton and John RavenhillInclusive Growth in Australia: Social Policy as Economic Investment. Edited by Paul Smyth and John BuchananViolent Victorians. Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth‐Century London. By Rosalind CroneIndia and the British Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Edited by Douglas M. Peers and Nandini GooptuThe Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire. By Giordano NanniG.K. Chesterton: A Biography. By Ian KerThe Crisis of Theory. E.P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics. By Scott HamiltonThe Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History. Edited by Dan StoneMoscow, 1937. By Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney LivingstoneIt Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway. Russia and the Communist Past. By David SatterThe Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, The Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s. By Richard WolinWood: A History. By Joachim Radkau, trans. Patrick CamillerThe Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War. By James Q. WhitmanEgypt and the Origin of Civilization: The British School of Culture Diffusion, 1890s–1940s. By Joshua Smith