Book Reviews

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Books reviewed in this article: The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839. By Colin Dyer Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Capetown, 1820–1850. By Kirsten McKenzie Varieties of Vice‐Regal Life (Van Diemen's Land Section). By Sir William and Lady Denison. Edited by Richard Davis and Stefan Petrow A Nation's Imagination: Australia's Copyright Records, 1854–1968. By Merilyn Minell Australia In Focus: Photographs in the National Archives. By Peter Nagle The Diary of Emily Caroline Creaghe Explorer. Edited with an introduction by Peter Monteath After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860–1940. Edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War. By Tanja Luckins Bigger Than Gallipoli: War, History and Memory in Australia. By Liz Reed Reconsidering Gallipoli. By Jenny Macleod Pompey Elliott. By Ross McMullin John Wren: A Life Reconsidered. By James Griffin Australia and Israel: An Ambiguous Relationship. By Chanan Reich It's Time Again: Whitlam and Modern Labor. Edited by Jenny Hocking and Colleen Lewis Blackfellas Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race. By Gillian Cowlishaw The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration. Edited by Joe Isaac and Stuart Macintyre The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty. By Mark Peel Australian Cinema after Mabo. By Felicity Collins and Therese Davies Journey into Darkness. By Winton Higgins Globalisation: Australian Regional Perspectives. Edited by Martin Shanahan and Gerry Treuren God Under Howard: the Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics. By Marion Maddox The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History. Edited by Stuart Macintyre Imagining Australia: Ideas for Our Future. By Macgregor Duncan, Andrew Leigh, David Madden and Peter Tynan Navigating Boundaries: The Asian Diaspora in Torres Strait. By Anna Shnukal, Guy Ramsey and Yuriko Nagata Reluctant Saviour: Australia, Indonesia and the Independence of East Timor. By Clinton Fernandes Abdurrahman Wahid. Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President: a View From the Inside. By Greg Barton Pacific Journeys, Essays in Honour of John Dunmore. Edited by Glynnis M. Cropp et al. Pacific Places, Pacific Histories: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste. Edited by Brij V. Lal The Manipulation of Custom: From Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands. By Jon Fraenkel Perceptions of Race and Nation in English and American Travel Writers, 1833–1914. By Erik S. Schmeller Europe's Pasts and Presents: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History Diplomaten und Agenten. Nachrichtendienste in der Geschichte der deutsch‐amerikanischen Beziehungen. Edited by Reinhard R. Doerries Fascists. By Michael Mann The Anatomy of Fascism. By Robert O. Paxton City: Urbanism and its End. By Douglas W. Rae World‐Systems Analysis: An Introduction. By Immanuel Wallerstein Metaphysics, Method and Politics: The Political Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood. By James Connelly Action as History: The Historical Thought of R. G. Collingwood. By Stein Helgeby “How Good an Historian Shall I be?” R. G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education. By Marnie Hughes‐Warrington