Book Reviews

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Books reviewed in this issue. Australia's Empire. Edited by Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward, The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series, Editor‐in‐Chief, Wm. Roger Louis Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era. By Babette Smith Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station. By Hamish Maxwell‐Stewart Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia Since 1826. By Geoffrey Bolton The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police. By Jonathan Richards Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a Nation. By Anne Henderson J.V. Barry: A Life. By Mark Finnane Roma the First: A Biography of Dame Roma Mitchell. By Susan Magarey and Kerrie Round The Godfather: The Life of Brian Burke. By Quentin Beresford Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004–2007. Edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall Indigenous Peoples: Self‐Determination, Knowledge, Indigeneity. Edited by Henry Minde The Queen's Other Realms: The Crown and Its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. By Peter Boyce Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice. By Julian Burnside Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia. By Linda Briskman, Susie Latham, and Chris Goddard Literary and Social Diasporas: An Italian Australian Perspective. Edited by Gaetano Rando and Gerry Turcotte Tell It As It Is: Autobiography of Rt Hon Sir Peter Kenilorea KBE PC Solomon Islands' First Prime Minister. By Peter Kenilorea. Edited by Clive Moore Brilliant Women: 18th‐Century Bluestockings. By Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz The Victorians and Germany. By John R. Davis Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe. By Robert Gildea, Olivier Wieviorka and Anette Warring Burning Books. By Matthew Fishburn Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. By Marcy Norton The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. By Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier and Patrick Reedy Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality. By Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention. By John Cooper Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History. Edited by A. Dirk Moses A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present. By Bruce Haddock The Trouble with Theory: The Educational Costs of Postmodernism. By Gavin Kitching Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification. Edited by Ronald Cole‐Turner The Allure of Machinic Life — Cybernetics. Artificial Life, and the New AI. By Harvey Johnston