Books

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Creating Australia: Changing Australian History. Edited by Wayne Hudson and Geoffrey Bolton. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997. Pp. xiii + 187. $24.95 paper. The Europeans in Australia: A History, volume 1, The Beginning. By Alan Atkinson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. xviii + 429. $49.95 cloth. Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship. By John Chesterman and Brian Galligan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. Pp. x + 277, $29.95 paper. $90.00 cloth. Wharfies: A History of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia. By Margo Beasley. Halstead Press in association with the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, 1996. Pp. x + 222. $49.95 cloth. Barmaids: A History of Women's Work in Pubs. By Diane Kirkby. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. Pp. xii + 244: $29.95 paper. Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia. By Joy Damousi. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. Pp. x + 221. $29.95 cloth. Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life. By Alison Mackinnon. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997. Pp xviii + 298. $29.95 paper. Artful Histories: Modern Australian Autobiography. By David McCooey. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, Pp. viii + 237. $29.95 paper. Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 14, 1940–1980, Di‐Kel. Edited by John Ritchie. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. xxviii + 616. $75.00 cloth. A Family Romance: The Deakins at Home. By John Rickard. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. x + 182. $24.95 paper. Ian Clunies Ross: A Biography. By Marjory Collard O'Dea. Hyland House, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. 371. $34.95 cloth. Once an Australian: Journeys with Barry Humphries, Clive James, Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes. By Ian Britain. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. xiv + 290. $39.95 cloth. Private Pleasures, Public leisure: A History of Australian Popular Culture since 1788. By Richard Waterhouse. Longman, Melbourne, 1995. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. Australia's War: 1939–45. Edited by Joan Beaumont. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996. Pp. xxvii + 209. $19.95 paper. A Nation at War Australian Politics, Society and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War, 1965–1975. By Peter Edwards. Allen & Unwin in association with the Australian War Memorial, Sydney, 1997. Pp. xx + 460. $59.95 cloth. The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney. By Grace Karskens. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. xv + 304. $34.95 cloth. The Cast of War. Australians Return. By Stephen Garton. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996. Pp. xii + 298. $44.95 cloth.