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Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia. Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 344. $49.95 cloth. Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839–1900. By Marguerite Hancock. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xxii + 324. $59.95 cloth. Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist. By Patricia Clarke. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Pp. ii + 286. $43.95 cloth. Ill‐Starred Captains: Flinders and Baudin. By Anthony Brown. Adelaide: Crawford House, 2000. Pp. xx + 512 pp. $49.95 cloth. Sir Frank Packer: The Young Master. By Bridget Griffen‐Foley. Sydney: Harper Collins, 2000. Pp. xviii + 398. $29.95 paper. Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga. By John McQuilton. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp xii + 275. $32.95 paper. Dinkum Diggers: An Australian Battalion at War. By Dale Blair. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. x + 246. $34.95 paper Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post‐war Australia. By Joy Damousi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. viii + 240. $45.00 cloth. Australia's Bid for the Atomic Bomb. By Wayne Reynolds. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xi + 284. $32.95 paper. Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in the Great Depression. By Charlie Fox. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Pp. xxii + 281. $29.95 paper. Ireland and Australia, 1798–1998: Studies in Culture, Identity and Migration. Edited by Philip Bull, Frances Devlin‐Glass and Helen Doyle. Sydney: Crossing Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 367. $30.00 paper. An Empire On Display. English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. By Peter H. Hoffenberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xxix + 418. US$50.00 cloth. Colonial Editions in Australia, 1843–1972. By Graeme Johanson. Wellington: Elibank Press, 2000. Pp. 346, $62.50 paper. Blue China. Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia. By Jan Gothard. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 298. $44.95 cloth. The Captive White Woman of Gipps Land: In Pursuit of the Legend. By Julie Carr. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. 309. $29.95 paper. Lizard Island: The Journey of Mary Watson. By Suzanne Falkiner and Alan Oldfield. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2001. Pp. 235. $60.00 cloth. Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights 1919–1939. Fiona Paisley. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 202. $32.95 paper. Waitangi & Indigenous Rights: Revolution, Law and Legitimation. By F.M. (Jock) Brookfield. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2000. Pp. 253. $NZ39.95 paper. Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia Since 1870. By Jim Davidson and Peter Spearritt. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Pp xxxi + 416. $65.95 cloth. Street Seen: A History of Oxford Street Clive Faro with Gary Wotherspoon. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Pp. xii + 324, $43.95 cloth. Somewhere in Asia: War, Journalism, and Australia's Neighbours 1941–75. By Prue Torney‐Parlicki. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2000. Pp. xxvi + 305. $35.00 paper. The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions 1871–1919: Essays on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism. Edited by John A. Moses and Christopher Pugsley. Claremont, California: Regina Books, 2000. Pp. xviii + 576. $65.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.