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Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture. Edited by Stephanie Trigg. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006. Pp. 328. $42.95 paper. What If? Australian History as It Might Have Been. Edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006. Pp. viii + 293. $34.95 paper. Disputed Histories: Imagining New Zealand's Pasts. Edited by Tony Ballantyne and Brian Moloughney. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2006. Pp. 288. NZ$49.95 paper. The Myth of the Great Depression. By David Potts. Melbourne: Scribe, 2006. Pp. 432. $59.95 cloth. Memory, Monuments and Museums: The Past in the Present. Edited by Marilyn Lake. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2006. Pp. 304. $34.95 paper. Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective. Edited by Marilyn Lake and Ann Curthoys. Canberra: ANU e‐Press, 2006. Pp. x + 278. $25 paper. Island Ministers: Indigenous Leadership in Nineteenth Century Pacific Islands Christianity. By Raeburn Lange. Christchurch: Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury and Canberra: Pandanus Press, 2006. Pp. 436. $34.95 paper. Texts and Contexts: Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography. Edited by Doug Munro and Brij V. Lai. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. Pp. 264. $47 cloth. Day of Reckoning. By Lachlan Strahan. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2005. Pp. xiv + 398. $34.95 paper. Appropriated Pasts: Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology. By Ian J. McNiven and Lynette Russell. Lanham and Oxford: AltaMira Press, 2005. Pp. 328. US$35.95 paper; US$79 cloth. Recognising Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English‐Settler Colonialism. By Peter H. Russell. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 470. $46.95 paper. Black Glass: Western Australian Courts of Native Affairs 1936–54. By Kate Auty. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005. Pp. 366. $24.95 paper. Edward Eyre, Race and Colonial Governance. By Julie Evans. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2005. Pp. 198. $43.95 paper. Gender and Empire. By Angela Woollacott. Melbourne: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. viii + 154. $51 paper. Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History. Edited by Anna Cole, Victoria Haskins and Fiona Paisley. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, AIATSIS, 2005. Pp. 288. $34.95 paper. Mixed Relations: Asian‐Aboriginal Contact in North Australia. By Regina Ganter, with contributions from Julia Martinez and Gary Lee. Perth: UWA Press, 2006. Pp. 280. $54.95 cloth. Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet. By Maria Nugent. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2005. Pp. 256. $39.95 paper. A Man of All Tribes: The Life of Alick Jackomos. By Richard Broome and Corinne Manning. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006. Pp. 298. $34.95 paper. Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers. By Cassandra Pybus. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. x + 222. $39.95 paper. Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships 1870–1885. By David Hastings. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. Pp. 294. NZ$40 paper. Ulster‐New Zealand Migration and Cultural Transfers. Edited by Brad Patterson. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. Pp. 286. £45 cloth. From Paesani to Global Italians: Veneto Migrants in Australia. By Loretta Baldassar and Ros Pesman. Perth: UWA Press, 2006. Pp. 256. $29.95 paper. Ways of Seeing China: From Yellow Peril to Shangrila. By Timothy Kendall. Fremantle: Curtin University Books, 2005. Pp. 254. $29.95 paper. East by South: China in the Australasian Imagination. Edited by Charles Ferrall, Paul Millar and Keren Smith. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005. Pp. 440. $49.95 paper. Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins. By Peter Edwards. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2006. Pp. 336. $49.95 cloth. Kin: A Collective Biography of a Working‐Class New Zealand Family. By Melanie Nolan. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2005. Pp. 252. NZ$39.95 paper. Ida Leeson A Life: Not a Blue‐Stocking Lady. By Sylvia Martin. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2006. Pp. 242. $29.95 paper. Will Dyson: Australia's Radical Genius. By Ross McMullin. Melbourne: Scribe, 2006. Pp. 474. $59.95 cloth. Francis De Groot: Irish Fascist Australian Legend. By Andrew Moore. Sydney: Federation Press, 2005. Pp. x + 222. $39.95 cloth. South by Northwest: The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica. By Granville Allen Mawer. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2006. Pp. 336. $39.95 cloth. From Woolloomooloo to ’Eternity’: A History of Australian Baptists. 2 vols. Volume 1: Crowing and Australian Church (1831–1914), Volume 2: A National Church in a Global Community (1914–2005). By Ken R. Manley. Bletchley, Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2006. Pp. xxviii + 856. $99.95 paper.