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Radical Melbourne: A Secret History. By Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow. Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2001. Pp 223. $44.95 paper. To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity. By Angela Woollacott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 298. $69.95 paper. Making the Australian Male: Middle‐Class Masculinity, 1870–1920. By Martin Crotty. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 301. $38.45 paper. The Murray: A River and Its People. By Paul Sinclair. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 303. $32.95 paper. Planting the Nation. Edited by Georgina Whitehead. Melbourne: Australian Garden History Society, 2001. Pp. x + 196. $42.90 cloth. Going Public: The Changing Face of New Zealand History. Edited by Bronwyn Dalley and Jock Phillips. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2001. Pp. 226. $NZ39.95 paper. Through Australian Eyes: Colonial Perceptions of Imperial Britain. By Andrew Hassam. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 220. $38.45 paper. Law, History, Colonialism: The Reach of Empire. Edited by Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. Pp. 307. £49.00 cloth. Making a Nation State: Cultural Identity, Economic Nationalism and Sexuality in Australian History. By Kosmas Tsokhas. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. 336. $39.95 paper. Richard Downing: Economics, Advocacy and Social Reform in Australia. By Nicholas Brown. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001, pp. ix + 346. $49.95 paper. Knowledge Generation. Technological Change and Economic Growth in Colonial Australia. By Gary Bryan Magee. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000. Pp. xvi + 277. $44.00 paper. Callipoli. By Les Carlyon. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 2001. Pp. 600. $45.00 cloth. Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives. Edited by Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell‐Stewart. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp xii + 248. $32.95 paper. Cabrini: A Hospital's Journey, 1948–1998. By Gwynedd Hunter‐Payne. Sydney: The Helicon Press, 1998. Pp. 222. $20.00 paper. A History of the Cherbourg Settlement: A Dumping Ground. By Thom Blake. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2001. Pp. 320. $35.00 paper. It's Not the Money It's the Land: Aboriginal Stockmen and the Equal Wages Case. By Bill Bunbury. Perth: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002, Pp. 192. $24.95 paper. Custodians of the Soil: A History of Aboriginal‐European Relationships in the Manning Valley of New South Wales. By John Ramsland. Taree: Greater Taree City Council, 2001. Pp. 200 + xxiii. $33.00 cloth. Fatal Collisions: The South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory. By Robert Foster, Rick Hosking and Amanda Nettle‐beck. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001. Pp. 168. $24.95 paper. Tom's Letters: The Private World of Thomas King, Victorian Gentleman. By Margot Fry. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001. Pp. 256. $NZ39.95 paper. Messages from Beyond: Spiritualism and Spiritualists in Melbourne's Golden Age. By Alfred J. Gabay. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 244. $32.95 paper. Keith Hancock. The legacies of an Historian. Edited by D.A. Low. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp xvi + 304. $32.95 paper. Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Arias of Australasia 1886–1888. By Tony Hughes‐d'Aeth. Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $59.95 cloth. Paper Nation arrived on my desk to a blare of trumpets. Winner of the W.K. Hancock and Ernest Scott Prizes, this is clearly seen The Women's War: New Zealand Women 1939–45. By Deborah Montgomerie. Auckland: University of Auckland Press, 2001. Pp. 203. NZ$39.95 paper. The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales. By Bob Reece. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xx + 373. $57.20 paper. Wheels and Deals: The Automotive Industry in Twentieth‐Century Australia. By Robert Cordon and John Perkins. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishers, 2001. Pp. x + 190. £45.00 cloth. Forests of Ash. By Tom Griffiths. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 227, $34.95 paper. Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000. By James Belich. Auckland: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 2001. Pp. 606. $NZ53.29 cloth.