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Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $US49.95 cloth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. By Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 285. $41.95 paper. A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia. By Ravi de Costa. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 239. $44.95 paper. Not Part of the Public: Non‐Indigenous Policies and Practices and the Health of Indigenous South Australians 1836–1973. By Judith Raftery. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2006. Pp. 333. $39.95 paper. Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History. By Anna Clark. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006. Pp. x + 190. $49.95 paper. The Patrician and the Bloke: Geoffrey Serle and the Making of Australian History. By John Thompson. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2006. Pp. 383. $34.95 paper. An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom. By Fay Anderson. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. Pp. 374 $49.95 paper. The Great Mistakes of Australian History. Edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 244. $34.95 paper. Church Alive! Pilgrimages in Faith, 1956–2006. By Greg Dening. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 292. $44.95 cloth. High Lean Country: Land, People and Memory in New England. Edited by Alan Atkinson, S. J. Ryan, Iain Davidson and Andrew Piper. Allen and Unwin: Sydney, 2006. Pp. 416. $49.95 paper. The Dutch Down Under: 1606–2006. Edited by Nonja Peters. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2006. Pp. 422. $69.95 cloth. Per l'Australia: The Story of Italian Migration. By Julia Church. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2005. Pp. 247. $59.95 cloth. Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia. By Judith Godden. Sydney: University of Sydney Press, 2006. Pp 373. $34.95 paper. The Nationals: The Progressive, Country and National Party in New South Wales 1919 to 2006. By Paul Davey. Sydney: The Federation Press, 2006. Pp. xiv + 530. $49.50 cloth. Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia. By Jacqueline Dickenson. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006. Pp. x + 269. $49.95 paper. People and Politics in Regional New South Wales: Volume 1, 1856 to the 1950s. Edited by Jim Hagan. Sydney: Federation Press, 2006. Pp. 350. $34.95 cloth. People and Politics in Regional New South Wales: Volume 2, 1950 to 2006. Edited by Jim Hagan. Sydney: Federation Press, 2006. Pp. 336. $34.95 cloth. The Southern Tree of Liberty: The Democratic Movement in New South Wales Before 1850. By Terry Irving. Sydney: Federation Press, 2006. Pp. x + 290. $59.95 cloth. Traumascapes: The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy. By Maria Tumarkin. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005. Pp. 279. $34.95 paper. Prisoners of the Japanese: Literary Imagination and the Prisoner‐of‐War Experience. By Roger Bourke. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2006. Pp. 208. $45.00 paper. South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture. Edited by Chris Healy and Andrea Witcomb. Clayton: Monash University ePress, 2006. $39.95 paper. The Tread of a White Man's Foot: Australian Pacific Colonialism and the Cinema, 1925–1962. By Jane Landman. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2006. Pp. 225. $34.95 paper. Gathering for God: George Brown in Oceania. By Helen Bethea Gardner. Otago: Otago University Press, 2006. Pp. 204. $39.95 paper.