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Australian Feminism: A Companion. Edited by Barbara Caine, Moira Gatens, Emma Grahame, Jan Larbalestier, Sophie Watson and Elizabeth Webby. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxix + 607. $87.50 cloth. The Imaginary Australian: Anglo‐Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present By Miriam Dixson. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 216. $27.95 paper. Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism. By Marilyn Lake. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999. Pp. xi + 316. $27.45 paper. Playing the Man: New Approaches to Masculinity. Edited by Katherine Biber, Torn Sear and Dave Trudinger. Sydney: Pluto Press, 1999. Pp. vii + 249. $27.45 paper. Obliged to be Difficult Nugget Coombs’ Legacy in Indigenous Affairs. By Tim Rowse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 254. $32.95 paper. Observing Australia: 1959 to 1999. By K.S. Inglis, edited by Craig Wilcox. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Pp. 272. $32.95 paper. Connection and Disconnection: Encounters between Settlers and Indigenous People in the Northern Territory. Edited by Tony Austin and Suzanne Parry. Darwin: Northern Territory University Press, 1998. Pp. 330. $38.50 paper. Inside the Rocks: The Archaeology of a Neighbourhood. By Grace Karskens. Sydney: Hale 6‐ Iremonger, 1999. Pp. 240. $38.45 paper. Many Inventions: The Chinese in the Rocks, 1890–1930. By Jane Lydon. Melbourne: Monash Publications in History, 1999. Pp. xxii + 276. $19.95 paper. Gritty Cities: Images of the Urban. Edited by Lynette Finch and Chris McConville. Sydney: Pluto Press, 1999. Pp. 286. $27.45 paper. Imagining Australian Space, Cultural Studies and Spatial Enquiry. Edited by Ruth Barcan and Ian Buchanan, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1999. Pp. 218. $38.45 paper. The Man Time Forgot: The Life and Times of John Christian Watson, Australia's First Labor Prime Minister. By Al Grassby and Silvia Ordonez. Sydney: Pluto Press and Australia Council for the Arts, 1999. Pp. xi + 194. $32.95 paper. Seven Days to Remember The First Labor Government in the World, Queensland, 1–7 December 1899. By Ross Fitzgerald. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1999. Pp. x + 80. $14.25 paper. Robert Menzies: A life, Volume 2, 1944–1978. By A.W. Martin. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999. Pp. xx + 596. $49.95 cloth. History and Achievement: A Portrait of the Honours Students of Professor George Arnold Wood. By Brian H. Fletcher. Sydney: Braxus Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 285. $27.45 paper. Nettie Palmer. Search for an Aesthetic. By Deborah Jordan. Melbourne: History Department, University of Melbourne, 1999. Pp. iii + 322. $27.50 paper. The Oxford Literary History of Australia. Edited by Bruce Bennett and Jennifer Strauss. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. vii + 487. $54.95 cloth. The Use and Abuse of Australian History. By Graeme Davison. Sydney: Allen & Unwin: 2000. Pp. vii + 326. $29.95 paper. Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and its Opponents in Australia. By Ian Tyrrell. Sydney: University of NSW Press, 1999. Pp. xiv.+ 271 $32.95 paper. Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. By Thomas R. Dunlap. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xv + 350. $38.45 paper. Kakadu: The Making of a National Park. By David Lawrence. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii + 384. $54.95 cloth. One‐Eyed: A View of Australian Sport. By Douglas Booth and Colin Tatz. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2000. Pp. xvi + 262. $27.45 paper. Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850–1939. By David Walker. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press and Australian Studies, 1999. Pp. xv + 312. $32.95 paper.