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Colin Forster, France and Botany Bay. The Lure of a Penal Colony, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp. 201, $29.95. Alan Atkinson, The Europeans in Australia. A History. Volume One, Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 429, $49.94. A.T. Yarwood, Samuel Marsden: The Great Survivor, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp. 384, pb. $24.95. Marjorie Theobald, Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth‐Century Australia, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. ix + 294, hc. $90, pb. $34.95. John Ramsland, With Just But Relentless Discipline: A Social History of Corrective Services in New South Wales, Kangaroo Press, 1996, pp. 368, $65.00. Judith Armstrong, The Christesen Romance, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp. xii + 225, pb. $29.95. Peter Golding, ’Black Jack’ McEwen, Melbourne University Press, pp. 400, hc. $45. Ross Fitzgerald, Fred Paterson Australia's Only Communist Party Member of Parliament, University of Queensland Press, 1997, pp. 298, pb. $26.95. Glenn Mitchell, On Strong Foundations: The BWIU and Industrial Relations in the Construction Industry 1942–1992, Harcourt Brace, 1996, pp. xvi + 368, pb. $29.95. Roberta Sykes, Snake Cradle, Allen & Unwin, 1997, pp. 330, pb. $19.95. Jenny Digby, A Woman's Voice, Conversations with Australian Poets, University of Queensland Press, 1996, pp. 258, pb. $24.95. Carmel Bird (ed), Daughters and Fathers, University of Queensland Press, 1997, pp. xx+303, pb. $29.95. Jill Julius Matthews (ed), Sex in Public: Australian Sexual Cultures, Allen & Unwin, 1997, pp. 197, $29.95. Catherine Lumby, BAD GIRLS: The Media, Sex and Feminism in the 90s, Allen & Unwin, 1997, pp. 228, pb. $16.95. Lyn Spillman, Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 252, $29.95. Mark McKenna, The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788–1996, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xiii + 334, hc. $90, pb. $29.95. Ilana Snyder, Hypertext: The Electronic Labyrinth, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp. 152, $14.95. Daryl Adair and Wray Vamplew, Sport in Australian History, Oxford University Press, pp. 175, $24.95.