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The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy: New South Wales 1848–1884. By J.B. Hirst Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1988. Pp. x + 305. $19.95 paper. Camden: Farm and Village Life in Early New South Wales. By Alan Atkinson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1988. Pp. xvi + 298. $39.95 cloth. The Foundations of the National Welfare State. By R. Watts. Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1987. Pp. xiv + 169. $14.95 paper. The Ideal Society and its Enemies. The Foundations of Modern New Zealand Society 1850–1900. By Miles Fairburn. Auckland University Press, Auckland 1989. Pp. 316. $NZ32.95 cloth. Waiting for the Revolution. A History of Australian Nationalism. By Noel McLachlan. Penguin Books Australia, Ringwood 1989. Pp. 388. 524.99 paper. The Great Seesaw: A New View of the Western World, 1750–2000. By Geoffrey Blainey. Macmillan Australia, South Melbourne 1988. Pp. 335. $35.00 Mother State and her Little Ones. Edited by Bob Bessant. Centre for Youth and Community Studies, Phillip Institute of Technology, Melbourne 1987. Pp. 203. $20.00 paper. Childhood and Society in Western Australia. Edited by P. Hetherington. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands 1988. Pp. 214. $15.00 paper. New Houses for Old: Fifty Years of Public Housing in Victoria 1938–1988. Edited by Renate Howe. Ministry of Housing and Construction, Melbourne 1988. Pp. x + 325. $49.00 cloth. Disease, Medicine and Empire. Edited by Roy MacLeod and Milton Lewis. Rout‐ledge, London 1988. Pp. 448. $135 cloth. The Retreat of Tuberculosis 1850–1950. By F.B. Smith. Croom Helm, London 1988. Pp. 271. £25.00 cloth Vineyard of the Empire. Early Barossa Vignerons 1842–1939. By Annely Aeuckens, Geoffrey Bishop, George Bell, Kate McDougall, Gordon Young. Australian Industrial Publishers Pty Ltd, Adelaide 1988. Pp. viii + 256. $29.95 paper. For Freedom and Dignity: Historical Agency and Class Structures in the Coalfields of NSW. By A. Metcalfe. Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1988. Pp. i + 268. $9.95 paper. Heroes and Lovers: A Question of National Identity. By Rosemary Campbell. Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1989. Pp. ix + 232. $16.95 paper. Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition. By Kay Schaffer. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 1988. Pp. xv + 229. $25.00 paper. George Reid. By W.G. McMinn. Melbourne University Press, 1989. Pp. ix + 330. $45.00 cloth. Martin Boyd, a Life. By Brenda Niall. Melbourne University Press, 1988. Pp. x + 268. $39.95 cloth. The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, Volume 3: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776–1780. By Rudiger Joppien and Bernard Smith. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1987. 2 vols. Pp. xxi + 669. $295.00 cloth. The Pacific Since Magellan. By O.H.K. Spate. Australian National University Press, Canberra (3 volumes). Vol. I, The Spanish Lake, 1979, pp. xxiv + 372, $45.00 cloth; vol. II, Monopolists and Freebooters, 1983, pp. xxi + 426, $45.00 cloth; vol. III, Paradise Found and Lost, 1988, pp. xxii + 410, $45.00 cloth. Torres Strait Islanders: Custom and Colonialism. By Jeremy Beckett Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987. Pp. xiii + 251. 539.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Missionary Lives: Papua, 1874–1914. By Diane Langmore. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, no. 6, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1989. Pp. xxiv + 408. $US35.00 cloth. Black, White or Brindle: Race in Rural Australia. By Gillian Cowlishaw. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne & Sydney 1988. Pp. iv + 297. $39.50 cloth. The Defeat of Distance: Qantas 1919–1939, Challenging Horizons: Qantas 1939–1954 and High Corridors: Qantas 1954–1970. By John Gunn. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia 1985, 1987. Pp xvi + 400; xiv + 434; xvi + 468; $16.99; $38.95; $44.95. Enemy Aliens. Internment and the Homefront Experience in Australia 1914–1920. By Gerhard Fischer. University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia 1989. Pp. xii + 404. $34.95 paper. Lost Children of the Empire. By P. Bean & J. Melville. Unwin Hyman, London 1989. Pp. 192. $29.95 cloth. Australian Economic and Social History Series edited by C.B. Schedvin: Victorian Gold Rushes, by Weston Bate; Aboriginal Economy, by Tony Dingle; The Population History of Australia, by R.V. Jackson; Australia and the World Economy, by Alan L. Lougheed; The Labour Experiment, by Stuart Macintyre; Making the Market, by Greg Whitwell. McPhee Gribble, Melbourne 1988–1989. Pp. approx. 70 each. $9.99 each, paper. We Should've Listened to Grandma: Women and Family History. By Noeline Kyle. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1988. Pp. ix + 147. 512.95 paper. Oral History: A Handbook. By Louise Douglas, Alan Roberts, Ruth Thompson. Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1988. Pp. xiii + 217. $16.95 paper. The Hidden Culture: Folklore in Australian Society. By Graham Seal. Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1989. Pp. 180. $25.00 paper.