BOOK REVIEWS

Source: Australian Economic History Review, Volume 48, Number 1, March 2008 , pp. 91-98(8)

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Book reviewed

David Blackbourn, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape and the Making of Modern Germany. London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. xxi + 466 pp. ISBN: 0 224 06071 6. Hardback £30.

Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson

University of Tasmania/University of Queensland

Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ix + 299 pp. ISBN: 0521541689. Paperback $A36.75.

Reviewed by Seamus O'Hanlon

Monash University

Graeme Morton, Boudien de Vries and R.J. Morris (eds), Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places: Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth Century Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 220 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 5247 5. Hardback £55/US$ 99.95.

Reviewed by Ian Morley

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Paweł Bożyk, Globalization and the Transformation of Foreign Economic Policy. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. x + 262 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 4638 6. Hardback £55.00.

Reviewed by Jerry Mushin

Victoria University of Wellington

John Benson and Laura Ugolini (eds), Cultures of Selling: Perspectives on Consumption and Society Since 1700. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xiv + 297 pp. ISBN: 10: 0 7546 5046 4. Hardback pound;45.00.

Reviewed by Helen Laurenson

University of Auckland

Document Type: Book review

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2007.00231.x

Publication date: 2008-03-01