Book Reviews

Source: Australian Journal of Politics & History, Volume 46, Number 3, September 2000 , pp. 428-461(34)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Books reviewed:

Thomas Nicholas and Oliver Bernhof, George Forster, A Voyage around the World

John, Merritt, That Voluminous Squatter, W.E. Abbott, Wingen

Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone, The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History

David Lawrence, Kakadu: The Making of a National Park

Geoffrey Bolton and Jenny Gregory, Claremont: A History

Heinz, Schütte, Der Ursprung der Messer und Beile: Gedanken zum zivilisatorischen Projekt rheinischer Missionare im frühkolonialen Neuguinea (The origin of knives and axes: Reflections on the civilizing goal of Rhenish Missionaries in early colonial New Guinea)

Dorothy Shineberg, The People Trade: Pacific Island Labourers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930

Judith M. Heimann, The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and his Remarkable Life

Victor Treadwell, Buckingham and Ireland 1616-1628. A Study in Anglo-Irish Politics

Joseph M. Levine, Between the Ancients and Moderns: Baroque Culture in Restoration England

Christina and David Bewleyl, Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke 1736-1812

Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey, (eds) The 1999 Chief of Army/Australian War Memorial Military History Conference

Mary Lindemann, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

Ian Germani and Robin Swales, Symbols, Myths and Images of the French Revolution. Essays in Honour of James A. Leith

David E. Barclay and Eric D. Weitz, Between Reform and Revolution. German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990

Peter Juviler, Freedom's Ordeal: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Post-Soviet States

Philip Curtin, Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa

Robert Aldrich and John Connell, The Last Colonies

Radhika Mohanram, Black Body: Women, Colonialism and Space

Mabel Lee and Michael Wilding, History, Literature and Society: Essays in Honour of S.N. Mukherjee, Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 15

S.N. Mukherjee, Citizen Historian: Explorations in Historiography. Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 13

Jonathan Spence, Mao

Frederick C. Teiwes with Warren, Sun China's Road to Disaster, Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955-1959

Dr Maung Maung, The 1988 Uprising in Burma. Monograph 49

Wim Stokhof and Paul van der Velde, ASEM: A Window of Opportunity

Manoranjan Mohanty and Partha Math Mukherji with Olle Törnquist, People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World

James Elliott, Tourism: politics and public sector management

Bruce L. Benson, To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice

Alan Hunt, Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation

Andrew Vincent, Political Theory: Tradition and Diversity

Gerald Sider and Gavin Smith, Between History and Histories: The Making of Silences and Commemorations

Document Type: Book review

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8497.t01-1-00107

Publication date: 2000-09-01