Reviews

Author: 
Ros Pesman, David Walker, Richard White, eds.
Reviewer: 
Andrew Hassam

Hassam on Pesman, 'Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad' and Pesman and Walker and White, 'Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing'

Ros Pesman. Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. viii + 271 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-553639-3.Ros Pesman, David Walker, Richard White, eds. Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. xxiv + 328 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-553640-9.

Author: 
David Young
Reviewer: 
Peter Pierce

Pierce on Young, 'Making Crime Pay: The Evolution of Convict Tourism in Tasmania'

David Young. Making Crime Pay: The Evolution of Convict Tourism in Tasmania. Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1996. x + 208 pp. A$20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-909479-16-9.

Reviewed by Peter Pierce (James Cook University of North Queensland) Published on H-ANZAU (June, 1997)

Author: 
Margaret Bevege
Reviewer: 
Diane Menghetti

Menghetti on Bevege, 'Behind Barbed Wire: Internment in Australia during World War II'

Margaret Bevege. Behind Barbed Wire: Internment in Australia during World War II. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. xx + 314 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7022-2492-8.

Reviewed by Diane Menghetti (Department of History and Politics, James Cook University) Published on H-ANZAU (March, 1997)

Author: 
John Cain
Reviewer: 
Justin Harding

Harding on Cain, 'John Cain's Years Power, Parties and Politics: Power, Parties and Politics'

John Cain. John Cain's Years Power, Parties and Politics: Power, Parties and Politics. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1995. xvi + 323 pp. + 12 pp. of plates. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-522-84615-7; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-522-84707-9.

Reviewed by Justin Harding (Department of History and Politics, James Cook University) Published on H-ANZAU (March, 1997)

Author: 
Eve Mumewa D. Fesl
Reviewer: 
Libby Connors

Connors on Coolwell, 'My Kind of People: Achievement, Identity and Aboriginality' and Fesl, 'Conned!'

Wayne Coolwell. My Kind of People: Achievement, Identity and Aboriginality. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. ix + 154 pp. AU$14.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7022-2543-7.Eve Mumewa D. Fesl. Conned! St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993. 265 pp. AU$18.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7022-2497-3.

Author: 
Graeme Davison
Reviewer: 
Philippa J. Martyr

Martyr on Davison, 'The Unforgiving Minute: How Australians Learned to Tell the Time'

Graeme Davison. The Unforgiving Minute: How Australians Learned to Tell the Time. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993. 160 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-553496-2.

Reviewed by Philippa J. Martyr (University of Tasmania, Launceston ) Published on H-ANZAU (March, 1997)

Author: 
Marcus Haward, James Warden, eds.
Reviewer: 
Philippa Mein Smith

Smith on Haward and Warden, 'An Australian Democrat: The Life, Work and Consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark'

Marcus Haward, James Warden, eds. An Australian Democrat: The Life, Work and Consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark. Hobart, Tasmania: Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania, 1995. 282 pp. A$30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7022-2598-7.

Reviewed by Philippa Mein Smith (Department of History, University of Canterbury) Published on H-ANZAU (December, 1996)

Author: 
Eric Aarons
Reviewer: 
Richard Davis

Davis on Aarons, 'What's Left? Memoirs of an Australian Communist'

Eric Aarons. What's Left? Memoirs of an Australian Communist. Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books, 1993. xi + 260 pp. A$16.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-14-015704-8.

Reviewed by Richard Davis (History Department, University of Tasmania) Published on H-ANZAU (November, 1996)

Author: 
Stephanie Lawson
Reviewer: 
Sandra Tarte

Tarte on Lawson, 'Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa'

Stephanie Lawson. Tradition Versus Democracy in the South Pacific: Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. x + 228 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-49638-4.

Reviewed by Sandra Tarte (University of the South Pacific) Published on H-ANZAU (November, 1996)

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