Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Donald Denoon and Philippa Mein‐Smith with Marivic Wyndham, A history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific John A. Mathews and Dung‐Sung Cho, Tiger technology: the creation of a semiconductor industry in East Asia Simon Ville, The rural entrepreneurs: a history of the stock and station agent industry in Australia and New Zealand John Booker and Russell Craig, John Croaker: convict embezzler Marion Diamond, Emigration and Empire: the life of Maria S. Rye Granville Allen Mawer, Ahab's trade: the saga of South Seas whaling Ann Millar, ed., The biographical dictionary of the Australian Senate Lena Andersson‐Skog and Olle Krantz, eds, Institutions in the transport and communications industries: state and private actors in the making of institutional patterns, 1850–1990 Maxine Berg and Kristine Bruland, eds, Technological revolutions in Europe: historical perspectives