Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Craig Wilcox, For Hearths and Homes. Citizen Soldiering in Australia 1854‐1945 Dan O’Donnell, Bach Society of Queensland: Its First Quarter of a Century Pamela Lukin Watson, Frontier Lands And Pioneer Legends. How pastoralists gained Karuwali land Michelle P. Brown, The Book of Cerne. Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth Century England David Peetz, Unions in a Contrary World: The Future of the Australian Trade Union Movement Reinhard Alter and Peter Monteath (eds), Rewriting the German Past. History and Identity in the New Germany James Cotton and John Ravenhill (eds), Seeking Asian Engagement: Australia in World Affairs, 1991‐95 Quentin Skinner, Liberty Before Liberalism Leslie Holmes, Post‐Communism: An Introduction Chad Blair, Money, Color and Sex in Hawai’i Politics Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves, Bad Colonists: the South Sea Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke Jacques Levesque, The Enigma of 1989: the USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe Timothy Bottoms, Djabugay Country: an Aboriginal History of Tropical North Queensland Adrian Hastings, The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism David Dean and Clyve Jones (eds), Parliament and Locality 1660‐1939 T.R.H. Davenport, The Birth of a New South Africa (The 1995 Joanne Goodman Lectures) Randall L. Schweller, Deadly Imbalances; Tripolarity and Hitler’s Strategy of World Conquest D.A. Low, Britain and Indian Nationalism. The Imprint of Ambiguity 1929‐1942 Matthew H. Edney, Mapping an Empire. The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765‐1843 Michael Bauer and John Russon (eds), Hegel and the Tradition: Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris Alan Stephens, Going Solo. The Royal Australian Air Force 1946‐1971