Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Jews, Christians and the Abode of Islam: Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities . By Jacob Lassner Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray‐Darling Basin . By Emily O'Gorman Roving Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Ocean, 1790–1870 . By Lynette Russell Phillip Parker King 1791– 1856: A Most Admirable Australian . By Brian Douglas Abbott, with a Foreword by Paul Brunton Men and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid‐Nineteenth Century . By Robert Hogg Larrikins: A History . By Melissa Bellanta In the Shadow of Gallipoli: The Hidden History of Australia in World War I . By Robert Bollard Kitty's War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton . By Janet Butler Australia and the World Crisis, 1914–1923: Volume 2: A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy . By Neville Meaney Looking After One's Own: The Rise of Nationalism and the Politics of the Neuendettelsauer Mission in Australia, New Guinea and Germany (1921–1933) . By Christine Winter W. Macmahon Ball: Politics for the People . By Ai Kobayashi Immigrants Turned Activists: Italians in 1970s Melbourne . By Simone Battiston Australia and the United Nations . Edited by James Cotton and David Lee Transforming a “White Australia”: Issues of Racism and Immigration . By Laksiri Jayasuriya Australia's Asia: from Yellow Peril to Asian Century . Edited by David Walker and Agnieszka Sobocinska Roddy's Folly: R. P. Meagher QC – Art Lover and Lawyer . By Damien Freeman Middle Power Dreaming: Australia in World Affairs, 2006–2010 . Edited by James Cotton and John Ravenhill Inclusive Growth in Australia: Social Policy as Economic Investment . Edited by Paul Smyth and John Buchanan Violent Victorians. Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth‐Century London . By Rosalind Crone India and the British Empire: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series . Edited by Douglas M. Peers and Nandini Gooptu The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British Empire . By Giordano Nanni G.K. Chesterton: A Biography . By Ian Ker The Crisis of Theory. E.P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics . By Scott Hamilton The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History . Edited by Dan Stone Moscow, 1937 . By Karl Schlögel, translated by Rodney Livingstone It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway. Russia and the Communist Past . By David Satter The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, The Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s . By Richard Wolin Wood: A History . By Joachim Radkau, trans. Patrick Camiller The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War . By James Q. Whitman Egypt and the Origin of Civilization: The British School of Culture Diffusion, 1890s–1940s . By Joshua Smith