Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: ACROSS THE BAR: The Story of “Simpson”, The Man with the Donkey: Australia and Tyneside's Great Military Hero By Tom Curran. PORTRAIT OF THE FAMILY WJTHIN THE TOTAL ECONOMY: A Study in Longrun Dynamics, Australis 1788–1900 By Graeme Donald Snooks “RED TED”: The Life of E. G. Theodore By R. Fitzgerald LAURIE SHORT A Political Biography By Susanna Short CHARLES S. PERKINS: A Biography By Peter Read AUSTRALIA: Republic or Monarchy: Legal and Constitutional Issues. Edited by M. A. Stephenson and Clive Turner THE EXECUTIVE STATE: WA Inc and the Constitution Edited by Patrick O'Brien and Martyn Webb WOMEN COME RALLY: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890–1955 By Joy Damousi BASKET, BAG AND TROLLEY: A History of Shopping in Australia By Beverley Kingston DIPLOMAST: Australia and Indonesia's Independence: Documents 1947 Edited by Philip Dorling FOLLOWING THE AMERICANS TO THE PERSIAN GULF: Canada, Australia, and the Development of the New World Order By Ronnie Miller TL CONFLTTTO ARABO‐ISRAELIANO: Documentazione Essenziale (1987–1990) By Ministero degli Affari Esteri SOUTHEAST ASIA IN THE EARLY MODERN ERA: Trade, Power and Relief Edited by Anthony Reid MAWCHI: Mining, War and Insurgency in Burma By L. A. Crozier HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF MYANMAR Jan Becka, Metuchen THE JAJMANI SYSTEM: An Investigation By Bruce Caldwell STUDENT NATIONALISM IN CHINA 1924–1949 By Lincoln Li IMIN SHAKAI NIHON NO KOSO [Japan as a Multi‐Ethnic Society] By Hiroshi Komai THE USEFUL COBBLER: Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress By James Conniff CONSTRUCTIONS OF RACE, PLACE AND NATION Edited by Peter Jackson and Jan Penrose THIS STRUCTURES OF HISTORY Christopher Lloyd THE KILLING OF HISTORY: How a Discipline is Being Murdered by Literary Critics and Social Theorists By Keith Windschuttle