March 2005, no. 269
Welcome to the March 2005 issue of Australian Book Review.
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Full Contents
Biography
Huge Deal: the fortunes and follies of Hugh D. McIntosh by Frank Van Straten
by Peter Ryan
Cultural Studies
Haunted Nations: The colonial dimensions of multiculturalisms by Sneja Gunew
Sport
Game For Anything by Gideon Haigh & The Best Australian Sports Writing 2004 edited by Garrie Hutchinson
by Rod Beecham
Environmental Studies
The Retreat of the Elephants: An environmental history of China by Mark Elvin
Anthology
Who Wants to Create Australia?: Essays on poetry and ideas in contemporary Australia by Martin Harrison
by Ivor Indyk
History
Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Columbian Exposition by Judith Snodgrass
Anthology
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison
Biography
The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy by Jussi Hanhimäki
by Barry Jones
Photography
Intersections: Photography, history, and the national library of Australia by Helen Ennis
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Elizabeth Braithwaite reviews four books
Memoir
Witnessing History: One woman’s fight for freedom and Falun Gong by Jennifer Zeng
Photography
Body Culture: Max Dupain, photography, and Australian culture, 1919–1939 by Isobel Crombie
by Ian North
Theatre
A Leader of His Craft: Theatre reviews by H.G. Kippax edited by Harry Heseltine
by Ken Healey
Cultural Studies
Histories of sexuality: Antiquity to sexual revolution by Stephen Garton
Picture Books