History
The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790 by Rhys Isaac
by Richard Waterhouse •
Cutting Green Hay: Friendships, movements and cultural conflicts in Australia's great decades by Vincent Buckley
by Brian Matthews •
W.F. Mandle reviews 'The Tyranny of Distance', 'Triumph of the Nomads', and 'A Land Half Won' by Geoffrey Blainey
by W.F. Mandle •
Who, we wondered, gets the largest Public Lending Right cheque each year – Manning Clark or Geoffrey Blainey? Probably still Manning, and he’ll still be ahead in the royalties stakes too, but the younger colt must be closing fast, and he shows no signs of tiring. Even if he did, his publishers, like Manning’s for that matter, can always do, as they have here, a recycling and packaging job.
... (read more)Australia Since the Coming of Man by Russel Ward & New History edited by G. Osborne and W.F. Mandie
by L.L. Robson •
Rock Choppers: Growing up Catholic in Australia by Edmund Campion
by John McLaren •
Room for Manoeuvre: Writings on history, politics, ideas and play edited by Leonie Sandercock and Stephen Murray-Smith
by Tim Rowse •
From the Dreaming to 1915: A history of Queensland by Ross Fitzgerald
by John Walker •
Power Conflict and Control in Australian Trade Unions edited by Kathryn Cole
by Leo Hawkins •
Yaldwyn of the Golden Spurs by J. O. Randell & Mountain Gold by John Adams
by Janet McCalman •