Journal of Australian Colonial History
Book Reviews (by Volume)
Vol.1, No.1, 1999
Kay Daniels, Convict Women, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 1998. Reviewed by Norma Townsend.
Robert Engwerda, Southern Voices: Australian History to 1918, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1993. Reviewed by Janis Wilton.
Robert Darlington and John Hospodaryk, Understanding Australian History: An Enquiry Based Approach, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1993. Reviewed by Janis Wilton.
Robert Darlington, John Hospodaryk and Geraldine Carrodus, Heinemann Outcomes: History — Australian in the Twentieth Century, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1998. Reviewed by Janis Wilton. L. Tudball et. al., Heinemann Outcomes: SOSE 2 — Studies of Society and Environment, Heinemann, Melbourne, 1998. Reviewed by Janis Wilton.
Vol. 2, No, 1, 2000.
Lorna McDonald, Over Earth and Ocean: The Archers of Tolderodden and Gracemere: A Norse-Australian Saga, 1819-1965, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1999. Reviewed by Lyndon Megarrity.
Warwick Hirst, Great Escapes By Convicts in Colonial Australia, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, 1999. Reviewed by Clare Anderson.
Chris Healy, From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Reviewed by Russell McDougall.
Vol.2, No.2, 2000
Alice Thomson, The Singing Line: The Story of the Man who strung the Telegraph across Australia, and the Woman who gave her Name to Alice Springs, Chatto & Windus, London, 1999. Reviewed by John Atchison.
Tim Flannery, The Explorers, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1998. Reviewed by Chris Cunningham.
Ross Fitzgerald, Seven Days to Remember: The World’s First Labor Government: Queensland, 1-7 December 1899, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, 1999. Reviewed by Lyndon Megarrity.
Marc Serge Riviere (translator and editor) The Governor’s Noble Guest: Hyacinthe de Bougainville’s account of Port Jackson, 1825, Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, 1999. Reviewed by Grace Karskens.
Vol. 3, No. 1, 2001
Susan Lawrence, Dolly's Creek: An Archaeology of a Victorian Goldfields Community, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000. Reviewed by Helen Pfeil.
Anne-Maree Whitaker, Joseph Foveaux: Power and Patronage in Early New South Wales, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2000. Reviewed by John Ritchie.
David Headon and John Williams (eds), Makers of Miracles: The Cast of the Federation Story, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000. Reviewed by Lyndon Megarrity.
Paul de Serville, Rolf Boldrewood: A Life, Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2000. Reviewed by Alan Atkinson.
Vol. 3, No. 2, 2001
Julie Carr, The Captive White Woman of Gipps Land: In Pursuit of the Legend, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2001. Reviewed by Rebe Taylor.
Suzanne Rickard (ed.) George Barrington’s Voyage to Botany Bay: Retelling a Convict’s Travel Narrative of the 1790s, Leicester University Press, Leicester, 2001. Reviewed by Clare Anderson.
Some Papers of Sir Francis Forbes, First Chief Justice in Australia, ed. with an Introduction and Notes by J. M. Bennett, Foreword by the Honourable Sir Laurence Street (Chief Justice of NSW 1974-1988), Parliament of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998. Reviewed by Ian M. Johnstone.
Beverly Zimmerman, The Making of a Diocese: Maitland, its Bishop, Priests and People 1866-1909, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2000. Reviewed by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart.
John Molony, The Native-Born: the First White Australians, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2000. Reviewed by Frank Bongiorno.
Vol. 4, No. 1, 2002
John Ramsland, Custodians of the Soil: A History of Aboriginal-European Relationships in the Manning Valley of New South Wales, Greater Taree City Council, Taree, New South Wales, 2001. Reviewed by Shirleene Robinson.
Patrick Collins, Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842-1852, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland, 2002. Reviewed by Shirleene Robinson.
Simon Ville, The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agents in Australia and New Zealand, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. Reviewed by John Atchison.
Andrew Hassam, Through Australian Eyes: Colonial Perceptions of Imperial Britain, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2000. Reviewed by Robert Dixon.
Richard Johnson, The Search for the Inland Sea: John Oxley, Explorer, 1783-1828, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2001. Reviewed by David Andrew Roberts.
"Tasma" (Jessie Couvreur), The Pipers of Piper's Hill, The Colonial Text Series, 7, Margaret Bradstock (ed.), Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, ADFA, Canberra, 2002. Reviewed by Julian Croft.
F W Nicholas and J M Nicholas, Charles Darwin in Australia, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002 . Reviewed by Kirsty Douglas.
Margeurite Hancock, Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839-1900, the Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2001. Reviewed by Di Langmore.
Marian Simms (ed.) 1901: The Forgotten Election, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2001. Reviewed by Lyndon Megarrity.
Alfred J. Gabay, Messages from Beyond: Spiritualism and Spiritualists in Melbourne's Golden Age, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2001. Reviewed by Fiona Paisley.
Shayne Breen, Contested Places: Tasmania’s Northern Districts from ancient times to 1900, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, Hobart, 2001. Reviewed by Patricia Curthoys.
Ged Martin, Australia, New Zealand and Federation 1883-1901, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London, 2001. Reviewed by Stuart Macintyre.
John Gascoigne, The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002. Reviewed by Erin Ihde.
Vol. 4, No. 2, 2002
Vol 5, 2004
Antoinette Burton, Dwelling in the Archive. Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India, Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Fiona Paisley.
Lyall Ford, Below These Mountains: The Adventures of John Henry Mills – Pioneer Photographer and Gold Miner, Taipan Press, Freshwater, 2001. Reviewed by Erin Idhe
Lyall Ford, Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town, Taipan Press, Freshwater, 2001. Reviewed by Erin Ihde.
David Hansen, John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2003. Reviewed by Jeffrey Auerbach.
Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars, Melbourne University Press, 2003. Reviewed by Melissa Harper.
Alec Morrison, Frank Gardiner. Bushranger to Businessman (1830 to 1904), John Wiley and Sons, 2003. Reviewed by Susan Clare West.
Keith Pescod, A Place to Lay My Head: Immigrant Shelters of Nineteenth Century Victoria, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2003. Reviewed by Janet Doust.
Peter Sutton, Native Title in Australia: an Ethnographic Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003. Reviewed by Tim Dauth and Michael Flynn.
Jack Walton, The Last Farewell: Devon convicts transported to Australia 1782-1821, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2003. Reviewed by David Kent.
Vol 8, 2006
Henry Finlay, To Have But Not To Hold: A History of Attitudes to Marriage and Divorce in Australia 1858-1975, The Federation Press, Leichhardt and Annandale, 2005. Reviewed by Frank Bongiorno.
Paul Fox, Clearings: Six Colonial Gardeners and their Landscapes, The Miegunyah Press, Carlton, 2004. Reviewed by Angus McGillivery.
Ann Curthoys and John Docker, Is History Fiction?, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2006. Reviewed by Meg Vivers.
Damaris Bairstow, A Million Pounds A Million Acres: The Pioneer Settlement of the Australian Agricultural Company, published by the author (distributed by Gary Allen Pty Ltd, Wetherill Park), 2003 Reviewed by Erik Eklund.
Tim Castle and Bruce Kercher (eds), Dowling's Select Cases 1828 to 1844, The Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History, Sydney, 2005. Reviewed by Craig Collins.
Martin Crotty and Erik Eklund (eds), Australia to 1901: Selected Readings in the Making of a Nation, Tertiary Press, Croydon, 2003. Reviewed by Erin Ihde.
JM Bennett, The Lives of the Australian Chief Justices: Sir Henry Wrenfordsley, Federation Press, Leichhardt, 2004. Reviewed by Mark Lunney.
JM Bennett, The Lives of the Australian Chief Justices: Sir William Stawell, Federation Press, Leichhardt, 2004. Reviewed by Mark Lunney.
Erin Ihde, A Manifesto for New South Wales: Edward Smith Hall and the Sydney Monitor, 1826-1840, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2004. Reviewed by Denis Cryle.
Vol.9, 2007
Penny van Toorn, Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2006. Reviewed by Alan Atkinson
Donald Jackson Kerr, Amassing Treasures for All Times: Sir George Grey, Colonial Bookman and Collector, Oak Knoll Press/Otago University Press, Delaware/Dunedin, 2006. Reviewed by Hilary Carey
Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor (eds), After the Rush: Regulation, Participation and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940, A Special Edition of Otherland, Volume 9, Melbourne, 2004. Reviewed by Janis Wilton
David Taylor, The States of a Nation: The Politics and Surveys of the Australian State Borders, New South Wales Department of Lands, Bathurst, 2006. Reviewed by John Atchison
Sean O'Toole, The History of Australian Corrections, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2006. Reviewed by Andrew Piper
Kirsten McKenzie, Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney & Cape Town, 1820-1850, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004. Reviewed by Paula Jane Byrne
Claire Smith, Country, Kin and Culture: Survival of an Australian Aboriginal Community, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 2004. Reviewed by Lorina Barker
Evan McHugh, 1606: An Epic Adventure, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2006. Reviewed by Lindsey Shaw
Lyall Ford, A Photographic Record of Colonial Queensland: The Work of John Henry Mills, Professional Photographer 1851-1919, Taipan Press, Freshwater, 2004. Reviewed by Erin Ihde
Hilary Golder, Politics, Patronage and Public Works: The Administration of New South Wales, Volume One, 1842-1900, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2005. Reviewed by Paula Jane Byrne
Vol.10, No.1, 2008
Terry Irving, The Southern Tree of Liberty: The Democratic Movement in New South Wales before 1856, The Federation Press, Annandale and Leichhardt, 2006. Reviewed by Frank Bongiorno.
M.M.H. Thompson, The Seeds of Democracy: Early Elections in Colonial New South Wales, The Federation Press, Annandale and Leichhardt, 2006. Reviewed by Paula Jane Byrne.
A. Atkinson, J.S. Ryan, I. Davidson and A. Piper (eds), High Lean Country: Land, people and memory in New England, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2006. Reviewed by Tom Griffiths.
Henry Reynolds, Nowhere people: how international race thinking shaped Australia's identity, Viking, Camberwell, 2005. Reviewed by Vicki Grieves.
Robyn Annear, Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne, 10th Anniversary Edition, Black Ink, Melbourne, 2005; Robyn Annear, A City Loss and Found: Whelan the Wrecker's MelbourneBlack Inc, Melbourne, 2005. Reviewed by Shirley Fitzgerald.