Journal of Australian Colonial History
Book Reviews
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.