Imperial Dis/Connections: Recent work in Australian history

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Abstract

Review essay analysing recent scholarship on Australia's imperial and colonial history, especially in the field of women's history.

Reviewed Works: Creating a Nation by Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath, Marian Quartly; Single Mothers and Their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia by Shurlee Swain, Renate Howe; Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia by Marjorie Theobald; Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia by Deborah Oxley; Australia, Britain, and Migration, 1915-1940: A Study of Desperate Hopes by Michael Roe.
Review by: Angela Woollacott
Journal of British Studies
Vol. 38, No. 1 (Jan., 1999), pp. 119-125 (7 pages)
Published By: Cambridge University Press
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)119-125
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of British Studies
Volume38
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1999
Externally publishedYes

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