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Social Policy in Western Australia, Charlie Fox (ed.), 25, 2007


Book or other reviews

  • Lyn Adams, Orchard and Mill: The Story of Bill Lee, South West Pioneer
    Ken Spillman
  • Jenny Gregory, City of Light: A History of Perth since the 1950s
    Graeme Davison
  • Mary Anne Jebb, Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aborginal Pastoral Workers
    Chris Owen

The Irish in Western Australia, Bob Reece (ed.), 20, 2000

Book or other review

  • William J. Lines, False Economy: Australia in the Twentieth Century
    Tom Griffiths

Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), 19, 1999

Book or other review

  • Leigh Edmonds, The Vital Link. A History of Main Roads Western Australia 1926-1996
    Frank Broeze

Historical Traces, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 17, 1997

Book or other review

  • Richard G. Hartley, Industry and Infrastructure in Western Australia 1829-1940
    Leigh Edmonds

Asian Orientations, Jan Gothard (ed.), 16, 1995

Articles

  • Choice or Chance? Self-employment among the Vietnamese in Perth, Western Australia
    Nonya Peters
  • The View West: The Indian Ocean Trading World and Western Australia to 1914
    Andrew Pope

Book or other reviews

  • Ken Spillman, A Rich Endowment. Government and Mining in Western Australia 1829-1994
    Charlie Fox
  • Doreen Owens, Jardee: The Mill that Cheated Time
    Jenny Mills
  • Geoffrey Blainey, The Golden Mile
    Richard G. Hartley

Historical Refractions, Charlie Fox (ed.), 14, 1993

Book or other review

  • Leonie Liveris, The Dismal Trader: the Undertaker Business in Perth 1860-1939
    Bobbie Oliver

Private Enterprise, Government and Society, Frank Broeze (ed.), 13, 1992

Articles

  • Failure and Success: the Broadhursts and the Abrolhos Islands Guano Industry
    Mike McCarthy
  • The Business of Chinese Coolie Immigration
    Jan Ryan
  • ‘Rich Men in Their Castles, Poor Men at Their Gates’: Status and Paternalism of a Colonial Elite 1870-1900
    Patsy Brown
  • ‘A Great Frankenstein’: The West Australian Shipping Association 1884-1906
    Frank Broeze
  • The Consolidation of the Brewing Industry in Western Australia
    Suzanne Welborn
  • ‘The Slums of Tomorrow’? Architects, Builders and the Construction of Flats in Interwar Perth
    Jenny Gregory & Robyn Taylor
  • Profits and Lifestyle: Western Australia’s Fishers
    Malcolm Tull
  • West Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd. The Early Years: 1952-1967
    Terry Filkin
  • Decentralisation and Regional Business Enterprise: The South-West Development Authority
    Anthony J. Barker

Aspects of Ethnicity, Richard Bosworth & Margot Melia (eds), 12, 1991

Book or other review

  • Arthur C. Bligh, The Golden Quest: The Roaring Days of West Australian Gold Rushes and Life in the Pearling Industry
    Kate Darian-Smith

Western Australia Between the Wars 1919-1939, Jenny Gregory (ed.), 11, 1990

Articles

  • Disputes, Diggers and Disillusionment: Social and Industrial Unrest in Perth and Kalgoorlie 1918-24
    Bobbie Oliver
  • The Midland Railway Workshops 1920-1939
    Kathy Bell
  • ‘Bookies, Punters and Parasites’: Off-course betting, conflict and consensus in Western Australia between the Wars
    Charlie Fox

Book or other review

  • Bryce Moore, A Superior Kind of Savings Bank: Perth Building Society 1862-1987
    D. T. Merrett

Celebrations in Western Australian History, Lenore Layman & Tom Stannage (eds), 10, 1989

Articles

  • The Opening of the Canning Dam
    Jenny Gregory
  • The Coolgardie International Exhibition, 1899
    Lynne Stevenson

Book or other reviews

  • Suzanne Welborn, Swan: The History of a Brewery
    Bryce Moore
  • Carolyn Polizzotto, The Factory Floor. A Visual and Oral Record
    Charlie Fox

Religion and Society in Western Australia, John Tonkin (ed.), 9, 1987

Articles

  • The Anglican Church in Western Australia During the Great Depression
    John Cowdell
  • The Catholic Church in Western Australia During the Great Depression
    Katharine Massam
  • Christianity on the Coalfields: A Case-Study of Collie During the Great Depression
    Raelene Frances

Women in Western Australian History, Patricia Crawford (ed.), 7, 1983

Articles

  • ‘Serfs of the Sodden Scone’? Women Workers in the Western Australian Hotel and Catering Industry 1900-1925
    Wendy Brady
  • The Politics of Experience: Women in the Western Australian Clothing Trade, 1950-1970
    Christine Owen

Book or other reviews

  • Elizabeth J. Harman and Brian W. Head (eds), State, Capital and Resources in the North and West of Australia
    Ken Buckley
  • C. T. Stannage (ed.), A New History of Western Australia
    Beverley Kingston

Bosses, Workers and Unemployed, Lenore Layman (ed.), 5, 1982

Articles

  • Richard Hamilton and the East Coolgardie Gold Mining Industry 1896-1927
    Anne Porter
  • The Kalgoorlie Woodline Strikes 1919-1920: A Study of Conflict Within the Working Class
    J. Murray
  • Segregation for Integration: Women and Work in Factories and Shops in Western Australia During the Great Depression
    Sally Kennedy

Book or other review

  • A. G. Bolam, The Trans-Australian Wonderland
    Ronald M. Berndt

Convictism in Western Australia, C. T. Stannage, 4, 1981

Article

  • Why Convicts I: an Economic Analysis of Colonial Attitudes to the Introduction of Convicts
    Pamela Statham

Studies in Western Australian History, 1, 1977

Book or other review

  • Mary Albertus Bain, Ancient Landmarks
    Tom Stannage
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