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BOOK REVIEW

*Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006. pp. ix + 299. $36.95 paper.*
This is undoubtedly a book to own, both as a ready reference to a lot of things that happened in New South Wales, and for its considered arguments. Writing a history of New South Wales in 1,000 pages would have been a simpler task. Writing it in around 250 pages (plus a detailed time line) is an impressive achievement. Kingston has done it with tight, light prose that romps through an impossibly complex range of issues.	1
Take a look at any two pages at random and this will become obvious. Take pages 20 and 21, for example. These cover squatting, squatting regulations, the impact of the Myall Creek massacre of 1838 and the Mount Rennie pack rape case of 1887 to make an argument about the direction of policing of crimes against Aborigines and women, the 1840s property market and bank failures, the convict system and alcoholic consumption, brewing methods, infant mortality – I can hardly list the topics in less space than Kingston takes to discuss them, weigh them and weave them into a fast-paced story.	. . .

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