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BOOK REVIEW

Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward (eds), Australia's Empire, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008. pp. xiii + 419. $99.95 cloth.

Australia's Empire, published as part of the Companion Series to the recently completed Oxford History of the British Empire, is designed to pursue themes that could not be adequately covered in the main series and provide fresh interpretations of the history of the British Empire in Australia. This book is a collection of essays by leading Australian historians which survey various dimensions of the Australian historical experience of empire and reflect upon the empire's legacy for twenty first century Australia. The editors' purpose is twofold: firstly, to put the British Empire back into Australian history and thereby into Australian popular memory and, secondly, to demonstrate that the imperial project in Australia was as much a product of the colonies as it was of the metropole. Even if the editors, and some authors, exaggerate the degree to which the British Empire has been written out of Australian history during the recent era of new nationalism, Australia's Empire makes an important contribution to our understanding of that history.

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