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"'Desperate hopes', also sums up the aims of pro-migration politicians, and Roe's study, except for its final two chapters, is therefore not so much a cultural history as a history of the politics of migration in Britain and Australia....This is a difficult book, but it is a prodigious work of scholarship and one which all historians of Australia will find of immense and lasting value."Michael Roe is the author of 'Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915-1940: A Study of Desperate Hopes (Studies in Australian History)', published 1995 under ISBN 9780521465076 and ISBN 0521465079.
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