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Honour Among Nations?
Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous People
Av Marcia Langton, Marcia Langton m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
385 kr
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'But there was no fight when the white man came, we welcomed him as a friend/But we never said he could have our land because that would be the end...' Song lyric from ""Luku-Wangawuy Manikay (1788)"" by Galarrwuy Yunupingu as performed by Yothu Yindi on Homeland Movement. This important collection …
Marcus Clarke's Bohemia
Literature, Popular Culture and Urban Experience in Colonial Melbourne
Häftad, 2004
396 kr
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Marcus Clarke's ""Bohemia"" is the first major critical study of Marcus Clarke - arguably Australia's best known and most important nineteenth-century writer. It situates Clarke both within the bohemian culture of Melbourne and a burgeoning cosmopolitan print-culture extending beyond national …
Thinking in Four Dimensions
Creativity and Cognition in Contemporary Dance
Av Robin Grove, Catherine J. Stevens m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
396 kr
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This collaboration between artists, choreographers, researchers, experimental psychologists and cognitive scientists investigates ways in which choreographers and performers make innovative, expressive movement, and audiences interpret what may well be a previously unmapped experience. ""Thinking …
Historian's Life
Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom
Av Fay Anderson
Häftad, 2005
408 kr
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Max Crawford was one of Australia's pre-eminent historians. As both a participant in and observer of many decisive episodes of the era; Europe in the midst of the Depression, America and Russia at the height of World War II, postwar reconstruction and the Cold War in Australia, Crawford was …
Engines of Influence
Newspapers of Country Victoria, 1840- 1890
Häftad, 2005
396 kr
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Engines of Influence is a fifty-year history of Victoria's country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison's ""Geelong Advertiser"" in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns. This significant book identifies all press sites and newspapers of the …
Australia and the European Superpower
Engaging with the European Union
Häftad, 2005
441 kr
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This is a book about conflict: conflict between a country with limits to its international influence - Australia - and a new international actor with enormous presence on the world stage - the European Union. Australians often perceive the EU as a monolithic, negative and obstructionist bloc, …
Parliament in the Twenty First Century
Institutional Reform and Emerging Roles
Av John Halligan, John Power m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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In the first half of the twentieth century, the power of parliaments around the world declined. More recently a revival has occurred, and parliaments have responded to the challenge with new institutions that strengthen their powers. ""Parliament in the Twenty-first Century"" is an authoritative …
No Time to Lose
The Wellbeing of Australian Children
Av Margot Prior (Eds), Sue Richardson m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
385 kr
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This work is a landmark investigation of the state of children's wellbeing in Australia, with contributions from Sue Richardson, Margot Prior, Steve Zubrick, Sven Silburn, Janet McCalman, Johanna Wyn and more. In ""No Time to Lose"", leading Australian scholars investigate the consequences for …
Histories of Australian Sociology
Av John Germov, Tara Renae McGee m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
385 kr
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Histories of Australian Sociology brings together, in one volume, a comprehensive collection of original papers, previously published journal articles and book chapters, and unpublished essays that document the establishment and rise of the discipline of sociology in Australia and New Zealand. …
From Traveller to Traitor
The Life of Wilfrid Burchett
Av Tom Heenan
Häftad, 2006
442 kr
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The radical journalist Wilfred Burchett (16/9/1911-27/9/1983) was persecuted by the Australian government during his lifetime and publicly reviled in print long after his death. After a distinguished wartime career with the ""London Daily Express"", Burchett drifted to the left with the onset of …
Teaching the Nation
Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History
Av Anna Clark
Häftad, 2006
374 kr
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The 'History Wars' have come to dominate discussion of Australian history in recent years, playing out over various national sites of celebration and commemoration. Anna Clark examines the place of school history in these disputes over the past, and suggests their partisan historical divide is …
La Trobe
The Making of a Governor
Häftad, 2006
408 kr
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Charles Joseph La Trobe was Superintendent of Port Philip District and Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor (1851-54), and his administration, which coincided with the turbulent challenges of the Victorian gold rushes, was highly controversial. He departed from office a wearied and disappointed man …
Learning to Work
Students' Experiences During Work Placements
Av Joanne Reidy
Häftad, 2006
374 kr
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This ground-breaking study of work placement looks at the experience of 50 young short-term trainees in various Australian work settings. Based on taped interviews with trainees in business, education, engineering, IT and nursing, it reveals the issues, challenges and rewards for undergraduates …
Sheep and the Australian Cinema
Häftad, 2006
408 kr
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In this highly readable study of Australian cinema, Deb Verhoeven explores the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history that are linked by a common thread - the repeated image of sheep. Verhoeven focuses on two key 'sheep films': ""The Squatter's …
War and Words
The Australian Press and the Vietnam War
Av Trish Payne
Häftad, 2007
396 kr
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Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War presented moral dilemmas that divided the nation. The changing ways that Australian newspapers covered the conflict both reflected these dilemmas and inflamed them. Trish Payne's insightful analysis of Australian reporting of the Vietnam War traces the …
Benelong's Haven
Recovery from Alcohol and Drug Use Within an Aboriginal Australian Residential Treatment Centre
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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Benelong's Haven was the first residential alcohol and drug treatment program controlled and operated by an Aboriginal Australian. It was established by Val Bryant in 1974 in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville, before moving to the small township of Kinchela Creek on the mid-north coast of New South …
Lost Waters
A History of a Troubled Catchment
Av Erica Nathan
Häftad, 2007
396 kr
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Lost Waters charts the history of waterscape change for a Moorabool River catchment near Ballarat in the central highlands of western Victoria since white settlement. It is a water supply catchment area where water has been gathered and channelled, waterways reconfigured and connections with local …
Edward Said
The Legacy of a Public Intellectual
Av Debjani Ganguly, Ned Curthoys
Häftad, 2007
442 kr
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This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. Noted contributors, including Bill Ashcroft, John Docker, Lisa Lowe, Hsu-ming Teo and Patrick Wolfe, address an array of intellectual, political …
Games Are not the Same
The Political Economy of Football in Australia
Häftad, 2007
396 kr
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Australians are intensely proud of their sporting traditions, and have always had a passion for football in its various forms: Australian football, rugby league, rugby union and soccer. But how does a nation of only 21 million people sustain the viability of four football codes at the professional …
Australia's Own Cold War
The Waterfront Under Menzies
Av Tom Sheridan
Häftad, 2006
396 kr
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From the national maritime strike of 1890 to the violent dockside clashes of 1998, the waterfront has loomed large as a key battle site in Australian industrial relations. After Robert Menzies was swept to power on a wave of anti-communist sentiment in 1949, it emerged as the nation's own Cold War …
'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays
And Other Essays
Av A.W. Martin
Häftad, 2007
442 kr
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A. W. Martin is best known as biographer of Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Federation, and Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister. Martin, Foundation Professor of History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, brought a deep and insightful understanding to Australia's history in …
Britishness Abroad
Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures
Av Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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As a global phenomenon Britishness encompassed trade, conquest and settlement and the development of imperial cultures within the vast reaches of the British Empire. At its zenith peoples around the world joined in shared traditions and common loyalties that were strenuously maintained; even those …
Against the Grain
Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics
Av Stuart Macintyre, Sheila Fitzpatrick
Häftad, 2007
408 kr
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While Brian Fitzpatrick has today fallen into relative obscurity, efforts persist in discrediting Manning Clark's name. ""Against the Grain"" examines the dual careers of Fitzpatrick and Clark as activists and historians during the Cold War, and shows the political and personal difficulties that …
Fresh Water
New Perspectives on Water in Australia
Av Emily Potter, Alison Mackinnon m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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Is water a resource or is it the source? Is it something to be consumed or does it have a life of its own? Recent histories of environmental misunderstanding and exploitation shadow our current regime of water management and use. While governments grapple with how to respond to widespread drought, …
Varieties of Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Employees
Av Ian Ramsay, Richard Mitchell m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
396 kr
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We live in a 'corporate world' in which powerful business corporations shape and influence the activities of nation states, their national economies and their social relations. But what is it that moulds the activities of the corporations themselves? Do some societies have 'styles' of regulation …
Experiments in Love and Death
Medicine, Postmodernism, Microethics and the Body
Häftad, 2008
396 kr
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Experiments in Love and Death is about the depth and complexity of the ethical issues that arise in illness and medicine. In his concept of 'microethics' Paul Komesaroff provides an alternative to the abstract debates about principles and consequences that have long dominated ethical thought. He …
Measured Success
Innovation Management in Australia
Av Peter Cebon
Häftad, 2008
396 kr
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For several years, Australia has been slipping behind the rest of the OECD in its rate of business innovation. If, as economists believe, innovation is the fundamental driver of prosperity, this is a harbinger of long-term problems for the country. To find a successful way forward, we need to …
Education, Science and Public Policy
Av Simon Marginson, Richard James m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
333 kr
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When will the 'education revolution' really begin? Is the nation ready for the challenges of the global knowledge economy and the emerging centres of innovation around the world? What are the key problems and where are the policy solutions? These are the questions addressed in ""Education, Science …
Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab Middle East
Lebanon and Algeria
Häftad, 2009
396 kr
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Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab MIddle East develops a method for examining the explanatory capacity of political culture in relation to the issues of civil war and conflict resolution in Lebanon and Algeria. How perception, shaped by values and assumptions, affects political …
Climate Change and Social Justice
Av Jeremy Moss
Häftad, 2009
385 kr
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The impacts of climate change can already be felt in society and on the Earth itself. As new evidence of the environmental impact of climate change is constantly emerging, we are forced to confront the significance of our political decisions about who will pay the price of responding to a changing …
