Australian History – serie
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14 produkter
Wild History
Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier
Häftad, 2012
274 kr
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The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia’s Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others, from the explorers of the 1830s and 1850s to the founders of the big stations in the 1880s and 1890s, and the …
China Breakthrough
Whitlam in the Middle Kingdom, 1971
Häftad, 2012
239 kr
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When Australian Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam left Sydney in June 1971, the People’s Republic of China was a forbidding unknown in Australia – the subject of heated debate, charged imagination and Cold War paranoia. When he returned from his tour of Asia, the debate had irrevocably changed. On …
Dancing in my Dreams
Confronting the spectre of polio
Häftad, 2015
387 kr
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Across most of the world, an entire generation has lived free from the spectre of polio, but for fifty years during the twentieth century that fear was overwhelming. Polio became every parent’s worst nightmare, and panic drove people to do bizarre things to protect their children. Survivors of the …
Respectable Radicals
A history of the National Council of Women in Australia, 1896 - 2006
Av Marion Quartly, Judith Smart
Häftad, 2015
375 kr
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For much of the twentieth century, the National Council of Women of Australia was the peak body representing women to government in Australia, and through the International Council of Women, to the world. This history of NCWA tells the story of mainstream feminism in Australia, of the long struggle …
Good Country
The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors
Av Bain Attwood
Häftad, 2023
247 kr
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Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other? Bain Attwood makes a major …
Handful of Sand
The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-off
Av Charlie Ward
Häftad, 2016
280 kr
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Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people’s famous …
Antipodes
In Search of the Southern Continent
Häftad, 2016
375 kr
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Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its discovery. When ships were equal to ambitions, explorers set out to find and claim …
Conscription Conflict and the Great War
Av Robin Archer, Joy Damousi m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
280 kr
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While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter …
Slow Catastrophes
Living with Drought in Australia
Häftad, 2017
334 kr
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Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our times. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years global warming will increase both the frequency and severity of these phenomena. Stories of drought are familiar to us, accompanied by images of dead sheep, dry dams, cracked …
Historian for All Seasons
Essays for Geoffrey Bolton
Av Jenny Gregory, Lenore Layman m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
375 kr
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Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the country’s regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just as revealing, the natural environment, …
Good Country
The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors
Av Bain Attwood
Häftad, 2017
271 kr
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Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other? Bain Attwood makes a major …
Black Saturday
Not the End of the Story
Av Peg Fraser
Häftad, 2018
280 kr
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The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-three people lost their lives, the greatest number from any bushfire event in this nation’s history. In the wake of this tragedy much media and public …
Asbestos in Australia
From Boom to Dust
Av Lenore Layman, Gail Philips
Häftad, 2019
364 kr
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Asbestos in Australia presents for the first time a multi-dimensional view of Australia’s asbestos story featuring contributions from experts in the disciplines of history, journalism, medicine, law and public health. It also includes first-hand accounts of those whose lives have been touched by …
Australia
A Cultural History (Third Edition)
Av John Rickard
Häftad, 2017
367 kr
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John Rickard’s Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has also acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian society and was listed by the historian and public …
