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New Mount Alexander and Australian Golconda. the Ovens River, or Great South-Western Gold Fields by P Moody 9781241444105
RRP: €15.46€11.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241444105Author P MoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print... -
New Zealand. Otago as It Is, Its Gold-Mines and Natural Resources; Hand-Book for Merchants, Capitalists, Etc. by Zsigmond Ve Key 9781241434618
RRP: €17.84€15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241434618Author Zsigmond Ve KeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical... -
Life at Sea and Australian and New-Zealand Passengers' Guide. Reprinted from Hetherington's Universal Register.. by Anonymous 9781241323400
RRP: €15.46€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241323400Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print... -
I.G. Reasons for Promoting the Cultivation of the New Zealand Flax. by Francis Dillon Bell 9781240924011
RRP: €16.65€13.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Handbook to Canterbury, New Zealand. with Map. by Frederic Algar 9781240920716
RRP: €15.46€11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240920716Author Frederic AlgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print... -
Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca and Echinodermata of New Zealand, in the Collection of the Colonial Museum. by F. W. Hutton. by Anonymous 9781240908134
RRP: €16.65€13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240908134Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print... -
Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland by Carl Lumholtz 9781169974548
RRP: €51.11€44.55Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State by Arathi Sriprakash 9780745342146
RRP: €101.15€77.78Whiteness is not innate - it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions,... -
A Military History of Australia by Jeffrey Grey 9780521875233
RRP: €102.34€79.58A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service... -
Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II by Mark Johnston 9780521782227
RRP: €77.35€59.82Fighting The Enemy, first published in 2000, is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during World War II, this powerful and resonant book contains many moving... -
Imagining the Antipodes: Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith by Peter Beilharz 9780521583558
RRP: €108.29€81.00Bernard Smith is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading intellectuals. Yet the recognition of his work has been partial, focused on art history and anthropology. Peter Beilharz argues that Smith's work also contains a social theory, or a way of... -
At the Front Line: Experiences of Australian Soldiers in World War II by Mark Johnston 9780521560375
RRP: €96.39€73.77At the Front Line draws on a plethora of letters, diaries and documents written by over 300 Australian soldiers in the field to present a picture of the hardships and triumphs of their wartime experience. Mark Johnston analyses the suffering of... -
Australian Brass: The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson by Jeffrey Grey 9780521401579
RRP: €96.39€73.02Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colourful and controversial generals. His career spanned forty years and two world wars, as well as a lengthy period in Japan and Korea between 1946 and 1951. Australian Brass not only charts the life of... -
Sport in Australia: A Social History by Professor Wray Vamplew 9780521071352
RRP: €46.41€38.39Australia is often seen as a sport-obsessed nation, its people besotted with watching and playing sport. This book is an exciting survey of Australia's sporting life since white settlement. It deals comprehensively with the history of a range of... -
Kampong Australia by Matthew Radcliffe 9781742235141
RRP: €27.31€24.37The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia. Home to the majority of Australian airpower for over three decades, Butterworth was also home to a vibrant... -
Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles by Kristyn Harman 9781742233239
RRP: €27.31€24.37When most of us imagine an Australian convict we see an Englishman or an Irish lass transported for stealing a loaf of bread or a scrap of cloth. Contrary to this popular image, however, Australian penal settlements were actually far more ethnically... -
Saints and Slaves: A History of Catholic Schooling and the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Townsville, North Queensland: 1870 - 1970 by Martin Sullivan 9780995353763
RRP: €33.32€21.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995353763Author Martin SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Emily CooneyPublisher Emily CooneyWeight(grams) 203g -
In the Company of Outlaws: My Life with Ned Kelly and His Gang by Tony Squire 9780645934816
RRP: €20.22€14.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645934816Author Tony SquireFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint S.A.Squire & T.SquirePublisher S.A.Squire & T.SquireWeight(grams) 249g -
Merindah's Courage by Ross Hudson 9780645546408
RRP: €20.22€15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645546408Author Ross HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Wr &Mp HudsonPublisher Wr &Mp HudsonWeight(grams) 454g -
The Long Road: Australia's train, advise and assist missions by Tom Frame 9781742235080
RRP: €27.31€24.37The Long Road analyses the ADF's `train, advise, assist'missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea,Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, South Vietnam andUganda. With contributions from media commentatorsChris Masters and Ian McPhedran, politicians... -
Big Coal: Australia's Dirtiest Habit by Guy Pearse 9781742233031
RRP: €23.74€21.48Former lobbyist and political insider Guy Pearse, media and politics commentator David McKnight and environment writer Bob Burton cut through the spin to expose the underbelly of an industry whose power continues to soar while its expansion feeds... -
Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney by Paul Irish 9781742235110
RRP: €23.74€21.48Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip a century as they disappear from the historical record and reemerge in early in the twentieth century. Paul Irish's Hidden in Plain View explores what happened in... -
Serving our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship by Joan Beaumont 9781742235394
RRP: €27.31€24.85After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the... -
Neither Power Nor Glory: 100 Years of Political Labor in Victoria, 1856-1956 by Paul Strangio 9780522861822
RRP: €42.78€33.22When Frank Hardy published Power Without Glory, his notorious novel about corruption and venality in the Victorian Labor Party, it quickly came to be seen as a true account of the party. Until now, there has been no authoritative chronicle of the... -
Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia by Agnieszka Sobocinska 9781742233895
RRP: €23.74€21.48A timely and provocative book that shows us that the Asian Century isn't as new as we think it is. A million Australians went to Bali last year, following the millions of others who have made their way across Asia over the past century. Many travellers... -
Australia 1901 - 2001: A Narrative History by Andrew Tink 9781742234083
RRP: €23.74€21.96`So tightly packed were the crowds lining Sydney's streets on 1 January 1901 that they resembled a dense well-tended hedge. Early morning showers had followed a thunderstorm the previous evening and many carried umbrellas as they waited for the... -
The New New Zealand: The Maori and Pakeha Populations by William Edward Moneyhun 9781476677002
RRP: €38.07€32.28Today's New Zealand is an emerging paradigm for successful cultural relations. Although the nation's Maori (indigenous Polynesian) and Pakeha (colonial European) populations of the 19th century were dramatically different and often at odds, they are... -
Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam by Jeannine Baker 9781742234519
RRP: €27.31€24.37Why do Australians know the names of Charles Bean, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot, but not Agnes Macready, Anne Matheson and Lorraine Stumm?This is the hidden story of Australian and New Zealand women war reporters who fought for equality with their... -
Black and Proud: The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo by Matthew Klugman 9781742234052
€20.97It is one of Australia's most iconic images. On 17 April 1993, the Indigenous AFL footballer Nicky Winmar stood up against racial abuse and made history. Facing the Collingwood crowd that had taunted him all day the St Kilda player pulled up his shirt,... -
Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart Macintyre 9781742231129
RRP: €23.74€21.96A major new account of the 1940s in Australia.In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by... -
Losing My Religion: Unbelief in Australia by Tom Frame 9781921410192
RRP: €23.74€21.48In this challenging and provocative book, Tom Frame, one of Australia's best-known writers on religion and society, examines diminishing theological belief and declining denominational affiliation. He argues that Australia has never been a very religious... -
Unnecessary Wars by Henry Reynolds 9781742234809
RRP: €20.17€18.71`Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that... -
Turning Points in Australian History by Martin Crotty 9781921410567
RRP: €23.74€21.48'If only', 'what if' and 'why didn't we' are phrases that often come to mind when we look back to the past. This exciting and stimulating book looks back at turning points and crucial moments in Australian history. Rather than arguing that there have... -
Anzac, The Unauthorised Biography by Carolyn Holbrook 9781742234076
RRP: €23.74€21.48For 100 years, Australians have sought their reflection in the Great War. This book tells the story of what we saw.Raise a glass for an Anzac. Run for an Anzac. Camp under the stars for an Anzac. Is there anything Australians won't do to keep the Anzac... -
Hannah & Friends: Life in South Brisbane 1843-1870 by Brian Hansford 9780648298144
RRP: €15.46€11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648298144Author Brian HansfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Inspire Point PublishingPublisher Inspire Point PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Gas Pedal to Back-Pedal: The Second Century of Auckland Transport by Keith Mexsom 9780648512936
RRP: €41.59€28.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648512936Author Keith MexsomFormat PaperbackPage Count 789Imprint Keith MexsomPublisher Keith MexsomWeight(grams) 178g -
Blood Gold: Native Police, Bushrangers, and Law and Order on the Goldfields by Marji Hill 9780645483482
RRP: €29.75€21.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645483482Author Marji HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Prison Tree PressPublisher Prison Tree PressWeight(grams) 263g -
The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre by Peter Beilharz 9780522878608
RRP: €41.59€33.88Stuart Macintyre was an eminent figure within the world of Australian history scholarship for 45 years. This collection of essays and responses revisits and extends this extraordinary life of achievement and engagement. Leading scholars write here of... -
Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Islander People by Leah Lui-Chivizhe 9780522877953
RRP: €41.59€32.77Masked Histories celebrates the remarkable Torres Strait Islander turtle shell masks that were taken or traded by Europeans throughout the nineteenth century. Displayed as curiosities or art in museums and galleries around the world, the Islander... -
Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History by Bain Attwood 9780522851144
RRP: €70.21€27.62Tells the fascinating story of the only treaties ever made between white settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia. It contemplates why whites forged these agreements, how the Aboriginal people understood their terms, why the government repudiated them...