Australia & New Zealand

The book considers Australian First Nations constitutionalism by drawing on the chthonic constitutional traditions of three distinct Australian First Nations legal orders: the Warlpiri, Yolngu, and Pintupi legal orders, in the endeavour of identifying,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991016287Author Danny KeenanFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressDimensions(mm) 230mm * 163mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990042300Author Sir Toby CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 300g

This book analyses the use and abuse of social welfare as a means of border control for asylum seekers and refugees in Australia.Offering an unparalleled critique of the regulation and deterrence of protection seekers via the denial or depletion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990042355Author Paul MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 800g

In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a plausible...

Whether in the form of warfare, dispossession, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia's sense of nationhood was born from-and continues to be defined by-experiences of violence. Legacies of Violence probes this brutal legacy through case...

Just who are 'the Malays'? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical,...

Covering the life of Josephus Henry Barsden from his birth in 1799 through his childhood to 16 years of age, the Barsden memoirs describe events from a Sussex smugglers’ inn, a convict ship to the colony of New South Wales, sealing and whaling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604865950Author Iain McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 663g

When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into the jungle.Written off by their government as 'hostages to fortune', the little-known garrison on Australia's tropic frontier has been...

Comprehensive exploration of far-right migrants to Australia in the post-war period.Will be of interest to scholars of migration & refugee studies, Australian politics, fascism and the far right, and non-academics including Australians whose families...

Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. * Explores the ways in which nationalism is expressed, embraced,...

This study provides insight to the history and culture of the people of Bali, from prehistoric times to the present. Bali is a small tropical island in the centre of the Indonesian archipelago, prone to earthquakes and devastating volcanic activity,...

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century, and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today. This book...

James Smith (1989) is study of this hitherto-neglected maker of colonial culture, and traces the rise and decline of the transplanted ideas and values that Smith and many of his fellow immigrants to Australia upheld. It reveals the remarkable vigour with...

Covering the life of Josephus Henry Barsden from his birth in 1799 through his childhood to 16 years of age, the Barsden memoirs cover events from a Sussex smugglers' inn, a convict ship to the colony of New South Wales, sealing and whaling expeditions...

In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would 'pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531236Author Margaret PointerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

This book is a history of the British Enderby settlement on the Auckland Islands 1849-52 and its associated whaling venture. Isolation, a stormswept climate, unproductive soil, inexperienced crews, drunkenness and above all an unexpected shortage of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863955614Author Alan FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 199mm * 129mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322185Author Stephen DeedFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 748g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980296402Author Geoffrey BoltonFormat PaperbackImprint University of Western Australia PressPublisher UWA PublishingWeight(grams) 421g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473237516Author Belinda LansleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Dornie PublishingPublisher Dornie Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922059864Author Richard BroomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies Press

The Great War profoundly affected both New Zealand and its Prime Minister William Massey (1856-1925). Farmer Bill oversaw the dispatch of a hundred thousand New Zealanders, including his own sons, to Middle Eastern and European battlefields. In 1919 he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947506230Author Don StaffordFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994108838Author Margaret BeamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Rangitawa PublishingPublisher Rangitawa PublishingWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867804Author Kay DreyfusFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 478g

`Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand’ traces the evolution of environmental administration in New Zealand since the dawn of the `environmental era’ in the late 1960s. The national campaign to stop the government from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921888885Author Annie BoydFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 1172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633187Author Joel Stephen BirnieFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams)...

New Zealand's China Experience collects fiction, poetry, personal accounts, historical narrative, anecdotes, transcribed oral narratives, newspaper articles and more, all bearing in one way or another on New Zealand perceptions of China and contacts with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925495850Author Margaret TaftFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991016027Author Ian McGibbonFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781743325445Author Pamela SwadlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Sydney University PressPublisher Sydney University PressWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474487092Author Sophie CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947506933Author Matthew WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 160g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925495102Author Raelene FrancesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235947Author Marion QuartlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 770g