Australia & New Zealand

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995143197Author HELEN BEAGLEHOLEFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University Press

Focusing on the body in every chapter, this book examines the changing meanings and profound significance of the physical form among the Anglo-Saxons from 1880 to 1920. They formed an imaginary-but, in many ways, quite real-community that ruled much of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835625Author Richard AllsopFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

‘I pray that words spoken at this conference may carry beyond walls and reach thousands of ears hitherto deaf to warnings of the final catastrophe.’ So said Patrick White in June 1983 at an important symposium organised by the Australian National...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760990572Author Leigh StrawFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925302318Author Leanne HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925612417Author Owen MaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 565g

Colonial Formations highlights the critical importance of colonial dynamics at the so-called peripheries of the British Empire. With a focus on the Australasian settler colonies, the Pacific, India, and China, it examines colonised peoples’...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867842Author Patricia ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 366g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523188Author Sue TaffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995131873Author Frances WalshFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 1466g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925302332Author Lucinda AberdeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 152g

When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235787Author Alistair ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235022Author Mimi ColliganFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 396g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578663Author Donald Jackson KerrFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741757385Author Rosalind HearderFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988592572Author Matt MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Breaking open colonization to reveal tangled cultural and economic networks, Webs of Empire offers new paths into colonial history. Linking Gore and Chicago, Maori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing, Ballantyne presents empire building...

The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs.In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367497835Author Margaret SomervilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint RoutledgePublisher RoutledgeWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835687Author Anne ScrimgeourFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867262Author Darrell LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781864480399Author Joan BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g

There have been many published collections of soldiers' diaries and letters from the First World War, but never a firsthand account of one New Zealand family's life in England during these challenging and frightening years. When her sons, Oswald and...

This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining the Aboriginal legal system as it is embedded in...

'White sets himself a most ambitious task, and he goes remarkably far to achieving his goals. Very few books tell so much about Australia, with elegance and concision, as does his' - Professor Michael Roe 'Stimulating and informative. an antidote to the...

The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of it. Rum built a hospital and sparked a revolution, made fortunes and ruined lives. In a society with few luxuries, liquor was power. It played a crucial...

This book examines the adaptation of Buddhism to the Australian sociocultural context. To gain insight into this process of cross-cultural adaptation, issues arising in the development of Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist groups (one of the largest Zen...

Australian Fashion Unstitched provides a compelling and authoritative survey of the myriad influences and attributes of Australian fashion over the last sixty years. This post-war period saw Australia's fashion industry come of age. The word couturier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927322178Author Hugh MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 628g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922464002Author Lynette RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867422Author Graeme DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781743055786Author Marie SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wakefield PressPublisher Wakefield PressWeight(grams) 240g

How do we know which snakes are dangerous? This seemingly simple question caused constant concern for the white settlers who colonised Australia after 1788. Facing a multitude of serpents in the bush, their fields and their homes, colonists wanted to...

Between Indigenous and Settler Governance addresses the history, current development and future of Indigenous self-governance in four settler-colonial nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Bringing together emerging scholars and...

The paradox of progressivism continues to fascinate more than one hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but coercive, advanced and assimilationist, Progressivism was defined by its contradictions. In a bold new argument, Marilyn Lake...

In Australia's economic history, as in the nation's politics and culture, the Great Depression is a dominant theme. An international group of economists and economic historians has collaborated, in this volume, to look at the ways in which Australia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835717Author Peter BrowneFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235701Author Rebecca JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 367g