Australia & New Zealand

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867941Author Bruce BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 438g

This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each other, the firearm is an inescapable part of Australia's story and its characters. But just as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925495430Author Rebecca JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

Anglican clergymen in Britain's Australian colonies in their earliest years faced very particular challenges. Lacking relevant training, experience or pastoral theology, these pioneer religious professionals not only ministered to a convict population...

This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and expands the history of empire within, to and from New Zealand by looking at the country's spheres of internal...

First published in 1996, Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the PRC in 1972. Going beyond...

In this book Anthony Moran traces the development of contemporary Australian society in the global age, focusing on four major themes: settler/indigenous relations; economics and culture since the 1980s and their impact on national identity; the effects...

Australians have invested an enormous amount of emotional and physical capital in their sporting systems and structures. While Australian sport has many times been dissected from a historical and cultural perspective, there is little detailed analysis of...

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.In this groundbreaking work,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835304Author Alana PiperFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

'We cannot help but wonder why it has taken the white Australians just on 200 years to recognise us as a race of people' Bill Onus, 1967Aboriginal people were the original landowners in Australia, yet this was easily forgotten by Europeans settling this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578373Author Helen LeachFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 1190g

Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, songs, poetry, diary extracts - charts the visions that inspired women and the obstacles that confronted them.Exploring twentieth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925302295Author Johanna PerheentupaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 330g

In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the...

Comprising only a small segment of renowned short story writer Katherine Mansfield's work, the New Zealand stories were written within a five year span between 1918 and 1922. However, they were never published as a group until 1974 and have rarely been...

This study of Australian business institutions and practices places the rise of big business in Australia in a comparative context through a study of its 100 largest firms in the first six and a half decades of the 20th century. Unlike many of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980651263Author Andrew ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 290g

The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Maori chiefs had...

The governance of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the West. Legal, medical and bureaucratic institutions developed innovative technologies for managing the dead, maximising their...

Peacekeeping has been a significant part of Australia's overseas military engagement since the end of the Second World War. Yet it is a part of the country's history that has been largely neglected until the 1990s, and even since then interest has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235985Author John Stanley JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams)...

As I set out from the city's southern end, the sandstone walls beneath the Central railway line still held the day's heat ... I passed a row of old terraces where feral banana trees had colonised the tiny courtyards behind them, and walked on, past the...

The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day.* A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day.* Traces events from the rise of...

Investigates the role of memory in forming ethnic and national identities in the early twentieth-century Tasman World Focuses specifically on the Otago gold rushes within the histories of British and Irish migration Investigates the relationship...

A 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...

This provocative study breaks new ground. It argues that, in a period dominated by the white Australia ideal, the nation's political leaders were content to allow disease and malnutrition, as well as punitive police raids, to ravage the Aboriginal...

This book explores the evolving political culture in Indonesia, by discussing the country's dominant political philosophies, then showing how those philosophies affect the working lives of ordinary Indonesian citizens. It focuses in particular on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835403Author Stuart PigginFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925495188Author Jenny HockingFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235664Author Alexandra RoginskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams)...

Spanning six decades from the formation of the Save the Children Fund in 1919 to humanitarian interventions during the Vietnam War, The Humanitarians maps the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child...

State and private employers in New South Wales recognised the convicts' previous occupations, and employed a large proportion of them in the same occupations they had held at home. The women convicts - often classified as prostitutes - in fact brought a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648915737Author Fred WestruppFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Storm Bay BooksPublisher Storm Bay BooksWeight(grams) 526g

The Bugis, who number about three million, live for the most part in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi: they are among the most fascinating peoples of maritime Southeast Asia, and the least known. Their image in legend and modern fiction is of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473290160Author Belinda LansleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Rock Your Boat PublishingPublisher Rock Your Boat Publishing

The governance of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the West. Legal, medical and bureaucratic institutions developed innovative technologies for managing the dead, maximising their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633507Author Lachlan StrahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

This is the story of Tom Wills - flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules football. Sent to the strict British Rugby School in 1850 at...

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