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Australia: Nation, Belonging, and Globalization by Anthony Moran
RRP: €54.73€47.75In 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... -
Australian Sport - Better by Design?: The Evolution of Australian Sport Policy by Bob Stewart
RRP: €160.65€139.56Australians 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... -
Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making Nicole Watson 9780367467456
RRP: €47.59€41.72This 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,... -
Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives by Alana Piper
RRP: €28.55€23.23Apologies 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 -
Rights for Aborigines by Bain Attwood
RRP: €44.02€39.19'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... -
Kitchens: The New Zealand Kitchen in the 20th Century by Helen Leach
RRP: €26.78€23.05Apologies 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 -
Freedom Bound II by Marilyn Lake
RRP: €29.74€25.95Over 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... -
Redfern: Aboriginal activism in the 1970s by Johanna Perheentupa
RRP: €32.12€25.95Apologies 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 -
Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War by Joy Damousi
RRP: €36.88€27.19In 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... -
Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand Stories by Katherine Murphy Dickson
RRP: €65.45€57.16Comprising 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... -
Business Institutions and Behaviour in Australia by David Merrett
RRP: €57.11€49.75This 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... -
Up from the Underworld: Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909-1968 by Andrew Reeves
RRP: €32.12€25.95Apologies 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 -
Entanglements of Empire: Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body by Tony Ballantyne
RRP: €105.91€92.37The 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... -
Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions by Marc Trabsky
RRP: €160.65€139.56The 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... -
Australian Peacekeeping: Sixty Years in the Field by David Sanford Horner
RRP: €46.41€37.49Peacekeeping 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... -
The Vagabond Papers: Expanded Edition by John Stanley James
RRP: €28.55€23.23Apologies 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)... -
Sydney by Delia Falconer
€31.31As 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 by Gene R. Garthwaite
RRP: €46.35€40.70The 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... -
Gold Rush Societies, Environments and Migrant Networks in the Tasman World Daniel Davy 9781474477352
RRP: €30.93€25.06Investigates 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 by Jeffrey Grey
RRP: €46.41€38.07A 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... -
Governing Savages by Andrew Markus
RRP: €47.59€41.72This 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... -
Politics and the Press in Indonesia: Understanding an Evolving Political Culture by Angela Romano
RRP: €35.69€31.70This 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... -
The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740-1914 by Robert D. Linder
RRP: €32.12€26.43Apologies 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 -
Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda by Jenny Hocking
RRP: €23.79€19.56Apologies 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 -
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery by Alexandra Roginski
RRP: €16.65€14.08Apologies 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)... -
The Humanitarians: Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919-1975 by Joy Damousi
RRP: €89.25€81.09Spanning 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... -
Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past by Stephen Nicholas 9780521035989
RRP: €46.41€38.07State 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... -
Justice in Kelly Country: The Story of the Cop Who Hunted Australia's Most Notorious Bushrangers by Lachlan Strahan
RRP: €26.17€21.73Apologies 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 -
Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia: The Umma Below the Winds Michael Francis Laffan 9780415444354
RRP: €52.35€45.74Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author Laffan contrasts the latter experience with life in... -
Stretcher-bearers: Saving Australians from Gallipoli to Kokoda by Mark Johnston 9781107087194
RRP: €54.74€48.24Stretcher-bearers is a compelling account of the experience of Australian stretcher-bearers during the First and Second World Wars. Respected military historian, Mark Johnston traces the development of formal stretcher-bearing from its origin in the... -
The Division Trilogy: The Second New Zealand Division 1940-45 by Matthew Wright 9780908318193
RRP: €47.54€47.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780908318193Author Matthew WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Intruder BooksPublisher Matthew WrightWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
The John Temperley: New Zealand Immigration Ship 1865-1866 by Belinda Lansley 9780473290160
RRP: €23.80€19.35Apologies 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 Good The Bad & The Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers: Updated And Revised Edition, by Mungo MacCallum 9781863956772
€25.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863956772Author MacCallum MungoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 246gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 129mm * 20mm -
The Malays Anthony Milner (Australian National University, Australia) 9781444339031
RRP: €29.69€25.92Just 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,... -
Postwar Japan: 1945 to the Present Paul John Bailey (University of Edinburgh) 9780631179016
RRP: €46.35€40.70Within forty years of the end of the Second World War, Japan was transformed from a nation in defeat to one of the most successful economic forces in the world. In this book, Paul Bailey draws on the most recent research to analyse the significance of... -
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else: The stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names Eamon Evans 9780733635588
RRP: €16.65€11.23The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest,... -
Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions by Marc Trabsky 9780367660246
RRP: €49.97€43.73The 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... -
Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography Robert Macklin 9780733638794
RRP: €17.84€11.96'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the... -
The Bugis by Christian Pelras
RRP: €80.86€72.28The 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... -
Tom Wills: First wild man of Australian sport by Greg de Moore 9781742375984 [USED COPY]
€69.53This 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...