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The Sydney Opera House by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: $42.00$28.88If only these walls and this land could talk . . . The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Mahal and other World Heritage sites, it is celebrated for its... -
Monash's Masterpiece: The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: $35.68$25.07The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WW1. A largely Australian force commanded by the brilliant John Monash, fought what has described as the first modern battle - where... -
The Australian Army at War 1976-2016 by Leigh Neville
RRP: $25.18$17.70Since the end of their involvement in the Vietnam War, the Australian Army has been modernized in every respect. After peacekeeping duties in South-East Asia, Africa and the Middle East in the 1980s-90s, 'Diggers' were sent to safeguard the newly... -
Burke and Wills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Australia's Most Famous Explorers by Peter FitzSimons
RRP: $41.98$28.88'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.'MELBOURNE, 20... -
Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State by Arathi Sriprakash
RRP: $41.98$33.10Whiteness 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... -
Fractured Families: Life on the margins in colonial New South Wales by Tanya Evans 9781742232577
RRP: $48.20$43.01The poorest men and women in colonial NSW are no longer marginalised, but front and centre in a book that reveals what life was like for them.Most convicts arriving in New South Wales didn't expect to make their fortunes. Some went on to great... -
The Lantern Room by Chloe Honum 9781946482624
RRP: $31.50$24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946482624Author Chloe HonumFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams)... -
Batavia by Peter FitzSimons 9781864711349
RRP: $41.98$36.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781864711349Author Peter FitzSimonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House AustraliaPublisher Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre 9781108728485
RRP: $41.98$35.05Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record,... -
Bombers North: Allied Bomber Operations from Northern Australia 1942-1945 by Tom Lewis 9780645246995
RRP: $52.40$28.75In early March 1942 Allied forces in the Netherlands East Indies surrendered and the lightning Japanese conquest of South East Asia was complete. Amid fears of a Japanese invasion of Australia, two understrength RAAF squadrons of Lockheed Hudsons began a... -
Bound for Australia: A Guide to the Records of Transported Convicts and Early Settlers by David T. Hawkings 9780752460185
RRP: $63.00$48.362012 marks the 225th anniversary of the sailing of the eleven vessels of the First Fleet from England, bound for Australia. From the arrival of the first 788 convicts in 1788, to the end of transportation in 1868, a staggering 165,000 criminals were sent... -
Australian Railways by Robin Bromby 9780987403865
RRP: $23.16$20.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987403865Author Robin BrombyFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Highgate PublishingPublisher Highgate PublishingWeight(grams) 152g -
A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods by Margaret Cook 9780702266065
RRP: $44.08$31.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702266065Author Margaret CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)... -
The British Colonization of New Zealand: The History of New Zealand from Settlement to Dominion by Charles River Editors 9781724276025
RRP: $23.39$19.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781724276025Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Invasion Syria, 1941: Churchill and de Gaulle's Forgotten War by Henri de Wailly
$116.07At the height of World War II, while the Germans were setting their sights on Moscow, Free French, British and Australian forces launched an assault on the Vichy French army in the Middle East on 8th June 1941. This joint initiative of Churchill and de... -
The Aborigines: The History and Legacy of Australia's Indigenous People by Charles River Editors 9781727718348
RRP: $23.39$19.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727718348Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Australia Banaba Relations: the price of shaping a nation by Stacey M King 9780645149142
$11.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645149142Author Stacey M KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Banaban Vision PublicationsPublisher Banaban Vision PublicationsWeight(grams) 91g -
The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757 by Thomas Barfield 9781557863249
RRP: $71.30$62.96Around 800 BC, the Eurasian steppe underwent a profound cultural transformation that was to shape world history for the next 2,500 years: the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Asia invented cavalry which, with the use of the compound bow, gave them the means to... -
The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant? by Mike Williams, Sr. 9780646926346
$36.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646926346Author Rebecca LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Strange Nation PublishingPublisher Strange Nation PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Story of Australia's People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
RRP: $37.78$28.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761041952Author Geoffrey BlaineyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
Wobblies: A Graphic History by Paul Buhle
$52.73The stories of the hard-rock miners' shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the "Rebel Girl" of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the struggle for birth control access, the Pageant for... -
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun
RRP: $63.00$56.60Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonised by the... -
Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent by Avan Judd Stallard
RRP: $56.68$45.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925377323Author Avan Judd StallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia by Deborah Oxley 9780521446778
RRP: $71.38$64.93Convict Maids destroys the myth that the female convicts transported from Britain and Ireland to New South Wales between 1826 and 1840 were mainly prostitutes, professional criminals and the 'sweepings of the gaols'. Deborah Oxley argues that in fact... -
A History of Crime in Australia: Australian Underworlds by Nancy Cushing
RRP: $71.38$63.00This 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. A History of Crime... -
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt 9781863958844
RRP: $48.28$43.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863958844Author David HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 30mm -
The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania by Nicholas Clements 9780702250064
RRP: $50.30$37.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702250064Author Nicholas ClementsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland... -
State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples: Law, Politics, Ethics Francesca Dominello 9780367460310
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples.The prevalent tendency to treat an apology as a speech act has maintained the focus on the state leader making the apology and not on the victims’ claims. This book... -
The Cambridge History of Australia 2 Volume Paperback Set by Alison Bashford 9781107447516
$160.71The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the nation's social, political and cultural story. Volume 1... -
My Home in Tasmania 2 Volume Set: During a Residence of Nine Years by Louisa Anne Meredith 9781108020350
$103.47Louisa Anne Meredith's account of her life in Tasmania was published in 1852. She was an experienced traveller, and this work is remarkable for being the first detailed account by a woman of life in the colony. Its shrewd observations and descriptive... -
The A to Z of Australia by James C. Docherty 9780810876347
RRP: $94.50$83.77The last continent to be claimed by Europeans, Australia began to be settled by the British in 1788 in the form of a jail for its convicts. While British culture has had the largest influence on the country and its presence can be seen everywhere, the... -
Fantastic Dreaming: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission by Jane Lydon 9780759111059
RRP: $96.60$84.74Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage... -
Fantastic Dreaming: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission by Jane Lydon 9780759111042
RRP: $235.20$206.12Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage... -
The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema by Albert Moran 9780810868311
RRP: $94.50$87.57Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand. This book is an introduction and guide to the film of... -
Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square by Ross Terrill 9780761871965
RRP: $52.50$45.76In Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square Ross Terrillapplies his personal lens to China’s historic rise and turn from Moscow to the West. This book portrays Terrill’s correspondence with Zhou Enlai, Henry Kissinger, Guo Moruo, Chinese farmers, President... -
The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television by Albert Moran 9780810868564
RRP: $94.50$83.77Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian... -
The Henty Journals by Lynnette J. Peel 9780522846669
RRP: $92.30$73.88The Henty family emigrated from Sussex to Launceston in Van Diemen's Land in the early 1830s. Three of the brothers became pioneer settlers at Portland Bay on Australia s southern coast. Their journals, which are among the most valuable items in the... -
The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays by A.W. Martin 9780522853872
RRP: $113.40$61.59A. W. Martin is best known as biographer of Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Federation, and Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister. Martin, Foundation Professor of History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, brought a deep and... -
Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia by Alan Edwin Day 9780810845886
RRP: $214.20$187.19This engaging Dictionary examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day... -
In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories by Nicholas Thomas 9780822319986
RRP: $46.18$40.30In this collection of essays, Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. Basing his claims on wide-ranging historical and ethnographic research...