Australia & New Zealand

Apologies 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

Apologies 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)...

Around 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...

2012 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...

Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war. In the...

The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century was dotted with failed...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813046Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies 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

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery,...

Apologies 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)...

At 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 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...

Australian 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...

The ongoing Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of aircraft which served throughout the South Pacific. Volume 10 covers the P-47D Thunderbolt which flew combat missions in the New Guinea theatre until mid-1945, serving with a...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863734615Author Joan BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g

Convict 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...

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. A History of Crime...

Apologies 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...

This 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...

Diverse elements have created New Zealand's distinctive political and social culture. First is New Zealand's journey as a colony, and the various impacts this had on settler and Maori society. The second theme is the quest for what one prominent...

The 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 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 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...

Whether 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...

In 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...

Australians 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 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...

A. 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...

This 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 this book, Philip Payton provides a vivid insight into the experiences of regional Australia during the Great War of 1914-18. Alighting upon 'old Kio', the copper-mining communities of South Australia's northern Yorke Peninsula, he describes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464227557Author Sir Michael Huhn Michael HuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921666643Author Frances Peters-LittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

The British settlement in eastern Australia in 1788 and the strong establishment of the British colony of New South Wales created a maritime frontier in the Tasman Sea and Southwest Pacific. Maritime frontier conflict occurred from Tonga to Tahiti, from...

'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller.'Warren Fahey AMGraham Seal takes us back to Australia's ignominious beginnings, when a hungry child could be transported to the other side of the globe for the theft of a handkerchief. It was a time when men...

Comparing the 1849 gold rush in California with the 1851 gold rush in Victoria, Australia, this book shows how cultural factors gave each gold rush a distinctive shape and character, and a distinctive set of social, cultural, and ethical meanings. But it...

In Red Coat Dreaming art, artefacts and life stories combine to evoke a period when the British Army was also Australia's army. From the first British settlement to the First World War, some Australians were indifferent to and even disdainful of the...

Volume I of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations recounts the Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982, and follows them through to 2006, which is the end point of this series...

A saga of exceptional valour in World War II by Australian volunteers in the Royal Navy. Their service was diverse and dangerous, in the Battle of the Atlantic; the Arctic convoys to Murmansk in Russia; mine-clearance, covert sorties, Combined Operations...