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My Darlinghurst by Anna Clark 9781742237657
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.52Growing up in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs in the 1980s and 90s, I remember the pull of Darlinghurst. As a teenager, I would catch the 380 bus, get off at Taylor Square and dive gratefully into the slipstream broadmindedness -- of lives lived imaginatively... -
Adelaide Remember When by Bob Byrne 9781742232201
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £19.49Remember ... childhood visits to the Adelaide Zoo with a ride in the elephant cart, school lunches and a glass bottle of sun-warmed milk, spending Saturday night at Downtown or Tilt to play arcade games or go rollerskating, rides at Magic Mountain or... -
The Henty Journals by Lynnette J. Peel 9780522846669
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £34.11The 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 Fuss That Never Ended: Essays on the Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey by Deborah Gare 9780522850345
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £24.47Geoffrey Blainey is a remarkable Australian. As a historian, he is a maverick - respected for his originality and prodigious productivity, but sometimes dismissed as a blinkered populist. He has steered Australian history into the nation's conversation... -
The Spirit of Maori Leadership by Selwyn Katene 9781775501213
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £21.96The book provides insights into and analysis of traditional and contemporary models of Maori leadership. From this, it identifies three connected themes: understanding what makes a good leader, the importance of people and relationships, and the need to... -
A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia by Ravi de Costa 9780868409542
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.72This book is a transnational history of indigenous Australians. Indigenous peoples in Australia have always been engaged in transnational encounters. They regulated access to resources, conducted material and cultural exchanges, and managed conflicts and... -
Cultural History in Australia by Hsu-Ming Teo 9780868405896
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.86Showcases Australias leading historians writing about cultural history, both in theory and practice.Book InformationISBN 9780868405896Author Hsu-Ming TeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint UNSW PressPublisher UNSW PressWeight(grams) 440g -
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K. S. Inglis 9780522854794
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £29.91This revised and updated edition of Inglis' award-winning title features a new epilogue, new pictures and a new introduction by Jay Winter.War memorials, large and small, stand everywhere in the Australian landscape. They embody what Australians have... -
The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays by A.W. Martin 9780522853872
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £29.61A. 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... -
Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture by Stephanie Trigg 9780522852479
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £27.86These essays examine the early narratives of Australian 'discovery' and the settlement of what was perceived as a hostile, gothic environment; exercises of medieval revivalism and association consonant with the British nineteenth-century rediscovery of... -
The Many Lives of Kenneth Myer by Sue Ebury 9780522855463
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £37.42When Kenneth Baillieu Myer's father fell dead on the footpath in 1934, Ken's life changed in that instant. As the elder son of the Jewish immigrant retailing genius, Sidney Baevski Myer, who went from pedlar to philanthropist millionaire in fifteen... -
Stirring Australian Speeches: The Definitive Collection, from Botany to Bali by Michael Cathcart 9780522846812
Booksplease Price: £31.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780522846812Author Michael CathcartFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Melbourne University PressPublisher Melbourne University PressWeight(grams) 742g -
In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories by Nicholas Thomas 9780822319986
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.14In 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... -
Outcasts of the Gods: The Struggle over Slavery in Maori New Zealand by Hazel Petrie 9781869408305
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.41Us Maoris used to practise slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America . . .' says Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors. `Oh those evil colonials who destroyed Maori culture by ending slavery and cannibalism while increasing the life... -
Regional Australia and the Great War: 'The Boys from Old Kio' by Philip Payton 9780859898737
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £24.74In 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... -
Easter Island by John Roderigo Dos Passos 9780385513616
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385513616Author John Roderigo Dos PassosFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Doubleday BooksPublisher Doubleday BooksWeight(grams) 322g -
Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia by Frances Peters-Little 9781921666643
RRP: £29.48Booksplease Price: £21.55Apologies 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 -
Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850's by David Goodman 9780804724807
Booksplease Price: £67.19Comparing 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... -
Red Coat Dreaming by Craig Wilcox 9780521193603
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.97In 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... -
The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1: The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations by Peter Londey 9781108482981
RRP: £113.00Booksplease Price: £93.33Volume 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... -
The 'Yachties': Australian Volunteers in the Royal Navy 1940-45 by Janet Roberts Billett 9781922669537
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.00A 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... -
An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner, Aboriginal Australia and Anthropology by Melinda Hinkson 9780855756604
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855756604Author Melinda HinksonFormat PaperbackImprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 600g -
To the Islands: White Australia and the Malay Archipelago since 1788 by Paul Battersby 9780739120521
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.18To the Islands offers a unique perspective on the evolution of economic, social and political interconnections between Australia and its island region spanning two centuries, from the early years of British colonization to the present day. The book... -
To the Islands: White Australia and the Malay Archipelago since 1788 by Paul Battersby 9780739120514
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £88.73To the Islands offers a unique perspective on the evolution of economic, social and political interconnections between Australia and its island region spanning two centuries, from the early years of British colonization to the present day. The book... -
Hiroshima and Here: Reflections on Australian Atomic Culture by Monash University 9781498587594
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £82.45This study provides a cultural history of Australia and nuclear power. The author examines the country's role as a nuclear test site, the aspirations of the nation toward the postwar nuclear club, its deference to the demands of Britain and the United... -
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson 9780522869958
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £20.94Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in their droves, their fascination with the Rudd-Gillard struggleas unfinished as the saga itself. Rudd and Gillard dominate the drama as they strain to claim the narrative of Labor's years in power. The... -
Australia's Empire by Deryck Schreuder 9780199563739
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £48.05This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British Empire itself. The volume examines the meaning and importance of empire in Australia across a broad spectrum of historical... -
Inventing Australia by Richard White 9780367718534
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £117.28'To be Australian': what can that mean? Inventing Australia sets out to find the answers by tracing the images we have used to describe our land and our people - the convict hell, the workingman's paradise, the Bush legend, the 'typical' Australian from... -
Brisbane Burns: How the Great Fires of 1864 Shaped a City and its People by Sharyn Merkley 9781925644005
Booksplease Price: £20.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925644005Author Sharyn MerkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Australian Academic PressPublisher Australian Academic PressWeight(grams)... -
Colonial Formations by Jane Carey 9780367618643
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.79Colonial 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’... -
Australia 1944-45: Victory in the Pacific by Dr. Peter J. Dean 9781107083462
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.69The years 1944 and 1945 were pivotal in the development of Australia's approach to strategy during the Second World War and beyond. While the main battlefront of the Pacific War had moved further north, Australian air, land and sea forces continued to... -
The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard by John C. Blaxland 9781107043657
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £37.54The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard is the first critical examination of Australia's post-Vietnam military operations, spanning the 35 years between the election of Gough Whitlam and the defeat of John Howard. John Blaxland explores the 'casualty... -
Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea Peter J. Dean (Australian National University, Canberra) 9781107037991
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.26By January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sanananda had secured the northern coastlines of Papua and Australia. Australian forces were now poised for a... -
The Good Neighbour: Australian Peace Support Operations in the Pacific Islands 1980-2006 by Bob Breen 9781107019713
RRP: £91.99Booksplease Price: £91.90The Good Neighbour explores the Australian government's efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from 1980 to 2006. It tells the story of the deployment of Australian diplomatic, military and policing resources at a time when neighbouring... -
Berry Boys: Portraits of First World War Soldiers and Families by Michael Fitzgerald 9780994104120
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £27.66A surprise discovery in the 1980s unearthed the remarkable early twentieth century photographs of Berry & Co., now held in Te Papa's collection. Amongst the thousands of mystery images are more than a hundred of ordinary First World War servicemen, taken... -
Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity by Rebe Taylor 9780522867961
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £23.72In 1908 English gentleman, Ernest Westlake, packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants... -
Captain Cook Was Here by Maria Nugent 9780521762403
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.36This book is a dramatic and lively account of the encounters between Captain Cook, his crew and the Indigenous people of Australia during the Endeavour's first landing at Botany Bay, on Australia's east coast in 1770. These encounters were marked by... -
Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters Vanessa Smith (University of Sydney) 9780521728782
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £28.20When 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... -
Indians and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 9780199483624
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.43Indians now constitute a significant ethnic minority in Australia and New Zealand. According to the most recent census figures, they number slightly more than half a million, but represent a successful ethnic community making significant contributions to... -
Te Kooti's Last Foray: The extraordinary story of Te Kooti's 1870 abduction of two Whakatohea communities into the Waioeka Gorge and how Whanganui's pursuit won the day but never the credit by Ron Crosby 9781990042348
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £31.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990042348Author Ron CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 400g