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  • My Darlinghurst by Anna Clark 9781742237657

    My Darlinghurst by Anna Clark 9781742237657

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    Growing 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...
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  • Adelaide Remember When by Bob Byrne 9781742232201

    Adelaide Remember When by Bob Byrne 9781742232201

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    Remember ... 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...
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  • The Henty Journals by Lynnette J. Peel 9780522846669

    The Henty Journals by Lynnette J. Peel 9780522846669

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    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...
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  • The Fuss That Never Ended: Essays on the Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey by Deborah Gare 9780522850345

    The Fuss That Never Ended: Essays on the Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey by Deborah Gare 9780522850345

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    Geoffrey 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...
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  • The Spirit of Maori Leadership by Selwyn Katene 9781775501213

    The Spirit of Maori Leadership by Selwyn Katene 9781775501213

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    The 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...
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  • A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia by Ravi de Costa 9780868409542

    A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia by Ravi de Costa 9780868409542

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    This 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...
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  • Cultural History in Australia by Hsu-Ming Teo 9780868405896

    Cultural History in Australia by Hsu-Ming Teo 9780868405896

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    Showcases 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
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  • Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K. S. Inglis 9780522854794

    Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K. S. Inglis 9780522854794

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    This 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...
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  • The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays by A.W. Martin 9780522853872

    The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays by A.W. Martin 9780522853872

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    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...
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  • Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture by Stephanie Trigg 9780522852479

    Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture by Stephanie Trigg 9780522852479

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    These 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...
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  • The Many Lives of Kenneth Myer by Sue Ebury 9780522855463

    The Many Lives of Kenneth Myer by Sue Ebury 9780522855463

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    When 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...
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  • Stirring Australian Speeches: The Definitive Collection, from Botany to Bali by Michael Cathcart 9780522846812

    Stirring Australian Speeches: The Definitive Collection, from Botany to Bali by Michael Cathcart 9780522846812

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    Apologies 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
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  • In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories by Nicholas Thomas 9780822319986

    In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories by Nicholas Thomas 9780822319986

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    In 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...
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  • Outcasts of the Gods: The Struggle over Slavery in Maori New Zealand by Hazel Petrie 9781869408305

    Outcasts of the Gods: The Struggle over Slavery in Maori New Zealand by Hazel Petrie 9781869408305

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    Us 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...
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  • Regional Australia and the Great War: 'The Boys from Old Kio' by Philip Payton 9780859898737

    Regional Australia and the Great War: 'The Boys from Old Kio' by Philip Payton 9780859898737

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    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...
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  • Easter Island by John Roderigo Dos Passos 9780385513616

    Easter Island by John Roderigo Dos Passos 9780385513616

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    Apologies 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
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  • Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia by Frances Peters-Little 9781921666643

    Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia by Frances Peters-Little 9781921666643

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    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
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  • Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850's by David Goodman 9780804724807

    Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850's by David Goodman 9780804724807

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    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...
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  • Red Coat Dreaming by Craig Wilcox 9780521193603

    Red Coat Dreaming by Craig Wilcox 9780521193603

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    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...
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  • The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1: The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations by Peter Londey 9781108482981

    The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1: The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations by Peter Londey 9781108482981

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    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...
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  • The 'Yachties': Australian Volunteers in the Royal Navy 1940-45 by Janet Roberts Billett 9781922669537

    The 'Yachties': Australian Volunteers in the Royal Navy 1940-45 by Janet Roberts Billett 9781922669537

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    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...
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  • An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner, Aboriginal Australia and Anthropology by Melinda Hinkson 9780855756604

    An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner, Aboriginal Australia and Anthropology by Melinda Hinkson 9780855756604

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    Apologies 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
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  • To the Islands: White Australia and the Malay Archipelago since 1788 by Paul Battersby 9780739120521

    To the Islands: White Australia and the Malay Archipelago since 1788 by Paul Battersby 9780739120521

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    To 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...
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  • To the Islands: White Australia and the Malay Archipelago since 1788 by Paul Battersby 9780739120514

    To the Islands: White Australia and the Malay Archipelago since 1788 by Paul Battersby 9780739120514

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    To 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...
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  • Hiroshima and Here: Reflections on Australian Atomic Culture by Monash University 9781498587594

    Hiroshima and Here: Reflections on Australian Atomic Culture by Monash University 9781498587594

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    This 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...
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  • The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson 9780522869958

    The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson 9780522869958

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    Australians 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...
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  • Australia's Empire by Deryck Schreuder 9780199563739

    Australia's Empire by Deryck Schreuder 9780199563739

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    This 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...
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  • Inventing Australia by Richard White 9780367718534

    Inventing Australia by Richard White 9780367718534

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    '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...
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  • Brisbane Burns: How the Great Fires of 1864 Shaped a City and its People by Sharyn Merkley 9781925644005

    Brisbane Burns: How the Great Fires of 1864 Shaped a City and its People by Sharyn Merkley 9781925644005

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    Apologies 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)...
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  • Colonial Formations by Jane Carey 9780367618643

    Colonial Formations by Jane Carey 9780367618643

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    Colonial 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’...
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  • Australia 1944-45: Victory in the Pacific by Dr. Peter J. Dean 9781107083462

    Australia 1944-45: Victory in the Pacific by Dr. Peter J. Dean 9781107083462

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    The 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...
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  • The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard by John C. Blaxland 9781107043657

    The Australian Army from Whitlam to Howard by John C. Blaxland 9781107043657

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    The 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...
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  • Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea Peter J. Dean (Australian National University, Canberra) 9781107037991

    Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea Peter J. Dean (Australian National University, Canberra) 9781107037991

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    By 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...
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  • The Good Neighbour: Australian Peace Support Operations in the Pacific Islands 1980-2006 by Bob Breen 9781107019713

    The Good Neighbour: Australian Peace Support Operations in the Pacific Islands 1980-2006 by Bob Breen 9781107019713

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    The 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...
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  • Berry Boys: Portraits of First World War Soldiers and Families by Michael Fitzgerald 9780994104120

    Berry Boys: Portraits of First World War Soldiers and Families by Michael Fitzgerald 9780994104120

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    A 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...
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  • Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity by Rebe Taylor 9780522867961

    Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity by Rebe Taylor 9780522867961

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    In 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...
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  • Captain Cook Was Here by Maria Nugent 9780521762403

    Captain Cook Was Here by Maria Nugent 9780521762403

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    This 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...
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  • Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters Vanessa Smith (University of Sydney) 9780521728782

    Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters Vanessa Smith (University of Sydney) 9780521728782

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    When 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...
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  • Indians and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 9780199483624

    Indians and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 9780199483624

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    Indians 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...
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  • 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

    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

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    Apologies 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
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