Australia & New Zealand

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922779052Author Craig HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melbourne BooksPublisher Melbourne BooksWeight(grams) 435g

The first attempt by Europeans to settle in the area that eventually became the state of Victoria, Australia, was led by Colonel David Collins in 1803. Melbourne was founded in 1835, and after the discovery of gold in 1851 became the financial centre of...

Arthur S. Thomson (1816-60) was a Scottish military surgeon and medical scientist who was posted to New Zealand in the late 1840s. During his eleven years in the country, settlement increased and British sovereignty over the colony was extended. Thomson...

Having arrived with his parents from Ireland in New South Wales in 1840 as a 'bounty emigrant', the young Roderick Flanagan (1828-62) quickly developed a passionate interest in his adopted country. Following an apprenticeship with a city printer, the...

The first prominent advocate of Australian republicanism, Scottish-born John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878) is an important figure in the history of his adopted country. This two-volume work, originally published in 1834, presents a series of chapters...

William Pember Reeves' scholarly work of 1902 provides a full and candid account of radical and experimental laws in Australia and New Zealand. From the Anti-Chinese Acts of 1881 to the adoption of the women's franchise by the Commonwealth Parliament in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Montana New Zealand Book Awards: History Category 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781869403812Author Ian HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Auckland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921888885Author Annie BoydFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 1172gDimensions(mm) 256mm * 185mm *...

Remaking the Tasman World explores New Zealand's most important and extensive relationship - with Australia - on a variety of levels over the past century. The authors present a combined narrative about a 'Tasman world', a working region defined by a...

This groundbreaking study understands the 'long history' of human rights in Australia from the moment of their supposed invention in the 1940s to official incorporation into the Australian government bureaucracy in the 1980s. To do so, a wide cast of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474477345Author Daniel DavyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869407278Author Rebecca PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Auckland University PressPublisher Auckland University Press

'A fine beginning for those intent on understanding the colonial past that shaped black and white Australia.' - Richard Broome, author of Aboriginal Australians Terrible Hard Biscuits introduces the main themes in the history of Aboriginal Australia:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716377983Author Roy MaloyFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523065Author Bain AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925495638Author Leonie StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

This book provides a new approach to the historical treatment of indigenous peoples' sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand. By shifting attention from the original European claims of possession to a comparison of the ways in which...

Apologies 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

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925644388Author Robert PullanFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Australian Academic PressPublisher Australian Academic Press

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523683Author Peg FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most...

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...

Discover the complexity of China's past with this multi-faceted portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field The newly revised Second Edition of A History of China delivers a comprehensive treatment of the political, economic,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648355281Author Marcus FieldingFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Superscript PublishingWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world's largest diamond company, sent gem-hunters to the area but they came away empty-handed. It was a vast region to survey, and they'd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780909952105Author Rex ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Power PublicationsPublisher Power Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927166093Author Richard DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wayz PressPublisher Wayz PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 11mm

The mutiny on the Bounty was one of the most controversial events of eighteenth-century maritime history. This book publishes a full and absorbing narrative of the events by one of the participants, the boatswain's mate James Morrison, who tells the...

A History of South Australia investigates South Australia's history from before the arrival of the first European maritime explorers to the present day, and examines its distinctive origins as a 'free' settlement. In this compelling and nuanced history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788498722680Author Marlo MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint B de BolsilloPublisher Penguin Random House Grupo EditorialWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994355850Author Ian GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Superscript PublishingWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and environmental consequences of the Fukushima reactor meltdown. ...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761041945Author Geoffrey BlaineyFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593471722Author James P. DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present. New edition of Burton Stein's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646553139Author David O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Strange Nation PublishingPublisher Strange Nation PublishingWeight(grams)...