Australia & New Zealand

This broad-ranging 1995 book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Noel Butlin's analysis of the developing economy includes background discussion of eighteenth-century British social,...

In a life that spanned more than a century - 1882 to 1989 - Monte Punshon witnessed crucial events in Australia's history. She was a pioneer radio broadcaster, travelled the country with children's theatrical troupes and defied convention with her active...

The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period of intense political, policy and strategic transition, which saw a popular Labor Government and its...

Australia's oldest university press is also one of our best known and most trusted publishers. Founded in 1921 as a bookshop for students at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne University Press was soon publishing important works that contained the...

The centre of Melbourne is filled with stories about the city's pasts. Like all of Australia's cities, it is a place that is dominated by markers of the settler-colonial past. Yet when it comes to its Indigenous pasts, the city is mostly a place of...

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...

Found in Translation is a rich account of language and shifting cross-cultural relations on a Christian mission in northern Australia during the mid-twentieth century. It explores how translation shaped interactions between missionaries and the...

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...

When New Zealand's prime minister William Massey joined other heads of British Empire countries in signing the 1919 Treaty of Versailles to end World War I and join the League of Nations, he did not regard the act as a declaration of independence. On...

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...

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

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...

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...

Stirring Australian Speeches is the definitive collection of speeches and public addresses from Australian public life. Politicians, scientists, judges, explorers, artists, the famous and the infamous, comment on the great issues and figures of their day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869408107Author M.P.K SorrensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Auckland University PressPublisher Auckland University Press

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 9780385513616Author John Dos PassosFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

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

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...

Towards the end of the nineteenth century the British Empire was confronted by two great Chinese questions. The first of these questions (often known as the 'Far Eastern question') related specifically to the maintenance of British interests on the China...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855757199Author Jessie LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams)...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922979155Author Freda HodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were largely...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633781Author Lee-Ann MonkFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 300g

The reconstruction of higher education in Australia through the creation of the Unified National System of Higher Education at the end of the 1980s by John Dawkins is commonly seen as a watershed. It brought new ways of funding, directing and organising...

The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights is the first book of its kind. Not only does it tell the history of the political struggle for Aboriginal rights in all parts of Australia; it does so almost entirely through a selection of historical documents created...

"As my sense of the turpitude and guilt of sin was weakened, the vices of the natives appeared less odious and criminal. After a time, I was induced to yield to their allurements, to imitate their manners, and to join them in their sins . . . and it was...

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)...

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'...

This book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...