Australia & New Zealand

This richly illustrated history tells the fascinating story of Pacific people and their relationships with, and contributions to, New Zealand society. Across fifteen chapters written by leading historians and writers, every aspect of New Zealand's...

This book focuses on the men of the convict transport Eleanor who arrived in NSW in 1831. They were all from the counties of Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire and were transported for their part in the Swing riots - the great agricultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987632227Author Lorraine T KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Lozs Loot & LuxuriesPublisher Lozs Loot & LuxuriesWeight(grams) 327g

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...

Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians...

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. ...

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 9780994355850Author Ian GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Echo BooksWeight(grams) 458g

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 9781863958561Author Tom GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 506gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm * 29mm

Gough Whitlam, Australia's twenty-first prime minister, swept to power in December 1972, ending twenty-three years of conservative rule. In barely three years Whitlam's dramatic reform agenda would transform Australia. It was an ascendancy bitterly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990042164Author Len GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 185mm * 8mm

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) 542g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946482624Author Chloe HonumFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473352318Author Margaret NyhonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Willow PressPublisher Willow PressWeight(grams) 209g

In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established an independent foreign policy during the dangerous days of 1942. Gyngell argues that the fear of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987629203Author Annegret HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Esh PublicationPublisher Esh PublicationWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947506292Author Ron CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media

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

A fascinating new insight into the Falklands Conflict, covering every aspect of its origins and the political and diplomatic response to the Argentinean action as well as illuminating accounts of the military action to retake the islands, at every level...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473250164Author Belinda LansleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Rock Your Boat PublishingPublisher Rock Your Boat Publishing

- When was Aotearoa discovered? - How was Maori society organised in pre-European times? - What is traditional Maori art? - How does the Treaty of Waitangi affect us today? History and culture, from the great Polynesian migration to present-day sport and...

This work is the first to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. It begins by outlining the Aboriginal legal system as it is embedded in...

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art...

A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993453724Author Patsy TrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Prefab PublicationsPublisher Prefab PublicationsWeight(grams) 517g

What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen...

Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men and women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648946809Author Jennifer TwemlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Jennifer TwemlowPublisher Jennifer TwemlowWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995143142Author Richard ShawFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921922336Author Ned KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Text ClassicsPublisher Text PublishingWeight(grams) 97g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955917714Author Jan RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint IMPACT Investigative Media ProductionsPublisher IMPWeight(grams) 353g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987902211Author Aeternum DesignsFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Rj Parker PublishingPublisher Rj Parker PublishingWeight(grams) 114gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849025188Author John WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

How a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 600 miles to save 7000 gallons of rum By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasWhen, in 1796, Calcutta-based Scottish merchants Campbell & Clark dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2019 (Australia) and University of Southern Queensland History Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards 2019 (Australia) and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947506254Author Paul TapsellFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media