Australia & New Zealand

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

British Imperial Air Power examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. It also demonstrates the difficulty of applying new military aviation technology to the defense of the global Empire and provides insight into...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781921922336Author Ned KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Text ClassicsPublisher Text PublishingWeight(grams) 97g

Be inspired and amazed by these incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander icons! With colourful artwork and evocative writing, this book tells stories every Australian should know.SHORTLISTED CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2022 - EVE POWNALL...

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

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 9780702253904Author Larissa BehrendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)...

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 9780987403827Author Robin BrombyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Highgate PublishingPublisher Highgate Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781723304057Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990042201Author Richard WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media

The First World War marked the emergence of the Dominions on the world stage as independent nations, none more so than Australia. The country's sacrifice at Gallipoli in 1915, and the splendid combat record of Australian troops on the Western Front not...

The First World War marked the emergence of the Dominions on the world stage as independent nations, none more so than Australia. The country's sacrifice at Gallipoli in 1915, and the splendid combat record of Australian troops on the Western Front not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593185773Author Mark MckennaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987657367Author Ian WishartFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Howling at the Moon Publishing LtdPublisher Howling at the Moon Publishing...

'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren't to be a better society, if we were simply serfs designed to support a system...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531069Author Kristyn HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

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...

Within forty years of the end of the Second World War, Japan was transformed from a nation in defeat to one of the most successful economic forces in the world. In this book, Paul Bailey draws on the most recent research to analyse the significance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922830302Author Dianne GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Glass House BooksPublisher Interactive PublicationsWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925835656Author Ken InglisFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 800g

'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the...

'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648650300Author Jane SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Jane Margaret SmithPublisher Jane Margaret SmithWeight(grams) 540g

The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest,...

The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Maori chiefs had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863956772Author MacCallum MungoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 246gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 129mm * 20mm

This imaginative and resonant 1997 book looks at the constitution as a cultural artefact. It attempts to understand the period during which it emerged, culminating in Federation in 1901. Irving looks beyond the well-known events, places and figures to...

Just who are 'the Malays'? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical,...

The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history. A distinguished international team of historians provides a multidimensional account of the Pacific, its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994560353Author Roger JuchauFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Cilento PublishingPublisher Cilento PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

The publication in 1933 of the Australia volume of the Cambridge History of the British Empire was a landmark in historical interpretation of the nation and its place in the world. To coincide with the Australian Bicentenary in 1988, Cambridge University...

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