Australia & New Zealand

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for Montana Book Awards 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780947506001Author Christopher PugsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833058973Author John F. SchankFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint RANDPublisher RAND

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

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...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781990042201Author Richard WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia Media

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...

This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors...

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

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 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 9781988531069Author Kristyn HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a source of ambivalence for many Australians. In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown challenges these ideas and looks beyond the cliches to illuminate the unique,...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143795780Author Garry LinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

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...

Engagingly written with 34 graphs and 15 tables showing climate changes and the history of hazards in the PhilippinesWith the current threat of global warming, this is something that will affect other countries in the futureThis study will be of interest...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648915737Author Fred WestruppFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Storm Bay BooksPublisher Storm Bay BooksWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648032304Author Glen HumphriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Last Day of SchoolPublisher Last Day of SchoolWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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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In the 1880s, a generation after the gold rushes, Melbourne rose to become Australia's most populous, modern and self-consciously 'metropolitan' city. Its offices and warehouses leapt skyward, its suburbs sprawled and the tentacles of its commerce...

'Ritchie has provided an exciting and dramatic account of the life and work of Macquarie. We learn, in contrast to the antiseptic treatment of the standard text books, that Macquarie was a man of strong passions, beliefs, plans and ambitions which drove...

History of the AWU is a first-hand account of the making of a union and the makings of a nation. It depicts the industrial and political struggles of workers in the late 19th century, and explains the motivations behind the people who forged Australia's...

In the early hours of 15 May 1982, three Sea King helicopters carrying 42 men of 22 SAS Regiment and attachments, lifted off from the carrier HMS Hermes and headed towards the remote Pebble Island on the north coast of West Falkland. Their task? To...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789387600836Author John McDouall StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992300265Author John P LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Tb BooksPublisher Tb BooksWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645378429Author Georgina StonesFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Australian BushrangingPublisher Australian BushrangingWeight(grams) 349g

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Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. Immigrants flooded in from Asia and Europe, and the...

This very moving book on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief focuses on the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during the Second World War and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. The book makes use of extensive oral testimonies to...

The idea of an Australian republic has existed from the moment the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour. This book is a comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia and traces republican debate in Australia from 1788. It...

In Australia's economic history, as in the nation's politics and culture, the Great Depression is a dominant theme. An international group of economists and economic historians has collaborated, in this volume, to look at the ways in which Australia...