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Laperouse by Ernest Scott 9781438535470
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438535470Author Ernest ScottFormat PaperbackImprint -
Laperouse by Ernest Scott 9781596055346
Booksplease Price: £10.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596055346Author Ernest ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint < -
Laperouse by Ernest Scott 9781944529437
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944529437Author Ernest ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Lap Rouse by Ernest Scott 9781140507215
RRP: £19.75Booksplease Price: £16.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781140507215Author Ernest ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint < -
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. by Ernest Scott 9781108040617
Booksplease Price: £47.58Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) joined the Royal Navy at fifteen, later claiming to have been inspired by Robinson Crusoe. He served under William Bligh, and charted the Bass Strait in 1798. In 1801 he... -
China from Within: Impressions and Experiences by Charles Ernest Scott 9780461775778
Booksplease Price: £16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461775778Author Charles Ernest ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Im -
Australia: Volume 7: Part 1: Australia by Ernest Scott 9780521168533
RRP: £56.99Booksplease Price: £48.37The 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... -
Terre Napoleon: A History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Ernest Scott 9781108030786
Booksplease Price: £35.47Ernest Scott (1867-1939) emigrated to Australia in 1892, settling in Melbourne where he worked as a journalist. In 1913 he was appointed Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. This... -
Terre Napoleón; A History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Sir Ernest Scott 9789357976596
RRP: £18.06Booksplease Price: £15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357976596Author Sir Ernest ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918: Volume XI - Australia During the War by Ernest Scott 9781783313488
Booksplease Price: £50.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783313488Author Ernest ScottFormat PaperbackImprint
Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty's Enigmatic Voyage by Alan Frost 9781743325872
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NSW Premier's History Award (General History) 2019 and The Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA) 2019 and Frank...
Athens or Jerusalem?: A Study in Christian Comprehension L. A. Garrard 9781032962306
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49‘What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What agreement is there between the Academy and the Church?’ Tertullian’s outburst is still being echoed in some quarters, notably in the Biblical Theology...
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths 9780521483490
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £41.61Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of...
Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution by Michelle Arrow 9781742237855
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.24The Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked.The Whitlam government of 1972-75 appointed a women's advisor to...
Athens or Jerusalem?: A Study in Christian Comprehension by L. A. Garrard 9781032962283
Booksplease Price: £90.68'What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What agreement is there between the Academy and the Church?' Tertullian's outburst is still being echoed in some quarters, notably in the Biblical Theology...
The Historian's Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History by Stuart Macintyre 9780522851397
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £20.89In ""The Historian's Conscience"", Macintyre and thirteen other Australian historians put history and the history profession under the microscope. Eminent contributors include Alan Atkinson, Graeme...
Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart Macintyre 9781742231129
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.98A major new account of the 1940s in Australia.In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II...
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood 9780522877939
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £24.29William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights, and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country, has been...
Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935-1960 by Charlotte MacDonald 9780774825290
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a wave of state-sponsored"national fitness" programs swept Britain and its formersettler colonies, laying the foundations for the twentiethcentury's obsession with...
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story by Bain Attwood 9780522879803
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.84William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and his heroic fight for them to become citizens in their own country has been...
Britishness Abroad by Kate Darian-Smith 9780522853926
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £23.21As a global phenomenon Britishness encompassed trade, conquest and settlement and the development of imperial cultures within the vast reaches of the British Empire. At its zenith peoples around the...
Knowledge Making: Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy by Barbara Brookes 9780367520618
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Paper has been the material of bureaucracy, and paperwork performs functions of order, control, and surveillance. Knowledge Making: Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy explores how those functions...
Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand by Angela Wanhalla 9781869407315
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £27.04Philip Soutar died at Ypres in 1917. Before becoming a soldier, Soutar's life revolved around his farm at Whakat?ne, where he lived with his M?ori wife Kathleen Pine in an 'as-you-please marriage,...
Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard by Judith Brett 9780521536349
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £30.34The Liberal Party of Australia was late to form in 1945, but the traditions and ideals upon which it is founded have been central to Australian politics since Federation. This 2003 book, by...
Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party by John Fitzgerald 9781742237480
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And who walks away with the spoils? Cadre...
The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 4: 1800-1945 by Stuart Macintyre 9780198737988
Booksplease Price: £72.56Volume 4 of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally from 1800 to 1945. Divided into four parts, it first covers the rise,...
How Organisations Connect: Investing In Communication by Gordon Boyce 9780522853292
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £23.21Inter-organisational activity, whether public and private sector collaborations, university and industry partnerships or joint ventures between businesses, has benefits that range from increased...
Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Indigenous People by Bain Attwood 9781108745703
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.90This 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...
Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire by Damon Ieremia Salesa 9780199673742
Booksplease Price: £47.93The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial children, racially diverse communities or societies, these...
Methodism in Australia: A History by Glen O'Brien 9781138549111
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34Methodism has played a major role in all areas of public life in Australia but has been particularly significant for its influence on education, social welfare, missions to Aboriginal people and the...
A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa by Emma Christopher 9780199695935
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This is a story lost to history for over two hundred years; a dirty secret of failure, fatal misjudgement and desperate measures which the British Empire chose to forget almost as soon as it was over...
The Rise and Fall of James Busby: His Majesty's British Resident in New Zealand by Paul Moon 9781350116658
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.80One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of...
He Reo Wahine by Paterson Lachy 9781869408664
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £29.06During the nineteenth century, Maori women produced letters and memoirs, wrote off to newspapers and commissioners, appeared before commissions of enquiry, gave evidence in court cases, and went to...
Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II by Angela Wanhalla 9781496205100
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78Between 1942 and 1945 more than two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theater, the majority of whom were Americans in service with the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. During...
Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940 Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne) 9780521516310
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia...
A A Draught of the South Land: Mapping New Zealand from Tasman to Cook by Paul Moon 9780718897215
Booksplease Price: £72.96The story of how the map of New Zealand emerged is a fascinating one. The first full map of the islands was published in London in 1773, which might seem the natural starting point, but over the...
Oceania Under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870-1914 Frances Steel 9780719082900
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.91The age of steam was the age of Britain's global maritime dominance, the age of enormous ocean liners and human mastery over the seas. The world seemed to shrink as timetabled shipping mapped out...
A A Draught of the South Land: Mapping New Zealand from Tasman to Cook by Paul Moon 9780718897208
Booksplease Price: £21.99The story of how the map of New Zealand emerged is a fascinating one. The first full map of the islands was published in London in 1773, which might seem the natural starting point, but over the...
Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875 by Hilary M. Carey 9781108716802
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44This revisionist history of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland will challenge much that you thought you knew about religion and penal colonies. Based on original archival sources, it...
Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.08In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was...