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Archaeology of the Dreamtime
Presenting information and findings about the history of the peopling of Australia, this revised edition looks at the way people first came to Australia, where they lived, and how they...
Under Fire: How Australia's violent history led to gun control
This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each other, the firearm is an...
Australian Symbolism: The Art of Dreams
Featuring paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts, Australian Symbolism: The Art of Dreams is the only book on this subject and provides a fresh context for the work of some...
A Bend in the Yarra: A history of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station
The Yarra Bend Park marks one of the most important post-contact places in the Melbourne metropolitan area, and is of great significance to Victorian Aboriginal people, particularly the Wurundjeri Aboriginal...
Design in Australia: 1880-1970
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Exploring a wide range of design experience, this publication is an investigation of design issues spanning almost 100 years of Australian history. The author draws on poets, painters, educators, critics,...
A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the country's regional mosaic, some...
Roads for the People: A History of Victorian Roads
The book titled Roads for the People: A History of Victorian Roads by the author Bill Anderson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Robert Dowling: Tasmanian Son of Empire
Robert Dowling (1827-1886) holds a special place in the history of Australian art as its first locally trained artist. He is known for his portraits of colonial European society, Oriental...
New Zealand: A Short History
150 years ago New Zealand was established as a remote British colony in the South Pacific Ocean. An uneasy accord was reached between land-hungry settlers and the original inhabitants, the...
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in
'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me...
Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero
Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements uncover the extraordinary story of one of Australia's greatest military leaders. Tongerlongeter is an epic story of resistance, sorrow and survival. Leader of the Oyster...
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
'How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?' Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led...
The World's Longest Taxi Fare: Geelong to Darwin and Return in Charlie
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Motor Service Provider, Charlie Heard, was engaged to carry three ladies on a daring outback adventure in 1930. Ada Beal, Lil Wilmot and Eileen Glenny were Charlie's intrepid passengers. He...
Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage: Writings on Australia
With sharp wit and a discerning eye, political commentator Guy Rundle enlightens and entertains, drawing back the curtain on the iconic moments in Australian politics of the 2010s From the...
Soldiers of the Queen
This work is intended for general readers of military history titles, especially works in this series and Guns and Brooches . Veterans and descendants of the WRAAC. Also military historians...
Imagining Australia: Australian History VCE Units 3 & 4 : Australian
Imagining Australia: Australian History, VCE Units 3 & 4 is an exciting new text written by an expert author team to address the requirements of the new Australian History study...
Heritage Handbook
Heritage is now big business in Australia but many people interested in preserving historic buildings or in understanding the history of their own towns and suburbs are baffled by the...
He Tipua
Apirana Turupa Ngata (1874-1943) of Ngati Porou was one of the most important and illustrious New Zealanders of the twentieth century. He was the most influential Maori leader of recent...
Australia: A history by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott with a
How an ancient land became a great democracy. 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative ' Geoffrey Blainey, historian Australia is one of...
Fridays with Blanche
'What a treat! Brutal truths and bombshells galore. Profound reflections on life, longing and the legacy of Bob. It's like a long Friday lunch that you never want to end....
Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood
The first history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war Australia This groundbreaking book is a history of the childhood imagination in Australia between 1890 and the outbreak of the...
A Forger's Progress: The Life of Francis Greenway
Talented, well trained and confident in his own abilities and worth, Australia's first government architect was also hot-headed and tactless. Sentenced to death for forgery, then granted a last-minute reprieve,...
Round and About in Gippsland
Prolific Australian author, Jim Connelly, ('Mountain Boy', 'Wild Beauty') turns to his own native Gippsland in his free-wheeling account of this beautiful, varied and historic region.
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment
The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to...
All Guts No Glory: Nelson Tasman Nurses and Chaplains of World War One
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Little has been written about the nurses and less so the chaplains who served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War One. Several members of the New Zealand...
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story
An important tribute to the work and life of an extraordinary Aboriginal activist. William Cooper's passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights and...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South
For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American...
Australia and the Wider World: Selected Essays of Neville Meaney
The essays in Australia and the Wider World bring together a lasting contribution to the story of Australia and the history of ideas in this country. Since the 1960s Neville...
A Kind of Victory: Captain Charles Cox and His Australian Cavalrymen
In 1899, on the eve of the Boer War, Captain Charles Cox from Parramatta took 100 Australian cavalrymen to train with the British army in England. These military apprentices became...
Come to Dazzle: Sarah Bernhardt's Australian Tour
The Divine Sarah, recognised as the world's greatest actress, is at the centre of this book, but the story it tells is much wider. Corille Fraser's lively writing and her...
The Changi Book
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The story of Changi, told by those who lived through it. In the tradition of The Anzac Book comes this fascinating collection of accounts of life in the notorious Changi...
Death or Liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 -
Now a major documentary film starring Billy Bragg In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the British Government banished their political enemies - viewed with the same alarm as today's...
Down on His Luck: The All-New Swagmen Stories
Travel back in time to Australia's most glorious era - the era of squatters, gold rushes, shearers, Cobb & Co. coaches, bushrangers and, of course, swagmen. The swagmen of this...
Coranderrk: We will show the country
The battle for Coranderrk was one of the first sustained campaignsfor justice, land rights and self-determination. Proud of their culture, theircommunity and their award-winning farm, the Kulin people (led by...
No Turning Back: Life story of Pearl and Bruce Smoker
Much has been assumed and written about missionaries, with them often bearing the brunt of the criticism of Australia's Stolen Generation. The Colonisation of Australia initiated a time of massive...
Lifting the Lid: A memoir born of adoption
Lifting the Lid - a memoir born of adoption is a compelling story told by a distinctive voice with heart and humour about identity, belonging and a woman's search for...
The History Of Prahran
In this book, the residents of Prahran, past and present, tell something of their own stories. These are as diverse as Prahran itself. There are tales of wine and roses...
Life and Adventures 1776-1801: Text Classics
Introduced by Tim Flannery At length, almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd of June 1790, just one year all but one day from our leaving...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind identifies and dispels various myths which have developed around the importance of sea transport and logistical support, and argues for a new appreciation of...
Warrior Nation: New Zealanders at the Front, 1900-2000
The story of heroes - the soldiers, sailors and airmen who left New Zealand to do battle as front-line warriors. It is the story of New Zealand's rich record of...
Beautiful Lies: Australia from Kokoda to Keating
'Beautiful Lies' describes the forces that in less that four decades turned Australia from being dependent upon the United Kingdom to becoming an independent power, which, if it owes any...
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,
Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times In 1854, Victorian miners fought a...