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The Cambridge Legal History of Australia
Featuring contributions from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists, this path-breaking volume explores encounters of laws, people, and places in Australia since 1788. Its chapters address three major themes: the...
Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in
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...
A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance
On the 11th of November 1934 over 300,000 people gathered on the slopes of Melbourne's Domain to witness the dedication of the Shrine. It was the largest state war memorial...
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of
Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for,...
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and its ways of life. 'Marvellous Melbourne' symbolises the achievements of Australian urbanisation...
A History of New South Wales
The history of New South Wales and Australia once seemed interchangeable. But since at least the 1850s New South Wales has had a unique history, partly growing out of its...
Australia and the Monarchy
Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple- the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to the ancient symbol of power and social inequality. How have the...
Survival in Singapore: The triumph and tragedy of Australia's greatest
SURVIVAL IN SINGAPORE is a gripping account of an untold story of Japanese-occupied Singapore, and a testament of courage, sacrifice and the resilience of the human spirit. 'Wonderfully evocative writing,...
Worlds Apart
The Pacific Islands remain for most people a region of obscurity or puzzlement. The attention of news media is attracted by atypical events such as political violence that contradict the...
Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia: The Initiation of
Souter describes in fascinating detail the years of rapid and dramatic change from federation in 1901 to the end of the Great War. A new cheaper edition published to coincide...
Royal Visits to Australia
$20.00 AUD
Out of Australia's total population of around nine million, an estimated seven million people turned out to catch a glimpse of the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. Sixty...
The Time of their Lives
In the 1950s and 1960s, Keith Smith interviewed a number of "old timers", people whose living memories then stretched as far back as the 1880s, the gold-rush days and the...
Far Country
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This is a full and revealing account of the perilous and adventurous course of the Northern Territory; a comprehensive account of its history which debunks the myths and makes human...
C. Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy
O'Connor's life was both a triumph and a tragedy. He pulled himself up from disadvantaged beginnings in a famine-torn Ireland to become a master of his profession, inspired and inspiring...
First Footprints: The Epic Story of the First Australians
Some 60,000 years ago, a small group of people landed on Australia's northern coast. They were the first oceanic mariners and this great southern land was their new home. Gigantic...
Born in 1946?: What Else Happened?
This is the seventh of the 1940s and the eighteenth to be released in a series of 30 about life in Australia - one for each year from 1939 to...
Perils of the Studio: Inside the Artistic Affairs of Bohemian
$70.00 AUD
In the early twentieth century, there was much speculation about what was going on behind the curtains of bohemia. Perils of the Studio reveals how the romance and mythology of...
Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their
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The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and their Settlement in Australia.
New City
In the summer of 1888-89, professional photographer Charles Bristow Walker ventured outside his studio into the streets, and captured the splendour of Melbourne at its peak. For over a century...
Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories of a Melbourne
New edition of a classic memoir with new Introduction, bibliography, biographical index and four new previously unpublished photographs. 'Hughenden', the seaside mansion of Kathleen's grandparents, provided the 'solid bluestone foundations'...
Born to fly: Freestyle ski roots
In celebration of the original 'Godfather of Freestyle'. Born to Fly is the story of Australian Eric Hymans, one of the wild men of hot-dog skiing in the 1970s and...
Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War
For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during the famed battles of the First World War and in the present...
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and its ways of life. 'Marvellous Melbourne' symbolises the achievements of Australian urbanisation...
Number 1 Flint Hill
1 Flint Hill by Melissa Brown A historical narrative based in Colonial Victoria at the turn of the century. 1898, Ararat, Victoria Doctor Charles Lawler believes he has witnessed the...
Born in 1950? What else happened?!
.In 1950, Dugan and Mears used a hacksaw to break out of gaol, robbed banks, shot people and went back to gaol. The War finished five years ago, so it...
Charlie's Book
A work of local history chronicling the life and death of the rural township of Lyonville, a sawmilling settlement in the Wombat Forest region of Victoria's Central Highlands, Charlie's Book...
Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within
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On the streets, under the ground and on the information superhighway, radicals and rebels have made this town their own. The acclaimed Radical Melbourne revealed the hidden history of the...
Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the spectre of polio
Acrossmost of the world, an entire generation has lived free from the spectre ofpolio, but for fifty years during the twentieth century that fear wasoverwhelming. Dancing in My Dreams investigatesthe...
100 Years: The Australian Story
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The Kopara: Swamp Ploughs, Saw-blades and Slate Boards
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True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party
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Richard Downing
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Robert Menzies, A Life
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The Discovery of Australian History: 1890-1939
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A Concise History of Australia
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Idriess Great Stories
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The History of the Uniting Church in Australia: The First 25 Years
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Tribe of Angels: Coming of Age in Melbourne
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The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963
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