Australasian History

Born into lowly circumstances in London's East End in 1823 William Wilkinson Wardell became one of Australia's greatest architects whose crowning works are his two cathedrals, St Mary's in Sydney...

Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways in which we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterize Australian landscapes and how have they influenced...

An authentic and entertaining first-hand account of life in the Australian bush from the 1920s to the 1950s. Under the Mulga follows Jim Gasteen's childhood adventures, marriage and his life-long...

From Australia's greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of this classic study of an imagined southern world. Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was arguably Australia's...

The Boyd family is Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasty. Among the descendants of landscape painter Emma Minnie Beckett and her husband Arthur Merric Boyd are talented painters, potters, sculptors, architects,...

Children and young people, many from conflict-affected countries, who arrive in Australia on orphan relative visas are highly vulnerable. In this report professionals with experience of working in this field...

This biography of Marcus Clarke was written a century ago by Cyril Hopkins, brother of Gerard Manley Hopkins and a close friend of Clarke and is published now for the...

How did the kangaroo transform from a bizarre curiosity to an internationally recognised symbol of Australia? How did Vegemite, a waste product of beer, come to be the most popular...

A selection of the best essays on Australian and New Zealand architectural history. From an initial meeting of a small group of architects in 1984, the Society of Architectural Historians,...

This collection of essays is the first systematic attempt to explain the social, administrative, technical and cultural history of 'European' housing in Australia. Written by a collaborative team of scholars...

'Please. I'm in hell!' The truth of that was in his face. The rims of his eyes were red-raw, his hair was matted, he hadn't shaved since knocking at her...

Tarnanthi accompanies the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and a series of exhibitions held at the Art Gallery of South Australia and partner organisations across...

The book titled Border: What They Said about Him by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

It's not news that Australians don't really trust their politicians and the relationship between politicians and the people who elect them is certainly not warm and cuddly. But as this...

Indigenous Australians have given us some of our greatest football champions. With names like Farmer, Winmar, Long, Rioli and Goodes, the stories of Indigenous footballers are some of the most...

Packed with over 10,000 questions, more than any other quiz book ever produced in Australia, 'The Great Aussie Sports Quiz Book' is an all-Australian, comprehensive general sports quiz book. It...

Australia's leisure culture is legendary, and as millions of British viewers of Neighbours, fans of Yothu Yindi or drinkers of Castlemaine XXXX would attest, Australian popular culture is popular outside...

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...

The book titled Australia's First Government House by the author Helen Proudfoot. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The first section of this illustrated pocket history traces Australia's development from aboriginal arrival up to 50,000 years ago to the present day. A second section looks at how each...

The Greatest Team of All is your definitive, blow-by-blow account of the Geelong Football Club team's rise to win the AFL 2022 Premiership. Revealing, insightful and action-packed, this book will...

The author's captivating account of how she and husband Graeme Blundell dropped out with style. Exchanging the soy milk lattes and eternal traffic snarls of the city for the delights...

The global success story of central Melbourne's transformation since the 1980s The transformation of central Melbourne since the since the 1980s is a global success story-or rather, many success stories....

Gay & Lesbian, Then & Now reveals the legacies of homophobia, the personal struggles and triumphs involved in coming out, and the many different ways of being gay or lesbian...

Tracing cinematic depictions of life in Melbourne from the Victorian era to the present day, World Film Locations: Melbourne serves as an illuminating and visually rich guide to films set...

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...

'If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you helped them when broken down, you would have...

'Lindy Edwards powerfully shows how politics can be understood as a passionate confrontation of ideas and ideologies. This book gives us a new and compelling way to think about the...

Hide & Seek Melbourne is a funky - bordering on quirky - insight into Melbourne's unique hidden treasures. Divided into four main themes, covering places to see/things to do, shopping,...

"Drink Drank Drunk" is full of distinctive, full-bodied, intense, tropical, floral, aromatic, jammy, zesty, toasty, silky, and plummy wine reviews designed to help you through the wine-shop jungle out there....

Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017 'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the...

This text highlights and places into historical context 250 of Sydney's buildings, varying from colonial to contemporary architecture. Anecdotal notes and brief biographies of leading architects are accompanied by house...

A new edition of Sydney's best and most comprehensive walking guide.

English was shaped by a damp green land in the far north and became the language of a wide brown land, Australia. How does that affect people's response to the...

Australian fashion is often accused of being derivative; Australian designers of foisting copies of European designs on the unsuspecting consumer; Australian women of slavishly of slavishly following European fashion. But...

The book titled Balmain, Glebe & Annandale Walks by the author Joan Lawrence. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Fourteen wonderful tours through Australia's fabulous Harbor City which begin afloat and come to life on foot. Thorough mapping and detailed listings of noteworthy sights accompany each tour.

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...

For years Pia Miranda has been stopped in the street by calls of, 'Found you!', forever linked to that character we all loved: Josie from Looking for Alibrandi . But...

Currently starring in CBS'S hit series DR CHRIS: PET VET in the US and delighting audiences in Australia as the host of I'M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE!,...

Shifting Gear: Design, Innovation and the Australian Car celebrates some of thiscountry's iconic vehicles as sophisticated objects of art and design. From Australia's earliest steam- and petrol-driven automobiles to specialised...

The book titled Walking Sydney: A Guide to Sydney's 25 Best Walks by the author Lisa Clifford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The Cultural Heritage of Trachyte What is trachyte and how did it come to be the unsung hero of Sydney's building stones? The answer is found in this fascinating story...

The book titled The Coast in Flower by the author Ian McCann. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the first Quarterly Essay of 2002 Mungo MacCallum provides a devastating account of the Howard government's treatment of the refugees as well as delineating the factors in Australian history...