{"product_id":"secondhand-australian-history-aboriginal-australia-bargain-book-box-sp2975","title":"Secondhand Australian History \u0026 Aboriginal Australia Bargain Book Box SP2975","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Australian History \u0026amp; Aboriginal Australia Bargain Book Box SP2975\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSixteen books on Australian history, from the colonial frontier to Aboriginal Australia in the twentieth century — Ion Idriess, Ross Terrill, Douglas Lockwood, Geoffrey Serle, Geoffrey Blainey, and primary sources on Aboriginal experience including Margaret Tucker's autobiography and Kevin Gilbert's oral histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur Stone Age Mystery — Ion L. Idriess — Idriess explores the archaeological evidence of Australia's deep Indigenous past: rock art, stone tools, and the mystery of the continent's first peoples.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Australians: The Way We Live Now — Ross Terrill — An American scholar's portrait of contemporary Australia: its values, contradictions, and national character.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI, the Aboriginal — Douglas Lockwood — The autobiography of Waipuldanya, a Alawa man, as told to journalist Douglas Lockwood. Winner of the Advertiser's £1,250 Adelaide Festival of Arts Award 1962. A landmark in Australian Indigenous autobiography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf Everyone Cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker — Margaret Tucker's account of her life as a Yorta Yorta woman, removed from her family under government policy and determined to find her way back. A foundation text of Aboriginal Australian literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiving Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert — Kevin Gilbert's collection of interviews with Aboriginal Australians across the country: their experiences, their anger, and their vision for the future.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Australian People 1788–1945 — Brian Fitzpatrick — Fitzpatrick's social and economic history of the Australian population: who came, how they lived, and what kind of society they built.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Deserts the Prophets Come: The Creative Spirit in Australia 1788–1972 — Geoffrey Serle — Serle's intellectual history of Australian culture: the artists, writers, and thinkers who defined a national imagination.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAustralia Since Federation — Fred Alexander — A survey history of Australia from Federation to the mid-twentieth century: politics, economy, society, and external relations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReadings in Australian History: The Occupation of a Continent — Essays by Bessant, Blackmore, Caven, Cotter, Mellor, and Waterson examining how Australia was settled, occupied, and transformed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Tale of Two Brothers: Charles Dickens's Sons in Australia — Mary Lazarus — The story of Alfred and Edward Dickens, two of the novelist's sons who emigrated to Australia and made their lives there.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSources of Australian History — ed. M. Clark — Manning Clark's collection of primary documents tracing Australian history from first contact to the twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Road to Gundagai — Graham McInnes — McInnes's memoir of growing up in Australia in the 1920s and 30s: a vivid portrait of a society in the long shadow of the First World War.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCamels and the Outback — H.M. Barker — The story of the Afghan cameleers and their camels in the opening up of the Australian interior — one of the more remarkable chapters in Australian history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColonial Australia Before 1850 — Brian Fletcher — A study of Australian colonial society in the pre-gold-rush period: convicts, free settlers, land, and the emerging social order.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Story of Australia — A.G.L. Shaw — Shaw's authoritative survey history of Australia from Indigenous occupation through Federation and beyond.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKidnapping in the South Seas — George Palmer — Palmer's account of the Queensland labour trade and the blackbirding of Pacific Islanders. A Faber Colonial Facsimile reprint of an important primary source.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49186718286043,"sku":"SP2975","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp2975.jpg?v=1787805361","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-australian-history-aboriginal-australia-bargain-book-box-sp2975","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}