Pastoral Accounting in Colonial Australia: A Case Study of Unregulated Accounting
ISBN: 9780815330370 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories
ISBN: 9780822319986 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of essays, ""Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. Basing his claims on wide-ranging historical and ethnographic research and building on his celebrated studies of exchange and colonialism in the Pacific, Thomas describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years.
"In Oceania" documents and analyzes the "rhetorical artifacts" of explorers, missionaries, fiction and travel writers, and the people... In this collection of essays, ""Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in...
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126,45 zł |
Stopover
ISBN: 9780824831981 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indians first arrived in Fiji as indentured laborers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d'etat in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the country in earnest. Stopover is a haunting suite of photographs by New Zealand artist Bruce Connew from the tiny Indian-Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vatiyaka, taken during seven visits between June 2000 and November 2003, placing an extended family inside the story of migration. Connew's narrative captions and a story by Brij V. Lal take the reader to the heart of an embattled life
Indians first arrived in Fiji as indentured laborers in 1879. Since the Rabuka coup d'etat in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians ha...
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115,70 zł |
Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall'
ISBN: 9780859897952 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction. An investigation of the popular tradition of 'Australia's Little Cornwall' how one town in South Australia gained and perpetuated this identity into the twenty-first century. This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia's northern Yorke Peninsula; along with the neighbouring townships of of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism centre. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major... Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction. An investigation of the popular tradition of 'Australia's Little Cornwall' how one town in ... |
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395,33 zł |
Making Moonta: The Invention of 'Australia's Little Cornwall'
ISBN: 9780859897969 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia's northern Yorke Peninsula; along with the neighboring townships of of Wallaroo and Kadina, it is an agricultural and heritage tourism center. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Moonta was the focus of a major copper mining industry. Making Moonta explores Moonta and its copper-mining hinterland in the years after 1860, charting the arrival of hundreds of Cornish immigrants and the transplantation of distinctive Cornish cultural patterns....
This book is about Moonta and its special place in the Cornish transnational identity. Today Moonta is a small town on South Australia's northern York...
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105,42 zł |
Howard's Second and Third Governments: Australian Commonwealth Administration, 1998-2004
ISBN: 9780868407838 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the administrative and leadership style of Prime Minister John Howard's second and third governments (1998-2004), focusing on key aspects of the government's approach during this period. It considers major changes in the public sector and its agencies, changes in the relationships between the executive and parliament, and the shift to a more privatized state. It features key policy issues of education, immigration, the republican debate, the GST, foreign policy and indigenous issues.
This book looks at the administrative and leadership style of Prime Minister John Howard's second and third governments (1998-2004), focusing on key a...
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120,97 zł |
A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia
ISBN: 9780868409542 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book recovers the long tradition of indigenous transnationalism - contact with external people, institutions, ideas - throughout Australia's history from before white settlement to the present.
This important book recovers the long tradition of indigenous transnationalism - contact with external people, institutions, ideas - throughout Austra...
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131,51 zł |
Doctors at Sea: Emigrant Voyages to Colonial Australia
ISBN: 9781403986856 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this engaging tale of movement from one hemisphere to another, we see doctors at work attending to their often odious and demanding duties at sea, in quarantine, and after arrival. The book shows, in graphic detail, just why a few notorious voyages suffered tragic loss of life in the absence of competent supervision. Its emphasis, however, is on demonstrating the extent to which the professionalism of the majority of surgeon superintendents, even on ships where childhood epidemics raged, led to the extraordinary saving of life on the Australian route in the Victorian era.
In this engaging tale of movement from one hemisphere to another, we see doctors at work attending to their often odious and demanding duties at sea, ...
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191,40 zł |
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History
ISBN: 9781576078686 / Angielski / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of interest to students and academics alike, this book provides a much-needed synthesis of the recent literature on the environmental history of Australia and Oceania. Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, this book maps out the key trends in the region's environmental history, charting the creation of the Australian continent from the ancient land mass of Gondwanaland to the arrival of humans. Especially fascinating are the chapters highlighting how successive waves of human migration created environmental havoc throughout the region, leading to the collapse of the... Of interest to students and academics alike, this book provides a much-needed synthesis of the recent literature on the environmental history of Au... |
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563,72 zł |
Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
ISBN: 9781844675258 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stories of the hard-rock miners' shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the "Rebel Girl" of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the struggle for birth control access, the Pageant for Paterson orchestrated in Madison Square Garden, bohemian radicals John Reed and Louise Bryant, field-hand revolts and lumber workers' strikes, wartime witch hunts, government prosecutions and mob lynching, Mexican-American uprisings in Baja, and Mexican peasant revolts led by Wobblies, hilarious and sentimental songs created and later...
The stories of the hard-rock miners' shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the "Rebel Girl" of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down str...
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110,64 zł |
Far East & Australasia 2000
ISBN: 9781857430622 / Angielski / Twarda / 1438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This book keeps up to date with economic and political developments. It presents over 1300 pages of statistics, directory material and analysis. Topics covered include the environment, religion, population and economic trends. Following this survey are individual chapters on every country. These include: articles on the geography, history and economy of the country; economic and demographic statistics; and directory names, addresses and contact numbers for the government,...
A systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. This book keeps up to date wit...
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1677,50 zł |
Recollections
ISBN: 9781862544673 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nathaniel Hailes was a wry chronicler of early colonial South Australia. He arrived in Adelaide from England in 1839 and throughout his colourful career witnessed many strange and wonderful happenings.
Nathaniel Hailes was a wry chronicler of early colonial South Australia. He arrived in Adelaide from England in 1839 and throughout his colourful care...
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116,13 zł |
A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare
ISBN: 9781869402907 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Plunket Society, founded in 1907, has been heralded as New Zealand's most successful and famous voluntary organisation. Run by women for women, it played a vital role in the care of mothers and babies for most of the twentieth century, becoming a national and international icon. This comprehensive history of Plunket covers three broad themes: the relationship between the voluntary sector and the State in the provision of welfare, the development of paediatrics, and the relationship between health providers and their clients, the mothers. Bryder stresses, in particular, infant health and...
The Plunket Society, founded in 1907, has been heralded as New Zealand's most successful and famous voluntary organisation. Run by women for women, it...
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78,80 zł |
New Rights New Zealand: Myths, Moralities and Markets
ISBN: 9781869403454 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Right group in New Zealand believes that government should be separate from a country's economy. Its growth between 1984 and 1999 is set within its global economic and moral context in this study, providing a more accurate picture than that given by those who only see the reforms as part of the play of global capitalism or in terms of local personalities and agendas.
The New Right group in New Zealand believes that government should be separate from a country's economy. Its growth between 1984 and 1999 is set withi...
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131,51 zł |
Te Mauri Pakeaka: A Journey Into the Third Space
ISBN: 9781869403478 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illustrated history details how the community education program developed by Arnold Wilson in the 1970s in Northland, New Zealand used arts as a catalyst for cultural exploration and involved schools and communities in their art projects.
This illustrated history details how the community education program developed by Arnold Wilson in the 1970s in Northland, New Zealand used arts as a ...
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236,93 zł |
The Big Show: New Zealanders, D-Day and the War in Europe
ISBN: 9781869403652 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An expansive oral-history project recently undertaken by the New Zealand government provides these 13 eyewitness accounts of World War II. More than 10,000 New Zealand servicemen were on active duty with the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy at the time of the D-Day landings in June 1944, and these stories bring the crucial role that New Zealanders played in providing air cover on D-Day, aiding the French resistance, undertaking missions deep into enemy territory, and liberating the Belsen concentration camp in Germany into focus.
An expansive oral-history project recently undertaken by the New Zealand government provides these 13 eyewitness accounts of World War II. More than 1...
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131,51 zł |
Making a Difference: A History of the Auckland College of Education, 1881-2004
ISBN: 9781869403706 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive history of the Auckland College of Education (ACE) was commissioned to celebrate 125 years of teacher education in Auckland and the 2005 merger of ACE and the University of Auckland. Making a Difference recounts the history of ACE, sets the College's story in the wider context and highlights repeated themes. Attention is given to the voices of students and especially to the college leaders, using oral history interviews as well as written documents. Although intended for the general reader, there is also material here that academics can use to support and develop theories...
This comprehensive history of the Auckland College of Education (ACE) was commissioned to celebrate 125 years of teacher education in Auckland and the...
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178,95 zł |
Final Approaches: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781869403782 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This memoir presents the life of a distinguished civil servant and gives a fascinating look into a dramatic political career spanning from Singapore to New York City. With an unerring eye for humor blended with thoughtful insight, this autobiography provides a diplomat's viewpoint to some of the most important political events of the mid 20th century, including two revolutions, a war in Nigeria, and a peaceful attainment of independence.
This memoir presents the life of a distinguished civil servant and gives a fascinating look into a dramatic political career spanning from Singapore t...
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147,33 zł |
Age of Enterprise: Discovering the New Zealand Entrepreneur 1880-1910
ISBN: 9781869403812 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history illustrates how entrepreneurship and innovation transformed the New Zealand economy in the 19th century--an otherwise bleak period in international economics. Drawing on case studies and historical evidence, this analysis explores the typical characteristics of these businessmen--"What qualities did they display? What role did they play in economic expansion?"--and discusses how small, local firms took advantage of industrial giants' protracted movements.
This history illustrates how entrepreneurship and innovation transformed the New Zealand economy in the 19th century--an otherwise bleak period in int...
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157,87 zł |
Holiday Seasons: Christmas, New Year and Easter in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
ISBN: 9781869403829 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking readers back in time and across the seas, this peek inside the lives of New Zealand settlers offers delightful descriptions of traditional British festivals and documents their development after being transplanted into the young colony. Though the seasons were reversed, the vegetation unfamiliar, and the land isolated, the early colonial New Zealanders were devoted to their traditions and kept them up in the face of not only their physical environment but also the wide variety of religious cultures represented by both the colonists and the native islanders. The celebrations became...
Taking readers back in time and across the seas, this peek inside the lives of New Zealand settlers offers delightful descriptions of traditional Brit...
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131,51 zł |