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Criminal Law and Colonial Subject
ISBN: 9780521403795 / Angielski / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries among property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: What did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term "offense"? She illuminates the values and beliefs of the emerging colonial consciousness and the complexity of power relations in the colony. The book reconstructs the legal process with great tetail and...
This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordina...
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659,85 zł |
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The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety
ISBN: 9780521594400 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost Children traces this ambivalent and disturbing history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from poetry, fiction and newspaper reports to paintings and films, The Country of Lost Children analyzes the cultural and moral implications of the lost child in Australian history and illuminates a crucial aspect of our present condition. At its core are confronting, often troubling, questions about childhood itself.
The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost Children...
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534,17 zł |
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Australian Brass
ISBN: 9780521401579 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colorful and controversial generals. His career spanned forty years and two world wars, as well as a lengthy period in both Japan and Korea between 1946 and 1951. Australian Brass not only charts the life and career of "Red Robbie," it uses his career as a vehicle to trace the development of the Australian regular army and the professional officer corps. It is also the first account of the occupation of Japan from a senior officer's perspective, as Robertson was Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force after the Second...
Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colorful and controversial generals. His career spanned forty years and two world wars, as well as a ...
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424,19 zł |
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Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia
ISBN: 9780521802185 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This very moving book, based on oral testimonies, focuses on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief in the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during the Second World War and the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
This very moving book, based on oral testimonies, focuses on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief in the experiences of Australian women who lo...
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424,19 zł |
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British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780521434768 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and the Empire in the late nineteenth century, and looks at the beginnings of Australian nationalism. It is the first detailed study of the formative period 1880-1900. As the debate about an Australian Republic becomes more heated, this book is a timely reexamination of the colonial character of Australia's federation and Australia's incorporation into an imperial framework.
This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and the Empire in the late nineteenth century, and looks at the beginnings...
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497,50 zł |
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The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia
ISBN: 9780521571128 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts that shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations their authors would have us believe. The book argues that contact with Aborigines are occasions of discursive contest. It scrutinizes and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. It will be a crucial text for readers in cultural, postcolonial and Australian studies.
This book is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. It is an innovative investigation o...
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392,76 zł |
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Notes of a Cruise in H.M.S. "Fawn" in the Western Pacific in the Year in 1862
ISBN: 9781905748273 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Setting off from Sydney Harbour in 1862, the 'Fawn' voyages to the Islands of the Western Pacific stopping at New Zealand first. From their first contact with the natives of Niue to the hospitality encountered from the Pitcairn Islanders, the Author, T H Hood, gives us an engaging narrative of the trip which includes many fine illustrations. He also includes numerous anecdotes gathered en-route such as the scarcely credible adventures of the whaling Captain Grant, whose feats included killing a ninety foot Sperm Whale whilst swimming beside it after it had crushed his boat, and surviving...
Setting off from Sydney Harbour in 1862, the 'Fawn' voyages to the Islands of the Western Pacific stopping at New Zealand first. From their first cont...
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141,19 zł |
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Sport in Australia: A Social History
ISBN: 9780521071352 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first single-volume book to deal comprehensively with Australia's sporting life. It covers the history of a range of individual sports in Australia, including cricket, horse-racing, netball, rowing, tennis, lawn bowls, swimming, surfing, and the various football codes. The book demonstrates the central role of sports in Australian popular culture and shows the ways in which sports reflect changing Australian society.
This is the first single-volume book to deal comprehensively with Australia's sporting life. It covers the history of a range of individual sports in ...
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204,24 zł |
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FAR EAST & AUSTRALASIA 2001
ISBN: 9781857430806 / Angielski / Twarda / 1504 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. It should be of interest to those with a professional interest in the region. Fully revised each year, and covering current economic and political developments, it presents over 1400 pages of statistics, directory material and expert analysis.
A systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. It should be of interest to th...
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1911,46 zł |
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The Far East and Australasia 2002
ISBN: 9781857431032 / Angielski / Twarda / 1578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South Asia, South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. It keeps up-to-date with current economic and political developments, and should be of interest to anyone with a professional interest in the region.
This is a systematic survey of all the countries of East Asia, South Asia, South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. It keeps u...
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1571,06 zł |
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Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia: The Umma Below the Winds
ISBN: 9780415444354 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage. The award winning author Laffan contrasts the latter experience with life in Cairo, where some Southeast Asians were drawn to both reformism and nationalism. After demonstrating the close linkage between Cairene ideology and Indonesian nationalism, Laffan shows how developments in the Middle East continued to play a role in shaping Islamic politics in colonial Indonesia.
Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial r...
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230,37 zł |
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Jack of Cape Grim: A Story of British Invasion and Aboriginal Resistance
ISBN: 9780955917707 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You may have read about American Indians who resisted the loss of their lands. This book tells how the Aborigines in Australia fought similarly in defense of their lands along a most savage frontier. Jack of Cape Grim is a unique and rare account, based on original unpublished handwritten diaries and correspondence, and on Aboriginal memories, of an intrepid band of Aboriginal women and men who fought to protect their lands, resisting three military expeditions sent after them. Melbourne in 1839 consisted of tumbledown wooden houses and roads so muddy that horses and carts sunk out of sight,...
You may have read about American Indians who resisted the loss of their lands. This book tells how the Aborigines in Australia fought similarly in def...
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98,53 zł |
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Made to Matter : White Fathers, Stolen Generations
ISBN: 9781920899974 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,32 zł |
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Massacres to Mining: the Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia
ISBN: 9780955917714 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This powerful work documents, from both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal sources, the impact of British settlement on the Aborigines of Australia.
This powerful work documents, from both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal sources, the impact of British settlement on the Aborigines of Australia.
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103,79 zł |
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Heaphy: Explorer, Artist, Settler
ISBN: 9781869404215 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in England, Englishman Charles Heaphy - the first 'New Zealander' to win the Victoria Cross, the first European to explore the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island and a distinguished 19th-century landscape painter in that country is a central figure in colonial history. This book reveals the story of Heaphy's life and art.
Born in England, Englishman Charles Heaphy - the first 'New Zealander' to win the Victoria Cross, the first European to explore the West Coast of New ...
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303,19 zł |
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Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia Since 1826
ISBN: 9780980296402 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This short history of Western Australia from 1826 to the present vibrantly narrates the social, cultural, political, and economic development of the most geographically isolated area in the world. Informative and analytical, the author's wry observations
This short history of Western Australia from 1826 to the present vibrantly narrates the social, cultural, political, and economic development of the m...
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170,35 zł |
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Blood, Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers
ISBN: 9781876268619 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on both oral histories and archival sources, this work details the ways in which Aboriginal people were gradually absorbed into the Kimberley workforces to become the essential underpinning for the Kimberley pastoral industry. It is an account of invasion, murder and enslavement but also of
Drawing on both oral histories and archival sources, this work details the ways in which Aboriginal people were gradually absorbed into the Kimberley ...
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170,16 zł |
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Labour and the Money Power: Australian Labour Populism, 1890-1950
ISBN: 9781597406543 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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182,73 zł |
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New Zealand Sculpture: A History
ISBN: 9781869404253 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this updated edition, Professor Michael Dunn has added a new chapter, 'Crisis of Identity: Sculpture since 2000', in which he discusses New Zealand sculpture's international reach, its role at Venice Biennales and the importance of overseas-based New Zealand sculptors such as Francis Upritchard and Ronnie van Hout. Dunn also sees a new popularity for sculpture with the establishment of several outdoor sculpture walks. The book now charts the growth of sculpture from the era of British imports and influence to the more confident art of the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes a general...
In this updated edition, Professor Michael Dunn has added a new chapter, 'Crisis of Identity: Sculpture since 2000', in which he discusses New Zealand...
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330,75 zł |
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
ISBN: 9781596911277 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells the story of her romance and eventual marriage to a Maori man, interspersing it with a narrative history of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand. Despite their significant differences, Thompson and her husband, Seven, share a similar sense of adventure and a willingness to depart from the customs of their families and forge a life together on their own. Thompson explores cultural displacement through the ages and the fascinating history of Europeans in the South Pacific, beginning with Abel...
In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells the story of her romance and eventual marriage to a Maori man, interspersing it with...
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77,60 zł |