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The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies
ISBN: 9780774814928 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features essays that reflect the different directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. This title shows how local life and culture in selected settlements influenced, and was influenced by, the ideology of the rule of law that accompanied the British colonial project.
Features essays that reflect the different directions in which legal history in the settler colonies of the British Empire has developed. This title s...
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145,98 |
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From One End of the Earth to the Other: The London Bet Din, 1805-1855, and the Jewish Convicts Transported to Australia
ISBN: 9781845193669 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The emancipation of the Jews of England was largely complete when George III came to the throne in 1760. Free to live how and where they wished, the Jews had been specifically exempted from the provisions of the 1753 Marriage Act which made Christian marriage the only legal option for all others. The effect of this exemption was to put the matrimonial causes of the Jews of England exclusively in the hands of their Rabbis and Dayanim (Jewish ecclesiastical judges) for the next one hundred years. No Bet Din (Jewish ecclesiastical court) anywhere in the world has left such a complete record of...
The emancipation of the Jews of England was largely complete when George III came to the throne in 1760. Free to live how and where they wished, the J...
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Dangerous To Know
ISBN: 9780522856811 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detailed and objective, this reference documents Australia and New Zealand's criminal activity from early colonial times through the present day. Based on newspaper accounts and court records, this comprehensive guide outlines in alphabetical order every crime and criminal in the region's recorded history. Topics include murders, cons, gang violence, drug deals, sex offenses, dock wars, and many more. The victims, police, lawyers, and judges involved in these crimes are also showcased, making this a must for crime fanatics.
Detailed and objective, this reference documents Australia and New Zealand's criminal activity from early colonial times through the present day. Base...
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131,39 |
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The Australian Study of Politics
ISBN: 9780230201033 / Angielski / Twarda / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science. It focuses on Australia and on developments since WWII, also exploring the historical roots of each major subfield.
The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether describ...
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402,53 |
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The Australian Study of Politics
ISBN: 9780230201040 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science. It focuses on Australia and on developments since WWII, also exploring the historical roots of each major subfield.
The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether describ...
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402,53 |
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Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-Century Australia
ISBN: 9780521422321 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowing Women is a comprehensive study of female education in nineteenth-century Australia, placed in international perspective. It covers a wide range of topics, including the evolution of the teaching profession; the private ladies' academies and their proprietors; the entry of women to the universities and the professions; the establishment of academic secondary schools, both Church and state; girls' experience of compulsory state elementary schooling; and the schooling of outcast girls. The study is rich in narrative and biographical interest, based, where possible, on the experiences of...
Knowing Women is a comprehensive study of female education in nineteenth-century Australia, placed in international perspective. It covers a wide rang...
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167,32 |
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Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry: Queensland from White Settlement to the Present
ISBN: 9780521469159 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cattle has been big business in Australia for well over a century and earns substantial export dollars. Yet the contribution that Aboriginal people have made to this key sector of the Australian economy has not been widely recognised. This book uncovers the central role of Aboriginal labour in the Queensland cattle industry. It looks at a broad period, from Aboriginal land use at the time of first contact, resistance to white settlers and rapid absorption of Aboriginal people into the pastoral economy. The book also considers the impact of the introduction of equal pay rates in the 1970s and...
Cattle has been big business in Australia for well over a century and earns substantial export dollars. Yet the contribution that Aboriginal people ha...
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203,50 |
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The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788 1996
ISBN: 9780521576185 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia traces debate around an Australian republic from 1788 to the present. It explains the pivotal role played by republican philosophies, both before and after federation, and illustrates the striking similarities between the arguments of both republicans and monarchists in the 1990s and those that existed 150 years ago. Essential reading for all those with an interest in political and intellectual history. It fills a large gap in Australian history and will become the essential work on Australian republicanism.
This first comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia traces debate around an Australian republic from 1788 to the present....
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Reading Pakeha? : Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand
ISBN: 9789042026445 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aotearoa New Zealand, "a tiny Pacific country," is of great interest to those engaged in postcolonial and literary studies throughout the world. In all former colonies, myths of national identity are vested with various interests. Shifts in collective Pakeha (or New Zealand-European) identity have been marked by the phenomenal popularity of three novels, each at a time of massive social change. Late-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and the collapse of the idea of a singular 'nation' can be traced through the reception of John Mulgan's Man Alone (1939), Keri Hulme's the bone people (1983), and...
Aotearoa New Zealand, "a tiny Pacific country," is of great interest to those engaged in postcolonial and literary studies throughout the world. In al...
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Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival
ISBN: 9780521447089 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Up until the 1970s, a large proportion of Aboriginal people in Australia had some experience in institutions as part of government assimilation and protection policies. By focusing on three communities in South Australia, this book attempts to understand the consequences of this institutionalization for Aborigines and Australian society in general. Peggy Brock uses the word "ghetto" to evoke the nature of the missions in which many Aboriginal people settled for generations, as ghettos both oppress and nurture. The book shows that Aboriginal people often chose to live in the missions as part...
Up until the 1970s, a large proportion of Aboriginal people in Australia had some experience in institutions as part of government assimilation and pr...
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149,22 |
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The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation
ISBN: 9780521126472 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major contribution to the centenary of Federation, this comprehensive reference book explores Australia's national origins.
A major contribution to the centenary of Federation, this comprehensive reference book explores Australia's national origins.
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235,16 |
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Fantastic Dreaming: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
ISBN: 9780759111059 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the archaeological investigation of a Moravian mission in southeastern Australia, the traditional country of the Wergaia-language speakers, Fantastic Dreaming examines how spatial organization, the consumption of Western goods, and the practices required by domesticity were used to transform Aboriginal people
Focusing on the archaeological investigation of a Moravian mission in southeastern Australia, the traditional country of the Wergaia-language speakers...
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223,92 |
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Light Horse: A History of Australia's Mounted Arm
ISBN: 9780521197083 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mounted soldier is one of the most evocative symbols in Australian military history. Now a celebrated part of Australia's army heritage, the role and very existence of mounted troops in modern warfare was being called into question at the time of its most crowning military moments. Light horse regiments, particularly those that served in South Africa, Palestine and the trenches of Gallipoli, played a vital role in Australia's early military campaigns. Based on extensive research from both Australia and Britain, this book is a comprehensive history of the Australian Light Horse in war and...
The mounted soldier is one of the most evocative symbols in Australian military history. Now a celebrated part of Australia's army heritage, the role ...
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Sydney's Aboriginal Past: Investigating the archaeological and historical records, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781742231167 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition of Sydney's Aboriginal Past draws on the latest historical, archaeological, geological, environmental and linguistic research, as well as oral evidence of present-day Aboriginal people, to reveal the diversity of Aboriginal life in the Sydney region before, during and for the first 30 years of British settlement.
This edition of Sydney's Aboriginal Past draws on the latest historical, archaeological, geological, environmental and linguistic research, as well as...
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165,50 |
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Sorry, lads, but the order is to go
ISBN: 9781742230771 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The August Offensive was the last attempt by the Allied forces to break the stalemate with the Turkish defenders that had developed since the Anzac landings in late April 1915. This book recreates in compelling detail the first five days of the offensive.
The August Offensive was the last attempt by the Allied forces to break the stalemate with the Turkish defenders that had developed since the Anzac la...
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92,44 |
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What Were They Thinking?: The Politics of Ideas in Australia
ISBN: 9780868409719 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ideas are at the heart of our politics. They are the means by which people are influenced and mobilised. Australian politics have been shaped by distinctive patterns of political thought from the colonial period to the Rudd government. But how have these patterns arisen? An invigorating history of people trying to make sense of their world.
Ideas are at the heart of our politics. They are the means by which people are influenced and mobilised. Australian politics have been shaped by disti...
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92,44 |
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Footy Passions
ISBN: 9780868409573 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this riveting and moving book, AFL fans talk about the emotions associated with the game and how it gives meaning to their lives, showing that football is more than just a game.
In this riveting and moving book, AFL fans talk about the emotions associated with the game and how it gives meaning to their lives, showing that foot...
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Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio
ISBN: 9780868409184 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Immediate, intimate, portable and inexpensive, radio is the most pervasive medium in Australia. This title presents the national history of commercial radio in Australia, from the experiments and schemes of the 1920s through to the eve of the introduction of digital radio in 2009.
Immediate, intimate, portable and inexpensive, radio is the most pervasive medium in Australia. This title presents the national history of commercial...
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102,18 |
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Haunted Earth
ISBN: 9780868407265 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extraordinary book tackles head-on the existence and meaning of spirit forces in Australia. Haunted Earth asks a few key questions: Is Australia haunted? If so, where, and with what? Are there spiritual or otherwise 'special' places in Australia? Each chapter follows a round-the-clock journey, from midnight to midnight, charting the activities of Australians of many different experiences and cultures: there are Aboriginal spirits on Flinders Island at daybreak, the summoning of a Chinese ancestor spirit at noon in Perth, an exorcism in New South Wales in early afternoon.
This extraordinary book tackles head-on the existence and meaning of spirit forces in Australia. Haunted Earth asks a few key questions: Is Australia ...
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92,44 |
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Friday on Our Minds
ISBN: 9780868406626 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From jitterbugging to Big Brother, from the introduction of television to the rise of file-sharing, this book explores the ways popular culture has developed and changed in Australia. It provides an integrated account of changes in a range of popular culture forms, meanings, production and consumption.
From jitterbugging to Big Brother, from the introduction of television to the rise of file-sharing, this book explores the ways popular culture has de...
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92,18 |
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