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The Jerilderie Letter and the Cameron Letter
ISBN: 9781849024730 / Angielski / Twarda / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Jerilderie and Cameron Letters are Ned Kelly's only extant writings.
The Jerilderie and Cameron Letters are Ned Kelly's only extant writings.
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69,02 |
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Australia: The Quiet Continent
ISBN: 9780521096041 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main theme of this 1998 second edition is the sober hard-won progress of isolated colonies struggling to increase their population and pay their way.
The main theme of this 1998 second edition is the sober hard-won progress of isolated colonies struggling to increase their population and pay their w...
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192,55 |
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Australian Cultural History
ISBN: 9780521377584 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australian Cultural History is a 1988 text which opens up new ways of looking at Australian society, culture and history.
Australian Cultural History is a 1988 text which opens up new ways of looking at Australian society, culture and history.
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246,00 |
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The Progress of Australasia in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781108030724 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Timothy Coghlan (1855 1926) was the statistician for New South Wales from 1886, and is regarded as Australia's first 'Mandarin'. His advice was sought by state and federal governments on matters as diverse as tax, public sanitation and infant mortality. In 1905 he took up an appointment as New South Wales government agent in London, remaining there for the rest of his life. First published in 1903, this was one of the first comprehensive histories of Australia, and it benefits greatly from the author's extensive hard statistical data. In contrast to his later Labour and Industry (also...
Sir Timothy Coghlan (1855 1926) was the statistician for New South Wales from 1886, and is regarded as Australia's first 'Mandarin'. His advice was so...
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322,89 |
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An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, Both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony
ISBN: 9781108030755 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first prominent advocate of Australian republicanism, Scottish-born John Dunmore Lang (1799 1878) is an important figure in the history of his adopted country. This two-volume work, originally published in 1834, presents a series of chapters illustrating Australia's history and its condition in his own time. Written during a voyage from New South Wales to Britain in 1833, the book promotes what Lang deems to be the best interests of the New South Wales colony, by encouraging the emigration 'of reputable families and individuals to its territory'. Volume 1 sets out the historical...
The first prominent advocate of Australian republicanism, Scottish-born John Dunmore Lang (1799 1878) is an important figure in the history of his ado...
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266,51 |
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An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, Both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony
ISBN: 9781108030762 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first prominent advocate of Australian republicanism, Scottish-born John Dunmore Lang (1799 1878) is an important figure in the history of his adopted country. This two-volume work, originally published in 1834, presents a series of chapters illustrating Australia's history and its condition in his own time. Written during a voyage from New South Wales to Britain in 1833, the book promotes what Lang deems to be the best interests of the New South Wales colony, by encouraging the emigration 'of reputable families and individuals to its territory'. Volume 2 investigates the distribution and...
The first prominent advocate of Australian republicanism, Scottish-born John Dunmore Lang (1799 1878) is an important figure in the history of his ado...
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302,38 |
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Terre Napoléon: A History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
ISBN: 9781108030786 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ernest Scott (1867 1939) emigrated to Australia in 1892, settling in Melbourne where he worked as a journalist. In 1913 he was appointed Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. This volume, first published in 1910, discusses the aims and outcome of the survey of the south Australian coast performed by Nicholas Baudin's French expedition between 1800 and 1804, and established Scott's reputation as a historian. Scott traces the path of Baudin's expedition along the then unexplored south coast of Australia, estimating the amount of original surveying performed by the expedition to...
Ernest Scott (1867 1939) emigrated to Australia in 1892, settling in Melbourne where he worked as a journalist. In 1913 he was appointed Professor of ...
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266,51 |
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Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788)
ISBN: 9781849024600 / Angielski / Twarda / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after his was shipwrecked there. Although he kept a journal, it was not published on his return, unlike his contemporary, Watkin Tench. This book consists of letters to his brother in England, written in 1788, the second letter journaling the first six months after the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney Cove.
George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay ar...
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69,02 |
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WILLIAM THOMAS & Family
ISBN: 9780473187484 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,20 |
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The Illusion of Victory: The True Costs of Modern War
ISBN: 9780522856156 / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Illusion of Victory' demonstrates that most of the rewards of victory in modern warfare are either exaggerated or false. Ian Bickerton persuasively argues that as the rhetoric of victory becomes more hollow all countries must adopt creative new approaches to resolving disputes.
'The Illusion of Victory' demonstrates that most of the rewards of victory in modern warfare are either exaggerated or false. Ian Bickerton persuasive...
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137,09 |
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New Zealand in the League of Nations: The Beginnings of an Independent Foreign Policy, 1919-1939
ISBN: 9780786466399 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When leaders of New Zealand joined other heads of British Commonwealth countries in signing the 1919 Treaty of Versailles to end World War I and joining the League of Nations, they did not regard the act as a declaration of independence. On the contrary, while their Canadian and South African counterparts saw membership in the league as a rite of passage towards greater autonomy, New Zealand's leaders viewed it as an unwelcome burden and a potential threat to the British Empire. This history of New Zealand's relations with the League of Nations from its inception in 1920 to its demise in 1946...
When leaders of New Zealand joined other heads of British Commonwealth countries in signing the 1919 Treaty of Versailles to end World War I and joini...
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303,02 |
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God, Guns And Government On The Central Australian Frontier: Who Killed Ereminta?
ISBN: 9780977531219 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There's a movie in this story." "Essential reading..." When Mounted Constable William Willshire had his troopers shoot two Aboriginal men, Ereminta and Donkey, in cold blood they left behind several witnesses, and an intriguing story. The man who shot Ereminta, Thomas, was an Aranda-Lutheran, one of the Finke River mission's first converts. This book reveals some surprising connections between the police, including William Willshire, and the missionaries. The pastoralists offered young Aboriginal men and women new opportunities outside traditional life. The frontier policemen protected the...
"There's a movie in this story." "Essential reading..." When Mounted Constable William Willshire had his troopers shoot two Aboriginal men, Ereminta a...
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161,65 |
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A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
ISBN: 9781742232843 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties and was the first in the world to form a government. 2011 marks its 120th birthday. This short and lively book tells the story of the ALP's numerous successes in winning government at all levels and making policy that has transformed lives. The book also shows how the ALP has attracted an extraordinary range of members, parliamentary representatives, leaders, unionists, activists and, indeed, opponents. Whether their audience are Labor voters or not, writers Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno argue that it has been such a...
The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties and was the first in the world to form a government. 2011 marks its 120th birthday. Thi...
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Die Nikobaren als Objekt kolonialer Bestrebungen
ISBN: 9783656195351 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Australien, Ozeanien, Note: 1,7, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Spezialisierungsmodul Neuzeit: Selbststudium mit Prufungsleistung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit geht es um die Kolonisierungsgeschichte der Nikobaren. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht der Reisebericht von Adolf Eschel Kroon aus dem Jahr 1785. In diesem Bericht unterbreitete der Kaufmann dem danischen Konigshaus das Angebot, die Inselgruppe der Nikobaren als Kolonie auszubeuten. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Australien, Ozeanien, Note: 1,7, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (Historisches Semina...
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147,68 |
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The Founders of Canterbury: Being Letters from the Late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the Late John Robert Godley, and to Other Well-Known Helpers in the Foundation of the Settlement of Canterbury in New
ISBN: 9781108039932 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796 1862) was a colonial advocate and political theorist, who was influential in the early colonisation of New Zealand and South Australia. Wakefield read widely on contemporary economics and social questions, and his theory of colonisation helped shape the British Empire. He formed the New Zealand Association in 1837 to create a new colony in that country, finally emigrating himself in 1852. His son, the editor of this volume of letters, was appointed secretary of the first settler expedition to New Zealand in 1839, and was elected political representative for...
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796 1862) was a colonial advocate and political theorist, who was influential in the early colonisation of New Zealand and S...
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240,83 |
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Finance, Politics, and Imperialism: Australia, Canada, and the City of London, c.1896-1914
ISBN: 9780230222038 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the British World at this time.
Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life i...
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201,24 |
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The Southern Districts of New Zealand: A Journal, with Passing Notices of the Customs of the Aborigines
ISBN: 9781108040631 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The physician and ethnographer Edward Shortland (1812 93) first travelled to New Zealand in 1841, a year after the Treaty of Waitangi. He became private secretary to Governor William Hobson, and quickly learned the Maori language. First published in 1851, this book describes Shortland's experiences on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island while conducting a census of the local Maori settlements in 1843. It documents South Island Maori myths, traditions and everyday life, and includes genealogical tables and a short word-list of the local dialect. It also describes a French Company...
The physician and ethnographer Edward Shortland (1812 93) first travelled to New Zealand in 1841, a year after the Treaty of Waitangi. He became priva...
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Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia
ISBN: 9781108039390 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having decided to try his fortune in the new colonies of South Australia and New Zealand, budding geologist James Coutts Crawford (1817 89) landed at Sydney in 1838 and lost no time in buying and driving a herd of cattle from Braidwood, New South Wales, to Adelaide, a distance of more than three hundred miles of unfamiliar territory. This remarkable journey proved typical of the rest of his travels, during which he served variously as explorer, translator, and sheriff of Wellington. This book, which includes illustrations and maps, is his own record of his experiences, first published in...
Having decided to try his fortune in the new colonies of South Australia and New Zealand, budding geologist James Coutts Crawford (1817 89) landed at ...
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322,89 |
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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales: Including an Accurate Description of the Situation of the Colony, of the Nat
ISBN: 9781108039147 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of the crew on board the Charlotte was Watkin Tench (c.1758 1833), who wrote about the voyage of what was later known as the First Fleet. He remained in New South Wales, living in Port Jackson (part of present-day Sydney) from 1788 to 1791, and in this work, published in 1793, he gives a vivid, first-hand account of the early years of British settlement. The chapters are chronologically organised and discuss the many challenges settlers in the...
In May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of t...
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205,00 |
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A History of the Australasian Colonies: From Their Foundation to the Year 1911
ISBN: 9780521238588 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Historical Series, this is the third edition of The History of the Australasian Colonies. Created with the general reader in mind, it provides a concise, yet rigorous, analysis of historical developments in Australasia and contextualises these developments in terms of the later political situation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Whilst the narrative is undoubtedly redolent of the colonial period, it retains a high documentary value in revealing the attitudes of the time in which it was written. The text of the this edition was considerably...
Published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Historical Series, this is the third edition of The History of the Australasian Colonies. Created with the ...
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