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Historical Records of Victoria: Vol 6: The Crown, the Land and the Squatter 1835-1840
ISBN: 9780522844443 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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132,18 |
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Joseph Mason: Assigned Convict, 1831-1837
ISBN: 9780522847468 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph Mason was an English agricultural laborer who was convicted and transported for taking part in mass protests against the introduction of threshing machines. He vividly describes his encounters with Aboriginal people, and the flora and fauna of the bush. He tells of the living and working conditions of assigned convicts, and early horticultural and farming practices. This is a fresh and unique first-person account of the convict experience a new and invaluable addition to the primary sources of Australian colonial history.
" Joseph Mason was an English agricultural laborer who was convicted and transported for taking part in mass protests against the introduction of thresh...
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127,29 |
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Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia
ISBN: 9781107403536 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A team of prominent historians and curators have produced this innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society. Throughout history, gold has been the "stuff" of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. The population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting.
A team of prominent historians and curators have produced this innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian soc...
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238,41 |
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Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War: Searching for Dorothy Lamour
ISBN: 9780230116566 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history.
This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South ...
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201,24 |
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The 'Whig' View of Australian History: And Other Essays
ISBN: 9780522853872 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A. W. Martin is best known as biographer of Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Federation, and Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister. Martin, Foundation Professor of History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, brought a deep and insightful understanding to Australia's history in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume brings together a major essay on Parkes and several significant studies of particular aspects of Menzies' long career. It includes notable analyses of the development of historical research in Australia. Especially important is an undoubted...
A. W. Martin is best known as biographer of Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Federation, and Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister...
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137,09 |
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Frontier History Revisited: Queensland and the 'History War'
ISBN: 9781466386822 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colonial Queensland was arguably the most violent of all Australian colonial frontiers. Her primary sources certainly reflect the doubtful honour of delivering the most frequent reports of shootings and massacre of indigenous people, the three single deadliest massacres on white settlers, the most disreputable frontier police force, and the highest number of white victims to frontier violence recorded in the history of any Australian state or territory. The most obvious explanation for the higher level of violence is provided by powerful evidence suggesting that she was also, in terms of...
Colonial Queensland was arguably the most violent of all Australian colonial frontiers. Her primary sources certainly reflect the doubtful honour of d...
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113,10 |
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Die Geburt einer Nation? Die Entwicklung Australiens bis 1901
ISBN: 9783638655361 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Australien, Ozeanien, Note: 2,0, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn von Australien als "jungstem Kontinent" die Rede ist, wird oft vergessen, dass Australien als "Land" sogar noch viel junger ist. Erst am 1. Januar 1901 trat die Verfassung des "Commonwealth of Australia" in Kraft und loste damit die Verfassungen der vorher eigenstandigen britischen Kolonien Neusudwaldes, Tasmanien, Queensland, Victoria, Sud- und Westaustralien ab. Ein neuer Staat war damit geschaffen...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Australien, Ozeanien, Note: 2,0, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzei...
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159,82 |
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Engines of Influence
ISBN: 9780522851557 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Engines of Influence is a fifty-year history of Victoria's country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison's Geelong Advertiser in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns.
This significant book identifies all press sites and newspapers of the era, whether long-lasting or short-lived, and highlights the major part played by them in helping construct the machinery of government, lay the foundations of party politics and foster a sense of rural Victorian identity. The country press was an important agent of political change... Engines of Influence is a fifty-year history of Victoria's country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison's Geelong Advertiser in 1840 and e...
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137,09 |
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The Convicts of the "Eleanor" : Protest in Rural England, New Lives in Australia
ISBN: 9780850365047 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the men of the convict transport Eleanor who arrived in NSW in 1831. They were all from the counties of Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire and were transported for their part in the Swing riots - the great agricultural uprising of 1830-31. This episode which touched thirty counties and has been called 'the last peasants' revolt' led to more than 480 people being sent to Australia ('the largest single group in the history of transportation' (George Rude). The men on the Eleanor who made up 30% of the Swing transportees. Part I of the book deals with the men of the...
This book focuses on the men of the convict transport Eleanor who arrived in NSW in 1831. They were all from the counties of Berkshire, Dorset, Hampsh...
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90,59 |
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Islands in the Interior: The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia
ISBN: 9781879621060 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a plausible reconstruction of the colonization of the harsh, arid interior of this continent.
In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations...
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234,84 |
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Islands in the Interior: The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia
ISBN: 9781879621077 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a plausible reconstruction of the colonization of the harsh, arid interior of this continent.
In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations...
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646,50 |
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Uncovers the secret histories of the Macquarie and Dixson Galleries collectors' chests for the first time, telling stories of ambition and failure, friendship and betrayal, intrigue and mystery.
Uncovers the secret histories of the Macquarie and Dixson Galleries collectors' chests for the first time, telling stories of ambition and failure, fr...
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230,19 |
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A History of Australia: v. 5: The People Make Laws, 1888-1915
ISBN: 9780522842234 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that occured during the establishment and develpment of white settlement in Australia. Clark sets out to use the tragedies and successes of national heroes such as explorerers and generals, and those of the average person such as soldiers at Gallipoli and farmer's wives, to create a memorable tableau.
The late Manning Clark aims to bring to attention the foibles and strengths in every person, traits forced to the fore in the hardship and trauma that...
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141,98 |
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A History of Australia: v. 5: The People Make Laws, 1888-1915
ISBN: 9780522842241 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,82 |
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Ray Parkin on a POW's Survival
ISBN: 9780522851960 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway. His account, first published as "Into the Smother", received international acclaim for its restrained but realistic depiction of POWs living, working and dying in a Japanese camp deep in the Thai jungle. It was hailed by the legendary literary critic Max Harris as 'probably the finest POW writing in English'. "The MUP Masterworks" series celebrates distinguished Australian writers and ideas. Each volume contains an extract from a literary work of enduring...
At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway. His account,...
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122,40 |
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The Truth Of The Matter : His Powerful Account of the Dismissal
ISBN: 9780522852127 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, sacked the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culmination of almost three years of political conflict, as Whitlam's reforming Labor government rammed home overdue legislative reforms in the face of implacable, and increasingly bitter, conservative opposition. The focus of the Opposition's scheming was the Senate, where its leaders blocked supply in order to force a political crisis. Whitlam, famous for his 'crash through or crash' style, refused to compromise with his political enemies. After...
On Remembrance Day, 1975, the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, sacked the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The Dismissal was the culminatio...
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Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia
ISBN: 9780522853094 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accusations of betrayal played a significant role in the shaping and maintenance of solidarity in socialist and other modern radical political organisations in Australia and Britain. This fascinating study of trust and betrayal focuses on case studies of 6 'rats' or renegades: H.H. Champion; William Trenwith; John Burns; Albert Victor Grayson; Adela Pankhurst Walsh; and Ada Holman.
Renegades and Rats will appeal to scholars of history and sociology alike, and to anyone interested in the subject of trust: what it is, and how it is lost. Accusations of betrayal played a significant role in the shaping and maintenance of solidarity in socialist and other modern radical political organis...
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137,09 |
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John Joseph Griffin: The Life and Times of an Irish Emigrant
ISBN: 9780957122901 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many millions of Irish people left their homeland in search of a better life overseas. This is the story of one emigrant, John Joseph "Jack" Griffin who, in the year 1900, left his job as a shop assistant in Co. Kerry and embarked on a two-month journey by sea to the other side of the world. He settled in Western Australia and having worked as a drover for a number of years finally became the owner of a 200,000 acre sheep station. In 1909 he married Mary Glass, an immigrant from Northern Ireland. Following the untimely death of his wife he enlisted in...
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many millions of Irish people left their homeland in search of a better life overseas. This is the story of ...
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76,83 |
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The Art of the First Fleet : And Other Early Australian Drawings
ISBN: 9780300041187 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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515,55 |
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Australian Between Empires: The Life of Percy Spender
ISBN: 9781848930001 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part biography, part transnational history, this study details the life and career of Percy Spender, one of Australia's most prominent twentieth-century political figures.
Part biography, part transnational history, this study details the life and career of Percy Spender, one of Australia's most prominent twentieth-centu...
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734,66 |
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